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March 26 - The Power of Listening · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat where we have.
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  Devotional conversations rooted in Scripture and relevant for
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  today, March 26th. The power of listening.
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  There is a. Big difference between hearing
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  words and actually listening. You can hear your name called,
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  hear advice given, hear truth spoken, and still not let any of
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  it reach your heart and honestly.
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  A lot of life pushes. Us in that direction, we are
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  surrounded by opinions, pressure, noise and endless
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  voices telling us what matters, what success looks like and how.
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  We should live in the middle. Of all that noise, learning to
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  listen well is a spiritual strength.
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  Proverbs, chapter 13, verses 1 to 2.
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  Says a wise. Son hears.
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  His father's. Instruction.
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  But a scoffer does not listen to rebuke from the fruit of his
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  mouth. A man eats.
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  Good, that shows us that. Listening and speaking are
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  deeply connected. What you are willing to receive
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  shapes what comes out of. You a teachable heart produces
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  healthier words, wiser choices. And better outcomes.
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  But a proud heart. Resists correction and often
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  creates pain that did not need to happen then we.
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  Look at judges. Chapters 11:50 and see Jeff Toss
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  stepping into a difficult moment.
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  There was conflict, pressure, and real responsibility.
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  In times like that, courage matters.
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  But courage without. Wisdom can become reckless.
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  The lesson here is not just about action.
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  It is about listening to God, receiving guidance, and then
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  moving forward in obedience. Some battles are won before they
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  begin because someone had the humility to listen first.
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  That matters in. Everyday life too.
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  Listening can save you from regret.
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  Listening to godly correction can keep you from repeating the
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  same mistake. Listening to wise voices can
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  protect your. Future.
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  Listening to God's Word can steady your heart when emotions
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  are loud and decisions feel confusing and listening takes
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  humility. It means admitting you do not
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  know everything. It means being open to
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  correction. It means slowing down enough to
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  hear what God may be saying through.
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  Scripture through wise. People and through the gentle
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  conviction of the. Holy Spirit.
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  The truth is not. Every loud voice.
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  Deserves your attention. But God's voice does.
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  His wisdom builds you. His truth guards you.
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  His guidance leads you into peace and strength, so do not
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  just react to every opinion around you.
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  Learn to listen well. Because the choice.
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  To listen can shape the direction of your life more than
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  you. Realize let's.
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  Pray Heavenly Father, thank you for speaking truth, wisdom, and
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  life into my heart. Help me to be teachable and
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  humble, willing to listen when You correct me and guide me.
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  Guard me from pride that ignores wisdom and teach me to hear.
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  Your voice. Above the noise around me, let
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  my life be shaped by your truth and lead me in the path that
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  Reading Plan Proverbs chapter 13, verses 1 to 2.
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  World. English Bible a wise son listens
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  to. His father's.
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  Instruction, but a scoffer doesn't listen to rebuke.
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  By the fruit. Of his lips A man enjoys good
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  things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
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  Judges, Chapters 11:50. World English.
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  Bible after Abimelech Tolah, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a
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  man of Issachar. Arose to save Israel.
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  He lived in Shamir in the Hill Country of Ephraim.
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  He judged Israel. 23 years and died and was buried in Shamir.
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  After him, Jair the Jilidite arose.
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  He judged Israel. 22 years. He had thirty sons who rode on
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  30 donkey Colts. They had 30 cities which are
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  called Haveoth Jair to this. Day which are in the land of
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  Gilead. Jair died and was buried in
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  Camen. The children of Israel again did
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  that which was evil in Yahweh's sight and served.
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  The Bales, the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, The gods of
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  Sidon, The gods of Moab, the gods.
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  Of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines, they
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  abandoned Yahweh and didn't serve him.
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  Yahweh's anger burned against Israel, and he sold them into
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  the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the children of
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  Ammon. They troubled and oppressed the
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  children of. Israel that year.
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  For 18 years they oppressed all the children of Israel that were
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  beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in.
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  Gilead The. Children of Ammon passed over
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  the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and
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  against the House of Ephraim, so that.
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  Israel was very distressed the. Children of Israel.
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  Cried to Yahweh. Saying we have sinned against
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  you. Even because we.
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  Have forsaken our God and have. Served the bales, Yahweh said to
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  the. Children of Israel, didn't I
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  save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the
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  children of Ammon and from the Philistines, the Sidonians also,
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  And the Amalkites? And the Malnites oppressed you,
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  and you cried to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
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  Yet you have. Forsaken me and.
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  Served other gods, therefore. I will save you no more.
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  Go and cry to the gods. Which you have chosen, Let them
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  save you in the time of your distress, The children of
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  Israel. Said to Yahweh.
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  We have sinned. Due to us whatever seems good.
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  To you only. Deliver us, please.
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  Today they put. Away the foreign gods from among
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  them, and served. Yahweh.
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  And his soul was grieved for the misery.
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  Of Israel. Then the children of Ammon.
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  Were gathered together. And encamped in.
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  Gilead The. Children of Israel assembled
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  themselves together and encamped in Mizpah.
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  The people, the Princess of. Gilead said.
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  To one another, Who is the man who will begin to fight against
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  the children of Ammon? He shall behead over all the.
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  Inhabitants of Gilead now, Jeff. Taw the Jilidite.
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  Was a mighty man of valor. He was the son of a prostitute.
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  Gilead became the father of Jeff.
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  Taw Gilead's wife. Bore him sons.
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  When his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jeff Taw out and said
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  to him, You will not inherit in our father's house, for you are
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  the son of another woman. Then Jefta fled from his
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  brothers and lived in the land of Taub.
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  Outlaws joined up with Jeff Taw and they went out with him.
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  After a while. The children of Ammon made war
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  against Israel when the children of Ammon made war against
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  Israel. The elders of Gilead.
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  Went to get Jeff Taw out of the land of Taub.
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  They said to Jeff. Taw, come and be our chief, that
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  we may fight with the children of Ammon.
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  Jeff Taw said to the elders of Gilead.
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  Didn't you hate me and drive me out of my father?
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  'S house. Why have you come to me now when
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  you are in distress? The elders of Gilead said to
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  Geftah. Therefore we have.
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  Turned again to you, now that you may go with us and fight
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  with the children of Ammon. You will be our head over all.
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  The inhabitants of Gilead. Geftah said to the elders of
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  Gilead, If you. Bring me home again to fight
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  with the children of Ammon, and Yahweh delivers them before me
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  will I be? Your head, the elders of Gilead
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  said to Geftah. Yahweh will be witnessed between
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  us. Surely we will do what you say.
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  Then Jeftah. Went with the elders of.
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  Gilead and the people made him head and chief over them.
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  Jeftah. Spoke all his words before
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  Yahweh. In Mizpah, Jeftah sent
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  messengers to the king of the children of Ammon, saying.
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  What do you? Have to do with me that you have
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  come to me to fight against my land, the king of the children
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  of Ammon answered the messengers of.
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  Jeftah because Israel took. Away my land when he came up out
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  of Egypt from the Arnon. Even to the.
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  Jabak and to the Jordan now therefore restore that territory
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  again peaceably. Jephthah sent messengers again
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  to the king of the children of Ammon, and he said to him,
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  Jephthah. Says Israel didn't take.
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  Away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of ammon,
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  but when they came up from Egypt and Israel, went through the
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  wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to.
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  Kaddish, then Israel. Sent messengers to the King of
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  Edom saying please. Let me pass.
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  Through your land. But the king of Edom didn't
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  listen in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he.
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  Refused. So Israel.
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  Stayed in Kadish. Then they went through the
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  wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of
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  Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they
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  encamped on the other side of the Arnan, but they didn't come
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  within the border of Moab, for the Arnan was the border of
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  Moab. Israel sent messengers to Sihan,
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  king of the Amorites, the king of Heshman, and Israel said to
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  him, please. Let us pass.
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  Through your land to my place, but.
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  Sihan didn't trust Israel to pass through his border, but
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  Sihan gathered all his people. Together and encamped in Jahaz
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  and fought against. Israel, Yahweh, the God of
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  Israel, delivered. Sihan and all his people into
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  the hand of Israel, and they struck them.
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  So Israel possessed. All the land of the Amorites,
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  the inhabitants of that country, they possessed all the border of
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  the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the.
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  Jabak. And from the wilderness even to
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  the Jordan. So now Yahweh.
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  The God of Israel has dispossessed.
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  The amorites from before. His people Israel.
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  And should you possess them, won't you?
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  Possess that which. Khemash, your God.
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  Gives you to possess so whoever Yahweh our God has dispossessed.
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  From before us, then will. We possess.
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  Now are you anything better than Balak, the son of Zipper, king
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  of Moab? Did he ever?
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  Strive against Israel. Or did.
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  He ever fight against them? Israel lived in Heshbon and its
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  towns and an error and its towns and in all the cities that are
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  along the side of the Arnon for 300 years.
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  Why didn't you recover them within that time?
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  Therefore, I have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong
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  to war against me. May Yahweh the judge be judged.
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  Today between the children of Israel and the children of
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  Ammon. However, the.
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  King of the Children of Ammon didn't listen to the words.
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  Of Jephthah. Which he sent him.
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  Then Yahweh's spirit came on Jeftah.
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  And he passed over Gilead. And manasseh and passed over
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  Misbah. Of Gilead and.
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  From Misbah of. Gilead, he passed over to the.
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  Children of Ammon. Jeftah, vow to vow.
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  To Yahweh and said. If you.
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  Will indeed. Deliver the.
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  Children of Ammon into my hand. Then it shall.
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  Be that whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me
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  when I return in peace from the children of Ammon.
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  It shall be Yahweh's. And I will offer it up for a
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  burnt offering. So Jeff Dahl passed over to the.
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  Children of Ammon to fight against them and Yahweh
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  delivered them into his hand. He struck them from error until
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  you come to minneth even 20 cities and to able cheramim with
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  a very. Great slaughter, so the.
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  Children of Ammon were. Subdued before the.
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  Children of Israel Jeff Dahl came to Misbah.
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  To his house. And behold, his daughter came
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  out to meet him with tambourines and with dances.
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  She was his only child. Besides her, he.
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  Had neither son nor daughter when he saw her.
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  He tore his. Clothes and said, alas my
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  daughter. You have.
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  Brought me very low and you are one of those who trouble me, for
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  I have opened my mouth to Yahweh and I can't.
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  Go back she. Said to him, My father, you have
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  opened your mouth to Yahweh due to me according to that.
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  Which has proceeded. Out of your mouth.
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  Because Yahweh has. Taken vengeance for you on your
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  enemies, even on the children of Ammon.
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  Then she said to. Her father.
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  Let this thing be done for me, leave me alone two months that I
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  may depart and go down on the mountains and bewail my
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  virginity, I and my companions. He said go.
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  He sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her
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  companions, and mourned her virginity on the mountains.
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  At the end of two months, she. Returned to her father, who did
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  with her according to his vow which he had vowed.
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  She was a virgin. It became a custom in Israel.
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  That the daughters of Israel. Went.
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  Yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jeff Taw the Jilidite.
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  Four days in a year, the men of Ephraim.
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  Were gathered together. And passed northward and they
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  said. To geftah, why did you pass?
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  Over to fight against the children of Ammon and didn't
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  call. Us to go with you.
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  We will burn your house around you with.
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  Fire, Geftah said. To them I and my.
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  People were at great strife with the.
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  Children of Ammon, and when I called you, you didn't save me
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  out of their hand. When I saw that you didn't save
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  me, I put my life in my hand and passed over against the children
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  of Ammon, and Yahweh delivered them into my hand.
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  Why then have you come up to me today to fight against me then?
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  Jeftog gathered together. All the men of Gilead and fought
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  with Ephraim. The men of Gilead struck Ephraim
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  because they said. You are.
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  Fugitives of Ephraim you Jilidites in the middle of
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  Ephraim and in the middle of Manasseh the.
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  Jilidites took the. Fords of the Jordan against the
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  Ephraimites whenever a fugitive of Ephraim said.
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  Let me go. Over the men of Gilead said to
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  him, Are you an Ephraimite? If he said no, then they said to
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  him, Now say shibboleth. And he said.
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  Sibboleth. For he couldn't manage to
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  pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and killed
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  him at the Fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of Ephraim
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  fell. Gefdah judged Israel six years.
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  Then. Gefdah, the Jilidite.
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  Died and was buried in the cities of Gilead.
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  After him Ibsen of Bethlehem judged Israel.
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  He had thirty sons. He sent his thirty daughters
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  outside his. Clan and he brought in 30
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  daughters from outside his clan for his sons he judged Israel
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  seven years. Ibsen died and was buried at
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  Bethlehem. After him, Elon, the Zebulunite
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  judged. Israel.
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  And he judged Israel 10 years Elon the Zebulunite died and was
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  buried in age Allen in the land of Zebulun.
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  After him Abdun the son of Hillel the Purithonite judged
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  Israel. He had forty sons and 30 son
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  sons who rode on 70 donkey Colts.
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  He judged Israel eight years. Abden, the son of Hillel the
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  Purathonite, died and was buried in Purathon in the land of
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  Ephraim in the Hill Country of the Amelkites.
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