Discovery Box| (0.28) | Jdg 4:19 |
| He said to her, “Give me a little water to drink, because I’m thirsty.” She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 5:28 |
| Through the window she looked; Sisera’s mother cried out through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so slow to return? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariot-horses 1 delayed?’ |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:9 |
| I rescued you from Egypt’s power 1 and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:10 |
| I said to you, “I am the Lord your God! Do not worship 1 the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’” 2 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:21 |
| The Lord’s messenger touched the meat and the unleavened bread with the tip of his staff. 1 Fire flared up from the rock and consumed the meat and unleavened bread. The Lord’s messenger then disappeared. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:24 |
| Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” 1 To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:28 |
| When the men of the city got up the next morning, they saw 1 the Baal altar pulled down, the nearby Asherah pole cut down, and the second bull sacrificed on the newly built altar. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 6:30 |
| The men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, so we can execute him! 1 He pulled down the Baal altar and cut down the nearby Asherah pole.” |
| (0.28) | Jdg 7:7 |
| The Lord said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army 1 and I will hand Midian over to you. 2 The rest of the men should go home.” 3 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 7:8 |
| The men 1 who were chosen 2 took supplies 3 and their trumpets. Gideon 4 sent all the men of Israel back to their homes; 5 he kept only three hundred men. Now the Midianites 6 were camped down below 7 in the valley. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 7:12 |
| Now the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east covered the valley like a swarm of locusts. 1 Their camels could not be counted; they were as innumerable as the sand on the seashore. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 7:15 |
| When Gideon heard the report of the dream and its interpretation, he praised God. 1 Then he went back to the Israelite camp and said, “Get up, for the Lord is handing the Midianite army over to you!” |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:10 |
| Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. 1 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:14 |
| He captured a young man from Succoth 1 and interrogated him. The young man wrote down for him the names of Succoth’s officials and city leaders – seventy-seven men in all. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:15 |
| He approached the men of Succoth and said, “Look what I have! 1 Zebah and Zalmunna! You insulted me, saying, ‘You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your exhausted men?’” 2 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:19 |
| He said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, 1 as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.” |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:24 |
| Gideon continued, 1 “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” 2 (The Midianites 3 had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.) |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:26 |
| The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. 1 This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, 2 purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels. 3 |
| (0.28) | Jdg 8:27 |
| Gideon used all this to make 1 an ephod, 2 which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites 3 prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it 4 there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family. |
| (0.28) | Jdg 9:1 |
| Now Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem to see his mother’s relatives. 1 He said to them and to his mother’s entire extended family, 2 |
