Discovery Box| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 11:39 |
| After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin.<n id="1" /> Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 12:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The Ephraimites assembled<n id="1" /> and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight<n id="2" /> with the Ammonites without asking<n id="3" /> us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 12:5 |
| The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River<n id="1" /> opposite Ephraim.<n id="2" /> Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive<n id="3" /> said, “Let me cross over,” the men of Gilead asked<n id="4" /> him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he said, “No,” |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 13:5 |
| Look, you will conceive and have a son.<n id="1" /> You must never cut his hair,<n id="2" /> for the child will be dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from birth. He will begin to deliver Israel from the power<n id="4" /> of the Philistines.”p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 13:6 |
| <p class="bodytext">The woman went and said to her husband, “A man sent from God<n id="1" /> came to me! He looked like God’s angelic messenger – he was very awesome.<n id="2" /> I did not ask him where he came from, and he did not tell me his name. |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 13:14 |
| She should not drink<n id="1" /> anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean.<n id="2" /> She should obey everything I commanded her to do.” |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 14:18 |
| On the seventh day, before the sun set, the men of the city said to him,p> <p class="poetry">“What is sweeter than honey?p> <p class="poetry">What is stronger than a lion?”p> <p class="bodyblock">He said to them,p> <p class="poetry">“If you had not plowed with my heifer,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">you would not have solved my riddle!”p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 16:17 |
| Finally he told her his secret.<n id="1" /> He said to her, “My hair has never been cut,<n id="2" /> for I have been dedicated to God<n id="3" /> from the time I was conceived.<n id="4" /> If my head<n id="5" /> were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men.” |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 18:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the Danite tribe was looking for a place<n id="1" /> to settle, because at that time they did not yet have a place to call their own among the tribes of Israel.<n id="2" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 19:24 |
| Here are my virgin daughter and my guest’s<n id="1" /> concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.<n id="2" /> But don’t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!” |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 19:30 |
| Everyone who saw the sight<n id="1" /> said, “Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since<n id="2" /> the Israelites left the land of Egypt!<n id="3" /> Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Jdg 21:12 |
| They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead four hundred young girls who were virgins – they had never had sexual relations with a male.<n id="1" /> They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Rut 2:8 |
| <p class="bodytext">So Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully,<n id="1" /> my dear!<n id="2" /> Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not<n id="3" /> go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside<n id="4" /> my female workers.<n id="5" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Rut 2:11 |
| Boaz replied to her,<n id="1" /> “I have been given a full report of<n id="2" /> all that you have done for your mother-in-law following the death of your husband – how you left<n id="3" /> your father and your mother, as well as your homeland, and came to live among people you did not know previously.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Rut 2:20 |
| Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be rewarded by the <sc>Lordsc> because he<n id="1" /> has shown loyalty to the living on behalf of the dead!”<n id="2" /> Then Naomi said to her, “This man is a close relative of ours; he is our guardian.”<n id="3" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Rut 3:13 |
| Remain here tonight. Then in the morning, if he agrees to marry you,<n id="1" /> fine,<n id="2" /> let him do so.<n id="3" /> But if he does not want to do so, I promise, as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, to marry you.<n id="4" /> Sleep here until morning.”<n id="5" /> |
| (0.38502512738854) | Rut 4:4 |
| So I am legally informing you:<n id="1" /> Acquire it before those sitting here and before the leaders of my people!<n id="2" /> If you want to exercise your right to redeem it, then do so.<n id="3" /> But if not, then tell me<n id="4" /> so I will know.<n id="5" /> For you possess the first option to redeem it; I am next in line after you.”<n id="6" /> He replied, “I will redeem it.” |
| (0.38502512738854) | 1Sa 1:8 |
| Finally her husband Elkanah said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad?<n id="1" /> Am I not better to you than ten<n id="2" /> sons?”p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | 1Sa 1:11 |
| She made a vow saying, “O <sc>Lordsc> of hosts, if you will look with compassion<n id="1" /> on the suffering of your female servant,<n id="2" /> remembering me and not forgetting your servant, and give a male child<n id="3" /> to your servant, then I will dedicate him to the <sc>Lordsc> all the days of his life. His hair will never be cut.”<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.38502512738854) | 1Sa 3:6 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> again called, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But Eli<n id="1" /> said, “I didn’t call you, my son. Go back and lie down.”p> |
