Judges 7:8   (Read all of Judges 7)

So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites home but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others. Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Judges 8:27   (Read all of Judges 8)

Gideon made the gold into an ephod, which he placed in Ophrah, his town. All Israel prostituted themselves by worshiping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his family.

Judges 8:33   (Read all of Judges 8)

No sooner had Gideon died than the Israelites again prostituted themselves to the Baals. They set up Baal-Berith as their god

Judges 11:1   (Read all of Judges 11)

Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior. His father was Gilead; his mother was a prostitute.

Judges 11:36   (Read all of Judges 11)

"My father," she replied, "you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me just as you promised, now that the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.

Judges 12:6   (Read all of Judges 12)

they said, "All right, say 'Shibboleth.' " If he said, "Sibboleth," because he could not pronounce the word correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

Judges 14:15   (Read all of Judges 14)

On the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, "Coax your husband into explaining the riddle for us, or we will burn you and your father's household to death. Did you invite us here to steal our property?"

Judges 16:1   (Read all of Judges 16)

One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute. He went in to spend the night with her.

Judges 16:16   (Read all of Judges 16)

With such nagging she prodded him day after day until he was sick to death of it.

Judges 18:7   (Read all of Judges 18)

So the five men left and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living in safety, like the Sidonians, at peace and secure. And since their land lacked nothing, they were prosperous. Also, they lived a long way from the Sidonians and had no relationship with anyone else.

Judges 20:10   (Read all of Judges 20)

We'll take ten men out of every hundred from all the tribes of Israel, and a hundred from a thousand, and a thousand from ten thousand, to get provisions for the army. Then, when the army arrives at Gibeah in Benjamin, it can give them what they deserve for this outrageous act done in Israel."

Judges 21:7   (Read all of Judges 21)

"How can we provide wives for those who are left, since we have taken an oath by the Lord not to give them any of our daughters in marriage?"

Judges 21:16   (Read all of Judges 21)

And the elders of the assembly said, "With the women of Benjamin destroyed, how shall we provide wives for the men who are left?

Ruth 1:6   (Read all of Ruth 1)

When Naomi heard in Moab that the Lord had come to the aid of his people by providing food for them, she and her daughters-in-law prepared to return home from there.

Ruth 3:1   (Read all of Ruth 3)

One day Ruth's mother-in-law Naomi said to her, "My daughter, I must find a home for you, where you will be well provided for.

Ruth 4:5   (Read all of Ruth 4)

Then Boaz said, "On the day you buy the land from Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the dead man's widow, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property."

Ruth 4:7   (Read all of Ruth 4)

(Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)

Ruth 4:9   (Read all of Ruth 4)

Then Boaz announced to the elders and all the people, "Today you are witnesses that I have bought from Naomi all the property of Elimelek, Kilion and Mahlon.

Ruth 4:10   (Read all of Ruth 4)

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon's widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!"

1 Samuel 1:6   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

Because the Lord had closed Hannah's womb, her rival kept provoking her in order to irritate her.

1 Samuel 1:7   (Read all of 1 Samuel 1)

This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.

1 Samuel 2:3   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

"Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the Lord is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.

1 Samuel 2:30   (Read all of 1 Samuel 2)

"Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that members of your family would minister before me forever.' But now the Lord declares: 'Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained.

1 Samuel 3:20   (Read all of 1 Samuel 3)

And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.