Discovery Box| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 1:8 |
| Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home!<n id="1" /> May the <sc>Lordsc> show<n id="2" /> you<n id="3" /> the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands<n id="4" /> and to me!<n id="5" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 1:9 |
| May the <sc>Lordsc> enable each of you to find<n id="1" /> security<n id="2" /> in the home of a new husband!”<n id="3" /> Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 1:17 |
| <p class="poetry">Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried.p> <p class="poetry">May the <sc>Lordsc> punish me severely if I do not keep my promise!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Only death will be able to separate me from you!”<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 4:12 |
| May your family<n id="1" /> become like the family of Perez<n id="2" /> – whom Tamar bore to Judah – through the descendants<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> gives you by this young woman.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 4:13 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> enabled her to conceive<n id="2" /> and she gave birth to a son. |
| (0.44133618705036) | Rut 4:14 |
| The village women said to Naomi, “May the <sc>Lordsc> be praised because he has not left you without a guardian<n id="1" /> today! May he<n id="2" /> become famous in Israel!<n id="3" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:7 |
| Peninnah<n id="1" /> would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah<n id="2" /> went up to the <sc>Lordsc>’s house, Peninnah<n id="3" /> would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:9 |
| <p class="bodytext">On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up.<n id="1" /> (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair<n id="2" /> by the doorpost of the <sc>Lordsc>’s temple.) |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is,<n id="1" /> my lord! I am under a great deal of stress.<n id="2" /> I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:20 |
| After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the <sc>Lordsc> for him.<n id="1" />p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:22 |
| but Hannah did not go up with them.<n id="1" /> Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the <sc>Lordsc>, and he will remain there from then on.”p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:24 |
| Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah<n id="1" /> of flour, and a container<n id="2" /> of wine. She brought him to the <sc>Lordsc>’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young.<n id="3" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 1:26 |
| She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the <sc>Lordsc>. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 2:3 |
| <p class="poetry">Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">letting proud talk come out of your mouth!p> <p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> is a God who knows;p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="2" /> evaluates what people do.p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 2:11 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the <sc>Lordsc> under the supervision of<n id="1" /> Eli the priest.p> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 3:10 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!” |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 3:11 |
| The <sc>Lordsc> said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel;<n id="1" /> when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 3:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the <sc>Lordsc>’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision. |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 3:18 |
| <p class="bodytext">So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli<n id="1" /> said, “The <sc>Lordsc> will do what he pleases.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.44133618705036) | 1Sa 4:5 |
| When the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly<n id="1" /> that the ground shook.p> |
