TBESH · H5971A
עַם · am · people
: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם (am) means “people” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: am Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
עַם · am · people
: people/nation 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם · am · kinsman
kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · Ammi
A man living at the time of United Monarchy, only mentioned at Sng.6.12 § kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · People's (Gate)
§ kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · (Ibleam)-am
Combined with yiv.le.am (יִבְלְעָם "Ibleam" H2991) § kinsman, kindred
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עַם · am · Amaw
This name means nation, people
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עַם · am · people: soldiers
: soldiers/army 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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עַם · am · people: creatures
: creatures 1) nation, people 1a) people, nation 1b) persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men
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from H6004 (עָמַם); a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV glosses: folk, men, nation, people.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the people | 395 |
| people | 179 |
| my people | 96 |
| of the people | 67 |
| your people | 67 |
| his people | 62 |
| the peoples | 45 |
| of my people | 43 |
| and the people | 36 |
| the troops | 35 |
| peoples | 30 |
| a people | 29 |
| the nations | 26 |
| them | 18 |
| for the people | 17 |
| and his people | 15 |
| so the people | 15 |
| and your people | 13 |
| army | 13 |
| but the people | 13 |
| of the peoples | 13 |
| of his people | 12 |
| to the people | 12 |
| among the people | 11 |
| from his people | 11 |
| nations | 11 |
| of the nations | 11 |
| of the troops | 11 |
| of your people | 11 |
| his troops | 10 |
| then the people | 9 |
| among the nations | 8 |
| and the troops | 8 |
| from the people | 8 |
| let my people | 8 |
| are the people | 6 |
| they | 6 |
| to his people | 6 |
| to my people | 6 |
| and the peoples | 5 |
| her people | 5 |
| o my people | 5 |
| of peoples | 5 |
| our people | 5 |
| that the people | 5 |
| the men | 5 |
| their people | 5 |
| to your people | 5 |
| when the people | 5 |
| you people | 5 |
| are my people | 4 |
| for my people | 4 |
| his men | 4 |
| let the people | 4 |
| men | 4 |
| the army | 4 |
| vvv | 4 |
| against his people | 3 |
| among his people | 3 |
| among the peoples | 3 |
| and his troops | 3 |
| and my people | 3 |
| are a people | 3 |
| as a people | 3 |
| but my people | 3 |
| for his people | 3 |
| from a people | 3 |
| his own people | 3 |
| it to the people | 3 |
| nation | 3 |
| o people | 3 |
| o peoples | 3 |
| of people | 3 |
| of them | 3 |
| the others | 3 |
| these people | 3 |
| this people | 3 |
| to the nations | 3 |
| troops | 3 |
| against your people | 2 |
| among my people | 2 |
| among the troops | 2 |
| among your people | 2 |
| an army | 2 |
| and among their people | 2 |
| and for his people | 2 |
| and for the people | 2 |
| and his army | 2 |
| and his men | 2 |
| and of your people | 2 |
| are creatures | 2 |
| are your people | 2 |
| as do your people | 2 |
| for the peoples | 2 |
| for your people | 2 |
| from the nations | 2 |
| is like your people | 2 |
| its people | 2 |
| let the peoples | 2 |
| my people are | 2 |
| of the others | 2 |
| on the people | 2 |
| over my people | 2 |
| people of yours | 2 |
| so they | 2 |
| solomon sent the people | 2 |
| those | 2 |
| to a people | 2 |
| to let the people | 2 |
| a multitude | 1 |
| a nation | 1 |
| against my people | 1 |
| against the people | 1 |
| along with his people | 1 |
| among your own people | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and a people | 1 |
| and all your people | 1 |
| and an army | 1 |
| and by the people | 1 |
| and have caused my people | 1 |
| and if my people | 1 |
| and its people | 1 |
| and led my people | 1 |
| and my people are | 1 |
| and our people | 1 |
| and people | 1 |
| and peoples | 1 |
| and the lives of my people | 1 |
| and the lord made his people | 1 |
| and the nations | 1 |
| and the rest of the people | 1 |
| and their people | 1 |
| and they | 1 |
| and those people | 1 |
| and troops | 1 |
| and when the people | 1 |
| and when they | 1 |
| are those | 1 |
| army appears | 1 |
| as a nation | 1 |
| as do the peoples | 1 |
| as the people | 1 |
| as the peoples | 1 |
| as they | 1 |
| before the people | 1 |
| bound the troops | 1 |
| but the followers | 1 |
| but the troops | 1 |
| by the people | 1 |
| came with your people | 1 |
| concerning the people | 1 |
| do my people | 1 |
| do the people | 1 |
| each people | 1 |
| elses | 1 |
| following | 1 |
| for the army | 1 |
| for when the people | 1 |
| for your people are like those | 1 |
| from his own people | 1 |
| had bound the people | 1 |
| had placed the troops | 1 |
| has a people | 1 |
| he brought forth his people | 1 |
| he led out his people | 1 |
| his army | 1 |
| his troops however | 1 |
| i brought my people | 1 |
| in his people | 1 |
| in my people | 1 |
| is a people | 1 |
| is his people | 1 |
| is with your own people | 1 |
| is your people | 1 |
| israels troops | 1 |
| led the people | 1 |
| let the nations | 1 |
| like people | 1 |
| like the nations | 1 |
| may peoples | 1 |
| multitude | 1 |
| my fellow townspeople | 1 |
| my own people | 1 |
| my troops | 1 |
| nevertheless the people | 1 |
| now the troops | 1 |
| now when the people | 1 |
| of any people | 1 |
| of each | 1 |
| of every people | 1 |
| of its peoples | 1 |
| of my men | 1 |
| of nations | 1 |
| of our people | 1 |
| of the men | 1 |
| of the neighboring peoples | 1 |
| of the soldiers | 1 |
| of those | 1 |
| of troops | 1 |
| offered by the people | 1 |
| on his people | 1 |
| or anyone | 1 |
| or her people | 1 |
| own | 1 |
| people for me | 1 |
| people here | 1 |
| people up | 1 |
| population | 1 |
| remain upon your people | 1 |
| send the people | 1 |
| sent the people | 1 |
| so a people | 1 |
| so davids army | 1 |
| so gideon brought the men | 1 |
| so my people | 1 |
| so that a people | 1 |
| so the forces | 1 |
| soldiers | 1 |
| than those | 1 |
| that is why the people | 1 |
| that your people | 1 |
| the other nations | 1 |
| the other people | 1 |
| the other peoples | 1 |
| the others to destruction | 1 |
| the people have | 1 |
| the people in it | 1 |
| the people of shechem | 1 |
| the people on | 1 |
| the peoples representative | 1 |
| the soldiers | 1 |
| the troops out to battle | 1 |
| the workers | 1 |
| their | 1 |
| their troops | 1 |
| then all the people | 1 |
| then his people | 1 |
| then i will let your people | 1 |
| then my people | 1 |
| then the troops | 1 |
| then you my people | 1 |
| they are my people | 1 |
| they have led my people | 1 |
| they were a people | 1 |
| this peoples | 1 |
| though the troops | 1 |
| to every people | 1 |
| to foreigners | 1 |
| to lead my people | 1 |
| to let my people | 1 |
| to one of my people | 1 |
| to the creatures | 1 |
| to the troops | 1 |
| to them | 1 |
| was a people | 1 |
| we are his people | 1 |
| what the people | 1 |
| when her people | 1 |
| when my people | 1 |
| when people | 1 |
| when peoples | 1 |
| when the troops | 1 |
| when they | 1 |
| when you have brought the people | 1 |
| when your people | 1 |
| whether its people | 1 |
| who lead my people | 1 |
| why have his people | 1 |
| will be my people | 1 |
| will make my people | 1 |
| with his people | 1 |
| with his troops | 1 |
| with the nations | 1 |
| with the people | 1 |
| with the peoples | 1 |
| with the troops | 1 |
| yet my people | 1 |
| you among the peoples | 1 |
| your merchants | 1 |
| your own people | 1 |
| your troops | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the people | 194 |
| of the people | 164 |
| and the people | 108 |
| and all the people | 105 |
| people | 103 |
| my people | 55 |
| of my people | 52 |
| his people | 44 |
| unto the people | 43 |
| thy people | 40 |
| all the people | 29 |
| this people | 29 |
| for the people | 28 |
| among the people | 21 |
| unto all the people | 21 |
| of thy people | 20 |
| a people | 19 |
| of all the people | 17 |
| of his people | 17 |
| to the people | 15 |
| of this people | 13 |
| unto his people | 13 |
| and his people | 10 |
| from the people | 10 |
| over my people | 9 |
| so the people | 9 |
| that the people | 9 |
| and to all the people | 8 |
| but the people | 8 |
| over the people | 8 |
| and my people | 7 |
| for my people | 7 |
| o my people | 7 |
| of people | 7 |
| and all his people | 6 |
| and they shall be my people | 6 |
| and thy people | 6 |
| and when the people | 6 |
| from his people | 6 |
| let my people | 6 |
| to all the people | 6 |
| to this people | 6 |
| unto thy people | 6 |
| with the people | 6 |
| behold the people | 5 |
| then the people | 5 |
| against the people | 4 |
| all ye people | 4 |
| among his people | 4 |
| and of thy people | 4 |
| from among his people | 4 |
| let the people | 4 |
| their people | 4 |
| unto a people | 4 |
| unto my people | 4 |
| unto this people | 4 |
| against his people | 3 |
| against thy people | 3 |
| all his people | 3 |
| all this people | 3 |
| among all nations | 3 |
| among all people | 3 |
| among thy people | 3 |
| and for the people | 3 |
| and this people | 3 |
| and upon thy people | 3 |
| and ye shall be my people | 3 |
| as thy people | 3 |
| but my people | 3 |
| for all people | 3 |
| for all the people | 3 |
| for his people | 3 |
| for thy people | 3 |
| he and all the people | 3 |
| him and the people | 3 |
| not my people | 3 |
| of a people | 3 |
| that all the people | 3 |
| that my people | 3 |
| to a people | 3 |
| to his people | 3 |
| to my people | 3 |
| unto all people | 3 |
| upon this people | 3 |
| with all the people | 3 |
| also and the people | 2 |
| among all the people | 2 |
| among my people | 2 |
| among you of all his people | 2 |
| and among all the people | 2 |
| and from his people | 2 |
| and it came to pass when the people | 2 |
| and of all the people | 2 |
| and people | 2 |
| and upon the people | 2 |
| as this people | 2 |
| because the people | 2 |
| behold a people | 2 |
| but all the people | 2 |
| for a people | 2 |
| for our people | 2 |
| had let the people | 2 |
| her people | 2 |
| him and his people | 2 |
| if thy people | 2 |
| let all the people | 2 |
| like thy people | 2 |
| me this people | 2 |
| not thou for this people | 2 |
| not unto the people | 2 |
| now in the presence of all his people | 2 |
| o people | 2 |
| of all people | 2 |
| of every people | 2 |
| of the nations | 2 |
| on the people | 2 |
| out of the people | 2 |
| over his people | 2 |
| so all the people | 2 |
| so that the people | 2 |
| than any of the people | 2 |
| themselves from the people | 2 |
| then all the people | 2 |
| therefore my people | 2 |
| therefore the people | 2 |
| thou the people | 2 |
| to be over my people | 2 |
| to thee for that all people | 2 |
| to thy people | 2 |
| upon my people | 2 |
| upon thy people | 2 |
| us he and all his people | 2 |
| when all the people | 2 |
| when the people | 2 |
| with him and all the people | 2 |
| ye people | 2 |
| ye the people | 2 |
| above all people | 1 |
| above all the people | 1 |
| above the people | 1 |
| after the manner of the nations | 1 |
| against my people | 1 |
| against this people | 1 |
| all her people | 1 |
| all people | 1 |
| all thy people | 1 |
| alone and of the people | 1 |
| also neither would he let the people | 1 |
| also thine own people | 1 |
| ammi | 1 |
| among all his people | 1 |
| among all this people | 1 |
| among the nations | 1 |
| among this people | 1 |
| and against the people | 1 |
| and all people | 1 |
| and all this people | 1 |
| and among the people | 1 |
| and as for the people | 1 |
| and behold the people | 1 |
| and caused my people | 1 |
| and for all the people | 1 |
| and for thy people | 1 |
| and from a people | 1 |
| and from thy people | 1 |
| and had caused my people | 1 |
| and hast made my people | 1 |
| and he did not let the people | 1 |
| and her people | 1 |
| and how the people | 1 |
| and i and all the people | 1 |
| and i and my people | 1 |
| and i will let the people | 1 |
| and if the people | 1 |
| and if thy people | 1 |
| and it came to pass when all the people | 1 |
| and it shall be as with the people | 1 |
| and let all the people | 1 |
| and nations | 1 |
| and none else and my people | 1 |
| and of what people | 1 |
| and on all the people | 1 |
| and on all thy people | 1 |
| and shall be my people | 1 |
| and so it fell out unto him for the people | 1 |
| and there shall be like people | 1 |
| and to all this people | 1 |
| and to his people | 1 |
| and to the people | 1 |
| and unto this people | 1 |
| and upon all the people | 1 |
| and when all the people | 1 |
| and when this people | 1 |
| and would to god this people | 1 |
| as people | 1 |
| at the people | 1 |
| because my people | 1 |
| because of his people | 1 |
| before all the people | 1 |
| before all thy people | 1 |
| before this people | 1 |
| behold o my people | 1 |
| behold there is a people | 1 |
| behold thy people | 1 |
| between him and between all the people | 1 |
| between my people | 1 |
| both on thee and upon thy people | 1 |
| both thou and this people | 1 |
| but made his own people | 1 |
| but not for himself and the people | 1 |
| but not on thy people | 1 |
| but that they may be my people | 1 |
| but this people | 1 |
| but when the people | 1 |
| by all this people | 1 |
| by all thy people | 1 |
| caused the people | 1 |
| concerning all the people | 1 |
| concerning the people | 1 |
| else if thou wilt not let my people | 1 |
| even all the people | 1 |
| every people | 1 |
| folk | 1 |
| for among my people | 1 |
| for as yet the people | 1 |
| for he was above all the people | 1 |
| for himself and for all the people | 1 |
| for himself and for the people | 1 |
| for it shall be upon my people | 1 |
| for me and for the people | 1 |
| for this people | 1 |
| for though thy people | 1 |
| for thyself and for the people | 1 |
| for unto this people | 1 |
| for you and the people | 1 |
| from a people | 1 |
| from all people | 1 |
| from all the people | 1 |
| from among the people | 1 |
| from hence for thy people | 1 |
| from me and from my people | 1 |
| from my people | 1 |
| from this people | 1 |
| he also shall become a people | 1 |
| he and all his people | 1 |
| he and his people | 1 |
| he and the people | 1 |
| he hath made his people | 1 |
| he the people | 1 |
| hence thou and the people | 1 |
| him and all his people | 1 |
| him for her people | 1 |
| him lo the people | 1 |
| him shall the people | 1 |
| him the people | 1 |
| him unto his people | 1 |
| himself among the people | 1 |
| himself to the people | 1 |
| his own people | 1 |
| how long will this people | 1 |
| i and my people | 1 |
| i and thy people | 1 |
| i pray you all people | 1 |
| i unto the people | 1 |
| if my people | 1 |
| if the people | 1 |
| if this people | 1 |
| in his people | 1 |
| in my people | 1 |
| in number than any people | 1 |
| in the presence of the people | 1 |
| in thine own people | 1 |
| in which my people | 1 |
| is this people | 1 |
| it all the people | 1 |
| lest peradventure the people | 1 |
| let people | 1 |
| letting the people | 1 |
| like unto thee o people | 1 |
| likewise the people | 1 |
| make his people | 1 |
| make not all the people | 1 |
| me among my people | 1 |
| me from his people | 1 |
| me let my people | 1 |
| me that this people | 1 |
| me the people | 1 |
| mine own people | 1 |
| nation | 1 |
| neither had the people | 1 |
| neither shall the people | 1 |
| nevertheless the people | 1 |
| none like him among all the people | 1 |
| nor her people | 1 |
| nor the people | 1 |
| not a man among all the people | 1 |
| not a people | 1 |
| not for this people | 1 |
| not lest the people | 1 |
| not of thy people | 1 |
| not this the people | 1 |
| not thy people | 1 |
| not unto them the people | 1 |
| of all this people | 1 |
| of any of the people | 1 |
| of each | 1 |
| of her people | 1 |
| of his own people | 1 |
| of the folk | 1 |
| of the peoples | 1 |
| of thee upon the nations | 1 |
| of their people | 1 |
| of these people | 1 |
| off from his people | 1 |
| on his people | 1 |
| only the people | 1 |
| or against this people | 1 |
| or among all my people | 1 |
| or of all thy people | 1 |
| out of all the people | 1 |
| out of it that the people | 1 |
| out of the nations | 1 |
| over a people | 1 |
| over them o my people | 1 |
| over this people | 1 |
| shall a nation | 1 |
| shall all my people | 1 |
| shall be upon my people | 1 |
| should not a people | 1 |
| so none of the people | 1 |
| so that all the people | 1 |
| so we thy people | 1 |
| such a thing against the people | 1 |
| that he shall not let the people | 1 |
| that i and thy people | 1 |
| that it be not a people | 1 |
| that make my people | 1 |
| that they might be unto me for a people | 1 |
| that thy people | 1 |
| the cause of his people | 1 |
| the nations | 1 |
| the peoples | 1 |
| thee among all people | 1 |
| thee among the people | 1 |
| thee and thy people | 1 |
| thee but thou makest this people | 1 |
| thee from all the nations | 1 |
| thee unto this people | 1 |
| thee what this people | 1 |
| their own people | 1 |
| them among the people | 1 |
| them and all the people | 1 |
| them and cause my people | 1 |
| them and the people | 1 |
| them and they shall be my people | 1 |
| them but this people | 1 |
| them from among all the people | 1 |
| them he and all his people | 1 |
| them not lest my people | 1 |
| them seeing all the people | 1 |
| them so shall they be my people | 1 |
| themselves with the people | 1 |
| then shall the people | 1 |
| then were the people | 1 |
| therefore his people | 1 |
| therefore shall the people | 1 |
| thereof and against the people | 1 |
| thereof and all the people | 1 |
| thereof and to every people | 1 |
| thereof and unto every people | 1 |
| thereof for the people | 1 |
| thine own people | 1 |
| this thy people | 1 |
| thither of the people | 1 |
| thou and all the people | 1 |
| thou and all this people | 1 |
| thou and the people | 1 |
| thou and thy people | 1 |
| thou not what this people | 1 |
| thou thyself against my people | 1 |
| thou thyself alone and all the people | 1 |
| thou unto the people | 1 |
| through the people | 1 |
| till the people | 1 |
| till thy people | 1 |
| to all my people | 1 |
| to be unto him a people | 1 |
| to cause my people | 1 |
| to himself nor cause the people | 1 |
| to his own people | 1 |
| to let my people | 1 |
| to let the people | 1 |
| to me and the people | 1 |
| to our own people | 1 |
| to thee the people | 1 |
| to thyself thy people | 1 |
| toward the people | 1 |
| toward this people | 1 |
| until all the people | 1 |
| unto all his people | 1 |
| unto all nations | 1 |
| unto all this people | 1 |
| unto her people | 1 |
| unto him all people | 1 |
| unto him let not all the people | 1 |
| unto himself above all people | 1 |
| unto himself above all the nations | 1 |
| unto me above all people | 1 |
| unto me and all the people | 1 |
| unto me my people | 1 |
| unto thee as the people | 1 |
| unto them i and my people | 1 |
| unto them the people | 1 |
| upon all people | 1 |
| upon the people | 1 |
| upon thee and upon thy people | 1 |
| upon them because of the people | 1 |
| us all the people | 1 |
| us and our people | 1 |
| us not and our people | 1 |
| when her people | 1 |
| when my people | 1 |
| when people | 1 |
| when thy people | 1 |
| where the people | 1 |
| wherefore the people | 1 |
| which i have caused my people | 1 |
| which is not of thy people | 1 |
| which the men of | 1 |
| whom this people | 1 |
| with his people | 1 |
| with my people | 1 |
| with thee be thou for the people | 1 |
| with thee unto thy people | 1 |
| with them there for my people | 1 |
| with this people | 1 |
| with you and my people | 1 |
| ye my people | 1 |
| yea all the people | 1 |
| yet my people | 1 |
| you above all people | 1 |
| you among the nations | 1 |
| you from the people | 1 |
| you his people | 1 |
| you so shall ye be my people | 1 |
| you to me for a people | 1 |
| yourselves among the people | 1 |
| yourselves from the people | 1 |
| yourselves o ye people | 1 |
Page 10 of 34. 1655 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
Read word by wordNow the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
Read word by wordWhen the angel of the LORD had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people lifted up their voices and wept.
Read word by wordAfter Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.
Read word by wordAnd the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.
Read word by wordThus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,
Read word by wordAfter Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.
Read word by wordhe summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.
Read word by word“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.
Read word by wordMy heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!
Read word by wordthe voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:
Read word by wordThen the survivors came down to the nobles; the people of the LORD came down to me against the mighty.
Read word by wordSome came from Ephraim, with their roots in Amalek; Benjamin came with your people after you. The commanders came down from Machir, the bearers of the marshal’s staff from Zebulun.
Read word by wordZebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.
Read word by wordEarly in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many men for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
Read word by wordNow, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the men: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”
Read word by wordSo Gideon brought the men down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”
Read word by wordAnd the number of those who lapped the water with their hands to their mouths was three hundred men; all the others knelt to drink.
Read word by wordThen the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”
Read word by wordSo Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and rams’ horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.
Read word by wordSo Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
Read word by wordIf only this people were under my authority, I would remove Abimelech; I would say to him, ‘Muster your army and come out!’”
Read word by wordNow then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
Read word by wordAnd in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”
Read word by wordSo Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
Read word by wordNow Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate just as Abimelech and his men came out from their hiding places.
Read word by wordWhen Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountains!” But Zebul replied, “The shadows of the mountains look like men to you.”
Read word by wordThen Gaal spoke up again, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming by way of the Diviners’ Oak.”
Read word by word“Where is your gloating now?” Zebul replied. “You said, ‘Who is Abimelech that we should serve him?’ Are these not the people you ridiculed? Go out now and fight them!”
Read word by wordThe next day the people of Shechem went out into the fields, and this was reported to Abimelech.
Read word by wordSo he took his men, divided them into three companies, and lay in wait in the fields. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he rose up against them and attacked them.
Read word by wordAnd all that day Abimelech fought against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he demolished the city and sowed it with salt.
Read word by wordhe and all his men went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his axe in his hand and cut a branch from the trees, which he lifted to his shoulder, saying to his men, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
Read word by wordSo each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
Read word by wordAnd the rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Whoever will launch the attack against the Ammonites will be the head of all who live in Gilead.”
Read word by wordSo Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.
Read word by wordBut Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.
Read word by wordThen the LORD, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, who defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites who inhabited that country,
Read word by wordNow since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?
Read word by wordBut Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.
Read word by wordBut his father and mother replied, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, for she is pleasing to my eyes.”
Read word by wordThen Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me! You do not really love me! You have posed to my people a riddle, but have not explained it to me.” “Look,” he said, “I have not even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”
Read word by wordShe wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.
Read word by wordAnd when the people saw him, they praised their god, saying: “Our god has delivered into our hands our enemy who destroyed our land and multiplied our dead.”
Read word by wordSamson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.
Read word by wordSo the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
Read word by wordWhen 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.”
Read word by wordSo the priest was glad and took the ephod, the household idols, and the graven image, and went with the people.
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