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Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured; and many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she dwelt in the wall.

so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty; that you may fear the LORD your God for ever."

So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people raised a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

These were the cities designated for all the people of Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that any one who killed a person without intent could flee there, so that he might not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, till he stood before the congregation.

For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them; and he sold them into the power of their enemies round about, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

For they would come up with their cattle and their tents, coming like locusts for number; both they and their camels could not be counted; so that they wasted the land as they came in.

And God did so that night; for it was dry on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.

When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade; and he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream; and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Mid'ian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."

And Abim'elech dwelt at Aru'mah; and Zebul drove out Ga'al and his kinsmen, so that they could not live on at Shechem.

So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abim'elech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women.

And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of E'phraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed.

And Mano'ah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"

and both Mahlon and Chil'ion died, so that the woman was bereft of her two sons and her husband.

Behold, the days are coming, when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

At that time Eli, whose eyesight had begun to grow dim, so that he could not see, was lying down in his own place;

When the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel gave a mighty shout, so that the earth resounded.

Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes were set, so that he could not see.

But after they had brought it around, the hand of the LORD was against the city, causing a very great panic, and he afflicted the men of the city, both young and old, so that tumors broke out upon them.