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Judah said to his brother Simeon, “Come with me to my territory, and let us fight against the Canaanites. I will also go with you to your territory.” So Simeon went with him.

Verse ConceptsInvitationsFighting TogetherAnger Subsiding

He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;

And when Joshua had sent the people away, the [tribes of the] Israelites went each to his inheritance, to take possession of the land.

And it was in the dying of the judge, they will turn back and be corrupted above their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship to them: they let nothing fall from their deeds and from their hard way.

Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them OutSurvivors Of The Nations

And when he had delivered the present, he let the people go that had carried the present,

Verse ConceptsSending people home

But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out.

Verse ConceptsInformation In SecretCurbing Speech

He said to them, "Follow me, for the Lord is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!" They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And he said unto her - Let me drink, I pray thee, a little water, for I am thirsty. So she opened the bottle of milk, and gave him to drink, and spread over him the coverlet.

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesMilkWaterBeverages, LiteralDairy

Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.

Verse ConceptsDonkeysBackRoadsWalkingTravellersVolunteering

Let them tell the righteous acts of the Lord,
the righteous deeds of His warriors in Israel,
with the voices of the singers at the watering places.


Then the Lord’s people went down to the gates.

Verse ConceptsGod, Righteousness OfVoicesStanding In The Gateway

The torrent of Kishon, swept them away, the torrent of olden times, the torrent of Kishon! Let my soul march along, with victorious strength!

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsDeterminationRiver Kishon

So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Verse ConceptsDawnDeborahNoonThe Number Forty40 To 50 YearsEnemies Of GodTime Of PeaceLove And StrengthSunPeace And Strengthcrusades

Please do not leave this place until I return to You. Let me bring my gift and set it before You.”

And He said, “I will stay until you return.”

Verse ConceptsLeavingWaiting Till Marriage

But Joash said to all those who confronted him, "Must you fight Baal's battles? Must you rescue him? Whoever takes up his cause will die by morning! If he really is a god, let him fight his own battles! After all, it was his altar that was pulled down."

That very day Gideon's father named him Jerub-Baal, because he had said, "Let Baal fight with him, for it was his altar that was pulled down."

Verse ConceptsChanged NamesPeople Renaming People

And Gideon said unto God, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once: let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it now be dry only upon the fleece, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

Verse ConceptsDesertionTens Of ThousandsTwenty Thousand And UpFear Of Enemies

And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsgroupsarmygideon

At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.

Verse ConceptsTrumpets For Battlegideon

He said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear, as surely as the Lord is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you."

Verse ConceptsKept Alive By MenRestraints From Killinggideon

And Gideon said to them, “I would make a request of you, that each one of you give me an earring from his spoil.” For the Midianites had gold earrings, because they were Ishmaelites [who customarily wore them].

Verse ConceptsCustomEarringsOrnamentsGold Transferred

And the bramble said unto the trees, If in truth ye anoint me king over you, then come and put your trust in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

Verse ConceptsPerforming The Truth

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsBurning People

Then God let go a spirit of mischief between Abimelech and the owners of Shechem, - and the owners of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

Verse Conceptsevil, victory overevil, origins ofSpiritsThose Who Deceived

Then Abimelech went back to Arumah; and Zebul sent Gaal and his brothers away and would not let them go on living in Shechem.

They said to him, “Come, be our commander, and let’s fight against the Ammonites.”

Verse ConceptsInvitations

then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please let us pass through your land,” but the king of Edom would not listen. Also they sent word to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

Then Israel 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 place.”

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutPassing Through

But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.

Verse ConceptsNot Believing People

I have not sinned against you, but you have wronged me by fighting against me. Let the Lord who is the Judge decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeJudgesJustification, Necessity Of

And she said to her father, “Let this one thing be done for me; let me alone for two months, so that I may go to the mountains and weep over my virginity, I and my companions.”

Verse ConceptsSympathyWeepingLeave Us Alonevirginity

And he said - Depart. So he let her go, for two months, - and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity, upon the mountains.

Verse Conceptsvirginity

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Ephraim. Whenever an Ephraimite fugitive said, "Let me cross over," the men of Gilead asked him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" If he said, "No,"

Verse ConceptsFords

But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenFrom The WombDrinking No WineAlcoholic BeveragesHaving A Babybeeralcoholism

Then Manoah pleaded with 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 for the boy who is to 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

The Angel of the Lord said to Manoah, “The woman must pay attention to everything that I said to her.

Verse ConceptsPay Attention To God!

She may not eat anything that comes from the vine nor drink wine or [any other] intoxicating drink, nor eat anything [ceremonially] unclean. She shall observe everything that I commanded her.”

Verse ConceptsStrong DrinkPollution ForbiddenDrinking No WineAlcoholic Beverages

Then Manoah said to the Angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you and let us prepare a young goat for you [to eat].”

Verse ConceptsGoatsHospitality, Examples OfHospitalityTravellers

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord had desired to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things, nor would He have let us hear things like this at this time.”

Verse ConceptsGod KillingMaking Cereal Offerings And LibationsGod's Things RevealedGod Killing Individuals

Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can explain it to me during the seven days of the feast and figure it out, I will give you 30 linen garments and 30 changes of clothes.

Verse ConceptsClothSevenThirtySeven DaysPeople Giving ClothesPartying

But if you cannot solve it, you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes." They said to him, "Let us hear your riddle."

Verse ConceptsThirty

Sometime later, during the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat as a gift and went to visit his bride. He said to her father, "I want to have sex with my bride in her bedroom!" But her father would not let him enter.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”

Verse ConceptsHating IndividualsTransferring Wives

When he had set the torches ablaze, he let the foxes go into the standing grain of the Philistines, and he burned up the heap of sheaves and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and olive groves.

Verse ConceptsFireArsonbranding

And having said these words, he let the mouth-bone go out of his hand; so that place was named Ramath-lehi.

When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly, they said, “Let us wait until dawn; then we will kill him.”

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

And when Delilah saw that he had let her see into his heart, she sent word to the chiefs of the Philistines saying, Come up this time, for he has let out all his heart to me. Then the chiefs of the Philistines came to her, with the money in their hands.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalRulersBetrayal, Example Of

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

After awhile, when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson and let him entertain us." And they called Samson {from the prison}, and {he entertained them}. And they made him stand between the pillars.

Verse ConceptsAmusementsLeisure, And PastimesRecreationRevelryMaking FunSports

Then Samson said to the boy who was holding his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.”

Verse ConceptsTaking By The Hand

Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me just this one time, O God, and let me take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.”

Verse ConceptsAboundingSeeking God's StrengthEyes HarmedTwo Of Body PartsMan AvengingNamed Individuals Who PrayedRevenge

Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He pushed hard and the temple collapsed on the rulers and all the people in it. He killed many more people in his death than he had killed during his life.

Verse ConceptsBurials, Places OfTypes Of ChristResigned To DeathMercy Killings

They said, "Come on, let's attack them, for we saw their land and it is very good. You seem lethargic, but don't hesitate to invade and conquer the land.

And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household.

Verse ConceptsBad AttitudeCurbing SpeechFierce Men

So they set up for themselves the graven image of Micah, which he had made, - and let it remain all the days that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Verse ConceptsThe House Of God At ShilohThe Temple At Shiloh

And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them together: for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart be merry.

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsSittingPeople Who Delayed

And the man got up to go away, but his father-in-law would not let him go, so he took his rest there again for the night.

Verse ConceptsPeople Who Delayed

When the man and his concubine and his servant got up to leave, his father-in-law, the girl’s father, said to him, “Behold, now the day has drawn to a close; please spend the night. Look, now the day comes to an end; spend the night here and celebrate, enjoy yourself. Then tomorrow you may get up early for your journey and go home.”

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

When they got near Jebus, it was getting quite late and the servant said to his master, "Come on, let's stop at this Jebusite city and spend the night in it."

But his master replied to him, “We will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites. Let’s move on to Gibeah.”

Verse ConceptsAvoiding Foreigners

And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

Verse ConceptsStaying Temporarily

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Verse ConceptsSalutationsHospitalityTravellersCity Squareswelcome

Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Use them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t do this horrible thing to this man.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite grabbed his concubine and made her go outside. They raped her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofActing All Night

He said to her, "Get up, let's leave!" But there was no response. He put her on the donkey and went home.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Dead BodiesGet Up!Others Not Answering

And all people rose as one man, saying, Let no man go to his tent, and do not let any of us turn to his house.

Verse ConceptsUnified People

Then the Benjaminites said, "They are defeated just as before." But the Israelites said, "Let's retreat and lure them away from the city into the main roads."

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InIsrael Fleeing

But the army of Israel told themselves, "Let's draw them away by escaping to the highways from the city." So the entire army of Israel moved from their location and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamer while that part of their army moved from their ambush positions from Maareh-geba.

And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsRegretting

They continued, "Let's make sure that there's an inheritance for the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin, so that a tribe won't be blotted out from Israel.

Verse ConceptsHeirsInheritance, MaterialSurvivors Of Israel

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we'll say to them, "Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don't worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.'"

Verse ConceptsComplaints