Judges 1 - 21
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After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel a inquired of the Lord, b "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"
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The Lord said, "Judah shall go up; behold, I have given the land into his hand."
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And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. c And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
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Then Judah went up and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.
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They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.
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Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes.
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And Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off d used to pick up scraps under my table. e As I have done, so God has repaid me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
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f And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.
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And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in g the hill country, in the Negeb, and in g the lowland.
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h And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron i (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated j Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.
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And Caleb said, "He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife."
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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, k Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
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When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
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She said to him, "Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water." And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
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And the descendants of the l Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah m from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near n Arad, o and they went and settled with the people.
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p And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called q Hormah.
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Judah also r captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
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p And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the s hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had t chariots of iron.
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u And Hebron was given to Caleb, as Moses had said. And he drove out from it v the three sons of Anak.
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But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, w so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.
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The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, x and the Lord was with them.
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And the house of Joseph scouted out Bethel. ( y Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
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And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the way into the city, z and we will deal kindly with you."
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And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.
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And the man went to a the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.
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b Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
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When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.
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c And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.
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Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of d Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.
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e Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,
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so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.
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Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of f Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
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g The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.
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The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, h in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.
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And the border of the Amorites ran from i the ascent of Akrabbim, from Sela and upward.
Judges 2
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Now the angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to j Bochim. And he said, "I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, k 'I will never break my covenant with you,
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l and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; m you shall break down their altars.' But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
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So now I say, n I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become o thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you."
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As soon as the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
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And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.
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p And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
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And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110 years.
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And they buried him within the boundaries of q his inheritance in Timnath-heres, r in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
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And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord or the work that he had done for Israel.
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s And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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t And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. u They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and v bowed down to them. w And they provoked the Lord to anger.
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They abandoned the Lord x and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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y So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he z gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. a And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, b so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Whenever they marched out, the hand of the Lord was against them for harm, as the Lord had warned, c and as the Lord had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.
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d Then the Lord raised up judges, e who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Yet they did not listen to their judges, for f they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. g They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
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Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, h the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. i For the Lord was moved to pity by j their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
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But k whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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l So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people m has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
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n I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died,
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in order o to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not."
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So the Lord left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.
Judges 3
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p Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
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These are the nations: q the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
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They were for r the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
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So the people of Israel lived s among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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t And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
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u And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and v the Asheroth.
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Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, w and he sold them into the hand of x Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
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But when the people of Israel y cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a z deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, a Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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b The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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c So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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d And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon e the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
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He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the f Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of g the city of palms.
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And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
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Then the people of Israel h cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them h a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, i a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
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And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.
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And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
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And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
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But he himself turned back j at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
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And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his k cool roof chamber. l And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.
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And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
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And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.
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Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him m and locked them.
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When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, n "Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."
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And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
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Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond o the idols and escaped to Seirah.
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When he arrived, p he sounded the trumpet in q the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
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And he said to them, "Follow after me, r for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized s the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
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So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. t And the land had rest for eighty years.
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After him was u Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines v with an oxgoad, and he also w saved Israel.
Judges 4
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x And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
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And the Lord y sold them into the hand of z Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in z Hazor. The commander of his army was a Sisera, who lived in b Harosheth-hagoyim.
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Then the people of Israel c cried out to the Lord for help, for he had d 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
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Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
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She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in e the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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She sent and summoned f Barak the son of Abinoam from g Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount h Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
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And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by i the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, j and I will give him into your hand'?"
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Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go."
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And she said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the Lord will k sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
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And Barak called out l Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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Now Heber m the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of n Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in o Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
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When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
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Sisera called out all his chariots, p 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
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And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which q the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. r Does not the Lord go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.
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s And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.
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And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.
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But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
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And he said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened t a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.
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And he said to her, "Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say, 'No.'"
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But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
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And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.
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u So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
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And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Judges 5
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v Then sang Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam on that day:
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"That the leaders took the lead in Israel,
that w the people offered themselves willingly,
bless the Lord!
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"Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes;
to the Lord I will sing;
I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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"Lord, x when you went out from Seir,
when you marched from the region of Edom,
y the earth trembled
and the heavens dropped,
yes, the clouds dropped water.
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The mountains z quaked before the Lord,
a even Sinai before the Lord, the God of Israel.
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"In the days of b Shamgar, son of Anath,
in the days of c Jael, d the highways were abandoned,
and travelers kept to the byways.
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The villagers ceased in Israel;
they ceased to be until I arose;
I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.
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e When new gods were chosen,
then war was in the gates.
f Was shield or spear to be seen
among forty thousand in Israel?
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My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel
who g offered themselves willingly among the people.
Bless the Lord.
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"Tell of it, h you who ride on white donkeys,
you who sit on rich carpets
and you who walk by the way.
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To the sound of musicians at the watering places,
there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord,
the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel.
"Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
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i "Awake, awake, Deborah!
Awake, awake, break out in a song!
Arise, Barak, j lead away your captives,
O son of Abinoam.
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Then down marched the remnant of the noble;
the people of the Lord marched down for me against the mighty.
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From k Ephraim their root l they marched down into the valley,
following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen;
from m Machir marched down the commanders,
and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant's staff;
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the princes of Issachar came with Deborah,
and Issachar faithful to n Barak;
into the valley they rushed at his heels.
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
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Why did you sit still o among the sheepfolds,
to hear the whistling for the flocks?
Among the clans of Reuben
there were great searchings of heart.
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p Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan;
q and Dan, why did he stay with the ships?
r Asher sat still s at the coast of the sea,
staying by his landings.
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t Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death;
t Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
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"The kings came, they fought;
then fought the kings of Canaan,
at u Taanach, by the waters of v Megiddo;
w they got no spoils of silver.
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x From heaven the stars fought,
from their courses they fought against Sisera.
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y The torrent Kishon swept them away,
the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon.
March on, my soul, with might!
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"Then loud beat the horses' hoofs
with the galloping, galloping of his steeds.
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"Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord,
curse its inhabitants thoroughly,
z because they did not come to the help of the Lord,
to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
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"Most blessed of women be a Jael,
the wife of Heber the Kenite,
of tent-dwelling women most blessed.
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b He asked water and she gave him milk;
she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.
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c She sent her hand to the tent peg
and her right hand to the workmen's mallet;
she struck Sisera;
she crushed his head;
she shattered and pierced his temple.
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Between her feet
he sank, he fell, he lay still;
between her feet
he sank, he fell;
where he sank,
there he fell - dead.
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d "Out of the window she peered,
the mother of Sisera wailed through e the lattice:
'Why is his chariot so long in coming?
Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?'
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Her wisest princesses answer,
indeed, she answers herself,
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'Have they not found and f divided the spoil? -
A womb or two for every man;
spoil of dyed materials for Sisera,
spoil of dyed materials embroidered,
two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
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g "So may all your enemies perish, O Lord!
But your friends be h like the sun i as he rises in his might."
j And the land had rest for forty years.
Judges 6
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k The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of l Midian seven years.
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And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and m the caves and the strongholds.
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For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and n the Amalekites and o the people of the East would come up against them.
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They would encamp against them p and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.
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For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come q like locusts in number - both they and their camels could not be counted - so that they laid waste the land as they came in.
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And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel r cried out for help to the Lord.
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When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites,
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the Lord sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: s I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage.
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And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and t drove them out before you and gave you their land.
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And I said to you, 'I am the Lord your God; u you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.' But you have not obeyed my voice."
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Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash v the Abiezrite, while his son w Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
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And x the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, y "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor."
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And Gideon said to him, "Please, sir, if the Lord is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are z all his wonderful deeds a that our fathers recounted to us, saying, 'Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt?' But now the Lord has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian."
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And the Lord turned to him and said, "Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; b do not I send you?"
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And he said to him, c "Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, d my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house."
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And the Lord said to him, e "But I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."
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And he said to him, f "If now I have found favor in your eyes, then g show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.
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Please h do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you." And he said, "I will stay till you return."
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So Gideon went into his house i and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
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And the angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them j on this rock, and k pour the broth over them." And he did so.
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Then the angel of the Lord reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. l And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.
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Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, m "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face."
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But the Lord said to him, n "Peace be to you. Do not fear; you shall not die."
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Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, o The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at p Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
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That night the Lord said to him, "Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down q the Asherah that is beside it
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and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of the r stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down."
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So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.
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When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.
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And they said to one another, "Who has done this thing?" And after they had searched and inquired, they said, "Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing."
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Then the men of the town said to Joash, "Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it."
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But Joash said to all who stood against him, "Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down."
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Therefore on that day Gideon was called s Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
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Now t all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in u the Valley of Jezreel.
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But v the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, w and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
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x And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. x And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.
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y Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said,
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behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said."
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And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.
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Then Gideon said to God, z "Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew."
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And God did so that night; and it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
Judges 7
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Then a Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside b the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, c by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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The Lord said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, d lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
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Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, e 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.'" Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.
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And the Lord said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' shall not go."
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So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, "Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink."
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And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.
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And the Lord said to Gideon, f "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home."
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So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him g in the valley.
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That same h night the Lord said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, i for I have given it into your hand.
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But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant.
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j And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." k Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.
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And the Midianites and the Amalekites and l all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, m as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
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When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
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And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp."
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As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the Lord has given the host of Midian into your hand."
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And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with n torches inside the jars.
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And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
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When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, o 'For the Lord and for Gideon.'"
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So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
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Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. o And they cried out, "A sword for the Lord and for Gideon!"
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Every man stood in his place around the camp, p and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.
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q When they blew the 300 trumpets, r the Lord set s every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
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And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.
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t Gideon sent messengers throughout u all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as v Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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And they captured w the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb x at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon y across the Jordan.
Judges 8
1
z Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they accused him fiercely.
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And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not a the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
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b God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" c Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.
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And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and d the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.
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So he said to the men of e Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."
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And the officials of Succoth said, f "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, g that we should give bread to your army?"
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So Gideon said, "Well then, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, h I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers."
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And from there he went up to i Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
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And he said to the men of Penuel, j "When I come again in peace, k I will break down this tower."
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Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of l the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men m who drew the sword.
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And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of n Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt o secure.
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And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them p and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.
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Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.
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And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.
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And he came to the men of Succoth and said, "Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, q 'Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?'"
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And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.
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r And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
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Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Where are the men whom you killed at s Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king."
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And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. t As the Lord lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you."
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So he said to Jether his firstborn, "Rise and kill them!" But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.
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Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and u killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took v the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
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Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian."
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Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; w the Lord will rule over you."
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And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, x because they were Ishmaelites.)
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And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.
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And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides y the crescent ornaments and z the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.
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And Gideon a made an ephod of it and put it in his city, b in Ophrah. And all Israel c whored after it there, and it became a d snare to Gideon and to his family.
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So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. e And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
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f Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.
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Now Gideon had g seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
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And his concubine h who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
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And Gideon the son of Joash died i in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, j at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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k As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and l whored after the Baals and made m Baal-berith their god.
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And the people of Israel n did not remember the Lord their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,
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o and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
Judges 9
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Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to p his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family,
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"Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that all q seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that p I am r your bone and your flesh."
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And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, s "He is our brother."
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And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of t Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired u worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
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And he went to his father's house at v Ophrah w and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all x Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.
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When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of y Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
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z The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, a 'Reign over us.'
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But the olive tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?'
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And the trees said to the fig tree, 'You come and reign over us.'
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But the fig tree said to them, 'Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?'
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And the trees said to the vine, 'You come and reign over us.'
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But the vine said to them, 'Shall I leave my wine that b cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?'
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Then all the trees said to the bramble, 'You come and reign over us.'
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And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and c take refuge in my shade, but if not, d let fire come out of the bramble and devour e the cedars of Lebanon.'
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"Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with f Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him g as his deeds deserved -
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for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian,
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and you have risen up against my father's house this day h and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made i Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, j because he is your relative -
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if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then k rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.
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But if not, l let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech."
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And Jotham ran away and fled and went to m Beer and lived there, because of Abimelech his brother.
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Abimelech ruled over Israel three years.
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n And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem o dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
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p that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
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And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.
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And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.
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And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into q the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.
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And Gaal the son of Ebed said, r "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of s Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
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Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, 'Increase your army, and come out.'"
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When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.
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And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, "Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.
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Now therefore, go by night, you and the people who are with you, and set an ambush in the field.
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Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them t as your hand finds to do."
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So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.
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And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.
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And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, "Look, people are coming down from u the mountaintops!" And Zebul said to him, "You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men."
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Gaal spoke again and said, "Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak."
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Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your mouth now, you who said, v 'Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them."
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And Gaal went out at the head of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.
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And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.
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And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.
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On the following day, the people went out into the field, and Abimelech was told.
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He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.
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Abimelech and the company that was with him w rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.
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And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and x he razed the city and y sowed it with salt.
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When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered z the stronghold of the house of a El-berith.
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Abimelech was told that all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together.
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And Abimelech went up to Mount b Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, "What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done."
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So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against c the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.
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Then Abimelech went to Thebez and encamped against Thebez and captured it.
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But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower.
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And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
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d And a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.
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e Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
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And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, everyone departed to his home.
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f Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
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And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came g the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
Judges 10
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After Abimelech there arose to h save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in i the hill country of Ephraim.
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And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.
3
After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
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And he had thirty sons who j rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, k which are in the land of Gilead.
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And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.
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l The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord m and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, n the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they o forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and p he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
8
and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
9
And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.
10
And the people of Israel q cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because r we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."
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And the Lord said to the people of Israel, "Did I not save you s from the Egyptians and t from the Amorites, u from the Ammonites and v from the Philistines?
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The Sidonians also, and w the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I x saved you out of their hand.
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Yet you have y forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
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Go and cry out z to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."
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And the people of Israel said to the Lord, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day."
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So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord, and a he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
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Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at b Mizpah.
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And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? c He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Judges 11
1
Now d Jephthah the Gileadite was e a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
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And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman."
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Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of f Tob, and g worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
4
After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.
5
And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of f Tob.
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And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites."
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But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"
8
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and h be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
9
Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the Lord gives them over to me, I will be your head."
10
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, i "The Lord will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say."
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So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people j made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words k before the Lord at l Mizpah.
12
Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"
13
And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, m "Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the n Arnon to the o Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."
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Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
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and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: p Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,
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but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness q to the Red Sea and r came to Kadesh.
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s Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' t but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel u remained at Kadesh.
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"Then they journeyed through the wilderness and v went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and w arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and x camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
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y Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our country,'
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but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.
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And the Lord, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.
22
And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
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So then the Lord, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?
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Will you not possess what z Chemosh your god gives you to possess? a And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
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Now are you any better than b Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?
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While Israel lived c in Heshbon and its villages, and d in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?
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I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. e The Lord, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
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But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.
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f Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.
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And Jephthah g made a vow to the Lord and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,
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then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites h shall be the Lord's, and i I will offer it up for a burnt offering."
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So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord gave them into his hand.
33
And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of j Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
34
Then Jephthah came to his home at k Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him l with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
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And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the Lord, m and I cannot take back my vow."
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And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the Lord; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the Lord has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."
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So she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions."
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So he said, "Go." Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.
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And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, n who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel
40
that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.
Judges 12
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o The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire."
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And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.
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And when I saw that you would not save me, p I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the Lord gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
4
Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, q "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh."
5
And the Gileadites captured r the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No,"
6
they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at r the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.
7
Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.
8
After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
9
He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
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Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.
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After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
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Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
13
After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
14
He had forty s sons and thirty grandsons, who t rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
15
Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
Judges 13
1
And the people of Israel again u did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them v into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
2
There was a certain man of w Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. x And his wife was barren and had no children.
3
y And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
4
Therefore be careful z and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
5
for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. a No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be z a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall b begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
6
Then the woman came and told her husband, c "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. d I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,
7
but he said to me, e 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
8
Then Manoah prayed to the Lord and said, "O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born."
9
And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.
10
So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."
11
And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am."
12
And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, f what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
13
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.
14
She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, g neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe."
15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please let us detain you and h prepare a young goat for you."
16
And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the Lord." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the Lord.)
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And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, i "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"
18
And the angel of the Lord said to him, j "Why do you ask my name, seeing k it is wonderful?"
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So l Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.
20
And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the Lord went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, m and they fell on their faces to the ground.
21
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. n Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
22
And Manoah said to his wife, n "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."
23
But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."
24
And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. o And the young man grew, and the Lord blessed him.
25
p And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between q Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 14
1
r Samson went down to s Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.
2
Then he came up and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. t Now get her for me as my wife."
3
But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters u of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the v uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes."
4
His father and mother did not know that it was w from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. x At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
5
Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.
6
y Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
7
Then he went down and talked with the woman, and she was right in Samson's eyes.
8
After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
9
He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.
10
His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
11
As soon as the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him.
12
And Samson said to them, z "Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within a the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty b changes of clothes,
13
but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it."
14
And he said to them,
"Out of the eater came something to eat.
Out of the strong came something sweet."
And in three days they could not solve the riddle.
15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, c "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, d lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?"
16
And Samson's wife wept over him and said, e "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?"
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She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because f she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.
18
And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
"What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?"
And he said to them,
"If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle."
19
g And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to h Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
20
And Samson's wife was given to i his companion, j who had been his best man.
Judges 15
1
After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with k a young goat. And he said, "I will go in to my wife in the chamber." But her father would not allow him to go in.
2
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, l so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead."
3
And Samson said to them, "This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm."
4
So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.
5
And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.
6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife m and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and n burned her and her father with fire.
7
And Samson said to them, "If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit."
8
And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the o cleft of the rock of Etam.
9
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and p made a raid on q Lehi.
10
And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" They said, "We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us."
11
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that r the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."
12
And they said to him, "We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves."
13
They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two s new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. t Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
15
And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, u and with it he struck 1,000 men.
16
And Samson said,
"With the jawbone of a donkey,
heaps upon heaps,
with the jawbone of a donkey
have I struck down a thousand men."
17
As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place v was called Ramath-lehi.
18
And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the Lord and said, w "You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?"
19
And God split open the hollow place that is v at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, x his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
20
And he judged Israel y in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
Judges 16
1
Samson went to z Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.
2
The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here." And they a surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."
3
But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.
4
After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
5
And b the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, c "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to d humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver."
6
So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could d subdue you."
7
Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, e then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
8
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
9
Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
10
Then Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound."
11
And he said to her, "If they bind me with f new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
12
So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.
13
Then Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
14
So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.
15
And she said to him, g "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies."
16
And h when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
17
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, i "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man."
18
When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up again, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought j the money in their hands.
19
She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began k to torment him, and his strength left him.
20
And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that l the Lord had left him.
21
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. m And he ground at the mill in the prison.
22
But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.
23
Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to n Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
24
And when the people saw him, o they praised their god. For they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us."
25
And p when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.
26
And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."
27
Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and q on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.
28
Then Samson called to the Lord and said, "O Lord God, r please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes."
29
And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.
30
And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.
31
Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him s between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.
Judges 17
1
There was a man of t the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
2
And he said to his mother, "The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." And his mother said, u "Blessed be my son by the Lord."
3
And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, "I dedicate the silver to the Lord from my hand for my son, to make v a carved image and w a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you."
4
So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother x took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.
5
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made y an ephod and z household gods, and a ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
6
b In those days there was no king in Israel. c Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
7
Now there was a young man of d Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
8
And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to e the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
9
And Micah said to him, "Where do you come from?" And he said to him, "I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place."
10
And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me f a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living." And the Levite went in.
11
And the Levite g was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.
12
And Micah h ordained the Levite, and the young man i became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
13
Then Micah said, "Now I know that the Lord will prosper me, because I have a Levite as priest."
Judges 18
1
j In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days k the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
2
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, l from Zorah and from Eshtaol, m to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came n to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
3
When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?"
4
And he said to them, "This is how Micah dealt with me: o he has hired me, and I have become his priest."
5
And they said to him, p "Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed."
6
And the priest said to them, q "Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the Lord."
7
Then the five men departed and came to r Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, s quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how t they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
8
And when they came to their brothers at u Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?"
9
They said, v "Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. w And will you do nothing? x Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.
10
As soon as you go, you will come to an y unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, z a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth."
11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, a armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol,
12
and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called b Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of c Kiriath-jearim.
13
And they passed on from there to d the hill country of Ephraim, and came to the house of Micah.
14
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that e in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do."
15
And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and f asked him about his welfare.
16
Now the 600 men of the Danites, g armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate.
17
And h the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took i the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
18
And when these went into Micah's house and took i the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, "What are you doing?"
19
And they said to him, "Keep quiet; j put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us k a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?"
20
And the priest's heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.
21
So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and l the goods in front of them.
22
When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah's house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.
23
And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, "What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?"
24
And he said, m "You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, 'What is the matter with you?'"
25
And the people of Dan said to him, "Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household."
26
Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.
27
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people n quiet and unsuspecting, and o struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
28
And there was no deliverer because it was p far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to q Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
29
And they named the city r Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but s the name of the city was Laish at the first.
30
And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, t son of Moses, u and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day v of the captivity of the land.
31
So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, w as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
Judges 19
1
In those days, x when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of y the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from z Bethlehem in Judah.
2
And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
3
Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father's house. And when the girl's father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.
4
And his father-in-law, the girl's father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.
5
And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, a "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go."
6
So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and b let your heart be merry."
7
And when the man rose up to go, his father-in-law pressed him, till he spent the night there again.
8
And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, c "Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines." So they ate, both of them.
9
And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home."
10
But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite d Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.
11
When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, "Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it."
12
And his master said to him, "We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to e Gibeah."
13
And he said to his young man, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at f Ramah."
14
So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,
15
and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, g for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
16
And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from h the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. i The men of the place were Benjaminites.
17
And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, "Where are you going? And where do you come from?"
18
And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going j to the house of the Lord, g but no one has taken me into his house.
19
We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. k There is no lack of anything."
20
And the old man said, l "Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. m Only, do not spend the night in the square."
21
So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. n And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.
22
As they were o making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, p surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him."
23
And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, q do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, r do not do this vile thing.
24
s Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. t Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man r do not do this outrageous thing."
25
But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
26
And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was, until it was light.
27
And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
28
He said to her, "Get up, let us be going." u But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.
29
And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he v divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
30
w And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; x consider it, take counsel, and speak."
Judges 20
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Then y all the people of Israel came out, z from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at a Mizpah.
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And the b chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot c that drew the sword.
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(Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, "Tell us, how did this evil happen?"
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And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, d "I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
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e And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.
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f So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and g outrage in Israel.
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Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, h give your advice and counsel here."
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And all the people arose as one man, saying, "None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.
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But now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot,
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and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin, for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel."
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So all the men of Israel gathered against the city, united as one man.
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i And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "What evil is this that has taken place among you?
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Now therefore give up the men, j the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death k and purge evil from Israel." But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.
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Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.
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And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day l 26,000 men m who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.
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Among all these were 700 chosen men who were n left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
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And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered m 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.
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The people of Israel arose and went up to o Bethel and inquired of God, p "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, p "Judah shall go up first."
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Then the people of Israel rose in the morning and encamped against Gibeah.
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And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.
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q The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.
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But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.
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r And the people of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until the evening. And they inquired of the Lord, "Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Go up against them."
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So the people of Israel came near against the people of Benjamin the second day.
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And Benjamin s went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who t drew the sword.
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Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to u Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord v (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
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and w Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, x ministered before it in those days), saying, "Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?" And the Lord said, "Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand."
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y So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.
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And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
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And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, z one of which goes up to a Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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And the people of Benjamin said, b "They are routed before us, as at the first." But the people of Israel said, "Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways."
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And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.
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And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, c but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.
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And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who d drew the sword.
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So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.
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e Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
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Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city
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the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, f "Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle."
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But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, g the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.
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Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, h for they saw that disaster was close upon them.
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Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in i the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.
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Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.
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Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin fell, all of them men of valor.
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And they turned i and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of j Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.
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So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,000 men who drew the sword, all of them men of valor.
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But 600 men turned and i fled toward the wilderness to the rock of j Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.
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And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.
Judges 21
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Now the men of Israel had sworn k at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin."
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And the people came to l Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.
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And they said, "O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?"
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And the next day the people rose early and m built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
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And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord?" n For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death."
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And the people of Israel o had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
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p What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?"
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And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from q Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
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For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of q Jabesh-gilead was there.
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So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, r "Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.
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This is what you shall do: s every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction."
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And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at t Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
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Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the u rock of Rimmon and v proclaimed peace to them.
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And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.
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And the people w had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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Then the elders of the congregation said, x "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?"
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And they said, "There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
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Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters." y For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin."
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So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of z the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah."
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And they commanded the people of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in ambush in the vineyards
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and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to a dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, 'Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'"
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And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance b and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.
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And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
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c In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
1 Samuel 22:10
And he inquired of the Lord for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
2 Samuel 2:1
After this David inquired of the Lord, "Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?" And the Lord said to him, "Go up." David said, "To which shall I go up?" And he said, "To Hebron.
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Judges 20:18
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.
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Judges 1:17
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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Luke 16:21
Who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.
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Leviticus 24:19
If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him.
1 Samuel 15:33
And Samuel said, "As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women." And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.
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Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Joshua 9:1
As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this.
Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
Joshua 11:16
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Joshua 12:8
In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
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Joshua 9:1
As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this.
Joshua 11:2
And to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west.
Joshua 11:16
So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Joshua 12:8
In the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):
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Judges 1:10 - 15
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
Joshua 15:13 - 19
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Joshua 14:15
Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.
Joshua 15:13
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Numbers 13:22
They went up into the Negeb and came to Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. ( Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Joshua 15:14
And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 4:11
Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
Judges 4:17
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
1 Samuel 15:6
Then Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt." So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
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Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
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Numbers 21:1
When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
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Numbers 10:29 - 32
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.
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Judges 1:3
And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.
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Numbers 21:3
And the Lord heeded the voice of Israel and gave over the Canaanites, and they devoted them and their cities to destruction. So the name of the place was called Hormah.
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Judges 3:3
These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
Joshua 11:22
There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
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Judges 1:17
And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.
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Judges 1:9
And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
Joshua 17:18
But the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
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Numbers 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.
Deuteronomy 1:36
Except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!
Joshua 14:9
And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.
Joshua 14:13
Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Joshua 15:13 - 14
According to the commandment of the Lord to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).
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Judges 1:10
And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.
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Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.
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Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:6
And Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Genesis 48:3
And Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
Joshua 18:13
From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.
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Joshua 2:12
Now then, please swear to me by the Lord that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign
Joshua 2:14
And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the Lord gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.
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Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
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Judges 1:27 - 28
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Joshua 17:11 - 13
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
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Joshua 16:10
However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor.
1 Kings 9:16
(Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife.
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Joshua 19:15
And Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem - twelve cities with their villages.
Joshua 21:35
Dimnah with its pasturelands, Nahalal with its pasturelands - four cities.
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Judges 1:31 - 32
Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob.
Joshua 19:24 - 30
The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans.
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Judges 1:33
Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.
Joshua 19:32 - 39
The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.
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Joshua 19:47 - 48
When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
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Joshua 19:42
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah.
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Numbers 34:4
And your border shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon.
Joshua 15:3
It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka.
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Judges 2:5
And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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Genesis 17:7
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Exodus 6:4
I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Deuteronomy 7:2
And when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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Deuteronomy 12:3
You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and burn their Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and destroy their name out of that place.
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Judges 2:21
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Numbers 33:55
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges 2:7 - 9
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the Lord had done for Israel.
Joshua 24:29 - 31
After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.
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Joshua 19:50
By command of the Lord they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Judges 4:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
Judges 6:1
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Deuteronomy 6:14
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you -
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Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
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Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly and turn aside from the way that I have commanded you. And in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Psalms 106:36
They served their idols, which became a snare to them.
1 Samuel 7:4
So the people of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtaroth, and they served the Lord only.
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Judges 2:20
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, "Because this people has transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice.
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2 Kings 17:20
And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.
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Judges 3:8
Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
Judges 4:2
And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
Deuteronomy 32:30
How could one have chased a thousand, and two have put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had given them up?
1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Leviticus 26:37
They shall stumble over one another, as if to escape a sword, though none pursues. And you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
Joshua 7:12 - 13
Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
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Leviticus 26:14 - 46
But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments.
Deuteronomy 28:15 - 68
But if you will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
1 Samuel 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
Acts 13:20
All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who kil...
Judges 10:1
After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola...
Judges 10:12 - 13
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the ...
Judges 12:2 - 3
And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had...
Judges 13:5
For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. ...
Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the ...
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their ...
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Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy 9:12
Then the Lord said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you have brought from Egypt have acted corruptly. They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them; they have made themselves a metal image.
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Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Genesis 6:6
And the Lord was sorry that he had made man on ...
Deuteronomy 32:36
For the Lord will vindicate his people and have...
Psalms 106:45
For their sake he remembered his covenant, and ...
Jeremiah 18:8
And if that nation, concerning which I have spo...
Jeremiah 26:3
It may be they will listen, and every one turn ...
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of...
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Exodus 2:24
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Exodus 6:5
Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
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Judges 3:12
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord.
Judges 4:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord after Ehud died.
Judges 6:1
The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
Joshua 23:16
If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.
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Judges 2:3
So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
Joshua 23:13
Know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, t...
Judges 3:4
They were for the testing of Israel, to know wh...
Exodus 15:25
And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed h...
Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember the whole way that the L...
Deuteronomy 8:16
Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that y...
Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that proph...
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Judges 3:4
They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
Judges 2:21 - 22
I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations that Joshua left when he died.
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Joshua 13:2 - 6
This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites
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Judges 3:1
Now these are the nations that the Lord left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.
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Exodus 3:8
And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Psalms 106:35
But they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did.
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Exodus 34:16
And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
Deuteronomy 7:3
You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons.
Ezra 9:12
Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.
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Judges 2:11 - 13
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Judges 6:25
That night the Lord said to him, "Take your father's bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it
Exodus 34:13
You shall tear down their altars and break their pillars and cut down their Asherim
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Judges 6:7
When the people of Israel cried out to the Lord on account of the Midianites.
Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
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Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
Nehemiah 9:27
Therefore you gave them into the hand of their enemies, who made them suffer. And in the time of their suffering they cried out to you and you heard them from heaven, and according to your great mercies you gave them saviors who saved them from the hand of their enemies.
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Judges 1:13
And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
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Judges 6:34
But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and ...
Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, ...
Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in...
Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, an...
Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and...
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shou...
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Judges 3:30
So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.
Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.
Judges 8:28
So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.
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Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Judges 6:33
Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
Psalms 83:7
Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.
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Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
Deuteronomy 34:3
The Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 20:16
Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.
1 Chronicles 12:2
They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.
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Judges 3:26
Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah.
Joshua 4:20
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
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Amos 3:15
I will strike the winter house along with the summer house, and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall come to an end," declares the Lord.
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2 Samuel 20:9 - 10
And Joab said to Amasa, "Is it well with you, my brother?" And Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him.
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2 Samuel 13:17 - 18
He called the young man who served him and said, "Put this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.
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1 Samuel 24:3
And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.
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Judges 3:19
But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
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Judges 6:34
But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.
1 Samuel 13:3
Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 4:7
And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabi...
Judges 4:14
And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the...
Judges 7:9
That same night the Lord said to him, "Arise, g...
Judges 7:15
As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the drea...
1 Samuel 17:47
And that all this assembly may know that the Lo...
2 Chronicles 16:8
Were not the Ethiopians and the Libyans a huge ...
1 Kings 22:12
And all the prophets prophesied so and said, "G...
1 Kings 22:15
And when he had come to the king, the king said...
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Judges 12:5
And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No.
Joshua 2:7
So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
Judges 7:24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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Judges 3:11
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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Judges 5:6
In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.
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Judges 5:8
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.
1 Samuel 13:22
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Joshua 11:1
When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.
Joshua 11:10
And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.
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Joshua 11:1
When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph.
Joshua 11:10
And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.
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1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
Psalms 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
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Judges 4:13
Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
Judges 4:16
And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 4:13
Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
Judges 1:19
And the Lord was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Hebrews 11:32
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
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Joshua 19:37
Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor.
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Judges 8:18
Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.
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Judges 4:13
Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
Judges 5:21
The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape." And they seized them. And Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slaughtered them there.
Psalms 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
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Judges 3:28
And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Judges 5:18
Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.
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Judges 1:16
And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.
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Numbers 10:29
And Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law, "We are setting out for the place of which the Lord said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will do good to you, for the Lord has promised good to Israel.
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Joshua 19:33
And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.
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Judges 4:3
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
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Judges 4:7
And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand'?
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Deuteronomy 9:3
Know therefore today that he who goes over before you as a consuming fire is the Lord your God. He will destroy them and subdue them before you. So you shall drive them out and make them perish quickly, as the Lord has promised you.
2 Samuel 5:24
And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the Lord has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.
Psalms 68:7
O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah
Isaiah 52:12
For you shall not go out in haste, and you shall not go in flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
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Judges 4:23
So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
Psalms 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
Joshua 10:10
And the Lord threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.
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Judges 5:25
He asked water and she gave him milk; she brought him curds in a noble's bowl.
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Judges 4:15
And the Lord routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.
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Exodus 15:1
Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, "I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
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Judges 5:9
My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the Lord.
2 Chronicles 17:16
And next to him Amasiah the son of Zichri, a volunteer for the service of the Lord, with 200,000 mighty men of valor.
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Deuteronomy 33:2
He said, "The Lord came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
Psalms 68:7
O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah
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2 Samuel 22:8
Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundatio...
Psalms 18:7
Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundatio...
Psalms 68:8
The earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain,...
Psalms 77:18
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind;...
Nahum 1:5
The mountains quake before him; the hills melt;...
Habakkuk 3:10
The mountains saw you and writhed; the raging w...
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Isaiah 64:1
Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence -
Isaiah 64:3
When you did awesome things that we did not look for, you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
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Exodus 19:18
Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the Lord had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly.
Deuteronomy 4:11
And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, while the mountain burned with fire to the heart of heaven, wrapped in darkness, cloud, and gloom.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
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Judges 4:17
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Leviticus 26:22
And I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock and make you few in number, so that your roads shall be deserted.
Isaiah 33:8
The highways lie waste; the traveler ceases. Covenants are broken; cities are despised; there is no regard for man.
Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the festival; all her gates are desolate; her priests groan; her virgins have been afflicted, and she herself suffers bitterly.
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Judges 2:12
And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the Lord to anger.
Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
Deuteronomy 32:16
They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger.
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1 Samuel 13:19
Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.
1 Samuel 13:22
So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.
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Judges 5:2
That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the Lord!
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Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
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Psalms 57:8
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn!
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Psalms 68:18
You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there.
Ephesians 4:8
Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.
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Judges 3:27
When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
Judges 12:15
Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
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Judges 12:15
Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.
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Numbers 32:39 - 40
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
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Judges 4:14
And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the Lord go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.
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Genesis 49:14
Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.
Psalms 68:13
Though you men lie among the sheepfolds - the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.
Numbers 32:1
Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.
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Joshua 13:24 - 28
Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans.
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Joshua 19:46
And Me-jarkon and Rakkon with the territory over against Joppa.
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Joshua 19:29
Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib.
Joshua 19:31
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans - these cities with their villages.
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Genesis 49:13
Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.
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Judges 4:10
And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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Judges 4:10
And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
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Judges 1:27
Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.
Joshua 17:11
Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.
1 Kings 4:12
Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shean that is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, and from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the other side of Jokmeam.
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2 Kings 9:27
When Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this, he fled in the direction of Beth-haggan. And Jehu pursued him and said, "Shoot him also." And they shot him in the chariot at the ascent of Gur, which is by Ibleam. And he fled to Megiddo and died there.
2 Kings 23:29 - 30
In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. King Josiah went to meet him, and Pharaoh Neco killed him at Megiddo, as soon as he saw him.
2 Chronicles 35:22
Nevertheless, Josiah did not turn away from him, but disguised himself in order to fight with him. He did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, but came to fight in the plain of Megiddo.
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Judges 5:30
'Have they not found and divided the spoil? - A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?'
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Joshua 10:11
And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
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Judges 4:7
And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand'?
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Judges 21:9 - 10
For when the people were mustered, behold, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead was there.
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Judges 4:17
But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
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Judges 4:19
And he said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.
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Judges 4:21
But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
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2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
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Proverbs 7:6
For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice.
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Exodus 15:9
The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.
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Psalms 83:9 - 10
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
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2 Samuel 23:4
He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.
Daniel 12:3
And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Matthew 13:43
Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.
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Psalms 19:5
Which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Psalms 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
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Judges 3:11
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
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Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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Genesis 25:2
She bore him Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah.
Numbers 25:17 - 18
Harass the Midianites and strike them down.
Habakkuk 3:7
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
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1 Samuel 13:6
When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns.
Hebrews 11:38
Of whom the world was not worthy - wandering about in deserts and mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
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Judges 3:13
He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.
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Judges 6:33
Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and t...
Judges 7:12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all t...
Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with thei...
Genesis 29:1
Then Jacob went on his journey and came to the ...
1 Kings 4:30
So that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom o...
Job 1:3
He possessed 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yok...
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Leviticus 26:16
Then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Deuteronomy 28:30 - 33
You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit.
Deuteronomy 28:51
It shall eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Micah 6:15
You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
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Judges 7:12
And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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1 Samuel 10:18
And he said to the people of Israel, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.
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Psalms 44:2 - 3
You with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free.
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Joshua 24:15
And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
2 Kings 17:35 - 38
The Lord made a covenant with them and commanded them, "You shall not fear other gods or bow yourselves to them or serve them or sacrifice to them.
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Judges 8:2
And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?
Joshua 17:2
And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.
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Hebrews 11:32
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
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Judges 13:3
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
Luke 1:11
And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Acts 10:3
About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, "Cornelius.
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Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Psalms 89:49
Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven and see, from your holy and beautiful habitation. Where are your zeal and your might? The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion are held back from me.
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Psalms 44:1
O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
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1 Samuel 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
Joshua 1:9
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
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Exodus 3:11
But Moses said to God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?
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1 Samuel 9:21
Saul answered, "Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?
1 Samuel 18:18
And David said to Saul, "Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father's clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?
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Exodus 3:12
He said, "But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
Joshua 1:5
No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
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Exodus 33:13
Now therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways, that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. Consider too that this nation is your people.
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2 Kings 20:8 - 9
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up to the house of the Lord on the third day?
Isaiah 7:11
"Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
Judges 6:36 - 37
Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
Exodus 4:1 - 8
Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, 'The Lord did not appear to you.'
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Judges 13:15
Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you.
Genesis 18:3 - 5
And said, "O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant.
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Genesis 18:6 - 8
And Abraham went quickly into the tent to Sarah and said, "Quick! Three seahs of fine flour! Knead it, and make cakes.
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Judges 13:19
So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the Lord, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.
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1 Kings 18:33 - 34
And he put the wood in order and cut the bull in pieces and laid it on the wood. And he said, "Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.
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Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Kings 18:38
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
2 Chronicles 7:1
As soon as Solomon finished his prayer, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the temple.
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Judges 13:21 - 22
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
Genesis 32:30
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.
Exodus 33:20
But," he said, "you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.
Deuteronomy 5:26
For who is there of all flesh, that has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of fire as we have, and has still lived?
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Daniel 10:19
And he said, "O man greatly loved, fear not, peace be with you; be strong and of good courage." And as he spoke to me, I was strengthened and said, "Let my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.
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Genesis 22:14
So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.
Exodus 17:15
And Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner.
Ezekiel 48:35
The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And the name of the city from that time on shall be, The Lord Is There.
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Judges 6:11
Now the angel of the Lord came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.
Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
Judges 8:32
And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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Judges 3:7
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
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Daniel 11:7
And from a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place. He shall come against the army and enter the fortress of the king of the north, and he shall deal with them and shall prevail.
Daniel 11:10
His sons shall wage war and assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.
Daniel 11:31
Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.
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Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
1 Samuel 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.
2 Samuel 11:21
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Joshua 17:16
The people of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.
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Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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Judges 3:27
When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
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Judges 7:24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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Judges 7:24
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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Judges 6:36 - 40
Then Gideon said to God, "If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
Exodus 4:1 - 7
Then Moses answered, "But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, 'The Lord did not appear to you.
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Genesis 18:32
Then he said, "Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak again but this once. Suppose ten are found there." He answered, "For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.
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Judges 6:32
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
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1 Samuel 29:1
Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.
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Genesis 12:6
Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
Deuteronomy 11:30
Are they not beyond the Jordan, west of the road, toward the going down of the sun, in the land of the Canaanites who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, beside the oak of Moreh?
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Deuteronomy 8:17
Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.
Isaiah 10:13
For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
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Deuteronomy 20:8
And the officers shall speak further to the people, and say, 'Is there any man who is fearful and fainthearted? Let him go back to his house, lest he make the heart of his fellows melt like his own.
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1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord from saving by many or by few.
2 Chronicles 14:11
And Asa cried to the Lord his God, "O Lord, there is none like you to help, between the mighty and the weak. Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against you.
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Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Genesis 46:2 - 3
And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here am I.
1 Kings 3:5
At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night, and God said, "Ask what I shall give you.
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Judges 3:28
And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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Judges 7:13 - 15
When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.
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1 Samuel 14:9 - 10
If they say to us, 'Wait until we come to you,' then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Joshua 11:4
And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
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Judges 15:4
So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.
Genesis 15:17
When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces.
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Exodus 14:13 - 14
And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
2 Chronicles 20:17
You will not need to fight in this battle. Stand firm, hold your position, and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.' Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, and the Lord will be with you.
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Judges 7:18
When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, 'For the Lord and for Gideon.'
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2 Kings 7:7
So they fled away in the twilight and abandoned their tents, their horses, and their donkeys, leaving the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.
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Joshua 6:4
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Joshua 6:16
And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.
Joshua 6:20
So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
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Psalms 83:9
Do to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon.
Isaiah 9:4
For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
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1 Samuel 14:20
Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine's sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.
2 Chronicles 20:23
For the men of Ammon and Moab rose against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, devoting them to destruction, and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they all helped to destroy one another.
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Judges 6:35
And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 3:28
And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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Judges 8:3
God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.
Psalms 83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
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Isaiah 10:26
And the Lord of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
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Judges 8:4
And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.
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Judges 12:1
The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.
2 Samuel 19:41
Then all the men of Israel came to the king and said to the king, "Why have our brothers the men of Judah stolen you away and brought the king and his household over the Jordan, and all David's men with him?
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Isaiah 24:13
For thus it shall be in the midst of the earth among the nations, as when an olive tree is beaten, as at the gleaning when the grape harvest is done.
Jeremiah 49:9
If grape-gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings? If thieves came by night, would they not destroy only enough for themselves?
Obadiah 1:5
If thieves came to you, if plunderers came by night - how you have been destroyed! - would they not steal only enough for themselves? If grape gatherers came to you, would they not leave gleanings?
Micah 7:1
Woe is me! For I have become as when the summer fruit has been gathered, as when the grapes have been gleaned: there is no cluster to eat, no first-ripe fig that my soul desires.
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Judges 7:24 - 25
Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
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Proverbs 15:1
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
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Judges 7:6
And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.
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Genesis 33:17
But Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built himself a house and made booths for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Psalms 60:6
God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.
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1 Kings 20:11
And the king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.'
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1 Samuel 25:11
Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?
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Judges 8:16
And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.
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Genesis 32:30 - 31
So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.
1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.
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1 Kings 22:27 - 28
And say, 'Thus says the king, "Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace."'
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Judges 8:17
And he broke down the tower of Penuel and killed the men of the city.
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Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Judges 20:2
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tr...
Judges 20:15
And the people of Benjamin mustered out of thei...
Judges 20:17
And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mus...
Judges 20:25
And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah th...
Judges 20:35
And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, a...
Judges 20:46
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,00...
2 Samuel 24:9
And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the p...
2 Kings 3:26
When the king of Moab saw that the battle was g...
1 Chronicles 21:5
And Joab gave the sum of the numbering of the p...
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Numbers 32:35
Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah.
Numbers 32:42
And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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Judges 18:27
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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Psalms 83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
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Judges 8:6
And the officials of Succoth said, "Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?
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1 Kings 12:25
Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And he went out from there and built Penuel.
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Judges 4:6
She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
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Ruth 3:13
Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the Lord lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.
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Psalms 83:11
Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna.
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Judges 8:26
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.
Isaiah 3:18
In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents.
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1 Samuel 8:7
And the Lord said to Samuel, "Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.
1 Samuel 10:19
But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, 'Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.
1 Samuel 12:12
And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, 'No, but a king shall reign over us,' when the Lord your God was your king.
1 Samuel 12:17
Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the Lord, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the Lord, in asking for yourselves a king.
1 Samuel 12:19
And all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to the Lord your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.
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Genesis 37:25
Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt.
Genesis 37:28
Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile the Midianites had sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard.
Genesis 39:1
Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, had bought him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.
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Judges 8:21
Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.
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Isaiah 3:19
The pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves.
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Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.
Judges 18:17
And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
Exodus 28:6 - 35
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.
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Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
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Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges 2:17
Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice.
Psalms 106:39
Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.
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Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 7:16
And you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.
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Judges 3:11
So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.
Judges 5:31
So may all your enemies perish, O Lord! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might." And the land had rest for forty years.
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Judges 6:32
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
Judges 7:1
Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
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Judges 9:2
"Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, 'Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh."
Judges 9:5
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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Judges 9:1 - 2
Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family.
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Genesis 15:15
As for yourself, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
Genesis 25:8
Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
Job 5:26
You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
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Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
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Judges 2:19
But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.
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Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
Judges 9:46
When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.
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Psalms 78:11
They forgot his works and the wonders that he had shown them.
Psalms 78:42
They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe.
Psalms 106:13
But they soon forgot his works; they did not wait for his counsel.
Psalms 106:21
They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt.
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Judges 9:16 - 18
Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved -
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Judges 8:31
And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
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Judges 8:30
Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
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Judges 9:1
Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family.
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Genesis 29:14
And Laban said to him, "Surely you are my bone and my flesh!" And he stayed with him a month.
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Judges 9:18
And you have risen up against my father's house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative -
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Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
Judges 9:46
When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.
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Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
2 Chronicles 13:7
And certain worthless scoundrels gathered about him and defied Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and irresolute and could not withstand them.
Proverbs 12:11
Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread, but he who follows worthless pursuits lacks sense.
Acts 17:5
But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd.
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Judges 6:24
Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.
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2 Kings 11:1 - 2
Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal family.
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Judges 9:20
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.
2 Samuel 5:9
And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.
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Deuteronomy 11:29
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, you shall set the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.
Deuteronomy 27:12
When you have crossed over the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
Joshua 8:33
And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.
John 4:20
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.
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2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, "A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, 'Give your daughter to my son for a wife,' and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
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Judges 8:22 - 23
Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.
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Psalms 104:15
And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man's heart.
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Daniel 4:12
Its leaves were beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in it was food for all. The beasts of the field found shade under it, and the birds of the heavens lived in its branches, and all flesh was fed from it.
Hosea 14:7
They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow; they shall flourish like the grain; they shall blossom like the vine; their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
Isaiah 30:2
Who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for my direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!
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Judges 9:20
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.
Numbers 21:28
For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, and swallowed the heights of the Arnon.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
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1 Kings 4:33
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Le...
2 Kings 14:9
And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah...
2 Kings 19:23
By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, an...
Psalms 104:16
The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly, t...
Isaiah 2:13
Against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and li...
Isaiah 37:24
By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and ...
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Judges 6:32
Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, "Let Baal contend against him," because he broke down his altar.
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Proverbs 12:14
From the fruit of his mouth a man is satisfied with good, and the work of a man's hand comes back to him.
Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked! It shall be ill with him, for what his hands have dealt out shall be done to him.
Judges 8:35
And they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel.
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Judges 9:5 - 6
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.
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Judges 8:31
And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
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Judges 9:3
And his mother's relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother.
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Isaiah 8:6
Because this people has refused the waters of Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.
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Judges 9:15
And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.
Judges 9:56 - 57
Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
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Numbers 21:16
And from there they continued to Beer; that is the well of which the Lord said to Moses, "Gather the people together, so that I may give them water.
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1 Samuel 16:14
Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and a harmful spirit from the Lord tormented him.
1 Samuel 18:10
The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.
1 Samuel 19:9
Then a harmful spirit from the Lord came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.
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Isaiah 33:1
Ah, you destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed, you traitor, whom none has betrayed! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have finished betraying, they will betray you.
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Judges 9:56
Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.
1 Kings 2:32
The Lord will bring back his bloody deeds on his own head, because, without the knowledge of my father David, he attacked and killed with the sword two men more righteous and better than himself, Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.
Esther 9:25
But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Psalms 7:16
His mischief returns upon his own head, and on his own skull his violence descends.
Matthew 23:35 - 36
So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
Judges 9:46
When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.
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1 Samuel 25:10
And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.
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Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
Genesis 34:6
And Hamor the father of Shechem went out to Jacob to speak with him.
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Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
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Judges 9:7
When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.
Judges 9:25
And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.
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Judges 9:28 - 29
And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?
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Judges 20:37
Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.
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2 Kings 3:25
And they overthrew the cities, and on every good piece of land every man threw a stone until it was covered. They stopped every spring of water and felled all the good trees, till only its stones were left in Kir-hareseth, and the slingers surrounded and attacked it.
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Deuteronomy 29:23
The whole land burned out with brimstone and salt, nothing sown and nothing growing, where no plant can sprout, an overthrow like that of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger and wrath -
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Judges 9:49
So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
Judges 8:33
As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.
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Psalms 68:14
When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalmon.
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Judges 9:46
When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.
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2 Samuel 11:21
Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?' then you shall say, 'Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
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1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me." But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
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Job 31:8
Then let me sow, and another eat, and let what grows for me be rooted out.
Psalms 94:23
He will bring back on them their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.
Proverbs 5:22
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
Judges 9:24
That the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.
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Judges 9:20
But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.
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Judges 10:12 - 13
The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 5:10
Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.
Judges 12:14
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.
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Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the Manassite took all the region of Argob, that is, Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called the villages after his own name, Havvoth-jair, as it is to this day.)
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Judges 2:11
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Judges 2:13
They abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth.
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1 Kings 11:5
For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
1 Kings 11:33
Because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did.
2 Kings 23:13
And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
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Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
Judges 10:13
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Judges 3:9
But when the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
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Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Judges 10:13
Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
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Exodus 14:30
Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
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Numbers 21:21 - 32
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying.
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Judges 3:13
He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
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Judges 3:13
He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.
Judges 6:3
For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
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Judges 2:16
Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the hand of those who plundered them.
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Judges 10:6
The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
Judges 10:10
And the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Jeremiah 2:13
For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
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Deuteronomy 32:37 - 38
Then he will say, 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they took refuge.
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Judges 2:18
Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.
Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
Judges 11:29
Then the Spirit of the Lord was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.
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Judges 11:5 - 6
And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.
Judges 11:8
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
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Hebrews 11:32
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
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Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.
2 Kings 5:1
Naaman, commander of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master and in high favor, because by him the Lord had given victory to Syria. He was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
2 Samuel 10:8
And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
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Judges 9:4
And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.
1 Samuel 22:2
And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became captain over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.
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Judges 11:3
Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
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Judges 10:18
And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, "May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act according to all the word with which the Lord your God sends you to us.
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Judges 11:6
And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites.
Judges 11:8
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
Judges 10:18
And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
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1 Samuel 10:19
But today you have rejected your God, who saves...
1 Samuel 10:25
Then Samuel told the people the rights and duti...
1 Samuel 11:15
So all the people went to Gilgal, and there the...
1 Samuel 12:7
Now therefore stand still that I may plead with...
Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Da...
1 Samuel 10:17
Now Samuel called the people together to the Lo...
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Judges 10:17
Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
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Numbers 21:24 - 26
And Israel defeated him with the edge of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as to the Ammonites, for the border of the Ammonites was strong.
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Numbers 21:13
From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Genesis 32:22
The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
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Deuteronomy 2:9
And the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the people of Lot for a possession.
Deuteronomy 2:19
And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession.
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Numbers 14:25
Now, since the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valleys, turn tomorrow and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.
Deuteronomy 1:40
But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.
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Numbers 13:26
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
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Numbers 20:14
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the hardship that we have met:
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Numbers 20:18 - 21
But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you.
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Numbers 20:1
And the people of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. And Miriam died there and was buried there.
Deuteronomy 1:46
So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.
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Numbers 21:4
From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. And the people became impatient on the way.
Deuteronomy 2:1 - 8
Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as the Lord told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir.
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Numbers 21:11
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness that is opposite Moab, toward the sunrise.
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Numbers 21:13
From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
Numbers 22:36
When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, on the border formed by the Arnon, at the extremity of the border.
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Judges 11:19 - 22
Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our country.
Numbers 21:21 - 26
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying.
Deuteronomy 2:26 - 37
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon the king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying.
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Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, O Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters captives, to an Amorite king, Sihon.
1 Kings 11:7
Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
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Deuteronomy 9:5
Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Deuteronomy 18:12
For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.
Joshua 3:10
And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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Numbers 22:2
And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
Joshua 24:9
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
Micah 6:5
O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.
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Numbers 21:25
And Israel took all these cities, and Israel settled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages.
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Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
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Genesis 16:5
And Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be on you! I gave my servant to your embrace, and when she saw that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May the Lord judge between you and me!
Genesis 18:25
Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." So Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
1 Samuel 24:12
May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.
1 Samuel 24:15
May the Lord therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.
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Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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Genesis 28:20
Then Jacob made a vow, saying, "If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat and clothing to wear.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow and said, "O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.
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Leviticus 27:2
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, If anyone makes a special vow to the Lord involving the valuation of persons.
1 Samuel 1:28
Therefore I have lent him to the Lord. As long as he lives, he is lent to the Lord." And he worshiped the Lord there.
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Psalms 66:13
I will come into your house with burnt offerings; I will perform my vows to you.
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Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.
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Judges 11:11
So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the Lord at Mizpah.
Judges 10:17
Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
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Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
1 Samuel 18:6
As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.
Psalms 68:25
The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:
Jeremiah 31:4
Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.
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Numbers 30:2
If a man vows a vow to the Lord, or swears an oath to bind himself by a pledge, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Ecclesiastes 5:4 - 5
When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it, for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
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Judges 11:31
Then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the Lord 's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.
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Judges 8:1
Then the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?" And they accused him fiercely.
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1 Samuel 19:5
For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the Lord worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?
1 Samuel 28:21
And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, "Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.
Job 13:14
Why should I take my flesh in my teeth and put my life in my hand?
Psalms 119:109
I hold my life in my hand continually, but I do not forget your law.
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1 Samuel 25:10
And Nabal answered David's servants, "Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.
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Judges 3:28
And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the Lord has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
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Judges 12:5
And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No.
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Job 18:19
He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
Isaiah 14:22
I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, descendants and posterity," declares the Lord.
1 Timothy 5:4
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.
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Judges 5:10
Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.
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Judges 2:11
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals.
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Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Judges 10:7
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites.
1 Samuel 12:9
But they forgot the Lord their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.
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Joshua 19:41
And the territory of its inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh.
Joshua 15:33
And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah.
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1 Samuel 1:2
He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
Luke 1:7
But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and both were advanced in years.
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Judges 6:12
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said to him, "The Lord is with you, O mighty man of valor.
Luke 1:11
And there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, "Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.
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Judges 13:7
But he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'
Judges 13:14
She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.
Numbers 6:2 - 3
Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the Lord.
Luke 1:15
For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
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Judges 16:17
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.
1 Samuel 1:11
And she vowed a vow and said, "O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.
Numbers 6:5
All the days of his vow of separation, no razor shall touch his head. Until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the Lord, he shall be holy. He shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.
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Judges 13:4
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean.
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1 Samuel 7:13
So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
2 Samuel 8:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.
1 Chronicles 18:1
After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and he took Gath and its villages out of the hand of the Philistines.
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Deuteronomy 33:1
This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
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Judges 13:17 - 18
And Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?
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Judges 13:3 - 5
And the angel of the Lord appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
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Luke 1:66
And all who heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, "What then will this child be?" For the hand of the Lord was with him.
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Judges 13:4
Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean.
Judges 13:7
But he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.
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Judges 6:19
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
Genesis 18:5 - 8
While I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said.
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Judges 13:6
Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name.
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Genesis 32:29
Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him.
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Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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Judges 6:19 - 21
So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.
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Leviticus 9:24
And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed the burnt offering and the pieces of fat on the altar, and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.
1 Chronicles 21:16
And David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Ezekiel 1:28
Like the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness all around. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
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Judges 6:22
Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the Lord. And Gideon said, "Alas, O Lord God! For now I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.
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Judges 13:21
The angel of the Lord appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the Lord.
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1 Samuel 2:21
Indeed the Lord visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the young man Samuel grew in the presence of the Lord.
1 Samuel 3:19
And Samuel grew, and the Lord was with him and let none of his words fall to the ground.
Luke 1:80
And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
Luke 2:52
And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
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Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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Judges 18:11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
Joshua 15:33
And in the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah.
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Hebrews 11:32
And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets -
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Genesis 38:12 - 13
In the course of time the wife of Judah, Shua's daughter, died. When Judah was comforted, he went up to Timnah to his sheepshearers, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.
Joshua 15:10
And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.
Joshua 19:43
Elon, Timnah, Ekron.
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Genesis 34:4
So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, "Get me this girl for my wife.
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Genesis 24:3 - 4
That I may make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell.
Genesis 28:1 - 2
Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, "You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
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Judges 15:18
And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the...
1 Samuel 14:6
Jonathan said to the young man who carried his ...
1 Samuel 17:26
And David said to the men who stood by him, "Wh...
1 Samuel 17:36
Your servant has struck down both lions and bea...
1 Samuel 31:4
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, "Draw your ...
2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the stre...
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Joshua 11:20
For it was the Lord 's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 15:11
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them.
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Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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Ezekiel 17:2
Son of man, propound a riddle, and speak a parable to the house of Israel.
1 Kings 10:1
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions.
Psalms 78:2
I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old.
Proverbs 1:6
To understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
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Genesis 29:27
Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also in return for serving me another seven years.
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Genesis 45:22
To each and all of them he gave a change of clothes, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred shekels of silver and five changes of clothes.
2 Kings 5:5
And the king of Syria said, "Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel." So he went, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothing.
2 Kings 5:22 - 23
And he said, "All is well. My master has sent me to say, 'There have just now come to me from the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and two changes of clothing.'
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
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Judges 16:15
And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.
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Judges 16:16
And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.
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Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
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Judges 1:18
Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.
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Judges 15:2
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.
Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
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John 3:29
The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom's voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
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Genesis 38:17
He answered, "I will send you a young goat from the flock." And she said, "If you give me a pledge, until you send it -
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Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion." And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.
Judges 14:20
And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
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Judges 15:2
And her father said, "I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.
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Judges 14:15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?
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Judges 15:11
Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" And he said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them.
Isaiah 2:21
To enter the caverns of the rocks and the clefts of the cliffs, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Isaiah 57:5
You who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
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2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
2 Samuel 5:22
And the Philistines came up yet again and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
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Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
Judges 15:17
As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
Judges 15:19
And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Judges 14:4
His father and mother did not know that it was from the Lord, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.
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Judges 16:11 - 12
And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.
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Judges 14:6
Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.
Judges 14:19
And the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house.
1 Samuel 11:6
And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.
Judges 3:10
The Spirit of the Lord was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
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Joshua 23:10
One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.
Judges 3:31
After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.
Leviticus 26:8
Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall chase ten thousand, and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
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Judges 15:9
Then the Philistines came up and encamped in Judah and made a raid on Lehi.
Judges 15:14
When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.
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Psalms 3:7
Arise, O Lord! Save me, O my God! For you strike all my enemies on the cheek; you break the teeth of the wicked.
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Judges 15:17
As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.
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Genesis 45:27
But when they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
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Joshua 15:47
Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.
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1 Samuel 23:26
Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them.
Psalms 118:10 - 12
All nations surrounded me; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Acts 9:24
But their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him.
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Joshua 13:3
(from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim.
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Judges 14:15
On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?
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Judges 16:19
She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 16:11
And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.
Judges 16:17
And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.
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Judges 15:13 - 14
They said to him, "No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.
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Judges 14:16
And Samson's wife wept over him and said, "You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
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Judges 14:17
She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.
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Judges 13:5
For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.
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Judges 16:5
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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Judges 16:5 - 6
And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.
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1 Samuel 28:15 - 16
Then Samuel said to Saul, "Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?" Saul answered, "I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.
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Exodus 11:5
And every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Matthew 24:41
Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left.
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1 Chronicles 10:10
And they put his armor in the temple of their gods and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.
1 Samuel 5:2 - 7
Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.
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Daniel 5:4
They drank wine and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
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Judges 19:6
So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.
2 Samuel 13:28
Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
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Deuteronomy 22:8
When you build a new house, you shall make a pa...
2 Samuel 11:2
It happened, late one afternoon, when David aro...
Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went out and brought them and mad...
Matthew 24:17
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down ...
Mark 13:15
Let the one who is on the housetop not go down,...
Luke 17:31
On that day, let the one who is on the housetop...
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Jeremiah 15:15
O Lord, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
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Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Judges 17:8
And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
Judges 18:2
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Ruth 3:10
And he said, "May you be blessed by the Lord, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
1 Samuel 15:13
And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, "Blessed be you to the Lord. I have performed the commandment of the Lord.
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Exodus 20:4
You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
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Leviticus 19:4
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
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Isaiah 46:6
Those who lavish gold from the purse, and weigh out silver in the scales, hire a goldsmith, and he makes it into a god; then they fall down and worship!
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Judges 8:27
And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.
Judges 18:17
And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
Exodus 28:6 - 35
And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.
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Genesis 31:19
Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father's household gods.
Hosea 3:4
For the children of Israel shall dwell many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or pillar, without ephod or household gods.
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Judges 17:12
And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
1 Kings 13:33
After this thing Jeroboam did not turn from his evil way, but made priests for the high places again from among all the people. Any who would, he ordained to be priests of the high places.
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Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
Judges 19:1
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Deuteronomy 12:8
You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes.
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Judges 19:1
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Ruth 1:1 - 2
In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days.
Matthew 2:1
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem.
Matthew 2:5 - 6
They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 18:19
And they said to him, "Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?
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Exodus 2:21
And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah.
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Judges 17:5
And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.
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Judges 18:30
And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.
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Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Judges 1:34
The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.
Joshua 19:47 - 48
When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
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Judges 18:8
And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, "What do you report?
Judges 18:11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Numbers 13:17
Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country.
Joshua 2:1
And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
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Judges 17:1
There was a man of the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Micah.
Judges 17:8
And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.
Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 17:10
And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living." And the Levite went in.
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Numbers 27:21
And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his word they shall go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he and all the people of Israel with him, the whole congregation.
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1 Samuel 1:17
Then Eli answered, "Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.
1 Kings 22:6
Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men, and said to them, "Shall I go to battle against Ramoth-gilead, or shall I refrain?" And they said, "Go up, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.
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Joshua 19:47
When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
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Judges 18:10
As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.
Judges 18:27
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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Judges 18:28
And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.
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Judges 18:2
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Numbers 13:20
And whether the land is rich or poor, and whether there are trees in it or not. Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land." Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
Joshua 2:23 - 24
Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.
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1 Kings 22:3
And the king of Israel said to his servants, "Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we keep quiet and do not take it out of the hand of the king of Syria?
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Joshua 18:3
So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?
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Judges 18:7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Judges 18:27
But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.
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Judges 19:19
We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.
Deuteronomy 8:9
A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
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Judges 18:16
Now the 600 men of the Danites, armed with their weapons of war, stood by the entrance of the gate.
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Judges 13:25
And the Spirit of the Lord began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Joshua 15:60
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.
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Judges 18:2
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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Judges 17:4 - 5
So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.
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Genesis 43:27
And he inquired about their welfare and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?
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Judges 18:11
So 600 men of the tribe of Dan, armed with weapons of war, set out from Zorah and Eshtaol.
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Judges 18:2
So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.
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Judges 18:14
Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, "Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.
Judges 17:4 - 5
So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.
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Judges 18:17
And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.
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Job 21:5
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
Job 29:9
The princes refrained from talking and laid their hand on their mouth.
Job 40:4
Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
Proverbs 30:32
If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
Micah 7:16
The nations shall see and be ashamed of all their might; they shall lay their hands on their mouths; their ears shall be deaf.
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Judges 17:10
And Micah said to him, "Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living." And the Levite went in.
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1 Samuel 17:22
And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.
Isaiah 10:28
He has come to Aiath; he has passed through Migron; at Michmash he stores his baggage.
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Genesis 31:30
And now you have gone away because you longed greatly for your father's house, but why did you steal my gods?
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Judges 18:7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
Judges 18:10
As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.
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Joshua 19:47
When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
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Judges 18:7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
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2 Samuel 10:6
When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.
Numbers 13:21
So they went up and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.
Joshua 19:28
Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, Kanah, as far as Sidon the Great.
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Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, 318 of them, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
1 Kings 12:29 - 30
And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
1 Kings 15:20
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.
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Judges 18:7
Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.
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Exodus 2:22
She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.
Exodus 18:3
Along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom ( for he said, "I have been a sojourner in a foreign land").
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Judges 17:12
And Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
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Judges 13:1
And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
1 Samuel 4:2 - 3
The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.
1 Samuel 4:10 - 11
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.
Psalms 78:60 - 64
He forsook his dwelling at Shiloh, the tent where he dwelt among mankind.
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
1 Samuel 1:3
Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the Lord.
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Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 17:7
Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.
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Judges 19:8
And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl's father said, "Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines." So they ate, both of them.
Genesis 18:5
While I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on - since you have come to your servant." So they said, "Do as you have said.
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Judges 19:9
And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.
Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
Judges 16:25
And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.
Ruth 3:7
And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.
2 Samuel 13:28
Then Absalom commanded his servants, "Mark when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, 'Strike Amnon,' then kill him. Do not fear; have I not commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.
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Judges 19:5
And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl's father said to his son-in-law, "Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.
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Joshua 15:8
Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite ( that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.
Joshua 15:63
But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Joshua 18:28
Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim - fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans.
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Joshua 18:25
Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth.
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Judges 19:18
And he said to him, "We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the Lord, but no one has taken me into his house.
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Judges 19:1
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Judges 19:14
So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
Judges 20:4
And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.
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Judges 18:31
So they set up Micah's carved image that he made, as long as the house of God was at Shiloh.
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Judges 19:15
And they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
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Judges 18:10
As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.
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Genesis 43:23
He replied, "Peace to you, do not be afraid. Your God and the God of your father has put treasure in your sacks for you. I received your money." Then he brought Simeon out to them.
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Genesis 19:2
And said, "My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way." They said, "No; we will spend the night in the town square.
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Genesis 18:4
Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.
Genesis 24:32
So the man came to the house and unharnessed the camels, and gave straw and fodder to the camels, and there was water to wash his feet and the feet of the men who were with him.
Genesis 43:24
And when the man had brought the men into Joseph's house and given them water, and they had washed their feet, and when he had given their donkeys fodder.
John 13:5
Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
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Judges 19:6
So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.
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Judges 20:5
And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.
Genesis 19:4
But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house.
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Genesis 19:7
And said, "I beg you, my brothers, do not act so wickedly.
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Judges 20:6
So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
Genesis 34:7
The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, for such a thing must not be done.
Deuteronomy 22:21
Then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
2 Samuel 13:12
She answered him, "No, my brother, do not violate me, for such a thing is not done in Israel; do not do this outrageous thing.
Joshua 7:15
And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.'
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Genesis 19:8
Behold, I have two daughters who have not known any man. Let me bring them out to you, and do to them as you please. Only do nothing to these men, for they have come under the shelter of my roof.
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Genesis 34:2
And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
Deuteronomy 21:14
But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.
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Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
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Judges 20:5
And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.
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Judges 20:6
So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.
1 Samuel 11:7
He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
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Hosea 9:9
They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
Hosea 10:9
From the days of Gibeah, you have sinned, O Israel; there they have continued. Shall not the war against the unjust overtake them in Gibeah?
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Judges 20:7
Behold, you people of Israel, all of you, give your advice and counsel here.
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Judges 21:5
And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord ?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death.
Joshua 22:12
And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.
1 Samuel 11:7
He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of messengers, saying, "Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!" Then the dread of the Lord fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.
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1 Samuel 3:20
And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established as a prophet of the Lord.
2 Samuel 3:10
To transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.
2 Samuel 24:2
So the king said to Joab, the commander of the army, who was with him, "Go through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, that I may know the number of the people.
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1 Samuel 7:5
Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord for you.
1 Samuel 10:17
Now Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah.
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1 Samuel 14:38
And Saul said, "Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.
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Judges 20:15
And the people of Benjamin mustered out of thei...
Judges 20:17
And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mus...
Judges 20:25
And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah th...
Judges 20:35
And the Lord defeated Benjamin before Israel, a...
Judges 20:46
So all who fell that day of Benjamin were 25,00...
Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with thei...
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Judges 19:15
And they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.
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Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
Judges 19:25 - 26
But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.
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Judges 19:29
And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.
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Judges 19:23
And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.
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Judges 19:30
And all who saw it said, "Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.
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Deuteronomy 13:14
Then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you.
Joshua 22:13
Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest.
Joshua 22:16
Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, 'What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the Lord by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the Lord ?
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Judges 19:22
As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, "Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
Deuteronomy 13:13
That certain worthless fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which you have not known.
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Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion against the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery, to make you leave the way in which the Lord your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, in transgressing his covenant.
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Numbers 1:37
Those listed of the tribe of Benjamin were 35,400.
Numbers 26:41
These are the sons of Benjamin according to their clans, and those listed were 45,600.
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Judges 20:2
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
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Judges 3:15
Then the people of Israel cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
1 Chronicles 12:2
They were bowmen and could shoot arrows and sling stones with either the right or the left hand; they were Benjaminites, Saul's kinsmen.
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Judges 20:15
And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.
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Judges 20:26
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
Judges 20:31
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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Judges 1:1
After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
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Judges 1:1
After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the Lord, "Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
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Judges 20:25
And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.
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Judges 20:26 - 28
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Judges 20:21
The people of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and destroyed on that day 22,000 men of the Israelites.
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Judges 20:2
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
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Judges 20:18
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.
Judges 20:31
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
1 Samuel 4:3 - 4
And when the troops came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, "Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.
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Numbers 25:7
When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation and took a spear in his hand
Numbers 31:6
And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand from each tribe, together with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.
Joshua 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
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Deuteronomy 10:8
At that time the Lord set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the Lord to stand before the Lord to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.
Deuteronomy 18:5
For the Lord your God has chosen him out of all your tribes to stand and minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for all time.
Deuteronomy 18:7
And ministers in the name of the Lord his God, like all his fellow Levites who stand to minister there before the Lord.
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Joshua 8:4
And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.
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Judges 21:19
So they said, "Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.
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Judges 20:18
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.
Judges 20:26
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
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Joshua 8:5 - 6
And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.
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Judges 20:41
Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.
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Judges 20:2
And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.
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Joshua 8:19
And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.
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Judges 20:31 - 32
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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Joshua 8:20
So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.
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Judges 20:34
And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.
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Joshua 8:15
And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.
Joshua 8:24
When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.
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Judges 20:42
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.
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Judges 21:13
Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.
Joshua 15:32
Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon: in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.
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Judges 20:42
Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.
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Judges 20:45
And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.
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Judges 21:18
Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters." For the people of Israel had sworn, "Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
Judges 20:1
Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.
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Judges 20:18
The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, "Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?" And the Lord said, "Judah shall go up first.
Judges 20:26
Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
Judges 20:31
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord responded to the plea for the land, and the plague was averted from Israel.
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Judges 5:23
Curse Meroz, says the angel of the Lord, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
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Judges 21:15
And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
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Judges 21:16
Then the elders of the congregation said, "What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
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1 Samuel 11:1
Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.
1 Samuel 31:11 - 13
But when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul.
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Judges 21:8
And they said, "What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah?" And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.
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Judges 21:5
And the people of Israel said, "Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the Lord ?" For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the Lord to Mizpah, saying, "He shall surely be put to death.
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Numbers 31:17
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.
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Joshua 18:1
Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.
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Judges 20:47
But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.
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Deuteronomy 20:10
When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it.
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Judges 21:6
And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, "One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.
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Judges 21:7
What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the Lord that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?
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Judges 21:1
Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, "No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.
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Judges 20:31
And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.
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Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.
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Judges 20:48
And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire.
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Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.
Judges 19:1
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
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