Discovery Box| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | Jdg 11:11 |
| So Jephthah went with the leaders of Gilead. The people made him their leader and commander. Jephthah repeated the terms of the agreement 1 before the Lord in Mizpah. |
| (0.01) | Jdg 11:27 |
| I have not done you wrong, 1 but you are doing wrong 2 by attacking me. May the Lord, the Judge, judge this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites!’” |
| (0.01) | 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. |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | Jdg 13:3 |
| The Lord’s angelic 1 messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You 2 are infertile and childless, 3 but you will conceive and have a son. |
| (0.01) | 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.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 13:9 |
| God answered Manoah’s prayer. 1 God’s angelic messenger visited 2 the woman again while she was sitting in the field. But her husband Manoah was not with her. |
| (0.01) | Jdg 14:2 |
| When he got home, 1 he told his father and mother, “A Philistine girl in Timnah has caught my eye. 2 Now get her for my wife.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 14:4 |
| Now his father and mother did not realize this was the Lord’s doing, 1 because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines 2 (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel). |
| (0.01) | Jdg 14:8 |
| Some time later, when he went back to marry 1 her, he turned aside to see the lion’s remains. He saw 2 a swarm of bees in the lion’s carcass, as well as some honey. |
| (0.01) | Jdg 14:12 |
| Samson said to them, “I will give you a riddle. If you really can solve it during the seven days the party lasts, 1 I will give you thirty linen robes and thirty sets 2 of clothes. |
| (0.01) | 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 |
| (0.01) | Jdg 15:5 |
| He lit the torches 1 and set the jackals loose in the Philistines’ standing grain. He burned up the grain heaps and the standing grain, as well as the vineyards and olive groves. |
| (0.01) | Jdg 15:12 |
| They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me 1 you will not kill 2 me.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 16:7 |
| Samson said to her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh 1 bowstrings 2 that have not been dried, I will become weak and be just like any other man.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 16:15 |
| She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? 1 Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 16:23 |
| The rulers of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to celebrate. They said, “Our god has handed Samson, our enemy, over to us.” |
| (0.01) | Jdg 16:24 |
| When the people saw him, 1 they praised their god, saying, “Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!” 2 |
