FUTURE FORETOLD

20. BLESSED - JUDGES

Judges 5:24
Blessed above women shall Jael
the wife of Heber the Kenite be,
blessed shall she be
above women in the tent.

Judges 13:24-25
And the woman bare a son,
and called his name Samson:
and the child grew, and
the LORD blessed him. *24

And the Spirit of the LORD
began to move him
at times in the camp of Dan
between Zorah and Eshtaol. *25

Judges 14:3-4; 6; 19-20

And Samson said unto his father,
Get her for me;
for she pleaseth me well. *3

But his father and his mother knew not
that it was of the LORD,
that he sought an occasion
against the Philistines:
for at that time the Philistines
had dominion over Israel. *4

And the Spirit of the LORD
came mightily upon him,
and he rent him as he
would have rent a kid,
and he had nothing
in his hand: but he told not
his father or his mother
what he had done. *6
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And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him,
and he went down to Ashkelon,
and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil,
and gave change of garments unto them
which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled,
and he went up to his father's house. *19

But Samson's wife was given to his companion,
whom he had used as his friend. *20

Judges 15:11; 14-15; 20

... And he said unto them,
As they did unto me,
so have I done unto them. *11

And when he came
unto Lehi, the Philistines
shouted against him: and
the Spirit of the LORD
came mightily upon him,
and the cords that
were upon his arms
became as flax that
was burnt with fire, and his bands
loosed from off his hands. *14

And he found a new jawbone
of an ass, and put forth
his hand, and took it, and slew
a thousand men therewith. *15

And he judged Israel in the days
of the Philistines twenty years. *20

Judges 16:20; 28
And she said, The Philistines
be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke
out of his sleep, and said, I will go out
as at other times before, and shake myself.
And he wist not that the LORD
was departed from him. *20

And Samson called unto the LORD,
and said, O Lord GOD, remember me,
I pray thee, and strengthen me,
I pray thee, only this once,
O God, that I may be at once avenged
of the Philistines for my two eyes. *28

Judges 17:5-6
And the man Micah had an house of gods,
and made an ephod, and teraphim,
and consecrated one of his sons,
who became his priest. *5

In those days there was no king in Israel,
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. *6

Judges 20:19-28

And the children of Israel
rose up in the morning,
and encamped against Gibeah. *19

And the men of Israel went out
to battle against Benjamin;
and the men of Israel
put themselves in array
to fight against them at Gibeah. *20

And the children of Benjamin
came forth out of Gibeah, and
destroyed down to the ground
of the Israelites that day
twenty-two thousand men. *21

And the people the men of Israel
encouraged themselves, and
set their battle again in array
in the place where they put themselves
in array the first day. *22

(And the children of Israel went up
and wept before the LORD until even,
and asked counsel of the LORD, saying,
Shall I go up again to battle
against the children of Benjamin
my brother? And the LORD said,
Go up against him.) *23

And the children of Israel came near against
the children of Benjamin the second day. *24

And Benjamin went forth against them
out of Gibeah the second day, and
destroyed down to the ground
of the children of Israel again
eighteen thousand men;
all these drew the sword. *25

Then all the children of Israel,
and all the people, went up, and came
unto the house of God, and wept, and
sat there before the LORD, and fasted
that day until even, and offered
burnt offerings and peace offerings
before the LORD. *26

And the children of Israel
inquired of the LORD,
(for the ark of the covenant
of God was there in those days, *27

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar,
the son of Aaron, stood before
it in those days,) saying, Shall I yet again
go out to battle against the children
of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?
And the LORD said, Go up; for tomorrow
I will deliver them into thine hand. *28

Judges 4:4
Now Deborah, a prophetess,
the wife of Lappidoth,
was judging Israel at that time.

Judges 2:3
Therefore I also said,
'I will not drive them out
before you; but they
will become as thorns
in your sides and their gods
will be a snare to you.'"

Judges 9:10
Then the trees said to the fig tree,
'You come, reign over us!'

Judges 1:4
Judah went up, and the Lord
gave the Canaanites and
the Perizzites into their hands, and
they defeated ten thousand men at Bezek.

Judges 3:4
They were for testing Israel, to find out
if they would obey the commandments
of the Lord, which He had commanded
their fathers through Moses.