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Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord, “We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.”
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Some time later, when the Ammonites were fighting against Israel,
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Then Jephthah sent messengers to the Ammonite king with the question: “What do you have against me that you have attacked my country?”
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I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the Lord, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
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Then the Spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah. He crossed Gilead and Manasseh, passed through Mizpah of Gilead, and from there he advanced against the Ammonites.
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Jephthah then called together the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. The Gileadites struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are renegades from Ephraim and Manasseh.”
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Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Put me where I can feel the pillars that support the temple, so that I may lean against them.”
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Then Samson reached toward the two central pillars on which the temple stood. Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other,
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Then they took what Micah had made, and his priest, and went on to Laish, against a people at peace and secure. They attacked them with the sword and burned down their city.
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But now this is what we’ll do to Gibeah: We’ll go up against it in the order decided by casting lots.
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So all the Israelites got together and united as one against the city.
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From their towns they came together at Gibeah to fight against the Israelites.
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The Israelites went up to Bethel and inquired of God. They said, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” The Lord replied, “Judah shall go first.”
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The Israelites went out to fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.
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The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until evening, and they inquired of the Lord. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The Lord answered, “Go up against them.”
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with Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, ministering before it.) They asked, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites, or not?” The Lord responded, “Go, for tomorrow I will give them into your hands.”
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They went up against the Benjamites on the third day and took up positions against Gibeah as they had done before.
