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- Judges 9:9
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But the olive tree replied, ‘Should I stop giving my oil that honors both God and man, to hold sway over the trees?’
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- Judges 9:17
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for my father fought for you and risked his life to deliver you from the hand of Midian,
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- Judges 9:24
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in order that the crime against the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come to justice and their blood be avenged on their brother Abimelech and on the leaders of Shechem, who had helped him murder his brothers.
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- Judges 9:25
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The leaders of Shechem set up an ambush against Abimelech on the hilltops, and they robbed all who passed by them on the road. So this was reported to Abimelech.
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- Judges 9:32
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Now then, tonight you and the people with you are to come and lie in wait in the fields.
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- Judges 9:33
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And 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.”
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- Judges 9:34
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So Abimelech and all his troops set out by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.
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- Judges 9:35
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Now 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.
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- Judges 9:38
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“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!”
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- Judges 9:44
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Then Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
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- Judges 9:45
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And 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.
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- Judges 9:48
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he 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.”
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- Judges 9:56
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In this way God repaid the wickedness that Abimelech had done to his father in murdering his seventy brothers.
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- Judges 10:4
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He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
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- Judges 10:8
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who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
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- Judges 10:14
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Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”
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- Judges 10:18
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And 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.”
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- Judges 11:5
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and made war with them, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah from the land of Tob.
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- Judges 11:7
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Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
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- Judges 11:24
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Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
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- Judges 11:26
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For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
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- Judges 11:28
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But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.
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- Judges 11:31
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then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
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- Judges 11:36
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“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
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- Judges 11:39
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After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
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- Judges 13:8
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Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
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- Judges 13:10
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The woman ran quickly to tell her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has reappeared!”
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- Judges 13:11
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So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are you the man who spoke to my wife?” “I am,” he said.
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- Judges 13:13
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So the angel of the LORD answered Manoah, “Your wife is to do everything I told her.
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- Judges 13:14
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She must not eat anything that comes from the vine, nor drink any wine or strong drink, nor eat anything unclean. She must do everything I have commanded her.”
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- Judges 14:6
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and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as one would tear a young goat. But he did not tell his father or mother what he had done.
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- Judges 14:17
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She 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.
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- Judges 14:20
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and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.
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- Judges 15:10
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“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
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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 15:14
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When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
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- Judges 15:19
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So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.
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- Judges 16:3
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But Samson lay there only until midnight, when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate and both gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. Then he put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
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- Judges 16:7
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Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”
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- Judges 16:8
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So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.
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- Judges 16:9
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While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
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- Judges 16:11
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He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”
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- Judges 16:22
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However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.
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- Judges 16:24
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And 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.”
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- Judges 16:26
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Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
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- Judges 16:29
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And Samson reached out for the two central pillars supporting the temple. Bracing himself against them with his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other,
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- Judges 16:30
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Samson 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.
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- Judges 17:2
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said to his mother, “The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse—I have the silver here with me; I took it.” Then his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD!”
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- Judges 17:8
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This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
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- Judges 17:9
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“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
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