Quotes about Promise
So Gideon told the men of Penuel, “When I return in triumph, I will tear down this tower!”
— Judges 8:9
“They were my brothers,” Gideon replied, “the sons of my mother! As surely as the LORD lives, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.”
— Judges 8:19
And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
— Judges 11:10
Now since the LORD, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before His people Israel, should you now possess it?
— Judges 11:23
Jephthah made this vow to the LORD: “If indeed You will deliver the Ammonites into my hand,
— Judges 11:30
then whatever comes out the door of my house to greet me on my triumphant return from the Ammonites will belong to the LORD, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.”
— Judges 11:31
As soon as Jephthah saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have brought me to my knees! You have brought great misery upon me, for I have given my word to the LORD and cannot take it back.”
— Judges 11:35
“My father,” she replied, “you have given your word to the LORD. Do to me as you have said, for the LORD has avenged you of your enemies, the Ammonites.”
— Judges 11:36
“Go,” he said. And he sent her away for two months. So she left with her friends and mourned her virginity upon the mountains.
— Judges 11:38
After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel
— Judges 11:39
The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
— Judges 13:3
For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
— Judges 13:5