Discovery Box| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | 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.” |
| (0.55) | 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.) |
| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | 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. |
| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:2 |
| “Tell 1 all the leaders of Shechem this: ‘Why would you want 2 to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal’s sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.’” 3 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:3 |
| His mother’s relatives 1 spoke on his behalf to 2 all the leaders of Shechem and reported his proposal. 3 The leaders were drawn to Abimelech; 4 they said, “He is our close relative.” 5 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:5 |
| He went to his father’s home in Ophrah and murdered his half-brothers, 1 the seventy legitimate 2 sons of Jerub-Baal, on one stone. Only Jotham, Jerub-Baal’s youngest son, escaped, 3 because he hid. |
| (0.55) | 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!’ |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:27 |
| They went out to the field, harvested their grapes, 1 squeezed out the juice, 2 and celebrated. They came to the temple 3 of their god and ate, drank, and cursed Abimelech. |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:31 |
| He sent messengers to Abimelech, who was in Arumah, 1 reporting, “Beware! 2 Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming 3 to Shechem and inciting the city to rebel against you. 4 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:36 |
| Gaal saw the men 1 and said to Zebul, “Look, men are coming down from the tops of the hills.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadows on the hills – it just looks like men.” 2 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 9:43 |
| he took his men 1 and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, 2 he attacked and struck them down. 3 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 10:4 |
| He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair 1 – they are in the land of Gilead. 2 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 11:7 |
| Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave 1 my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?” |
| (0.55) | 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 |
| (0.55) | Jdg 11:24 |
| You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us. 1 |
