Quotes About Deliverance

After Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he ushered out those who had carried it.

And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglonís belly.

Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglonís fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglonís bowels emptied.

Then Ehud went out through the porch, closing and locking the doors of the upper room behind him.

Ehud, however, had escaped while the servants waited. He passed by the idols and escaped to Seirah.

“Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

At that time they struck down about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men. Not one of them escaped.

So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath. And he too saved Israel, striking down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad.

So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabinís army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.í”

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.

Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.

And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workmanís hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

Israel was greatly impoverished by Midian, and the Israelites cried out to the LORD.

Now when the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.