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The spies saw a man coming out of the town and said to him, “Please show us how to get into town, and we will treat you well.”

Verse ConceptsJudging

This was to teach the future generations of the Israelites how to fight in battle, especially those who had not fought before.

Verse ConceptsReady For War

And then it was showed unto Sisera how that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Movements

But Heber's wife Jael grabbed a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other, crept up to him quietly, and drove the tent peg right through his temple into the ground below after he had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion. That's how he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

That's how God subdued Jabin, king of Canaan right in front of the Israelis that day.

And he saith unto Zebah and unto Zalmunna, 'How -- the men whom ye slew in Tabor?' and they say, 'As thou -- so they, one -- as the form of the king's sons.'

Verse ConceptsLike People By NatureWhat Kind?Nature Of Kings

And his mother's brethren rehearsed of him in the audience of all the citizens of Shechem, all these words, and moved their hearts to follow Abimelech, in that they said how he was their brother.

Verse ConceptsPeople Following PeopleCitizens

That's how God repaid Abimelech for the evil thing he did to his father by killing his 70 brothers.

Verse ConceptsAnger Of God, Examples OfSeventiesGod Has RequitedKilling BrothersHalf brothers

And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, "Did not ye hate me and expel me out of my father's house? How happeneth it then that you come unto me now in time of your tribulation?"

Verse ConceptsHatredDistressHating IndividualsHalf brothers

Later, after the two months were concluded, she returned to her father, and he fulfilled what he had solemnly vowed and she never married. That's how the custom arose in Israel

Manoah prayed to the Lord, "Please, Lord, allow the man sent from God to visit us again, so he can teach us how we should raise the child who will be born."

Verse ConceptsGod TeachingMan Of GodNamed Individuals Who PrayedRaising Children

And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?

Verse Conceptsvocation

And the rulers of [the] Philistines came up to her and said, "Entice him and find out what makes his strength so great, and how we can overpower him, so that we may bind him up in order to subdue him; each of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Please tell me wherein your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."

Verse ConceptsTemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

And Deli'lah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies; please tell me how you might be bound."

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

And Deli'lah 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 make it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesIndividuals Who LiedMen And Women Who Loved

And the house was full of men and women. And there was all the lords of the Philistines. And there were upon the roof a three thousand men and women, that beheld how Samson played.

Verse ConceptsFilling HousesThree Thousand And UpRooftopSports

When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?

Verse ConceptsVoicesAsking Particular QuestionsRecognising Things

And he said to them, This is how Micah deals with me, and has hired me, and I am his priest.

Verse ConceptsHiringUnnamed Priests

Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.

Verse ConceptsSearchingSecurityMannersMagistratesQuietnessFar From HereMen Of PeaceRelationships And Dating

When the Danites returned to their tribe in Zorah and Eshtaol, their kinsmen asked them, "How did it go?"

They stopped there, went inside the young Levite's house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

Verse ConceptsGreetings

And he said, ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say ye unto me, What aileth thee?

Verse ConceptsWhat Is The Matter?Robbing GodsUnnamed Priests

When the man got up to leave with his mistress and servant, his father-in-law, the young woman's father, told him, "Look now, evening is coming, so please spend another night. See how the daylight is fading, so spend the night here and enjoy yourself. Then tomorrow get up early and leave on your journey home."

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

(Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh.) Then said the children of Israel, Tell us, how was this wickedness?

That's how the army of Israel came to be gathered together to attack the city, united as a single unit.

Verse ConceptsFellowship, In Christian ServiceUnity, Of God's PeopleUnified PeopleNations Unitedgathering

The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, "How could such a wicked thing take place?

That's how 18,000 men from the tribe of Benjamin fell in battle, all of whom were valiant soldiers.

Verse ConceptsEleven To Nineteen Thousand

How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?

Verse ConceptsWives For Benjamin

Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWives For Benjamin

And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,

Verse ConceptsHeirsInheritance, MaterialSurvivors Of Israel