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And they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Tim'nath-he'res, in the hill country of E'phraim, north of the mountain of Ga'ash.

And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel.

Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultGenerationsGod, Revelation OfSpiritual IgnoranceGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A FatherRosesKnowing God

But, though they tarried a long time, yet lo! he opened not the doors of the parlour, - so they took the key, and opened them , when lo! their lord, fallen to the ground dead.

Verse ConceptsKeys

And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man.

Verse ConceptsTens Of ThousandsNumbers Of Foreigners Killedhumor

At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying:

Verse ConceptsThose Singing PraiseVolunteering

And he called Gideon "Jerubbaal" the same time, saying "Let Baal strive with him because he hath broken down his altar."

Verse ConceptsChanged NamesPeople Renaming People

Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.”

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites' fighting spirit was broken. The land had rest for forty years during Gideon's time.

Verse ConceptsThe Number FortyConquest40 To 50 YearsLifting HeadsTime Of Peace

The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.

Verse ConceptsAnointing KingsMetaphorical TreesOlive TreesMoralityJudging Others Actions

But the children of Israel said unto the LORD, "We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever please thee, and deliver us only at this time."

Verse ConceptsRescueWe Have SinnedCompetition

And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.

Verse Conceptsprocessreuniting

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

While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did ye not recover them within that time?

Verse Concepts100 Years And MoreArnon

from time to time the daughters of Israel go to talk to the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite, four days in a year.

Verse ConceptsLamentingFour Or Five Days

Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Verse ConceptsForty Thousand And UpFordsKilling Within Israelbridges

Some time later, the Israelis again practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, so the LORD handed them over into the domination of the Philistines for 40 years.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine Gift40 To 50 YearsGod Will Cause DefeatGod's People Sinning

One day the angel of the LORD presented himself to the woman. "Hello!" he greeted her. "Though you are infertile at this time and haven't borne a child, you're about to conceive and give birth to a son.

Verse ConceptsAngel of the LordCommunicationBirths ForetoldInfertility

For see, thou shalt conceive and bear a son. And there may no razor or shearers come on his head: for the lad shall be an abstainer unto God, even from the time of his birth. And he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines."

Verse ConceptsBaldness, UnnaturalBaldnessHairsHeadsDeliverersConceptionSeparated To GodFrom The Womb

But his wife said unto him, If the LORD were pleased to kill us, he would not have received a burnt offering and a meat offering at our hands, neither would he have shewed us all these things, nor would as at this time have told us such things as these.

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

So the woman [in due time] gave birth to a son and named him Samson; and the boy grew and the Lord blessed him.

Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultChildren, Good Examples OfGrowing UpBlessed By GodBabies Being A Blessingempowerment

But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.

Verse ConceptsCaused By God

And after a time he returned to take her, and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion.

Verse ConceptsCarcass, Literal UseBeesInsectsHoneyCorpses Of Animals

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

And Samson said to them, "This time, as far as the Philistines are concerned, when I do something evil I am without blame."

He struck them down and defeated them. Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.

Verse ConceptsCavesThighs

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

Some time later, Delilah told Samson, "Look here! You've been mocking me and lying to me. Now please tell me how you can be tied up."

Verse ConceptsLying, Examples OfIndividuals Who LiedTying Up

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!”

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesIndividuals Who LiedMen And Women Who Loved

Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."

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 said to him, "[The] Philistines [are] upon you, Samson!" And he woke up from his sleep and said, "I will go out just like every other time and shake myself free," but he did not know that Yahweh had left him.

Verse ConceptsSelf ConfidenceWeakness, PhysicalGod Abandoning Individualsresilienceflexibilitypremonitions

Some time later, the Philistine officials got together to present a magnificent sacrifice to their god Dagon, and to throw a party, because they were claiming, "Our god has given Samson into our control!"

Verse ConceptsPagan GodsFalse GodsCelebrationsGiven Into One's HandsDagon

And Samson called to Yahweh and said, "My Lord Yahweh, remember me! Please give me strength this one time, O God, so that I can repay [with] one act of revenge to [the] Philistines for my eyes."

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

In those days, there was no king in Israel, and the Danite tribe was looking for territory to occupy. Up to that time no territory had been captured by them among the tribes of Israel.

Verse ConceptsNo King

And the descendants of Dan set up for themselves the carved divine image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites until the time of the captivity of the land.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Institution In Ot TimesExile In Prospect

And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

Verse ConceptsThe House Of God At ShilohThe Temple At Shiloh

So the two of them sat down and had a meal together. Then the girl's father said to the man, "Why not stay another night and have a good time!"

Verse ConceptsEnjoyment, Material ThingsSittingPeople Who Delayed

When the man got ready to leave with his concubine and his servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look! The day is almost over! Stay another night! Since the day is over, stay another night here and have a good time. You can get up early tomorrow and start your trip home."

Verse ConceptsNightMan's Action Tomorrow

They were having a good time, when suddenly some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, surrounded the house and kept beating on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, "Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him."

Verse ConceptsVulgarityCrude LanguageDecadenceHomosexualityKnockingSexual Union IntendedAbuse

Everyone who saw the sight said, "Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since the Israelites left the land of Egypt! Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!"

Verse ConceptsUnique Events

And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

Verse ConceptsSeven To Nine HundredTwenty Thousand And Up

The Israelis inquired of the LORD, since the Ark of the Covenant was there at that time

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, FunctionThe Ark Moved Around

and Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron waiting upon it at that time - and they said, "Shall we go out any more to battle against the children of Benjamin our brethren, or shall we cease?" And the LORD said, "Go. For tomorrow I will deliver them into your hands."

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

And the children of Israel went against the children of Benjamin the third time, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as twice before.

Verse ConceptsDoing Repeatedly

And the sons of Benjamin came forth against the people, they were drawn away from the city, - and began to smite of the people, slaying as time after time, in the highways, whereof, one, goeth up to Bethel, and, the other, to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men in Israel.

Verse ConceptsThirtyBringing People Out Of Other PlacesKilling Within Israel

For the children of Benjamin thought that the other had been beaten before them, as at the first time. But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee and pluck them away from the city, unto the highways."

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies InIsrael Fleeing

Now the appointed time for the men of Israel with the ambush was that they sent up for them a great amount of smoke from the city.

Verse ConceptsSmokeBurning Cities

And Benjamin came again at that time; and they gave them wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet so they sufficed them not.

Verse ConceptsShortage Other Than Food

And they say, 'Lo, a festival of Jehovah is in Shiloh, from time to time, which is on the north of Beth-El, at the rising of the sun, by the highway which is going up from Beth-El to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.'

Verse ConceptsRoadsShrinesEvery YearFestivals Observed

And it shall be, when their fathers or their brethren come unto us to complain, that we will say unto them, Be favourable unto them for our sakes: because we reserved not to each man his wife in the war: for ye did not give unto them at this time, that ye should be guilty.

Verse ConceptsComplaints

And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsGroups going home

During the time of the judges, there was a famine in the land. A man left Bethlehem in Judah with his wife and two sons to live in the land of Moab for a while.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfJudgesRefugeesSojourningJudging IsraelTimes Of People

The man's name was Elimelech, his wife's name was Naomi, and their two sons were named Mahlon and Chilion Ephrathites from Bethlehem of Judah. They journeyed to the country of Moab and lived there for some time.

Verse ConceptsNamed Wives

surely you would not want to wait until they were old enough to marry! Surely you would not remain unmarried all that time! No, my daughters, you must not return with me. For my intense suffering is too much for you to bear. For the Lord is afflicting me!"

Verse ConceptsHand Of GodGrowing UpPeople WaitingNot MarryingWaiting Till Marriage

And the time when Naomi with Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, returned out of the country of Moab and came to Bethlehem was in the beginning of barley harvest.

Verse ConceptsBarleyGrainHarvestAutumnIndividuals going home

She asked us, "Please allow me to glean what's left of the grain behind the harvesters.' So she came out and has continued working from dawn until now, except for a short time in a shelter."

Verse ConceptsMorningNoonGleaningThose Who Toiled

And Boaz answered and said unto her, "All is told me that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband; how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land where thou wast born, and art come unto a nation which thou knewest not in time past.

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

At meal time Boaz said to her, "Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar." She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was satisfied, and left some of it.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodGrainMealsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSittingVinegarWineRemaining Food

At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

Verse ConceptsSearchingFather And Daughter Relationships

Now this was the manner in former time in Israel concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel.

Verse ConceptsCustomGesturesMarketsTraditionsApprovalContracts

So then that man went up, out of his city, from time to time, to worship and to sacrifice unto Yahweh of hosts, in Shiloh, - and, there, were the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimageSacrifice, In OtWorship, Places OfNames Of GodArk Of The Covenant, EventsEvery YearGod As A Warrior

And when the time was that Elkanah offered, he gave to Peninnah his wife, and to all her sons and her daughters, portions:

And so he doth year by year, from the time of her going up into the house of Jehovah, so it provoketh her, and she weepeth, and doth not eat.

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

On one occasion in Shiloh, after they had finished eating and drinking, Hannah got up. (Now at the time Eli the priest was sitting in his chair by the doorpost of the Lord's temple.)

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsHigh Priest, In OtPeople Sitting DownThe Temple At Shilohfinishing

Now while she was a long time in prayer before the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.

Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."

Verse ConceptsAgony, In HeartComplaintsSorrow

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsAskingChildbirthPrayerfulnessConceptionPeople With Apt NamesMiraculous BirthsWaiting For God's TimingReproduction, After Kind

Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord." Then they worshiped the Lord there.

Verse ConceptsDedicationBeing Devoted to GodGiving Backlent

and a small upper coat doth his mother make to him, and she hath brought it up to him from time to time, in her coming up with her husband to sacrifice the sacrifice of the time.

Verse ConceptsGesturesFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsMaternal LoveChildren, needs ofLove, And The WorldRobesDressPeople Giving ClothesEvery Yearmoms

Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.

Verse ConceptsAdultery, Examples OfShameTent Of MeetingExtra Marital Sex ExamplesThey Committed Immorality

The time is coming when I'll cut away at your family and your ancestor's family until there are no old men left in your family.

Verse ConceptsAmputationsFuture GenerationsLimitations Of StrengthJudgement On Old PeopleFamily StrengthFamily First

You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.

Verse ConceptsJudgement On Old People

“‘Then I will raise up a faithful priest for Myself. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. I will establish a lasting dynasty for him, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodHeart, Divine

And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;

Verse ConceptsVisionDimness Of VisionLying Down To Rest

Now at that time Samuel had no knowledge of the Lord, and the revelation of the word of the Lord had not come to him.

Verse ConceptsKnowing God, Nature OfGod's Things Concealedpremonitions

And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou didst call me. And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the child.

Verse ConceptsSensitivityCommunicating Three TimesBehold Me!Others SummoningGod's Call

Then came Yahweh, and stood, and called as time after time - Samuel! Samuel! And Samuel said, Speak, for thy servant is listening.

Verse ConceptsGod, Patience OfListeningMinistry, Qualifications ForPrayer, As A Response To GodDuplicating WordsPaying Attention To Godvocation

And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.

Verse ConceptsFear, Of UnknownThe Act Of OpeningOpening The TempleLying Down To RestThose Who Did Not TellFear Of Individuals

Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.

Verse ConceptsConfrontationFighting Enemies

At that time Eli was 98 years old, and his gaze was fixed because he couldn’t see.

Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesVisionDimness Of VisionAge At Death

And his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was with child and near the time when she would give birth; and when she had the news that the ark of God had been taken and that her father-in-law and her husband were dead, her pains came on her suddenly and she gave birth.

Verse ConceptsPregnancyDaughters In LawOther Wives

And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast born a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

Verse ConceptsResponseOthers Not AnsweringDeath Of A ChildDeath Of A MotherDespairHaving A Babychildbearing

But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.

Verse ConceptsBodyHeadsMorningRising EarlyBeheadingCutting Off Hands And FeetThose Who Rose EarlyThings Fallingstatues

The Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest that was with it, which contained the gold objects. They placed them near the big stone. At that time the people of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLevitesSacrifice, In Ot

And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjath-jearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsStaying A Long Time

The LORD continued to oppose the Philistines all during Samuel's life time. The towns that the Philistines had taken from Israel were returned to Israel, from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territory from Philistine control. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

Verse ConceptsAmoritesCities In IsraelRestoring ThingsTime Of Peace

When all of this comes about, you will cry out because of your king whom you chose for yourselves, but the LORD won't answer you at that time."

Verse ConceptsGod Not Answering

(In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.)

Verse ConceptsSeersHistory Of Nations

As soon as ye shall enter the city, ye will straightway find him, before he goeth up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he cometh, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterwards they eat that are invited. Now therefore go up: for about this time ye will find him.

Verse ConceptsPeople EatingPeople Who Blessed Others

To-morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people from the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry has come to me.

Verse ConceptsDeliverersGod's Action TomorrowAnointing KingsCries Of Distress To GodMaking KingsIndividuals Saving Others

And the cook took up the shoulder, and that which was upon it, and set it before Saul. And Samuel said, Behold that which is left! set it before thee, and eat; for to this time hath it been kept for thee since I said, I have invited the people. So Saul ate with Samuel that day.

As they were going down the end of the city, Samuel, said unto Saul - Bid the young man, that he pass on before us, (and he passed on) but, thou, stand still where thou art, that I may let time hear the word of God.

Verse ConceptsStillnessPeople Going Before

The elders of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Give us seven days so that we may send messengers throughout the territory of Israel. Then, if there is no one to save us, we will come out [and surrender] to you.”

Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysLeave Us AloneSurrender

And they said to the messengers that came, thus shall ye say to the men of Jabesh-gilead, To-morrow by the time the sun is hot, ye shall have help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.

Verse ConceptsThe SunGod's Action TomorrowHot WeatherIndividuals Saving Othersdeliverance

Now look! This king walks before you. As for me, I am old and gray, though my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from the time of my youth till the present day.

Verse ConceptsGreyWork From Youth

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the Lord so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the Lord by asking for a king for yourselves."

Verse ConceptsHarvestGod's People Sinning

And he tarried seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had appointed: but Samuel came not to Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.

Verse ConceptsWeeksSeven DaysPeople WaitingScattering FollowersWaiting For God's Timing

But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the army {was scattering} from me and you did not come {at the appointed time} and [that the] Philistines had gathered at Micmash,

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?Scattering Followers