Quotes about Community
Life in the villages ceased; it ended in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose, a mother in Israel.
- Judges 5:7
They answered Jephthah, “This is why we now turn to you, that you may go with us, fight the Ammonites, and become leader over all of us who live in Gilead.”
- Judges 11:8
“Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
- Judges 18:19
They stopped to go in and lodge in Gibeah. The Levite went in and sat down in the city square, but no one would take them into his home for the night.
- Judges 19:15
“Peace to you,” said the old man. “Let me supply everything you need. Only do not spend the night in the square.”
- Judges 19:20
While they were enjoying themselves, suddenly the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they said to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house, so we can have relations with him!”
- Judges 19:22
Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.
- Judges 20:8
So all the men of Israel gathered as one man, united against the city.
- Judges 20:11
So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
- Judges 21:2
The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.
- Judges 21:4
And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.
- Judges 21:6
For when the people were counted, none of the residents of Jabesh-gilead were there.
- Judges 21:9