Quotes About History

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

In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted and the travelers took the byways.

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

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak, rushing into the valley at his heels. In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.

Kings came and fought; then the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no plunder of silver.

I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.

“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ëHas not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?í But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

Later, Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.

After Abimelech had reigned over Israel for three years,

Tola judged Israel twenty-three years, and when he died, he was buried in Shamir.

Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.

When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines,

Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel

The king of the Ammonites answered Jephthahís messengers, “When Israel came up out of Egypt, they seized my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and all the way to the Jordan. Now, therefore, restore it peaceably.”

Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites

to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.

Are you now so much better than Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend with Israel or fight against them?

For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?

But the king of the Ammonites paid no heed to the message Jephthah sent him.

Jephthah judged Israel six years, and when he died, he was buried in one of the cities of Gilead.

After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.

Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.