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Judges · read by Jim Beattie
17 verses, in order. Only the verses Jim read aloud are shown.
Judges 6
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On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, "Take your father's young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father's altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.Read from KJV · Broken things
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Then build a proper altar to the LORD your God on the top of this stronghold. And with the wood of the Asherah pole you cut down, take the second bull and offer it as a burnt offering."Read from KJV · Broken things
Judges 16
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"How can you say, 'I love you,'" she asked, "when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and failed to reveal to me the source of your great strength!"Read from KJV · Regaining what we lost
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Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,Read from KJV · Regaining what we lost
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Samson told her all that was in his heart: "My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man."Read from KJV · Regaining what we lost
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Then she called out, "Samson, the Philistines are here!" When Samson awoke from his sleep, he thought, "I will escape as I did before and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had departed from him.Read from KJV · Regaining what we lost
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Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.Read from KJV · Regaining what we lost
Judges 17
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And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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"Where are you from?" Micah asked him. "I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah," he replied, "and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place."Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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"Stay with me," Micah said to him, "and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions." So the Levite went inRead from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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Then Micah said, "Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest."Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
Judges 19
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That evening an old man from the hill country of Ephraim, who was residing in Gibeah (the men of that place were Benjamites), came in from his work in the field.Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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When he looked up and saw the traveler in the city square, the old man asked, "Where are you going, and where have you come from?"Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah
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The Levite replied, "We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,Read from KJV · Leaving Bethlehem-Judah