Study Desk

The things you see will cause you to go mad.

But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands; you don't really understand what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears.

Your children who will come after you, as well as foreigners from faraway lands, will see the disasters that come to this land and the diseases the Lord will send on it. They will say,

He said, "I will turn away from them and see what will happen to them. They are evil people, unfaithful children.

I wish they were wise and understood this; I wish they could see what will happen to them.

The Lord will defend his people and have mercy on his servants. He will see that their strength is gone, that nobody is left, slaves or free.

"Now you will see that I am the one God! There is no god but me. I send life and death; I can hurt, and I can heal. No one can escape from me.

Moses had great power, and he did great and wonderful things for all the Israelites to see.

and gave orders to the people: "When you see the priests and Levites carrying the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord your God, leave where you are and follow it.

The Israelites had moved about in the desert for forty years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died because they had not obeyed the Lord . So the Lord swore they would not see the land he had promised their ancestors to give them, a fertile land.

After you take the city, burn it. See to it! You have your orders."

There Joshua wrote the teachings of Moses on stones for all the people of Israel to see.

"In the future if your children say that, our children can say, ‘See the altar made by our ancestors. It is exactly like the Lord 's altar, but we do not use it for sacrifices. It shows that we are part of Israel.'

Joshua said to all the people, "See this stone! It will remind you of what we did today. It was here the Lord spoke to us today. It will remind you of what happened so you will not turn against your God."

I will use them to test Israel, to see if Israel will keep the Lord 's commands as their ancestors did."

Those nations were in the land to test the Israelites—to see if they would obey the commands the Lord had given to their ancestors by Moses.

So Gideon got ten of his servants and did what the Lord had told him to do. But Gideon was afraid that his family and the men of the city might see him, so he did it at night, not in the daytime.

Samson's father went down to see the Philistine woman. And Samson gave a feast, as was the custom for the bridegroom.

When you go, you will see there is plenty of land—plenty of everything! The people are not expecting an attack. Surely God has handed that land over to us!"

Then her husband went to ask her to come back to him, taking with him his servant and two donkeys. When the Levite came to her father's house, she invited him to come in, and her father was happy to see him.