Discovery Box| (0.35) | Jdg 9:7 |
| When Jotham heard the news, 1 he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim. He spoke loudly to the people below, 2 “Listen to me, leaders of Shechem, so that God may listen to you! |
| (0.35) | Jdg 9:15 |
| The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If you really want to choose 1 me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! 2 Otherwise 3 may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!’ |
| (0.35) | Jdg 9:28 |
| Gaal son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and is not Zebul the deputy he appointed? 1 Serve the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem! But why should we serve Abimelech? 2 |
| (0.35) | 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!” |
| (0.35) | Jdg 11:2 |
| Gilead’s wife also gave 1 him sons. When his wife’s sons grew up, they made Jephthah leave and said to him, “You are not going to inherit any of our father’s wealth, 2 because you are another woman’s son.” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 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!” |
| (0.35) | Jdg 11:17 |
| Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please allow us 1 to pass through your land.” But the king of Edom rejected the request. 2 Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate. 3 So Israel stayed at Kadesh. |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | 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.” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jdg 12:1 |
| The Ephraimites assembled 1 and crossed over to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why did you go and fight 2 with the Ammonites without asking 3 us to go with you? We will burn your house down right over you!” 4 |
| (0.35) | Jdg 12:4 |
| Jephthah assembled all the men of Gilead and they fought with Ephraim. The men of Gilead defeated Ephraim, because the Ephraimites insulted them, saying, 1 “You Gileadites are refugees in Ephraim, living within Ephraim’s and Manasseh’s territory.” 2 |
| (0.35) | 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.’” |
| (0.35) | 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.” |
| (0.35) | 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 |
| (0.35) | Jdg 13:23 |
| But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. 1 He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.” |
| (0.35) | 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. |
| (0.35) | Jdg 14:15 |
| On the fourth 1 day they said to Samson’s bride, “Trick your husband into giving the solution to the riddle. 2 If you refuse, 3 we will burn up 4 you and your father’s family. 5 Did you invite us here 6 to make us poor?” 7 |
