TBESH · H9006
/מ · m · from
Prefix mem: from
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/מ (m) means “from” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: m STEP transliteration; pronunciation varies by reading tradition.
/מ · m · from
Prefix mem: from
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Page 34 of 101. 5033 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
The six hundred Danites stood at the entrance of the gate, armed with their weapons of war.
Read word by wordAfter they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men in the houses near Micah’s house mobilized and overtook the Danites.
Read word by wordThere 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.
Read word by wordNow in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Read word by wordBut 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,
Read word by wordBut his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”
Read word by wordThat evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.
Read word by wordWhen he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, “Where are you going, and where have you come from?”
Read word by wordThe 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,
Read word by wordAnd 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!”
Read word by wordThen 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.
Read word by wordHand 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.
Read word by wordOn that day the Benjamites mobilized 26,000 swordsmen from their cities, in addition to the 700 select men of Gibeah.
Read word by wordAmong all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
Read word by wordThe Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordSo all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.
Read word by wordThen 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordThey surrounded the Benjamites, pursued them, and easily overtook them in the vicinity of Gibeah on the east.
Read word by wordAnd 18,000 Benjamites fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordThat day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by word“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”
Read word by wordThe next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
Read word by wordThe 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.
Read word by wordAnd the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
Read word by wordWhat should we do about wives for the survivors, since we have sworn by the LORD not to give them our daughters in marriage?”
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordFor when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
Read word by wordSo the congregation sent 12,000 of their most valiant men and commanded them: “Go and put to the sword those living in Jabesh-gilead, including women and children.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordAnd 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.
Read word by wordThen the elders of the congregation said, “What should we do about wives for those who remain, since the women of Benjamin have been destroyed?”
Read word by wordThey added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.
Read word by wordBut we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”
Read word by word“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.”
Read word by wordand watch. When you see the daughters of Shiloh come out to perform their dances, each of you is to come out of the vineyards, catch for himself a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
Read word by wordAnd at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.
Read word by wordIn the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
Read word by wordThe man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
Read word by wordboth Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
Read word by wordWhen Naomi heard in Moab that the LORD had attended to His people by providing them with food, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to leave the land of Moab.
Read word by wordReturn home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
Read word by wordwould 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.”
Read word by wordBut 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.
Read word by wordSo Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
Read word by wordNow Naomi had a relative on her husband’s side, a prominent man of noble character from the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
Read word by wordSo 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.
Read word by wordJust then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.
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