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Thus God made to recoil on Abimelech the evil he had done his father by murdering his seventy brothers, (Judges 9, 56)
Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior. He was a prostitute's son. Gilead was Jephthah's father, (Judges 11, 1)
Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, 'Didn't you hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why come to me now, when you are in trouble?' (Judges 11, 7)
She replied, 'Father, you have made a promise to Yahweh; treat me as the promise that you have made requires, since Yahweh has granted you vengeance on your enemies the Ammonites.' (Judges 11, 36)
She then said to her father, 'Grant me this! Let me be free for two months. I shall go and wander in the mountains, and with my companions bewail my virginity.' (Judges 11, 37)
When the two months were over she went back to her father, and he treated her as the vow that he had uttered bound him. She had remained a virgin. And hence, the custom in Israel (Judges 11, 39)
He went home again and told his father and mother this. 'At Timnah', he said, 'I noticed a woman, a Philistine girl. So now get her for me, to be my wife.' (Judges 14, 2)
His father and mother said to him, 'Is there no woman among your brothers' daughters or in our entire nation, for you to go and take a wife among these uncircumcised Philistines?' But Samson said to his father, 'Get that one for me; she is the one I am for me; she is the one I am fond of.' (Judges 14, 3)
His father and mother did not know that all this came from Yahweh, who was seeking grounds for a quarrel with the Philistines, since at this time the Philistines dominated Israel. (Judges 14, 4)
The spirit of Yahweh seized on him and he tore the lion to pieces with his bare hands as though it were a kid; but he did not tell his father or mother what he had done. (Judges 14, 6)
He took up some honey in his hand and ate it as he went along. On returning to his father and mother, he gave some to them, which they ate too, but he did not tell them that he had taken it from the lion's carcase. (Judges 14, 9)
His father then went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there, as is the custom for young men. (Judges 14, 10)
