Judges 2:18
2:18 When the
Lord raised up leaders for them, the
Lord was with each leader and delivered the people
from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The
Lord felt sorry for them
when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
Judges 7:13
7:13 When Gideon arrived, he heard a man telling another man about a dream he had.
The man
said, “Look! I had a dream. I saw
a stale cake of barley bread rolling into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent so hard it knocked it over and turned it upside down. The tent just collapsed.”
Judges 14:19
14:19 The Lord’s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes and gave them to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.
Judges 15:1
Samson Versus the Philistines
15:1 Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father, “I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!” But her father would not let him enter.
Judges 16:14
16:14 So she made him go to sleep, wove the seven braids of his hair into the fabric on the loom, fastened it with the pin, and said to him, “The Philistines are here,
Samson!”
He woke up
and tore away the pin of the loom and the fabric.
Judges 16:17
16:17 Finally he told her his secret.
He said to her, “My hair has never been cut,
for I have been dedicated to God
from the time I was conceived.
If my head
were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.”
Judges 17:2
17:2 He said to his mother, “You know
the eleven hundred pieces of silver which were stolen
from you, about which I heard you pronounce a curse? Look here, I have the silver. I stole
it, but now I am giving it back to you.”
His mother said, “May the
Lord reward
you, my son!”
Judges 20:28
20:28 Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, was serving the
Lord in those days), “Should we
once more march out to fight the Benjaminites our brothers,
or should we
quit?” The
Lord said, “Attack, for tomorrow I will hand them
over to you.”