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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Jephthah led</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">12:7 </span><span class="ft">Traditionally </span><span class="fqa">judged</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 8-14</span></span></span><span class="content"> Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in a town in Gilead.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.12.7"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">14</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Samson&#8217;s Marriage</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.14.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">When he returned, he said to his father and mother, &#8220;I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.14.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">His father and mother replied, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t there an acceptable woman among your relatives or among all our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines to get a wife?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JDG.14.3"><span class="content">But Samson said to his father, &#8220;Get her for me. She&#8217;s the right one for me.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">(His parents did not know that this was from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.)</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JDG.14.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JDG.14.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Samson went down to Timnah together with his father and mother. As they approached the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion came roaring toward him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JDG.14.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him so that he tore the lion apart with his bare hands as he might have torn a young goat. But he told neither his father nor his mother what he had done. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JDG.14.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JDG.14.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Some time later, when he went back to marry her, he turned aside to look at the lion&#8217;s carcass, and in it he saw a swarm of bees and some honey. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">He scooped out the honey with his hands and ate as he went along. When he rejoined his parents, he gave them some, and they too ate it. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the lion&#8217;s carcass.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JDG.14.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JDG.14.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Now his father went down to see the woman. And there Samson held a feast, as was customary for young men. </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">When the people saw him, they chose thirty men to be his companions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JDG.14.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JDG.14.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let me tell you a riddle,&#8221; Samson said to them. &#8220;If you can give me the answer within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If you can&#8217;t tell me the answer, you must give me thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">&#8220;Tell us your riddle,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hear it.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JDG.14.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He replied,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">&#8220;Out of the eater, something to eat;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">out of the strong, something sweet.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="m"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">For three days they could not give the answer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JDG.14.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">On the fourth</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:15 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts and Syriac; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">seventh</span></span></span><span class="content"> day, they said to Samson&#8217;s wife, &#8220;Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father&#8217;s household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JDG.14.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Then Samson&#8217;s wife threw herself on him, sobbing, &#8220;You hate me! You don&#8217;t really love me. You&#8217;ve given my people a riddle, but you haven&#8217;t told me the answer.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JDG.14.16"><span class="content">&#8220;I haven&#8217;t even explained it to my father or mother,&#8221; he replied, &#8220;so why should I explain it to you?&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She cried the whole seven days of the feast. So on the seventh day he finally told her, because she continued to press him. She in turn explained the riddle to her people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JDG.14.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Before sunset on the seventh day the men of the town said to him,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;What is sweeter than honey?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">What is stronger than a lion?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">Samson said to them,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">&#8220;If you had not plowed with my heifer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">you would not have solved my riddle.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JDG.14.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JDG.14.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Then the Spirit of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came powerfully upon him. He went down to Ashkelon, struck down thirty of their men, stripped them of everything and gave their clothes to those who had explained the riddle. Burning with anger, he returned to his father&#8217;s home. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JDG.14.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And Samson&#8217;s wife was given to one of his companions who had attended him at the feast.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.15.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Later on, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. He said, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to my wife&#8217;s room.&#8221; But her father would not let him go in.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JDG.15.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.15.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;I was so sure you hated her,&#8221; he said, &#8220;that I gave her to your companion. Isn&#8217;t her younger sister more attractive? Take her instead.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JDG.15.2"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy ministered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> under Eli the priest.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Eli&#8217;s Wicked Sons</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.2.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.2.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Eli&#8217;s sons were scoundrels; they had no regard for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.2.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Now it was the practice of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest&#8217;s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat was being boiled </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.2.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">But even before the fat was burned, the priest&#8217;s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, &#8220;Give the priest some meat to roast; he won&#8217;t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.2.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">If the person said to him, &#8220;Let the fat be burned first, and then take whatever you want,&#8221; the servant would answer, &#8220;No, hand it over now; if you don&#8217;t, I&#8217;ll take it by force.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.2.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">This sin of the young men was very great in the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s sight, for they</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:17 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">people</span></span></span><span class="content"> were treating the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s offering with contempt.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.2.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.2.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But Samuel was ministering before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;a boy wearing a linen ephod. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.2.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">Each year his mother made him a little robe and took it to him when she went up with her husband to offer the annual sacrifice. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.2.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, &#8220;May the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> give you children by this woman to take the place of the one she prayed for and gave to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">2:20 </span><span class="ft">Dead Sea Scrolls; Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">and asked from</span></span></span><span class="content"> the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.&#8221; Then they would go home. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was gracious to Hannah; she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.2.21"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.2.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and with people.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="1SA.2.26"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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            <div class="label">3</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading"> Calls Samuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.3.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The boy Samuel ministered before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> under Eli. In those days the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was rare; there were not many visions.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.3.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="1SA.3.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">One night Eli, whose eyes were becoming so weak that he could barely see, was lying down in his usual place. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="1SA.3.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, where the ark of God was. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.3.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called Samuel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="1SA.3.4"><span class="content">Samuel answered, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.3.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">And he ran to Eli and said, &#8220;Here I am; you called me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.3.5"><span class="content">But Eli said, &#8220;I did not call; go back and lie down.&#8221; So he went and lay down.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="1SA.3.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.3.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Again the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called, &#8220;Samuel!&#8221; And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, &#8220;Here I am; you called me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.3.6"><span class="content">&#8220;My son,&#8221; Eli said, &#8220;I did not call; go back and lie down.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="1SA.3.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.3.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Now Samuel did not yet know the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">: The word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had not yet been revealed to him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="1SA.3.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.3.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A third time the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> called, &#8220;Samuel!&#8221; And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, &#8220;Here I am; you called me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="1SA.3.8"><span class="content">Then Eli realized that the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was calling the boy. </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.3.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">So Eli told Samuel, &#8220;Go and lie down, and if he calls you, say, &#8216;Speak, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, for your servant is listening.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221; So Samuel went and lay down in his place.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="1SA.3.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.3.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> came and stood there, calling as at the other times, &#8220;Samuel! Samuel!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.3.10"><span class="content">Then Samuel said, &#8220;Speak, for your servant is listening.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="1SA.3.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="1SA.3.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Samuel: &#8220;See, I am about to do something in Israel that will make the ears of everyone who hears about it tingle. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="1SA.3.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">At that time I will carry out against Eli everything I spoke against his family&#8212;from beginning to end. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="1SA.3.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">For I told him that I would judge his family forever because of the sin he knew about; his sons blasphemed God,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">3:13 </span><span class="ft">An ancient Hebrew scribal tradition (see also Septuagint); Masoretic Text </span><span class="fqa">sons made themselves contemptible</span></span></span><span class="content"> and he failed to restrain them. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.3.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore I swore to the house of Eli, &#8216;The guilt of Eli&#8217;s house will never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="1SA.3.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="1SA.3.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Samuel lay down until morning and then opened the doors of the house of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.3.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">but Eli called him and said, &#8220;Samuel, my son.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.3.16"><span class="content">Samuel answered, &#8220;Here I am.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="1SA.3.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="1SA.3.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;What was it he said to you?&#8221; Eli asked. &#8220;Do not hide it from me. May God deal with you, be it ever so severely, if you hide from me anything he told you.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.3.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">So Samuel told him everything, hiding nothing from him. Then Eli said, &#8220;He is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">; let him do what is good in his eyes.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="1SA.3.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="1SA.3.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> was with Samuel as he grew up, and he let none of Samuel&#8217;s words fall to the ground. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="1SA.3.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="1SA.3.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> continued to appear at Shiloh, and there he revealed himself to Samuel through his word.</span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="1SA.9.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">There was a Benjamite, a man of standing, whose name was Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Bekorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. </span></span></div>
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            <div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1SA.14.51"><span class="label">51</span><span class="content">Saul&#8217;s father Kish and Abner&#8217;s father Ner were sons of Abiel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v51" data-usfm="1SA.14.51"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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