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Then Samson prayed, "Sovereign Lord , please remember me; please, God, give me my strength just this one time more, so that with this one blow I can get even with the Philistines for putting out my two eyes."

They said to him, "Please ask God if we are going to be successful on our trip."

When you get there, you will find that the people don't suspect a thing. It is a big country; it has everything a person could want, and God has given it to you."

Micah's idol remained there as long as the Tent where God was worshiped remained at Shiloh.

The Israelites went to the place of worship at Bethel, and there they asked God, "Which tribe should attack the Benjaminites first?" The Lord answered, "The tribe of Judah."

So now the people of Israel went to Bethel and sat there in the presence of God until evening. Loudly and bitterly they mourned:

" Lord God of Israel, why has this happened? Why is the tribe of Benjamin about to disappear from Israel?"

So Naomi said to her, "Ruth, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Go back home with her."

But Ruth answered, "Don't ask me to leave you! Let me go with you. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

"Don't call me Naomi," she answered; "call me Marah, because Almighty God has made my life bitter.

May the Lord reward you for what you have done. May you have a full reward from the Lord God of Israel, to whom you have come for protection!"

Naomi asked her, "Where did you gather all this grain today? Whose field have you been working in? May God bless the man who took an interest in you!" So Ruth told Naomi that she had been working in a field belonging to a man named Boaz.

"Go in peace," Eli said, "and may the God of Israel give you what you have asked him for."

Hannah prayed: "The Lord has filled my heart with joy; how happy I am because of what he has done! I laugh at my enemies; how joyful I am because God has helped me!

"No one is holy like the Lord ; there is none like him, no protector like our God.

Stop your loud boasting; silence your proud words. For the Lord is a God who knows, and he judges all that people do.

If anyone sins against someone else, God can defend the one who is wrong; but who can defend someone who sins against the Lord ?" But they would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided to kill them.

I, the Lord God of Israel, promised in the past that your family and your clan would serve me as priests for all time. But now I say that I won't have it any longer! Instead, I will honor those who honor me, and I will treat with contempt those who despise me.

"What did the Lord tell you?" Eli asked. "Don't keep anything from me. God will punish you severely if you don't tell me everything he said."

they were afraid, and said, "A god has come into their camp! We're lost! Nothing like this has ever happened to us before!