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Judges 2:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for the Israelites, the Lord was with  him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The Lord was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

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No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live.  I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or abandon you.


The Lord will indeed vindicate his people and have compassion on his servants when he sees that their strength is gone and no one is left #– #slave or free.


God heard their groaning, and God remembered  his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.


How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I surrender you, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboiim? I have had a change of heart; my compassion is stirred!


Then Jehoahaz sought the Lord’s favour, and the Lord heard him, for he saw the oppression the king of Aram inflicted on Israel.


So they got rid of the foreign gods  among them and worshipped the Lord,  and he became weary  of Israel’s misery.


the Lord regretted that he had made man on the earth,  and he was deeply grieved.


He answered, ‘I will certainly be with you,  and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship  God at this mountain.’


God saw their actions #– #that they had turned from their evil ways   #– #so God relented from the disaster  he had threatened them with. And he did not do it.


‘When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies.


Whenever the judge died, the Israelites would act even more corruptly  than their ancestors, following other gods to serve them and bow in worship to them. They did not turn from their evil practices or their obstinate  ways.


So the Lord relented  concerning the disaster he had said he would bring on his people.


The Israelites cried out to the Lord.  So the Lord raised up Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s youngest brother,  as a deliverer  to save the Israelites.


Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him and said, ‘The Lord is with you, valiant warrior.’


‘But I will be with you,’  the Lord said to him. ‘You will strike Midian down as if it were one man.’


Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the Lord handed them over  to him.





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