Quotes About Resilience

The Amorites forced the Danites into the hill country and did not allow them to come down into the plain.

Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.

and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.

Whenever the Israelites would plant their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and other people of the east would come up and invade them,

Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.

He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

So Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But while the men were hidden in her room, he snapped the ropes off his arms like they were threads.

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

But the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

Then Naomiís husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

The bows of the mighty are broken, but the feeble are equipped with strength.

Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

Saul tried to pin him to the wall with his spear. But the spear struck the wall and David eluded him, ran away, and escaped that night.

And all who were distressed or indebted or discontented rallied around him, and he became their leader. About four hundred men were with him.

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.

because two hundred men were too exhausted to cross the brook. But David and four hundred men continued in pursuit.

a piece of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins. So he ate and was revived, for he had not had any food or water for three days and three nights.

And David struck them down from twilight until the evening of the next day. Not a man escaped, except four hundred young men who fled, riding off on camels.