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- Judges 18:2
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So the Danites sent out five men from their clans, men of valor from Zorah and Eshtaol, to spy out the land and explore it. “Go and explore the land,” they told them. The men entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night.
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- Judges 18:4
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“Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”
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- Judges 18:8
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When the men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers asked them, “What did you find?”
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- Judges 18:10
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When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
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- Judges 18:14
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Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
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- Judges 18:15
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So they turned aside there and went to the home of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and greeted him.
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- Judges 18:18
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When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
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- Judges 18:23
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When they called out after them, the Danites turned to face them and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you that you have called out such a company?”
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- Judges 18:24
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He replied, “You took the gods I had made, and my priest, and went away. What else do I have? How can you say to me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”
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- Judges 18:25
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The Danites said to him, “Do not raise your voice against us, or angry men will attack you, and you and your family will lose your lives.”
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- Judges 18:26
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So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
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- Judges 19:2
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But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
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- Judges 19:5
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On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”
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- Judges 19:6
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So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and let your heart be merry.”
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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 19:12
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But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
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- Judges 19:18
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The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,
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- Judges 19:22
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While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
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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 19:25
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But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.
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- Judges 19:28
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“Get up,” he told her. “Let us go.” But there was no response. So the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.
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- Judges 19:29
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When he reached his house, he picked up a knife, took hold of his concubine, cut her limb by limb into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.
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- Judges 20:1
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Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
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- Judges 20:11
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So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
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- Judges 20:16
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Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
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- Judges 20:20
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And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
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- Judges 20:23
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They went up and wept before the LORD until evening, inquiring of Him, “Should we again draw near for battle against our brothers the Benjamites?” And the LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
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- Judges 20:24
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On the second day the Israelites advanced against the Benjamites.
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- Judges 20:29
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So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.
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- Judges 20:30
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On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.
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- Judges 20:32
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“We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”
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- Judges 20:36
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Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
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- Judges 20:37
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The men in ambush rushed suddenly against Gibeah; they advanced and put the whole city to the sword.
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- Judges 20:42
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So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.
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- Judges 20:45
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Then the Benjamites turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and Israel cut down 5,000 men on the roads. And they overtook them at Gidom and struck down 2,000 more.
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- Judges 20:47
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But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.
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- Judges 20:48
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And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
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- Judges 21:5
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The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.
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- Judges 21:6
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And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
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- Judges 21:8
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So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.
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- Judges 21:12
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So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
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- Judges 21:13
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Then the whole congregation sent a message of peace to the Benjamites who were at the rock of Rimmon.
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- Judges 21:22
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When their fathers or brothers come to us to complain, we will tell them, ‘Do us a favor by helping them, since we did not get wives for each of them in the war. Since you did not actually give them your daughters, you have no guilt.’”
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- Judges 21:23
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The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.
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- Ruth 1:7
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Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.
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- Ruth 1:15
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“Look,” said Naomi, “your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; follow her back home.”
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- Ruth 1:16
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But Ruth replied: “Do not urge me to leave you or to turn from following you. For wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.
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- Ruth 1:18
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When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.
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- Ruth 1:20
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“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.
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- Ruth 2:2
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And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
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