# bible

book: Joshua
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  And they answered Joshua, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.


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  Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!


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  Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.” 


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  And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.


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  And it was told to the king of Jericho, “Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”


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  Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”


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  But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, “True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.


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  And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them.”


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  But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.


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  So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.


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  and said to the men, “I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.


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  For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.


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  And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.


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  Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father’s house, and give me a sure sign


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  that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death.”


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  And the men said to her, “Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”


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  Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.


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  And she said to them, “Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way.”


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  The men said to her, “We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.


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  Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father’s household.


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  Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.


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  But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear.”


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  And she said, “According to your words, so be it.” Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.


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  They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.


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  Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.


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  And they said to Joshua, “Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us.” 


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  Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.


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  and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.


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  Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”


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  Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”


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  And Joshua said to the priests, “Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.


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  The LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.


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  And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”


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  And Joshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.


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  Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.


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  And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.”


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  So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,


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  and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),


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  the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.


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  Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan. 


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  and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”


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  Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.


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  And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel,


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  that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’


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  then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”


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  And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the LORD told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there.


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  And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.


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  For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.


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  And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.


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  The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.


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  On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.


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  And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.


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  The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.


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  And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’


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  For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,


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  so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.” 


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  As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.


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  At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”


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  And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.


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  Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.


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  For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD; the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.


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  So it was their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.


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  When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.


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  While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho.


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  And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.


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  And the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.


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  When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”


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  And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?”


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  And the commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so. 


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  Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.


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  You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.


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  Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.


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  And when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him.”


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  So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.”


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  And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.”


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  And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.


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  The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.


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  But Joshua commanded the people, “You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”


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  So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.


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  And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.


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  And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.


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  On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.


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  And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city.


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  And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.


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  But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.


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  But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.”


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  So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.


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  Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.


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  But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her.”


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  So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.


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  And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.


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  But Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.


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  Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, “Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. “At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates.”


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  But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel.


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  Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.


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  And they returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not have all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and attack Ai. Do not make the whole people toil up there, for they are few.”


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  and the men of Ai killed about thirty-six of their men and chased them before the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them at the descent. And the hearts of the people melted and became as water.


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  Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put dust on their heads.


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  And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!


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  For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it and will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will you do for your great name?”


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  Israel has sinned; they have transgressed my covenant that I commanded them; they have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen and lied and put them among their own belongings.


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  Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.


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  Get up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow; for thus says the LORD, God of Israel, “There are devoted things in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted things from among you.”


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  In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. And the tribe that the LORD takes by lot shall come near by clans. And the clan that the LORD takes shall come near by households. And the household that the LORD takes shall come near man by man.


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  And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done an outrageous thing in Israel.’”


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  So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel near tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was taken.


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  And he brought near the clans of Judah, and the clan of the Zerahites was taken. And he brought near the clan of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was taken.


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  And he brought near his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


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  Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD God of Israel and give praise to him. And tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me.”


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  And Achan answered Joshua, “Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did:


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  when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”


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  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath.


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  And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the LORD.


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  And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.


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  And Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.


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  And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor. 


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.


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  And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it.”


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  So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.


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  And he commanded them, “Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.


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  And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.


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  And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, ‘They are fleeing from us, just as before.’ So we will flee before them.


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  Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.


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  And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you.”


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  So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.


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  Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.


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  And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.


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  So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.


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  And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.


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  And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.


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  So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.


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  Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.


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  Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.


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  And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.


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  So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.


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  And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.


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  And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.


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  When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.


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  But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.


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  Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua.


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  And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.


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  just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, “an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool.” And they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings.


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  And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.


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  And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel.


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  And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law.


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  There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them. 


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  As soon as all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, heard of this,


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  they on their part acted with cunning and went and made ready provisions and took worn-out sacks for their donkeys, and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,


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  with worn-out, patched sandals on their feet, and worn-out clothes. And all their provisions were dry and crumbly.


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  And they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant country, so now make a covenant with us.”


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  But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a covenant with you?”


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  They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.” And Joshua said to them, “Who are you? And where do you come from?”


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  They said to him, “From a very distant country your servants have come, because of the name of the LORD your God. For we have heard a report of him, and all that he did in Egypt,


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  and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth.


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  So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country said to us, ‘Take provisions in your hand for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, “We are your servants. Come now, make a covenant with us.”’


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  Here is our bread. It was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey on the day we set out to come to you, but now, behold, it is dry and crumbly.


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  These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey.”


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  And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.


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  At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors and that they lived among them.


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  And the people of Israel set out and reached their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.


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  But the people of Israel did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. Then all the congregation murmured against the leaders.


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  But all the leaders said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we may not touch them.


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  This we will do to them: let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore to them.”


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  And the leaders said to them, “Let them live.” So they became cutters of wood and drawers of water for all the congregation, just as the leaders had said of them.


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  Joshua summoned them, and he said to them, “Why did you deceive us, saying, ‘We are very far from you,’ when you dwell among us?


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  Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you shall never be anything but servants, cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”


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  They answered Joshua, “Because it was told to your servants for a certainty that the LORD your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you—so we feared greatly for our lives because of you and did this thing.


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  And now, behold, we are in your hand. Whatever seems good and right in your sight to do to us, do it.”


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  So he did this to them and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Israel, and they did not kill them.


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  But Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place that he should choose. 


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  As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,


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  he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.


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  So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,


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  “Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel.”


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  Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.


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  And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, “Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us.”


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  So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you.”


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  And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.


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  And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.


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  At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”


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  And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.


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  There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel.


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  but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand.”


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  When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,


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  then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.


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  And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


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  And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, “Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.


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  And Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.”


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  And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.


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  But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.


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  As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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  And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


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  Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.


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  And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.


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  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.


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  Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it.


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  And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.


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  and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.


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  and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.


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  So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded.


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  And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.


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  And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.


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  When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,


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  and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,


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  to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.


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  And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.


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  And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.


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  And the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”


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  So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.


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  And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.


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  And Joshua did to them just as the LORD said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.


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  And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.


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  And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.


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  And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.


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  But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.


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  And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every person they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.


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  Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.


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  So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland


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  from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.


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  There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle.


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  For it was the LORD’s doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.


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  And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.


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  There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.


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  So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war. 


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  Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all the Arabah eastward:


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  Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the middle of the valley as far as the river Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead,


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  and the Arabah to the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah;


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  and ruled over Mount Hermon and Salecah and all Bashan to the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon.


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  Moses, the servant of the LORD, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the LORD gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


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  And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession according to their allotments,


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  in the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites):


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  Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to possess.


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  This is the land that yet remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites


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  (from the Shihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of the Avvim,


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  in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,


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  and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath,


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  all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive them out from before the people of Israel. Only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.


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  Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”


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  With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:


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  from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;


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  and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;


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  and Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;


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  all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); these Moses had struck and driven out.


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  Yet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.


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  To the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.


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  So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;


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  with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,


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  that is, all the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated with the leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.


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  Balaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain.


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  And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.


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  Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of Rabbah,


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  and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.


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  This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.


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  And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans.


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  Their region extended from Mahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,


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  and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of Machir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.


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  These are the inheritances that Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.


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  But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the LORD God of Israel is their inheritance, just as he said to them. 


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  These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.


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  Their inheritance was by lot, just as the LORD had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes.


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  For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.


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  For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance.


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  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.


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  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.


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  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.


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  And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’


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  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.


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  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.


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  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said.”


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  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba. (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war. 


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  The allotment for the tribe of the people of Judah according to their clans reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the farthest south.


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  It goes out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, passes along to Zin, and goes up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, turns about to Karka,


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  passes along to Azmon, goes out by the Brook of Egypt, and comes to its end at the sea. This shall be your south boundary.


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  And the east boundary is the Salt Sea, to the mouth of the Jordan. And the boundary on the north side runs from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan.


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  And the boundary goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah. And the boundary goes up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.


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  And the boundary goes up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the valley. And the boundary passes along to the waters of En-shemesh and ends at En-rogel.


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  Then the boundary goes up by the Valley of the Son of Hinnom at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite (that is, Jerusalem). And the boundary goes up to the top of the mountain that lies over against the Valley of Hinnom, on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.


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  Then the boundary extends from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and from there to the cities of Mount Ephron. Then the boundary bends around to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).


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  And the boundary circles west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passes along to the northern shoulder of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), and goes down to Beth-shemesh and passes along by Timnah.


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  The boundary goes out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then the boundary bends around to Shikkeron and passes along to Mount Baalah and goes out to Jabneel. Then the boundary comes to an end at the sea.


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  And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary around the people of Judah according to their clans.


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  According to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, he gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh a portion among the people of Judah, Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).


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  And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the descendants of Anak.


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  And he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir. Now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher.


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  And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”


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  And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.


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  When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she got off her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”


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  She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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  The cities belonging to the tribe of the people of Judah in the extreme south, toward the boundary of Edom, were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,


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  Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the Brook of Egypt, and the Great Sea with its coastline.


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  But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out, so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day. 


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  The allotment of the people of Joseph went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel.


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  Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon, then to Gezer, and it ends at the sea.


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  The territory of the people of Ephraim by their clans was as follows: the boundary of their inheritance on the east was Ataroth-addar as far as Upper Beth-horon,


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  and the boundary goes from there to the sea. On the north is Michmethath. Then on the east the boundary turns around toward Taanath-shiloh and passes along beyond it on the east to Janoah,


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  From Tappuah the boundary goes westward to the brook Kanah and ends at the sea. Such is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Ephraim by their clans,


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  together with the towns that were set apart for the people of Ephraim within the inheritance of the Manassites, all those towns with their villages.


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  However, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made to do forced labor. 


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  Then allotment was made to the people of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.


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  And allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans, Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. These were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, by their clans.


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  Now Zelophehad the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters, and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.


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  They approached Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the leaders and said, “The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers.” So according to the mouth of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.


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  Thus there fell to Manasseh ten portions, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the Jordan,


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  because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. The land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people of Manasseh.


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  The territory of Manasseh reached from Asher to Michmethath, which is east of Shechem. Then the boundary goes along southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.


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  The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the people of Ephraim.


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  Then the boundary went down to the brook Kanah. These cities, to the south of the brook, among the cities of Manasseh, belong to Ephraim. Then the boundary of Manasseh goes on the north side of the brook and ends at the sea,


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  the land to the south being Ephraim’s and that to the north being Manasseh’s, with the sea forming its boundary. On the north Asher is reached, and on the east Issachar.


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  Also in Issachar and in Asher Manasseh had Beth-shean and its villages, and Ibleam and its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its villages, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages; the third is Naphath.


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  Yet the people of Manasseh could not take possession of those cities, but the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.


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  Now when the people of Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not utterly drive them out.


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  Then the people of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me but one lot and one portion as an inheritance, although I am a numerous people, since all along the LORD has blessed me?”


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  And Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up by yourselves to the forest, and there clear ground for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”


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  The people of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. Yet all the Canaanites who dwell in the plain have chariots of iron, both those in Beth-shean and its villages and those in the Valley of Jezreel.”


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  Then Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, “You are a numerous people and have great power. You shall not have one allotment only,


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  but the hill country shall be yours, for though it is a forest, you shall clear it and possess it to its farthest borders. For you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.” 


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  Then the whole congregation of the people of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there. The land lay subdued before them.


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  There remained among the people of Israel seven tribes whose inheritance had not yet been apportioned.


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  So Joshua said to the people of Israel, “How long will you put off going in to take possession of the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?


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  Provide three men from each tribe, and I will send them out that they may set out and go up and down the land. They shall write a description of it with a view to their inheritances, and then come to me.


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  They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall continue in his territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall continue in their territory on the north.


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  And you shall describe the land in seven divisions and bring the description here to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.


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  The Levites have no portion among you, for the priesthood of the LORD is their heritage. And Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.”


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  So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, “Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh.”


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  So the men went and passed up and down in the land and wrote in a book a description of it by towns in seven divisions. Then they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh,


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  and Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD. And there Joshua apportioned the land to the people of Israel, to each his portion.


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  The lot of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to its clans came up, and the territory allotted to it fell between the people of Judah and the people of Joseph.


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  On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.


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  From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the shoulder of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.


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  Then the boundary goes in another direction, turning on the western side southward from the mountain that lies to the south, opposite Beth-horon, and it ends at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city belonging to the people of Judah. This forms the western side.


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  And the southern side begins at the outskirts of Kiriath-jearim. And the boundary goes from there to Ephron, to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.


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  Then the boundary goes down to the border of the mountain that overlooks the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, which is at the north end of the Valley of Rephaim. And it then goes down the Valley of Hinnom, south of the shoulder of the Jebusites, and downward to En-rogel.


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  Then it bends in a northerly direction going on to En-shemesh, and from there goes to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim. Then it goes down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,


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  Then the boundary passes on to the north of the shoulder of Beth-hoglah. And the boundary ends at the northern bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern border.


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  The Jordan forms its boundary on the eastern side. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin, according to their clans, boundary by boundary all around.


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  Now the cities of the tribe of the people of Benjamin according to their clans were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,


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  Zela, Haeleph, Jebus (that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah and Kiriath-jearim—fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the people of Benjamin according to its clans. 


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  The second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the people of Simeon, according to their clans, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the people of Judah.


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  together with all the villages around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negeb. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Simeon according to their clans.


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  The inheritance of the people of Simeon formed part of the territory of the people of Judah. Because the portion of the people of Judah was too large for them, the people of Simeon obtained an inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.


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  The third lot came up for the people of Zebulun, according to their clans. And the territory of their inheritance reached as far as Sarid.


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  Then their boundary goes up westward and on to Mareal and touches Dabbesheth, then the brook that is east of Jokneam.


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  From Sarid it goes in the other direction eastward toward the sunrise to the boundary of Chisloth-tabor. From there it goes to Daberath, then up to Japhia.


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  From there it passes along on the east toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and going on to Rimmon it bends toward Neah,


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  This is the inheritance of the people of Zebulun, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  The boundary also touches Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh, and its boundary ends at the Jordan—sixteen cities with their villages.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Issachar, according to their clans—the cities with their villages.


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  then it turns eastward, it goes to Beth-dagon, and touches Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel. Then it continues in the north to Cabul,


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  Then the boundary turns to Ramah, reaching to the fortified city of Tyre. Then the boundary turns to Hosah, and it ends at the sea; Mahalab, Achzib,


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Asher according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  The sixth lot came out for the people of Naphtali, for the people of Naphtali, according to their clans.


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  And their boundary ran from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.


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  Then the boundary turns westward to Aznoth-tabor and goes from there to Hukkok, touching Zebulun at the south and Asher on the west and Judah on the east at the Jordan.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Naphtali according to their clans—the cities with their villages.


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  When the territory of the people of Dan was lost to them, the people of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and settled in it, calling Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.


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  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the people of Dan, according to their clans—these cities with their villages.


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  When they had finished distributing the several territories of the land as inheritances, the people of Israel gave an inheritance among them to Joshua the son of Nun.


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  By command of the LORD they gave him the city that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. And he rebuilt the city and settled in it.


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  These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel distributed by lot at Shiloh before the LORD, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing the land. 


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  that the manslayer who strikes any person without intent or unknowingly may flee there. They shall be for you a refuge from the avenger of blood.


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  He shall flee to one of these cities and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city and explain his case to the elders of that city. Then they shall take him into the city and give him a place, and he shall remain with them.


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  And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not give up the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and did not hate him in the past.


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  And he shall remain in that city until he has stood before the congregation for judgment, until the death of him who is high priest at the time. Then the manslayer may return to his own town and his own home, to the town from which he fled.’”


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  So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.


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  And beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, they appointed Bezer in the wilderness on the tableland, from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead, from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan, from the tribe of Manasseh.


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  These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel and for the stranger sojourning among them, that anyone who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation. 


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  Then the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.


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  And they said to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities to dwell in, along with their pasturelands for our livestock.”


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  So by command of the LORD the people of Israel gave to the Levites the following cities and pasturelands out of their inheritance.


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  The lot came out for the clans of the Kohathites. So those Levites who were descendants of Aaron the priest received by lot from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities.


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  And the rest of the Kohathites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.


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  The Gershonites received by lot from the clans of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.


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  The Merarites according to their clans received from the tribe of Reuben, the tribe of Gad, and the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.


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  These cities and their pasturelands the people of Israel gave by lot to the Levites, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.


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  Out of the tribe of the people of Judah and the tribe of the people of Simeon they gave the following cities mentioned by name,


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  which went to the descendants of Aaron, one of the clans of the Kohathites who belonged to the people of Levi; since the lot fell to them first.


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  They gave them Kiriath-arba (Arba being the father of Anak), that is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, along with the pasturelands around it.


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  But the fields of the city and its villages had been given to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his possession.


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  And to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,


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  Ain with its pasturelands, Juttah with its pasturelands, Beth-shemesh with its pasturelands—nine cities out of these two tribes;


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  The cities of the descendants of Aaron, the priests, were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.


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  As to the rest of the Kohathites belonging to the Kohathite clans of the Levites, the cities allotted to them were out of the tribe of Ephraim.


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  To them were given Shechem, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,


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  and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon with its pasturelands—two cities.


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  And to the Gershonites, one of the clans of the Levites, were given out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah with its pasturelands—two cities;


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  and out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands—three cities.


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  The cities of the several clans of the Gershonites were in all thirteen cities with their pasturelands.


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  And to the rest of the Levites, the Merarite clans, were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,


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  and out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasturelands, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Mahanaim with its pasturelands,


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  As for the cities of the several Merarite clans, that is, the remainder of the clans of the Levites, those allotted to them were in all twelve cities.


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  The cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the people of Israel were in all forty-eight cities with their pasturelands.


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  Thus the LORD gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there.


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  And the LORD gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the LORD had given all their enemies into their hands.


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  Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass. 


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  and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you.


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  You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God.


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  And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.


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  Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”


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  Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them,


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  he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”


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  So the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses.


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  And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size.


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  And the people of Israel heard it said, “Behold, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built the altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.”


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  And when the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war against them.


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  Then the people of Israel sent to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,


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  and with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, every one of them the head of a family among the clans of Israel.


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  And they came to the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,


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  “Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, ‘What is this breach of faith that you have committed against the God of Israel in turning away this day from following the LORD by building yourselves an altar this day in rebellion against the LORD?


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  Have we not had enough of the sin at Peor from which even yet we have not cleansed ourselves, and for which there came a plague upon the congregation of the LORD,


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  that you too must turn away this day from following the LORD? And if you too rebel against the LORD today then tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.


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  But now, if the land of your possession is unclean, pass over into the LORD’s land where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against the LORD or make us as rebels by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God.


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  Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’”


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  Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,


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  “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows; and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today


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  for building an altar to turn away from following the LORD. Or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or grain offerings or peace offerings on it, may the LORD himself take vengeance.


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  No, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?


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  For the LORD has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you people of Reuben and people of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.’ So your children might make our children cease to worship the LORD.


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  but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we do perform the service of the LORD in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the LORD.”’


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  And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”’


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  Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD and turn away this day from following the LORD by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle!”


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  When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their eyes.


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  And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the LORD. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the LORD.”


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  Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.


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  And the report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.


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  The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the LORD is God.” 


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  A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,


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  Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.


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  And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.


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  Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.


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  The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.


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  Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,


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  that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,


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  For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.


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  One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.


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  For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,


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  know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.


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  “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.


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  But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you,


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  if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.” 


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  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.


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  And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.


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  Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.


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  And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.


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  And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out.


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  “‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.


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  And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.


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  Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.


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  Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,


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  And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.


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  And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.


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  I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’


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  “Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.


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  And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”


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  for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.


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  And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God.”


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  But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.


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  If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”


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  Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”


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  He said, “Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.”


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  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.


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  And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.


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  And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”


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  And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.


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  Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.


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  As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.


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  And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim. 


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  After the death of Joshua, the people of Israel inquired of the LORD, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”


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  And Judah said to Simeon his brother, “Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites. And I likewise will go with you into the territory allotted to you.” So Simeon went with him.


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  Then Judah went up and the LORD gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand, and they defeated 10,000 of them at Bezek.


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label: Jud
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  They found Adoni-bezek at Bezek and fought against him and defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites.


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  And Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and their big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table. As I have done, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.


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  And the men of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.


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  And afterward the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill country, in the Negeb, and in the lowland.


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label: Jud
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  And Judah went against the Canaanites who lived in Hebron (now the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba), and they defeated Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai.


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label: Jud
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  From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. The name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.


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  And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”


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  And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.


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  When she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”


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  She said to him, “Give me a blessing. Since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.


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  And the descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up with the people of Judah from the city of palms into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the Negeb near Arad, and they went and settled with the people.


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  And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath and devoted it to destruction. So the name of the city was called Hormah.


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  Judah also captured Gaza with its territory, and Ashkelon with its territory, and Ekron with its territory.


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  And the LORD was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but he could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they had chariots of iron.


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  But the people of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.


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label: Jud
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  And the spies saw a man coming out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the way into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”


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  And he showed them the way into the city. And they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.


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  And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.


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  Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites persisted in dwelling in that land.


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  When Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but did not drive them out completely.


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  And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.


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  Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol, so the Canaanites lived among them, but became subject to forced labor.


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  Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Ahlab or of Achzib or of Helbah or of Aphik or of Rehob,


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  so the Asherites lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out.


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  Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, so they lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became subject to forced labor for them.


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  The Amorites pressed the people of Dan back into the hill country, for they did not allow them to come down to the plain.


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label: Jud
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  The Amorites persisted in dwelling in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph rested heavily on them, and they became subject to forced labor.


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  Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, “I brought you up from Egypt and brought you into the land that I swore to give to your fathers. I said, ‘I will never break my covenant with you,


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  and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?


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  So now I say, I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”


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label: Jud
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  As soon as the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the people of Israel, the people lifted up their voices and wept.


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label: Jud
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  When Joshua dismissed the people, the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land.


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label: Jud
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  And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work that the LORD had done for Israel.


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  And they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.


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label: Jud
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  And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers. And there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD or the work that he had done for Israel.


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  And they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed down to them. And they provoked the LORD to anger.


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  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.


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label: Jud
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  Whenever they marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them for harm, as the LORD had warned, and as the LORD had sworn to them. And they were in terrible distress.


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  Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.


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label: Jud
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  Whenever the LORD raised up judges for them, the LORD was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them.


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label: Jud
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  But whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,


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  in order to test Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the LORD as their fathers did, or not.”


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label: Jud
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  So the LORD left those nations, not driving them out quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. 


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Now these are the nations that the LORD left, to test Israel by them, that is, all in Israel who had not experienced all the wars in Canaan.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.


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  These are the nations: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.


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  They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.


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  So the people of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.


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  And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.


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label: Jud
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  And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.


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label: Jud
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  Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.


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label: Jud
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  But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.


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label: Jud
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  And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.


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label: Jud
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  He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.


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label: Jud
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  Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.


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label: Jud
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  And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” And he commanded, “Silence.” And all his attendants went out from his presence.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, “I have a message from God for you.” And he arose from his seat.


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label: Jud
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  And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, “Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber.”


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.


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label: Jud
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  And he said to them, “Follow after me, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.


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label: Jud
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  And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel. 


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, ‘Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.


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label: Jud
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  And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand’?”


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And she said, “I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And Deborah said to Barak, “Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And he said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.


book: Judges
label: Jud
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  And he said to her, “Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, ‘Is anyone here?’ say, ‘No.’”


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  But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.


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  And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.


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  And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. 


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  “That the leaders took the lead in Israel, that the people offered themselves willingly, bless the LORD!


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  “Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the LORD I will sing; I will make melody to the LORD, the God of Israel.


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  “LORD, when you went out from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled and the heavens dropped, yes, the clouds dropped water.


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  “In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned, and travelers kept to the byways.


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  The villagers ceased in Israel; they ceased to be until I arose; I, Deborah, arose as a mother in Israel.


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  When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?


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  My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel who offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless the LORD.


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  “Tell of it, you who ride on white donkeys, you who sit on rich carpets and you who walk by the way.


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  To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the LORD, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. “Then down to the gates marched the people of the LORD.


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  “Awake, awake, Deborah! Awake, awake, break out in a song! Arise, Barak, lead away your captives, O son of Abinoam.


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  Then down marched the remnant of the noble; the people of the LORD marched down for me against the mighty.


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  From Ephraim their root they marched down into the valley, following you, Benjamin, with your kinsmen; from Machir marched down the commanders, and from Zebulun those who bear the lieutenant’s staff;


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  the princes of Issachar came with Deborah, and Issachar faithful to Barak; into the valley they rushed at his heels. Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


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  Why did you sit still among the sheepfolds, to hear the whistling for the flocks? Among the clans of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.


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  Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan; and Dan, why did he stay with the ships? Asher sat still at the coast of the sea, staying by his landings.


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  Zebulun is a people who risked their lives to the death; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the field.


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  “The kings came, they fought; then fought the kings of Canaan, at Taanach, by the waters of Megiddo; they got no spoils of silver.


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  The torrent Kishon swept them away, the ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. March on, my soul, with might!


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  “Curse Meroz, says the angel of the LORD, curse its inhabitants thoroughly, because they did not come to the help of the LORD, to the help of the LORD against the mighty.


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  She sent her hand to the tent peg and her right hand to the workmen’s mallet; she struck Sisera; she crushed his head; she shattered and pierced his temple.


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  Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay still; between her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.


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  “Out of the window she peered, the mother of Sisera wailed through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the hoofbeats of his chariots?’


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  ‘Have they not found and divided the spoil?— A womb or two for every man; spoil of dyed materials for Sisera, spoil of dyed materials embroidered, two pieces of dyed work embroidered for the neck as spoil?’


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  “So may all your enemies perish, O LORD! But your friends be like the sun as he rises in his might.” And the land had rest for forty years. 


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  The people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD gave them into the hand of Midian seven years.


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  And the hand of Midian overpowered Israel, and because of Midian the people of Israel made for themselves the dens that are in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.


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  For whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.


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  They would encamp against them and devour the produce of the land, as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel and no sheep or ox or donkey.


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  For they would come up with their livestock and their tents; they would come like locusts in number—both they and their camels could not be counted—so that they laid waste the land as they came in.


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  And Israel was brought very low because of Midian. And the people of Israel cried out for help to the LORD.


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  the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel. And he said to them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slavery.


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  And I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all who oppressed you, and drove them out before you and gave you their land.


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  And I said to you, ‘I am the LORD your God; you shall not fear the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.’ But you have not obeyed my voice.”


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  Now the angel of the LORD came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite, while his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.


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  And the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said to him, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”


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  And Gideon said to him, “Please, my lord, if the LORD is with us, why then has all this happened to us? And where are all his wonderful deeds that our fathers recounted to us, saying, ‘Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and given us into the hand of Midian.”


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  And the LORD turned to him and said, “Go in this might of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian; do not I send you?”


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  And he said to him, “Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”


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  And he said to him, “If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.


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  Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my present and set it before you.” And he said, “I will stay till you return.”


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  So Gideon went into his house and prepared a young goat and unleavened cakes from an ephah of flour. The meat he put in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and brought them to him under the terebinth and presented them.


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  And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and put them on this rock, and pour the broth over them.” And he did so.


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  Then the angel of the LORD reached out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes. And fire sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.


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  Then Gideon perceived that he was the angel of the LORD. And Gideon said, “Alas, O Lord GOD! For now I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face.”


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  Then Gideon built an altar there to the LORD and called it, The LORD Is Peace. To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.


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  That night the LORD said to him, “Take your father’s bull, and the second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that your father has, and cut down the Asherah that is beside it


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  and build an altar to the LORD your God on the top of the stronghold here, with stones laid in due order. Then take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah that you shall cut down.”


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  So Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the LORD had told him. But because he was too afraid of his family and the men of the town to do it by day, he did it by night.


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  When the men of the town rose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was broken down, and the Asherah beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.


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  And they said to one another, “Who has done this thing?” And after they had searched and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash has done this thing.”


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  Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”


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  But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Will you contend for Baal? Or will you save him? Whoever contends for him shall be put to death by morning. If he is a god, let him contend for himself, because his altar has been broken down.”


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  Therefore on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend against him,” because he broke down his altar.


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  Now all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the people of the East came together, and they crossed the Jordan and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.


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  But the Spirit of the LORD clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him.


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  And he sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they too were called out to follow him. And he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them.


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  behold, I am laying a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece alone, and it is dry on all the ground, then I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.”


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  And it was so. When he rose early next morning and squeezed the fleece, he wrung enough dew from the fleece to fill a bowl with water.


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  Then Gideon said to God, “Let not your anger burn against me; let me speak just once more. Please let me test just once more with the fleece. Please let it be dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground let there be dew.”


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  Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.


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  The LORD said to Gideon, “The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’


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  Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.’” Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.


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  And the LORD said to Gideon, “The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ shall not go.”


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  So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, “Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink.”


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  And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.


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  And the LORD said to Gideon, “With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home.”


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  So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.


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  That same night the LORD said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.


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  And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp.” Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.


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  And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.


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  When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”


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  And his comrade answered, “This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp.”


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  As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand.”


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  And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.


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  And he said to them, “Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.


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  When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon.’”


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  So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.


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  Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, “A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!”


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  When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.


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  And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.


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  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.


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  And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan. 


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  Then the men of Ephraim said to him, “What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they accused him fiercely.


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  And he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?


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  God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger against him subsided when he said this.


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  And Gideon came to the Jordan and crossed over, he and the 300 men who were with him, exhausted yet pursuing.


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  So he said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me, for they are exhausted, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”


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  And the officials of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”


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  So Gideon said, “Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”


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  And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way, and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.


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  Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about 15,000 men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East, for there had fallen 120,000 men who drew the sword.


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  And Gideon went up by the way of the tent dwellers east of Nobah and Jogbehah and attacked the army, for the army felt secure.


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  And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic.


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  And he captured a young man of Succoth and questioned him. And he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men.


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  And he came to the men of Succoth and said, “Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are exhausted?’”


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  And he took the elders of the city, and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth a lesson.


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  Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “Where are the men whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “As you are, so were they. Every one of them resembled the son of a king.”


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  And he said, “They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. As the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not kill you.”


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  So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise and kill them!” But the young man did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a young man.


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  Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise yourself and fall upon us, for as the man is, so is his strength.” And Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels.


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  Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, “Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also, for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”


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  Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you.”


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  And Gideon said to them, “Let me make a request of you: every one of you give me the earrings from his spoil.” (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)


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  And they answered, “We will willingly give them.” And they spread a cloak, and every man threw in it the earrings of his spoil.


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  And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were around the necks of their camels.


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  And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah. And all Israel whored after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family.


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  So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they raised their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.


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  And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.


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  As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and whored after the Baals and made Baal-berith their god.


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  And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,


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  and they did not show steadfast love to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. 


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  Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family,


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  “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”


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  And his mother’s relatives spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.”


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  And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baal-berith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him.


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  And he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.


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  And all the leaders of Shechem came together, and all Beth-millo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem.


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  When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on top of Mount Gerizim and cried aloud and said to them, “Listen to me, you leaders of Shechem, that God may listen to you.


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  The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’


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  But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my abundance, by which gods and men are honored, and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’


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  And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’


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  “Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and integrity when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house and have done to him as his deeds deserved—


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  and you have risen up against my father’s house this day and have killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the leaders of Shechem, because he is your relative—


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  if you then have acted in good faith and integrity with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.


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  But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the leaders of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the leaders of Shechem and from Beth-millo and devour Abimelech.”


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  And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,


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  that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.


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  And the leaders of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountaintops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way. And it was told to Abimelech.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his relatives, and the leaders of Shechem put confidence in him.


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  And they went out into the field and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them and held a festival; and they went into the house of their god and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed said, “Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerubbaal, and is not Zebul his officer? Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem; but why should we serve him?


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  Would that this people were under my hand! Then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, ‘Increase your army, and come out.’”


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  And he sent messengers to Abimelech secretly, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you.


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  Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city. And when he and the people who are with him come out against you, you may do to them as your hand finds to do.”


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  So Abimelech and all the men who were with him rose up by night and set an ambush against Shechem in four companies.


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  And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city, and Abimelech and the people who were with him rose from the ambush.


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  And when Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops!” And Zebul said to him, “You mistake the shadow of the mountains for men.”


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  Gaal spoke again and said, “Look, people are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners’ Oak.”


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  Then Zebul said to him, “Where is your mouth now, you who said, ‘Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?’ Are not these the people whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them.”


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  And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him. And many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate.


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  And Abimelech lived at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives, so that they could not dwell at Shechem.


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  He took his people and divided them into three companies and set an ambush in the fields. And he looked and saw the people coming out of the city. So he rose against them and killed them.


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  Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the field and killed them.


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  And Abimelech fought against the city all that day. He captured the city and killed the people who were in it, and he razed the city and sowed it with salt.


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  When all the leaders of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of El-berith.


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  And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”


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  So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.


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  But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women and all the leaders of the city fled to it and shut themselves in, and they went up to the roof of the tower.


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  And Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire.


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  Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.


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  Thus God returned the evil of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers.


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  And God also made all the evil of the men of Shechem return on their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 


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  After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.


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  And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.


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  The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.


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  So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,


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  and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.


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  And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.


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  And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”


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  And the LORD said to the people of Israel, “Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?


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  The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.


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  And the people of Israel said to the LORD, “We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day.”


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  So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.


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  Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.


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  And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, “Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.” 


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  Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.


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  And Gilead’s wife also bore him sons. And when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You shall not have an inheritance in our father’s house, for you are the son of another woman.”


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  Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.


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  And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.


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  But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father’s house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?”


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  And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.”


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  Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head.”


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  And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say.”


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  So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.


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  Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, “What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?”


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  And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, “Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably.”


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  and said to him, “Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,


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  but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.


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  Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Please let us pass through your land,’ but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.


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  “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.


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  Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Please let us pass through your land to our country,’


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  but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.


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  And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.


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  And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.


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  So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?


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  Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.


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  Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?


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  While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?


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  I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon.”


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  Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.


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  then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.”


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  So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand.


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  And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.


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  Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.


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  And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow.”


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  And she said to him, “My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites.”


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  So she said to her father, “Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions.”


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  So he said, “Go.” Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.


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  And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel


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  that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. 


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  The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire.”


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  And Jephthah said to them, “I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.


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  And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?”


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  Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, “You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh.”


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  And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, “Let me go over,” the men of Gilead said to him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” When he said, “No,”


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  they said to him, “Then say Shibboleth,” and he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.


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  Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.


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  He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.


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  He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.


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  Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. 


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  And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.


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  There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.


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  And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.


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  for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”


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  Then the woman came and told her husband, “A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,


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  but he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”


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  Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born.”


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  And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.


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  So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, “Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me.”


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  And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to this woman?” And he said, “I am.”


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  And Manoah said, “Now when your words come true, what is to be the child’s manner of life, and what is his mission?”


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  She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe.”


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  And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, “If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD.” (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)


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  And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, “What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?”


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  So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.


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  And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.


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  The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.


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  But his wife said to him, “If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these.”


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  And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him.


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  Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”


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  But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”


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  His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD, for he was seeking an opportunity against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines ruled over Israel.


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  Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion came toward him roaring.


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  Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and although he had nothing in his hand, he tore the lion in pieces as one tears a young goat. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.


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  After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.


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  He scraped it out into his hands and went on, eating as he went. And he came to his father and mother and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the carcass of the lion.


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  His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.


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  And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,


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  but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes.” And they said to him, “Put your riddle, that we may hear it.”


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  And he said to them, “Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” And in three days they could not solve the riddle.


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  On the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father’s house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?”


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  And Samson’s wife wept over him and said, “You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?”


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  She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people.


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  And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”


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  And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and struck down thirty men of the town and took their spoil and gave the garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father’s house.


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  After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.


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  And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”


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  And Samson said to them, “This time I shall be innocent in regard to the Philistines, when I do them harm.”


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  So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches. And he turned them tail to tail and put a torch between each pair of tails.


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  And when he had set fire to the torches, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines and set fire to the stacked grain and the standing grain, as well as the olive orchards.


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  Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire.


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  And Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will be avenged on you, and after that I will quit.”


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  And he struck them hip and thigh with a great blow, and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam.


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  And the men of Judah said, “Why have you come up against us?” They said, “We have come up to bind Samson, to do to him as he did to us.”


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  Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so have I done to them.”


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  And they said to him, “We have come down to bind you, that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves.”


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  They said to him, “No; we will only bind you and give you into their hands. We will surely not kill you.” So they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.


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  When he came to Lehi, the Philistines came shouting to meet him. Then the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that has caught fire, and his bonds melted off his hands.


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  And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey, and put out his hand and took it, and with it he struck 1,000 men.


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  And Samson said, “With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of a donkey have I struck down a thousand men.”


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  As soon as he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand. And that place was called Ramath-lehi.


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  And he was very thirsty, and he called upon the LORD and said, “You have granted this great salvation by the hand of your servant, and shall I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”


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  And God split open the hollow place that is at Lehi, and water came out from it. And when he drank, his spirit returned, and he revived. Therefore the name of it was called En-hakkore; it is at Lehi to this day.


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  The Gazites were told, “Samson has come here.” And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, “Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him.”


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  But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.


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  And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver.”


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  So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you.”


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  Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.


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  Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.


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  Then Delilah said to Samson, “Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound.”


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  And he said to her, “If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.


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  Then Delilah said to Samson, “Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.


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  And she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies.”


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  And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.


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  And he told her all his heart, and said to her, “A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man.”


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  When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, “Come up again, for he has told me all his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.


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  She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.


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  And she said, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” And he awoke from his sleep and said, “I will go out as at other times and shake myself free.” But he did not know that the LORD had left him.


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  And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.


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  Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, “Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand.”


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  And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, “Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us.”


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  And when their hearts were merry, they said, “Call Samson, that he may entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.


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  And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”


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  Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.


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  Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”


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  And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.


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  And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.


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  Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years. 


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  And he said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the LORD.”


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  And he restored the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother. And his mother said, “I dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a metal image. Now therefore I will restore it to you.”


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  So when he restored the money to his mother, his mother took 200 pieces of silver and gave it to the silversmith, who made it into a carved image and a metal image. And it was in the house of Micah.


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  And the man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and household gods, and ordained one of his sons, who became his priest.


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  Now there was a young man of Bethlehem in Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.


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  And the man departed from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to sojourn where he could find a place. And as he journeyed, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.


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  And Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to sojourn where I may find a place.”


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  And Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten pieces of silver a year and a suit of clothes and your living.” And the Levite went in.


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  And the Levite was content to dwell with the man, and the young man became to him like one of his sons.


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  In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.


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  So the people of Dan sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, “Go and explore the land.” And they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.


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  When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?”


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  And he said to them, “This is how Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest.”


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  And they said to him, “Inquire of God, please, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”


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  And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”


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  Then the five men departed and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, how they lived in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, lacking nothing that is in the earth and possessing wealth, and how they were far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.


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  And when they came to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”


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  They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you do nothing? Do not be slow to go, to enter in and possess the land.


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  As soon as you go, you will come to an unsuspecting people. The land is spacious, for God has given it into your hands, a place where there is no lack of anything that is in the earth.”


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  and went up and encamped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. On this account that place is called Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.


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  Then the five men who had gone to scout out the country of Laish said to their brothers, “Do you know that in these houses there are an ephod, household gods, a carved image, and a metal image? Now therefore consider what you will do.”


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  And they turned aside there and came to the house of the young Levite, at the home of Micah, and asked him about his welfare.


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  And the five men who had gone to scout out the land went up and entered and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the 600 men armed with weapons of war.


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  And when these went into Micah’s house and took the carved image, the ephod, the household gods, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”


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  And they said to him, “Keep quiet; put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be to us a father and a priest. Is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and clan in Israel?”


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  And the priest’s heart was glad. He took the ephod and the household gods and the carved image and went along with the people.


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  So they turned and departed, putting the little ones and the livestock and the goods in front of them.


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  When they had gone a distance from the home of Micah, the men who were in the houses near Micah’s house were called out, and they overtook the people of Dan.


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  And they shouted to the people of Dan, who turned around and said to Micah, “What is the matter with you, that you come with such a company?”


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  And he said, “You take my gods that I made and the priest, and go away, and what have I left? How then do you ask me, ‘What is the matter with you?’”


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  And the people of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall upon you, and you lose your life with the lives of your household.”


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  Then the people of Dan went their way. And when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his home.


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  But the people of Dan took what Micah had made, and the priest who belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and unsuspecting, and struck them with the edge of the sword and burned the city with fire.


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  And there was no deliverer because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone. It was in the valley that belongs to Beth-rehob. Then they rebuilt the city and lived in it.


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  And they named the city Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor, who was born to Israel; but the name of the city was Laish at the first.


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  And the people of Dan set up the carved image for themselves, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, son of Moses, and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.


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  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.


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  And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.


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  Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him.


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  And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there.


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  And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.”


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  So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl’s father said to the man, “Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”


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  And on the fifth day he arose early in the morning to depart. And the girl’s father said, “Strengthen your heart and wait until the day declines.” So they ate, both of them.


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  And when the man and his concubine and his servant rose up to depart, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has waned toward evening. Please, spend the night. Behold, the day draws to its close. Lodge here and let your heart be merry, and tomorrow you shall arise early in the morning for your journey, and go home.”


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  But the man would not spend the night. He rose up and departed and arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a couple of saddled donkeys, and his concubine was with him.


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  When they were near Jebus, the day was nearly over, and the servant said to his master, “Come now, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”


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  And his master said to him, “We will not turn aside into the city of foreigners, who do not belong to the people of Israel, but we will pass on to Gibeah.”


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  And he said to his young man, “Come and let us draw near to one of these places and spend the night at Gibeah or at Ramah.”


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  So they passed on and went their way. And the sun went down on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin,


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  and they turned aside there, to go in and spend the night at Gibeah. And he went in and sat down in the open square of the city, for no one took them into his house to spend the night.


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  And behold, an old man was coming from his work in the field at evening. The man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah. The men of the place were Benjaminites.


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  And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city. And the old man said, “Where are you going? And where do you come from?”


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  And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to the house of the LORD, but no one has taken me into his house.


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  We have straw and feed for our donkeys, with bread and wine for me and your female servant and the young man with your servants. There is no lack of anything.”


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  And the old man said, “Peace be to you; I will care for all your wants. Only, do not spend the night in the square.”


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  So he brought him into his house and gave the donkeys feed. And they washed their feet, and ate and drank.


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  As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, worthless fellows, surrounded the house, beating on the door. And they said to the old man, the master of the house, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we may know him.”


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  And the man, the master of the house, went out to them and said to them, “No, my brothers, do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this vile thing.


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  Behold, here are my virgin daughter and his concubine. Let me bring them out now. Violate them and do with them what seems good to you, but against this man do not do this outrageous thing.”


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  But the men would not listen to him. So the man seized his concubine and made her go out to them. And they knew her and abused her all night until the morning. And as the dawn began to break, they let her go.


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  And as morning appeared, the woman came and fell down at the door of the man’s house where her master was, until it was light.


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  And her master rose up in the morning, and when he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way, behold, there was his concubine lying at the door of the house, with her hands on the threshold.


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  He said to her, “Get up, let us be going.” But there was no answer. Then he put her on the donkey, and the man rose up and went away to his home.


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  And when he entered his house, he took a knife, and taking hold of his concubine he divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.


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  And all who saw it said, “Such a thing has never happened or been seen from the day that the people of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt until this day; consider it, take counsel, and speak.” 


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  Then all the people of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and the congregation assembled as one man to the LORD at Mizpah.


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  And the chiefs of all the people, of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, 400,000 men on foot that drew the sword.


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  (Now the people of Benjamin heard that the people of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) And the people of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this evil happen?”


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  And the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “I came to Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.


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  And the leaders of Gibeah rose against me and surrounded the house against me by night. They meant to kill me, and they violated my concubine, and she is dead.


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  So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and outrage in Israel.


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  And all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, and none of us will return to his house.


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  and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions for the people, that when they come they may repay Gibeah of Benjamin for all the outrage that they have committed in Israel.”


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  And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What evil is this that has taken place among you?


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  Now therefore give up the men, the worthless fellows in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and purge evil from Israel.” But the Benjaminites would not listen to the voice of their brothers, the people of Israel.


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  Then the people of Benjamin came together out of the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the people of Israel.


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  And the people of Benjamin mustered out of their cities on that day 26,000 men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who mustered 700 chosen men.


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  Among all these were 700 chosen men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.


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  And the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, mustered 400,000 men who drew the sword; all these were men of war.


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  The people of Israel arose and went up to Bethel and inquired of God, “Who shall go up first for us to fight against the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Judah shall go up first.”


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  And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin, and the men of Israel drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.


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  But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.


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  And the people of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until the evening. And they inquired of the LORD, “Shall we again draw near to fight against our brothers, the people of Benjamin?” And the LORD said, “Go up against them.”


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  And Benjamin went against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed 18,000 men of the people of Israel. All these were men who drew the sword.


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  Then all the people of Israel, the whole army, went up and came to Bethel and wept. They sat there before the LORD and fasted that day until evening, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


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  And the people of Israel inquired of the LORD (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,


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  and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, ministered before it in those days), saying, “Shall we go out once more to battle against our brothers, the people of Benjamin, or shall we cease?” And the LORD said, “Go up, for tomorrow I will give them into your hand.”


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  And the people of Israel went up against the people of Benjamin on the third day and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.


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  And the people of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city. And as at other times they began to strike and kill some of the people in the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country, about thirty men of Israel.


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  And the people of Benjamin said, “They are routed before us, as at the first.” But the people of Israel said, “Let us flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”


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  And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar, and the men of Israel who were in ambush rushed out of their place from Maareh-geba.


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  And there came against Gibeah 10,000 chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was hard, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was close upon them.


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  And the LORD defeated Benjamin before Israel, and the people of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day. All these were men who drew the sword.


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  So the people of Benjamin saw that they were defeated. The men of Israel gave ground to Benjamin, because they trusted the men in ambush whom they had set against Gibeah.


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  Then the men in ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; the men in ambush moved out and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.


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  Now the appointed signal between the men of Israel and the men in the main ambush was that when they made a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city


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  the men of Israel should turn in battle. Now Benjamin had begun to strike and kill about thirty men of Israel. They said, “Surely they are defeated before us, as in the first battle.”


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  But when the signal began to rise out of the city in a column of smoke, the Benjaminites looked behind them, and behold, the whole of the city went up in smoke to heaven.


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  Then the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed, for they saw that disaster was close upon them.


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  Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel in the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them. And those who came out of the cities were destroying them in their midst.


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  Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.


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  And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon. Five thousand men of them were cut down in the highways. And they were pursued hard to Gidom, and 2,000 men of them were struck down.


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  But 600 men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and remained at the rock of Rimmon four months.


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  And the men of Israel turned back against the people of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, the city, men and beasts and all that they found. And all the towns that they found they set on fire. 


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  Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”


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  And the people came to Bethel and sat there till evening before God, and they lifted up their voices and wept bitterly.


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  And they said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”


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  And the next day the people rose early and built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.


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  And the people of Israel said, “Which of all the tribes of Israel did not come up in the assembly to the LORD?” For they had taken a great oath concerning him who did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah, saying, “He shall surely be put to death.”


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  And the people of Israel had compassion for Benjamin their brother and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel this day.


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  What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”


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  And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel that did not come up to the LORD to Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead, to the assembly.


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  So the congregation sent 12,000 of their bravest men there and commanded them, “Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with the edge of the sword; also the women and the little ones.


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  This is what you shall do: every male and every woman that has lain with a male you shall devote to destruction.”


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  And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.


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  Then the whole congregation sent word to the people of Benjamin who were at the rock of Rimmon and proclaimed peace to them.


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  And Benjamin returned at that time. And they gave them the women whom they had saved alive of the women of Jabesh-gilead, but they were not enough for them.


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  And the people had compassion on Benjamin because the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.


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  Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”


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  And they said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  Yet we cannot give them wives from our daughters.” For the people of Israel had sworn, “Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.”


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the LORD at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  And when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, we will say to them, ‘Grant them graciously to us, because we did not take for each man of them his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.’”


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.


book: Judges
label: Jud
content:
  And the people of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  In the days when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land, and a man of Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  The name of the man was Elimelech and the name of his wife Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They went into the country of Moab and remained there.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then she arose with her daughters-in-law to return from the country of Moab, for she had heard in the fields of Moab that the LORD had visited his people and given them food.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So she set out from the place where she was with her two daughters-in-law, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Go, return each of you to her mother’s house. May the LORD deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead and with me.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  The LORD grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voices and wept.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  But Naomi said, “Turn back, my daughters; why will you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb that they may become your husbands?


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then they lifted up their voices and wept again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law, but Ruth clung to her.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And she said, “See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the LORD do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they came to Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them. And the women said, “Is this Naomi?”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  She said to them, “Do not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  I went away full, and the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi, when the LORD has testified against me and the Almighty has brought calamity upon me?”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, who returned from the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem at the beginning of barley harvest. 


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Now Naomi had a relative of her husband’s, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The LORD be with you!” And they answered, “The LORD bless you.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And the servant who was in charge of the reapers answered, “She is the young Moabite woman, who came back with Naomi from the country of Moab.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  She said, ‘Please let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the reapers.’ So she came, and she has continued from early morning until now, except for a short rest.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Now, listen, my daughter, do not go to glean in another field or leave this one, but keep close to my young women.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Let your eyes be on the field that they are reaping, and go after them. Have I not charged the young men not to touch you? And when you are thirsty, go to the vessels and drink what the young men have drawn.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your eyes, that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  But Boaz answered her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law since the death of your husband has been fully told to me, and how you left your father and mother and your native land and came to a people that you did not know before.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  The LORD repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then she said, “I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and spoken kindly to your servant, though I am not one of your servants.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  When she rose to glean, Boaz instructed his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And also pull out some from the bundles for her and leave it for her to glean, and do not rebuke her.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So she gleaned in the field until evening. Then she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah of barley.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And she took it up and went into the city. Her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also brought out and gave her what food she had left over after being satisfied.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And her mother-in-law said to her, “Where did you glean today? And where have you worked? Blessed be the man who took notice of you.” So she told her mother-in-law with whom she had worked and said, “The man’s name with whom I worked today is Boaz.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, whose kindness has not forsaken the living or the dead!” Naomi also said to her, “The man is a close relative of ours, one of our redeemers.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And Ruth the Moabite said, “Besides, he said to me, ‘You shall keep close by my young men until they have finished all my harvest.’”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And Naomi said to Ruth, her daughter-in-law, “It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his young women, lest in another field you be assaulted.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So she kept close to the young women of Boaz, gleaning until the end of the barley and wheat harvests. And she lived with her mother-in-law. 


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain. Then she came softly and uncovered his feet and lay down.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you all that you ask, for all my fellow townsmen know that you are a worthy woman.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Remain tonight, and in the morning, if he will redeem you, good; let him do it. But if he is not willing to redeem you, then, as the LORD lives, I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So she lay at his feet until the morning, but arose before one could recognize another. And he said, “Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And he said, “Bring the garment you are wearing and hold it out.” So she held it, and he measured out six measures of barley and put it on her. Then she went into the city.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, “How did you fare, my daughter?” Then she told her all that the man had done for her,


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  saying, “These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said to me, ‘You must not go back empty-handed to your mother-in-law.’”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  She replied, “Wait, my daughter, until you learn how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today.” 


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Now Boaz had gone up to the gate and sat down there. And behold, the redeemer, of whom Boaz had spoken, came by. So Boaz said, “Turn aside, friend; sit down here.” And he turned aside and sat down.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then he said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has come back from the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land that belonged to our relative Elimelech.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So I thought I would tell you of it and say, ‘Buy it in the presence of those sitting here and in the presence of the elders of my people.’ If you will redeem it, redeem it. But if you will not, tell me, that I may know, for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I come after you.” And he said, “I will redeem it.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one drew off his sandal and gave it to the other, and this was the manner of attesting in Israel.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses this day that I have bought from the hand of Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech and all that belonged to Chilion and to Mahlon.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then all the people who were at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman, who is coming into your house, like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you act worthily in Ephrathah and be renowned in Bethlehem,


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  and may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring that the LORD will give you by this young woman.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a redeemer, and may his name be renowned in Israel!


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher of your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who is more to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”


book: Ruth
label: Ruth
content:
  And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi.” They named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  There was a certain man of Ramathaim-zophim of the hill country of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephrathite.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He had two wives. The name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other, Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now this man used to go up year by year from his city to worship and to sacrifice to the LORD of hosts at Shiloh, where the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So it went on year by year. As often as she went up to the house of the LORD, she used to provoke her. Therefore Hannah wept and would not eat.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Elkanah, her husband, said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? And why do you not eat? And why is your heart sad? Am I not more to you than ten sons?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  After they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh, Hannah rose. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside the doorpost of the temple of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she vowed a vow and said, “O LORD of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the LORD all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Hannah was speaking in her heart; only her lips moved, and her voice was not heard. Therefore Eli took her to be a drunken woman.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Hannah answered, “No, my lord, I am a woman troubled in spirit. I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I have been pouring out my soul before the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Do not regard your servant as a worthless woman, for all along I have been speaking out of my great anxiety and vexation.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Eli answered, “Go in peace, and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have made to him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she said, “Let your servant find favor in your eyes.” Then the woman went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  They rose early in the morning and worshiped before the LORD; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the LORD remembered her.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the LORD.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The man Elkanah and all his house went up to offer to the LORD the yearly sacrifice and to pay his vow.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, “As soon as the child is weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear in the presence of the LORD and dwell there forever.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Elkanah her husband said to her, “Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the LORD establish his word.” So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. And the child was young.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she said, “Oh, my lord! As you live, my lord, I am the woman who was standing here in your presence, praying to the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore I have lent him to the LORD. As long as he lives, he is lent to the LORD.” And he worshiped the LORD there. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Hannah prayed and said, “My heart exults in the LORD; my horn is exalted in the LORD. My mouth derides my enemies, because I rejoice in your salvation.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger. The barren has borne seven, but she who has many children is forlorn.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and on them he has set the world.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  “He will guard the feet of his faithful ones, but the wicked shall be cut off in darkness, for not by might shall a man prevail.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Elkanah went home to Ramah. And the boy was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli the priest.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The custom of the priests with the people was that when any man offered sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come, while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and he would thrust it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or pot. All that the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is what they did at Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And if the man said to him, “Let them burn the fat first, and then take as much as you wish,” he would say, “No, you must give it now, and if not, I will take it by force.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the LORD, for the men treated the offering of the LORD with contempt.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And his mother used to make for him a little robe and take it to him each year when she went up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say, “May the LORD give you children by this woman for the petition she asked of the LORD.” So then they would return to their home.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Indeed the LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived and bore three sons and two daughters. And the boy Samuel grew in the presence of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Eli was very old, and he kept hearing all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who were serving at the entrance to the tent of meeting.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to them, “Why do you do such things? For I hear of your evil dealings from all these people.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the LORD to put them to death.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And there came a man of God to Eli and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, ‘Did I indeed reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt subject to the house of Pharaoh?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? I gave to the house of your father all my offerings by fire from the people of Israel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded for my dwelling, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ but now the LORD declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then in distress you will look with envious eye on all the prosperity that shall be bestowed on Israel, and there shall not be an old man in your house forever.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep his eyes out to grieve his heart, and all the descendants of your house shall die by the sword of men.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And this that shall come upon your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And everyone who is left in your house shall come to implore him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, “Please put me in one of the priests’ places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.”’” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call; lie down again.” So he went and lay down.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD called again, “Samuel!” and Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, my son; lie down again.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down, and if he calls you, you shall say, ‘Speak, LORD, for your servant hears.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD came and stood, calling as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant hears.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the LORD said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which the two ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And I declare to him that I am about to punish his house forever, for the iniquity that he knew, because his sons were blaspheming God, and he did not restrain them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore I swear to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Samuel lay until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the LORD. And Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Eli said, “What was it that he told you? Do not hide it from me. May God do so to you and more also if you hide anything from me of all that he told you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the LORD. Let him do what seems good to him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to battle against the Philistines. They encamped at Ebenezer, and the Philistines encamped at Aphek.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The Philistines drew up in line against Israel, and when the battle spread, Israel was defeated before the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men on the field of battle.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the people came to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the LORD defeated us today before the Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD here from Shiloh, that it may come among us and save us from the power of our enemies.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So the people sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of the LORD of hosts, who is enthroned on the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, “What does this great shouting in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” And when they learned that the ark of the LORD had come to the camp,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  the Philistines were afraid, for they said, “A god has come into the camp.” And they said, “Woe to us! For nothing like this has happened before.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with every sort of plague in the wilderness.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Take courage, and be men, O Philistines, lest you become slaves to the Hebrews as they have been to you; be men and fight.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and they fled, every man to his home. And there was a very great slaughter, for thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When he arrived, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city and told the news, all the city cried out.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Eli heard the sound of the outcry, he said, “What is this uproar?” Then the man hurried and came and told Eli.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the man said to Eli, “I am he who has come from the battle; I fled from the battle today.” And he said, “How did it go, my son?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has also been a great defeat among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell over backward from his seat by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant, about to give birth. And when she heard the news that the ark of God was captured, and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, she bowed and gave birth, for her pains came upon her.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it up beside Dagon.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD. So they took Dagon and put him back in his place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But when they rose early on the next morning, behold, Dagon had fallen face downward on the ground before the ark of the LORD, and the head of Dagon and both his hands were lying cut off on the threshold. Only the trunk of Dagon was left to him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  This is why the priests of Dagon and all who enter the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The hand of the LORD was heavy against the people of Ashdod, and he terrified and afflicted them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the men of Ashdod saw how things were, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for his hand is hard against us and against Dagon our god.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” They answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around to Gath.” So they brought the ark of the God of Israel there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out on them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. But as soon as the ark of God came to Ekron, the people of Ekron cried out, “They have brought around to us the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our people.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, that it may not kill us and our people.” For there was a deathly panic throughout the whole city. The hand of God was very heavy there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the LORD? Tell us with what we shall send it to its place.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  They said, “If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it empty, but by all means return him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and it will be known to you why his hand does not turn away from you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And they said, “What is the guilt offering that we shall return to him?” They answered, “Five golden tumors and five golden mice, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines, for the same plague was on all of you and on your lords.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So you must make images of your tumors and images of your mice that ravage the land, and give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you and your gods and your land.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milk cows on which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And take the ark of the LORD and place it on the cart and put in a box at its side the figures of gold, which you are returning to him as a guilt offering. Then send it off and let it go its way


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And they put the ark of the LORD on the cart and the box with the golden mice and the images of their tumors.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the cows went straight in the direction of Beth-shemesh along one highway, lowing as they went. They turned neither to the right nor to the left, and the lords of the Philistines went after them as far as the border of Beth-shemesh.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the people of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest in the valley. And when they lifted up their eyes and saw the ark, they rejoiced to see it.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The cart came into the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there. A great stone was there. And they split up the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Levites took down the ark of the LORD and the box that was beside it, in which were the golden figures, and set them upon the great stone. And the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices on that day to the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  These are the golden tumors that the Philistines returned as a guilt offering to the LORD: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both fortified cities and unwalled villages. The great stone beside which they set down the ark of the LORD is a witness to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he struck some of the men of Beth-shemesh, because they looked upon the ark of the LORD. He struck seventy men of them, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck the people with a great blow.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the LORD, this holy God? And to whom shall he go up away from us?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the LORD. Come down and take it up to you.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took up the ark of the LORD and brought it to the house of Abinadab on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to have charge of the ark of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  From the day that the ark was lodged at Kiriath-jearim, a long time passed, some twenty years, and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you and direct your heart to the LORD and serve him only, and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they gathered at Mizpah and drew water and poured it out before the LORD and fasted on that day and said there, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the people of Israel at Mizpah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now when the Philistines heard that the people of Israel had gathered at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the people of Israel heard of it, they were afraid of the Philistines.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the people of Israel said to Samuel, “Do not cease to cry out to the LORD our God for us, that he may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Samuel took a nursing lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. And Samuel cried out to the LORD for Israel, and the LORD answered him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to attack Israel. But the LORD thundered with a mighty sound that day against the Philistines and threw them into confusion, and they were defeated before Israel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued the Philistines and struck them, as far as below Beth-car.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen and called its name Ebenezer; for he said, “Till now the LORD has helped us.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So the Philistines were subdued and did not again enter the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The cities that the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. There was peace also between Israel and the Amorites.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he went on a circuit year by year to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah. And he judged Israel in all these places.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then he would return to Ramah, for his home was there, and there also he judged Israel. And he built there an altar to the LORD. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Yet his sons did not walk in his ways but turned aside after gain. They took bribes and perverted justice.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  According to all the deeds that they have done, from the day I brought them up out of Egypt even to this day, forsaking me and serving other gods, so they are also doing to you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now then, obey their voice; only you shall solemnly warn them and show them the ways of the king who shall reign over them.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men and your donkeys, and put them to his work.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, “No! But there shall be a king over us,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD said to Samuel, “Obey their voice and make them a king.” Samuel then said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  There was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah, a Benjaminite, a man of wealth.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he had a son whose name was Saul, a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the donkeys of Kish, Saul’s father, were lost. So Kish said to Saul his son, “Take one of the young men with you, and arise, go and look for the donkeys.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he passed through the hill country of Ephraim and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they did not find them. And they passed through the land of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they passed through the land of Benjamin, but did not find them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When they came to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who was with him, “Come, let us go back, lest my father cease to care about the donkeys and become anxious about us.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But he said to him, “Behold, there is a man of God in this city, and he is a man who is held in honor; all that he says comes true. So now let us go there. Perhaps he can tell us the way we should go.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to his servant, “But if we go, what can we bring the man? For the bread in our sacks is gone, and there is no present to bring to the man of God. What do we have?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The servant answered Saul again, “Here, I have with me a quarter of a shekel of silver, and I will give it to the man of God to tell us our way.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today’s “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to his servant, “Well said; come, let us go.” So they went to the city where the man of God was.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As they went up the hill to the city, they met young women coming out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  They answered, “He is; behold, he is just ahead of you. Hurry. He has come just now to the city, because the people have a sacrifice today on the high place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as you enter the city you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat till he comes, since he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now go up, for you will meet him immediately.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they went up to the city. As they were entering the city, they saw Samuel coming out toward them on his way up to the high place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  “Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Samuel saw Saul, the LORD told him, “Here is the man of whom I spoke to you! He it is who shall restrain my people.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Samuel answered Saul, “I am the seer. Go up before me to the high place, for today you shall eat with me, and in the morning I will let you go and will tell you all that is on your mind.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not set your mind on them, for they have been found. And for whom is all that is desirable in Israel? Is it not for you and for all your father’s house?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul answered, “Am I not a Benjaminite, from the least of the tribes of Israel? And is not my clan the humblest of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why then have you spoken to me in this way?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel took Saul and his young man and brought them into the hall and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited, who were about thirty persons.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to the cook, “Bring the portion I gave you, of which I said to you, ‘Put it aside.’”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So the cook took up the leg and what was on it and set them before Saul. And Samuel said, “See, what was kept is set before you. Eat, because it was kept for you until the hour appointed, that you might eat with the guests.” So Saul ate with Samuel that day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then at the break of dawn Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Up, that I may send you on your way.” So Saul arose, and both he and Samuel went out into the street.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As they were going down to the outskirts of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to pass on before us, and when he has passed on, stop here yourself for a while, that I may make known to you the word of God.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When you depart from me today, you will meet two men by Rachel’s tomb in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah, and they will say to you, ‘The donkeys that you went to seek are found, and now your father has ceased to care about the donkeys and is anxious about you, saying, “What shall I do about my son?”’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then you shall go on from there farther and come to the oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  After that you shall come to Gibeath-elohim, where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the Spirit of the LORD will rush upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then go down before me to Gilgal. And behold, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings and to sacrifice peace offerings. Seven days you shall wait, until I come to you and show you what you shall do.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When he turned his back to leave Samuel, God gave him another heart. And all these signs came to pass that day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When they came to Gibeah, behold, a group of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him, and he prophesied among them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when all who knew him previously saw how he prophesied with the prophets, the people said to one another, “What has come over the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And a man of the place answered, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul’s uncle said to him and to his servant, “Where did you go?” And he said, “To seek the donkeys. And when we saw they were not to be found, we went to Samuel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But about the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he did not tell him anything.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to the people of Israel, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that were oppressing you.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your thousands.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He brought the tribe of Benjamin near by its clans, and the clan of the Matrites was taken by lot; and Saul the son of Kish was taken by lot. But when they sought him, he could not be found.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they inquired again of the LORD, “Is there a man still to come?” and the LORD said, “Behold, he has hidden himself among the baggage.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the LORD has chosen? There is none like him among all the people.” And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel told the people the rights and duties of the kingship, and he wrote them in a book and laid it up before the LORD. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his home.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But some worthless fellows said, “How can this man save us?” And they despised him and brought him no present. But he held his peace. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Nahash the Ammonite went up and besieged Jabesh-gilead, and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a treaty with us, and we will serve you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make a treaty with you, that I gouge out all your right eyes, and thus bring disgrace on all Israel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The elders of Jabesh said to him, “Give us seven days’ respite that we may send messengers through all the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will give ourselves up to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, they reported the matter in the ears of the people, and all the people wept aloud.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now, behold, Saul was coming from the field behind the oxen. And Saul said, “What is wrong with the people, that they are weeping?” So they told him the news of the men of Jabesh.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and his anger was greatly kindled.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He took a yoke of oxen and cut them in pieces and sent them throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, “Whoever does not come out after Saul and Samuel, so shall it be done to his oxen!” Then the dread of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out as one man.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.


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label: 1Sam
content:
  And they said to the messengers who had come, “Thus shall you say to the men of Jabesh-gilead: ‘Tomorrow, by the time the sun is hot, you shall have salvation.’” When the messengers came and told the men of Jabesh, they were glad.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore the men of Jabesh said, “Tomorrow we will give ourselves up to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the next day Saul put the people in three companies. And they came into the midst of the camp in the morning watch and struck down the Ammonites until the heat of the day. And those who survived were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the people said to Samuel, “Who is it that said, ‘Shall Saul reign over us?’ Bring the men, that we may put them to death.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to all Israel, “Behold, I have obeyed your voice in all that you have said to me and have made a king over you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And now, behold, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray; and behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to them, “The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand.” And they said, “He is witness.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to the people, “The LORD is witness, who appointed Moses and Aaron and brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the LORD concerning all the righteous deeds of the LORD that he performed for you and for your fathers.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Jacob went into Egypt, and the Egyptians oppressed them, then your fathers cried out to the LORD and the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, who brought your fathers out of Egypt and made them dwell in this place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But they forgot the LORD their God. And he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab. And they fought against them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD sent Jerubbaal and Barak and Jephthah and Samuel and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and you lived in safety.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when you saw that Nahash the king of the Ammonites came against you, you said to me, ‘No, but a king shall reign over us,’ when the LORD your God was your king.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And now behold the king whom you have chosen, for whom you have asked; behold, the LORD has set a king over you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If you will fear the LORD and serve him and obey his voice and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you will follow the LORD your God, it will be well.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then the hand of the LORD will be against you and your king.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Is it not wheat harvest today? I will call upon the LORD, that he may send thunder and rain. And you shall know and see that your wickedness is great, which you have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking for yourselves a king.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Samuel called upon the LORD, and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day, and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And all the people said to Samuel, “Pray for your servants to the LORD your God, that we may not die, for we have added to all our sins this evil, to ask for ourselves a king.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to the people, “Do not be afraid; you have done all this evil. Yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For the LORD will not forsake his people, for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the LORD by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Only fear the LORD and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul chose three thousand men of Israel. Two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. The rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Jonathan defeated the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And all Israel heard it said that Saul had defeated the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel had become a stench to the Philistines. And the people were called out to join Saul at Gilgal.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When the men of Israel saw that they were in trouble (for the people were hard pressed), the people hid themselves in caves and in holes and in rocks and in tombs and in cisterns,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and some Hebrews crossed the fords of the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He waited seven days, the time appointed by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the people were scattering from him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul said, “Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings.” And he offered the burnt offering.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “When I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines had mustered at Michmash,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I forced myself, and offered the burnt offering.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the LORD your God, with which he commanded you. For then the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But now your kingdom shall not continue. The LORD has sought out a man after his own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept what the LORD commanded you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal. The rest of the people went up after Saul to meet the army; they went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul and Jonathan his son and the people who were present with them stayed in Geba of Benjamin, but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And raiders came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies. One company turned toward Ophrah, to the land of Shual;


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  another company turned toward Beth-horon; and another company turned toward the border that looks down on the Valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now there was no blacksmith to be found throughout all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Lest the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But every one of the Israelites went down to the Philistines to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, or his sickle,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and the charge was two-thirds of a shekel for the plowshares and for the mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening the axes and for setting the goads.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So on the day of the battle there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan, but Saul and Jonathan his son had them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  One day Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the Philistine garrison on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah in the pomegranate cave at Migron. The people who were with him were about six hundred men,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  including Ahijah the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, son of Phinehas, son of Eli, the priest of the LORD in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Within the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the Philistine garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side and a rocky crag on the other side. The name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Jonathan said to the young man who carried his armor, “Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised. It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And his armor-bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If they say to us, ‘Wait until we come to you,’ then we will stand still in our place, and we will not go up to them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But if they say, ‘Come up to us,’ then we will go up, for the LORD has given them into our hand. And this shall be the sign to us.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So both of them showed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines. And the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of the garrison hailed Jonathan and his armor-bearer and said, “Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.” And Jonathan said to his armor-bearer, “Come up after me, for the LORD has given them into the hand of Israel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, and his armor-bearer after him. And they fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer killed them after him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And that first strike, which Jonathan and his armor-bearer made, killed about twenty men within as it were half a furrow’s length in an acre of land.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And there was a panic in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. The garrison and even the raiders trembled, the earth quaked, and it became a very great panic.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked, and behold, the multitude was dispersing here and there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to the people who were with him, “Count and see who has gone from us.” And when they had counted, behold, Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For the ark of God went at that time with the people of Israel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now while Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of the Philistines increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and went into the battle. And behold, every Philistine’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines before that time and who had gone up with them into the camp, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel had been hard pressed that day, so Saul had laid an oath on the people, saying, “Cursed be the man who eats food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies.” So none of the people had tasted food.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the people entered the forest, behold, the honey was dropping, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the people feared the oath.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Jonathan had not heard his father charge the people with the oath, so he put out the tip of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes became bright.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then one of the people said, “Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, ‘Cursed be the man who eats food this day.’” And the people were faint.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Jonathan said, “My father has troubled the land. See how my eyes have become bright because I tasted a little of this honey.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  How much better if the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies that they found. For now the defeat among the Philistines has not been great.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The people pounced on the spoil and took sheep and oxen and calves and slaughtered them on the ground. And the people ate them with the blood.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then they told Saul, “Behold, the people are sinning against the LORD by eating with the blood.” And he said, “You have dealt treacherously; roll a great stone to me here.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said, “Disperse yourselves among the people and say to them, ‘Let every man bring his ox or his sheep and slaughter them here and eat, and do not sin against the LORD by eating with the blood.’” So every one of the people brought his ox with him that night and they slaughtered them there.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and plunder them until the morning light; let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” But the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?” But he did not answer him that day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said, “Come here, all you leaders of the people, and know and see how this sin has arisen today.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For as the LORD lives who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore Saul said, “O LORD God of Israel, why have you not answered your servant this day? If this guilt is in me or in Jonathan my son, O LORD, God of Israel, give Urim. But if this guilt is in your people Israel, give Thummim.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” And Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the tip of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I will die.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, so that he did not die.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Saul had taken the kingship over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, against the Ammonites, against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. Wherever he turned he routed them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he did valiantly and struck the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of those who plundered them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malchi-shua. And the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the firstborn was Merab, and the name of the younger Michal.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the commander of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  There was hard fighting against the Philistines all the days of Saul. And when Saul saw any strong man, or any valiant man, he attached him to himself. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I have noted what Amalek did to Israel in opposing them on the way when they came up out of Egypt.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand men on foot, and ten thousand men of Judah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart; go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them. For you showed kindness to all the people of Israel when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  “I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the LORD all night.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself and turned and passed on and went down to Gilgal.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed be you to the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God, and the rest we have devoted to destruction.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stop! I will tell you what the LORD said to me this night.” And he said to him, “Speak.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said, “Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the LORD sent you on a mission and said, ‘Go, devote to destruction the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Why then did you not obey the voice of the LORD? Why did you pounce on the spoil and do what was evil in the sight of the LORD?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to Samuel, “I have obeyed the voice of the LORD. I have gone on the mission on which the LORD sent me. I have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and I have devoted the Amalekites to destruction.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to the LORD your God in Gilgal.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said, “Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has also rejected you from being king.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD and your words, because I feared the people and obeyed their voice.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you. For you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then he said, “I have sinned; yet honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me, that I may bow before the LORD your God.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel said, “Bring here to me Agag the king of the Amalekites.” And Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, “Surely the bitterness of death is past.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so shall your mother be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death, but Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for myself a king among his sons.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the LORD said, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, “Do you come peaceably?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel. And he said, “Neither has the LORD chosen this one.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, “The LORD has not chosen these.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Are all your sons here?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, but behold, he is keeping the sheep.” And Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and get him, for we will not sit down till he comes here.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, “Arise, anoint him, for this is he.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  One of the young men answered, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David came to Saul and entered his service. And Saul loved him greatly, and he became his armor-bearer.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for he has found favor in my sight.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And whenever the harmful spirit from God was upon Saul, David took the lyre and played it with his hand. So Saul was refreshed and was well, and the harmful spirit departed from him. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the Philistines gathered their armies for battle. And they were gathered at Socoh, which belongs to Judah, and encamped between Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered, and encamped in the Valley of Elah, and drew up in line of battle against the Philistines.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with a valley between them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.


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label: 1Sam
content:
  He had a helmet of bronze on his head, and he was armed with a coat of mail, and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of bronze.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and his spear’s head weighed six hundred shekels of iron. And his shield-bearer went before him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why have you come out to draw up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves, and let him come down to me.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If he is able to fight with me and kill me, then we will be your servants. But if I prevail against him and kill him, then you shall be our servants and serve us.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day. Give me a man, that we may fight together.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now David was the son of an Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. In the days of Saul the man was already old and advanced in years.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The three oldest sons of Jesse had followed Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and next to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jesse said to David his son, “Take for your brothers an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to your brothers.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Also take these ten cheeses to the commander of their thousand. See if your brothers are well, and bring some token from them.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Saul and they and all the men of Israel were in the Valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper and took the provisions and went, as Jesse had commanded him. And he came to the encampment as the host was going out to the battle line, shouting the war cry.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David left the things in charge of the keeper of the baggage and ran to the ranks and went and greeted his brothers.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As he talked with them, behold, the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, came up out of the ranks of the Philistines and spoke the same words as before. And David heard him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who has come up? Surely he has come up to defy Israel. And the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to the men who stood by him, “What shall be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men. And Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumption and the evil of your heart, for you have come down to see the battle.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke in the same way, and the people answered him again as before.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, for you are but a youth, and he has been a man of war from his youth.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David said to Saul, “Your servant used to keep sheep for his father. And when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb from the flock,


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label: 1Sam
content:
  I went after him and struck him and delivered it out of his mouth. And if he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and struck him and killed him.


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label: 1Sam
content:
  Your servant has struck down both lions and bears, and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be like one of them, for he has defied the armies of the living God.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said, “The LORD who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.” And Saul said to David, “Go, and the LORD be with you!”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul clothed David with his armor. He put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him with a coat of mail,


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label: 1Sam
content:
  and David strapped his sword over his armor. And he tried in vain to go, for he had not tested them. Then David said to Saul, “I cannot go with these, for I have not tested them.” So David put them off.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s pouch. His sling was in his hand, and he approached the Philistine.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the Philistine looked and saw David, he disdained him, for he was but a youth, ruddy and handsome in appearance.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
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  This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,


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label: 1Sam
content:
  and that all this assembly may know that the LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD’s, and he will give you into our hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When the Philistine arose and came and drew near to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David put his hand in his bag and took out a stone and slung it and struck the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine and killed him. There was no sword in the hand of David.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of Israel and Judah rose with a shout and pursued the Philistines as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron, so that the wounded Philistines fell on the way from Shaaraim as far as Gath and Ekron.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, but he put his armor in his tent.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as Saul saw David go out against the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this youth?” And Abner said, “As your soul lives, O king, I do not know.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And as soon as David returned from the striking down of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” And David answered, “I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David went out and was successful wherever Saul sent him, so that Saul set him over the men of war. And this was good in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As they were coming home, when David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with songs of joy, and with musical instruments.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the women sang to one another as they celebrated, “Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed thousands, and what more can he have but the kingdom?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The next day a harmful spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he raved within his house while David was playing the lyre, as he did day by day. Saul had his spear in his hand.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul hurled the spear, for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David evaded him twice.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Saul, “Who am I, and who are my relatives, my father’s clan in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul commanded his servants, “Speak to David in private and say, ‘Behold, the king has delight in you, and all his servants love you. Now then become the king’s son-in-law.’”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul’s servants spoke those words in the ears of David. And David said, “Does it seem to you a little thing to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and have no reputation?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.’” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. Before the time had expired,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But when Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the commanders of the Philistines came out to battle, and as often as they came out David had more success than all the servants of Saul, so that his name was highly esteemed. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, delighted much in David.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan told David, “Saul my father seeks to kill you. Therefore be on your guard in the morning. Stay in a secret place and hide yourself.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where you are, and I will speak to my father about you. And if I learn anything I will tell you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Let not the king sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his deeds have brought good to you.


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label: 1Sam
content:
  For he took his life in his hand and he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan. Saul swore, “As the LORD lives, he shall not be put to death.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan reported to him all these things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence as before.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And there was war again. And David went out and fought with the Philistines and struck them with a great blow, so that they fled before him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then a harmful spirit from the LORD came upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his spear in his hand. And David was playing the lyre.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul sought to pin David to the wall with the spear, but he eluded Saul, so that he struck the spear into the wall. And David fled and escaped that night.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, that he might kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, “If you do not escape with your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Michal took an image and laid it on the bed and put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head and covered it with the clothes.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the messengers came in, behold, the image was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul said to Michal, “Why have you deceived me thus and let my enemy go, so that he has escaped?” And Michal answered Saul, “He said to me, ‘Let me go. Why should I kill you?’”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and lived at Naioth.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul sent messengers to take David, and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then he himself went to Ramah and came to the great well that is in Secu. And he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” And one said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he went there to Naioth in Ramah. And the Spirit of God came upon him also, and as he went he prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay naked all that day and all that night. Thus it is said, “Is Saul also among the prophets?” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my guilt? And what is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to him, “Far from it! You shall not die. Behold, my father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. And why should my father hide this from me? It is not so.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thinks, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly, as the LORD lives and as your soul lives, there is but a step between me and death.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David said to Jonathan, “Behold, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit at table with the king. But let me go, that I may hide myself in the field till the third day at evening.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, for there is a yearly sacrifice there for all the clan.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If he says, ‘Good!’ it will be well with your servant, but if he is angry, then know that harm is determined by him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the LORD with you. But if there is guilt in me, kill me yourself, for why should you bring me to your father?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan said, “Far be it from you! If I knew that it was determined by my father that harm should come to you, would I not tell you?”


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label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan said to David, “Come, let us go out into the field.” So they both went out into the field.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan said to David, “The LORD, the God of Israel, be witness! When I have sounded out my father, about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if he is well disposed toward David, shall I not then send and disclose it to you?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
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  But should it please my father to do you harm, the LORD do so to Jonathan and more also if I do not disclose it to you and send you away, that you may go in safety. May the LORD be with you, as he has been with my father.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and do not cut off your steadfast love from my house forever, when the LORD cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the LORD take vengeance on David’s enemies.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow is the new moon, and you will be missed, because your seat will be empty.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  On the third day go down quickly to the place where you hid yourself when the matter was in hand, and remain beside the stone heap.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And behold, I will send the boy, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I say to the boy, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you, take them,’ then you are to come, for, as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But if I say to the youth, ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you,’ then go, for the LORD has sent you away.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And as for the matter of which you and I have spoken, behold, the LORD is between you and me forever.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The king sat on his seat, as at other times, on the seat by the wall. Jonathan sat opposite, and Abner sat by Saul’s side, but David’s place was empty.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But on the second day, the day after the new moon, David’s place was empty. And Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has not the son of Jesse come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He said, ‘Let me go, for our clan holds a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, let me get away and see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said to him, “You son of a perverse, rebellious woman, do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame, and to the shame of your mother’s nakedness?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Therefore send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him. So Jonathan knew that his father was determined to put David to death.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan rose from the table in fierce anger and ate no food the second day of the month, for he was grieved for David, because his father had disgraced him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  In the morning Jonathan went out into the field to the appointment with David, and with him a little boy.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to his boy, “Run and find the arrows that I shoot.” As the boy ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the boy came to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called after the boy and said, “Is not the arrow beyond you?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Jonathan called after the boy, “Hurry! Be quick! Do not stay!” So Jonathan’s boy gathered up the arrows and came to his master.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And as soon as the boy had gone, David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, because we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying, ‘The LORD shall be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring, forever.’” And he rose and departed, and Jonathan went into the city. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came to meet David, trembling, and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Ahimelech the priest, “The king has charged me with a matter and said to me, ‘Let no one know anything of the matter about which I send you, and with which I have charged you.’ I have made an appointment with the young men for such and such a place.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the priest answered David, “I have no common bread on hand, but there is holy bread—if the young men have kept themselves from women.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David answered the priest, “Truly women have been kept from us as always when I go on an expedition. The vessels of the young men are holy even when it is an ordinary journey. How much more today will their vessels be holy?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So the priest gave him the holy bread, for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence, which is removed from before the LORD, to be replaced by hot bread on the day it is taken away.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD. His name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s herdsmen.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said to Ahimelech, “Then have you not here a spear or a sword at hand? For I have brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it, for there is none but that here.” And David said, “There is none like that; give it to me.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the servants of Achish said to him, “Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing to one another of him in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So he changed his behavior before them and pretended to be insane in their hands and made marks on the doors of the gate and let his spittle run down his beard.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Achish said to his servants, “Behold, you see the man is mad. Why then have you brought him to me?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Do I lack madmen, that you have brought this fellow to behave as a madman in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my house?” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David departed from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. And when his brothers and all his father’s house heard it, they went down there to him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was bitter in soul, gathered to him. And he became commander over them. And there were with him about four hundred men.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David went from there to Mizpeh of Moab. And he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother stay with you, till I know what God will do for me.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not remain in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men who were with him. Saul was sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to his servants who stood about him, “Hear now, people of Benjamin; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  that all of you have conspired against me? No one discloses to me when my son makes a covenant with the son of Jesse. None of you is sorry for me or discloses to me that my son has stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who stood by the servants of Saul, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and he inquired of the LORD for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the king sent to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s house, the priests who were at Nob, and all of them came to the king.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul said to him, “Why have you conspired against me, you and the son of Jesse, in that you have given him bread and a sword and have inquired of God for him, so that he has risen against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Ahimelech answered the king, “And who among all your servants is so faithful as David, who is the king’s son-in-law, and captain over your bodyguard, and honored in your house?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Is today the first time that I have inquired of God for him? No! Let not the king impute anything to his servant or to all the house of my father, for your servant has known nothing of all this, much or little.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the king said to the guard who stood about him, “Turn and kill the priests of the LORD, because their hand also is with David, and they knew that he fled and did not disclose it to me.” But the servants of the king would not put out their hand to strike the priests of the LORD.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike the priests.” And Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests, and he killed on that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Abiathar, “I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul. I have occasioned the death of all the persons of your father’s house.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life. With me you shall be in safekeeping.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now they told David, “Behold, the Philistines are fighting against Keilah and are robbing the threshing floors.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Therefore David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the LORD said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and save Keilah.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more then if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David inquired of the LORD again. And the LORD answered him, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines and brought away their livestock and struck them with a great blow. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Abiathar the son of Ahimelech had fled to David to Keilah, he had come down with an ephod in his hand.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah. And Saul said, “God has given him into my hand, for he has shut himself in by entering a town that has gates and bars.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David knew that Saul was plotting harm against him. And he said to Abiathar the priest, “Bring the ephod here.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said, “O LORD, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city on my account.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? O LORD, the God of Israel, please tell your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said, “Will the men of Keilah surrender me and my men into the hand of Saul?” And the LORD said, “They will surrender you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David and his men, who were about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When Saul was told that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the expedition.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David remained in the strongholds in the wilderness, in the hill country of the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not give him into his hand.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said to him, “Do not fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul my father also knows this.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the two of them made a covenant before the LORD. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshimon?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now come down, O king, according to all your heart’s desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Go, make yet more sure. Know and see the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there, for it is told me that he is very cunning.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  See therefore and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information. Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And they arose and went to Ziph ahead of Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told, so he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heard that, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. As Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  a messenger came to Saul, saying, “Hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Saul returned from following the Philistines, he was told, “Behold, David is in the wilderness of Engedi.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men in front of the Wildgoats’ Rocks.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he came to the sheepfolds by the way, where there was a cave, and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the men of David said to him, “Here is the day of which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will give your enemy into your hand, and you shall do to him as it shall seem good to you.’” Then David arose and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He said to his men, “The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD’s anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD’s anointed.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David persuaded his men with these words and did not permit them to attack Saul. And Saul rose up and left the cave and went on his way.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Afterward David also arose and went out of the cave, and called after Saul, “My lord the king!” And when Saul looked behind him, David bowed with his face to the earth and paid homage.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Behold, David seeks your harm’?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, ‘I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD’s anointed.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  See, my father, see the corner of your robe in my hand. For by the fact that I cut off the corner of your robe and did not kill you, you may know and see that there is no wrong or treason in my hands. I have not sinned against you, though you hunt my life to take it.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  May the LORD judge between me and you, may the LORD avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness.’ But my hand shall not be against you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  After whom has the king of Israel come out? After whom do you pursue? After a dead dog! After a flea!


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  May the LORD therefore be judge and give sentence between me and you, and see to it and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As soon as David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me good, whereas I have repaid you evil.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And you have declared this day how you have dealt well with me, in that you did not kill me when the LORD put me into your hands.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safe? So may the LORD reward you with good for what you have done to me this day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Swear to me therefore by the LORD that you will not cut off my offspring after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father’s house.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David swore this to Saul. Then Saul went home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David sent ten young men. And David said to the young men, “Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal and greet him in my name.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And thus you shall greet him: ‘Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  I hear that you have shearers. Now your shepherds have been with us, and we did them no harm, and they missed nothing all the time they were in Carmel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Ask your young men, and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we come on a feast day. Please give whatever you have at hand to your servants and to your son David.’”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When David’s young men came, they said all this to Nabal in the name of David, and then they waited.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants these days who are breaking away from their masters.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Shall I take my bread and my water and my meat that I have killed for my shearers and give it to men who come from I do not know where?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to his men, “Every man strap on his sword!” And every man of them strapped on his sword. David also strapped on his sword. And about four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, “Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he railed at them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Yet the men were very good to us, and we suffered no harm, and we did not miss anything when we were in the fields, as long as we went with them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now therefore know this and consider what you should do, for harm is determined against our master and against all his house, and he is such a worthless man that one cannot speak to him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she said to her young men, “Go on before me; behold, I come after you.” But she did not tell her husband Nabal.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And as she rode on the donkey and came down under cover of the mountain, behold, David and his men came down toward her, and she met them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, and he has returned me evil for good.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  God do so to the enemies of David and more also, if by morning I leave so much as one male of all who belong to him.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Abigail saw David, she hurried and got down from the donkey and fell before David on her face and bowed to the ground.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the guilt. Please let your servant speak in your ears, and hear the words of your servant.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Let not my lord regard this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him. But I your servant did not see the young men of my lord, whom you sent.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now then, my lord, as the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, because the LORD has restrained you from bloodguilt and from saving with your own hand, now then let your enemies and those who seek to do evil to my lord be as Nabal.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And now let this present that your servant has brought to my lord be given to the young men who follow my lord.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Please forgive the trespass of your servant. For the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the LORD, and evil shall not be found in you so long as you live.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the LORD your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Blessed be your discretion, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodguilt and from working salvation with my own hand!


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  For as surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, who has restrained me from hurting you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, truly by morning there had not been left to Nabal so much as one male.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David received from her hand what she had brought him. And he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house. See, I have obeyed your voice, and I have granted your petition.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. So she told him nothing at all until the morning light.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  In the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding himself on the hill of Hachilah, which is on the east of Jeshimon?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph with three thousand chosen men of Israel to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Saul encamped on the hill of Hachilah, which is beside the road on the east of Jeshimon. But David remained in the wilderness. When he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David rose and came to the place where Saul had encamped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, with Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army. Saul was lying within the encampment, while the army was encamped around him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Joab’s brother Abishai the son of Zeruiah, “Who will go down with me into the camp to Saul?” And Abishai said, “I will go down with you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David and Abishai went to the army by night. And there lay Saul sleeping within the encampment, with his spear stuck in the ground at his head, and Abner and the army lay around him.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Abishai said to David, “God has given your enemy into your hand this day. Now please let me pin him to the earth with one stroke of the spear, and I will not strike him twice.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD’s anointed and be guiltless?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said, “As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him, or his day will come to die, or he will go down into battle and perish.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD’s anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David took the spear and the jar of water from Saul’s head, and they went away. No man saw it or knew it, nor did any awake, for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen upon them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David went over to the other side and stood far off on the top of the hill, with a great space between them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David called to the army, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, “Will you not answer, Abner?” Then Abner answered, “Who are you who calls to the king?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? Who is like you in Israel? Why then have you not kept watch over your lord the king? For one of the people came in to destroy the king your lord.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is and the jar of water that was at his head.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Saul recognized David’s voice and said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” And David said, “It is my voice, my lord, O king.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And he said, “Why does my lord pursue after his servant? For what have I done? What evil is on my hands?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now therefore let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If it is the LORD who has stirred you up against me, may he accept an offering, but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, for they have driven me out this day that I should have no share in the heritage of the LORD, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth away from the presence of the LORD, for the king of Israel has come out to seek a single flea like one who hunts a partridge in the mountains.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David, for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Behold, I have acted foolishly, and have made a great mistake.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David answered and said, “Here is the spear, O king! Let one of the young men come over and take it.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD’s anointed.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Behold, as your life was precious this day in my sight, so may my life be precious in the sight of the LORD, and may he deliver me out of all tribulation.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to David, “Blessed be you, my son David! You will do many things and will succeed in them.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David arose and went over, he and the six hundred men who were with him, to Achish the son of Maoch, king of Gath.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David lived with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, and David with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel, and Abigail of Carmel, Nabal’s widow.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let a place be given me in one of the country towns, that I may dwell there. For why should your servant dwell in the royal city with you?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So that day Achish gave him Ziklag. Therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the number of the days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David would strike the land and would leave neither man nor woman alive, but would take away the sheep, the oxen, the donkeys, the camels, and the garments, and come back to Achish.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When Achish asked, “Where have you made a raid today?” David would say, “Against the Negeb of Judah,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Jerahmeelites,” or, “Against the Negeb of the Kenites.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David would leave neither man nor woman alive to bring news to Gath, thinking, “lest they should tell about us and say, ‘So David has done.’” Such was his custom all the while he lived in the country of the Philistines.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Achish trusted David, thinking, “He has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel; therefore he shall always be my servant.” 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war, to fight against Israel. And Achish said to David, “Understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” And Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The Philistines assembled and came and encamped at Shunem. And Saul gathered all Israel, and they encamped at Gilboa.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when Saul inquired of the LORD, the LORD did not answer him, either by dreams, or by Urim, or by prophets.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a medium at En-dor.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. And they came to the woman by night. And he said, “Divine for me by a spirit and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The woman said to him, “Surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But Saul swore to her by the LORD, “As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice. And the woman said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The king said to her, “Do not be afraid. What do you see?” And the woman said to Saul, “I see a god coming up out of the earth.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He said to her, “What is his appearance?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped in a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and paid homage.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” Saul answered, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are warring against me, and God has turned away from me and answers me no more, either by prophets or by dreams. Therefore I have summoned you to tell me what I shall do.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The LORD has done to you as he spoke by me, for the LORD has torn the kingdom out of your hand and given it to your neighbor, David.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD and did not carry out his fierce wrath against Amalek, therefore the LORD has done this thing to you this day.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Moreover, the LORD will give Israel also with you into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow you and your sons shall be with me. The LORD will give the army of Israel also into the hand of the Philistines.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul fell at once full length on the ground, filled with fear because of the words of Samuel. And there was no strength in him, for he had eaten nothing all day and all night.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the woman came to Saul, and when she saw that he was terrified, she said to him, “Behold, your servant has obeyed you. I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to what you have said to me.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now therefore, you also obey your servant. Let me set a morsel of bread before you; and eat, that you may have strength when you go on your way.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  He refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants, together with the woman, urged him, and he listened to their words. So he arose from the earth and sat on the bed.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly killed it, and she took flour and kneaded it and baked unleavened bread of it,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and she put it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they rose and went away that night. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the Philistines had gathered all their forces at Aphek. And the Israelites were encamped by the spring that is in Jezreel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  As the lords of the Philistines were passing on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were passing on in the rear with Achish,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul, king of Israel, who has been with me now for days and years, and since he deserted to me I have found no fault in him to this day.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him. And the commanders of the Philistines said to him, “Send the man back, that he may return to the place to which you have assigned him. He shall not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us. For how could this fellow reconcile himself to his lord? Would it not be with the heads of the men here?


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Is not this David, of whom they sing to one another in dances, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Achish called David and said to him, “As the LORD lives, you have been honest, and to me it seems right that you should march out and in with me in the campaign. For I have found nothing wrong in you from the day of your coming to me to this day. Nevertheless, the lords do not approve of you.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Achish, “But what have I done? What have you found in your servant from the day I entered your service until now, that I may not go and fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And Achish answered David and said, “I know that you are as blameless in my sight as an angel of God. Nevertheless, the commanders of the Philistines have said, ‘He shall not go up with us to the battle.’


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now then rise early in the morning with the servants of your lord who came with you, and start early in the morning, and depart as soon as you have light.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David set out with his men early in the morning to return to the land of the Philistines. But the Philistines went up to Jezreel. 


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, the Amalekites had made a raid against the Negeb and against Ziklag. They had overcome Ziklag and burned it with fire


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and taken captive the women and all who were in it, both small and great. They killed no one, but carried them off and went their way.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when David and his men came to the city, they found it burned with fire, and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David’s two wives also had been taken captive, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because all the people were bitter in soul, each for his sons and daughters. But David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So David set out, and the six hundred men who were with him, and they came to the brook Besor, where those who were left behind stayed.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David pursued, he and four hundred men. Two hundred stayed behind, who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. And they gave him bread and he ate. They gave him water to drink,


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  and they gave him a piece of a cake of figs and two clusters of raisins. And when he had eaten, his spirit revived, for he had not eaten bread or drunk water for three days and three nights.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to him, “To whom do you belong? And where are you from?” He said, “I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite, and my master left me behind because I fell sick three days ago.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  We had made a raid against the Negeb of the Cherethites and against that which belongs to Judah and against the Negeb of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David said to him, “Will you take me down to this band?” And he said, “Swear to me by God that you will not kill me or deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will take you down to this band.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when he had taken him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the land, eating and drinking and dancing, because of all the great spoil they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day, and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who mounted camels and fled.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Nothing was missing, whether small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything that had been taken. David brought back all.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  David also captured all the flocks and herds, and the people drove the livestock before him, and said, “This is David’s spoil.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to follow David, and who had been left at the brook Besor. And they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him. And when David came near to the people he greeted them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then all the wicked and worthless fellows among the men who had gone with David said, “Because they did not go with us, we will not give them any of the spoil that we have recovered, except that each man may lead away his wife and children, and depart.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  But David said, “You shall not do so, my brothers, with what the LORD has given us. He has preserved us and given into our hand the band that came against us.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Who would listen to you in this matter? For as his share is who goes down into the battle, so shall his share be who stays by the baggage. They shall share alike.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  When David came to Ziklag, he sent part of the spoil to his friends, the elders of Judah, saying, “Here is a present for you from the spoil of the enemies of the LORD.”


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Now the Philistines were fighting against Israel, and the men of Israel fled before the Philistines and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons, and the Philistines struck down Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  And when the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those beyond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned their cities and fled. And the Philistines came and lived in them.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  So they cut off his head and stripped off his armor and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.


book: 1Samuel
label: 1Sam
content:
  all the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  After the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the young man who told him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and there was Saul leaning on his spear, and behold, the chariots and the horsemen were close upon him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he said to me, ‘Stand beside me and kill me, for anguish has seized me, and yet my life still lingers.’


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So I stood beside him and killed him, because I was sure that he could not live after he had fallen. And I took the crown that was on his head and the armlet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to the young man who told him, “Where do you come from?” And he answered, “I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David said to him, “How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David called one of the young men and said, “Go, execute him.” And he struck him down so that he died.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to him, “Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, ‘I have killed the LORD’s anointed.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and he said it should be taught to the people of Judah; behold, it is written in the Book of Jashar. He said:


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan turned not back, and the sword of Saul returned not empty.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely! In life and in death they were not divided; they were swifter than eagles; they were stronger than lions.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  “You daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you luxuriously in scarlet, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; very pleasant have you been to me; your love to me was extraordinary, surpassing the love of women.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  After this David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah?” And the LORD said to him, “Go up.” David said, “To which shall I go up?” And he said, “To Hebron.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So David went up there, and his two wives also, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David brought up his men who were with him, everyone with his household, and they lived in the towns of Hebron.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead and said to them, “May you be blessed by the LORD, because you showed this loyalty to Saul your lord and buried him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now may the LORD show steadfast love and faithfulness to you. And I will do good to you because you have done this thing.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and he made him king over Gilead and the Ashurites and Jezreel and Ephraim and Benjamin and all Israel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon. And they sat down, the one on the one side of the pool, and the other on the other side of the pool.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men arise and compete before us.” And Joab said, “Let them arise.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then they arose and passed over by number, twelve for Benjamin and Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, and twelve of the servants of David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And each caught his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side, so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is at Gibeon.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the battle was very fierce that day. And Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. Now Asahel was as swift of foot as a wild gazelle.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Asahel pursued Abner, and as he went, he turned neither to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and seize one of the young men and take his spoil.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him in the stomach with the butt of his spear, so that the spear came out at his back. And he fell there and died where he was. And all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, stood still.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the people of Benjamin gathered themselves together behind Abner and became one group and took their stand on the top of a hill.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Joab said, “As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men stopped and pursued Israel no more, nor did they fight anymore.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah. They crossed the Jordan, and marching the whole morning, they came to Mahanaim.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Joab returned from the pursuit of Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing from David’s servants nineteen men besides Asahel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And they took up Asahel and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was at Bethlehem. And Joab and his men marched all night, and the day broke upon them at Hebron. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  There was a long war between the house of Saul and the house of David. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul became weaker and weaker.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  While there was war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head of Judah? To this day I keep showing steadfast love to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers, and to his friends, and have not given you into the hand of David. And yet you charge me today with a fault concerning a woman.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, “To whom does the land belong? Make your covenant with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you to bring over all Israel to you.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he said, “Good; I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you; that is, you shall not see my face unless you first bring Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But her husband went with her, weeping after her all the way to Bahurim. Then Abner said to him, “Go, return.” And he returned.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner conferred with the elders of Israel, saying, “For some time past you have been seeking David as king over you.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now then bring it about, for the LORD has promised David, saying, ‘By the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel from the hand of the Philistines, and from the hand of all their enemies.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Abner also spoke to Benjamin. And then Abner went to tell David at Hebron all that Israel and the whole house of Benjamin thought good to do.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Abner came with twenty men to David at Hebron, David made a feast for Abner and the men who were with him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Abner said to David, “I will arise and go and will gather all Israel to my lord the king, that they may make a covenant with you, and that you may reign over all that your heart desires.” So David sent Abner away, and he went in peace.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Just then the servants of David arrived with Joab from a raid, bringing much spoil with them. But Abner was not with David at Hebron, for he had sent him away, and he had gone in peace.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Joab and all the army that was with him came, it was told Joab, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has let him go, and he has gone in peace.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you. Why is it that you have sent him away, so that he is gone?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  You know that Abner the son of Ner came to deceive you and to know your going out and your coming in, and to know all that you are doing.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Joab came out from David’s presence, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the cistern of Sirah. But David did not know about it.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the stomach, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Afterward, when David heard of it, he said, “I and my kingdom are forever guiltless before the LORD for the blood of Abner the son of Ner.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  May it fall upon the head of Joab and upon all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge or who is leprous or who holds a spindle or who falls by the sword or who lacks bread!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner, because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  They buried Abner at Hebron. And the king lifted up his voice and wept at the grave of Abner, and all the people wept.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Your hands were not bound; your feet were not fettered; as one falls before the wicked you have fallen.” And all the people wept again over him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then all the people came to persuade David to eat bread while it was yet day. But David swore, saying, “God do so to me and more also, if I taste bread or anything else till the sun goes down!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And all the people took notice of it, and it pleased them, as everything that the king did pleased all the people.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the king’s will to put to death Abner the son of Ner.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king said to his servants, “Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!” 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, heard that Abner had died at Hebron, his courage failed, and all Israel was dismayed.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Now Saul’s son had two men who were captains of raiding bands; the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon a man of Benjamin from Beeroth (for Beeroth also is counted part of Benjamin;


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Jonathan, the son of Saul, had a son who was crippled in his feet. He was five years old when the news about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel, and his nurse took him up and fled, and as she fled in her haste, he fell and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.


book: 2Samuel
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  Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.


book: 2Samuel
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  When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,


book: 2Samuel
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  and brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron. And they said to the king, “Here is the head of Ish-bosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. The LORD has avenged my lord the king this day on Saul and on his offspring.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  But David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, “As the LORD lives, who has redeemed my life out of every adversity,


book: 2Samuel
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  when one told me, ‘Behold, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was bringing good news, I seized him and killed him at Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  How much more, when wicked men have killed a righteous man in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood at your hand and destroy you from the earth?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And David commanded his young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hanged them beside the pool at Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner at Hebron. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Behold, we are your bone and flesh.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  In times past, when Saul was king over us, it was you who led out and brought in Israel. And the LORD said to you, ‘You shall be shepherd of my people Israel, and you shall be prince over Israel.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  At Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and at Jerusalem he reigned over all Israel and Judah thirty-three years.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who said to David, “You will not come in here, but the blind and the lame will ward you off”—thinking, “David cannot come in here.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him get up the water shaft to attack ‘the lame and the blind,’ who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore it is said, “The blind and the lame shall not come into the house.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David lived in the stronghold and called it the city of David. And David built the city all around from the Millo inward.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, also carpenters and masons who built David a house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David knew that the LORD had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for the sake of his people Israel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And these are the names of those who were born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David inquired of the LORD, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will you give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when David inquired of the LORD, he said, “You shall not go up; go around to their rear, and come against them opposite the balsam trees.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale-judah to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of the LORD of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And they carried the ark of God on a new cart and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were driving the new cart,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD, with songs and lyres and harps and tambourines and castanets and cymbals.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God struck him down there because of his error, and he died there beside the ark of God.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David was angry because the LORD had broken out against Uzzah. And that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So David was not willing to take the ark of the LORD into the city of David. But David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the ark of the LORD remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And it was told King David, “The LORD has blessed the household of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom to the city of David with rejoicing.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  As the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And they brought in the ark of the LORD and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it. And David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD of hosts


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  and distributed among all the people, the whole multitude of Israel, both men and women, a cake of bread, a portion of meat, and a cake of raisins to each one. Then all the people departed, each to his house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David returned to bless his household. But Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel honored himself today, uncovering himself today before the eyes of his servants’ female servants, as one of the vulgar fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to Michal, “It was before the LORD, who chose me above your father and above all his house, to appoint me as prince over Israel, the people of the LORD—and I will celebrate before the LORD.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes. But by the female servants of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now when the king lived in his house and the LORD had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I have not lived in a house since the day I brought up the people of Israel from Egypt to this day, but I have been moving about in a tent for my dwelling.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  In all places where I have moved with all the people of Israel, did I speak a word with any of the judges of Israel, whom I commanded to shepherd my people Israel, saying, “Why have you not built me a house of cedar?”’


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now, therefore, thus you shall say to my servant David, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people Israel.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And I have been with you wherever you went and have cut off all your enemies from before you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of the great ones of the earth.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall afflict them no more, as formerly,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  from the time that I appointed judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from all your enemies. Moreover, the LORD declares to you that the LORD will make you a house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,


book: 2Samuel
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  but my steadfast love will not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from before you.


book: 2Samuel
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  And your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established forever.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then King David went in and sat before the LORD and said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord GOD. You have spoken also of your servant’s house for a great while to come, and this is instruction for mankind, O Lord GOD!


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have brought about all this greatness, to make your servant know it.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Therefore you are great, O LORD God. For there is none like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.


book: 2Samuel
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  And who is like your people Israel, the one nation on earth whom God went to redeem to be his people, making himself a name and doing for them great and awesome things by driving out before your people, whom you redeemed for yourself from Egypt, a nation and its gods?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And you established for yourself your people Israel to be your people forever. And you, O LORD, became their God.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And now, O LORD God, confirm forever the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, and do as you have spoken.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And your name will be magnified forever, saying, ‘The LORD of hosts is God over Israel,’ and the house of your servant David will be established before you.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  For you, O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, ‘I will build you a house.’ Therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And now, O Lord GOD, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  Now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you. For you, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever.” 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  After this David defeated the Philistines and subdued them, and David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines.


book: 2Samuel
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  And he defeated Moab and he measured them with a line, making them lie down on the ground. Two lines he measured to be put to death, and one full line to be spared. And the Moabites became servants to David and brought tribute.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David also defeated Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to restore his power at the river Euphrates.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David took from him 1,700 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers. And David hamstrung all the chariot horses but left enough for 100 chariots.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck down 22,000 men of the Syrians.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David put garrisons in Aram of Damascus, and the Syrians became servants to David and brought tribute. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Toi sent his son Joram to King David, to ask about his health and to bless him because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him, for Hadadezer had often been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold, and of bronze.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  These also King David dedicated to the LORD, together with the silver and gold that he dedicated from all the nations he subdued,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  from Edom, Moab, the Ammonites, the Philistines, Amalek, and from the spoil of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David made a name for himself when he returned from striking down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then he put garrisons in Edom; throughout all Edom he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became David’s servants. And the LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.


book: 2Samuel
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  and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary,


book: 2Samuel
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  and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and David’s sons were priests. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said, “Is there still anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan’s sake?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now there was a servant of the house of Saul whose name was Ziba, and they called him to David. And the king said to him, “Are you Ziba?” And he said, “I am your servant.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And the king said, “Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?” Ziba said to the king, “There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The king said to him, “Where is he?” And Ziba said to the king, “He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage. And David said, “Mephibosheth!” And he answered, “Behold, I am your servant.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said to him, “Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he paid homage and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog such as I?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the king called Ziba, Saul’s servant, and said to him, “All that belonged to Saul and to all his house I have given to your master’s grandson.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
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  And you and your sons and your servants shall till the land for him and shall bring in the produce, that your master’s grandson may have bread to eat. But Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall always eat at my table.” Now Ziba had fifteen sons and twenty servants.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then Ziba said to the king, “According to all that my lord the king commands his servant, so will your servant do.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table, like one of the king’s sons.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Mica. And all who lived in Ziba’s house became Mephibosheth’s servants.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate always at the king’s table. Now he was lame in both his feet. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David said, “I will deal loyally with Hanun the son of Nahash, as his father dealt loyally with me.” So David sent by his servants to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the Ammonites.


book: 2Samuel
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  But the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Do you think, because David has sent comforters to you, that he is honoring your father? Has not David sent his servants to you to search the city and to spy it out and to overthrow it?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half the beard of each and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When it was told David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, “Remain at Jericho until your beards have grown and then return.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When the Ammonites saw that they had become a stench to David, the Ammonites sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, 20,000 foot soldiers, and the king of Maacah with 1,000 men, and the men of Tob, 12,000 men.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the Ammonites came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the gate, and the Syrians of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Joab saw that the battle was set against him both in front and in the rear, he chose some of the best men of Israel and arrayed them against the Syrians.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The rest of his men he put in the charge of Abishai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he said, “If the Syrians are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come and help you.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Be of good courage, and let us be courageous for our people, and for the cities of our God, and may the LORD do what seems good to him.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to battle against the Syrians, and they fled before him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when the Ammonites saw that the Syrians fled, they likewise fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the Ammonites and came to Jerusalem.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the Euphrates. They came to Helam, with Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer at their head.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan and came to Helam. The Syrians arrayed themselves against David and fought with him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the Syrians fled before Israel, and David killed of the Syrians the men of 700 chariots, and 40,000 horsemen, and wounded Shobach the commander of their army, so that he died there.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when all the kings who were servants of Hadadezer saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became subject to them. So the Syrians were afraid to save the Ammonites anymore. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel. And they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David sent and inquired about the woman. And one said, “Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  So David sent messengers and took her, and she came to him, and he lay with her. (Now she had been purifying herself from her uncleanness.) Then she returned to her house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab was doing and how the people were doing and how the war was going.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” And Uriah went out of the king’s house, and there followed him a present from the king.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  When they told David, “Uriah did not go down to his house,” David said to Uriah, “Have you not come from a journey? Why did you not go down to your house?”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field. Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David said to Uriah, “Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And David invited him, and he ate in his presence and drank, so that he made him drunk. And in the evening he went out to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  In the letter he wrote, “Set Uriah in the forefront of the hardest fighting, and then draw back from him, that he may be struck down, and die.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And as Joab was besieging the city, he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew there were valiant men.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, and some of the servants of David among the people fell. Uriah the Hittite also died.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And he instructed the messenger, “When you have finished telling all the news about the fighting to the king,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  then, if the king’s anger rises, and if he says to you, ‘Why did you go so near the city to fight? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Who killed Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Did not a woman cast an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? Why did you go so near the wall?’ then you shall say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.’”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  The messenger said to David, “The men gained an advantage over us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall. Some of the king’s servants are dead, and your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  David said to the messenger, “Thus shall you say to Joab, ‘Do not let this matter displease you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack against the city and overthrow it.’ And encourage him.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD. 


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And the LORD sent Nathan to David. He came to him and said to him, “There were two men in a certain city, the one rich and the other poor.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  but the poor man had nothing but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought. And he brought it up, and it grew up with him and with his children. It used to eat of his morsel and drink from his cup and lie in his arms, and it was like a daughter to him.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was unwilling to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the guest who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the LORD lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’


book: 2Samuel
label: 2Sam
content:
  Thus says the LORD, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.


