I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord  is  my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation,  and  my high tower. I will call upon the Lord,  who is worthy  to be praised: so shall I … Continue Reading ››

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest  between  the cherubims, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come  and  save us. Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. O Lord God … Continue Reading ››

O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given  to be  meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed … Continue Reading ››

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife. And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore; And said, O Lord God of Israel, why … Continue Reading ››

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh. And the chief of all the people,  even  of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of … Continue Reading ››

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 Beth–lehem–judah. And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him unto her father's house to … Continue Reading ››

And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name  was  Micah. 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 … Continue Reading ››

Then went Samson to Gaza, and saw there an harlot, and went in unto her.  And it was told  the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed  him  in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when … Continue Reading ››

But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in. And her father said, I verily thought that thou … Continue Reading ››

And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the Lord blessed him. And the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.

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And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters … Continue Reading ››

And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee. And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou … Continue Reading ››

And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name  was  Manoah; and his wife  was  barren, and bare not. And the … Continue Reading ››

And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire. And Jephthah said unto them, I and my people were at … Continue Reading ››

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he  was  the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah. And Gilead's wife bare him sons; and his wife's sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father's house; for thou  art  the … Continue Reading ››