Discovery Box| (0.13) | Jdg 20:2 |
| The leaders 1 of all the people from all the tribes of Israel took their places in the assembly of God’s people, which numbered 2 four hundred thousand sword-wielding foot soldiers. |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:15 |
| That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah. 1 |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:18 |
| The Israelites went up to Bethel 1 and asked God, 2 “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” 3 The Lord said, “Judah should lead.” |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:23 |
| The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening. They asked the Lord, “Should we 1 again march out to fight 2 the Benjaminites, our brothers?” 3 The Lord said, “Attack them!” 4 |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:25 |
| The Benjaminites again attacked them from Gibeah and struck down eighteen thousand sword-wielding Israelite soldiers. 1 |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:26 |
| So all the Israelites, the whole army, 1 went up to 2 Bethel. 3 They wept and sat there before the Lord; they did not eat anything 4 that day until evening. They offered up burnt sacrifices and tokens of peace 5 to the Lord. |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:33 |
| 1 All the men of Israel got up from their places and took their positions at Baal Tamar, while the Israelites hiding in ambush jumped out of their places west of Gibeah. |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:42 |
| They retreated before the Israelites, taking the road to the wilderness. But the battle overtook 1 them as men from the surrounding cities struck them down. 2 |
| (0.13) | Jdg 20:45 |
| The rest 1 turned and ran toward the wilderness, heading toward the cliff of Rimmon. But the Israelites 2 caught 3 five thousand of them on the main roads. They stayed right on their heels 4 all the way to Gidom and struck down two thousand more. |
| (0.13) | Jdg 21:10 |
| So the assembly sent 12,000 capable warriors 1 against Jabesh Gilead. 2 They commanded them, “Go and kill with your swords 3 the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead, including the women and little children. |
| (0.13) | 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. 1 They brought them back to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan. |
| (0.13) | Jdg 21:14 |
| The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites 1 gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around. 2 |
| (0.13) | Jdg 21:23 |
| The Benjaminites did as instructed. 1 They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. 2 They went home 3 to their own territory, 4 rebuilt their cities, and settled down. 5 |
| (0.13) | Rut 1:6 |
| So she decided to return home from the region of Moab, accompanied by her daughters-in-law, 1 because while she was living in Moab 2 she had heard that the Lord had shown concern 3 for his people, reversing the famine by providing abundant crops. 4 |
| (0.13) | Rut 1:7 |
| Now as she and her two daughters-in-law began to leave the place where she had been living to return to the land of Judah, 1 |
| (0.13) | Rut 1:11 |
| But Naomi replied, “Go back home, my daughters! There is no reason for you to return to Judah with me! 1 I am no longer capable of giving birth to sons who might become your husbands! 2 |
| (0.13) | Rut 1:13 |
| surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! 1 Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! 2 No, 3 my daughters, you must not return with me. 4 For my intense suffering 5 is too much for you to bear. 6 For the Lord is afflicting me!” 7 |
| (0.13) | Rut 1:22 |
| So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. 1 (Now they 2 arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.) 3 |
| (0.13) | Rut 2:3 |
| So Ruth 1 went and gathered grain in the fields 2 behind the harvesters. Now she just happened to end up 3 in the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech. |
| (0.13) | Rut 2:8 |
| So Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, 1 my dear! 2 Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not 3 go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside 4 my female workers. 5 |
