Quotes about Judgment
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
— Judges 9:15
So each man also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. Then they piled the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire above them, killing everyone in the tower of Shechem, about a thousand men and women.
— Judges 9:49
“We have sinned,” the Israelites said to the LORD. “Deal with us as You see fit; but please deliver us today!”
— Judges 10:15
to tell him, “This is what Jephthah says: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or of the Ammonites.
— Judges 11:15
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.”
— Judges 12:4
they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. So at that time 42,000 Ephraimites were killed.
— Judges 12:6
After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.
— Judges 12:13
He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.
— Judges 12:14
Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
— Judges 13:1
One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.
— Judges 14:1
Then Samson continued on his way down and spoke to the woman, because she was pleasing to his eyes.
— Judges 14:7
One day Samson went to Gaza, where he saw a prostitute and went in to spend the night with her.
— Judges 16:1