Quotes About Israelites

These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.

Thus the Israelites continued to live among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Calebís younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD.

The Israelites served Eglon king of Moab eighteen years.

On arriving in Seirah, he blew the ramís horn throughout the hill country of Ephraim. The Israelites came down with him from the hills, and he became their leader.

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

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.

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

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

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

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

So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred men, who took charge of the provisions and ramsí horns of the others. And the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley.

Then the Israelites said to Gideon, “Rule over us—you and your son and grandson—for you have saved us from the hand of Midian.”

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

And when the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they all went home.

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.

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, saying, “We have sinned against You, for we have indeed forsaken our God and served the Baals.”

Then the Ammonites were called to arms and camped in Gilead, and the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

I have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”

With a great blow he devastated twenty cities from Aroer to the vicinity of Minnith, as far as Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

But his master replied, “We will not turn aside to the city of foreigners, where there are no Israelites. We will go on to Gibeah.”