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When she came [to him], she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"

Verse ConceptsDismounting

And she said to him, "Give me {a gift}; you have given me the land of the Negev, and give me also a spring of water." And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring.

And she used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the {Israelites} went up to her for judgment.

Verse ConceptsPalm TreesCourts

Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go."

And Jael came out to meet Sisera, and she said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me and do not be afraid." So he turned aside into her tent, and she covered him {with a blanket}.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Fear Men

And he said to her, "Please, give me a drink of water, because I am thirsty." So she opened a skin vessel of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.

Verse ConceptsBottle, UsesMilkWaterBeverages, LiteralDairy

And he said to her, "Stand [at] the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, and says, 'Is there anyone here?' You must answer, 'No.'"

Verse ConceptsEmpty Places

But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he [was] fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

And behold, Barak [was] pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you [are] seeking." And he came with her and saw that Sisera was lying dead with the peg in his temple.

Verse ConceptsPeople Made KnownThose Looking For People

She reached out her hand to the peg, and her right hand for the workman's hammer; and she struck Sisera, crushed his head, and she shattered and pierced his temple.

Verse ConceptsHeadsHandsPegsSharp ToolsKilling Named Individuals

Between her feet he sank, he fell, he lay. Between her feet he sank down, he fell; Where he sank down, there he fell--{dead}.

Verse ConceptsPeople Tumbling

The wisest of her ladies answer her; she also answers the question herself:

Verse ConceptsAnswering People

Please, do not depart from here until I come [back] to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return."

Verse ConceptsLeavingWaiting Till Marriage

He came to the men of Succoth, and he said, "Here [is] Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, '[Is] the palm of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give food to your weary men?'"

Verse ConceptsMan's Work Finished

Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She [was] his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her.

Verse ConceptsdanceDancingLeisure, And PastimesMusical Instruments, types ofVirginChildren, Good Examples OfThe Only ChildMeeting PeopleMusic To CelebrateOnly Child Of Peopleprepping

And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. {I made an oath} to Yahweh, and I cannot take [it] back."

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesThose Who Tore Clothes

And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions.

Verse ConceptsSympathyWeepingLeave Us Alonevirginity

And he said, "Go." He sent her away [for] two months, and she went with her friends, and she lamented over her virginity on the mountains.

Verse Conceptsvirginity

At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her [according to] his vow; and {she did not sleep with a man}. And it became an annual custom in Israel

And an angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and he said to her, "Behold, you [are] infertile and have not borne [children], but you will conceive and bear a son.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordCommunicationBirths ForetoldInfertility

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

Verse ConceptsThe Angel Of GodNot Asking OthersWhere From?What Is God's Name?Man Of God

And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and an angel of God came again to the woman; she [was] sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.

Verse ConceptsActing Alone

The woman quickly ran and told her husband, and she said to him, "Look! The man who came to me the [other] day appeared to me."

Verse ConceptsGood Wives ExamplesRunning With News

He went up and told his father and mother, and he said, "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of [the] Philistines; so then, take her for me as a wife."

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Customs ConcerningWedding FeastsLeaving Parents For Spouse

But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a wife among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must take a wife from [the] uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Take her for me because {she pleases me}."

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

And he returned after awhile {to marry her}, and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there [was] a swarm of wild honey bees in the body of the lion, and honey.

Verse ConceptsCarcass, Literal UseBeesInsectsHoneyCorpses Of Animals

And Samson's wife wept before him, and she said, "You must hate me; you do not love me. You told the riddle to {my people}, but you have not explained [it] to me." He said to her, "I have not explained [it] to my father and mother. [Why] should I explain it to you?"

Verse ConceptsCryingPeople Mourning CatastropheThose Who Did Not TellHating Individuals

She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained [it] to her, and she told the riddle to {her people}.

Verse ConceptsYielding To TemptationThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSeven DaysGiving InformationDay 7People Mourning Catastrophenagging

After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a {young goat}. He said, "I want to go to my wife's private room." But her father would not allow him to enter.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

Her father said, "I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your companion. [Is] not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, {take her instead}."

Verse ConceptsHating IndividualsTransferring Wives

And [the] Philistines said, "Who has done this?" And they said, "Samson the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he took his wife and gave her to his companion." And [the] Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.

Verse ConceptsSons In LawBurning PeopleWho Is The Doer?Transferring Wives

Samson went down to Gaza; there he saw a prostitute and {had sex with her}.

Verse ConceptsBad Decision Making ExamplesSeductionHarlotsAttraction

The Gazites [were told], "Samson has come here," so they surrounded [the place] and lay in ambush for him all night at the city gate. They kept silent all night, saying, "[We will wait] until the morning light, and then we will kill him."

Verse ConceptsDawnWaitingAmbushActing All NightAttempting To Kill Specific People

After this he fell in love [with] a woman in the wadi of Sorek, and her name [was] Delilah.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

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

Samson said to her, "If you tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried up, I will become weak like everyone else."

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalTying Up

So the rulers of [the] Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that were not dried up, and she tied him up with them.

Verse ConceptsTying Up

The ambush [was] sitting [in wait] for her in an inner room. And she said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you Samson!" And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And [the secret of] his strength remained unknown.

Verse ConceptsAmbush

He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with new ropes that have not been used, I will become weak and be like everyone else."

Verse ConceptsArts And Crafts, Types ofUnused

And Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told lies to me. Tell me how you can be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave seven locks of my head with warp-threads."

Verse ConceptsSpinning And WeavingTying Updreadlocks

And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, {his soul grew impatient to the point of death}.

Verse ConceptsAsceticism, TypesIrritationTroubling Individualsnagging

So {he confided everything to her}, and he said to her, "A razor {has never touched} my head, for I [am] a {Nazirite of God} {from birth}. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else.

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAsceticism, People PracticingBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesShavingYielding To TemptationSeparated To GodLong HairFrom The WombHair

Delilah realized that {he had confided in her}, so she sent and called the rulers of [the] Philistines, saying, "Come up one more time, for {he has confided in me}." And the rulers of [the] Philistines came up, and they brought the money {with them}.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalRulersBetrayal, Example Of

And she put him to sleep on her lap; then she called the men and shaved off seven locks of his head. Then she began to subdue him, and his strength went away from him.

Verse ConceptsContentious WomanBarbersBaldnessKneelingShavingTreacheryKneesSeven Body PartsLong HairNo Strength LeftHairvulnerabilitydreadlocks

While they [were] with the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite, and they turned aside there and said to him, "Who brought you here? What [are] you doing in this place, and {what is your business here}?"

Verse ConceptsVoicesAsking Particular QuestionsRecognising Things

But his concubine felt repugnance toward him, and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months.

Verse ConceptsSinglenessTwo To Four MonthsThose Who Committed Adulterywhores

So her husband set out, and he went after her to speak {tenderly to her}, to bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him [to] her father's house, and the father of the young woman saw him and was glad to meet him.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

And the man got up to go--he, his concubine, and his servant--but his father-in-law, the father of the young woman, said to him, "Please, the day has worn on to evening; please, spend the night, the day has drawn to a close. Spend the night here and {enjoy yourself}. You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and {go to your home}."

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please, let me bring them out; do violence to them, and do to them {whatever you please}. Do not do this disgraceful thing to this man."

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity

But the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man seized his concubine and brought [her] out to them; and they had intercourse with her, and they abused her all night until the morning; they let her go at the approach of dawn.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, examples ofActing All Night

And the woman came as the morning appeared, and she fell [at] the entrance of the man's house where her master was, until daylight.

Verse ConceptsDaybreakPeople TumblingAt Daybreak

In the morning her master got up, and he opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his journey, and behold, his concubine [was] falling [at] the entrance of the house, with her hand on the threshold.

And he said to her, "Get up, let us go," but there was no answer. So he put her on the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place.

Verse ConceptsCarrying Dead BodiesGet Up!Others Not Answering

When he entered his house he took a knife, and he grasped his concubine and cut her into twelve pieces; and he sent her throughout the whole territory of Israel.

Verse ConceptsKnifesPeople Cut In PiecesTwelve Thingsmistresscutting

Then I grabbed my concubine and cut her into pieces, and I sent her throughout all the territory of Israel's inheritance; for they committed a shameful and disgraceful thing in Israel.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessPeople Cut In Piecesmistresscutting

Look, all you {Israelites}! {Make your decision} and advice here."

Verse ConceptsMan's Counsel

So then, this is what we will do to Gibeah: [we will go up] against her by lot.

But Elimelech the husband of Naomi died and she was left behind [with] {her two sons}.

Verse ConceptsWidows

But {both} Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.

Verse ConceptsActual WidowsBereavement

And she got up, she and her daughters-in-law, and returned from the countryside of Moab, because she had heard in the countryside of Moab that Yahweh had {come to the aid of} his people to give food to them.

Verse ConceptsLove, And The WorldDaughters In LawGod Visiting

So she set out from the place {where she was} and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

Verse ConceptsDaughters In Law

But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each [of you] return to her mother's house. May Yahweh {show kindness to you} [just] as you did with the dead and with me.

Verse ConceptsKindnessMothers Love For Her ChildrenDeath Of A Mother

May Yahweh {grant that you} find a resting place, each [in] the house of her husband." And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice and cried.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningWeepingKissesgoodbyes

And they said to her, "[No,] we want to return with you to your people."

Verse ConceptsGoing Together

And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law [goodbye], but Ruth clung to her.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingFarewellsClinging To PeopleMother In Lawsgoodbyes

And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law [too]."

Verse ConceptsMothers, Examples Of

[When Naomi] saw that she was determined to go with her, {she said no more}.

Verse ConceptsRuthIndividuals Being Silent

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came [to] Bethlehem at [the] beginning of [the] harvest of barley.

Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home

{Now} Naomi {had a relative of her husband}, {a prominent rich man} from the clan of Elimelech, [whose] name was Boaz.

Verse ConceptsClansRelativesWealthy PeopleRelationships And DatingFamily Conflict

And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Please let me go [to] the field and glean among the ears of grain after [someone] in whose eyes I [may] find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."

Verse ConceptsGleaning

And she fell on her face and bowed down to the ground and said to him, "Why have I found favor in your eyes by recognizing me--for I [am] a foreigner?"

Verse ConceptsBowingGrace, In Human RelationshipsProstrationGratitudeLoving Foreigners

And Boaz answered and said to her, "All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband was fully told to me. [How] you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know {before}.

Verse ConceptsMothers, Responsibilities OfRuthSelf DenialSelf SacrificeMother In LawsNot Knowing PeopleTelling What People DidDeath Of A Mother

And Boaz said to her {at mealtime}, "Come here and eat from the bread and dip your morsel in the wine vinegar." So she sat beside the gleaners, and he offered to her roasted grain. And she ate and was satisfied, and she had some left over.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodGrainMealsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSittingVinegarWineRemaining Food

And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, "Let her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her.

And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave [it] so that she may glean--and do not rebuke her."

Verse ConceptsBinding cornPlucking Out

And she picked [it] up and went [to] the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took [it] out and gave to her what she had left over {after being satisfied}.

Verse ConceptsRemaining Food

And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean {today} and where did you work? May he [who] took notice of you be blessed." And she told her mother-in-law {with whom she had worked} and said, "The name of the man who I worked with today [is] Boaz."

Verse ConceptsWhere Are Things?May God Bless!Men Working

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "[May] he be blessed by Yahweh, whose loyal love has not forsaken the living or the dead." And Naomi said to her, "The man is a close relative for us, he [is] one of our redeemers."

Verse ConceptsKindnessKinsman redeemerRedemption, In Everyday LifeUnkindnessLife And DeathMay God Bless!

And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "[It is] good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not {be bothered} in another field."

Verse ConceptsGood Activity

So she stayed close with the maidservants [of] Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Verse ConceptsWheatLiving Together

Now Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek for you security that [things] may be good for you?

Verse ConceptsSearchingFather And Daughter Relationships

And she said to her, "I will do all that you say."

Verse ConceptsObeying People

And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her.

Verse ConceptsObeying People

And he said, "Bring the cloak that [is] on you and {hold it out}." And she held it out and he measured six [measures of] barley and put it on her [cloak]. Then she went [into] the city.

Verse ConceptsSix ThingsOther Volume Measures

And she came to her mother-in-law, and she said, "{How did it go for you,} my daughter?" And she told her all that the man did for her.

Verse ConceptsWhat Manner?

And Boaz had gone up [to] the [city] gate and sat there. And look, the redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken [was] passing by. And he said, "Come over here to sit, {friend}." And he came over and sat.

Verse ConceptsGatesSitting In The Gateway

And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, "Sit here." And they sat.

Verse ConceptsTownTen People

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went [in] to her, and Yahweh {enabled her to conceive}, and she bore a son.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningRuthMarital SexConceptionMarital Sex BetweenSex Before MarriageSame Sex MarriageHaving A Babypremarital

And Naomi took the child and she put him on her bosom and became his nurse.

Verse ConceptsAdoption

{On} the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesProvokingReasons For BarrennessTroubling IndividualsSchoolFun

And so he used to do year after year; {whenever} she went up to the house of Yahweh, she would provoke her so that she would weep and would not eat.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfdiseasesSuffering, Nature OfProvokingLost Appetite

So Elkanah her husband would say to her: "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And {why are you heartsick}? Am I not better to you than ten sons?"

Verse ConceptsUnhappinessWeepingHusbands Duty To WivesTen PeopleGood PeopleWhy Do You Do This?

{While} she continued to pray before Yahweh, Eli was observing her mouth.

Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips [were] moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her [to be] drunk.

Verse ConceptsPraying QuietlyThe Lips Of The RighteousHeart, And Holy SpiritLipsRenewed HeartMoving OnPrayingdrunkardsHeartfelt Prayer To God

Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone [who is] drunk? Put away your wine!"

Verse ConceptsDo Not Get Drunkalcoholismdrunkards

And she said, "May your female slave find favor in your sight." Then the woman went on her way and ate [something], and {her face did not look sad any longer}.

Verse ConceptsPeople Eating

Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh {and returned} to their house at Ramah. Then Elkanah {had sexual relations with} Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her.

Verse ConceptsMorning DevotionsOne FleshRising EarlyMarital SexGod Remembering His PeopleMarital Sex BetweenThose Who Rose EarlyIndividuals going homeEarly Rising

But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "Once the boy [is] weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever."

Verse ConceptsGodly AncestryLeaving Parents For Spouse