Quotes About Struggle

Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

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

So now I tell you that I will not drive out these people before you; they will be thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.”

These are the nations that the LORD left to test all the Israelites who had not known any of the wars in Canaan,

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.

From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

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

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,

“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.”

Then Gideon and his three hundred men came to the Jordan and crossed it, exhausted yet still in pursuit.

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

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

Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

Some time later, when the Ammonites fought against Israel

But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.

Jephthah then gathered all the men of Gilead and fought against Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck them down because the Ephraimites had said, “You Gileadites are fugitives in Ephraim, living in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

And being very thirsty, Samson cried out to the LORD, “You have accomplished this great deliverance through Your servant. Must I now die of thirst and fall into the hands of the uncircumcised?”

And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.

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

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.

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.