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- Judges 2:2
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and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.’ Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?
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- Judges 6:13
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“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
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- Judges 7:14
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His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”
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- Judges 8:8
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From there he went up to Penuel and asked the same from them, but the men of Penuel gave the same response as the men of Succoth.
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- Judges 13:23
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But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”
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- Judges 15:6
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“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
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- Judges 15:7
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And Samson told them, “Because you have done this, I will not rest until I have taken vengeance upon you.”
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- Judges 15:11
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In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
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- Judges 15:18
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And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”
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- Judges 19:11
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When they were near Jebus and the day was almost gone, the servant said to his master, “Please, let us stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night here.”
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- Judges 19:23
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The owner of the house went out and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not do this wicked thing! After all, this man is a guest in my house. Do not commit this outrage.
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- Judges 19:24
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Look, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine, and you can use them and do with them as you wish. But do not do such a vile thing to this man.”
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- Judges 19:30
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And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”
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- Judges 20:3
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(Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
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- Judges 20:12
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And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?
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- Judges 21:3
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“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
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- Ruth 1:19
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So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
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- Ruth 2:5
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And Boaz asked the foreman of his harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”
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- Ruth 4:7
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Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.
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- Ruth 4:12
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And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
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- 1 Samuel 2:20
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And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.
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- 1 Samuel 4:6
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On hearing the noise of the shout, the Philistines asked, “What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?” And when they realized that the ark of the LORD had entered the camp,
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- 1 Samuel 4:7
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the Philistines were afraid. “The gods have entered their camp!” they said. “Woe to us, for nothing like this has happened before.
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- 1 Samuel 6:9
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but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
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- 1 Samuel 9:6
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“Look,” said the servant, “in this city there is a man of God who is highly respected; everything he says surely comes to pass. Let us go there now. Perhaps he will tell us which way to go.”
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- 1 Samuel 11:2
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But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
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- 1 Samuel 12:20
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“Do not be afraid,” Samuel replied. “Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.
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- 1 Samuel 14:38
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Therefore Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the troops, and let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.
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- 1 Samuel 14:45
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But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die—he who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? Never! As surely as the LORD lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for with God’s help he has accomplished this today.” So the people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.
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- 1 Samuel 20:2
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“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
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- 1 Samuel 20:3
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But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
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- 1 Samuel 22:15
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Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
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- 1 Samuel 25:27
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Now let this gift your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow you.
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- 1 Samuel 25:31
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then my lord will have no remorse or guilt of conscience over needless bloodshed and revenge. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, may you remember your servant.”
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- 2 Samuel 1:17
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Then David took up this lament for Saul and his son Jonathan,
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- 2 Samuel 2:6
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Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.
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- 2 Samuel 6:22
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and I will humiliate and humble myself even more than this. Yet I will be honored by the maidservants of whom you have spoken.”
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- 2 Samuel 7:19
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And as if this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord GOD, You have also spoken about the future of the house of Your servant. Is this Your custom with man, O Lord GOD?
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- 2 Samuel 7:21
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For the sake of Your word and according to Your own heart, You have accomplished this great thing and revealed it to Your servant.
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- 2 Samuel 7:27
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For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
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- 2 Samuel 7:28
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And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
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- 2 Samuel 11:3
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So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
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- 2 Samuel 12:5
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David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
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- 2 Samuel 12:11
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This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
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- 2 Samuel 13:12
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“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not violate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
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- 2 Samuel 13:16
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“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
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- 2 Samuel 13:17
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Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
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- 2 Samuel 14:13
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The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?
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- 2 Samuel 14:19
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So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
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- 2 Samuel 17:7
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Hushai replied, “This time the advice of Ahithophel is not sound.”
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