I Just Can’t Believe It! Jerusalem lay in ruins—the walls destroyed, the temple razed, and the palace demolished. The Israelites who had not been carried off to Babylon suffered greatly. The suffering in Jerusalem was so great that mothers ate their own children for food: “The hands of compassionate women have boiled their own children; […]

And it cometh to pass, after [some] days, in the days of wheat-harvest, that Samson looketh after his wife, with a kid of the goats, and saith, `I go in unto my wife, to the inner chamber;’ and her father hath not permitted him to go in, 2 and her father saith, I certainly said, […]

And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines, 2 and cometh up and declareth to his father, and to his mother, and saith, `A woman I have seen in Timnath, of the daughters of the Philistines; and now, take her for me for a wife.’ […]

And the sons of Israel add to do the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, and Jehovah giveth them into the hand of the Philistines forty years. 2 And there is a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danite, and his name [is] Manoah, his wife [is] barren, and hath not […]

And the men of Ephraim are called together, and pass over northward, and say to Jephthah, `Wherefore has thou passed over to fight against the Bene-Ammon, and on us hast not called to go with thee? thy house we burn over thee with fire.’ 2 And Jephthah saith unto them, `A man of great strife […]