¹⁴ As he approached Lehi,^(A) the Philistines came toward him shouting. The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.^(B) The ropes on his arms became like charred flax,^(C) and the bindings dropped from his hands.

¹⁹ Then the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him.^(A) He went down to Ashkelon,^(B) struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger,^(C) he returned to his father’s home.

³⁵ I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized^(A) it by its hair, struck it and killed it.

⁶ When Saul heard their words, the Spirit^(A) of God came powerfully upon him, and he burned with anger.

⁶ The Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon him^(A) so that he tore the lion apart^(B) with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done.

¹⁰ The Spirit of the Lord came on him,^(A) so that he became Israel’s judge^[a] and went to war. The Lord gave Cushan-Rishathaim^(B) king of Aram^(C) into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

³ Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers,^(A) whose names are in the book of life.^(B)

⁶ So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:^(A) ‘Not^(B) by might nor by power,^(C) but by my Spirit,’^(D) says the Lord Almighty.