Discovery Box| (0.33) | Jdg 9:54 |
| He quickly called to the young man who carried his weapons, 1 “Draw your sword and kill me, so they will not say, 2 ‘A woman killed him.’” So the young man stabbed him and he died. |
| (0.33) | Jdg 10:18 |
| The leaders 1 of Gilead said to one another, “Who is willing to lead the charge 2 against the Ammonites? He will become the leader of all who live in Gilead!” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:8 |
| The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That may be true, 1 but now we pledge to you our loyalty. 2 Come with us and fight with the Ammonites. Then you will become the leader 3 of all who live in Gilead.” 4 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:9 |
| Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “All right! 1 If you take me back to fight with the Ammonites and the Lord gives them to me, 2 I will be your leader.” 3 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:13 |
| The Ammonite king said to Jephthah’s messengers, “Because Israel stole 1 my land when they 2 came up from Egypt – from the Arnon River in the south to the Jabbok River in the north, and as far west as the Jordan. 3 Now return it 4 peaceably!” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:34 |
| When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out 1 to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. 2 She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter. |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:35 |
| When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! 1 You have brought me disaster! 2 I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.” 3 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:36 |
| She said to him, “My father, since 1 you made an oath to the Lord, do to me as you promised. 2 After all, the Lord vindicated you before 3 your enemies, the Ammonites.” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:37 |
| She then said to her father, “Please grant me this one wish. 1 For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.” 2 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 11:39 |
| After two months she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. She died a virgin. 1 Her tragic death gave rise to a custom in Israel. 2 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 12:3 |
| When I saw that you were not going to help, 1 I risked my life 2 and advanced against 3 the Ammonites, and the Lord handed them over to me. Why have you come up 4 to fight with me today?” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 12:6 |
| then they said to him, “Say ‘Shibboleth!’” 1 If he said, “Sibboleth” (and could not pronounce the word 2 correctly), they grabbed him and executed him right there at the fords of the Jordan. On that day forty-two thousand Ephraimites fell dead. |
| (0.33) | Jdg 13:7 |
| He said to me, ‘Look, you will conceive and have a son. 1 So now, do not drink wine or beer and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. 2 For the child will be dedicated 3 to God from birth till the day he dies.’” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 13:8 |
| Manoah prayed to the Lord, 1 “Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God 2 to visit 3 us again, so he can teach 4 us how we should raise 5 the child who will be born.” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 13:16 |
| The Lord’s messenger said to Manoah, “If I stay, 1 I will not eat your food. But if you want to make a burnt sacrifice to the Lord, you should offer it.” (He said this because Manoah did not know that he was the Lord’s messenger.) 2 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 14:3 |
| But his father and mother said to him, “Certainly you can find a wife among your relatives or among all our 1 people! You should not have to go and get a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines.” 2 But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, 3 because she is the right one for me.” 4 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 15:1 |
| Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, 1 Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. 2 He said to her father, 3 “I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!” 4 But her father would not let him enter. |
| (0.33) | Jdg 15:4 |
| Samson went and captured three hundred jackals 1 and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair. 2 |
| (0.33) | Jdg 15:11 |
| Three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave in the cliff of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines rule over us? Why have you done this to us?” He said to them, “I have only done to them what they have done to me.” |
| (0.33) | Jdg 15:18 |
| He was very thirsty, so he cried out to the Lord and said, “You have given your servant 1 this great victory. But now must I die of thirst and fall into hands of the Philistines?” 2 |
