Discovery Box| (0.44) | Rut 1:8 |
| Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Listen to me! Each of you should return to your mother’s home! 1 May the Lord show 2 you 3 the same kind of devotion that you have shown to your deceased husbands 4 and to me! 5 |
| (0.44) | Rut 1:9 |
| May the Lord enable each of you to find 1 security 2 in the home of a new husband!” 3 Then she kissed them goodbye and they wept loudly. 4 |
| (0.44) | Rut 1:17 |
| Wherever you die, I will die – and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I do not keep my promise! 1 Only death will be able to separate me from you!” 2 |
| (0.44) | Rut 4:12 |
| May your family 1 become like the family of Perez 2 – whom Tamar bore to Judah – through the descendants 3 the Lord gives you by this young woman.” |
| (0.44) | Rut 4:13 |
| So Boaz married Ruth and had sexual relations with her. 1 The Lord enabled her to conceive 2 and she gave birth to a son. |
| (0.44) | Rut 4:14 |
| The village women said to Naomi, “May the Lord be praised because he has not left you without a guardian 1 today! May he 2 become famous in Israel! 3 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:7 |
| Peninnah 1 would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah 2 went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah 3 would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:9 |
| On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. 1 (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair 2 by the doorpost of the Lord’s temple.) |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:15 |
| But Hannah replied, “That’s not the way it is, 1 my lord! I am under a great deal of stress. 2 I have drunk neither wine nor beer. Rather, I have poured out my soul to 3 the Lord. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:20 |
| After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him. 1 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:22 |
| but Hannah did not go up with them. 1 Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:24 |
| Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah 1 of flour, and a container 2 of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. 3 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 1:26 |
| She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 2:3 |
| Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, 1 letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he 2 evaluates what people do. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 2:11 |
| Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of 1 Eli the priest. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 3:10 |
| Then the Lord came and stood nearby, calling as he had previously done, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “Speak, for your servant is listening!” |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 3:11 |
| The Lord said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel; 1 when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 3:15 |
| So Samuel lay down until morning. Then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. But Samuel was afraid to tell Eli about the vision. |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 3:18 |
| So Samuel told him everything. He did not hold back anything from him. Eli 1 said, “The Lord will do what he pleases.” 2 |
| (0.44) | 1Sa 4:5 |
| When the ark of the covenant of the Lord arrived at the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly 1 that the ground shook. |
