And what more shall I say? I do not have time to tell about Gideon (Judges 6-8), Barak (Judges 4-5), Samson (Judges 13-16), Jephthah (Judges 11-12), David (1 Samuel 16:1, 13), Samuel (1 Samuel 1:20) and the prophets, who through faith conquered kingdoms (2 Samuel 8:1-3), administered justice and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions (Daniel 6:22), quenched the fury of the flames (Daniel 3:19-27), escaped the edge of the sword (Exodus 18:4); whose weakness was turned to strength (2 Kings 20:7); and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies (Judges 15:8). Women received back their dead, raised to life again (1 Kings 17:22-23; 2 Kings 4:36-37). Others were tortured and refused to be released, so that they might gain a better resurrection. Some faced jeers and flogging (Jeremiah 20:2; 37:15), while still others were chained and put in prison (Genesis 39:20). They were stoned (2 Chronicles 24:21); they were sawn in two; they were put to death by the sword (1 Kings 19:10; Jeremiah 26:23). They went about in sheepskins and goatskins (2 Kings 1:8), destitute, persecuted and mistreated--the world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves (1 Kings 18:4; 19:9) and holes in the ground.
NOTES:
Read Philippians 4
(parentheses are mine - read the references for fuller understanding of the passage)
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