GOD in the Old Testament - Judges - Part 6

Judges 15:18-19

    Because he was very thirsty, he cried out to the LORD, "You have given your servant this great victory. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?" Then God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned and he revived. So the spring was called En Hakkore ("caller's spring"), and it is still there in Lehi. 

(see all Judges 15)

 

Judges 16:17  

    So he told her everything. "No razor has ever been used on my head," he said, "because I have been a Nazarite dedicated to God from my mother's womb. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me, and I would become as weak as any other man."

 

Judges 16:28-30  

Then Samson prayed to the LORD, "Please, God, strengthen me just once more, and let me with one blow get revenge on the Philistines for my two eyes." 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, Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" Then he pushed with all his might, and down came the temple on the rulers and all the people in it. Thus he killed many more when he died than while he lived.

(see all Judges 16 - 17)

 

Judges 18:1-6  

    In those days Israel had no king. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes if Israel. So the Danites sent five of their leading men from Zorah and Eshtaol to spy out the land and explore it. These men represented all the Danites. They told them, "Go, explore the land."

    So they entered the hill country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah, where they spent the night. When they were near Micah's house, they recognized the voice of the young Levite; so they turned in there and asked him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? Why are you here?"

    He told them what Micah had done for him, and said, "He has hired me and I am his priest."

    Then they said to him, "Please inquire of God to learn whether our journey will be successful."

    The priest answered them, "Go in peace. Your journey has the LORD's approval. 

 

Judges 18:9-10  

    They answered, "Come on, let's attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren't you going to do something? Don't hesitate to go there and take it over. When you get there, you will find an unsuspecting people and a spacious land that God has put into your hands, a land that lacks nothing whatever."

 

Judges 18:31  

They continued to use the idol Micah had made, all the time the house of God was in Shiloh.

(see all Judges 18) 

      

 

(parentheses are mine) 

 

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