Judges 2:10-3:31 10 That entire generation passed away;
a new generation grew up
that had not personally experienced the
Lord’s presence or seen what he had done for Israel.
11 The Israelites did evil before
the
Lord by worshiping
the Baals.
12 They abandoned the
Lord God of their ancestors
who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped
them and made the
Lord angry.
13 They abandoned the
Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.
14 The
Lord was furious with Israel
and handed them over to robbers who plundered them.
He turned them over to
their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks.
15 Whenever they went out to fight,
the
Lord did them harm,
just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do.
They suffered greatly.
16 The
Lord raised up leaders
who delivered them from these robbers.
17 But they did not obey
their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped
them. They quickly turned aside from the path
their ancestors
had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the
Lord’s commands, but they did not.
18 When the
Lord raised up leaders for them, the
Lord was with each leader and delivered the people
from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The
Lord felt sorry for them
when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
19 When a leader died, the next generation
would again
act more wickedly than the previous one.
They would follow after other gods, worshiping them
and bowing down to them. They did not give up
their practices or their stubborn ways.
20 The
Lord was furious with Israel.
He said, “This nation
has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors
by disobeying me.
21 So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.
22 Joshua left those nations
to test
Israel. I wanted to see
whether or not the people
would carefully walk in the path
marked out by
the
Lord, as their ancestors
were careful to do.”
23 This is why
the
Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately;
he did not hand them over to Joshua.
1 These were the nations the
Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.
2 He left those nations simply because he wanted to teach the subsequent generations of Israelites, who had not experienced the earlier battles, how to conduct holy war.
3 These were the nations:
the five lords of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal Hermon to Lebo-Hamath.
4 They were left to test Israel, so the
Lord would know if his people would obey the commands he gave their ancestors through Moses.
5 The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
6 They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites;
they worshiped
their gods as well.
7 The Israelites did evil in the
Lord’s sight.
They forgot the
Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
8 The
Lord was furious with Israel
and turned them over to
King Cushan-Rishathaim
of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects
for eight years.
9 When the Israelites cried out for help to the
Lord, he
raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued
them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.
10 The
Lord’s spirit empowered him
and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the
Lord handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.
11 The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.
12 The Israelites again did evil in the
Lord’s sight.
The
Lord gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel
because they had done evil in the
Lord’s sight.
13 Eglon formed alliances with
the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.
14 The Israelites were subject to
King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.
15 When the Israelites cried out for help to the
Lord, he
raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man.
The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.
16 Ehud made himself a sword – it had two edges and was eighteen inches long.
He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.
17 He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab. (Now Eglon was a very fat man.)
18 After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.
19 But he went back
once he reached
the carved images
at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,
“I have a secret message for you, O king.” Eglon
said, “Be quiet!”
All his attendants left.
20 When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated
upper room all by himself. Ehud said, “I have a message from God
for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat,
21 Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s
belly.
22 The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud
did not pull the sword out of his belly.
23 As Ehud went out into the vestibule,
he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.
24 When Ehud had left, Eglon’s
servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, “He must be relieving himself
in the well-ventilated inner room.”
25 They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors.
Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!
26 Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.
27 When he reached Seirah,
he blew a trumpet
in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.
28 He said to them, “Follow me, for the
Lord is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!”
They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River
opposite Moab,
and did not let anyone cross.
29 That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites
– all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.
30 Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
31 After Ehud
came
Shamgar son of Anath; he killed six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad and, like Ehud,
delivered Israel.
Context (NET) Luke 22:14-34 14 Now
when the hour came, Jesus
took his place at the table
and the apostles joined
him.
15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired
to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.
16 For I tell you, I will not eat it again
until it is fulfilled
in the kingdom of God.”
17 Then
he took a cup,
and after giving thanks he said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves.
18 For I tell you that from now on I will not drink of the fruit
of the vine until the kingdom of God comes.”
19 Then
he took bread, and after giving thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body
which is given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”
20 And in the same way he took
the cup after they had eaten,
saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant
in my blood.
21 “But look, the hand of the one who betrays
me is with me on the table.
22 For the Son of Man is to go just as it has been determined,
but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed!”
23 So
they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.
24 A dispute also started
among them over which of them was to be regarded as the greatest.
25 So
Jesus
said to them, “The kings of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those in authority over them are called ‘benefactors.’
26 Not so with you;
instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader
like the one who serves.
27 For who is greater, the one who is seated at the table,
or the one who serves? Is it not
the one who is seated at the table? But I am among you as one
who serves.
28 “You are the ones who have remained
with me in my trials.
29 Thus
I grant
to you a kingdom,
just as my Father granted to me,
30 that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and you will sit
on thrones judging
the twelve tribes of Israel.
31 “Simon,
Simon, pay attention!
Satan has demanded to have you all,
to sift you like wheat,
32 but I have prayed for you, Simon,
that your faith may not fail.
When
you have turned back,
strengthen
your brothers.”
33 But Peter
said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
34 Jesus replied,
“I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow
today until you have denied
three times that you know me.”
Context (NET) [bible]Psalm 92:1-93:5 1 A psalm; a song for the Sabbath day. It is fitting
to thank the
Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O sovereign One!
2 It is fitting
to proclaim your loyal love in the morning, and your faithfulness during the night,
3 to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
4 For you, O
Lord, have made me happy by your work. I will sing for joy because of what you have done.
5 How great are your works, O
Lord! Your plans are very intricate!
6 The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.
7 When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten,
it is so that they may be annihilated.
8 But you, O
Lord, reign
forever!
9 Indeed,
look at your enemies, O
Lord! Indeed,
look at how your enemies perish! All the evildoers are scattered!
10 You exalt my horn like that of a wild ox.
I am covered
with fresh oil.
11 I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me;
I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.
12 The godly
grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Planted in the
Lord’s house, they grow in the courts of our God.
14 They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.
15 So they proclaim that the
Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.
1 The
Lord reigns! He is robed in majesty, the
Lord is robed, he wears strength around his waist.
Indeed, the world is established, it cannot be moved.
2 Your throne has been secure from ancient times; you have always been king.
3 The waves
roar, O
Lord, the waves roar, the waves roar and crash.
4 Above the sound of the surging water,
and the mighty waves of the sea, the
Lord sits enthroned in majesty.
5 The rules you set down
are completely reliable.
Holiness
aptly adorns your house, O
Lord, forever.
Context (NET) Proverbs 14:1-2 1 Every wise woman
builds
her household,
but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.
2 The one who walks in his uprightness fears the
Lord,
but the one who is perverted in his ways
despises him.
Context (NET)
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