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2CH-36:23 Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of

the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath

charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which [is] in

Judah. Who [is there] among you of all his people? The LORD his

God [be] with him, and let him go up. <all> <among> <build>

JG-16:25 And it came to pass, when their hearts were merry, that

they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they

called for Samson out of the prison house; and he made them

sport:and they set him between the pillars. <between> <call>

<when>

JG-16:26 And Samson said unto the lad that held him by the hand,

Suffer me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house

standeth, that I may lean upon them. <feel> <hand> <held> <him>

JG-16:27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the

lords of the Philistines [were] there; and [there were] upon the

roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while

Samson made sport. <all> <beheld> <full> <house> <lords> <made>

JG-16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD,

remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only

this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the

Philistines for my two eyes. <avenged> <called> <eyes> <god>

JG-16:29 And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon

which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one

with his right hand, and of the other with his left. <borne>

JG-16:30 And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. And

he bowed himself with [all his] might; and the house fell upon

the lords, and upon all the people that [were] therein. So the

dead which he slew at his death were more than [they] which he

slew in his life. <all> <bowed> <dead> <death> <die> <fell>

JG-16:31 Then his brethren and all the house of his father came

down, and took him, and brought [him] up, and buried him between

Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And

he judged Israel twenty years. <all> <between> <brethren>

JG-17:1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name [was]

Micah. <ephraim> <man> <micah> <mount> <name> <there> <whose>

JG-17:2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred

[shekels] of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou

cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver

[is] with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed [be thou]

of the LORD, my son. <also> <behold> <blessed> <cursedst> <ears>

JG-17:3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred [shekels] of

silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated

the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a

graven image and a molten image:now therefore I will restore it

unto thee. <dedicated> <eleven> <graven> <had> <hand> <hundred>

JG-17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his

mother took two hundred [shekels] of silver, and gave them to

the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image:

and they were in the house of Micah. <founder> <gave> <graven>

JG-17:5 And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an

ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became

his priest. <became> <consecrated> <ephod> <gods> <had> <house>

JG-17:6 In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every

man did [that which was] right in his own eyes. <days> <did>

JG-17:7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the

family of Judah, who [was] a Levite, and he sojourned there.

JG-17:8 And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah

to sojourn where he could find [a place] :and he came to mount

Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. <bethlehemjudah>

JG-17:9 And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said

unto him, I [am] a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn

where I may find [a place] . <bethlehemjudah> <comest> <find>

JG-17:10 And Micah said unto him, Dwell with me, and be unto me

a father and a priest, and I will give thee ten [shekels] of

silver by the year, and a suit of apparel, and thy victuals. So

the Levite went in. <apparel> <dwell> <father> <give> <him>

JG-17:11 And the Levite was content to dwell with the man; and

the young man was unto him as one of his sons. <content> <dwell>

JG-17:12 And Micah consecrated the Levite; and the young man

became his priest, and was in the house of Micah. <became>

JG-17:13 Then said Micah, Now know I that the LORD will do me

good, seeing I have a Levite to [my] priest. <do> <good> <have>

JG-18:1 In those days [there was] no king in Israel:and in those

days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to

dwell in; for unto that day [all their] inheritance had not

fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. <all> <among>

JG-18:2 And the children of Dan sent of their family five men

from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol,

to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them,

Go, search the land:who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the

house of Micah, they lodged there. <came> <children> <coasts>

JG-18:3 When they [were] by the house of Micah, they knew the

voice of the young man the Levite:and they turned in thither,

and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what makest thou

in this [place] ? and what hast thou here? <brought> <hast>

JG-18:4 And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with

me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest. <dealeth> <hath>

JG-18:5 And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of

God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be

prosperous. <ask> <counsel> <go> <god> <him> <know> <may> <pray>

JG-18:6 And the priest said unto them, Go in peace:before the

LORD [is] your way wherein ye go. <before> <go> <lord> <peace>

JG-18:7 Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw

the people that [were] therein, how they dwelt careless, after

the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and [there was]

no magistrate in the land, that might put [them] to shame in

[any] thing; and they [were] far from the Zidonians, and had no

business with [any] man. <after> <any> <business> <came>

JG-18:8 And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol:

and their brethren said unto them, What [say] ye? <brethren>

JG-18:9 And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them:for

we have seen the land, and, behold, it [is] very good:and [are]

ye still? be not slothful to go, [and] to enter to possess the

land. <against> <are> <arise> <behold> <enter> <go> <good>

<very>

JG-18:10 When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to

a large land:for God hath given it into your hands; a place

where [there is] no want of any thing that [is] in the earth.

JG-18:11 And there went from thence of the family of the Danites,

out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with

weapons of war. <appointed> <danites> <eshtaol> <family>

JG-18:12 And they went up, and pitched in Kirjathjearim, in

Judah:wherefore they called that place Mahanehdan unto this day:

behold, [it is] behind Kirjathjearim. <behind> <behold> <called>

JG-18:13 And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came

unto the house of Micah. <came> <ephraim> <house> <micah>

JG-18:14 Then answered the five men that went to spy out the

country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that

there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven

image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have

to do. <answered> <brethren> <consider> <country> <do> <ephod>

JG-18:15 And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of

the young man the Levite, [even] unto the house of Micah, and

saluted him. <came> <even> <him> <house> <levite> <man> <micah>

JG-18:16 And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of

war, which [were] of the children of Dan, stood by the entering

of the gate. <appointed> <children> <dan> <entering> <gate>

JG-18:17 And the five men that went to spy out the land went up,

[and] came in thither, [and] took the graven image, and the

ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image:and the priest

stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men [that

were] appointed with weapons of war. <appointed> <came>

JG-18:18 And these went into Micah's house, and fetched the

carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image.

Then said the priest unto them, What do ye? <carved> <do>

JG-18:19 And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thine hand

upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a

priest:[is it] better for thee to be a priest unto the house of

one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in

Israel? <better> <family> <father> <go> <hand> <him> <hold>

JG-18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod,

and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of

the people. <ephod> <glad> <graven> <heart> <image> <midst>

JG-18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones

and the cattle and the carriage before them. <before> <carriage>

JG-18:22 [And] when they were a good way from the house of Micah,

the men that [were] in the houses near to Micah's house were

gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan. <children>

JG-18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they

turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that

thou comest with such a company? <aileth> <children> <comest>

JG-18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made,

and the priest, and ye are gone away:and what have I more? and

what [is] this [that] ye say unto me, What aileth thee? <aileth>

JG-18:25 And the children of Dan said unto him, Let not thy

voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows run upon thee, and

thou lose thy life, with the lives of thy household. <among>

JG-18:26 And the children of Dan went their way:and when Micah

saw that they [were] too strong for him, he turned and went back

unto his house. <back> <children> <dan> <him> <house> <micah>

JG-18:27 And they took [the things] which Micah had made, and

the priest which he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people

[that were] at quiet and secure:and they smote them with the

edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire. <burnt> <came>

JG-18:28 And [there was] no deliverer, because it [was] far from

Zidon, and they had no business with [any] man; and it was in

the valley that [lieth] by Bethrehob. And they built a city, and

dwelt therein. <any> <because> <bethrehob> <built> <business>

JG-18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the

name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel:howbeit the

name of the city [was] Laish at the first. <after> <born>

JG-18:30 And the children of Dan set up the graven image:and

Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his

sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the

captivity of the land. <captivity> <children> <dan> <day>

JG-18:31 And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he

made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh. <all>

<which>

JG-19:1 And it came to pass in those days, when [there was] no

king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on

the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of

Bethlehemjudah. <bethlehemjudah> <came> <certain> <concubine>

<who>

JG-19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went

away from him unto her father's house to Bethlehemjudah, and was

there four whole months. <against> <away> <bethlehemjudah>

JG-19:3 And her husband arose, and went after her, to speak

friendly unto her, [and] to bring her again, having his servant

with him, and a couple of asses:and she brought him into her

father's house:and when the father of the damsel saw him, he

rejoiced to meet him. <after> <again> <arose> <asses> <bring>

JG-19:4 And his father in law, the damsel's father, retained him;

and he abode with him three days:so they did eat and drink, and

lodged there. <days> <did> <drink> <eat> <father> <him> <law>

JG-19:5 And it came to pass on the fourth day, when they arose

early in the morning, that he rose up to depart:and the damsel's

father said unto his son in law, Comfort thine heart with a

morsel of bread, and afterward go your way. <afterward> <arose>

JG-19:6 And they sat down, and did eat and drink both of them

together:for the damsel's father had said unto the man, Be

content, I pray thee, and tarry all night, and let thine heart

be merry. <all> <both> <content> <did> <down> <drink> <eat>

JG-19:7 And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law

urged him:therefore he lodged there again. <again> <depart>

JG-19:8 And he arose early in the morning on the fifth day to

depart:and the damsel's father said, Comfort thine heart, I pray

thee. And they tarried until afternoon, and they did eat both of

them. <afternoon> <arose> <both> <comfort> <day> <depart> <did>

JG-19:9 And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his

concubine, and his servant, his father in law, the damsel's

father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward

evening, I pray you tarry all night:behold, the day groweth to

an end, lodge here, that thine heart may be merry; and to morrow

get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home. <all>

JG-19:10 But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up

and departed, and came over against Jebus, which [is] Jerusalem;

and [there were] with him two asses saddled, his concubine also

[was] with him. <against> <also> <asses> <came> <concubine>

JG-19:11 [And] when they [were] by Jebus, the day was far spent;

and the servant said unto his master, Come, I pray thee, and let

us turn in into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.

<when>

JG-19:12 And his master said unto him, We will not turn aside

hither into the city of a stranger, that [is] not of the

children of Israel; we will pass over to Gibeah. <aside>

JG-19:13 And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw

near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in

Ramah. <all> <come> <draw> <gibeah> <let> <lodge> <near> <night>

JG-19:14 And they passed on and went their way; and the sun went

down upon them [when they were] by Gibeah, which [belongeth] to

Benjamin. <belongeth> <benjamin> <down> <gibeah> <on> <passed>

JG-19:15 And they turned aside thither, to go in [and] to lodge

in Gibeah:and when he went in, he sat him down in a street of

the city:for [there was] no man that took them into his house to

lodging. <aside> <city> <down> <gibeah> <go> <him> <house>

JG-19:16 And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of

the field at even, which [was] also of mount Ephraim; and he

sojourned in Gibeah:but the men of the place [were] Benjamites.

JG-19:17 And when he had lifted up his eyes, he saw a wayfaring

man in the street of the city:and the old man said, Whither

goest thou? and whence comest thou? <city> <comest> <eyes>

JG-19:18 And he said unto him, We [are] passing from

Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence

[am] I:and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I [am now] going to the

house of the LORD; and there [is] no man that receiveth me to

house. <are> <bethlehemjudah> <ephraim> <going> <him> <house>

JG-19:19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses;

and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid,

and for the young man [which is] with thy servants:[there is] no

want of any thing. <also> <any> <asses> <both> <bread>

JG-19:20 And the old man said, Peace [be] with thee; howsoever

[let] all thy wants [lie] upon me; only lodge not in the street.

JG-19:21 So he brought him into his house, and gave provender

unto the asses:and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

JG-19:22 [Now] as they were making their hearts merry, behold,

the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house

round about, [and] beat at the door, and spake to the master of

the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came

into thine house, that we may know him. <beat> <behold> <belial>

JG-19:23 And the man, the master of the house, went out unto

them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, [nay] , I pray you,

do not [so] wickedly; seeing that this man is come into mine

house, do not this folly. <brethren> <come> <do> <folly> <house>

JG-19:24 Behold, [here is] my daughter a maiden, and his

concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do

with them what seemeth good unto you:but unto this man do not so

vile a thing. <behold> <bring> <concubine> <daughter> <do>

JG-19:25 But the men would not hearken to him:so the man took

his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew

her, and abused her all the night until the morning:and when the

day began to spring, they let her go. <all> <began> <brought>

JG-19:26 Then came the woman in the dawning of the day, and fell

down at the door of the man's house where her lord [was] , till

it was light. <came> <dawning> <day> <door> <down> <fell>

JG-19:27 And her lord rose up in the morning, and opened the

doors of the house, and went out to go his way:and, behold, the

woman his concubine was fallen down [at] the door of the house,

and her hands [were] upon the threshold. <behold> <concubine>

JG-19:28 And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going. But none

answered. Then the man took her [up] upon an ass, and the man

rose up, and gat him unto his place. <answered> <ass> <gat>

<took>

JG-19:29 And when he was come into his house, he took a knife,

and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, [together] with

her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts

of Israel. <all> <bones> <coasts> <come> <concubine> <divided>

JG-19:30 And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no

such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel

came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day:consider of it,

take advice, and speak [your minds] . <advice> <all> <came>

JG-20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the

congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to

Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

JG-20:2 And the chief of all the people, [even] of all the

tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the

people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.

JG-20:3 ( Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children

of Israel were gone up to Mizpeh. ) Then said the children of

Israel, Tell [us] , how was this wickedness? <benjamin>

JG-20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was slain,

answered and said, I came into Gibeah that [belongeth] to

Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge. <answered> <belongeth>

JG-20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the

house round about upon me by night, [and] thought to have slain

me:and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

JG-20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent

her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel:for

they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel. <all>

<took>

JG-20:7 Behold, ye [are] all children of Israel; give here your

advice and counsel. <advice> <all> <are> <behold> <children>

JG-20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not

any [of us] go to his tent, neither will we any [of us] turn

into his house. <all> <any> <arose> <go> <house> <into> <man>

JG-20:9 But now this [shall be] the thing which we will do to

Gibeah; [we will go up] by lot against it; <against> <do>

JG-20:10 And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all

the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a

thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people,

that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin,

according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

JG-20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city,

knit together as one man. <against> <all> <city> <gathered>

JG-20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe

of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness [is] this that is done

among you? <all> <among> <benjamin> <done> <israel> <men>

JG-20:13 Now therefore deliver [us] the men, the children of

Belial, which [are] in Gibeah, that we may put them to death,

and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin

would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of

Israel:<are> <away> <belial> <benjamin> <brethren> <children>

JG-20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves

together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle

against the children of Israel. <against> <battle> <benjamin>

JG-20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time

out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword,

beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven

hundred chosen men. <benjamin> <beside> <children> <chosen>

<which>

JG-20:16 Among all this people [there were] seven hundred chosen

men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair

[breadth] , and not miss. <all> <among> <breadth> <chosen>

JG-20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered

four hundred thousand men that drew sword:all these [were] men

of war. <all> <benjamin> <beside> <drew> <four> <hundred>

JG-20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the

house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us

shall go up first to the battle against the children of

Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah [shall go up] first.

JG-20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and

encamped against Gibeah. <against> <children> <encamped>

JG-20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against

Benjamin; and the men of Israel put themselves in array to fight

against them at Gibeah. <against> <array> <battle> <benjamin>

JG-20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah,

and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day

twenty and two thousand men. <benjamin> <came> <children> <day>

JG-20:22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves,

and set their battle again in array in the place where they put

themselves in array the first day. <again> <array> <battle>

JG-20:23 ( And the children of Israel went up and wept before

the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying,

Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin

my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him. ) <again>

JG-20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the

children of Benjamin the second day. <against> <benjamin> <came>

JG-20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the

second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of

Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

JG-20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people,

went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there

before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered

burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD. <all>

JG-20:27 And the children of Israel inquired of the LORD, ( for

the ark of the covenant of God [was] there in those days, <ark>

JG-20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron,

stood before it in those days, ) saying, Shall I yet again go

out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or

shall I cease? And the LORD said, Go up; for to morrow I will

deliver them into thine hand. <again> <against> <battle>

<yet>

JG-20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.

JG-20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children

of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array

against Gibeah, as at other times. <against> <array> <benjamin>

JG-20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the

people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to

smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the

highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the

other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

JG-20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They [are] smitten

down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said,

Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.

JG-20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place,

and put themselves in array at Baaltamar:and the liers in wait

of Israel came forth out of their places, [even] out of the

meadows of Gibeah. <all> <array> <baaltamar> <came> <even>

JG-20:34 And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men

out of all Israel, and the battle was sore:but they knew not

that evil [was] near them. <against> <all> <battle> <came>

JG-20:35 And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel:and the

children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty

and five thousand and an hundred men:all these drew the sword.

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