3These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan 2(he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience): 3the five rulers
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4After Ehud died, the Israelites once again did evil in the eyes of the LORD . 2So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin, a king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth Haggoyim. 3Because he
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5On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song: 2When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves- praise the LORD ! 3Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I will sing to the LORD , I will sing; I
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6Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD , and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites. 2Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and
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2The angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I swore to give to your forefathers. I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you, 2and you shall not make a covenant with
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1After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD , Who will be the first to go up and fight for us against the Canaanites? 2The LORD answered, Judah is to go; I have given the land into their hands. 3Then the men of Judah said to the Simeoni
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7Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2The LORD said to Gideon, You have too many men for me to deliver Midian int
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8Now the Ephraimites asked Gideon, Why have you treated us like this? Why didn't you call us when you went to fight Midian? And they criticized him sharply. 2But he answered them, What have I accomplished compared to you? Aren't the gleanings of Ephr
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9Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to his mother's brothers in Shechem and said to them and to all his mother's clan, 2Ask all the citizens of Shechem, 'Which is better for you: to have all seventy of Jerub-Baal's sons rule over you, or just one man?'
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10After the time of Abimelech a man of Issachar, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, rose to save Israel. He lived in Shamir, in the hill country of Ephraim. 2He led Israel twenty-three years; then he died, and was buried in Shamir. 3He was followed b
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13Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD , so the LORD delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years. 2A certain man of Zorah, named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, had a wife who was sterile and remained child
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12The men of Ephraim called out their forces, crossed over to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, Why did you go to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We're going to burn down your house over your head. 2Jephthah answered, I and my peopl
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11Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute. 2Gilead's wife also bore him sons, and when they were grown up, they drove Jephthah away. You are not going to get any inheritance in our family, they
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21The men of Israel had taken an oath at Mizpah: Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite. 2The people went to Bethel, where they sat before God until evening, raising their voices and weeping bitterly. 3O LORD , the God of Isr
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14Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. 2When he returned, he said to his father and mother, I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife. 3His father and mother replied, Isn't there an acceptab
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15Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, I'm going to my wife's room. But her father would not let him go in. 2I was so sure you thoroughly hated her, he said, that I gave her to your fri
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16One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her. 2The people of Gaza were told, Samson is here! So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate. They made no move durin
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17Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim 2said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you and about which I heard you utter a curse-I have that silver with me; I took it. Then his mother said, The LOR
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18In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 2So the Danites sent five warriors
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19In those days Israel had no king. Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. 2But she was unfaithful to him. She left him and went back to her father's house in Bethlehem, Judah.
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