The enemies of God’s people controlled them and made life hard for them.\par
Judges 4:3 - Easy To Read Version Sisera had 900 iron chariots, and he was very cruel to the people of Israel for 20 years. So they cried to the Lord for help. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then the Israelites cried to the Lord, for [Jabin] had 900 chariots of iron and had severely oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. American Standard Version (1901) And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. Common English Bible The Israelites cried out to the LORD because Sisera had nine hundred iron chariots and had oppressed the Israelites cruelly for twenty years. Catholic Public Domain Version And the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord. For he had nine hundred chariots with scythes, and he vehemently oppressed them for twenty years. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: for he had nine hundred chariots set with scythes, and for twenty years had grievously oppressed them. |
The enemies of God’s people controlled them and made life hard for them.\par
\{God says,\}\par “Call for me when you have troubles!\par I will help you.\par And then you can honor me.”\par
Whenever God killed some of them,\par the others would turn back to him.\par They would come running back to God.\par
A long time passed and that king of Egypt died. But the people of Israel were still forced to work very hard. They cried for help, and God heard them.
In daylight, you will have to feel your way like a blind man. You will fail in everything you do. Again and again people will hurt you and steal things from you. And there will not be anyone to save you.
“A nation that you don’t know will take all your crops and all the things you worked for. People will treat you badly and abuse you.
The people of Joseph said, “It is true that the hill country of Ephraim is not large enough for us. But the Canaanite people living there have powerful weapons—they have iron chariots! [62] And those people control Jezreel Valley, Beth Shean and all the small towns in that area.”
The Lord was on the side of the men of Judah when they fought. They took the land in the hill country. But the men of Judah failed to take the land in the valleys, because the people living there had iron chariots. [10]
So the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help. They said, “God, we have sinned against you. We left our God and worshiped the false god Baal. [95] ”
Then the people of Israel threw away the foreign gods. They started worshiping the Lord again. So the Lord felt sorry for them when he saw them suffering.
The people cried to the Lord. The Lord sent a man to save the people of Israel. This man’s name was Ehud. Ehud was the son of a man named Gera from the family group of Benjamin. Ehud was trained to fight with his left hand. The people of Israel sent Ehud with a gift to Eglon king of Moab.
But the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help. The Lord sent a man to save them. That man’s name was Othniel. He was the son of a man named Kenaz. Kenaz was Caleb’s younger brother. Othniel saved the people of Israel.
So Sisera got together his 900 iron chariots. Sisera also got together all the men with him. They marched from the city of Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River.
There was a woman prophet named Deborah. She was the wife of a man named Lappidoth. She was judge of Israel at that time.
God chose new {leaders} to fight at the city gates. [43] No one could find a shield or a spear among the 40,000 soldiers of Israel.
The people of Israel became very poor because of the people of Midian. So the people of Israel cried to the Lord for help.
The Israelites said to Samuel, “Don’t stop praying to the Lord our God for us! Ask the Lord to save us from the Philistines!”