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- Judges 18:5
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Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God to determine whether we will have a successful journey.”
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- Judges 18:6
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And the priest told them, “Go in peace. The LORD is watching over your journey.”
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- Judges 18:7
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So 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.
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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 18:16
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The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
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- Judges 18:22
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After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
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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 18:27
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After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
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- Judges 18:28
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There was no one to deliver them, because the city was far from Sidon and had no alliance with anyone; it was in a valley near Beth-rehob. And the Danites rebuilt the city and lived there.
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- Judges 18:29
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They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
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- Judges 18:31
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So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.
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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 19:14
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So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
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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 19:26
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Early that morning, the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, collapsed at the doorway, and lay there until it was light.
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- Judges 20:4
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So the Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I and my concubine came to Gibeah in Benjamin to spend the night.
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- Judges 20:9
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Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: We will go against it as the lot dictates.
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- Judges 20:10
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We will take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to supply provisions for the army when they go to Gibeah in Benjamin to punish them for the atrocity they have committed in Israel.”
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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 20:13
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Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.
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- Judges 20:22
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But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
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- Judges 20:31
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The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
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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 20:42
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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 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 21:8
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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 21:11
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This is what you are to do: Devote to destruction every male, as well as every female who has had relations with a man.”
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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 21:14
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And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
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- Judges 21:19
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“But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
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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 1:8
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Then Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go back, each of you to your mother’s home. May the LORD show you loving devotion, as you have shown to your dead and to me.
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- Ruth 1:13
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would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
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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 1:17
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Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD punish me, and ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and 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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- Ruth 2:3
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So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
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- Ruth 2:9
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Let your eyes be on the field they are harvesting, and follow along after these girls. Indeed, I have ordered the young men not to touch you. And when you are thirsty, go and drink from the jars the young men have filled.”
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- Ruth 2:11
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Boaz replied, “I have been made fully aware of all you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband, how you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and how you came to a people you did not know before.
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- Ruth 2:12
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May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”
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- Ruth 2:17
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So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. And when she beat out what she had gleaned, it was about an ephah of barley.
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- Ruth 2:18
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She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. And she brought out what she had saved from her meal and gave it to Naomi.
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- Ruth 2:19
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Then her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you glean today, and where did you work? Blessed be the man who noticed you.” So she told her mother-in-law where she had worked. “The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz,” she said.
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- Ruth 2:20
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Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”
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- Ruth 2:21
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Then Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished gathering all my harvest.’”
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- Ruth 3:1
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One day Ruth’s mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?
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- Ruth 3:2
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Now is not Boaz, with whose servant girls you have been working, a relative of ours? In fact, tonight he is winnowing barley on the threshing floor.
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