Judges

“Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?”

“What wilt thou?”

“Why have ye done this?”

“I have a message from God for you?”

“Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?”

“Certainly I will go with you. But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours?”

“Is not the LORD gone out before thee?”

“Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here?”

“Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?”

“Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks?”

“And why did Dan remain in ships?”

“Why is his chariot so long in coming?”

“Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us?”

“Have not I sent thee?”

“Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel?”

“Who hath done this thing?”

“Will ye plead for Baal?”

“There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will thin them out for you there?”

“Why hast thou served us thus, that thou calledst us not, when thou wentest to fight with the Midianites?”

“What have I done now in comparison of you?”

“Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thine army?”

“Zebah and Zalmunna, with whom ye did upbraid me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in thine hand, that we should give bread unto thy men that are weary?”

“What manner of men were they whom ye slew at Tabor?”

“Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, which are threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you?”

“Should I leave my fatness, wherewith by me they honour God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I forsake my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Should I leave my wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to be promoted over the trees?”

“Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him?”

“Aren’t they coming down from the mountains?”

“Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?”

“Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?”

“Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you when you are in trouble!?”

“What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon?”

“Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house?”

“What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come against me to fight in my land?”

“Now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess it?”

“Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess?”

“Now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab?”

“Passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with thee?”

“Wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?”

“Art thou an Ephraimite?”

“Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman?”

“How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him?”

“What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?”

“Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret ?”

“Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren, or among all my people, that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines?”

“Have ye called us to take that we have?”

“I have not told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell it thee?”

“What is sweeter than honey?”

“Is not her younger sister fairer than she?”

“Who hath done this?”

“Why are ye come up against us?”

“Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us?”

“And now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”

“You have made a fool of me; you lied to me. Come now, tell me how you can be tied?”

“All this time you have been making a fool of me and lying to me. Tell me how you can be tied?”

“How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me?”

“The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from you—I took them. What shall I do?”

“Whence comest thou?”

“Who brought thee hither?”

“What say ye?”

“Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image?”

“What do ye?”

“Is it better for thee to be a priest unto the house of one man, or that thou be a priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?”

“What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?”

“And what have I more?”

“Whither goest thou?”

“Tell us, how was this wickedness?”

“What wickedness is this that is done among you?”

“Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin?”

“Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?”

“Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?”

“O LORD God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel?”

“Who is there among all the tribes of Israel that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD?”

“How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?”

“What one is there of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD?”

“How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”