Discovery Box| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 18:29 |
| They named it Dan after their ancestor, who was one of Israel’s sons.<n id="1" /> But the city’s name used to be Laish. |
| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 19:2 |
| However, she<n id="1" /> got angry at him<n id="2" /> and went home<n id="3" /> to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. When she had been there four months, |
| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 19:4 |
| His father-in-law, the girl’s father, persuaded him to stay with him for three days, and they ate and drank together, and spent the night there. |
| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 19:5 |
| On the fourth day they woke up early and the Levite got ready to leave.<n id="1" /> But the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Have a bite to eat for some energy,<n id="2" /> then you can go.” |
| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 19:6 |
| So the two of them sat down and had a meal together.<n id="1" /> Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Why not stay another night and have a good time!”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.97760603015075) | Jdg 19:8 |
| He woke up early in the morning on the fifth day so he could leave, but the girl’s father said, “Get some energy.<n id="1" /> Wait until later in the day to leave!”<n id="2" /> So they ate a meal together. |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 2:1 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>’s angelic messenger<n id="1" /> went up from Gilgal to Bokim. He said, “I brought you up from Egypt and led you into the land I had solemnly promised to give to your ancestors.<n id="2" /> I said, ‘I will never break my agreement<n id="3" /> with you, |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 2:10 |
| That entire generation passed away;<n id="1" /> a new generation grew up<n id="2" /> that had not personally experienced the <sc>Lordsc>’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 2:12 |
| They abandoned the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors<n id="1" /> who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped<n id="2" /> them and made the <sc>Lordsc> angry. |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 2:17 |
| But they did not obey<n id="1" /> their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped<n id="2" /> them. They quickly turned aside from the path<n id="3" /> their ancestors<n id="4" /> had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the <sc>Lordsc>’s commands, but they did not.<n id="5" /> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 2:20 |
| <t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was furious with Israel.<n id="1" /> He said, “This nation<n id="2" /> has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors<n id="3" /> by disobeying me.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 6:13 |
| Gideon said to him, “Pardon me,<n id="1" /> but if the <sc>Lordsc> is with us, why has such disaster<n id="2" /> overtaken us? Where are all his miraculous deeds our ancestors told us about? They said,<n id="3" /> ‘Did the <sc>Lordsc> not bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the <sc>Lordsc> has abandoned us and handed us over to Midian.” |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 6:27 |
| So Gideon took ten of his servants<n id="1" /> and did just as the <sc>Lordsc> had told him. He was too afraid of his father’s family<n id="2" /> and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 9:5 |
| He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers,<n id="1" /> the seventy legitimate<n id="2" /> sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped,<n id="3" /> because he hid. |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 9:18 |
| But you have attacked<n id="1" /> my father’s family<n id="2" /> today. You murdered his seventy legitimate<n id="3" /> sons on one stone and made Abimelech, the son of his female slave, king over the leaders of Shechem, just because he is your close relative.<n id="4" /> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 9:28 |
| Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed?<n id="1" /> Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech?<n id="2" /> |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 11:2 |
| Gilead’s wife also gave<n id="1" /> him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth,<n id="2" /> because you are another woman’s son.” |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 11:36 |
| She said to him, “My father, since<n id="1" /> you made an oath to the <sc>Lordsc>, do to me as you promised.<n id="2" /> After all, the <sc>Lordsc> vindicated you before<n id="3" /> your enemies, the Ammonites.” |
| (0.95604656616415) | Jdg 11:37 |
| She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish.<n id="1" /> For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.”<n id="2" /> |
| (0.95604656616415) | 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" /> |
