# bible

book: Josh
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<verse num="2">and he said to them, "You have observed all that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, and you have listened<note>Or "you have obeyed"</note> to my voice in all that I have commanded you;</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="3">you have not forsaken your kinsmen<note>Or "brothers"</note> these many days, up to this day, and you have observed the obligation of the command of Yahweh your God.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="4">So then, Yahweh your God has given rest to your kinsmen,<note>Or "brothers"</note> just as he promised them; so then, turn and go to your tents to the land of your possession, which Moses Yahweh's servant gave to you beyond the Jordan.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="5">Only be very careful to observe the commandment and law that Moses Yahweh's servant commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."<note>Or "inner self"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="7">And to the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given <transChange type="added">a possession</transChange> in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua had given <transChange type="added">a possession</transChange> with their kinsmen<note>Or "brothers"</note> beyond the Jordan to the west; and when Joshua sent them to their tents and blessed them,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="8">he said to them, "Return to your tents with much wealth, and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, copper, iron, and with very much clothing; divide the war-booty of your enemies with your kinsmen."<note>Or "brothers"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="9">So the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned <transChange type="added">home</transChange> and departed with the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> at Shiloh, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had acquired {according to the command of Yahweh}<note>Literally "on the mouth of Yahweh"</note> through the hand of Moses. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="10">And they came to the region of the Jordan that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Canaan, and the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar on the Jordan, {a large and imposing altar}.<note>Literally "a large altar to appearance"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="11">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> heard <transChange type="added">it</transChange> said that the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar next to the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side <transChange type="added">belonging to</transChange> the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="12">When the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> heard <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>, the whole congregation of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gathered <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Shiloh to go up against them for battle.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="13">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> sent to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, Phinehas the priest son of Eleazar,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="14">and ten leaders with him, {one leader for each}<note>Literally "one leader, one leader"</note> {family}<note>Literally "of the house of father"</note> from each of the tribes of Israel; and each one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the head of {his family}<note>Literally "house of their fathers"</note> among the clans of Israel.<note>Or "thousands of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="15">They came to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="16">"Thus says all the congregation of Yahweh: 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel by turning away today from following Yahweh, by building for yourselves an altar to rebel today against Yahweh?</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not the sin of Peor {enough for us},<note>Literally "too little for us"</note> from which we have not cleansed ourselves today, and for which a plague came to the congregation of Yahweh,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="18">that you must turn today from following Yahweh? <transChange type="added">If</transChange> you rebel today against Yahweh, tomorrow he will be angry with all of the congregation of Israel;</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="19">if, however, the land of your property <transChange type="added">is</transChange> unclean, cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to the land of Yahweh's property, where Yahweh's tabernacle resides,<note>Or "stands"</note> and take possession among us. But you must not rebel against Yahweh or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="20">Did not Achan son of Zerah commit treachery with devoted things,<note>Or "consecrated possession"</note> and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? {And he alone}<note>Literally "And he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one man that"</note> did not perish because of his iniquity.'" </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="21">And the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh spoke with the heads of the clans<note>Or "thousands"</note> of Israel,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="22">"Yahweh, God of gods! Yahweh, God of gods knows. And let Israel itself know, if <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> in rebellion or treachery against Yahweh, do not spare us this day</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="23">for building for ourselves an altar to turn away from Yahweh, or if <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> to offer burnt offerings,<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> grain offerings,<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> or fellowship offerings on it, may Yahweh himself take vengeance.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="24">But in fact, we have done this because of anxiety, because of a reason, saying, 'In the future your children may say to our children, '{What is the relationship between you and Yahweh the God of Israel}?<note>Literally "What is to you and to Yahweh the God of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="25">Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben and Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh.' So your children may put an end to our children worshiping<note>Or "seeing"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="26">So we said, 'Let us build immediately for ourselves an altar, not for burnt offerings<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> or for sacrifices;<note>Hebrew "sacrifice"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="27">instead, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us for performing the serving of Yahweh in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings; so that your children may not say in the future to our children, "You have no portion in Yahweh." '</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="28">And we thought, if they say to us and to our children in the future, we can say, 'Look at this replica of the altar of Yahweh, which our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> made, not for burnt offerings<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> or sacrifices;<note>Hebrew "sacrifice"</note> rather, it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness between us and you.'</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="29">Far be it from us to rebel against Yahweh, to turn today from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offerings,<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> grain offerings,<note>Hebrew "offering"</note> or sacrifices,<note>Hebrew "sacrifice"</note> instead of the altar of Yahweh our God that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before his tabernacle." </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="30">Phinehas the priest, the leaders of the congregation, and the heads of the clans<note>Or "thousands"</note> of Israel who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him heard the words that the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh spoke, and {they were satisfied}.<note>Literally "it was good in their eyes"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="31">Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, said to the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, "Today we know that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> among us, because you have not committed this treachery against Yahweh. Therefore you have rescued the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> from the hand of Yahweh." </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="32">And Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, and the leaders returned from the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben and Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and {they gave them their report}.<note>Literally "they brought back a word to them"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="33">{The report satisfied the Israelites};<note>Literally "The report was good in the eyes of the children of Israel"</note> they blessed God, and they did not speak of going up for battle against them to destroy the land in which the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben and Gad were living.<note>Or "dwelling"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="34">The descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Reuben and Gad called the altar Witness, "Because," <transChange type="added">they said</transChange>, "it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a witness between us that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> God." </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="1">And it happened, after {a long time},<note>Literally "many days"</note> after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and <transChange type="added">after</transChange> Joshua was old and {well-advanced in years},<note>Literally "he went into the days"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="2">Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officials, and he said to them, "I am old and {well-advanced in years},<note>Literally "I went into the days"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="3">and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations {for your sake},<note>Literally "because of your presence"</note> for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fighting for you.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="4">Look! I have allotted to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> all the nations that I have cut off, to the Great Sea<note>That is, the Mediterranean</note> {in the west}.<note>Literally "to the setting of the sun"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="5">And Yahweh your God will push them {back before you}<note>Literally "from your presence"</note> and drive them {out of your sight},<note>Literally "from your face"</note> and you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God promised to you.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="6">Be very strong to observe carefully all that is written in the scroll of the law of Moses so as not to turn aside from it, <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the right or left,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="7">so as not to go among these remaining nations with you; {do not profess}<note>Literally "do not mention"</note> the name of their gods, and do not swear by them, serve them, or {bow down to them}.<note>Literally "bow yourselves down to them"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="9">Yahweh has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, {nobody has withstood}<note>Literally "a man has not stood in your presence"</note> you to this day.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="10">One of your men put to flight a thousand, for Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fighting for you, just as he promised you.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="11">Take utmost care for <transChange type="added">the sake of</transChange> your life to love Yahweh your God,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="12">for if indeed you turn back and join these remaining nations {among you},<note>Literally "with you"</note> and you intermarry with them, {marrying their women and they yours},<note>Literally "you go into them and they into you"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="13">know for certain that Yahweh your God {will not continue to drive out}<note>Literally "will not drive out again"</note> these nations from before you; they will be for you a snare and a trap, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you. </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="14">Look! {I am about to die},<note>Literally "I am going today on the way of all the earth"</note> and you know in all your hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> and souls<note>Hebrew "soul"; or "inner self"</note> that not one thing {failed}<note>Literally "fell"</note> from all the good things that Yahweh your God promised concerning you; everything {has been fulfilled};<note>Literally "has come <transChange type="added">out</transChange>"</note> {not one thing failed}.<note>Literally "not one thing fell from it"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="15">But just as all the good things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> came to you that Yahweh your God promised, so will Yahweh bring to you all the bad things<note>Hebrew "things"</note> until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given to you.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="16">If you transgress the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, {Yahweh's anger will be kindled}<note>Literally "Yahweh's nose will become hot"</note> against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you." </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="1">And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem; he summoned the elders of Israel, their heads, their judges, and their officials, and they presented themselves before God.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="2">And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: '{Long ago}<note>Literally "from ancient"</note> your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note>--Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor--lived beyond the river,<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> and they served other gods.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="3">I took your ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> Abraham from beyond the river<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I increased his offspring; I gave him Isaac,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="4">and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Egypt.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="6">When I brought out your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> with chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and horsemen to the {Red Sea}.<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">They cried out to Yahweh, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea over them<note>That is, the Egyptians</note> and covered them; your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you lived in the wilderness for many days.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="8">And I brought you to the land of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who lived beyond the Jordan; they fought you, and I gave them into your hand; you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them {before you}.<note>Literally "in your presence"</note></verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="9">Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, set out and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="10">but I was not willing to listen to Balaam, and he richly blessed you. So I rescued you from his hand,</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="11">and you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the citizens of Jericho, the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the Hittites,<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> the Girgashites,<note>Hebrew "Girgashite"</note> the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites,<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> fought against you, and I gave them into your hand.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="12">I sent before you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hornet and they drove out before you two kings of the Amorites;<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> <transChange type="added">but</transChange> not by your sword or bow.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="13">I gave to you a land that you have not labored on, and cities that you have not built, and you live<note>Or "dwell"</note> in them; you eat <transChange type="added">from</transChange> vineyards and olive groves that you have not planted.' </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="14">"So now, revere Yahweh and serve him in sincerity and faithfulness; remove the gods that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> served beyond the river<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="15">But if it is bad in your eyes to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you want to serve, whether it is the gods that your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> served beyond the river,<note>That is, the Euphrates</note> or the gods of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> in whose land you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living; but as for me and my household, we will serve Yahweh."</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="16">And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods,</verse>


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<verse num="17">for Yahweh our God brought us and our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> from the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and did these great signs before our eyes. He protected us along the entire way that we went, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="18">And Yahweh drove out all the people before us, the Amorites<note>"Hebrew "Amorite"</note> who live<note>Or "dwell"</note> <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the land. We will serve Yahweh, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> our God." </verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="19">But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="20">If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you."</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Joshua said to the people, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves to serve Yahweh." And they said, "<transChange type="added">We are</transChange> witnesses."</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="23">He said, "Remove the foreign gods that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."</verse>


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<verse num="25">So Joshua {made a covenant}<note>Literally "cut a covenant"</note> with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="26">Then Joshua wrote these words in a scroll of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under a large tree, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at the shrine of Yahweh.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="27">And Joshua said to all the people, "Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh that he spoke with us. It will be as a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God."</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="29">After these things Joshua son of Nun servant of Yahweh died; {he was one hundred and ten years old}.<note>Literally "a son of one hundred and ten years"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">They buried him in the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-Serah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="31">Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who lived long after Joshua, and who had known all the work that Yahweh did for Israel.<note>Joshua 24:28-31 is repeated in Judges 2:6-10</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">The bones of Jacob, which the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had brought out from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in a piece of land that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money;<note>Hebrew kesitah</note> it became <transChange type="added">an</transChange> inheritance for the descendants<note>Or "sons"</note> of Joseph.</verse>


book: Josh
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<verse num="33">And Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him in Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim, which had been given to his son Phinehas. </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="1">After the death of Joshua, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Who will go up first for us against the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> to fight against them?"</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="3">And Judah said to Simeon his brother, "Go up with me into my allotment, and let us fight against the Canaanites; then I too will go with you into your allotment." And Simeon went with him.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="4">And Judah went up, and Yahweh gave the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Perizzites<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> into their hand, and they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="5">At Bezek they came upon Adoni-bezek, and they fought against him and defeated the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> and the Perizzites.<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="6">And Adoni-bezek fled, but they pursued after him; they caught him and cut off {his thumbs and big toes}.<note>Literally "the thumbs of his hands and feet"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="7">Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with {their thumbs and big toes}<note>Literally "the thumbs of their hands and feet"</note> cut off used to pick up <transChange type="added">scraps</transChange> under my table; just as I have done, so God has repaid to me. And they brought him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Jerusalem, and he died there. </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="8">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah fought against Jerusalem, and they captured it, {put it to the sword},<note>Literally "they struck it with the mouth of the sword"</note> and {set the city on fire}.<note>Literally "the city they sent away with fire"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="9">Afterward the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah pursued to fight against the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> who were living in the hill country, the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judean hills</note> and the Shephelah.<note>A geographical region associated with an area of low country on the western edge of the Judaean hills.</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="10">And Judah went against the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> living in Hebron (the former name of Hebron <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Kiriath Arba). And they defeated Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="11">And from there they went to the inhabitants of Debir (the former name of Debir <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Kiriath Sepher).</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="12">And Caleb said, "Whoever attacks Kiriath Sepher and captures it, I will give to him Acsah my daughter as a wife."</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="13">Othniel son of Kenaz, the younger brother of Caleb, captured it, and he gave to him Acsah his daughter as a wife.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="14">When she came <transChange type="added">to him</transChange>, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, "{What do you want}?"<note>Literally "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you?"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="15">And she said to him, "Give me {a gift};<note>Literally "blessing"</note> you have given me the land of the Negev,<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> and give me also a spring of water." And Caleb gave to her the upper and lower spring.<note>Judges 1:11-15 is almost identical to Joshua 15:13-19</note> </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="16">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Hobab <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up with the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Judah from the city of palms <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the wilderness of Judah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Negev<note>An arid region south of the Judaean hills</note> <transChange type="added">near</transChange> Arad. And they went<note>Hebrew "he went"</note> and settled with the people.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> inhabiting Zephath; they utterly destroyed it, so he called the name of the city Hormah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Judah captured Gaza and its territory, Ashkelon and its territory, and Ekron and its territory.</verse>


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<verse num="19">And Yahweh was with Judah, and he took possession of the hill country, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the plain because they <transChange type="added">had</transChange> chariots of iron.</verse>


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<verse num="20">They gave Hebron to Caleb just as Moses said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak from there.</verse>


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<verse num="21">But the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> who lived in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites have lived among the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day. </verse>


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<verse num="22">Likewise, the house of Joseph went up <transChange type="added">against</transChange> Bethel, and Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with them.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz).</verse>


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<verse num="24">And when the spies saw a man leaving the city,<note>Or "going out from the city"</note> they said to him, "Please show us the entrance of the city, and we will deal kindly<note>Or "do a loyal love"</note> with you."</verse>


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<verse num="25">So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> but they let go the man and all his family.</verse>


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<verse num="26">And the man went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> its name to this day. </verse>


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<verse num="27">Manasseh did not drive out Beth-Sean and its towns, or Taanach and its towns, or the inhabitants<note>Hebrew "inhabitant"</note> of Dor and its towns, or the inhabitants of Ibleam and its towns, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns; the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> determined to live in this land.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And it happened, when Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> to forced labor, but they never totally drove them out.</verse>


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<verse num="29">Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> living in Gezer, so the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> lived in their midst in Gezer.</verse>


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<verse num="30">Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron or Nahalol, so the Canaanites<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> lived in their midst and became <transChange type="added">subjected</transChange> to forced labor.</verse>


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<verse num="31">Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob,</verse>


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<verse num="32">so the Asherites<note>Hebrew "Asherite"</note> lived in the midst of the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the inhabitants of the land, for they did not drive them out. </verse>


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<verse num="33">Naphtali did not drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh or Beth-anath, but lived in the midst of the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the inhabitants of the land; the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them. </verse>


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<verse num="34">The Amorites pressed<note>Or "forced"</note> the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan to the hill country, and they did not allow them to come down to the plain;</verse>


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<verse num="35">the Amorites <transChange type="added">were</transChange> determined to live in Har-heres,<note>Or "Mount Heres"</note> in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim, but the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy <transChange type="added">on them</transChange>, and they became <transChange type="added">subjected</transChange> to forced labor.</verse>


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<verse num="36">The border of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> <transChange type="added">ran</transChange> from the ascent of Akrabbim from Sela and upward. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And the angel of Yahweh went up from Gilgal to Bokim and said, "I brought you up from Egypt, and I brought you to the land that I had promised to your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> I said, 'I will never break my covenant with you.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> you, do not {make a covenant}<note>Literally "cut a covenant"</note> with the inhabitants of this land; break down their altars.' But you did not listen to my voice. {Why would you do such a thing}?<note>Literally "What is this thing you have done?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">Now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; they will {become as thorns}<note>Or "become snares;" some ancient manuscripts read "be adversaries"</note> for you, and their gods will be a trap for you."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> the people {wept bitterly}.<note>Literally "lifted up their voices and they wept"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And they called the name of this place Bokim,<note>"Bokim" means "weepers"</note> and there they sacrificed to Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="6">And Joshua sent the people away, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went each to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> own inheritance to take possession of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And Joshua son of Nun, servant of Yahweh, died {at the age of one hundred and ten years}.<note>Literally "a son of one hundred and ten years"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">They buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnah-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their<note>Hebrew "his"</note> ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel.<note>Judges 2:6-10 is repeated in Joshua 24:28-31</note> </verse>


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<verse num="11">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and {they served}<note>Or "they worshiped"</note> the Baals.</verse>


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<verse num="12">They abandoned Yahweh the God of their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> who brought them out from the land of Egypt. They {followed}<note>Literally "went after"</note> other gods from the gods of the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> around them; and they bowed down to them, and they provoked the anger of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="14">So {the anger of Yahweh was kindled}<note>Literally "The nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Israel, and he gave them into the hand of plunderers; and they plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies from all sides. They were unable to withstand their enemies any longer.</verse>


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<verse num="15">{Whenever}<note>Literally "At all that"</note> they went out, the hand of Yahweh was against them to harm <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, just as Yahweh warned, and just as Yahweh had sworn to them. And {they were very distressed}.<note>Literally "it was very cramped for them"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="16">Then Yahweh raised up leaders,<note>Or "judges"</note> and they delivered them from the hand of their plunderers.</verse>


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<verse num="17">But they did not listen to their leaders,<note>Or "judges"</note> but lusted after other gods and bowed down to them. They turned away quickly from the way that their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> went, who had obeyed the commandment of Yahweh; they did not do <transChange type="added">as their ancestors</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And when Yahweh raised leaders<note>Or "judges"</note> for them, Yahweh was with the leader,<note>Or "judge"</note> and he delivered them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the leader,<note>Or "judge"</note> for Yahweh was moved by their groaning because of their persecutors and oppressors.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But when the leader<note>Or "judge"</note> died they relapsed and acted corruptly, more than their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> following other gods, serving them,<note>Or "worshiping them"</note> and bowing down to them. They would not give up their deeds or their stubborn ways.</verse>


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<verse num="20">{So the anger of Yahweh burned}<note>Literally "So the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Israel, and he said, "Because this people transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors,<note>Or "fathers"</note> and have not obeyed my voice,</verse>


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<verse num="21">I will not again drive out anyone from before them from the nations that Joshua left when he died,</verse>


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<verse num="22">in order to test Israel whether or not they would observe the way of Yahweh, to walk in it just as their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> did."</verse>


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<verse num="23">So Yahweh left those nations; he did not drive them out at once, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua. </verse>


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<verse num="1">These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the nations that Yahweh left, to test Israel by them (<transChange type="added">that is, to test</transChange> all those who {had not experienced}<note>Literally "did not know"</note> any of the wars of Canaan,</verse>


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<verse num="2">in order that the generations of Israel would know war, to teach those {who had not experienced it}<note>Literally "who had not known it"</note> before):</verse>


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<verse num="3">the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the Sidonians,<note>Hebrew "Sidonian"</note> and the Hivites<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> living on Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon up to Lebo-Hamath.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They were <transChange type="added">left</transChange> for testing Israel, to know <transChange type="added">whether</transChange> they would keep the commands of Yahweh that he commanded their ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> through the hand of Moses.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> lived in the midst of the Canaanites,<note>Hebrew "Canaanite"</note> the Hittites,<note>Hebrew "Hittite"</note> the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> the Perizzites,<note>Hebrew "Perizzite"</note> the Hivites,<note>Hebrew "Hivite"</note> and the Jebusites.<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">And they took their daughters as wives for themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and they served their gods.<note>Or "worshiped their gods"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="7">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They forgot Yahweh their God, and they served the Baals and the Asheroth.<note>Asheroth are cultic poles set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And {the anger of Yahweh was kindled}<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-Rishathaim, the king of Aram Naharaim; and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> served Cushan-Rishathaim eight years.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a deliverer for the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who delivered them, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and Yahweh gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into his hand, and {he prevailed over}<note>Literally "his hand was strong over"</note> Cushan-Rishathaim.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And again the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. So Yahweh strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel, because they did evil in the eyes of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="13">He gathered to himself the {Ammonites and Amalekites},<note>Literally "sons of Ammon and Amalek" or "children of Ammon and Amalek"</note> and he went and defeated Israel, and they took possession of the city of palms.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years. </verse>


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<verse num="15">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried out to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjaminite and {a left-handed man}.<note>Literally "a man bound by his right hand"</note> And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> sent a tribute to Eglon king of Moab {through him}.<note>Literally "in his hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Ehud made for himself a short, {two-edged}<note>Literally "with two mouths"</note> sword (a cubit in length), and he fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Then he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a very fat man.</verse>


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<verse num="18">When Ehud<note>That is, Eglon</note> had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.</verse>


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<verse num="19">But he turned back from the sculptured stones<note>Or "Pesilim"; some translations translate the phrase as a proper name</note> that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> near Gilgal, and he said, "I have {a secret message}<note>Literally "a word of secrecy"</note> for you, O king." And he<note>Hebrew "he"</note> said, "Silence!" So all those standing in his presence went out,</verse>


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<verse num="20">and Ehud came to him <transChange type="added">while</transChange> he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting alone in his cool upper room. And Ehud said, "I have a {message from God}<note>Literally "word of God"</note> for you." So he got up from his seat.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then Ehud reached with his left hand for the sword on his right thigh, and he thrust it into his<note>That is, Eglon's</note> stomach.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And the handle also went <transChange type="added">in</transChange> after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade because he did not draw back the sword from his stomach; and it went protruding out the back.<note>The Hebrew is uncertain; some translations have "and the dirt/entrails came out"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">And Ehud went out the vestibule, and he closed the doors of the upper room and locked <transChange type="added">them</transChange> behind him. </verse>


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<verse num="24">After he left, his servants returned. When they saw <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the doors of the upper room <transChange type="added">were</transChange> locked, {they thought},<note>Hebrew "they said"</note> "Surely he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {relieving himself}<note>Literally "covering his feet"</note> in the cool inner room."</verse>


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<verse num="25">And they waited so long they became embarrassed because he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened <transChange type="added">the doors</transChange>, and there their lord was lying on the ground dead. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And Ehud escaped while they delayed. He passed by the sculptured stones<note>Or "Pesilim;" some translations to translate the phrase as a proper name</note> and escaped to Seirah.</verse>


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<verse num="27">And when he arrived he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went down from the hill country with him leading them.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And he said to them, "Follow after me! Yahweh has given Moab your enemies into your hand." So they went down after him, and they captured the fords of the Jordan toward Moab; and they did not allow anyone to cross over.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And they struck Moab at that time, about ten thousand men, {all strong and able men};<note>Literally "all fat and men of strength"</note> no one escaped.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And Moab was subdued on that day under the hand of Israel. And the land rested eighty years.<note>Hebrew "year"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="31">And Shamgar son of Anath came after him, and he killed six hundred Philistines with the goad of an ox; he also delivered Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And again the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Ehud died.</verse>


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<verse num="2">So Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Sisera, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living in Harosheth Haggoyim.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried to Yahweh, as he <transChange type="added">had</transChange> nine hundred iron chariots,<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and he oppressed the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {cruelly}<note>Literally "with force"</note> for twenty years.<note>Hebrew "year"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="4">Now at that time Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> judging<note>Or "leading"</note> Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And she used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went up to her for judgment.</verse>


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<verse num="6">She sent and called for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh Naphtali and said to him, "Has not Yahweh the God of Israel commanded you? 'Go, {march to}<note>Literally "take the lead at"</note> Mount Tabor, and take ten thousand men from the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Naphtali and Zebulun.</verse>


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<verse num="7">{I will draw out}<note>Literally "I will draw to you"</note> Sisera, the commander of Jabin's army, with his chariots and troops, to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Kishon, and I will give him into your hand.'"</verse>


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<verse num="8">Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go."</verse>


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<verse num="9">She said, "Surely I will go with you; however, there will be no glory for you in {the path you are taking},<note>Or "the way you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going"</note> for Yahweh will sell Sisera into <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of a woman." And Deborah stood up and went with Barak to Kedesh.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and {they went up behind him},<note>Literally "they went up in his feet"</note> ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him. </verse>


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<verse num="11">And Heber the Kenite <transChange type="added">was</transChange> separated from <transChange type="added">the other</transChange> Kenites,<note>Hebrew "Kenite"</note> <transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, from the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses. And {he was encamped}<note>Literally "he spread his tent"</note> at Elon-bezaanannim, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> near Kedesh. </verse>


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<verse num="12">When they<note>The subject is not specified in Hebrew</note> reported to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,</verse>


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<verse num="13">Sisera summoned all his chariots--all nine hundred chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> of iron--and the entire army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him from Harosheth Haggoyim to the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Kishon.</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the day that Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand. Has Yahweh not gone out before you?" So Barak went out from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And Yahweh threw Sisera and all his chariots and army into confusion<note>Or "routed Sisera and all <transChange type="added">his</transChange> chariot<transChange type="added">s</transChange> and army"</note> before {the edge of Barak's sword};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword before Barak"</note> and Sisera dismounted from <transChange type="added">his</transChange> chariot and fled on foot.</verse>


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<verse num="16">But Barak pursued after the chariots<note>Hebrew "chariot"</note> and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all of Sisera's army fell to {the edge of the sword};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> no one was left. </verse>


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<verse num="17">Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.</verse>


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<verse num="18">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}.<note>Literally "with a covering/rug"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">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>


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<verse num="20">And he said to her, "Stand <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the doorway of the tent, and if anyone comes and asks you, and says, 'Is there anyone here?' You must answer, 'No.'"</verse>


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<verse num="21">But Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, took in her hand a tent peg and a hammer, and she went softly<note>Or "secretly"</note> to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went through into the ground; he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> fast asleep since he was exhausted, and he died.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And behold, Barak <transChange type="added">was</transChange> pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him, and she said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeking." And he came with her and saw that Sisera was lying dead with the peg in his temple.</verse>


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<verse num="23">On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


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<verse num="24">And the hand of the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {pressed harder}<note>Literally "went harder"</note> and harder on Jabin king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. </verse>


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<verse num="2">"When long hair hangs loosely in Israel, when the people willingly offer themselves, bless Yahweh!</verse>


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<verse num="3">Hear, O kings! Give ear, O princes! I will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="4">Yahweh, when you went down from Seir, when you marched from the region of Edom, the earth trembled, the heavens poured down, the clouds poured down water.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The mountains trembled<note>Or "quaked"</note> before Yahweh, this Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="6">"In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the caravans had ceased, {the travelers},<note>Literally "the ones walking on the paths"</note> {they kept to the byways}.<note>Literally "they went <transChange type="added">on the</transChange> crooked roads"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">The warriors<note>Others interpret this word as referring to the "rural dwellers"</note> ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I,<note>Or "you"</note> Deborah, arose; I<note>Or "you"</note> arose <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a mother in Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="8">God chose new <transChange type="added">leaders</transChange>,<note>ESV, NRSV translate "when new gods were chosen"</note> then war <transChange type="added">was at the</transChange> gates; a small shield or a spear was not seen among forty thousand in Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="9">My heart <transChange type="added">goes out</transChange> to the commanders of Israel, those offering themselves willingly among the people; bless Yahweh!</verse>


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<verse num="10">The riders of white female donkeys, <transChange type="added">those</transChange> sitting on saddle blankets, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> going on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> way, talk about it!</verse>


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<verse num="11">At the sound of <transChange type="added">those</transChange> dividing<note>Meaning uncertain; other translations have "archers" (Tanakh), "musicians" (ESV, NRSV) or "singers" (NIV, HCSB)</note> <transChange type="added">the sheep</transChange> among the watering places, there they will recount the righteous deeds of Yahweh, the righteous deeds for his warriors<note>Hebrew "warrior"</note> in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.</verse>


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<verse num="12">"Wake up, wake up, Deborah! Wake up, wake up, sing a song! Get up, Barak! Take captive your captives, O son of Abinoam.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> remnant went down to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> nobles; the people of Yahweh went down for him<note>Hebrew "me"</note> against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mighty.</verse>


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<verse num="14">From Ephraim <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their root into Amalek, after you, Benjamin, with your family; from Makir <transChange type="added">the</transChange> commanders went down, and from Zebulun <transChange type="added">those</transChange> carrying <transChange type="added">the</transChange> scepter of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> military commander.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the chiefs<note>Hebrew "my chiefs"; ancient translations read "the chiefs"</note> in Issachar <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with Deborah; and Issachar likewise <transChange type="added">was with</transChange> Barak; into the valley {he was sent to get him from behind}.<note>Literally "he was sent at his feet"</note> Among the clans of Reuben <transChange type="added">were</transChange> great {decisions of the heart}.<note>Or "thoughts of the heart"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">Why do you sit among the sheepfolds, to hear <transChange type="added">the</transChange> calling sounds of the herds? For the clans of Reuben, <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> great searchings of the heart.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Gilead has remained<note>Or "stayed"</note> beyond the Jordan. Why did Dan dwell as a foreigner <transChange type="added">with</transChange> ships? Asher sat at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> coast of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> waters, and by his coves he has been settling down.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Zebulun <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a people who scorned death, and Naphtali, on the heights of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> field.</verse>


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<verse num="19">"The kings came, they fought; then the kings of Canaan fought; at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, they got no plunder in silver.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The stars fought from heaven; from their courses they fought against Sisera.</verse>


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<verse num="21">The wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> torrent of Kishon swept them away, the raging wadi torrent, the wadi torrent of Kishon. March on, my soul, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> strength!</verse>


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<verse num="22">"Then the hooves of the horse beat loudly, because of galloping, galloping of his stallions.</verse>


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<verse num="23">'Curse Meroz,' says the angel of Yahweh; 'curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they did not come to the help of Yahweh, to the help of Yahweh against the mighty.'</verse>


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<verse num="24">"Most blessed of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; most blessed is she of women among tent dwellers.</verse>


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<verse num="25">He asked for water, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> she gave milk; in a drinking bowl for nobles, she brought curds.</verse>


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<verse num="26">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>


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<verse num="27">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}.<note>Literally "devastated"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">"Through the window she looked down; the mother of Sisera cried out through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot delayed in coming? Why do the hoof beats<note>Or "steps"</note> of his chariot tarry?'</verse>


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<verse num="30">'Are they not finding and dividing the plunder? {A bedmate or two bedmates for every man};<note>Literally "a womb, two wombs for <transChange type="added">head</transChange> of <transChange type="added">every</transChange> man"</note> colorful garments for Sisera, plunder of colorful garments,<note>Hebrew "garment"</note> beautifully finished colorful garments, on the neck of the plunderer?'</verse>


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<verse num="31">So may all your enemies perish, O Yahweh, but those who love him are like the rising sun at its brightest."</verse>


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<verse num="1">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of the Midianites<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> for seven years.</verse>


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<verse num="2">The hand of the Midianites<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> prevailed over Israel; because of the presence of the Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> made for themselves hiding places that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And whenever Israel sowed seed, the Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> Amalekites,<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and the people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east would come up against them.</verse>


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<verse num="4">They would camp against them and destroy the produce of the land {as far as}<note>Literally "until your coming to"</note> Gaza; they left no produce in Israel, or sheep, ox, or donkey.</verse>


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<verse num="5">For they, their livestock, and their tents would come up like a great number of locusts; they and their camels could not be counted; they came into the land and devoured it.</verse>


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<verse num="6">Israel was very poor because of the presence of the Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried out to Yahweh. </verse>


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<verse num="7">When the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried out to Yahweh on account of the Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">Yahweh sent a prophet to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and he said to them, "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I brought you up from Egypt; I brought you from the house of slavery.<note>Hebrew "slaves"</note></verse>


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<verse num="9">I delivered you from the hand of Egypt and from the hand of all your oppressors, and drove them out from {before you};<note>Literally "your face/presence"</note> and I gave you their land.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And I said to you, 'I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Yahweh your God; do not fear<note>Or "revere"</note> the gods of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> in whose land you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> living.' But you have not listened to my voice." </verse>


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<verse num="11">The angel of Yahweh came and sat under the oak<note>Or "terebinth"</note> that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Ophrah that belonged to Jehoash <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Abiezrite; and Gideon his son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> threshing wheat in the winepress to hide <transChange type="added">it</transChange><note>Or "keep <transChange type="added">it</transChange> away"</note> from the Midianites.<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">The angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said to him, "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you, {you mighty warrior}."<note>Literally "strong/mighty of power"</note></verse>


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<verse num="13">Gideon said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. <transChange type="added">If</transChange> Yahweh is with us, why then has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonderful deeds that our ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> recounted to us, saying, 'Did not Yahweh bring us up from Egypt?' But now Yahweh has forsaken us; he has given us into the palm of Midian."</verse>


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<verse num="14">And Yahweh turned to him and said, "Go in this your strength, and you will deliver Israel from the palm of Midian. Did I not send you?"</verse>


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<verse num="15">He said to him, "Excuse me, my lord. How will I deliver Israel? Look, my clan <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the weakest in Manasseh, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the youngest in my father's house."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And Yahweh said to him, "But I will be with you, and you will defeat Midian {as if they are one man}."<note>Literally "as one man"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">And he<note>That is, Gideon</note> said to him, "Please, if I have found favor in your eyes, {show me a sign}<note>Literally "make a sign for me"</note> that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> speaking with me.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Please, do not depart from here until I come <transChange type="added">back</transChange> to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you."<note>Or "in your presence"</note> And he said, "I will stay until you return." </verse>


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<verse num="19">And Gideon went and prepared {a young goat}<note>Literally "a kid of goat"</note> and unleavened cakes <transChange type="added">from</transChange> an ephah of flour; he put meat in a basket, and the broth he put in a pot, and he brought <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to him under the oak<note>Or "terebinth"</note> and presented <transChange type="added">them</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="20">The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes and put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on this rock; pour the broth <transChange type="added">over it</transChange>." And he did so.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Then the angel of Yahweh reached out the tip of the staff that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand, and he touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes. And the angel of Yahweh went {from his sight}.<note>Literally "from his eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="22">And Gideon realized that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the angel of Yahweh; and Gideon said, "Oh, my lord Yahweh! For now I have seen the angel of Yahweh face to face."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Gideon built there an altar to Yahweh, and he called it "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> Abiezrites.<note>Hebrew "Abiezrite"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="25">Now on that same night Yahweh said to him, "Take the bull of the cattle that belongs to your father, and a second bull seven years old, and pull down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father, and cut down the Asherah<note>An Asherah is a cultic pole set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah</note> that is beside it;</verse>


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<verse num="26">and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold in the proper arrangement, and take a second bull and offer <transChange type="added">it as</transChange> a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah<note>An Asherah is a cultic pole set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah</note> that you will cut down.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Gideon took ten men from his servants, and he did just as Yahweh told him;<note>Or "spoke to him"</note> and because he was too afraid of his {father's family}<note>Literally "father's house"</note> and the men of the city to do <transChange type="added">it during</transChange> the day, he did <transChange type="added">it during</transChange> night. </verse>


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<verse num="28">When the men of the city got up early in the morning, look, the altar of Baal and the Asherah<note>An Asherah is a cultic pole set up next to an altar symbolizing the goddess Asherah</note> that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beside it <transChange type="added">were</transChange> cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar that had been built.</verse>


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<verse num="29">{And they said to one another},<note>Literally "And each man to his neighbor said"</note> "Who did this thing?" So they searched and inquired, and they said, "Gideon son of Jehoash did this thing."</verse>


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<verse num="30">And the men of the city said to Jehoash, "Bring out your son so that he may die, for he has pulled down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> beside it."</verse>


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<verse num="31">But Jehoash said to all who stood against him,<note>Or "who arrayed against him"</note> "Will you contend for Baal? Will you rescue him? Whoever contends for him will be put to death by the morning. If he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a god, let him contend for himself because {his altar has been pulled down}."<note>Literally "because he has pulled down his altar"; the subject in Hebrew has not been specified</note></verse>


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<verse num="32">Thus, on that day he<note>That is, Gideon</note> was called Jerub-Baal, {which means},<note>Literally "saying"</note> "Let Baal contend against him," because he had pulled down his altar. </verse>


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<verse num="33">Then all the Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> Amalekites,<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and the people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east gathered together and crossed <transChange type="added">the Jordan</transChange>; and they camped in the valley of Jezreel.</verse>


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<verse num="34">So the Spirit of Yahweh {took possession of}<note>Literally "clothed"</note> Gideon, and he blew on the trumpet, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Abiezrites<note>Hebrew "Abiezerite"</note> were called to follow him.</verse>


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<verse num="35">He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and they were also called to follow him; and he sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they went up to meet them. </verse>


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<verse num="36">Then Gideon said to God, "In order to see that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said,</verse>


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<verse num="37">I will place a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and all of the ground <transChange type="added">is</transChange> dry, I will know that you will deliver Israel by my hand, just as you have said."</verse>


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<verse num="38">And it was so. He arose early the next day and squeezed the fleece, and he wrung out dew from the fleece, a full drinking bowl of water.</verse>


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<verse num="39">And Gideon said to God, "{Do not let your anger burn}<note>Literally "Do not let your nose become hot"</note> against me; let me speak once more. Please let me test once more with the fleece; let the fleece be dry, and let there be dew on the ground."</verse>


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<verse num="40">And God did so that night; only the fleece was dry, and dew was on all the ground. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Then Jerub-Baal (that <transChange type="added">is</transChange>, Gideon) rose early, and all the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him. They were camped beside the spring of Harod;<note>Or "En-Harod"</note> the camp of Midian was north of the hill of Moreh, in the valley.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Yahweh said to Gideon, "The troops that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> too many for me to give Midian into their hands; Israel will boast, saying, 'My hand has delivered me.'</verse>


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<verse num="3">So then, please proclaim in the {hearing}<note>Literally "ears"</note> of the troops, saying, 'Whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> fearful and trembling, let him return and depart from the Mount of Gilead.'" About twenty-two thousand troops returned, and ten thousand remained.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Yahweh said to Gideon, "There <transChange type="added">are</transChange> still too many troops; bring them down to the water, and I will sift through them<note>Or "test them"</note> for you there. For whomever I say to you, 'This <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will go with you,' he will go with you; and for all whom I say to you, 'This <transChange type="added">one</transChange> will not go with you,' he will not go."</verse>


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<verse num="5">So he brought down the troops to the water, and Yahweh said to Gideon, "You must separate everyone who laps up the water to drink with his tongue like a dog from those {who kneel}."<note>Literally "who kneels to his knees"</note></verse>


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<verse num="6">The number of those lapping up <transChange type="added">the water</transChange> with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; all the rest of the troops kneeled to drink the water.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And Yahweh said to Gideon, "I will deliver you with the three hundred men lapping up <transChange type="added">the water</transChange>; I will give Midian into your hand, so let the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> troops go, each to his own place.</verse>


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<verse num="8">So they took their provisions and their trumpets into their hand, and he sent all the men of Israel, each one, to his tent; but three hundred of the men he kept; the camp of Midian was below him in the valley. </verse>


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<verse num="9">And that night Yahweh said to him, "Get up; go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.</verse>


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<verse num="10">But if you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> afraid, go down to the camp with Purah your servant,</verse>


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<verse num="11">and you will hear what they say; and afterward {you will have courage},<note>Literally "your hands will be strong"</note> and you will go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outpost of the armed men<note>Or "edge of the men lined up in array"</note> that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the camp.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Midianites,<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> Amalekites,<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and all the people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east <transChange type="added">were</transChange> lying in the valley, like a great multitude of locusts; their camels were without number, as numerous as the sand that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the shore of the sea.</verse>


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<verse num="13">When Gideon came, a man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> recounting a dream<note>Or "telling a dream"</note> to his friend, and he said, "Behold, {I had a dream};<note>Literally "I dreamed a dream"</note> a round loaf of barley bread <transChange type="added">was</transChange> tumbling into the camp of Midian, and it came up to the tent, it struck it, and it fell and turned it upside down so that the tent fell."</verse>


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<verse num="14">His friend answered him and said, "This cannot be anything except the sword of Gideon son of Jehoash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and the entire camp into his hand." </verse>


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<verse num="15">When Gideon heard the recounting of the dream<note>Or "telling of the dream"</note> and its interpretation, he bowed down and returned to the camp of Israel; and he said, "Get up, for Yahweh has given the camp of Midian into your hand."</verse>


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<verse num="16">He divided the three hundred men <transChange type="added">into</transChange> three companies,<note>Or "divisions"</note> and he put trumpets and empty jars in everyone's hand, with torches inside the jars.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And he said to them, "Watch me and do the same. When I come to the edge of the camp, {do just as I do}.<note>Literally "just as I will do, you must do"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">When I and all who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with me blow on the trumpet, you must also blow on the trumpets and surround the camp, and you must say, 'To Yahweh and to Gideon!'" </verse>


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<verse num="19">So Gideon and the hundred men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him came to the edge of the camp <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the beginning of the middle night-watch, when they had just finished setting up the guards, and they blew on the trumpets and smashed the jars that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in their hands.<note>Hebrew "hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">When three companies<note>Or "divisions"</note> blew on the trumpets and broke the jars, they held in their left hand the torches and in their right hand the trumpets for blowing, and they cried, "A sword for Yahweh and for Gideon!"</verse>


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<verse num="21">And each stood {in his place}<note>Literally "under him"</note> all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled.</verse>


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<verse num="22">When they blew the three hundred trumpets, Yahweh set <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword of each one against his neighbor throughout the whole camp, and the camp<note>Or "army"</note> fled as far as Beth Shittah toward Zererah, up to Abel Meholah, the border by Tabbath.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And the men of Israel were called from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all of Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian. </verse>


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<verse num="24">And Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down to oppose<note>Or "meet"</note> Midian, and capture from them the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan." He called out all the men of Ephraim, and they captured the waters up to Beth Barah and the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And they captured the two commanders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they chased Midian; and they brought the heads<note>Hebrew "head"</note> of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from beyond the Jordan. </verse>


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<verse num="1">The men of Ephraim said to him, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this thing you have done to us, not calling us when you went to fight against the Midianites?"<note>Hebrew "Midianite"</note> And they quarreled with him severely.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he said to them, "What I have done now in comparison with you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?</verse>


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<verse num="3">God has given into your hand the commanders of Midian, Oreb, and Zeeb. What have I been able to do in comparison with you?" And their {anger}<note>Literally "spirit"</note> against him subsided when {he said that}.<note>Literally "he said this thing/word"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="4">Then Gideon came to the Jordan, crossing it with the three hundred men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, weary and pursuing.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He said to the men of Succoth, "Please give loaves of bread to the people who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {following me},<note>Literally "at my feet"</note> for they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian."</verse>


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<verse num="6">The officials of Succoth said, "Is the hand<note>Or "palm"</note> of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give bread to your army?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">Gideon said, "Well then, when Yahweh gives Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will trample your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness."</verse>


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<verse num="8">He went from there <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Penuel, and he spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth answered.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And he said also to the men of Penuel, saying, "When I return {safely},<note>Literally "in peace"</note> I will tear down this tower." </verse>


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<verse num="10">Now Zebah and Zalmunna <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army<note>Or "camp"</note> of the people of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> east; those that fell <transChange type="added">in battle were</transChange> one hundred and twenty thousand {swordsmen}.<note>Literally "sword-drawing men"</note></verse>


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<verse num="11">And Gideon went up the route of those who dwell in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked the army<note>Or "camp"</note> when it was off its guard.<note>Or "unsuspecting"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them and captured the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he routed<note>Or "he frightened" or "he threw into panic"</note> the entire army.<note>Or "camp"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="13">Then Gideon son of Jehoash returned from the battle {by way of}<note>Literally "from"</note> the ascent of Heres.<note>Or "pass of Heres"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">He captured a young man {from Succoth}<note>Literally "from the men of Succoth"</note> and questioned him. <transChange type="added">The young man</transChange> listed<note>Or "wrote down"</note> for him the commanders of Succoth and its elders, seventy-seven men.</verse>


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<verse num="15">He came to the men of Succoth, and he said, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, '<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> the palm<note>Or "hand"</note> of Zebah and Zalmunna in your hand now, that we should give food to your weary men?'"</verse>


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<verse num="16">He took the elders of the city and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> thorn bushes and briers of the wilderness, and {he trampled}<note>Literally "he taught," but see v. 7</note> the men of Succoth with them.</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "What type <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the men whom you killed at Tabor?" And they said, "{They were like you};<note>Literally, "like you, like them"</note> each <transChange type="added">one of them</transChange> had the appearance of the sons of the king."</verse>


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<verse num="19">He said, "They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> my brothers, the sons of my mother. As Yahweh lives, if you had kept them alive I would not kill you."</verse>


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<verse num="20">And he said to Jether, his firstborn, "Get up, kill them." But the boy did not draw his sword, for he was afraid because he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> still a boy.</verse>


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<verse num="21">Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Get up yourself, and strike us, for as <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man, so <transChange type="added">is</transChange> his power."<note>Or "strength"</note> So Gideon got up and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent ornaments that were on the necks of their camels. </verse>


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<verse num="22">The men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, both you and your sons, and your sons' son, for you have delivered us from the hand of Midian.</verse>


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<verse num="23">But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; Yahweh will rule over you."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And Gideon said to them, "{Let me make a request of you},<note>Literally "Let me ask from you a request"</note> that each of you give to me an ornamental ring from his plunder." (They <transChange type="added">had</transChange> ornamental rings of gold, because they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Ishmaelites.)</verse>


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<verse num="25">They said, "We will gladly give <transChange type="added">them</transChange>," and they spread out a garment, and everyone threw there an ornamental ring of his plunder.</verse>


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<verse num="26">The weight of the ornamental rings of gold that he requested <transChange type="added">was</transChange> one thousand seven hundred <transChange type="added">shekels of</transChange> gold, apart from the crescents, pendants, and purple garments that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the kings of Midian, and apart from the pendants that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on the necks of their camels.</verse>


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<verse num="27">Gideon made an ephod <transChange type="added">out of</transChange> it, and he put it in his town in Ophrah, and all Israel prostituted <transChange type="added">themselves</transChange> to it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.</verse>


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<verse num="28">And Midian was subdued before the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and they did not again lift up their head, and the land rested for forty years in the days of Gideon. </verse>


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<verse num="30">Now Gideon had seventy sons, {his own offspring},<note>Literally "from his own loins"</note> for he had many wives.</verse>


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<verse num="31">His concubine who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Shechem also bore for him a son, and {he named him}<note>Literally "he set his name"</note> Abimelech.</verse>


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<verse num="32">And Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age, and he was buried in the tomb of Jehoash his father, in Ophrah <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the Abiezrites.<note>Hebrew "Abiezrite"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="33">And it happened, as soon as Gideon died, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> returned and prostituted <transChange type="added">themselves</transChange> after the Baals, and they made for themselves Baal-Berith as god.</verse>


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<verse num="34">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did not remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them from the hand of their enemies from all around,</verse>


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<verse num="35">nor did they show favor<note>Or "loyalty"</note> to the house of Jerub-Baal (<transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, Gideon) in accordance with all the good that he did for Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Abimelech son of Jerub-Baal went to Shechem, to the relatives of his mother, and he said to them and to the house of his mother's father,</verse>


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<verse num="2">"{Speak to}<note>Literally "Speak into the ears"</note> the lords of Shechem, 'What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better for you, that seventy men all from the sons of Jerub-Baal rule over you, or that one man rules over you?' Remember that I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> your bone and your flesh."</verse>


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<verse num="3">And his mother's relatives spoke all these words concerning him {to}<note>Literally "in the ears of"</note> all the lords of Shechem; and {they supported Abimelech},<note>Literally "it reached their heart after Abimelech"</note> for they said, "He is our relative."<note>Or "brother"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And they gave to him seventy <transChange type="added">pieces of</transChange> silver from the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of Baal-Berith, and Abimelech hired with them<note>That is, the pieces of silver</note> worthless and reckless men, and {they followed him}.<note>Literally "They went after him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="5">And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and he killed his brothers, the sons of Jerub-Baal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerub-Baal survived, because he hid himself.</verse>


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<verse num="6">All the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered, and they went and made Abimelech as king, near <transChange type="added">the</transChange> oak<note>Or "terebinth"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> pillar that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at Shechem. </verse>


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<verse num="7">And they told Jotham, and he went up and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and {he cried out loud}<note>Literally "he lifted his voice and called"</note> and said to them, "Listen to me, lords of Shechem, so that God may listen to you. </verse>


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<verse num="8">"The trees went certainly, to anoint a king over themselves. And they said to the olive tree, 'Rule over us.'</verse>


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<verse num="9">And the olive tree replied, 'Should I stop <transChange type="added">producing</transChange> my oil, which by me gods and men are honored, to go sway over the trees?'</verse>


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<verse num="11">But the fig tree said to them, 'Should I stop <transChange type="added">producing</transChange> my sweetness, and my good crop, to go sway over the trees?'</verse>


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<verse num="13">But the vine said to them, 'Should I stop <transChange type="added">producing</transChange> my wine that makes the gods and men happy, to go sway over the trees?'</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the thornbush said to the trees, 'If in good faith<note>Or "honesty"</note> you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> anointing me as king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; if not, may fire go out from the thornbush and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'</verse>


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<verse num="16">"So then, if you have acted in good faith<note>Or "honesty"</note> and sincerity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerub-Baal and his house, and have dealt with him {according to his accomplishments}<note>Literally "according to the dealings of his hand"</note>--</verse>


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<verse num="17">for my father fought and {risked his life}<note>Literally "he threw his life in front"</note> for you and delivered you from the hand of Midian;</verse>


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<verse num="18">but today you have risen against the house of my father and killed his sons, seventy men on one stone, and you have made Abimelech, the son of his slave woman, a king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your relative<note>Or "brother"</note>--</verse>


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<verse num="19">if you have acted in good faith<note>Or "honesty"</note> and sincerity with Jerub-Baal and his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.</verse>


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<verse num="20">But if not, let a fire come out from Abimelech and let it devour the lords of Shechem and Beth-Millo; and let a fire come out from the lords of Shechem, and from Beth-Millo, and let it devour Abimelech."</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Jotham escaped and fled, and went to Beer; he remained there because of Abimelech his brother. </verse>


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<verse num="23">And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the lords of Shechem, and the lords of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,</verse>


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<verse num="24">so that the violence done to the seventy brothers of Abimelech would be avenged and their blood be placed on Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, {who helped}<note>Literally "who strengthened his hands"</note> to kill his brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the lords of Shechem set for him ambushes on the top of the mountains, and they robbed all who passed by them along the road; and it was reported to Abimelech. </verse>


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<verse num="26">And Gaal son of Ebel and his relatives came, and they crossed over into Shechem, and the lords of Shechem {gave him confidence}.<note>Literally "put confidence into him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="27">They went out <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the field and harvested their vineyards and trod <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, and they {held a festival}.<note>Literally "made a rejoicing"</note> And they went <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of their god, and they ate and drank and cursed Abimelech.</verse>


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<verse num="28">Then Gaal son of Ebed said, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Abimelech, and who <transChange type="added">are we of</transChange> Shechem that we should serve him? Is he not the son of Jerub-Baal, and <transChange type="added">is not</transChange> Zebul his chief officer?<note>Or "overseer"</note> Serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem. Why should we serve him?<note>That is, Abimelech</note></verse>


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<verse num="29">If only this people {were in my command}!<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">were</transChange> in my hand"</note> Then I would remove Abimelech, and I would have said,<note>Hebrew "he said"; the translation "I would have said" follows the LXX</note> 'Increase your army and come out!'" </verse>


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<verse num="30">When Zebul the commander of the city heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, {he became angry},<note>Literally "his nose became hot"</note></verse>


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<verse num="31">and he sent messengers to Abimelech in Tormah, saying, "Look, Gaal son of Ebed and his relatives <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming to Shechem, and they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> stirring up the city against you.</verse>


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<verse num="32">So then, get up <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night, you and the army that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with you, and lie in ambush in the field.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And in the morning at sunrise, get up and rush the city; and look, when he and the troops who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with him come out to you, {you must act according to whatever opportunity offers itself}.<note>Literally "you must do to him just as it will find your hand"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="34">So Abimelech and all the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him got up <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem <transChange type="added">in</transChange> four divisions.<note>Or "companies"</note></verse>


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<verse num="35">Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the city gate, and Abimelech and the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him got up from the ambush.</verse>


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<verse num="36">When Gaal saw the army, he said to Zebul, "Look, people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming down from the top of the mountains!" And Zebul said to him, "{The shadows of the mountains look like people to you}."<note>Literally "the shadows of the mountains you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> seeing as men"</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">{And Gaal spoke again}<note>Literally "And he did again again Gaal to speak"</note> and said, "Look, people <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming down from Tabbur-erez, and one division<note>Or "company"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> coming from the direction of Elon-meonenim."<note>Or "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sorcerer's Oak"</note></verse>


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<verse num="38">And Zebul said to him, "Where then {is your boast},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> your mouth"</note> <transChange type="added">you</transChange> who said, 'Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Abimelech that we should serve him?' <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this not the army that you rejected? Please, go out now and fight against them."<note>Hebrew "against him"</note></verse>


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<verse num="40">And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; many fell slain up to the entrance of the gate.</verse>


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<verse num="41">So Abimelech resided at Arumah, and Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives<note>Or "brothers"</note> from living in Shechem. </verse>


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<verse num="42">On the next day the people went out <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the field; and it was reported to Abimelech,</verse>


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<verse num="43">so he took the army and divided them into three divisions,<note>Or "companies"</note> and he laid an ambush in the field. And he saw the people <transChange type="added">were</transChange> coming out from the city, and he arose against them and killed them.</verse>


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<verse num="44">Then Abimelech and the divisions<note>Or "companies"</note> that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him dashed out and stood <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the city gate, and the two divisions dashed out against all who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the field, and they killed them.</verse>


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<verse num="45">Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in it; then he broke down the city and sowed it <transChange type="added">with</transChange> salt. </verse>


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<verse num="46">When all the lords of the tower of Shechem heard, they went to the vault<note>Or "cellar"</note> of the temple<note>Or "house"</note> of El-Berith.</verse>


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<verse num="47">It was told to Abimelech that all the lords of the tower of Shechem had gathered.</verse>


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<verse num="48">So Abimelech went up Mount Zalmon, he and all his army that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, and Abimelech took the ax<note>Hebrew "axes"</note> in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and he lifted it and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> on his shoulder. And he said to the army that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him, "What you have seen me do, quickly do also."</verse>


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<verse num="49">So the whole army cut down each one branch for himself and followed Abimelech, and they put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> against the vault<note>Or "cellar"</note> and set the vault ablaze with fire on those <transChange type="added">inside</transChange>, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died, about a thousand men and women. </verse>


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<verse num="50">Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he encamped against Thebez and captured it.</verse>


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<verse num="51">But there was a strong tower in the middle of the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there and shut themselves in; and they went up to the roof of the tower.</verse>


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<verse num="52">Abimelech came up to the tower and fought against it, and he came near the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="53">But a certain woman<note>Or "But one woman"</note> threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and cracked open his skull.</verse>


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<verse num="54">He called quickly to the young man carrying his weapons, and he said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, so that they will not say of me, 'A woman killed him.'" So the young man<note>Hebrew "his young man"</note> stabbed him, and he died.</verse>


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<verse num="55">When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each one went to his home.<note>Or "place"</note></verse>


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<verse num="56">So God repaid<note>Or "returned"</note> the wickedness<note>Or "evil"</note> that Abimelech committed against his father by killing his seventy brothers.</verse>


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<verse num="57">And God also repaid all the wickedness<note>Or "evil"</note> of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell on them. </verse>


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<verse num="1">After Abimelech, Tola son of Puah son of Dod, a man of Issachar, rose up to deliver Israel; and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> living at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he judged Israel twenty-three years. And he died and was buried in Shamir.</verse>


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<verse num="4">And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until this day.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And again, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh. They served the Baals, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, and the gods of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and Philistines; they abandoned Yahweh and did not serve him.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And {the anger of Yahweh burned}<note>Literally "the nose of Yahweh became hot"</note> against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">They crushed and oppressed the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> in that year; for eighteen years they <transChange type="added">crushed</transChange> all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> beyond the Jordan, in the land of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Gilead.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah, Benjamin, and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was very distressed. </verse>


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<verse num="10">Then the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> cried out to Yahweh, saying, "We have sinned against you; we have abandoned our God and served the Baals."</verse>


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<verse num="11">And Yahweh said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "<transChange type="added">Did I</transChange> not <transChange type="added">deliver you</transChange> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians,<note>Hebrew "from Egypt"</note> the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> from the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and from the Philistines?<note>Hebrew "Philistine"</note></verse>


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<verse num="12">And when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites,<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Maonites<note>Hebrew "Maonite"</note> oppressed you, you cried out to me, and I delivered you from their hand.</verse>


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<verse num="13">Yet you have abandoned me and served other gods. Therefore I will no longer deliver you.</verse>


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<verse num="14">Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your trouble."</verse>


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<verse num="15">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said to Yahweh, "We have sinned; {do to us accordingly as you see fit};<note>Literally "do to us according to the good in your eyes"</note> only please deliver us this day."</verse>


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<verse num="16">So they removed the foreign gods from their midst and served Yahweh; and {he could no longer bear}<note>Literally "his soul was short with"</note> the misery of Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="17">And the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> were summoned,<note>Or "were called to arms"</note> and they camped in Gilead. And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> gathered and camped at Mizpah.</verse>


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<verse num="18">The people, the ones commanding Gilead, {said to each other},<note>Literally "said each to his neighbor"</note> "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man that will begin to fight against the {Ammonites}?<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> He will be as head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." </verse>


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<verse num="1">Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior; he was the son of a prostitute, and {Gilead was his father}.<note>Literally "Gilead fathered Jephthah"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">Gilead's wife also bore for him sons; and the sons of <transChange type="added">his</transChange> wife grew up and drove Jephthah away, and they said to him, "You will not inherit the house of our father because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the son of another woman."</verse>


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<verse num="3">So Jephthah fled from the presence of his brothers, and he lived in the land of Tob. And {outlaws}<note>Literally "unprincipled/worthless men"</note> gathered around Jephthah and went with him. </verse>


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<verse num="4">After a time the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> made war with Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="5">When the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> made war with Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our commander, so that we may make war against the {Ammonites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">Jephthah said to the elders, "Did you not shun me and drive me out from the house of my father? Why do you come to me now when you have trouble?"</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That being so, we have now returned to you, that you may go with us {to fight}<note>Literally "to make war"</note> against the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and become for us as head of all the inhabitants of Gilead."</verse>


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<verse num="9">So Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me back {to fight}<note>Literally "to make war"</note> against the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and Yahweh gives them {over to me},<note>Literally "before me"</note> will I be your head?"</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh will be a {witness}<note>Literally "hearer"</note> between us; we will act according to your word."</verse>


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<verse num="11">So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and commander over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh at Mizpah. </verse>


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<verse num="12">And Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> saying, "What <transChange type="added">is between</transChange> you and me that you have come to me to make war against my land?"</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the king of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> said to Jephthah's messengers, "Because Israel took my land from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arnon up to the Jabbok and the Jordan when they came up from Egypt; so then, restore it peacefully."</verse>


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<verse num="14">Once again Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="15">and he said to him, "Thus says Jephthah, 'Israel did not take the land of Moab or the land of the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">because when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the {Red Sea}<note>Literally "sea of reed"</note> and went to Kadesh.</verse>


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<verse num="17">Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, "Please let us cross through your land," but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent <transChange type="added">messengers</transChange> to the king of Moab, but he was not willing. So Israel stayed in Kadesh.</verse>


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<verse num="18">Then they traveled through the wilderness, went around the land of Edom and Moab, and came to {the east}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">from</transChange> rise of sun"</note> side of the land of Moab, and they<note>Hebrew "he"</note> encamped beyond <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arnon; and they did not go into the territory of Moab because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arnon <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the border of Moab.</verse>


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<verse num="19">Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites,<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us cross through your land {to our country}.'<note>Literally "to our place"</note></verse>


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<verse num="20">But Sihon did not trust Israel to cross through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people and then encamped at Jahaz; and he made war with Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="21">And Yahweh, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; and Israel occupied all the land of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> inhabiting that land.</verse>


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<verse num="22">They occupied all the territory of the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Arnon up to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness up to the Jordan.</verse>


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<verse num="23">So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites<note>Hebrew "Amorite"</note> from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it?</verse>


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<verse num="24">Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gave you to possess? Whoever Yahweh our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.</verse>


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<verse num="25">So then, <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you any better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever quarrel with Israel, or did he ever make war against them?</verse>


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<verse num="26">When Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the towns that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {along the Arnon},<note>Literally "on the hands of the Arnon"</note> for three hundred years,<note>Hebrew "year"</note> why did you not recover <transChange type="added">them</transChange> at that time?</verse>


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<verse num="27">I have not sinned against you; but you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the one who is doing wrong by making war against me. {Let Yahweh judge}<note>Literally "Let Yahweh the judge, judge"</note> today between the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and the {Ammonites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="28">But the king of the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> did not listen to the message that Jephthah sent to him. </verse>


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<verse num="29">And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh. He passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed through <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the {Ammonites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="30">And Jephthah made a vow to Yahweh, and he said, "If indeed you will give the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> into my hand,</verse>


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<verse num="31">whatever<note>Or "whoever"</note> comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> will be Yahweh's, and I will offer it <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a burnt offering."</verse>


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<verse num="32">And Jephthah crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> to make war against them; and Yahweh gave them into his hand.</verse>


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<verse num="33">And he defeated them <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a very great blow, from Aroer as far as Minnith, twenty towns,<note>Hebrew "town"</note> up to Abel Keramim. And the {Ammonites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> were subdued before the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="34">Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and behold his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and dancing. She <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his only child; he did not have a son or daughter except her.</verse>


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<verse num="35">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}<note>Literally "I have opened wide my mouth"</note> to Yahweh, and I cannot take <transChange type="added">it</transChange> back."</verse>


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<verse num="36">She said to him, "My father, {you made an oath}<note>Literally "you have opened wide your mouth"</note> to Yahweh. Do to me according to what has gone out from your mouth, since Yahweh gave vengeance to you against your enemies, the {Ammonites}."<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note></verse>


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<verse num="37">And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: grant me two months so that I may go wander<note>Hebrew "down"</note> on the mountains and lament over my virginity, I and my companions.</verse>


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<verse num="38">And he said, "Go." He sent her away <transChange type="added">for</transChange> two months, and she went with her friends, and she lamented over her virginity on the mountains.</verse>


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<verse num="39">At the end of the two months she returned to her father, and he did to her <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> his vow; and {she did not sleep with a man}.<note>Literally "she did not know a man"</note> And it became an annual custom in Israel</verse>


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<verse num="40">for the daughters of Israel to go and lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite for forty days of the year. </verse>


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<verse num="1">The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange> and make war against the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and why did you not call us to go with you? We will burn down your house over you with fire."</verse>


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<verse num="2">And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people were engaged in great conflict with the {Ammonites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> I called you, but you did not deliver me from their hand.</verse>


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<verse num="3">I saw that you would not deliver <transChange type="added">us</transChange>; {I risked my own life},<note>Literally "I put my life in my hand"</note> and I crossed <transChange type="added">over</transChange> to the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> and Yahweh gave them into my hand. Why have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"</verse>


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<verse num="4">Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead, and he made war with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead defeated Ephraim because they said, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh."</verse>


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<verse num="5">Then Gilead captured the fords of the Jordan from Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said, "Let me cross <transChange type="added">over</transChange>," the men of Gilead said to him, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you an Ephraimite?" <transChange type="added">When</transChange> he said, "No,"</verse>


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<verse num="6">they said to him, "Please say Shibboleth," and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> he said, "Sibboleth"--because he could not {pronounce it}<note>Literally "speak it"</note> correctly--they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell. </verse>


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<verse num="7">Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and he was buried in <transChange type="added">one of</transChange> the cities of Gilead. </verse>


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<verse num="9">He had thirty sons. He gave his thirty daughters away in marriage outside <transChange type="added">his clan</transChange> and brought in from outside thirty young women for his sons. He judged Israel for seven years.</verse>


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<verse num="11">After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.</verse>


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<verse num="12">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. </verse>


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<verse num="14">He had forty sons and thirty grandsons that rode on seventy male donkeys. He judged Israel for eight years.</verse>


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<verse num="15">Then<note>Or "And"</note> Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim in the hill country of the Amalekites.<note>Hebrew "Amalekite"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">And again, the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, and Yahweh gave them into the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines forty years. </verse>


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<verse num="2">There was a certain man from Zorah, from the tribe of the Danites, and his name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Manoah; his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> infertile and did not bear children.</verse>


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<verse num="3">And an angel of Yahweh appeared to the woman, and he said to her, "Behold, you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> infertile and have not borne <transChange type="added">children</transChange>, but you will conceive and bear a son.</verse>


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<verse num="4">So then, be careful and do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean,</verse>


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<verse num="5">because you <transChange type="added">will</transChange> conceive and bear a son. No razor {will touch}<note>Literally "will go upon"</note> his head, because the boy will be a {Nazirite of God}<note>Literally "consecrated of God" or "devoted of God"</note> {from birth}.<note>Literally "from the womb"</note> And it is he who will begin to deliver Israel from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the woman came and told her husband, saying, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance <transChange type="added">was</transChange> like the appearance of an angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him from where he <transChange type="added">came</transChange>, and he did not tell me his name.</verse>


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<verse num="7">And he said to me, 'Look, you <transChange type="added">will</transChange> conceive and bear a son, so then, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, for the boy will be a Nazirite of God from birth<note>Or "the womb"</note> until the day of his death.'" </verse>


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<verse num="8">Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh and said, "Excuse me, my Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent again come to us and teach us what we should do concerning the boy who will be born."</verse>


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<verse num="9">And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and an angel of God came again to the woman; she <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.</verse>


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<verse num="10">The woman quickly ran and told her husband, and she said to him, "Look! The man who came to me the <transChange type="added">other</transChange> day appeared to me."</verse>


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<verse num="11">So Manoah got up and went after his wife, and he came to the man and said to him, "<transChange type="added">Are</transChange> you the man that spoke to the woman?" And he said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Manoah said to him, "Now {when your words come true},<note>Literally "when your words will come"</note> what will be the boy's {manner of life}<note>Literally "measure"</note> and work?"</verse>


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<verse num="13">And the angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "Let the woman be attentive to all that I said.</verse>


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<verse num="14">She should not eat of anything that comes from the vine, or drink wine or strong drink, or eat anything unclean; she should keep all that I commanded." </verse>


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<verse num="15">And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "{Please stay},<note>Literally "Please, let us hold you back"</note> and let us prepare a {young goat}<note>Literally "kid of goat"</note> for you."</verse>


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<verse num="16">The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, "If you keep me, I will not eat your food, but if you prepare a burnt offering for Yahweh, you can offer it (for Manoah did not know that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> an angel of Yahweh)."</verse>


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<verse num="17">And Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your name so that when your words come <transChange type="added">true</transChange> we may honor you?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">But the angel of Yahweh said to him, "Why do you ask my name? It <transChange type="added">is too</transChange> wonderful." </verse>


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<verse num="19">And Manoah took the {young goat}<note>Literally "kid of goat"</note> and the grain offering, and he offered <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Yahweh on the rock, to the one who performs miracles.<note>Or "the one who works wonders"</note> And Manoah and his wife <transChange type="added">were</transChange> watching.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And when the flame went up toward the heaven from the altar, the angel of Yahweh went up in the flame of the altar to heaven while Manoah and his wife <transChange type="added">were</transChange> watching. And they fell on their faces to the ground.</verse>


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<verse num="21">The angel of Yahweh did not appear again to Manoah and his wife, and then Manoah knew that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a messenger<note>Or "angel"</note> of Yahweh.</verse>


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<verse num="22">And Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die because we have seen God."</verse>


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<verse num="23">But his wife said to him, "If Yahweh wanted to kill us he would not have taken<note>Or "accepted"</note> from our hand the burnt offering and the grain offering, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us things such as these." </verse>


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<verse num="24">The woman bore a son, and she called him Samson; the boy grew big, and Yahweh blessed him.</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in the camp of Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. </verse>


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<verse num="1">And Samson went down to Timnah, and he saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of the Philistines.</verse>


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<verse num="2">He went up and told his father and mother, and he said, "I saw a woman in Timnah from the daughters of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines; so then, take her for me as a wife."</verse>


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<verse num="3">But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a wife among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our<note>Hebrew "my"</note> people, that you must take a wife from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Take her for me because {she pleases me}."<note>Literally "she is right in my eyes"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">His father and mother did not know that this <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from Yahweh; he was seeking for an occasion against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. Now at that time <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> ruling<note>Or "having control"</note> in Israel. </verse>


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<verse num="5">And Samson and his father and mother went down to Timnah, and they came to the vineyards of Timnah, and suddenly a young lion <transChange type="added">came</transChange> roaring to meet him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon him, and he tore the lion apart as one might tear apart a male kid goat ({he was bare-handed}).<note>Literally "there was nothing in his hand"</note> But he did not tell his father and mother what he had done.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Then he went down and talked to the woman, and {she pleased Samson}.<note>Literally "she did what was right in the eyes of Samson"</note></verse>


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<verse num="8">And he returned after awhile {to marry her},<note>Literally "to take her"</note> and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a swarm of wild honey bees in the body of the lion, and honey.</verse>


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<verse num="9">He scraped it out into his hands, and he went on, eating <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as he went. And he went to his father and mother and gave <transChange type="added">some</transChange> to them, and they ate it. But he did not tell them that he had scraped the honey from the body of the lion. </verse>


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<verse num="10">His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared there a feast, as young men were accustomed to doing this.</verse>


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<verse num="12">And Samson said to them, "Let me tell you a riddle. If you can fully explain it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find <transChange type="added">it out</transChange>, I will give to you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments.</verse>


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<verse num="13">But if you are unable to explain it to me, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." So they said to him, "Tell your riddle; let us hear it."</verse>


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<verse num="15">When it was the fourth<note>Hebrew "seventh"; other ancient translations have "fourth"</note> day, they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?"</verse>


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<verse num="16">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},<note>Literally "the sons/children of my people"</note> but you have not explained <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to me." He said to her, "I have not explained <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to my father and mother. <transChange type="added">Why</transChange> should I explain it to you?"</verse>


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<verse num="17">She wept before him the seven days of their feast; and it happened, because she nagged him, on the seventh day he explained <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to her, and she told the riddle to {her people}.<note>Literally "the sons/children of her people"</note></verse>


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<verse num="18">The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went <transChange type="added">down</transChange>, </verse>


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<verse num="19">And the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and he went down to Ashkelon. He killed thirty men from them, and he took their belongings, and he gave festal garments to the ones that explained the riddle. {He was angry},<note>Literally "his nose was hot"</note> and he went up to his father's house.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And Samson's wife was <transChange type="added">given</transChange> to his companion who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> his best man.<note>Or "friend"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="1">After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a {young goat}.<note>Literally "kid of goat"</note> He said, "I want to go to my wife's private room." But her father would not allow him to enter.</verse>


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<verse num="2">Her father said, "I really thought that you hated her, so I gave her to your companion. <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please, {take her instead}."<note>Literally "let her be in the place of her"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">And Samson said to them, "This time, as far as the Philistines are concerned, when I do something evil I am without blame."</verse>


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<verse num="4">And Samson went and captured three hundred foxes, and he took torches. He turned <transChange type="added">them</transChange> tail to tail, and he put one torch between two tails.</verse>


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<verse num="5">He set fire to the torches and let <transChange type="added">the foxes</transChange> go into the standing grain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and he burned both the stacks<note>Hebrew "stack"</note> of sheaves and the standing grain, up to the vineyards<note>Hebrew "vineyard"</note> of olive groves.</verse>


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<verse num="6">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went up and burned her and her father with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="7">Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, <transChange type="added">I swear</transChange> I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."</verse>


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<verse num="8">And {he gave them a thorough beating},<note>Literally "he struck them hip and thigh <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a great blow"</note> and he went down and stayed in the cleft of the rock of Etam. </verse>


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<verse num="9">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came up and encamped in Judah, and they overran Lehi.</verse>


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<verse num="10">And the men of Judah said, "Why have you come up against us?" And they said, "To bind Samson; to do to him just as he did to us."</verse>


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<verse num="11">Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and they said to Samson, "Do you not know that the Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> ruling over us? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this <transChange type="added">that</transChange> you have done to us?" And he said to them, "Just as they did to me, so I have done to them."</verse>


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<verse num="12">They said to him, "We have come down to bind you and give you over into the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines." And Samson said to them, "Swear to me that you will not attack me yourselves."</verse>


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<verse num="13">They said to him, "No, we will only bind you and give you into their hand; we will certainly not kill you." So they bound him with two new ropes, and they brought him up from the rock. </verse>


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<verse num="14">As he came up to Lehi, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came shouting to meet him; and the Spirit of Yahweh rushed on him, and the ropes that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> on his arms became like flax that has burned with fire, and his bindings melted from his hands.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And he found a fresh jawbone of a donkey; he reached down and took it and killed one thousand men with it.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And it happened, when he finished speaking he threw the jawbone from his hand; and he called that place Ramath Lehi.<note>That is, "Hill of the Jawbone"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="18">And he was very thirsty, and he called to Yahweh and said, "You gave this great victory into the hand of your servant, but now I must die of thirst and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">So God split the hollow place that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at Lehi, and water came out from it; and he drank, and his spirit returned, and he was revived. Thus he called its name {The Spring of Ha-Qore},<note>Literally "the spring of the one who called" or "En-hakkore"</note> which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> at Lehi to this day.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And he judged Israel in the days of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines twenty years. </verse>


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<verse num="1">Samson went down to Gaza; there he saw a prostitute and {had sex with her}.<note>Literally "went into her"</note></verse>


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<verse num="2">The Gazites <transChange type="added">were told</transChange>, "Samson has come here," so they surrounded <transChange type="added">the place</transChange> and lay in ambush for him all night at the city gate. They kept silent all night, saying, "<transChange type="added">We will wait</transChange> until the morning light, and then we will kill him."</verse>


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<verse num="3">But Samson lay until the middle of the night; he got up in the middle of the night and took hold of the doors of the city gate and the two door posts, tore them loose with the bar, put them on his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of the hill that is {in front of}<note>Literally "on the face of"</note> Hebron. </verse>


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<verse num="4">After this he fell in love <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a woman in the wadi<note>A valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> of Sorek, and her name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Delilah.</verse>


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<verse num="5">And the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> 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>


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<verse num="6">So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me what makes your strength so great, and with what can you be tied up to subdue you?"</verse>


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<verse num="7">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>


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<verse num="8">So the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that were not dried up, and she tied him up with them.</verse>


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<verse num="9">The ambush <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting <transChange type="added">in wait</transChange> for her in an inner room. And she said to him, "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon you Samson!" And he snapped the bowstrings just as flax fiber snaps when it comes close to fire. And <transChange type="added">the secret of</transChange> his strength remained unknown.</verse>


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<verse num="10">Delilah said to Samson, "Look, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you can be bound."</verse>


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<verse num="11">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>


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<verse num="12">So Delilah took new ropes and tied him up with them, and she said to him, "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon you, Samson!" (The ambush <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting in an inner room.) But he snapped them from his arms like thread. </verse>


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<verse num="13">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."<note>Many modern translations include an additional phrase found in the Greek translation: "and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like everyone else. So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them"</note></verse>


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<verse num="14">She fastened <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with the pin and said to him, "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> upon you, Samson!" And Samson woke up from his sleep and tore loose the loom pin of the web and the warp-threads.<note>Hebrew "warp-thread"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="15">And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me how your strength is <transChange type="added">so</transChange> great."</verse>


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<verse num="16">And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, {his soul grew impatient to the point of death}.<note>Literally "his inner self grew tired/impatient to death"</note></verse>


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<verse num="17">So {he confided everything to her},<note>Literally "he told her all his heart"</note> and he said to her, "A razor {has never touched}<note>Literally "has never gone up"</note> my head, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a {Nazirite of God}<note>Literally "consecrated of God" or "devoted of God"</note> {from birth}.<note>Literally "from the womb of my mother"</note> If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else. </verse>


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<verse num="18">Delilah realized that {he had confided in her},<note>Literally "he had told her all his heart"</note> so she sent and called the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, saying, "Come up one more time, for {he has confided in me}."<note>Literally "he has told me all his heart"</note> And the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines came up, and they brought the money {with them}.<note>Literally "in their hand"</note></verse>


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<verse num="19">And she put him to sleep on her lap; then she called the men<note>Hebrew "man"</note> and shaved off seven locks of his head. Then she began to subdue him,<note>Or "humiliate him"</note> and his strength went away from him.</verse>


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<verse num="20">And she said to him, "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> 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>


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<verse num="21">And <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines seized him, gouged his eyes, and brought him to Gaza. They tied him up with bronze shackles, and he became a grinder {in the prison}.<note>Literally "in the house of the prisoners"</note></verse>


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<verse num="23">The rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had gathered to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice. And they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."</verse>


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<verse num="24">And the people saw him, and they praised their god, for they said, "Our god has given into our hand those who hate us, devastate our land, and have {killed many of us}."<note>Literally "made numerous our slain"</note></verse>


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<verse num="25">After awhile, when their hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> were merry, they said, "Call Samson and let him entertain us." And they called Samson {from the prison},<note>Literally "from the house of the prisoner"</note> and {he entertained them}.<note>Literally "he made sport before them"</note> And they made him stand between the pillars.</verse>


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<verse num="26">Then Samson said to the servant who was holding him by his hand, "Position me so that I can touch the pillars on which the house<note>Or "temple"</note> rests, so I can lean on them."</verse>


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<verse num="27">And the house<note>Or "temple"</note> was full of men and women, and all of the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there--about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching the performance of Samson. </verse>


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<verse num="28">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 <transChange type="added">with</transChange> one act of revenge to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines for my eyes."</verse>


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<verse num="29">And Samson reached out and held two of the middle pillars on which the house<note>Or "temple"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> resting, and he leaned on them, one on his right and one on his left.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." And he pushed<note>Or "he caused to bend"</note> with <transChange type="added">all his</transChange> strength, and the house<note>Or "temple"</note> fell on the rulers and all of the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him. And the dead whom he killed in his death were more than those he killed in his life. </verse>


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<verse num="31">His brothers and {his whole family}<note>Literally "all the house of his father"</note> came down and picked him up; and they brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father; he judged Israel twenty years. </verse>


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<verse num="1">There was a man from the hill country of Ephraim; his name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Micah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">And he said to his mother, "The eleven hundred <transChange type="added">pieces</transChange> of silver that were taken from you, and about which you also pronounced a curse {in my hearing},<note>Literally "In my ears"</note> are with me; I took it." And his mother said, "Blessed be my son by Yahweh."</verse>


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<verse num="3">He returned the eleven hundred pieces<note>Hebrew "piece"</note> of silver to his mother, and his mother thought, "I will certainly consecrate to Yahweh the pieces<note>Hebrew "piece"</note> of silver from my hand for my son to make an idol of cast metal; now then, I will return them<note>Hebrew "it"</note> to you."</verse>


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<verse num="4">When he returned the pieces<note>Hebrew "piece"</note> of silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces<note>Hebrew "piece"</note> of silver, and she gave it to the smith, and he made it <transChange type="added">into</transChange> an idol of cast metal; and it was in the house of Micah.</verse>


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<verse num="5">The man Micah had for himself {a shrine},<note>Literally "a house of god"</note> and he made an ephod and teraphim, and {he appointed one of his sons}<note>Literally "he filled the hand of one of his sons"</note> who became a priest for him.</verse>


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<verse num="6">In those days there was no king in Israel, and each one did what was right in his own eyes. </verse>


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<verse num="7">There was a young man from Bethlehem in Judah, from the clan of Judah; he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a Levite and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dwelling as a foreigner<note>Or "alien"</note> there.</verse>


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<verse num="8">And the man went from the town of Bethlehem in Judah to live as a foreigner<note>Or "alien"</note> wherever he could find <transChange type="added">a place</transChange>. And he came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, to continue his journey.</verse>


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<verse num="9">And Micah said to him, "From where do you come?" And he said to him, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah; I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> going to dwell as a foreigner<note>Or "alien"</note> wherever I can find <transChange type="added">a place</transChange>."</verse>


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<verse num="10">And Micah said to him, "Stay with me and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give to you ten pieces<note>Hebrew "piece"</note> of silver a year, a set of clothes, and your food." So the Levite went <transChange type="added">with him</transChange>.</verse>


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<verse num="11">The Levite agreed to stay with the man; and the young man became as one of his sons.</verse>


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<verse num="12">So Micah {appointed the Levite},<note>Literally "filled the hand of the Levite"</note> and the young man became a priest for him; and he was in the house of Micah.</verse>


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<verse num="13">And Micah said, "Now I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest." </verse>


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<verse num="1">In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites <transChange type="added">was</transChange> seeking territory for itself to live in, because until that day it had not been allotted territory among the tribes of Israel.</verse>


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<verse num="2">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan sent from the whole number of their clan five {capable men}<note>Literally "sons of physical strength"</note> from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and to explore it. And they said to them, "Go, explore the land." And they went to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and they spent the night there.<note>Or "they lodged there"</note></verse>


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<verse num="3">While they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you doing in this place, and {what is your business here}?"<note>Literally "What is for you here?"</note></verse>


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<verse num="4">And he said to them, "Micah did such and such for me and hired me, and I became his priest."</verse>


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<verse num="5">And they said to him, "Please inquire of God that we may know whether our journey that we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going on will be successful."</verse>


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<verse num="6">And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in front of you on the journey you want to go on." </verse>


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<verse num="7">And the five men went and came to Laish, and they observed the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> living according to the customs of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians, quiet and unsuspecting, and lacking nothing in the land, and possessing restraint.<note>Or perhaps "prosperity"; the Hebrew of this word is uncertain</note> And they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> far from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Sidonians and had no word with anyone.</verse>


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<verse num="8">They came to their relatives<note>Or "brothers"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Zorah and Eshtaol, and their relatives<note>Or "brothers"</note> said to them, "What <transChange type="added">do</transChange> you <transChange type="added">report</transChange>?"</verse>


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<verse num="9">And they said to them, "Come, let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and <transChange type="added">it is</transChange> very good. Will you do nothing? Do not hesitate to go, to enter, to possess the land.</verse>


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<verse num="10">When you go you will come to an unsuspecting people, and the land {is spread out on all sides};<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">is</transChange> wide of hands"</note> God has given a place into your hands where there is no lack of anything that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the earth." </verse>


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<verse num="11">Six hundred men from the clan of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol, armed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> weapons of war, set out from there.</verse>


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<verse num="12">They went up and encamped at Kiriath Jearim in Judah. Therefore they called this place Camp of Dan<note>That is "Mahaneh-dan"</note> to this day; it is west of Kiriath Jearim.</verse>


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<verse num="13">From there they crossed <transChange type="added">over to</transChange> the hill country of Ephraim, and they came to the house of Micah. </verse>


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<verse num="14">And the five men that went out to spy out the land (<transChange type="added">that is</transChange>, Laish) responded and said to their relatives,<note>Or "brothers"</note> "Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod, teraphim, and an idol of cast metal? So then, consider what you must do."</verse>


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<verse num="15">So they turned to that direction, and they came to the house of the young Levite, the house of Micah, and {they greeted him}.<note>Literally "they asked for him in peace"</note></verse>


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<verse num="16">And six hundred men from the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan, armed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> their weapons of war, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gate.</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and they entered there <transChange type="added">and</transChange> took the carved divine image, ephod, teraphim, and the molten image. The priest <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the gate <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the six hundred men armed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the weapons of war.</verse>


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<verse num="18">When these went to Micah's house, they took the divine carved image, ephod, the teraphim, and the molten image, and the priest asked them, "What <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you doing?"</verse>


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<verse num="19">And they said to him, "Keep quiet! Put your hand on your mouth and come with us and be for us a father and a priest. Is it better being a priest for a house of one man or being a priest for a tribe and clan in Israel?"</verse>


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<verse num="20">{The priest accepted the offer},<note>Literally "It was good in the heart of the priest"</note> and he took the ephod, teraphim, and molten image and went along with the people. </verse>


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<verse num="21">And they turned<note>Or "resumed their journey"</note> and went and put the little children, the livestock, and the valuable property in front of them.</verse>


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<verse num="22">When they were at a distance from the house, Micah and the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the houses that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> near the house of Micah cried out, and they overtook the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan.</verse>


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<verse num="23">And they called to the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan, who turned around to face them, and they said to Micah, "What is the matter with you that you assembled together?"</verse>


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<verse num="24">He said, "You took away my gods that I had made, and the priest, and then you go <transChange type="added">away</transChange>. What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> now left for me? How can you say to me, 'What is the matter?'"</verse>


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<verse num="25">And the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan said to him, "You should not let your voice be heard among us, so that {ill-tempered men}<note>Literally "men of bitter soul"</note> {will not attack you},<note>Literally "will not fall on you"</note> {and take your life}<note>Literally "and you will lose your life"</note> and the lives of your household."</verse>


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<verse num="26">And the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan went their way. When Micah saw that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> stronger than him, he turned to return to his house. </verse>


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<verse num="27">And they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and they came to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and {they put them to the sword}<note>Literally "they put them to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and burned the city with fire.</verse>


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<verse num="28">There was no deliverer, because it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> far from Sidon, and {they had had no dealings with anyone}.<note>Literally "a thing was not for them with anyone"</note> It <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in the valley that belonged to Beth-rehob, and they rebuilt<note>Hebrew "built"</note> the city and lived in it.</verse>


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<verse num="29">And they called the name of the city Dan, after Dan their ancestor,<note>Or "father"</note> who was born to Israel; but the former name of the city <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Laish.</verse>


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<verse num="30">And the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Dan set up for themselves the carved divine image, and Jonathan son of Gershom, son of Manasseh,<note>Other ancient versions read "Moses"</note> he and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites until the time of the captivity of the land.</verse>


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<verse num="31">So they set up for themselves the carved divine image that Micah had made, all the days that the house of God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Shiloh. </verse>


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<verse num="1">In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner<note>Or "alien"</note> in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.</verse>


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<verse num="2">But his concubine felt repugnance toward him,<note>Other modern translations read "his concubine played the harlot against him"</note> and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months.</verse>


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<verse num="3">So her husband set out, and he went after her to speak {tenderly to her},<note>Literally "to her heart"</note> to bring her back. He took with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. And she brought him <transChange type="added">to</transChange> her father's house, and the father of the young woman saw him and was glad to meet him.</verse>


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<verse num="4">His father-in-law, the young woman's father, urged him to stay with him three days; and they ate and drank, and they spent the night there.</verse>


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<verse num="5">On the fourth day, they rose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the father of the young woman said to his son-in-law, "{Refresh yourself}<note>Literally "Refresh your heart"</note> <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a bit of food, and afterward you may go."</verse>


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<verse num="6">So the two of them sat and ate and drank together, and the father of the young woman said to the man, "Please, agree to spend the night and {enjoy yourself}."<note>Literally "and let your heart be good"</note></verse>


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<verse num="7">The man got up to go, but his father-in-law urged him, and he returned and spent the night there.</verse>


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<verse num="8">On the fifth day he rose early in the morning to go, and the father of the young woman said, "Please, {enjoy yourself},"<note>Literally "and let your heart be good"</note> and they lingered until the day declined, and the two of them ate.</verse>


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<verse num="9">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}.<note>Literally "and let your heart be good"</note> You can rise early tomorrow for your journey and {go to your home}."<note>Literally "go to your tent"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="10">But the man was not willing to spend the night, and he got up and went; and he arrived opposite Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). <transChange type="added">He had</transChange> with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.</verse>


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<verse num="11">They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> near Jebus, and {the day was far spent},<note>Literally "the day went down very"</note> and the servant said to his master, "Please, come, let us turn aside to this city of the Jebusites,<note>Hebrew "Jebusite"</note> and let us spend the night in it."</verse>


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<verse num="12">But his master said to him, "We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners,<note>Hebrew "foreigner"</note> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> not from the {Israelites};<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> we will cross over up to Gibeah."</verse>


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<verse num="13">And he said to his servant, "Come, let us approach one of these places; we will spend the night in Gibeah or in Ramah."</verse>


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<verse num="14">So they crossed over and went their way, and the sun went down on them beside Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.</verse>


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<verse num="15">And they turned aside there to enter <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to spend the night at Gibeah. And they went and sat in the open square of the city, but no one {took them in to spend the night}.<note>Literally "was receiving them to <transChange type="added">their</transChange> house to spend the night"</note> </verse>


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<verse num="16">Then behold, an old man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming from his work from the field in the evening, and the man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from the hill country of Ephraim, and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> dwelling as a foreigner<note>Or "alien"</note> in Gibeah. (The people of the place <transChange type="added">were</transChange> descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin.)</verse>


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<verse num="17">And the old man raised his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city, and he said, "Where are you going, and from where do you come?"</verse>


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<verse num="18">And he said to him, "We <transChange type="added">are</transChange> crossing over from Bethlehem in Judah up to the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim, where I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, but <transChange type="added">now</transChange> I am going to Yahweh's house,<note>Or "my house," according to the LXX and some modern translations (NASB, NRSV)</note> but no one {took me in to spend the night}.<note>Literally "was receiving me to <transChange type="added">their</transChange> house"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="19">There is both straw and fodder for our donkeys, and also bread and wine for me, for your servant,<note>That is, the concubine</note> and for the young man who is with your servant; there is no lack of anything."</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="20">And the old man said, "Peace to you. I will take care of your needs; however, you must not spend the night in the open square."</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="21">So he brought him to his house, and he fed the donkeys; they washed their feet, ate, and drank. </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="22">While {they were enjoying themselves},<note>Literally "their hearts <transChange type="added">were</transChange> being good"</note> behold, the men of the city, {the perverse lot},<note>Literally "sons of uselessness"</note> surrounded the house, pounding on the door. And they said to the old man, the owner of the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so that {we may have sex with him}."<note>Literally "we may know him"</note></verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="23">So the man, the owner of the house, went out to them and said to them, "No, my brothers, do not act wickedly; since this man has come into my house, do not do this disgraceful thing.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="24">Here is my virgin daughter and his concubine. Please, let me bring them out; do violence to them,<note>Or "rape them"</note> and do to them {whatever you please}.<note>Literally "the good in your eyes"</note> Do not do this disgraceful thing to this man."</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="25">But the men were not willing to listen to him, and the man seized his concubine and brought <transChange type="added">her</transChange> 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>


book: Judg
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<verse num="26">And the woman came as the morning appeared, and she fell <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the man's house where her master was, until daylight.<note>Hebrew "light"</note> </verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="27">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 <transChange type="added">was</transChange> falling<note>Or "spread out"</note> <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of the house, with her hand on the threshold.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="28">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>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="29">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>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="30">All who saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> said, "Nothing like this has <transChange type="added">ever</transChange> been since the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went up from the land of Egypt until this day. Take note of it, consider <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and speak <transChange type="added">up</transChange>." </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="1">All the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went out, from Dan to Beersheba, including the land of Gilead, and they gathered as one body<note>Hebrew "man"</note> to Yahweh <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Mizpah.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="2">And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand sword-bearing infantry.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="3">(The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin heard that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had gone up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Mizpah.) And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons of Israel" or "children of "Israel"</note> said, "Tell us, how did this evil act occur?"</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="4">The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered and said, "I came to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to spend the night.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="5">The lords of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house at night. They intended to kill me, and they raped my concubine, and she died.</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="6">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>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="7">Look, all you {Israelites}!<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> {Make your decision}<note>Literally "give your word"</note> and advice here." </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="8">All the people got up as one body,<note>Hebrew "man"</note> saying, "Not one of us will go to his tent, or will any of us return to his house.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="9">So then, this is what we will do to Gibeah: <transChange type="added">we will go up</transChange> against her by lot.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="10">We will take ten men of one hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and one thousand of ten thousand, to bring provisions to the troops, to repay <transChange type="added">them</transChange> when they come to Gibeah<note>Hebrew "Geba"</note> of Benjamin for all the disgraceful things<note>Hebrew "thing"</note> they did in Israel."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="11">And all the men of Israel were gathered to the city as one body<note>Hebrew "man"</note> united. </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="12">Then the tribes of Israel sent men throughout all the tribes of Benjamin, saying, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this wickedness that happened among you?</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="13">So then, hand over the men, {the perverse lot},<note>Literally "sons of uselessness"</note> who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> in Gibeah, so that we may kill them and purge <transChange type="added">this</transChange> wickedness from Israel." But the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin were not willing to listen to the voice of their relatives,<note>Or "brothers"</note> the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="14">And the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin were gathered from the cities to Gibeah to go out for battle against the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="15">From the cities the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin were counted on that day twenty-six thousand {sword-wielding men},<note>Literally "men drawing sword"</note> besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who were counted seven hundred well-trained<note>Or "chosen"</note> men.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="16">From all these troops <transChange type="added">were</transChange> seven hundred well-trained<note>Or "choice/chosen"</note> men {who were left-handed};<note>Literally "bound <transChange type="added">by</transChange> his right hand"</note> each one could sling with a stone at a hair and not miss.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="17">And the men of Israel besides Benjamin were counted four hundred thousand {sword-wielding men};<note>Literally "men drawing sword"</note> {all were warriors}.<note>Literally "all were men of war"</note> </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="18">Then the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> got up and went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel, and they inquired of God, saying, "Who will go up first for the battle against the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin?" And Yahweh said, "Judah <transChange type="added">will go</transChange> first."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="19">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> got up in the morning, and they encamped against Gibeah.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="20">Then the men of Israel marched out for the battle against Benjamin, and the men of Israel took up positions against them <transChange type="added">for</transChange> battle at Gibeah.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="21">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin went out from Gibeah, and they struck down on that day twenty-two thousand men of Israel to the ground.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="22">But the troops, the men of Israel, {encouraged themselves},<note>Literally "took heart"</note> and again they arranged <transChange type="added">their</transChange> battle <transChange type="added">lines</transChange> in the place where they had arranged themselves the first day.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="23">The {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went up and wept before Yahweh until evening and inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Should we again draw near from the battle against the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin, our relatives?"<note>Hebrew "my brother"</note> And Yahweh said, "Go up against them."<note>Hebrew "him"</note> </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="24">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> drew near to the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin on the second day.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="25">And Benjamin went out from Gibeah to meet them on the second day, and they struck down the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> again, eighteen thousand men to the ground; all of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {sword-wielding}.<note>Literally "drawers of sword"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="26">And all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> and all the troops went up and came to Bethel and wept; and they sat there before Yahweh and fasted on that day until evening; and they offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before Yahweh.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="27">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> inquired of Yahweh (In those days the ark of the covenant of God <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there,</verse>


book: Judg
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<verse num="28">and Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> standing {before it}<note>Literally "before presence of it/him"</note> <transChange type="added">to minister</transChange> in those days), saying, "Should we go out once more to battle against the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin our relatives,<note>Hebrew "my brother"</note> or should we stop?" And Yahweh said, "Go up tomorrow; I will give them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> into your hand." </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="30">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> went up against the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin on the third day, and they took up positions against Gibeah as before.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="31">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin went out to meet the troops, and they lured <transChange type="added">them</transChange> away from the city and began to inflict casualties on the troops as before, on the main road, one of which goes up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethel, the other to Gibeah; <transChange type="added">and</transChange> in the field <transChange type="added">there were</transChange> about thirty men of Israel.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="32">And the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin thought,<note>Or "said"</note> "They <transChange type="added">are</transChange> being defeated before us {as previously},"<note>Literally "on the first"</note> and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said, "Let us flee and lure them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> away from the city to the main roads."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="33">And all the men of Israel got up from their places<note>Hebrew "place"</note> and took up positions in Baal Tamar; and the ambush of Israel charged from their places,<note>Hebrew "place"</note> from the vicinity of Gibeah.<note>Hebrew "Geba"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="34">Then ten thousand well-trained<note>Or "choice/chosen"</note> men from all Israel came out against Gibeah, and the battle became fierce;<note>Or "the battle became heavy"</note> they did not know that disaster <transChange type="added">was about to</transChange> {close in}<note>Literally "touching"</note> on them.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="35">And Yahweh defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> destroyed on that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men of Benjamin, all of them {sword-wielding}.<note>Literally "drawing sword"</note> </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="36">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin saw that they were defeated, and the men of Israel gave ground<note>Or "a place" or "space"</note> to Benjamin because they trusted the ambush that they had set against Gibeah.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="37">And the ambush came quickly and advanced against Gibeah, and it {put the whole city to the sword}.<note>Literally "struck the whole city with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="38">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>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="39">And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to inflict casualties on about thirty men of Israel because they thought,<note>Or "said"</note> "They will be completely defeated before us as in the first battle."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="40">And the cloud of smoke began to go up from the city in a column of smoke, and Benjamin turned backward, and behold, the whole city was going up {in smoke}!<note>Literally "to heaven"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="41">And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed because they saw that disaster was {closing in}<note>Literally "touching"</note> on them.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="42">And they retreated from before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness, but the battle caught up to them, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> who <transChange type="added">came</transChange> from the cities<note>Other ancient translations "city"</note> destroyed them in the midst of them.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="43">They surrounded Benjamin; they pursued them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> without rest<note>Or "<transChange type="added">at</transChange> Nohah," a location</note> <transChange type="added">and</transChange> trod them<note>Hebrew "him"</note> down opposite Gibeah to the east.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="44">And eighteen thousand men from Benjamin fell, all of them {able men}.<note>Literally "men of strength"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="45">And they turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, but they cut down on the main roads five thousand men; and they pursued after them up to Gidom, and they struck down two thousand men.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="46">So all of Benjamin who fell on that day were twenty-five thousand {sword-wielding men};<note>Literally "men drawing sword"</note> all of these <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {able men}.<note>Literally "men of strength"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="47">But six hundred turned and fled toward the wilderness, to the rock of Rimmon, and they remained at the rock of Rimmon <transChange type="added">for</transChange> four months.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="48">And the men of Israel returned to the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin, and they put them to {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> both the inhabitants of city and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> animals that were found; they also set on fire all the cities that they found. </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="1">The men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, saying, "None of us will give his daughter to Benjamin as a wife."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="2">And the people of Bethel came and sat there until evening before God, and they lifted their voices and {wept bitterly}.<note>Literally "they cried a great weeping"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="3">And they said, "Why, Yahweh, God of Israel, has it happened today in Israel that one tribe is lacking from Israel?"</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="4">On the next day the people rose early, and they built there an altar and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="5">And the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said, "Who in the assembly has not come up from all the tribes of Israel to Yahweh?" For a solemn oath was <transChange type="added">taken</transChange> concerning whoever did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah, saying, "He will certainly be put to death."</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="6">But the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had compassion for Benjamin, their relatives,<note>Hebrew "his brother"</note> and they said, "Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="7">What will we do for them--for the <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> being left over--for wives? For we have sworn by Yahweh not to give to them our daughters as wives." </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="8">They asked, "Which one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Yahweh at Mizpah?" And behold, no one came from Jabesh-gilead to the camp, to the assembly.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="9">The people were counted, and no one was there from the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="10">And the congregation sent there twelve thousand men from the troops, and they commanded them, saying, "Go, strike the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead with {the edge of the sword},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> and the women and children.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="11">This is the thing you will do: {you will destroy}<note>Literally "you will devote to destruction"</note> every man and {every woman who had sex with a man}."<note>Literally "every woman who knows the bed of a man"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="12">And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins<note>Hebrew "virgin"</note> who had not {had sex with a man},<note>Literally "known a man, as far as <transChange type="added">the</transChange> bed of a male"</note> and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the land of Canaan. </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="13">Then the congregation sent and spoke all <transChange type="added">this</transChange> to the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the rock of Rimmon, and {they assured them they would not be hurt}.<note>Literally "they proclaimed peace to them"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="14">And Benjamin returned at that time, and they gave to them the women whom they kept alive from Jabesh-gilead; but they were not enough for them. </verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="15">And the people felt sorry for Benjamin because {Yahweh weakened the tribes of Israel}.<note>Literally "Yahweh make a breach with the tribes of Israel"</note></verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="16">So the elders of the congregation said, "What should we do for the remaining <transChange type="added">ones</transChange> for wives, since the women from Benjamin have been destroyed?"</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="17">And they said, "<transChange type="added">There must be</transChange> a remnant for Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="18">But we cannot give them wives from our daughters." (For the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> swore, saying, "Cursed be <transChange type="added">anyone</transChange> who gives a wife to Benjamin.")</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="19">And they said, "Look, the annual feast of Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Shiloh, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> to the north of Bethel, {east}<note>Literally "rising of the sun"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> main road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="20">They instructed the descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin, saying, "Go, lie in ambush in the vineyards,</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="21">and watch and look; when the daughters of Shiloh dance in the dances, come out from the vineyards and seize for yourselves a wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="22">And if their fathers or their brothers complain to us, we will say to them, 'Allow us to have them, because we did not capture a wife for each man in the battle, and because you did not give <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to them, {or else}<note>Literally "as the time"</note> you would have been guilty.'"</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="23">The descendants<note>Or "sons/children"</note> of Benjamin did likewise, and they took wives for each of them from the dancers whom they seized, and they went and returned to their territory, and they rebuilt the cities and they lived in them.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="24">So the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> dispersed from there at that time according to tribe and family; and they went out from there, each one to their own territory.</verse>


book: Judg
content:
<verse num="25">In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did what was right in his own eyes. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="1">And it happened in the days <transChange type="added">when</transChange> {the judges ruled},<note>Literally "the judging of the judges"</note> there was a famine in the land, and a man from Bethlehem <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Judah went {to reside}<note>Literally "to dwell as an alien"</note> in the countryside of Moab--he and his wife and his two sons.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="2">And the name of the man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Elimelech, and the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Naomi, and the name<transChange type="added">s</transChange> of his two sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> Mahlon and Kilion. <transChange type="added">They were</transChange> Ephraimites from Bethlehem <transChange type="added">in</transChange> Judah. And they went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the countryside of Moab and remained there. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="3">But Elimelech the husband of Naomi died and she was left behind <transChange type="added">with</transChange> {her two sons}.<note>Literally "she and her two sons"</note></verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="4">And {they took}<note>Literally "they lifted up"</note> for themselves Moabite wives. The name of the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Orpah and the name of the other <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ruth. And they lived there about ten years.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="5">But {both}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> Mahlon and Kilion died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="6">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}<note>Literally "had considered"</note> his people to give food to them.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="7">So she set out from the place {where she was}<note>Literally "which she was there"</note> and her two daughters-in-law with her, and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="8">But Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, "Go, each <transChange type="added">of you</transChange> return to her mother's house. May Yahweh {show kindness to you}<note>Literally "do loyal love with you"</note> <transChange type="added">just</transChange> as you did with the dead and with me.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="9">May Yahweh {grant that you}<note>Literally "give to you"</note> find a resting place, each <transChange type="added">in</transChange> the house of her husband." And she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice<transChange type="added">s</transChange> and cried. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="10">And they said to her, "<transChange type="added">No,</transChange> we want to return with you to your people."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="11">And Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. {Why do you still want to go with me}?<note>Literally "To what do you want to go still for me?"</note> <transChange type="added">Are there</transChange> sons {in my womb}<note>Literally "in my intestines"</note> that may be husbands for you?</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="12">Turn back, my daughters! Go, for {I am too old to have a husband}.<note>Literally "I am too old from being to a man"</note> If I should think there is hope for me, even if I should have a husband <transChange type="added">this</transChange> night, and even if I should bear sons,</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="13">would you therefore wait until they were grown? Would you therefore {refrain from marrying}?<note>Literally "Would you therefore let yourself be hindered to not belong to a man?"</note> No, my daughters, for it is far more bitter to me than <transChange type="added">to</transChange> you. For the hand of Yahweh has gone out against me."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="14">And they lifted up their voices and cried again. And Orpah kissed her mother-in-law <transChange type="added">goodbye</transChange>, but Ruth clung to her.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="15">And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has returned to her people and to her gods. Return after your sister-in-law <transChange type="added">too</transChange>." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="16">But Ruth said, "{Do not urge}<note>Literally "You shall not press me"</note> me to leave you <transChange type="added">or</transChange> to return from {following you}!<note>Literally "from behind you"</note> For where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> my people and your God <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> my God.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="17">Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. So may Yahweh do to me, {and even more, unless}<note>Literally "and so may he do again, that"</note> death {separates you and me}!"<note>Literally "makes a separation between you and between me"</note></verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="18"><transChange type="added">When Naomi</transChange> saw that she was determined to go with her, {she said no more}.<note>Literally "she ceased to speak to her"</note> </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="19"><transChange type="added">So</transChange> the two of them went until they came to Bethlehem. {And when they came}<note>Literally "And it happened at the moment of coming"</note> to Bethlehem, all of the town was stirred because of them. And they said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this Naomi?"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="20">And she said to them, "You should not call me Naomi; call me Mara, for Shaddai<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note> has {caused me to be very bitter}.<note>Literally "caused very bitterness to me"</note></verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="21">I went <transChange type="added">away</transChange> full, but Yahweh brought me back empty-handed! Why call me Naomi {when Yahweh has testified against me}<note>Literally "and Yahweh answered against me"</note> and Shaddai<note>Often translated "the Almighty"</note> has brought calamity upon me?"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="22">So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabite her daughter-in-law with her, returning from the countryside of Moab. And they came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Bethlehem at <transChange type="added">the</transChange> beginning of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> harvest of barley. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="1">{Now}<note>Literally "and for"</note> Naomi {had a relative of her husband},<note>Literally "was an acquaintance of a man of her husband"</note> {a prominent rich man}<note>Literally "a man mighty of wealth"</note> from the clan of Elimelech, <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> name was Boaz.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="2">And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, "Please let me go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the field and glean among the ears of grain after <transChange type="added">someone</transChange> in whose eyes I <transChange type="added">may</transChange> find favor." And she said to her, "Go, my daughter."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="3">So she went and came and gleaned in the field behind the reapers. And she happened <transChange type="added">by</transChange> chance <transChange type="added">upon</transChange> the tract of field {belonging to}<note>Literally "was for"</note> Boaz, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> from the clan of Elimelech.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="4">And look, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, "<transChange type="added">May</transChange> Yahweh <transChange type="added">be</transChange> with you." And they said to him, "<transChange type="added">May</transChange> Yahweh bless you."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="5">And Boaz said to his servant {in charge of the reapers},<note>Literally "the one standing over the reapers"</note> "To whom <transChange type="added">does</transChange> this young woman <transChange type="added">belong</transChange>?"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="6">And {the servant in charge of the reapers}<note>Literally "the servant the one standing over the reapers"</note> said, "She <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a Moabite girl returning with Naomi from the countryside of Moab.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="7">And she said, 'Please let me glean and let me gather among the sheaves behind the reapers.' So she came and remained from the morning up to now. {She is sitting for a little while in the house}."<note>Literally "this one she is sitting a little in the house"</note> </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="8">And Boaz said to Ruth, "{Listen carefully},<note>Literally, "You have heard"</note> my daughter, go no longer to glean in another field. Moreover, do not leave from this one, but {stay close}<note>Literally "cling"</note> with my young women.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="9">Keep your eyes on the field that they reap and go after them. Have I not ordered the servants not to bother you? And if you get thirsty, you shall go to the containers and drink from where the servants have drawn."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="10">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 <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a foreigner?"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="11">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. <transChange type="added">How</transChange> you left your father and mother and the land of your birth, and you went to a people that you did not know {before}.<note>Literally "yesterday three days ago"</note></verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="12">May Yahweh reward your work and may a full reward be <transChange type="added">given to</transChange> you from Yahweh, the God of Israel, under whose wings you came to take refuge."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="13">And she said, "May I find favor in your eyes, my lord, for you have comforted me and have spoken {kindly to your servant},<note>Literally "on the heart of your servant"</note> and I am not one of your servants." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="14">And Boaz said to her {at mealtime},<note>Literally "at the time of the food"</note> "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>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="15">And she got up to glean, and Boaz instructed his servants saying, "Let her also glean between the sheaves and do not reproach her.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="16">And also pull out for her from your bundles and leave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> so that she may glean--and do not rebuke her." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="17">So she gleaned in the field until the evening and she beat out what she had gleaned, and it was about an ephah <transChange type="added">of</transChange> barley.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="18">And she picked <transChange type="added">it</transChange> up and went <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took <transChange type="added">it</transChange> out and gave to her what she had left over {after being satisfied}.<note>Literally "from her satiety"</note></verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="19">And her mother-in-law said to her, "Where did you glean {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> and where did you work? May he <transChange type="added">who</transChange> took notice of you be blessed." And she told her mother-in-law {with whom she had worked}<note>Literally "who she had worked with him"</note> and said, "The name of the man who I worked with today <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Boaz."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="20">And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, "<transChange type="added">May</transChange> 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 <transChange type="added">is</transChange> one of our redeemers."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="21">And Ruth the Moabite said, "Also, he said to me, 'You shall stay close with the servants which are mine until they have finished all of the harvest which is mine.'"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="22">And Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, "<transChange type="added">It is</transChange> good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidservants so that you will not {be bothered}<note>Literally "they touch on you"</note> in another field."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="23">So she stayed close with the maidservants <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law. </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="1">Now Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, "My daughter, should I not seek for you security that <transChange type="added">things</transChange> may be good for you?</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="2">So then, <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not Boaz our kinsman whose maidservants you were with? Look, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> winnowing the barley at the threshing floor tonight.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="3">Wash, anoint yourself, put your clothing on, and go down to the threshing floor. Do not make yourself known to the man until he finishes eating and drinking.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="4">And when he lies, take notice of the place where he lies. And you shall go and {uncover}<note>Literally "open"</note> his feet and lie <transChange type="added">down</transChange>, and he shall tell you what to do."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="6">And she went down to the threshing floor and did all that her mother-in-law had instructed her.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="7">And Boaz ate and drank <transChange type="added">until</transChange> his heart was {merry}<note>Literally "good"</note> <transChange type="added">and then</transChange> he came to lie at the end of the grain heap. And she came in quietly and {uncovered}<note>Literally "opened"</note> his feet and lay down.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="8">And it happened in the middle of the night the man was startled and he reached out and behold, a woman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> lying at his feet.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="9">And he said, "Who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> you?" And she said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> Ruth, your servant. Spread {your garment}<note>Literally "your wing"</note> over your servant because you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a redeemer."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="10">And he said, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> blessed by Yahweh my daughter. You did better <transChange type="added">in this</transChange> last kindness than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="11">And so then my daughter, do not be afraid. All that you ask I will do for you, for the entire assembly of my people knows that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> a worthy woman.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="12">Now truly I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> a redeemer, but there is also a redeemer <transChange type="added">of a</transChange> closer relationship than me.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="13">{Stay tonight,}<note>Literally "Spend the night tonight"</note> and in the morning, if he wants to redeem you, good; but if he is not willing to redeem, {then as Yahweh lives,}<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> I will redeem you. Lie down until the morning." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="14">So she lay at his feet until morning and got up before {anyone could recognize each other}.<note>Literally "a man could recognize his friend"</note> And he said, "It must not be known that {you}<note>Literally "the woman"</note> came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the threshing floor."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="15">And he said, "Bring the cloak that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on you and {hold it out}."<note>Literally "hold on her"</note> And she held it out and he measured six <transChange type="added">measures of</transChange> barley and put it on her <transChange type="added">cloak</transChange>. Then she went <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the city.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="16">And she came to her mother-in-law, and she said, "{How did it go for you,}<note>Literally "who are you?"</note> my daughter?" And she told her all that the man did for her.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="17">And she said, "These six measures of barley he gave to me, for he said, 'You shall not go empty-handed to your mother-in-law.'"</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="18">And she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="1">And Boaz had gone up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the <transChange type="added">city</transChange> gate and sat there. And look, the redeemer of whom Boaz had spoken <transChange type="added">was</transChange> passing by. And he said, "Come over here to sit, {friend}."<note>Literally "certain someone"</note> And he came over and sat.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="2">And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, "Sit here." And they sat.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="3">And he said to the redeemer, "Naomi, who returned from the countryside <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Moab, is selling the tract of land which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for our brother Elimelech.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="4">And I thought {I would tell you}<note>Literally "I would open your ear"</note> and say, '{Buy it in the presence of}<note>Literally "Buy before"</note> those sitting and before the elders of my people,' if you want to redeem <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, redeem <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. But if you do not want to redeem, tell me so that I may know, for there is no one except you to redeem <transChange type="added">it</transChange>, and I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> after you." And he said, "I want to redeem <transChange type="added">it</transChange>."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="5">And Boaz said, "On the day of your acquiring the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the wife of the dead <transChange type="added">man</transChange>, <transChange type="added">in order</transChange> to raise up <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the name of the dead his inheritance."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="6">And the redeemer said, "I am not able to redeem for myself, lest I ruin my inheritance. You redeem for yourself my kinsman-redemption, for I am not able to redeem <transChange type="added">it</transChange>." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="7">(Now this {was the custom in former times}<note>Literally "before faces"</note> in Israel concerning the kinsman-redemption and transfer of property: to confirm the matter, a man removed his sandal and gave <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his fellow countryman. This <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the manner of attesting in Israel.)</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="8">So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire <transChange type="added">it</transChange> for yourself," and he removed his sandal.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="9">And Boaz said to the elders and all of the people, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> witnesses today that I have acquired all that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for Elimelech and that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for Kilion and Mahlon from the hand of Naomi.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="10">And also Ruth the Moabite, the wife of Mahlon, I have acquired as a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance, so that the name of the dead may not be cut off from his relatives and from the gate of his <transChange type="added">birth</transChange> place. You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> witnesses today."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="11">And all of the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at the gate and the elders said, "<transChange type="added">We are</transChange> witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman coming into your house as Rachel and as Leah, who {together}<note>Literally "the two of them"</note> built the house of Israel. May you have strength in Ephrathah and bestow a name in Bethlehem.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="12">And may your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah from the offspring that Yahweh will give to you from this young woman." </verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="13">So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife. And he went <transChange type="added">in</transChange> to her, and Yahweh {enabled her to conceive},<note>Literally "gave to her conception"</note> and she bore a son.</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="14">And the women said to Naomi, "Blessed be Yahweh who today {did not leave you without a redeemer}!<note>Literally "did not allow to be missing for you a redeemer"</note> And may his name be renowned in Israel!</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="15">He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> better for you than seven sons, has borne him."</verse>


book: Ruth
content:
<verse num="17">And the women of the neighborhood gave him a name, saying, "A son has been born to Naomi." And they called his name Obed. He <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Jesse, the father of David. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">There was a certain man from Ramathaim Zophim, from the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.<note>Or "Ephrathite"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">He had two wives; the name of the first <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Hannah, and the name of the second <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Peninnah. Now Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now this man used to go up from his town {year by year}<note>Literally "from days to days"</note> to worship and to sacrifice to Yahweh of hosts in Shiloh, {where}<note>Literally "and there"</note> the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> priests to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">{On}<note>Literally "And it happened on"</note> the day Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">But to Hannah he would give {a double portion},<note>Literally "a portion of two faces"</note> because he loved Hannah, though Yahweh had closed her womb.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">(Now her rival wife would provoke her severely in order to upset her because Yahweh had closed her womb.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">And so he used to do<note>So Hebrew; because of the abrupt change of subject some revocalize the verb to read "it used to be"</note> year after year; {whenever}<note>Or "as often as"; literally "from enough"</note> she went up to the house of Yahweh, she<note>That is, Penninah</note> would provoke her so that she<note>That is, Hannah</note> would weep and would not eat.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So Elkanah her husband would say to her: "Hannah, why do you weep and why do you not eat? And {why are you heartsick}?<note>Literally "why <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your heart evil"</note> Am I not better to you than ten sons?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then Hannah got up after eating and drinking at Shiloh. (Now Eli the priest <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting on his chair by the doorpost of the temple<note>This is not the temple of Solomon (ca. 966 bc), but rather the tabernacle that first resided at Shiloh after the conquest of Joshua.</note> of Yahweh.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">She <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {deeply troubled},<note>Literally "bitter of soul"</note> so she prayed to Yahweh and wept bitterly.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">She {made a vow}<note>Literally "vowed a vow"</note> and said: "O Yahweh of hosts, if you will look with compassion on the misery of your female servant, and will remember me, and not forget your female servant, and will give to your female servant {a male child}<note>Literally "an offspring of men"</note> then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and a razor will never pass over his head."<note>"A razor will never pass over his head" indicates that Hannah promised to dedicate her son to Yahweh as a Nazirite, according to the terms of Num 6:1-21</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">{While}<note>Literally "And it happened that when"</note> she continued to pray before Yahweh, Eli was observing her mouth.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Now Hannah had been speaking in her heart; her lips <transChange type="added">were</transChange> moving, but her voice could not be heard, so Eli considered her <transChange type="added">to be</transChange> drunk.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then Eli said to her, "How long will you behave like someone <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> drunk? Put away your wine!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">But Hannah answered and said, "No, my lord. I am a woman {deeply distressed},<note>Literally "difficult of spirit"</note> but I have not drunk wine <transChange type="added">or</transChange> strong drink. <transChange type="added">Rather</transChange>, I have poured out my soul before Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Do not regard your female servant as {worthless},<note>Literally "as a daughter of Belial/daughter of worthlessness"</note> but because of the extent of my worries and my provocation I have spoken all of this."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then Eli answered and said, "Go in peace, and may the God of Israel grant your request that you have asked of him."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">And she said, "May your female slave find favor in your sight." Then the woman went on her way and ate <transChange type="added">something</transChange>, and {her face did not look sad any longer}.<note>Literally "her faces were not for her <transChange type="added">any</transChange> longer"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Then they rose early in the morning and worshiped before Yahweh {and returned}<note>Literally "and they returned and went"</note> to their house at Ramah. Then Elkanah {had sexual relations with}<note>Literally "knew"</note> Hannah his wife, and Yahweh remembered her.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">{In due time},<note>Literally "At the turning of the days"</note> Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She called his name Samuel, for <transChange type="added">she said</transChange>, "I requested him from Yahweh." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So the man Elkanah went up with all his household {to make the annual sacrifice}<note>Literally "to sacrifice the sacrifice of days"</note> to Yahweh and <transChange type="added">to pay</transChange> his vow.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">But Hannah did not go up, for she said to her husband, "Once the boy <transChange type="added">is</transChange> weaned, I will bring him, so that he may appear before Yahweh; and he will remain there forever."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So her husband Elkanah said to her, "{Do what seems right to you};<note>Literally "do what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in your eyes"</note> stay until you wean him. Only may Yahweh fulfill his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then she brought him up with her when she had weaned him, <transChange type="added">along</transChange> with three bulls, one ephah of flour, and a skin<note>Or "a <transChange type="added">clay</transChange> jar"</note> of wine. She brought him to the house of Yahweh at Shiloh while the boy <transChange type="added">was still</transChange> young.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">She said, "Excuse me, my lord. As {you live},<note>Literally "your soul lives"</note> my lord, I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the woman who stood with you in this <transChange type="added">place</transChange> to pray to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">I prayed for this boy, and Yahweh has given me my request that I asked from him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">I in turn have lent him to Yahweh. {As long as he lives}<note>Literally "All the days that he lives"</note> he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> lent to Yahweh." Then they worshiped Yahweh there. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">There is no one holy like Yahweh, for there is no one besides you, and there is no rock like our God.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Do not increase speaking {very proud}<note>Literally "proud, proud"</note> words! Let no arrogance go forth from your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge <transChange type="added">whose</transChange> deeds are not weighed.<note>So Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) reads "and by him deeds are weighed"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The bows of mighty warriors <transChange type="added">are</transChange> shattered, but those who stumble gird <transChange type="added">themselves with</transChange> strength.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but <transChange type="added">she who has</transChange> many sons withers away.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Sheol<note>"Sheol" is a Hebrew term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the underworld.</note> and raises up.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">He raises up the poor from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> dust. From <transChange type="added">the</transChange> ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">He will guard the feet of his faithful<note>Or "loyal"</note> ones, but the wicked will be destroyed<note>Or "will be silenced"</note> in the darkness, because a man will not prevail by <transChange type="added">his</transChange> might.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Yahweh will shatter<note>Singular verb supported by Syriac, Targums, Septuagint, and Old Latin versions.</note> his adversaries;<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) has the singular "adversary"; the reading tradition (Qere) reads the plural</note> he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then Elkanah went to Ramah, to his house. Now the boy was serving Yahweh {in the presence of}<note>Literally "in the face of"</note> Eli the priest. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Now the sons of Eli <transChange type="added">were</transChange> {worthless scoundrels};<note>Literally "sons of Belial"</note> they did not know<note>Or "acknowledge"</note> Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">And the custom of the priests with the people <transChange type="added">was this</transChange>: When any man {brought a sacrifice},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> sacrificing a sacrifice" and so throughout 1 &amp;amp; 2 Samuel</note> as the meat was boiling, the servant of the priest would take a three-pronged meat fork in his hand</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">and would thrust it into the pan or into the kettle or into the cauldron or into the cooking pot. All that the meat fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what they used to do to all of the Israelites who came there at Shiloh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Also, before they {offered up}<note>Literally "caused to go up in smoke"</note> the fat as a burnt offering, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest meat for roasting, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but only {raw}."<note>Literally "with the life"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">And <transChange type="added">if</transChange> the man said to him, "Let them burn the fat completely {first},<note>Literally "as the day"</note> then take for yourself as {you}<note>Literally "as your soul"</note> desire," then he would say to him, "No!<note>According to the reading tradition (Qere)</note> Give it now! If not, I will take it by force!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">So the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of Yahweh, because the men treated the offering of Yahweh with contempt. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Now Samuel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> serving before Yahweh, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">His mother used to make for him a small robe and take it to him {year by year}<note>Literally "from days to days"</note> whenever she came up with her husband to offer the {annual sacrifice}.<note>Literally "the sacrifice of days"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and he said, "May Yahweh give you an offspring from this woman in place of the petitioned <transChange type="added">one</transChange> that she requested from Yahweh." Then they went to their home.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel and that they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> having sexual relations with the women who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> serving <transChange type="added">at</transChange> the entrance of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tent of assembly.<note>Or "meeting"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">And he asked them, "Why are you doing all these things that I am hearing, <transChange type="added">namely</transChange>, your evil dealings with all these people?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">No, my sons, the report <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?" But they did not {obey}<note>Literally "listen to the voice of"</note> their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">But the boy Samuel {continued to grow in stature and in favor}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> going and being great and good"</note> with Yahweh and with the people. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him: "Thus says Yahweh: 'Did I not clearly reveal myself to the house of your ancestor<note>Or "father," meaning Aaron</note> when they were in Egypt under the house of Pharaoh?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">And I chose him from all the tribes of Israel to be a priest to me, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to bear an ephod before me. I gave to the house of your ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> all the offerings made by fire by the {Israelites}.<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded <transChange type="added">for my</transChange> dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Therefore,' {declares}<note>Literally "the declaration of"</note> Yahweh the God of Israel, 'though I solemnly said that your house and the house of your ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> would walk before me forever, but now,' {declares}<note>Literally "the declaration of"</note> Yahweh, 'far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me, I will treat with contempt!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Look, days <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming when I will cut off your {strength}<note>Literally "arm," figurative of "strength" in the context of "descendants"</note> and the {strength}<note>Literally "arm," figurative of "strength" in the context of "descendants"</note> of the house of your ancestor<note>Or "father"</note> {so that no one in your house will live to old age}.<note>Literally "from being old in your house"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="32">You will look at the distress of my dwelling place, <transChange type="added">despite</transChange> all the good caused for Israel, but there will never be an old <transChange type="added">man</transChange> in your household {forever}!<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="33">The only one I will not cut off from my altar <transChange type="added">is you</transChange>.<note>Understanding the beth preposition as a beth essentiae</note> <transChange type="added">Rather</transChange>, to cause your eyes to fail and to cause your soul to grieve, {all the members of your household}<note>Literally "all the abundance of your house"</note> will die <transChange type="added">as</transChange> men.<note>Or "in their prime"; some Greek and other manuscripts supply "sword" ("will die by the sword of men")</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="34">This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the sign for you that will come regarding your two sons Hophni and Phinehas: they will both die on the same day!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="35">But I will raise up for myself a reliable<note>Or "faithful"</note> priest; he will do just according to what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in my heart and in my soul. I will build for him a lasting<note>Hebrew "faithful" or "reliable"</note> house and he will walk continually before my anointed one {forever}.<note>Literally "all the days"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="36">All the remainder of your household will come to bow down {before}<note>Literally "to"</note> him for a bit of silver or a loaf of bread and will say, "Please assign me to one of the {priestly offices}<note>Literally "priesthoods"</note> so that I can eat a morsel of bread." '" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh {in the presence}<note>Literally "in the face of"</note> of Eli. The word of Yahweh was rare in those days; visions were not widespread.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun <transChange type="added">to grow</transChange> weak so that he was not able to see)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, Samuel was lying in the temple<note>Although the Hebrew text reads "temple," this is a reference to the tabernacle (see 1:3, 9)</note> of Yahweh where the ark of God <transChange type="added">was</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">And he ran to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." But he said, "I did not call <transChange type="added">you</transChange>. Go back and lie down." So he went and lay down.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">And Yahweh called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." And he said, "I did not call you, my son. Go back <transChange type="added">and</transChange> lie down."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, and the word of Yahweh had not yet been revealed to him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Again Yahweh called Samuel a third time, so he got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." Then Eli realized that Yahweh was calling the boy.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So Eli said to Samuel "Go lie down. {If he calls}<note>Literally "And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange> if he calls"</note> to you, then you must say, 'Speak Yahweh, because your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> listening.'" So Samuel went and lay down in his place. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Then Yahweh came and stood <transChange type="added">there</transChange> and called out {as before},<note>Literally "as an occurrence, in an occurrence"</note> "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel said, "Speak, because your servant <transChange type="added">is</transChange> listening."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So Yahweh said to Samuel, "Look, I am doing something in Israel {which will cause}<note>Literally "about which"</note> the two ears of everyone who hears it to tingle.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">On that day I will fulfill against Eli all that I have spoken against his household, {from beginning to end}.<note>Literally "begin and finish"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">I will make him know that I am about to judge his household forever because of the iniquity that he knew, for his sons <transChange type="added">were</transChange> bringing curses on themselves,<note>LXX reads "were cursing God"</note> but he did not rebuke them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Therefore I swore to the house of Eli <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the iniquity of the house of Eli would not be atoned for<note>Or "be expiated"</note> by sacrifice or by offering forever." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So Samuel lay down until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of Yahweh, but Samuel was afraid of telling the vision to Eli.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Eli called Samuel and said, "Samuel, my son!" And he said, "Here I am."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">And he said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the message<note>Or "word"</note> that he spoke to you? Please do not conceal <transChange type="added">it</transChange> from me. May God {punish you severely}<note>Literally "do to you and so may he add"</note> if you conceal anything from me of all the words that he told you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So Samuel told him all the words and did not conceal <transChange type="added">anything</transChange> from him. And he<note>That is, Eli</note> said, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh, he will do {what is}<note>Literally "the"</note> good in his {sight}."<note>Literally "eyes"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. {He did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled}.<note>Literally "He let none from all of his words fall to the ground."</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">All Israel from Dan to Beersheba realized that Samuel was faithful<note>Or "reliable" or "trustworthy"</note> as a prophet to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And Yahweh appeared again in Shiloh, for Yahweh revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh through the word of Yahweh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines for battle, and they encamped at Ebenezer, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines encamped at Aphek.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines lined up for the battle to meet Israel, and the battle was prolonged<note>Or "drawn out"</note> until Israel was defeated before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, {who}<note>Literally "and they"</note> killed about four thousand men {on the battlefield}.<note>Literally "in the battle line in the field"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">When the army<note>Or "people"</note> came <transChange type="added">back</transChange> to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, "Why has Yahweh defeated us today before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to us from Shiloh so that it may come into our midst and deliver<note>Or "save"</note> us from the hand of our enemies."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So the army sent to Shiloh and brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of hosts who sits <transChange type="added">between</transChange> the cherubim. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, <transChange type="added">were</transChange> there with the ark of the covenant of God.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Now when the ark of the covenant of Yahweh arrived at the camp, all Israel {let out a loud shout}<note>Literally "shouted a great shout"</note> so that the earth shook. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">When <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines heard the noise of the shouting, they said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the noise of this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?" Then they learned that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines were afraid, for they said, "God has come<note>Or "gods have come"</note> to the camp." And they said, "Woe to us, {for this has never happened before!}<note>Literally "it has not happened like this since yesterday and since the day before that"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Woe to us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the <transChange type="added">same</transChange> gods who struck the Egyptians with all <transChange type="added">sorts of</transChange> plagues in the desert.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Take courage and be men, <transChange type="added">you</transChange> Philistines, lest you end up serving the Hebrews just like they have served you. Be men and fight!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines fought and Israel was defeated and each man fled to his tent, for the slaughter was very great. Thirty thousand foot soldiers from Israel fell.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Furthermore, the ark of God was captured,<note>Or "taken"</note> and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Shiloh that same day, and his clothes <transChange type="added">were</transChange> torn and earth <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on his head.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">When he came, {there was}<note>Literally "look"</note> Eli sitting on his chair {by the side of the road}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">by</transChange> the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> road"</note> watching, because his heart was anxious about the ark of God. Now the man had come {to give his report}<note>Literally "to tell"</note> in the city, and all the city cried out.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">When Eli heard the noise of the outcry, he said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the noise of this commotion?" Then the man {came quickly}<note>Literally "hastened and came"</note> and told Eli.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Now Eli <transChange type="added">was</transChange> {ninety-eight years old}<note>Literally "a son of ninety and eight years"</note> and his eyes {stayed fixed ahead}<note>Literally "were standing"</note> and he was not able to see.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">And the man said to Eli, "I am the <transChange type="added">one</transChange> who has come from the battle line! I have fled today from the battle line!" And he said, "{What exactly happened},<note>Literally "what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the thing/matter"</note> my son?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then the messenger answered and said, "Israel has fled before <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. There has been a great defeat among the troops. Also, your two sons have died, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of God has been captured."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Just as he mentioned the ark of God, he<note>That is, Eli</note> fell from his chair backwards against the side of the gate. He broke his neck and died, because the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Now his daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> pregnant and <transChange type="added">about</transChange> to give birth. When she heard the news concerning the capture of the ark of God and that her father-in-law and her husband had died, she {went into labor}<note>Literally "bowed down"</note> and gave birth, because her labor pains came upon her.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Just before the time of her death, those {attending her}<note>Literally "standing over her"</note> said, "Do not fear, for you have given birth to a son." But she did not answer, or {pay any attention}.<note>Literally "set her heart"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">She called the boy Ichabod,<note>The name "Ichabod" means "no glory"</note> saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">And she said, "The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God was captured."<note>Or "taken"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had captured<note>Or "taken"</note> the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the temple of Dagon and placed it beside Dagon.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">When the Ashdodites got up early the next morning, {there was}<note>Literally "look"</note> Dagon fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">When they got up early in the morning the next day, {there was}<note>Literally "look"</note> Dagon fallen <transChange type="added">again</transChange> with his face to the ground before the ark of Yahweh! The head of Dagon and the palms of his two hands were cut off, lying at<note>Hebrew "to"</note> the threshold; only <transChange type="added">the body</transChange><note>The phrase may suggest that only the "fish" part of Dagon was left</note> of Dagon was left.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">(Therefore the priests of Dagon and all who come into the house of Dagon do not tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod until this <transChange type="added">very</transChange> day.) </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Now the hand of Yahweh was heavy against the Ashdodites and he destroyed them and struck them with tumors,<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "boils"; the reading tradition (Qere) has "tumors"</note> both in Ashdod and its territories.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">The men of Ashdod saw <transChange type="added">that</transChange> it <transChange type="added">was</transChange> so, and they said, "The ark of the God of Israel should not remain with us, because his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> harsh on us and on Dagon our god!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So they sent and gathered all the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines to them, and they asked, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" And they said, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around toward Gath." So they moved the ark of the God of Israel <transChange type="added">to Gath</transChange>. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">After they moved it, the hand of Yahweh was against the city, causing a very great confusion, and he struck the men of the city {from the youngest to the oldest},<note>Literally "from small up to great"</note> causing tumors<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "boils"; the reading tradition (Qere) has "tumors"</note> to break out on them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So they sent the ark of God <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ekron. But when the ark of God came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ekron, the Ekronites cried out, saying, "They have brought around the ark of the God of Israel to kill us and our<note>Hebrew "me and my"</note> people!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So they sent and gathered all the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and they said, "Send away the ark of the God of Israel and let it return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people." For a {deadly confusion}<note>Literally "a confusion of death"; indicates a genitive of attribute</note> was throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">The men who did not die were struck with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> tumors,<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "boils"; the reading tradition (Qere) has "tumors"</note> so that the cry of the city for help went up <transChange type="added">to</transChange> heaven. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now the ark of Yahweh had been in the territory of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">for</transChange> seven months,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines called to the priests and to those who practiced divination, saying, "What should we do with the ark of Yahweh? Inform us how we should send it to its place."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">They said, "If you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sending the ark of the God of Israel away, you must not send it away empty, but by all means return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will become known to you why his hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not turned aside from you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">And they said, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the guilt offering that we should return to him?" They said, "The number of the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">is</transChange> five. Therefore send five gold tumors<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "boils"; the reading tradition (Qere) has "tumors"</note> and five gold mice, because one plague <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on all of you and all your rulers.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">You must make images of your tumors<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "boils"; the reading tradition (Qere) has "tumors"</note> and images of your mice that <transChange type="added">are</transChange> ravaging the land, and you must give glory to the God of Israel. Perhaps he will lighten his hand on you and on your gods and on your land.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Why should you harden your hearts like <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their heart? Is it not just like when he dealt with them wantonly so that they sent them away and they left?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So then, {prepare}<note>Literally "take and make"</note> one new utility cart and two milking cows that have never had a yoke on them, and you must harness the cows to the utility cart and then turn their calves from following them to their stall.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">And you must take the ark of Yahweh and place it on the utility cart with the gold objects that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> returning to him as a guilt offering. You must place <transChange type="added">them</transChange> in the container<note>Or perhaps "chest" or "bag"</note> beside <transChange type="added">the ark</transChange> and then send it <transChange type="added">off</transChange> so that it goes away.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">You must watch; if it goes up by the way of its territory to Beth Shemesh, he has caused this great disaster to <transChange type="added">come on</transChange> us. But if not, then we will know his hand has not struck us; it <transChange type="added">was by</transChange> chance <transChange type="added">that</transChange> this happened to us.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So the men did so; they took two milking cows and harnessed them to the utility cart, but they shut up their calves in the stall.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then they put the ark of Yahweh on the utility cart with the container<note>Or perhaps "chest" or "bag"</note> <transChange type="added">holding</transChange> the gold mice and the images of their tumors.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">The cows went straight on the way on the road to Beth Shemesh, on the one main road, {lowing as they went}.<note>Literally "they went going and lowing"</note> They did not turn aside to the right or to the left, and the rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">were</transChange> walking after them up to the border of Beth Shemesh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Now <transChange type="added">the people of</transChange> Beth Shemesh <transChange type="added">were</transChange> reaping the wheat harvest in the valley. They lifted their eyes and saw the ark, and they were glad to see <transChange type="added">it</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">The utility cart came to the field of Joshua <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Beth Shemesh and stopped there where there <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a large stone. They split the wood of the utility cart and sacrificed the cows <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a burnt offering to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then the Levites took down the ark of Yahweh and the container<note>Or perhaps "chest" or "bag"</note> that was beside it, in which <transChange type="added">were</transChange> the gold objects, and <transChange type="added">they</transChange> set them on the large stone.<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text reads "Abel" here; some Hebrew manuscripts and LXX read "stone" (see 6:14-15)</note> Then the men of Beth Shemesh offered burnt offerings, and they {made}<note>Literally "sacrificed"</note> sacrifices to Yahweh on that day.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">The five rulers of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and returned <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Ekron that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> day. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Now these <transChange type="added">are</transChange> the gold tumors which <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines returned <transChange type="added">as</transChange> a guilt offering to Yahweh: one for Ashdod, one for Gaza, one for Ashkelon, one for Gath, one for Ekron.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">And the gold mice <transChange type="added">according to</transChange> the number of all the cities of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, for their five rulers, from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> fortified city to the unwalled village of the open country as far as the great stone, {where they set}<note>Literally "which they set down on it"</note> the ark of Yahweh until this day in the field of Joshua <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Beth Shemesh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">He<note>That is, Yahweh</note> struck seventy men<note>Though the MT has "seventy men, fifty thousand men" (= 50,070), it is likely the original was "seventy men"</note> among the men of Beth Shemesh because they looked into the ark of Yahweh. So the people mourned because Yahweh had struck a great blow among the people.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Then the men of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall it<note>That is, the ark of the covenant (alternatively read as "he," referring to Yahweh)</note> go up from us?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim saying, "<transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines have returned the ark of Yahweh. Come down and take it up to yourselves." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">The men of Kiriath Jearim came and brought up the ark of Yahweh, and they brought it to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah. They consecrated Eleazer his son to guard the ark of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">{From}<note>Literally "And it happened from"</note> the day the ark stayed in Kiriath Jearim, {days multiplied and became twenty years}<note>Literally "and the days were numerous, and they were twenty years"</note> while all the house of Israel mourned after Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If with all your heart you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> turning to Yahweh, remove the foreign gods and Ashtoreths<note>Hebrew plural "Ashtaroth" (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba'al)</note> from your midst. Commit your hearts to Yahweh and serve him alone. Then he will deliver you from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> removed the Baals<note>Hebrew plural "Be'alim" (Ba'al was a major Canaanite deity)</note> and the Ashtoreths, and they served Yahweh alone. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Samuel said, "Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to Yahweh for you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So they gathered to Mizpah and drew water and poured <transChange type="added">it</transChange> out before Yahweh. They fasted on that day and said there, "We have sinned against Yahweh!" So Samuel judged the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> at Mizpah.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">Now</transChange> when <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines heard that the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> had gathered at Mizpah, the rulers of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> heard <transChange type="added">of it</transChange>, {they were afraid of the Philistines}.<note>Literally "and they were afraid from (= because of) the presence of the Philistines"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> said to Samuel, "{You must not cease}<note>Literally "You must not be silent from us"</note> from crying out to Yahweh our God, so that he will deliver us from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So Samuel took a single {nursing lamb}<note>Literally "lamb of milk"</note> and sacrificed <transChange type="added">it</transChange> as a whole burnt offering to Yahweh. Then Samuel cried out to Yahweh on behalf of Israel, and Yahweh answered him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">{While}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> Samuel <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sacrificing the burnt offering, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines drew near for the battle against Israel. But Yahweh thundered against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines with a great noise on that day and threw them into confusion so that they were defeated before Israel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and they struck them down as far as below Beth Car. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">So Samuel took a single stone and put <transChange type="added">it</transChange> between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer and said, "Up to here Yahweh has helped us."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So the Philistines were subdued and they did not come into the territory of Israel again, and the hand of Yahweh was against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines all the days of Samuel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">The towns<note>Or "cities"</note> which <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had taken from Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> returned to Israel from Ekron to Gath, and Israel delivered their territories from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. Then there was peace between Israel and the Amorites. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">He used to go <transChange type="added">on the circuit</transChange> {from year to year}.<note>Literally "from what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> required year in year"</note> He went around Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah, and he judged Israel <transChange type="added">in</transChange> all these places.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then {he returned}<note>Literally "and his return <transChange type="added">was</transChange>"</note> to Ramah, because his house was there, and there he judged Israel, and he built an altar to Yahweh there. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">The name of his firstborn son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Joel, and the name of his second son <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abijah. <transChange type="added">They were</transChange> judges in Beersheba.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">But his sons did not walk in his ways; they turned aside after gain, they took bribes, and they perverted justice. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">They said to him, "Look, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge<note>Or "to rule"</note> us, like all the nations.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">But the matter {was displeasing to Samuel}<note>Literally "was evil in the eyes of Samuel"</note> when they said, "Give us a king to judge<note>Or "to rule"</note> us," so Samuel prayed to Yahweh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people concerning all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Like all the deeds they have done from the day I brought them up from Egypt until this day, they have forsaken me and have served other gods--so they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> doing to you also.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">And so then, listen to their voice. However, you must earnestly warn them; you must explain to them the custom of the king who will rule over them." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So Samuel spoke all the words of Yahweh to the people who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> requesting a king from him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">He said, "This will be the custom of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and his horsemen, and they will run before his chariots.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> {to do his plowing}<note>Literally "to plow his plowing"</note> and to reap his harvest, and <transChange type="added">those</transChange> to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">He will take your daughters as <transChange type="added">his</transChange> perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to his servants.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">He will take a tenth of your seed and your vineyards and give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to his high officials and to his servants.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">He will take your male slaves and your female slaves and the best of your young men<note>LXX reads "cattle"</note> and your donkeys and {will use them for his projects}.<note>Literally "will put <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to his work"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">He will take a tenth of your flocks,<note>The Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)</note> and you <transChange type="added">yourselves</transChange> will become his servants.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So you will cry out on that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, but Yahweh will not answer you on that day!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">However, the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel and they said, "No, but there must be a king over us,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">so that we {also}<note>Literally "even we"</note> may be like all the nations, and our king may rule us and go out before us and fight our battles." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Now when Samuel heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "Listen to their voice, and appoint a king for them." So Samuel spoke to the men of Israel, "Each of you go to his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> town." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now there was a man from Benjamin whose name was Kish, the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjaminite, {a very wealthy man}.<note>Literally "a man mighty of wealth" or "a man mighty of valor"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">He had a son whose name was Saul,<note>The name "Saul" means "the requested one"</note> a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> more handsome than he <transChange type="added">was</transChange>; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now the female donkeys of Kish the father of Saul got lost, and Kish said to Saul his son, "Please take one of the servants with you and get up; go and seek the female donkeys."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So he passed through the hill country of Ephraim; he passed through the land of Shalisha but they did not find <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. They passed through the land of Shaalim but they were not there. He passed through the land of Benjamin but did not find <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">When they entered the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him, "Come, let us return, lest my father cease <transChange type="added">caring about</transChange> the female donkeys and worry about us!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">But he<note>That is, Saul's servant</note> said to him, "Look, a man of God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in this town, and the man <transChange type="added">is</transChange> honored. All that he says certainly comes true. So then let us go there; perhaps he will tell us about our journey on which we have gone."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So Saul said to his servant, "Look, we may go, but what should we bring to the man? For the bread <transChange type="added">is</transChange> gone from our bags, and there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no present to bring to the man of God. What <transChange type="added">do we have</transChange> with us?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">The servant again answered Saul and said, "Look, {I have}<note>Literally "what was found"</note> in my hand a quarter shekel of silver! I will give it to the man of God so that he will tell us our way."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he would say: "Come, let us go up to the seer." For the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So Saul said to his servant, "{Your suggestion is a good one}.<note>Literally "Your word <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good"</note> Come, let us go." And they went to the town where the man of God <transChange type="added">was</transChange>. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">They <transChange type="added">were</transChange> going up the ascent of the town when they found young women going out to draw water. They said to them, "Is there the seer here?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">They answered them and said, "There is. Look, <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> just in front of you! Hurry now, because he has come to the town today, because there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a sacrifice for the people today at the high place.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">As soon as you enter the town, you will find him, before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice. Then afterward the invited <transChange type="added">guests</transChange> will eat. So then, go up, because you will find him today!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">So they went up to the town. As they <transChange type="added">were</transChange> entering into the middle of the town, Samuel was coming forth to meet them, to go up to the high place. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Now Yahweh {had revealed this to}<note>Literally "had opened the ear"</note> Samuel the day before Saul arrived, saying,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">"This time tomorrow I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you must anoint him as leader over my people Israel. He will deliver my people from the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. For I have seen <transChange type="added">the suffering of</transChange> my people, because their cry <transChange type="added">of distress</transChange> has come to me."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh answered him, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the man about whom I told you! This <transChange type="added">is the</transChange> one <transChange type="added">who</transChange> will govern my people." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then Saul approached Samuel in the middle of the gate and said, "Please tell me, where <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the house of the seer?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Samuel answered Saul and said, "I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> the seer. Go up {ahead of me}<note>Literally "before my face"</note> to the high place, and you will eat with me today; then I will send you away in the morning. I will tell you all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {on your mind}.<note>Literally "in your heart"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">And as for your female donkeys that were lost {three days ago},<note>Literally "the day three of the days"</note> {do not be concerned about them},<note>Literally "you shall not put your heart to them"</note> because they have been found. For whom <transChange type="added">is</transChange> all the desire of Israel? Is it not for you and for all the house of your father?" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Saul answered and said, "<transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I not a Benjaminite, from the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the humblest of all the families of the tribes of Benjamin? Why do you speak to me {in this way}?"<note>Literally "according to this word"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">So Samuel took Saul and his servant and brought them to a room in the building and gave them a place at the head of {the invited guests}.<note>Literally "the ones being invited"</note> There were about thirty men.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Then Samuel said to the cook, "Bring the portion that I gave to you, about which I said to you, 'Keep it with you.'"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">So the cook took up the shank and what was on it and put it before Saul, and he<note>That is, Samuel</note> said, "Look, {the saved portion}<note>Literally "what was being kept"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> placed {before you}<note>Literally "to your face"</note>--eat, because it has been kept for you for the appointed time," {and he said},<note>Literally "saying"</note> "I have invited the people." So Saul ate with Samuel that day. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">When they came down from the high place to the town, he spoke with Saul on the roof.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">They got up early, {and as dawn was breaking},<note>Literally "as the dawn was going up"</note> Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, "Get up, so that I can send you away." So Saul got up and the two of them, he and Samuel, went outside.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">As they were going down to the outskirts of the town, Samuel said to Saul, "Tell the servant to pass on before us. When he has passed, you stand here {a while},<note>Literally "as the day"</note> so that I can make known to you <transChange type="added">the</transChange> word of God." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it over his head and kissed him and said, "{Has not}<note>Literally "Is it not that"</note> Yahweh anointed you as leader over his inheritance?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">As you go from with me {today},<note>Literally "the day"</note> you will find two men near the burial site of Rachel in the territory of Benjamin at Zelzah. They will say to you, 'The female donkeys that you went to search for have been found.' Now look, your father {is no longer concerned about}<note>Literally "has given up the matter of"</note> the female donkeys and has begun worrying about you,<note>Here the pronoun is plural, referring to Saul and his servant</note> saying, 'What should I do about my son?'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then you will go on from there and further you will come to the oak of Tabor. There three men will meet you, who <transChange type="added">are</transChange> going up to God at Bethel. One will be carrying three male kid goats, one will be carrying three loaves of bread, and one will be carrying a skin of wine.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">{They will ask how you are doing}<note>Literally "they will ask peace for you"</note> and will give you two loaves, which you will take from their hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">After this, you will come to the Gibeah of God,<note>Or "to Gibeath Elohim," which means "the hill of God"</note> where there are sentries<note>Or "garrisons" or "overseers"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. {Just as you enter}<note>Literally "and will it happen that as you enter"</note> the town there, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place, with harp, tambourine, flute, and zither before them, and they will be prophesying.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then the Spirit of Yahweh will rush upon you,<note>Or "will come upon you in power"</note> and you will prophesy with them; and you will turn into {a different person}.<note>Literally "another man"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">When these signs come to you, do for yourself what your hand finds <transChange type="added">to do</transChange>, for God <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> with you.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then you will go down before me to Gilgal. Look, I am coming down to you to offer burnt offerings {and to make}<note>Literally "to sacrifice sacrifices of"</note> fellowship offerings. You must wait seven days until I come to you. Then I will let you know what you should do."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">{Just as he turned}<note>Literally "And it happened as he turned"</note> his shoulder to depart from Samuel, God {changed his}<note>Literally "gave for him another"</note> heart. And all these signs were fulfilled on that day. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">When they went from there to Gibeah, a procession of prophets met him, and the Spirit of God rushed upon him,<note>Or "came upon him in power"</note> and he prophesied among them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">{And when}<note>Literally "and it happened"</note> all who knew him {formerly}<note>Literally "three days from yesterday"</note> saw that he prophesied with prophets, the people said to one another, "What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this <transChange type="added">that</transChange> has happened to the son of Kish? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> Saul also among the prophets?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">And a man from there responded and said, "And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> their father?" Therefore it became a proverb: "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> Saul also among the prophets?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then Saul's uncle said to him and to his servant, "Where did you go?" And he said, "To search <transChange type="added">for</transChange> the female donkeys; and when we saw none, we went to Samuel."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Saul said to his uncle, "He told us for certain that the female donkeys had been found." But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingship <transChange type="added">of</transChange> which Samuel had spoken. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">and he said to the {Israelites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> "Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: 'I brought Israel up from Egypt, and I delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all the kingdoms that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> oppressing you.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">But you today have rejected your God who always delivers you from all of your calamities and your distresses. You have said to him, 'No, but you must appoint a king over us!' So then present yourselves before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So Samuel brought near all the tribes of Israel, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected by lot.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Then he brought near the tribe of Benjamin according to its families, and the family of Matri was selected by lot. Then Saul the son of Kish was chosen, and they sought him, but he could not be found.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">So they inquired again of Yahweh, "{Did the man come here}?" <note>Literally "Did he come still here a man"</note> And Yahweh said, "Look, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> hiding himself among the baggage."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So they ran and took him from there, and when he took his stand among the people, he was taller than all the people from his shoulders and up.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen? For there is no one like him among all the people!" And all the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Then Samuel told the people the custom of the kingship, and he wrote <transChange type="added">the rules</transChange> down on a scroll and laid <transChange type="added">it</transChange> before Yahweh. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own house.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">And Saul also went to his house at Gibeah, and the troops whose hearts<note>Hebrew "heart"</note> God had touched went with him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">However, some {worthless men}<note>Literally "sons of wickedness"</note> said, "How can this <transChange type="added">man</transChange> deliver us?" So they despised him and brought no gift to him, but he kept silent.<note>The Dead Sea Scrolls contained a nearly complete scroll of 1 and 2 Samuel, the oldest Hebrew manuscript extant. There is a story therein that provides a setting for the acts of Nahash in 1 Samuel 11, which otherwise seems to occur obtrusively. This story may be translated: "Now Nahash, king of the Ammonites, harshly tormented the Gadites and the Reubenites, and he gouged out all their right eyes, and struck terror <transChange type="added">and dread</transChange> in Israel. No Israelite beyond the Jordan remained whose right eye was not gouged out by Nahash king of the Ammonites, except for seven thousand men who had fled from the Ammonites and entered Jabesh Gilead. About a month later ..." This early text leaves off with 11:1 at this point</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now Nahash the Ammonite went up and encamped against Jabesh Gilead. All the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, "{Make a treaty with us}<note>Literally "Cut with us a covenant"</note> and we will serve you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this <transChange type="added">condition</transChange> {I will make a treaty}<note>Literally "I will cut"</note> with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">So the elders of Jabesh said to him, "Leave us alone for seven days so that we may send messengers in all the territory of Israel, and if there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> no deliverer for us, then we will come out to you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">When the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, {they reported these things to}<note>Literally "they spoke the words in the ears of"</note> the people. Then all the people lifted up their voices and wept.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">{Just then},<note>Literally "And look/behold"</note> Saul was coming from the field behind the cattle. Saul said, "What <transChange type="added">is the matter</transChange> with the people, that they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> weeping?" So they recounted to him the words of the men of Jabesh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and {he became very angry}.<note>Literally "his nose became very hot"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So he took a yoke of oxen and cut them into pieces and sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> throughout all the territory of Israel by the hand of the messengers, saying, "Whoever <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not going out after Saul and after Samuel, so will it be done to his oxen." Then the fear of Yahweh fell on the people and they went out as one man.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">He mustered them at Bezek; the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> <transChange type="added">were</transChange> three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> thirty thousand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">They said to the messengers who had come, "Thus you will say to the men of Jabesh Gilead: 'Tomorrow deliverance for you will come {when the sun is hot}.'"<note>Literally "at the heating of the sun"</note> When the messengers went and told the men of Jabesh, they rejoiced.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">The men of Jabesh said, "Tomorrow we will come out to you and you may do to us {whatever seems good to you}."<note>Literally "as all <transChange type="added">of</transChange> the good <transChange type="added">that is</transChange> in your eyes"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">{And the}<note>Literally "and it happened the"</note> next day Saul placed the people <transChange type="added">in</transChange> three divisions. Then they came into the middle of the camp {at the early morning watch}<note>Literally "at the night watch of the morning"</note> and struck down {the Ammonites}<note>Literally "Ammon"</note> until the heat of the day. It happened that the remainder were scattered {so that no two among them remained together}.<note>Literally "and they did not remain among them two together"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then the people said to Samuel, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the one who asked, 'Will Saul reign over us?' Give the men to us that we may kill them."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">But Saul said, "No one will be put to death on this day, because {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> Yahweh has provided deliverance in Israel." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then Samuel said to the people, "Come, let us go to Gilgal, and let us renew the kingship there."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So all the people went to Gilgal and they made Saul king there before Yahweh in Gilgal. They sacrificed fellowship offerings there before Yahweh. Then Saul rejoiced there greatly <transChange type="added">along with</transChange> all the men of Israel. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then Samuel said to all Israel, "Look, I have listened to your voice regarding all that you have said to me, so I have set a king over you.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And so then here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the king walking about before you. Now I am old and gray, but my sons (look at them!) <transChange type="added">are</transChange> with you; and I have walked about before you from my youth until this day.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Here I am! Testify against me before Yahweh and before his anointed one! Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I exploited? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, that I may shut my eyes {regarding}<note>Literally "with"</note> him?-then I will restore it to you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then they said, "You have not exploited us or oppressed us, and you have not taken anything from the hand of anyone."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So he said to them, "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> witness against you, and his anointed one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." Then they said, "<transChange type="added">He is</transChange> witness."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then Samuel said to the people, "Yahweh <transChange type="added">is witness</transChange>, who appointed Moses and Aaron, and who brought your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> up from the land of Egypt.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So then take your stand, so that I may judge you before Yahweh with <transChange type="added">regard to</transChange> all the <transChange type="added">deeds of</transChange> justice<note>Or "righteous <transChange type="added">deeds</transChange>"</note> of Yahweh that he performed with both you and your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">"When Jacob came to Egypt, your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> cried out to Yahweh, so he sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your ancestors<note>Or "fathers"</note> out from Egypt and settled them in this place.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">But they forgot Yahweh their God, so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the hosts of Hazor, and into the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So they cried out to Yahweh and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals<note>Hebrew plural "Be'alim" (Ba'al was a major Canaanite deity)</note> and the Ashtoreths.<note>Hebrew plural "Ashtoroth" (Ashtoreth was the female consort of Ba'al)</note> But now deliver us from the hand of our enemies and we will serve you!'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So Yahweh sent Jerub-Baal and Bedan<note>Many English translations follow the LXX here and read "Barak"</note> and Jephthah and Samuel. Then he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived <transChange type="added">in</transChange> security. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">"And when you saw that Nahash, the king of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> was coming against you, you said to me, 'No! A king shall reign over us,' although Yahweh your God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> your king.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So then look! <transChange type="added">Here is</transChange> the king you have chosen, for whom you have asked! Look, Yahweh has placed a king over you!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not be rebellious against {what Yahweh says},<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> and both you and the king who rules over you will <transChange type="added">follow</transChange> after Yahweh your God, <transChange type="added">all will be well</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">But, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you rebel against {what Yahweh says},<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> then the hand of Yahweh will be against you<note>Here LXX reads "against you and against your king"</note> <transChange type="added">as it was</transChange> against your ancestors.<note>Or "fathers"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So then take your stand again and see this great thing that Yahweh <transChange type="added">is going to</transChange> do before your eyes.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17"><transChange type="added">Is</transChange> the wheat harvest not today? I will call out to Yahweh so that he still sends thunder and rain, so that you will know and will see that your wickedness <transChange type="added">is</transChange> great that you have done in the eyes of Yahweh by asking for a king for yourselves." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So Samuel called out to Yahweh, and Yahweh brought thunder and rain that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> day, so all the people feared Yahweh and Samuel greatly.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Then all the people said to Samuel, "Pray for your servants to Yahweh your God so that we will not die, because we have added to all our sins by requesting a king for ourselves."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">And Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear! You have done all this evil; only do not turn aside from {following}<note>Literally "after"</note> Yahweh. But you must serve Yahweh with all your heart.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And do not turn aside after the triviality,<note>That is, the triviality of lifeless idols. The same Hebrew word, tohu, is used in Genesis 1:2 to describe the pre-created state of the earth.</note> which have no value and cannot deliver, for they are triviality.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">For Yahweh will not forsake his people for the sake of his great name, because Yahweh has decided to make you his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> people.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Also, as for me, far be it from me {that I should sin}<note>Literally "from sinning"</note> against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you! I will instruct you in the good and righteous way.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Only fear Yahweh and serve him faithfully with all of your heart. For consider {what great things he has done for you}.<note>Literally "what he made great with you"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">But if you continue to do wickedness, both you and your king will be swept away." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Saul <transChange type="added">was thirty</transChange><note>A few LXX manuscripts have "thirty," but the number of years is missing from the Masoretic Hebrew text</note> {years old}<note>Literally "a son of years"</note> at the beginning of his reign, and he reigned <transChange type="added">forty-</transChange>two years<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text reads "two years" here, but this number seems far too small; either it is not correct or part of the number is missing (the present translation supplies "forty"); other English versions differ as to Saul's age at coronation and the total years of his reign</note> over Israel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">He chose for himself three thousand from Israel. Two thousand <transChange type="added">of these</transChange> were with Saul at Micmash in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah in Benjamin. He sent away the rest of the people, each to his tent.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Jonathan defeated the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> at Geba, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines heard <transChange type="added">about it</transChange>. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout all the land, saying, "Let the Hebrews hear!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">And all Israel did hear, saying, "Saul has defeated the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines; and also, Israel has become a stench among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines!" So the people were called out after Saul at Gilgal. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">And the Philistines assembled to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and an army as numerous as sand which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on the seashore. And they came up and encamped at Micmash, east of Beth Aven. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">When the men of Israel saw that <transChange type="added">it was</transChange> {too difficult}<note>Literally "too narrow"</note> for them, because the army was hard pressed, the people hid themselves in the caves, in the thorn bushes, in the cliffs, in the vaults<note>Or "cellars" or "tombs" ' or "strongholds"</note> and in the wells.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7"><transChange type="added">Some</transChange> of the Hebrews crossed over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. But Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the army {followed him trembling}.<note>Literally "trembled after him"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">He waited seven days according to the appointed time Samuel determined, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and {the army started to slip away from him}.<note>Literally "the people scattered away from him"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So Saul said, "Bring here to me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings." Then he offered up the burnt offering.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">{Just as}<note>Literally "And it happened as"</note> he finished offering the burnt sacrifice, Samuel was coming. So Saul went out to meet him <transChange type="added">and</transChange> to bless him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">But Samuel said, "What have you done?" Saul said, "Because I saw that the army {was scattering}<note>Literally "dispersed themselves"</note> from me and you did not come {at the appointed time}<note>Literally "according to the appointed time of the days"</note> and <transChange type="added">that the</transChange> Philistines had gathered at Micmash,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">therefore I said, 'Now <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not yet implored the face of Yahweh.' So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then Samuel said to Saul, "You have behaved foolishly! You have not kept the command of Yahweh your God which he commanded you. For then, Yahweh would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But now, your kingdom will not endure. Yahweh has sought for himself a man according to his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> heart, and Yahweh has appointed him as leader over his people, because you have not kept what Yahweh commanded you." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then Samuel got up and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul mustered the people who were found with him, about six hundred men.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Saul and Jonathan his son and the army that remained with them <transChange type="added">were</transChange> staying in Geba <transChange type="added">of</transChange> Benjamin, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines encamped at Micmash.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">The {raiders}<note>Literally "destroyers"</note> went out from the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">in</transChange> three divisions. One division turned on the road<note>Or "way"</note> to Ophrah toward the land of Shual.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">One division turned on the road<note>Or "way"</note> to Beth Horon, and one turned on the road<note>Or "way"</note> toward the border overlooking the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Now no skilled craftsman could be found in all the land of Israel, for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had said, "So that the Hebrews cannot make swords or spears for themselves."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So all Israel <transChange type="added">went</transChange> down to <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, each to have his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his iron plowshare<note>So the Masoretic Hebrew text; LXX reads "sickle"</note> sharpened.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">The charge<note>Or "fee"</note> was {two-thirds of a shekel}<note>Literally "a pim" (possibly a stone weight used as a measure)</note> for the plowshare and for the mattock, and {a third of a shekel for the pick}<note>Literally "and for three, a pick" (uncertain; perhaps meaning "a third of a shekel," or a three-pronged pick"</note> and for the axe, and to set the goading sticks.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">{So}<note>Literally, "And it happened"</note> on <transChange type="added">the</transChange> day of battle, there was not a sword or a spear found in the hands of all the army that was with Saul and Jonathan, but {Saul and his son Jonathan had them}.<note>Literally, "it could be found for Saul and for Jonathan his son"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Now the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went out to the pass of Micmash. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{One day}<note>Literally "And it happened the day"</note> Jonathan the son of Saul said to {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "the young man carrying his weapons"</note> "Come and let us go over to the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> over there." But he did not tell his father.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Now Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> staying at the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree that <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Migron, and the troops that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him <transChange type="added">were</transChange> about six hundred men.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now Ahijah, the son of Ahitub (the brother of Ichabod), the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of Yahweh at Shiloh, was carrying an ephod. The troops did not know that Jonathan had gone.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Now between the passes where Jonathan sought to go over to the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">there was</transChange> a crag of rock {on one side}<note>Literally "from the beyond from this"</note> and a crag of rock {on the other}.<note>Literally "from the beyond from this"</note> The name of the one <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Bozez and the name of the other <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Seneh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">The one crag on the north <transChange type="added">was</transChange> opposite Micmash and the other on the south <transChange type="added">was</transChange> opposite Geba.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So Jonathan said to {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "the young man carrying his weapons"</note> "Come, let us go over to the garrisons of these uncircumcised; perhaps Yahweh will act for us, for there is no hindrance for Yahweh to save by many or by few."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">And {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> said, "Do all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your heart {that you are inclined to do}.<note>Literally "turn/incline for yourself"</note> {I am with you all of the way}!<note>Literally "Behold, I am with you according to your heart"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then Jonathan said, "Look, we <transChange type="added">are about to</transChange> go over to the men; and we will show ourselves to them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">If they say to us: 'Wait until we reach you,' {then we will stand as we are}<note>Literally "and we will stand under us"</note> and not go up to them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">But if they say, 'Come up to us,' then we will go up, for Yahweh has given them into our hand, and this <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> the sign for us."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So the two of them showed themselves to the garrison of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines said, "The Hebrews <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming out from the holes in which they have hidden themselves."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> "Come up to us and we will show you something!" Then Jonathan said to {his armor bearer},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> "Come up after me, for Yahweh has given them into the hand of Israel!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So Jonathan went up on his hands and his feet, with {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> after him. They fell before Jonathan and then {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> would kill them after him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">So was the first attack <transChange type="added">in</transChange> which Jonathan and {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> killed about twenty men within about half of a furrow in an acre of <transChange type="added">an</transChange> open field.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Then there was terror<note>Or "panic"</note> in the camp, in the open field, and among all the army of the garrison. Even the {raiders}<note>Literally "destroyers"</note> trembled. The earth shook, and it became {a very great panic}.<note>Literally "like the panic/terror of God"; some interpreters understand this to be a panic caused by God, while others understand the expression merely as a superlative ("a very great panic")</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">And the lookouts of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw {that}<note>Literally "and look"</note> the multitude {surged back and forth}.<note>Literally "waved, going here and there"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Saul said to the troops that <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him, "Please call the roll and see who has gone from us." So they called the roll {and found that}<note>Literally "and look"</note> Jonathan and {his armor bearer}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the one</transChange> carrying his weapons"</note> were not <transChange type="added">present</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then Saul said to Ahijah, "Bring near the ark of God"<note>LXX reads "bring near the ephod"</note> (for the ark of God was {at that time}<note>Literally "on that day"</note> with the {Israelites}).<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">While<note>Hebrew "And"</note> Saul was still speaking to the priest, the tumult in the camp of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines {increased more and more},<note>Literally "and it went, going and increasing"</note> so Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Then Saul and all the troops who were with him were assembled on command and came up to the battle, and look! Each <transChange type="added">Philistine's</transChange> sword <transChange type="added">was</transChange> against his friend; <transChange type="added">and there was</transChange> a very great confusion.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">The Hebrews who had been for <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines {previously},<note>Literally "as yesterday three days ago"</note> who had gone up with them into the camp all around, even they {joined the Israelites}<note>Literally "were with Israel"</note> who were with Saul and Jonathan.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">All the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines had fled, so even they pursued them closely in the battle.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So on that day Yahweh delivered Israel, and the battle shifted to Beth Aven. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Now the men of Israel were hard pressed on that day, because Saul had made the army take an oath, saying, "Cursed be the man who eats <transChange type="added">any</transChange> food until evening, when I will have avenged myself on my enemies!" So none of the army tasted <transChange type="added">any</transChange> food.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">(Now all <transChange type="added">the people of</transChange> the land used to go into the forest, for there was honey on the surface of the ground.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">When the army came to the forest, look! <transChange type="added">There was</transChange> honey flowing, but no one put his hand to his mouth, for the army was afraid of the solemn oath. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">However, Jonathan had not heard about the oath of his father with the army, so he extended the end of the staff which was in his hand, and he dipped it into the honeycomb.<note>Hebrew "the honeycomb of the honey"</note> Then he put his hand to his mouth and his eyes gleamed.<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "saw"; the reading tradition (Qere) reads "gleamed"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Then a man from the army informed <transChange type="added">him</transChange> and said, "Your father made the army swear a solemn <transChange type="added">oath</transChange>, saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today,'" so the army <transChange type="added">is</transChange> exhausted.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Then Jonathan said, "My father has brought trouble on the land! See now that my eyes have brightened because I have tasted a little of this honey.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">{How much more could have been done}<note>Literally "even that if"</note> if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder of their enemies that they had found! For now the loss among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not great."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">They defeated <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines that day from Micmash to Aijalon, and the troops were very weary. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Then the troops took the plunder: they took sheep and cattle and {calves}<note>Literally "the children of cattle"</note> and slaughtered <transChange type="added">them</transChange> on the ground and the troops ate <transChange type="added">them all</transChange> with the blood.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="33">So they reported <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to Saul, saying, "Look! The troops <transChange type="added">are</transChange> sinning against Yahweh by eating <transChange type="added">the animals</transChange> with the blood!" And he said, "You have dealt treacherously! Roll to me a large stone {today}!"<note>Literally "the day"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="34">Then Saul said, "Disperse <transChange type="added">yourselves</transChange> among the troops and say to them, 'Bring to me each <transChange type="added">one</transChange> his ox and each his sheep and slaughter them in this <transChange type="added">place</transChange> and eat, but do not sin against Yahweh by eating <transChange type="added">the animals</transChange> with the blood.'" So all the troops brought <transChange type="added">them</transChange>, each <transChange type="added">leading</transChange> his ox in his hand that night, and slaughtered <transChange type="added">it</transChange> there. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="35">Then Saul built an altar to Yahweh; {it was the first altar he built}<note>Literally "with it he began to build an altar"</note> to Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="36">Saul said, "Let us go down after <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">by</transChange> night, and let us plunder them until the morning light, and let us not leave <transChange type="added">alive</transChange> a man among them." So they said, "Do all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> good in your eyes." But the priest said, "Let us draw near to God here."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="37">So Saul inquired of God, "Should I go down after <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines? Will you give them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him on that day.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="38">Then Saul said, "Come here, all <transChange type="added">you</transChange> leaders of the people, {so that we find out}<note>Literally "and know and see"</note> what the sin was this day.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="39">For as Yahweh lives, who delivers Israel, <transChange type="added">I swear</transChange> that even if it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Jonathan my son, {he will certainly die}!"<note>Literally "surely dying he will die"</note> But nobody from all the army answered him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="40">Then he said to all Israel, "You will be {on one side},<note>Literally "opposite one"</note> and I and my son Jonathan will be {on the other}."<note>Literally "opposite one"</note> And the army said to Saul, "Do <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> good in your eyes."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="41">Then Saul said to Yahweh the God of Israel, "{Render a decision perfectly}."<note>Literally "give <transChange type="added">what is</transChange> perfect"; the LXX includes additional words not found in the Masoretic Hebrew text but included in a number of modern English versions: "If this guilt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> on me or in my son Jonathan, give Urim, but if this guilt <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in your people Israel, give Thummim"</note> Jonathan and Saul were chosen <transChange type="added">by lot</transChange> and the people went out.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="42">Then Saul said, "Let them cast <transChange type="added">the lot</transChange> between me and my son Jonathan," and Jonathan was chosen.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="43">So Saul said, "Tell me what you have done." So Jonathan told him and said, "I {merely tasted}<note>Literally "tasted I tasted"</note> a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die."</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="44">Then Saul said, "So may God do <transChange type="added">to me</transChange> and {more},<note>Literally "so may he add"</note> you will certainly die today, Jonathan!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="45">But the army said to Saul, "Must Jonathan die, who accomplished this great victory in Israel? Far from it! As Yahweh lives, not a hair from his head will fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the army ransomed Jonathan and he did not die. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="46">Saul went up from <transChange type="added">pursuing the</transChange> Philistines, and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went to their place.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="47">So Saul took the kingship over Israel, and he fought all around against his enemies, against Moab, against the {Ammonites},<note>Literally "sons/children of Ammon"</note> against Edom, against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines. He inflicted punishment against all who rebelled.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="48">He acted bravely and defeated <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites and rescued Israel from the hand of those who plundered it. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="49">Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, Ishvi, and Malki-Shua; the names of his two daughters <transChange type="added">were as follows</transChange>: the name of the firstborn <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Merab and the younger <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Michal.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="50">The name of Saul's wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz, and the name of the commander of his army <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abner, the son of Ner, Saul's uncle.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="51">Now Kish <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the father of Saul, but Ner, the father of Abner, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> the son of Abiel. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="52">Warfare was severe against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines all the days of Saul. Whenever Saul saw {anyone who was a mighty warrior}<note>Literally "each man who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> a mighty warrior"</note> or {any brave man},<note>Literally "each son of ability"</note> he {conscripted him into his service}.<note>Literally "he gathered him to him<transChange type="added">self</transChange>"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then Samuel said to Saul, "Yahweh sent me to anoint you as king over his people Israel. So then, {listen to the words}<note>Literally "listen to the voice of the words"</note> of Yahweh!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'I have observed what Amalek did to Israel, {how he opposed him}<note>Literally "what he placed against him in the way"</note> when he went up from Egypt.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">So then, go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that is his! You must not spare him, but kill both man and woman, both child and nursing infant, both ox and sheep, both camel and donkey.'" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Saul summoned the army and mustered them at Telaim; two hundred thousand foot soldiers and ten thousand men of Judah.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Saul came up to the city of Amalek and set an ambush in the wadi.<note>A valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="6">Saul said to the Kenites, "Go, leave! Withdraw from among the Amalekites so that I do not destroy you with them. You have shown loyal love to all the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> when they came up from Egypt." So the Kenites left from among <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then Saul defeated <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites from Havilah as one goes to Shur which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {east of}<note>Literally "upon the face of"</note> Egypt.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="8">He captured Agag the king of Amalek alive, but all the people he utterly destroyed with the {edge}<note>Literally "mouth"</note> of the sword.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">However, Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and the cattle and the second <transChange type="added">best</transChange> of the young fatlings and {all that was valuable};<note>Literally "all the good <transChange type="added">things</transChange>"</note> they were not willing to utterly destroy them. But all the possessions that were despised or worthless, they utterly destroyed. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">"I regret that I made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and has not kept my word." {Samuel became angry},<note>Literally "it became hot for Samuel"</note> and he cried out to Yahweh all night.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then Samuel got up early in the morning to meet Saul. Samuel was told, "Saul has gone to Carmel, and look, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> setting up a monument for himself." Then he turned around and crossed over and went down to Gilgal. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">When Samuel came to Saul, Saul said to him, "May you be blessed by Yahweh! I have kept the word of Yahweh."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But Samuel said, "Then what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this bleating of the sheep <transChange type="added">that I hear</transChange> in my ears and the lowing of the cattle that I am hearing?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Saul said, "They have brought them from <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites; the troops spared the best of the sheep and the cattle in order to sacrifice them to Yahweh your God. But the rest we have utterly destroyed."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then Samuel said to Saul, "Stop and let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night." So he said to him, "Speak." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Samuel said, "Even though you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> small in your <transChange type="added">own</transChange> eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king over Israel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">When Yahweh sent you on your way, he said to you: 'Go! You must utterly destroy the sinners, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Amalekites, and you must fight against them until you<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text reads "they"; LXX, Peshitta, and Targum read "you"</note> have destroyed them.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Why did you not listen to the voice of Yahweh and fall with shouting on the plunder? You have done evil in the sight of Yahweh!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have listened to the voice of Yahweh, and I have gone on the way that Yahweh sent me! I brought Agag the king of Amalek, and the Amalekites I have utterly destroyed.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">The troops took from the plunder, sheep and cattle, the best of the things devoted to destruction, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God at Gilgal." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">For rebellion <transChange type="added">is like</transChange> the sin of divination; arrogance <transChange type="added">is like</transChange> iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of Yahweh, he has rejected you from <transChange type="added">being</transChange> king!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">Then Saul said to Samuel, "I have sinned because I have transgressed {the commandment of Yahweh}<note>Literally "the mouth of Yahweh"</note> and your words, for I feared the troops and I listened to their voice.</verse>


book: 1Sam
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<verse num="25">So then, please pardon my sin and return with me {so that I can worship}<note>Literally "so that I can bow down to"</note> Yahweh."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">But Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of Yahweh, and he has rejected you from being king over Israel!" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">As Samuel turned around to go, he<note>That is, Saul</note> caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Then Samuel said to him, "Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today and has given it to your neighbor {who is better than you}.<note>Literally "the better than you"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Moreover, the Glory of Israel will not break faith and will not regret, for he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not a human that he should regret."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Then he<note>That is, Saul</note> said, "I have sinned! Now please honor me before the elders of my people and before Israel, and return with me {so that I can worship}<note>Literally "so that I can bow down to"</note> Yahweh your God."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">So Samuel returned after Saul, and Saul {worshiped}<note>Literally "bowed down to"</note> Yahweh. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="32">Then Samuel said, "Bring Agag the king of Amalek out to me!" Agag came to him confidently,<note>Or "trembling"; literally "in chains/bonds" (HALOT 609 s.v. 2); the meaning here is uncertain (LXX has "trembling")</note> for Agag thought, "Surely the bitterness of death {is over}."<note>Literally "has turned aside"; other English versions follow the LXX and Peshitta and omit "has turned aside," reading "Surely the bitterness of death!"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="35">Samuel {did not see Saul again}<note>Literally "did not add to see Saul"</note> until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned over Saul, and Yahweh regretted that he made Saul king over Israel. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then Yahweh said to Samuel, "{How long}<note>Literally "Until when"</note> will you mourn about Saul? I have rejected him from being king over Israel! Fill up your horn <transChange type="added">with</transChange> oil and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have chosen a king for myself among his sons."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">But Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears, he will kill me." Yahweh said, "You must take a heifer from the herd {with you},<note>Literally "in/with your hand"</note> and you must say, 'I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">You will invite Jesse to the sacrifice and I will make known to you what you must do. You will anoint for me <transChange type="added">the one</transChange> whom I tell you." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So Samuel did what Yahweh said. He came to Bethlehem, and the elders of the city came trembling to meet him. They said, "{Have you come in peace}?"<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> your coming peace?"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">He said, "<transChange type="added">I come in</transChange> peace. I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." So he sanctified Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">{When they came},<note>Literally "And it happened at their coming"</note> he<note>That is, Samuel</note> saw Eliab and said, "Surely his anointed one <transChange type="added">is</transChange> before Yahweh!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For <transChange type="added">God does</transChange> not <transChange type="added">see</transChange> what man sees, for a man {looks on the outward appearance},<note>Literally "sees as far as the eyes"</note> but Yahweh {looks on the heart}."<note>Literally "sees as far as the heart"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him pass before Samuel, and he said, "This one also Yahweh has not chosen."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So Jesse made Shammah pass <transChange type="added">before Samuel</transChange>, but he said, "Yahweh also has not chosen this one."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel, but Samuel said to Jesse, "Yahweh has not chosen any of these." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then Samuel said to Jesse, "{Are all the young men here}?"<note>Literally "Are the boys finished?"</note> And he said, "The youngest still remains, but look, he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> shepherding the flock." And Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we cannot {sit down}<note>Literally "turn"; for "sit down" see HALOT 739 s.v. 2.c</note> until he comes here."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">So he sent and brought him. Now he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> ruddy with beautiful eyes and of {handsome}<note>Literally "good"</note> appearance. And Yahweh said, "Arise, anoint him, for this <transChange type="added">is</transChange> he."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. Then the Spirit of Yahweh rushed upon David from that day {on}.<note>Literally "and forward"</note> Then Samuel got up and went to Ramah. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul and an evil spirit from Yahweh tormented him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So the servants of Saul said to him, "Look please, an evil spirit from God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> tormenting you.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Please, let our lord command your servants <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. {When}<note>Literally "And it will happen <transChange type="added">that</transChange>"</note> the evil spirit from God <transChange type="added">is</transChange> upon you, he can play {on it}<note>Literally "with his hand"</note> and {you will feel better}."<note>Literally "and <transChange type="added">it will be</transChange> good for you"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">So Saul said to his servants, "Please select a man {who plays a stringed instrument well}<note>Literally "doing well to play a stringed instrument"</note> and bring <transChange type="added">him</transChange> to me." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">One of the servants answered and said, "Look, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> skillful in playing a stringed instrument, a {brave man, a warrior, prudent in speech, and handsome}.<note>Literally "a hero of ability, a man of war, discerning of word, and a man of appearance"</note> And Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with him."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">So Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with the sheep."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">And Jesse took a donkey <transChange type="added">loaded with</transChange> bread and a skin of wine and one {young goat}<note>Literally "kid of a goat"</note> and sent <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to Saul by the hand of David his son.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So David came to Saul and {entered his service}.<note>Literally "stood before him"</note> He<note>That is, Saul</note> loved him greatly and {he became Saul's armor bearer}.<note>Literally "he became for him a carrier of weapons"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then Saul sent <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to Jesse, saying, "Please let David stand before me, because he has found favor {in my sight}."<note>Literally "in my eyes"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So whenever the <transChange type="added">evil</transChange> spirit from God came to Saul, David would take the stringed instrument and play it with his hand. Then {it would bring relief}<note>Literally "it would be relieved"</note> for Saul; {he would feel better}<note>Literally "it would be good for him"</note> and the evil spirit would depart from him. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines gathered their camps<note>Or "armies"</note> for battle and they were gathered <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Socoh which <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to Judah. They camped between Socoh and Azekah in Ephes Dammim.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Then Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and encamped in the valley of Elah, and they formed ranks <transChange type="added">for the</transChange> battle to meet <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3"><transChange type="added">The</transChange> Philistines were standing on the hill on one side and <transChange type="added">the army of</transChange> Israel was standing on the hill on the other side with the valley between them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then {a champion}<note>Literally "a man of the space between"</note> went out from the camps of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, whose name was Goliath from Gath. His height was six cubits and a span.<note>A cubit was about eighteen inches and a span about nine inches, so the Masoretic Hebrew text gives the height of nine feet, nine inches. Ancient Greek versions variously give Goliath's height as four, five, or sixteen cubits.</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">A bronze helmet was on his head, and he was clothed with scale body armor; the weight of the body armor was five thousand bronze shekels.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Bronze greaves<note>Or "shin guards"</note> were on his legs,<note>Hebrew "feet"</note> and a bronze javelin <transChange type="added">was slung</transChange> between his shoulders.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">The shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam and the point of his spear <transChange type="added">weighed</transChange> six hundred iron shekels. {His shield bearer}<note>Literally "The one who carried his shield"</note> was walking in front of him. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">He stood and called to the battle lines of Israel and said to them, "Why have you come out to form ranks <transChange type="added">for</transChange> battle? <transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I not the Philistine, and you the servants of Saul? Commission for yourselves a man and let him come down to me.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">If he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> able to fight with me and he defeats me, then we will be your servants; but if I prevail over him and defeat him, then you will be our servants and you will serve us."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Then the Philistine said, "I hereby defy the battle lines of Israel today! Give me a man so that we may fight each other!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">When Saul and all Israel heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and very afraid. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Now David was the son of an Ephrathite. This <transChange type="added">man was</transChange> from Bethlehem of Judah, and his name was Jesse. {He had}<note>Literally "And for him were"</note> eight sons; in the days of Saul this man was old, <transChange type="added">yet</transChange> he <transChange type="added">still</transChange> walked among<note>The LXX reads "he went in years"; that is, he was advanced in years</note> the men.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">The three oldest sons of Jesse had gone and {followed}<note>Literally "went after"</note> Saul to the battle. The names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, his second <transChange type="added">oldest</transChange> was Abinadab, and the third was Shammah.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Now David was the youngest. The three oldest {followed}<note>Literally "went after"</note> Saul,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">but David went {back and forth}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">was</transChange> going and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> returning"</note> from Saul to feed the sheep of his father in Bethlehem.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Now the Philistine came forward early and late, and he took his stand <transChange type="added">for</transChange> forty days. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then Jesse said to his son David, "Please take for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> quickly to the camp for your brothers.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">And these ten portions of cheese you will bring to the commander of the thousand; {find out how your brothers are doing},<note>Literally "make a careful inspection as far as peace <transChange type="added">concerning</transChange> your brothers"</note> and take their pledge."<note>That is, some pledge or token of assurance that they had received the goods</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Now Saul and they<note>That is, David's brothers</note> and all the men of Israel <transChange type="added">were</transChange> in the valley of Elah fighting <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and he took <transChange type="added">the provisions</transChange> and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment while the troops <transChange type="added">were</transChange> going to the battle line, and they raised the war cry.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">Israel and <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines drew up <transChange type="added">in</transChange> battle lines, {one battle line against the other}.<note>Literally "battle line to oppose battle line"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">David left the baggage <transChange type="added">he had</transChange> with him in the {care}<note>Literally "hand"</note> of the baggage keeper, ran to the battle line, and came and {asked how his brothers were doing}.<note>Literally "asked his brothers as far as peace"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">While he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> speaking to them, {the champion},<note>Literally "the man of the space between"</note> whose name was Goliath the Philistine from Gath, <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming up from the caves<note>So the Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib); the reading tradition (Qere) and LXX have "ranks"</note> of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. He spoke {just as he had previously},<note>Literally "according to these words"</note> and David heard <transChange type="added">his words</transChange>.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from his presence and were very afraid.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">And the men of Israel said, "Did you see this man who has come up? For he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> going up to defy Israel! It will be <transChange type="added">that</transChange> the man who defeats him, the king will make him<note>That is, the man who defeats Goliath</note> very rich with great wealth and will give him his daughter <transChange type="added">in marriage</transChange> and will make his father's house free in Israel."<note>That is, free from taxation</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Now David had spoken to the men <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> standing with him, saying, "What will be done for the man who defeats this Philistine and removes <transChange type="added">the</transChange> disgrace from Israel? For who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this uncircumcised Philistine that he defies the battle lines of the living God?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">And the troops had spoken to him according to this word, saying, "So it will be done for the man who defeats<note>Or "kills"</note> him." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">His oldest brother Eliab heard while he was speaking to the men, {and Eliab became very angry against David}<note>Literally "and the nose of Eliab became hot concerning David"</note> and said, "Why have you come down today, and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your presumptuousness and the evil of your heart! For you have come down in order to see the battle!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">David replied, "What have I done now? {I merely asked a question}!<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this not a word?"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">He turned around from him to another opposite <transChange type="added">him</transChange> and {he spoke to him in the same way},<note>Literally "and he said according to this word"</note> and the people<note>Or "troops"</note> {answered him as before}.<note>Literally "returned to him a word as the first word"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">Now the words which David had spoken were heard and they reported <transChange type="added">them</transChange> {to}<note>Literally "before the face/in the presence of"</note> Saul, and he summoned him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="32">David said to Saul, "Do not let anyone's heart fail concerning him! Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="33">But Saul said to David, "You will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are <transChange type="added">only</transChange> a boy, whereas <transChange type="added">he has</transChange> been a man of war since his childhood!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="34">And David said to Saul, "Your servant has been a shepherd of the flock for his father. If the lion or the bear would come and carry off a sheep from the group,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="35">I would go out after it and strike it down and rescue <transChange type="added">the sheep</transChange> from its mouth. If it rose against me, I would grab <transChange type="added">it</transChange> by its beard and strike it down and kill it.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="36">Your servant has struck down both the lion and the bear, and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he defied the battle lines of the living God." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="37">And David said, "Yahweh, who rescued me from the hand of the lion and from the hand of the bear, will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine!" Then Saul said to David, "Go and may Yahweh be with you!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="38">Then Saul clothed David with his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> fighting attire and put a helmet of bronze on his head and clothed him <transChange type="added">with</transChange> body armor.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="39">Then David strapped on his sword over his fighting attire, but he tried in vain to walk <transChange type="added">around</transChange>, for he was not trained to use <transChange type="added">them</transChange>. So David said to Saul, "I am not able to walk with these, because I am not trained to use <transChange type="added">them</transChange>." So David removed them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="40">Then he took his staff in his hand, picked out for himself five smooth stones from the wadi,<note>A valley that is usually dry but contains a stream during the rainy season</note> and he put them in his shepherd's bag, in the pouch. And with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="41">Then the Philistine {came on, getting nearer and nearer}<note>Literally "went going and near"</note> to David, with {his shield bearer}<note>Literally "the man carrying the shield"</note> in front of him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="42">When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him, for he was <transChange type="added">only</transChange> a boy and ruddy with a handsome appearance.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="43">So the Philistine said to David, "<transChange type="added">Am</transChange> I a dog, that you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming to me with sticks?" Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="44">The Philistine said to David, "Come to me so that I can give your flesh to the birds of heaven and to the wild animals of the field!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="45">Then David said to the Philistine, "You <transChange type="added">are</transChange> coming to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I am coming to you in the name of Yahweh of hosts, the God of the battle lines of Israel, whom you have defied!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="46">This day Yahweh will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down {and cut off your head}!<note>Literally "and I will remove your head from upon you"</note> Then I will give <transChange type="added">the</transChange> corpses of the army of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines this day to the birds of heaven and to the animals of the earth, so that all the earth may know that there is a God <transChange type="added">who is</transChange> for Israel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="47">And all of this assembly will know that Yahweh does not rescue with sword or with spear, for the battle <transChange type="added">belongs</transChange> to Yahweh, and he will give you into our hands!" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="48">{When}<note>Literally "And it happened that when"</note> the Philistine got up and came and drew near to meet David, David {ran quickly}<note>Literally "made quickly and he ran"</note> to the battle line to meet the Philistine.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="49">Then David put his hand into the bag and took a stone from it and slung <transChange type="added">it</transChange>. He struck the Philistine on his forehead, and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="50">So David prevailed over the Philistine with the sling and with the stone, and he struck down the Philistine and killed him, but there was no sword in David's hand. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="51">Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it from its sheath and killed him and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="52">The men of Israel and Judah got up, raised the war cry, and pursued <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines {as far as}<note>Literally "up to your coming <transChange type="added">to</transChange>"</note> the valley<note>So the Masoretic Hebrew text; LXX reads "Gath"</note> and up to the gates of Ekron. So the slain of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines fell on the way<note>Or "road"</note> to Shaaraim up to Gath and as far as Ekron.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="53">Then the {Israelites}<note>Literally "sons/children of Israel"</note> returned from pursuing <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and plundered their camp.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="54">And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem and placed his weapons in his tent. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="55">Now when Saul saw David going out to meet the Philistine, he said to Abner, the commander of the army, "Whose son <transChange type="added">is</transChange> this young man, Abner?" And Abner said, "As your soul lives, O king, I do not know."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="56">Then the king said, "You inquire whose son this young man <transChange type="added">is</transChange>."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="57">So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. The head of the Philistine <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="58">Then Saul said to him, "Whose son are you, young man?" And David said, "<transChange type="added">I am</transChange> the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">{When}<note>Literally "And it happened as"</note> he finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan became attached to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> soul.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Saul took him on that <transChange type="added">very</transChange> day and did not allow him to return to his father's house.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his <transChange type="added">own</transChange> soul.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Jonathan stripped off the robe {that he was wearing}<note>Literally "which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on him"</note> and gave it to David, along with his fighting attire,<note>Hebrew "gown," in this context "fighting tunic," perhaps "armor"</note> and even his sword, his bow, and his belt. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">David went out {whenever}<note>Literally "in all that"</note> Saul sent him, <transChange type="added">and</transChange> he succeeded. So Saul appointed him over the men of the war, and it {pleased}<note>Literally "was good in the eyes of"</note> all the people and even {pleased}<note>Literally "was good in the eyes of"</note> the servants of Saul.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">{When they were coming back}<note>Literally "And it happened at their coming"</note> after David had returned from striking down the Philistine, the women went out from all the cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul with tambourines, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">{Saul became very angry},<note>Literally "And it was very hot for Saul"</note> and {this saying displeased him},<note>Literally "this thing was bad in his eyes"</note> and he thought, "They have attributed to David ten thousands, but to me they have attributed thousands! {What more can he have but the kingdom}?"<note>Literally "And still for him <transChange type="added">is</transChange> only the kingdom"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So Saul was watching<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "sin"; the translation follows the reading tradition (Qere) which has "eyeing" or "watching"</note> David <transChange type="added">with suspicion</transChange> from that day onward. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">{On}<note>Literally "And it happened from"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> next day, the evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. Now David was playing <transChange type="added">the lyre</transChange> with his hand on <transChange type="added">that</transChange> day {as usual},<note>Literally "as day on day"</note> and the spear was in Saul's hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then Saul hurled the spear and thought, "{I will pin David to the wall}."<note>Literally "I will strike David and to the wall"</note> But David eluded him twice.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">{Now Saul was threatened by the presence of David}<note>Literally "And Saul was afraid from the presence of David"</note> because Yahweh was with him, but had departed from Saul.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So Saul removed him {from his presence},<note>Literally "from with him"</note> and made him commander of a thousand, {so he<note>That is, David</note> marched in and out at the front of the army}.<note>Literally "for he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> going out and <transChange type="added">was</transChange> coming in before the army"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">And David was achieving success in all his ways and Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">but when Saul saw that he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> very successful, {he was severely threatened by him}.<note>Literally "he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> terrified from his face"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">However, all of Israel and Judah <transChange type="added">were</transChange> loving David, for he was going forth and marching ahead of them. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then Saul said to David, "Here <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you as <transChange type="added">your</transChange> wife. Only be {a brave warrior}<note>Literally "a son of valor"</note> for me and fight the battles of Yahweh." For Saul thought, "My hand will not be against him, but let the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines be against him."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">But David said to Saul, "Who <transChange type="added">am</transChange> I, and <transChange type="added">who are</transChange> my relatives, the clan of my father in Israel, that I should be a son-in-law to the king?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">{But}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> at the time Saul's daughter Merab <transChange type="added">was</transChange> to be given to David, she was given <transChange type="added">instead</transChange> to Adriel the Meholathite as wife. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">Now Saul's daughter Michal loved David, so they told Saul, and the matter {pleased him}.<note>Literally "was right in his eyes"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And Saul thought, "I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "For a second <transChange type="added">time</transChange> you can become my son-in-law today."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in secret, saying, 'Look, the king <transChange type="added">is</transChange> pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.'"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">And Saul's servants spoke these words {to David privately}.<note>Literally "in the ears of David"</note> But David said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it insignificant {in your sight}<note>Literally "in your eyes"</note> to become the son-in-law of the king, <transChange type="added">as</transChange> I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">So the servants of Saul informed him, saying, "{This is what David said}."<note>Literally "According to these words David spoke"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">Then Saul said, "This <transChange type="added">is</transChange> what you must say to David: '{The king desires no bride price}<note>Literally "There <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not a desire for the king for a bride price"</note> except for a hundred foreskins of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines, to avenge himself on the enemies of the king.'" (Now Saul had planned to allow David to fall by the hand of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines.)</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">So his servants told David these words, and the matter {pleased David}<note>Literally "was right in the eyes of David"</note> to become the son-in-law of the king <transChange type="added">as</transChange> {the specified time had not expired}.<note>Literally "the days were not full"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">And David got up, and he and his men went and struck down two hundred men <transChange type="added">of the</transChange> Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and {they presented the full number}<note>Literally "they filled them up"</note> to become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as <transChange type="added">his</transChange> wife.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">When Saul {realized}<note>Literally "saw and knew"</note> that Yahweh <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with David and {his own daughter Michal}<note>Literally "Michal the daughter of Saul"</note> loved him,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">Saul {was threatened by David still more},<note>Literally "added to be afraid from the presence of David"</note> so Saul {became a perpetual enemy of David}.<note>Literally "was an enemy with David all the days"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Then the commanders of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines went out <transChange type="added">for battle</transChange>, and as often as they went out, David succeeded more than all the servants of Saul, and his name became very esteemed. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants about killing David, but Saul's son Jonathan {liked David very much}.<note>Literally "delighted in David very"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So Jonathan informed David, saying, "My father Saul <transChange type="added">is</transChange> trying to kill you; now please take care! In the morning you should stay in the hiding place and conceal yourself.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">I will go out and stand {at my father's side}<note>Literally "at the hand of my father"</note> in the field where you are, and I will speak about you to my father; {if I find out anything}<note>Literally "if I see and what?"</note> I will tell <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So Jonathan spoke well about David to his father Saul and said to him, "The king should not sin against his servant David, because he has not sinned against you, and because his service for you <transChange type="added">has been</transChange> very good.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">He put his life in his hand and attacked the Philistine, and Yahweh brought about a great victory for all of Israel, and you saw <transChange type="added">it</transChange> and rejoiced! Now why should you sin against innocent blood by killing David without cause?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">And Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan and swore, "{As Yahweh lives},<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> he will not be put to death!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Jonathan called to David and told him all of these words. Then Jonathan brought David to Saul and he was before him as {formerly}.<note>Literally "yesterday three days ago"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">War came again, so David went out and fought against <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines and {defeated them thoroughly}<note>Literally "he struck them down with a great blow"</note> so that they fled before him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then the evil spirit from Yahweh came upon Saul while he was sitting in his house <transChange type="added">with</transChange> his spear in his hand. And David <transChange type="added">was</transChange> playing a stringed instrument in <transChange type="added">his</transChange> hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So Saul tried {to pin David to the wall with the spear},<note>Literally "to strike with the spear on David and to the wall"</note> but {he eluded Saul},<note>Literally "he escaped from the presence of Saul"</note> so that he struck the spear into the wall, and David fled and escaped that <transChange type="added">same</transChange> night. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Then Saul sent messengers to David's house to guard him and to kill him in the morning, but Michal his wife told David, saying, "If {you do not save your life}<note>Literally "you are not saving your life"</note> tonight, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> tomorrow you <transChange type="added">will be</transChange> killed!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">So Michal lowered David through the window, and he went and fled and escaped.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then Michal took the household god<note>Hebrew teraphim</note> and put it on the bed and put a quilt of goat's hair at its head and covered <transChange type="added">it</transChange> with the clothes.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">And Saul sent messengers to arrest David, but she said, "He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> ill."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">So Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, "Bring him up to me in the bed, so that I can kill him."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">When the messengers came, {to their surprise}<note>Literally "and look"</note> the idol <transChange type="added">was</transChange> on the bed <transChange type="added">with</transChange> the quilt of goat's hair at the head.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then Saul said to Michal, "Why have you deceived me like this and sent away my enemy, so that he escaped?" Michal said to Saul, "He said to me, 'Let me go, why should I kill you?'" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">So David fled and escaped, and he came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">And it was told to Saul, "David <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in Naioth in Ramah."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So Saul sent messengers to capture David. When they saw the company of the prophets prophesying and Samuel standing <transChange type="added">as</transChange> chief over them, then the Spirit of God came upon Saul's messengers, and they also prophesied.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So they told Saul, and he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. Again Saul sent messengers a third <transChange type="added">time</transChange>, and they also prophesied.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then he also went to Ramah. When he came to the great cistern which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Secu, he asked and said, "Where <transChange type="added">are</transChange> Samuel and David?" Someone said, "Look <transChange type="added">they are</transChange> in Naioth in Ramah."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">So he went there to Naioth in Ramah and the Spirit of God came upon him also, and {he walked along prophesying}<note>Literally "he went going and he prophesied"</note> until he came to Naioth in Ramah.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">He also stripped <transChange type="added">off</transChange> his clothes and prophesied before Samuel. He lay naked all that day and all night. Therefore they say, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> Saul also among the prophets?" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my guilt and what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> my sin before your father that <transChange type="added">he is</transChange> {trying to kill me}?<note>Literally "seeking my life"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">And he said to him, "Far from it! You will not die! Look, my father does not do<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "he does to/for him"; the translation follows the reading tradition (Qere) which has "does not do"</note> {anything large or small unless he reveals it to me}.<note>Literally "a large thing or a small thing and he <transChange type="added">does</transChange> not reveal <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my ear"</note> Why should my father hide this thing or anything from me?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Then David {took an oath}<note>Literally "swore"</note> again and said, "Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he thought, 'Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he worry.' But {as Yahweh lives}<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note> and {as your soul lives},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">the</transChange> life of your soul"</note> surely <transChange type="added">there is</transChange> merely a step between me and death!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">Then Jonathan said to David, "{Whatever you wish},<note>Literally "What your soul says"</note> I will do for you."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">David said to Jonathan, "Look, tomorrow <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the new moon, and I should certainly sit with the king to eat. You must send me away so that I can hide myself in the field until the third evening.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">If your father misses me at all, then you must say, 'David earnestly asked from me to run to Bethlehem his city, for {the yearly sacrifice}<note>Literally "the sacrifice of the days"</note> <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there for all the clan.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">If he says 'Good,' <transChange type="added">it will mean</transChange> peace for your servant; but if he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> very angry, know that {he has decided to do me harm}.<note>Literally "the evil has been determined from with him"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">So you must show loyal love to your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of Yahweh with you. But if there <transChange type="added">is</transChange> guilt in me, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> kill me yourself! But why should you bring me to your father?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then Jonathan said, "Far be it from you! For if I know for certain that {my father decided evil should come upon you},<note>Literally "the evil <transChange type="added">is</transChange> determined from with my father to come over you"</note> would I not have told it to you?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Then David said to Jonathan, "Who will tell me if what your father answers you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> harsh?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">And Jonathan said to David, "Come, let us go out to the field." So the two of them went out to the field. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then Jonathan said to David, "Yahweh the God of Israel <transChange type="added">is my witness</transChange><note>The phrase "is my witness" is supplied based on the Syriac version</note> that I will question my father {by this time the day after tomorrow}.<note>Literally "as the time tomorrow the third"</note> And look, {if he is well disposed toward you},<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">if he is</transChange> good to David"</note> will I not send <transChange type="added">word</transChange> to you and {disclose it to you}?<note>Literally "I will reveal <transChange type="added">it to</transChange> your ear"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">{So may Yahweh punish Jonathan and more}<note>Literally "So may Yahweh do to Jonathan and so may he add"</note> if {my father decides to do you harm}<note>Literally "the evil over you <transChange type="added">is</transChange> regarded as good by my father"</note> and if {I fail to disclose it to you}<note>Literally "I will reveal <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to your ear"</note> and send word to you that you can go safely. And may Yahweh be with you, as he has been with my father.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">And not while I am still alive, will you not show the loyal love of Yahweh with me, that I may not die?<note>Or perhaps "and <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I die, may you not ..."</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">And do not cut off your loyal love from {my family}<note>Literally "my house"</note> forever, not <transChange type="added">even</transChange> when Yahweh {exterminates}<note>Literally "cuts off"</note> each of the enemies of David from the face of the earth."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So Jonathan {made a covenant}<note>Literally "cut <transChange type="added">a covenant</transChange>"</note> with the house of David, <transChange type="added">saying,</transChange> "May Yahweh {call the enemies of David to account}."<note>Literally "seek from the hand of the enemies of David"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">And Jonathan again made David swear an oath, because he loved him; for with the love of his soul he loved him. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then Jonathan said to him, "Tomorrow <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the new moon, and you will be missed, for your seat will stay empty.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">On the third day you must go down quickly and go to the place where you hid yourself {on the day all this started}<note>Literally "on the day of the deed"</note> and remain beside the stone Ezel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">I will shoot three arrows <transChange type="added">to the</transChange> side as <transChange type="added">if</transChange> I were shooting at a target.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">{Then}<note>Literally "And look"</note> I will send <transChange type="added">word to</transChange> my servant, 'Go, find the arrows!' If I clearly say to the boy, 'Look, the arrows <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {on this side of you};<note>Literally "from you and here"</note> {bring}<note>Literally "take"</note> it,' then<note>Hebrew "and"</note> come, for <transChange type="added">it means</transChange> peace for you. And there is no problem, {as Yahweh lives}.<note>Literally "the life of Yahweh"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">But if I say this to the young man, 'Look, the arrows <transChange type="added">are</transChange> {beyond you},'<note>Literally "from you and beyond"</note> go, for Yahweh has sent you away.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">And <transChange type="added">as for</transChange> the matter about which you and I spoke, look, Yahweh <transChange type="added">is</transChange> between you and me forever." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="24">So David hid himself in the field. {When the new moon came},<note>Literally "And it was the new moon"</note> {the king was seated at the feast}.<note>Literally "the king sat at the food to eat"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">The king sat at his seat {as before},<note>Literally "as occurrence at occurrence"</note> the seat by the wall, and Jonathan got up, and Abner sat beside Saul, but David's place was empty.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">But Saul said nothing on that day, for he thought, "{Something happened to him}.<note>Literally "It <transChange type="added">is</transChange> incident"</note> He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not <transChange type="added">ceremonially</transChange> clean; surely he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> not clean."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> on the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David's place was empty. So Saul asked Jonathan his son, "Why did the son of Jesse not come either yesterday or today to the feast?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">Jonathan answered Saul, "David earnestly asked permission from me <transChange type="added">to go</transChange> up to Bethlehem.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29">He said, 'Send me away, please, for our clan sacrifice <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the city, and my brother commanded<note>Or "urged"</note> me <transChange type="added">to be present</transChange>. So then, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me slip away and see my brothers.' Therefore he has not come to the table of the king."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="30">Then {Saul became angry}<note>Literally "the nose of Saul became hot"</note> at Jonathan and said to him, "<transChange type="added">You</transChange> son of a perverse, rebellious woman!<note>Or "bastard of a wayward woman" (HALOT 796)</note> Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="31">For {as long as}<note>Literally "all the days which"</note> the son of Jesse <transChange type="added">is</transChange> alive on the earth, you and your kingdom will not be established! So then, send and bring him to me, for {he will surely die}!"<note>Literally "he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> a son of death"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="32">But Jonathan answered his father Saul and said to him, "Why should he be put to death? What has he done?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="33">Then Saul hurled his<note>Hebrew "the"</note> spear at him to kill him. So Jonathan knew {that his father had decided}<note>Literally "it was complete from with his father"</note> to kill David. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="34">Jonathan got up from the table {enraged},<note>Literally "with burning of nose"</note> and did not eat on the second day of the new moon because he was upset about David, because his father had disgraced him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="35">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> in the morning Jonathan went out to the field for the appointment with David, and a young boy<note>Or "young servant"</note> <transChange type="added">was</transChange> with him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="36">He said to his servant,<note>Or "boy"</note> "Run, please find the arrows that I am shooting!" The boy<note>Or "servant"</note> ran, and he shot the arrow to pass <transChange type="added">over</transChange> him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="37">When the boy came up to the place of the arrow that Jonathan had shot, Jonathan called out after the boy and said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not the arrow {beyond you}?"<note>Literally "from you and beyond"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="38">Then Jonathan called out after the boy, "Quick, hurry, do not linger!" And Jonathan's servant collected the arrows and came to his master.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="39">But the boy did not know anything <transChange type="added">about this</transChange>; only Jonathan and David knew the matter.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="40">Jonathan gave his weapons to his servant and said to him, "Go, bring <transChange type="added">them</transChange> to the city."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="41">The boy left, and then David got up from the south side,<note>So Masoretic Hebrew text; LXX reads "from the mound" (of stones)</note> and he fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed {each other}<note>Literally "each his friend"</note> and wept {together},<note>Literally "each with his friend"</note> but David <transChange type="added">wept</transChange> the most.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="42">Jonathan said to David, "Go in peace, because we have sworn, the two of us, <transChange type="added">an oath</transChange> in the name of Yahweh, saying, "Yahweh will be between me and you, and between my offspring and your offspring forever."<note>In the Hebrew Bible, 1 Sam 21 begins here. 1 Samuel 20:42b-21:15 in the English Bible is 21:1-16 in the Hebrew Bible</note> Then he got up and left, and Jonathan went into the city. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And Ahimelech came trembling to meet David, and he said to him, "Why are you alone and there are no men with you?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So David said to Ahimelech the priest, "The king charged me <transChange type="added">with</transChange> a matter and said to me, 'No one must know anything about this matter <transChange type="added">on</transChange> which I am sending you, <transChange type="added">with</transChange> which I have charged you and the servants.'" So {I have arranged to meet with my servants at a certain place}.<note>Literally "I have made an appointment with my servants/young men to a place, a certain <transChange type="added">one</transChange>"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">Now then, {what do you have at hand}?<note>Literally "what <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there under your hand"</note> Give me five <transChange type="added">loaves</transChange> of bread or {whatever is here}."<note>Literally "that which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> found"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">The priest answered David and said, "There is no ordinary bread {here at hand};<note>Literally "under my hand"</note> there is only holy bread, <transChange type="added">but</transChange> only if the young men have kept themselves from women."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">David answered the priest and said to him, "Indeed, women <transChange type="added">were</transChange> held back from us {as it has been when I've gone out before}.<note>Literally "as yesterday three days ago my going out"</note> And the things<note>Or possibly "equipment" or "weapons"</note> of the young men are holy when<note>Or "and"</note> it <transChange type="added">is</transChange> an ordinary journey. {How much more}<note>Literally "And even that"</note> {today}<note>Literally "the day"</note> will the things<note>Or possibly "equipment" or "weapons"</note> be holy?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">So the priest gave him <transChange type="added">the</transChange> holy <transChange type="added">bread</transChange>, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence, which was removed from before Yahweh, in order to set hot bread <transChange type="added">there</transChange> on the day when it was taken away. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Now there was a man from the servants of Saul on that day, detained before Yahweh, whose name <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul's shepherds.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">David asked Ahimelech, "Is there not {at your disposal}<note>Literally "under your hand"</note> a spear or a sword? For I took neither my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's matter was urgent."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So the priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine whom you killed in the valley of Elah <transChange type="added">is</transChange> here, wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want to take it for yourself, <transChange type="added">then</transChange> take it, for there is no other except it here." And David said, "There is none like it; give it to me." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">So David got up and fled on that day from the presence of Saul, and he came to Achish the king of Gath.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">The servants of Achish said to him, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not this David the king of the land? <transChange type="added">Is</transChange> it not for this <transChange type="added">one</transChange> that they sang in the dances, saying, 'Saul killed his thousands, but David his ten thousands?'"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">{David took these words seriously}<note>Literally "David put these words in his heart"</note> and {felt severely threatened by}<note>Literally "he was very afraid from the face of"</note> Achish the king of Gath.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So he changed his behavior {before them}<note>Literally "in their eyes"</note> and pretended to be mad {in their presence}.<note>Literally "in their hands"</note> He made scratches on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down into his beard.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">Then Achish said to his servants, "Look, you see a madman! Why did you bring him to me?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">Do I lack madmen that you have brought this one to act like a madman before me? Should this one enter my household?" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">David went from there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and all his father's household<note>Or "family"</note> heard, they came down to him there.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Every man in distress and every man who had a creditor and every embittered man gathered to him, and he became {their commander}.<note>Literally "over them as commander"</note> Now there <transChange type="added">were</transChange> about four hundred men with him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">And David went up from there to Mizpah of Moab. He said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother {stay}<note>Literally "come/go out"</note> with you until I know what God will do for me."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So {he brought them before the king of Moab},<note>Literally "he led them into the presence of the king of Moab"</note> and they stayed with him all the days David was in the stronghold. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">Then Gad the prophet said to David, "You should not stay in the stronghold; leave and go into the land of Judah." So David left and came <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the forest of Hereth.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Now Saul heard that David and the men who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with him had been located. Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> sitting at Gibeah under the tamarisk <transChange type="added">tree</transChange> at Ramah. Now his spear <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in his hand and all his servants <transChange type="added">were</transChange> stationed around him.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Then Saul said to the servants who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> standing around him, "Please listen, {Benjaminites}!<note>Literally "children of Benjamin"</note> Will the son of Jesse give you all fields and vineyards? Will he make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">For all of you have conspired against me, and {no one discloses to me}<note>Literally "there is no <transChange type="added">one</transChange> revealing <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my ear"</note> the {making}<note>Literally "cutting"</note> <transChange type="added">of an agreement</transChange> between my son and the son of Jesse! None of you have had sympathy for me or {disclosed to me}<note>Literally "revealing <transChange type="added">to</transChange> my ear"</note> <transChange type="added">that</transChange> {my son commissioned my servant against me to ambush me}<note>Literally "my son has raised my servant against me to an ambush"</note> as <transChange type="added">has been done</transChange> this day!" </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">But Doeg the Edomite, who <transChange type="added">was</transChange> stationed among the servants of Saul, answered and said, "I saw the son of Jesse going to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">And he inquired of Yahweh for him and gave him provisions and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">So the king sent to summon Ahimelech the son of Ahitub the priest, and all his father's household, the priests who <transChange type="added">were</transChange> at Nob. So all of them came to the king.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Saul said, "Listen please, son of Ahitub." He said, "Here I <transChange type="added">am</transChange>, my lord."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then Saul said to him, "Why did you conspire against me, you and the son of Jesse, when you gave to him bread and a sword, and by inquiring of God for him so that he might arise against me to ambush <transChange type="added">me</transChange> as <transChange type="added">has been done</transChange> this day?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But Ahimelech answered the king and said, "And who among all your servants <transChange type="added">is</transChange> as faithful as David? He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the son-in-law of the king who moves <transChange type="added">quickly</transChange> to safeguard you and is honored in your house.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15"><transChange type="added">Only</transChange> today I began to inquire of God for him. Far be it from me that {the king should impute anything against his servant}<note>Literally "the king will not put against his servant a matter"</note> or against my father's household, for your servant has not known any of this matter, little or much."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">Then the king said, "You must certainly die, Ahimelech, you and all your father's household!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">So the king said to the runners <transChange type="added">who were</transChange> stationed around him, "Turn and kill the priests of Yahweh, because {they also support David}<note>Literally "also their hand <transChange type="added">is</transChange> with David"</note> and because they knew that he was fleeing and {did not disclose it to me}."<note>Literally "did not reveal it to his ear"; the Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "his," but the reading tradition (Qere) has "my"</note> But the servants of the king <transChange type="added">were</transChange> not willing to raise their hand to attack the priests of Yahweh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then the king said to Doeg, "You turn and attack the priests!" So Doeg the Edomite turned and attacked the priests himself, and on that day he killed eighty-five men who wore <transChange type="added">the</transChange> linen ephod.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">And {he put to the sword}<note>Literally "he killed with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> Nob, the city of the priests, from man to woman, from child to infant, and ox and donkey and sheep;<note>Or "goats"; literally, "small livestock animals"</note> <transChange type="added">all</transChange> {to the sword}.<note>Literally "with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> mouth of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> sword"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">But, one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, whose name was Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Then David said to Abiathar, "I knew on that day that Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would certainly tell Saul. {I am responsible for the deaths of all your father's household}!<note>Literally "I have turned against all the life of your father's house"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now they told David, "Look, <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines <transChange type="added">are</transChange> fighting in Keilah and they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> raiding the threshing floors."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So David inquired of Yahweh, saying, "Shall I go and attack these Philistines?" And Yahweh said to David, "Go and attack the Philistines and save<note>Or "deliver" or "rescue"</note> Keilah."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">But David's men said to him, "Look, we <transChange type="added">are</transChange> afraid here in Judah. {How much more}<note>Literally "also for"</note> <transChange type="added">if</transChange> we go <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Keilah to the battle lines of <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines?"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">So David again inquired of Yahweh, and Yahweh answered him and said, "Get up, go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Keilah, for I <transChange type="added">am</transChange> giving <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines into your hand."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. They drove off their livestock and {dealt them a heavy blow}.<note>Literally "he struck them with a great smiting"</note> So David saved<note>Or "delivered" or "rescued"</note> the inhabitants of Keilah. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">{Now when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled}<note>Literally "And it happened <transChange type="added">that</transChange> at the fleeing of Abiathar son of Ahimelech"</note> to David <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Keilah, he went down <transChange type="added">with</transChange> an ephod in his hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">When it was told to Saul that David had gone to Keilah, Saul said, "God {has given him}<note>Literally "has made him a stranger"</note> into my hand, because he has shut himself in by going into a city <transChange type="added">with</transChange> {two barred gates}.<note>Literally "two gates and a bar"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Saul then summoned all of the army for the battle, to go down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> Keilah to lay a siege against David and his men.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">When David learned that Saul <transChange type="added">was</transChange> plotting evil against him, he said to Abiathar the priest, "Bring the ephod here."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">And David said, "O Yahweh, God of Israel, your servant has clearly heard that Saul <transChange type="added">is</transChange> seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city because of me.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me into his hand? Will Saul come down as your servant has heard? O Yahweh, God of Israel, please tell your servant!" And Yahweh said, "He will come down."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">Then David said, "Will the rulers of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And Yahweh said, "They will deliver <transChange type="added">you</transChange>."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">So David and his men got up, about six hundred men, and went out from Keilah and wandered wherever they could go. When it was told to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, {he stopped his pursuit}.<note>Literally "he ceased to go out"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">David remained in the wilderness, in the strongholds, and in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him {continually},<note>Literally "all the days"</note> but God did not give him into his hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">When David realized that Saul had gone out to seek his life, David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">So Jonathan the son of Saul got up and went to David <transChange type="added">at</transChange> Horesh, and {encouraged him}<note>Literally "he strengthened his hand"</note> through God.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">He said to him, "Do not be afraid, for the hand of my father Saul will not find you. You will be king over Israel, and {I will be second to you}.<note>Literally "I shall be for you as second"</note> My father Saul knows <transChange type="added">this</transChange> also."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">Then the two of them {made}<note>Literally "cut"</note> a covenant before Yahweh. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went to his house. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">Then <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh on the hill of Hakilah, which <transChange type="added">is</transChange> south of Jeshimon?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So then, O king, {whenever you want}<note>Literally "for all the wanting of your soul"</note> to come down, come down, and <transChange type="added">it will be</transChange> for us to deliver him into the hand of the king."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">And Saul said to them, "May you be blessed by Yahweh, for you have shown me compassion!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">Go, please, make certain again! Find out and see {exactly where he is}<note>Literally "his place where his foot <transChange type="added">is</transChange>"</note> and who has seen him there! For they have said to me, 'He <transChange type="added">is</transChange> very cunning.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="23">Look, find out all of the hiding places where he hides. Then return to me {with dependable information},<note>Literally "to being established"</note> and I will go with you. And then if he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> there in the land, then I will seek him among all the thousands of Judah."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="25">And Saul and his men went to seek <transChange type="added">him</transChange>, and they told David, so he went down <transChange type="added">to</transChange> the rock and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard <transChange type="added">this</transChange>, he pursued David <transChange type="added">into</transChange> the wilderness of Maon.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="26">Saul went {on one side of the mountain},<note>Literally "from the side of the mountain from this"</note> and David and his men {went on the other side of the mountain}.<note>Literally "from the side of the mountain from this"</note> David was hurrying to get away from Saul, while Saul and his men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> closing in on David and his men to capture them.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="27">But a messenger came to Saul, saying, "Hurry and come, because <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines have made a raid on the land!"</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="28">So Saul returned from pursuing David, and he went to confront<note>Hebrew "to meet"</note> <transChange type="added">the</transChange> Philistines. Therefore, they called that place the Rock of Division.<note>Hebrew "Sela' Hammahlekot"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="29"><note>1 Sam 23:29-24:22 in the English Bible is 24:1-23 in the Hebrew Bible</note> David went up from there and stayed in the strongholds of En Gedi. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">When Saul returned from <transChange type="added">pursuing the</transChange> Philistines, they told him, "Look, David <transChange type="added">is</transChange> in the wilderness of En Gedi."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">So Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel, and he and his men went to search <transChange type="added">for</transChange> David {in the direction of}<note>Literally "on the face of"</note> the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.<note>Hebrew "of the Jael"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">He came to the sheep pens beside the road, and a cave <transChange type="added">was</transChange> there. Then Saul went in {to relieve himself}.<note>Literally "to cover his feet"</note> Now David and his men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> sitting in the innermost part of the cave.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">And David's men said to him, "Look, today <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the day about which Yahweh said to you, 'See, I am giving your enemy<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "enemies," but the reading tradition (Qere) has the singular "enemy"</note> into your hand, and you can do to him {whatever seems good to you}.'"<note>Literally "as that <transChange type="added">which is</transChange> good in your eyes"</note> So David got up and secretly cut the hem of Saul's robe.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">{And then}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> afterward David {felt guilty},<note>Literally "the heart of David struck him"</note> because he had cut {the hem of Saul's robe}.<note>Literally "the hem which <transChange type="added">was</transChange> for Saul"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">He said to his men, "Far be it from me in<note>Hebrew "from"</note> Yahweh, that I do this thing to my lord, to Yahweh's anointed one, by stretching out my hand against him! For he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the anointed one of Yahweh."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">So David rebuked his men with the words and did not allow them to rise against Saul. And Saul got up from the cave, and he went on his<note>Hebrew "the"</note> way. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Then David got up afterward and went out of the cave and called after Saul, "My lord the king!" When Saul looked after him, David knelt down <transChange type="added">with his</transChange> face to the ground and bowed down.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">Then David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of people who say: 'Look, David <transChange type="added">is</transChange> {seeking to do you harm}'?<note>Literally "seeking your evil"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">Look, this day your eyes have seen that Yahweh gave you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you. But {I took pity}<note>Literally "she took pity," with "she" = "my eye," a common Hebrew expression</note> on you and said, 'I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, because he <transChange type="added">is</transChange> Yahweh's anointed one.'</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Now, my father, see, yes, see, the hem of your robe in my hand! For {when I cut}<note>Literally "at my cutting"</note> the hem of your robe I did not kill you. Know and {realize}<note>Literally "see"</note> that there is no evil or rebellion in my hand. I did not sin against you, but you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> hunting down my life to take it.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">May Yahweh judge between me and you, and may Yahweh avenge me on you, but my hand will not be against you!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Just as the ancient proverb says, 'From the wicked, wickedness goes out,' but my hand will not be against you!</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">After whom did the king of Israel go out? After whom are you pursuing? After a dead dog? After one flea?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">May Yahweh be <transChange type="added">the</transChange> judge, and let him judge between me and you, and may he see and plead my case. {May he vindicate me against you}!"<note>Literally "May he judge me from your hand"</note> </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="16">When David finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, "<transChange type="added">Is</transChange> this your voice, my son David?" And Saul lifted up his voice and wept.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="17">Then he said to David, "You are more righteous than I, for you have repaid me the good, but I have repaid you the evil.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="18">You have explained to me today that you have dealt well with me, how<note>Hebrew "that"</note> Yahweh delivered me into your hand but you did not kill me.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="19">For a man has found his enemy but sent him on <transChange type="added">his</transChange> way safely. Now may Yahweh reward you with good in return for this day, for what you have done for me.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="20">So now then, look, I know that you will certainly be king and the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="21">So then, swear to me by Yahweh that you will not cut off my {descendants}<note>Literally "seed"</note> after me and that you will not wipe out my name from my father's house."</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="22">So David swore <transChange type="added">this on oath</transChange> to Saul, and Saul went to his house, but David and his men went up to the stronghold. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="1">Now Samuel died, and all Israel assembled and mourned for him. They buried him at his house at Ramah. Then David got up and went down to the wilderness of Paran. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="2">Now there was a man in Maon, whose business <transChange type="added">was</transChange> in Carmel. The man was very rich and {owned}<note>Literally "<transChange type="added">there were</transChange> for him"</note> three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. {Now}<note>Literally "And it happened"</note> the shearing of his sheep <transChange type="added">was taking place</transChange> in Carmel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="3">The name of the man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Nabal,<note>The name "Nabal" means "foolish"</note> and the name of his wife <transChange type="added">was</transChange> Abigail.<note>The name "Abigail" means "my father delights"</note> Now the woman <transChange type="added">was</transChange> wise and beautiful, but the man <transChange type="added">was</transChange> stubborn and {mean},<note>Literally "bad of deeds"</note> and he <transChange type="added">was</transChange> as his heart.<note>The Masoretic Hebrew text (Kethib) reads "as his heart," whereas the reading tradition (Qere) reads "Calebite"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="4">David heard in the wilderness that Nabal <transChange type="added">was</transChange> shearing his sheep.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="5">So David sent ten young men, and David said to the young men, "Go up to Carmel and go to Nabal; {you will greet him in my name}.<note>Literally "you will ask for him in my name as far as peace"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="6">Then you must say to him, '<transChange type="added">Long</transChange> life <transChange type="added">to you</transChange>, and {may it go well with you, with your house, and with all that is yours}.<note>Literally "you <transChange type="added">are</transChange> peace and your house <transChange type="added">is</transChange> peace and all that <transChange type="added">is</transChange> yours <transChange type="added">is</transChange> peace"</note></verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="7">Now I have heard that {you have shearers}.<note>Literally "shearing <transChange type="added">is</transChange> for you"</note> Now while your shepherds <transChange type="added">were</transChange> with us, we did not mistreat them, and nothing of theirs <transChange type="added">was</transChange> missing, all the days they were in Carmel.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="8">Ask your servants<note>Or "young men"</note> and they will tell you! Let the young men<note>Or "the servants"; "young men" is used here to connect with v. 5</note> find favor in your eyes because we have come on a feast day. Please give {whatever you have on hand}<note>Literally "what your hand finds"</note> for your servants and for your son David." </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="9">So David's young men came and they spoke all these words to Nabal in the name of David. Then they waited.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="10">But Nabal answered David's servants and said, "Who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> David? And who <transChange type="added">is</transChange> the son of Jesse? Today, <transChange type="added">there</transChange> are many servants breaking away from the presence of their masters.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="11">Should I take my bread and my water and my meat which I have slaughtered for my shearers and give <transChange type="added">it</transChange> to men whom I do not know where they <transChange type="added">are</transChange> from?</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="12">So David's young men turned on their way and returned and came and told him according to all these words.</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="13">Then David said to his men, "Each man strap on his sword!" So each one strapped on his sword, and David also strapped on his sword. About four hundred men went up after David, while two hundred remained with the baggage. </verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="14">But a young man of the servants told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, "Look, David sent messengers from the desert to greet<note>Hebrew "bless"</note> our master, but he addressed them angrily,</verse>


book: 1Sam
content:
<verse num="15">even though the men <transChange type="added">were</transChange> very good to us; we were not mistreated and did not miss anything all the days we went about with them {while we were}<note>Literally "at our being"</note> in the field.</verse>


