34 When he killed them, they (A)sought him;
    they repented and sought God earnestly.

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15 (A)I will return again to my place,
    until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face,
    and (B)in their distress earnestly seek me.

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Ehud

12 (A)And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord strengthened Eglon (B)the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the Lord. 13 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the (C)Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of (D)the city of palms. 14 And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

15 Then the people of Israel (E)cried out to the Lord, and the Lord raised up for them (F)a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, (G)a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.

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(A)And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. (B)Pray to the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.

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14 (A)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but (B)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.

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23 O inhabitant of (A)Lebanon,
    nested among the cedars,
how you will be pitied when pangs come upon you,
    (B)pain as of a woman in labor!”

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The foot tramples it,
    the feet of (A)the poor,
    the steps of (B)the needy.”

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So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and (A)he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.

10 And the people of Israel (B)cried out to the Lord, saying, “We have sinned against you, because (C)we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals.”

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Then the people of Israel (A)cried out to the Lord for help, for he had (B)900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.

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Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, (A)and he sold them into the hand of (B)Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years. But when the people of Israel (C)cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a (D)deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, (E)Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.

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