Judges 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping.

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  • 1 Sam 7:6 : 6 So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.
  • Ezra 10:1 : 1 Now while Ezra was making his prayer and his statement of wrongdoing, weeping and falling down before the house of God, a very great number of men and women and children out of Israel came together round him: for the people were weeping bitterly.
  • Prov 17:10 : 10 A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.
  • Jer 31:9 : 9 They will come with weeping, and going before them I will be their guide: guiding them by streams of water in a straight way where there is no falling: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is the first of my sons.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.
  • Luke 6:21 : 21 Happy are you who are in need of food now: for you will be made full. Happy are you who are weeping now; for you will be glad.
  • Luke 7:38 : 38 And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.
  • 2 Cor 7:10 : 10 For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.
  • Jas 4:9 : 9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

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  • Judg 2:1-3
    3 verses
    79%

    1 Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:

    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

    3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

  • Judg 2:5
    79%

    5 And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.

  • Num 14:1
    75%

    1 Then all the people gave load cries of grief, and all that night they gave themselves up to weeping.

  • 1 Sam 11:4
    75%

    4 So they sent representatives to Saul's town Gibeah, and these gave the news to the people: and all the people gave themselves to weeping.

  • Judg 21:2
    74%

    2 And the people came to Beth-el, waiting there till evening before God, and gave themselves up to bitter weeping.

  • Judg 6:6-8
    3 verses
    74%

    6 And Israel was in great need because of Midian; and the cry of the children of Israel went up to the Lord.

    7 And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,

    8 The Lord sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them, The Lord the God of Israel, has said, I took you up from Egypt, out of the prison-house;

  • Judg 20:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up to Beth-el, weeping and waiting there before the Lord, going without food all day till evening, and offering burned offerings and peace-offerings before the Lord.

    27 And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,

  • Num 20:16
    72%

    16 And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;

  • Judg 2:20
    71%

    20 And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;

  • Deut 1:34
    71%

    34 And the Lord, hearing your words, was angry, and said with an oath,

  • Judg 10:10
    70%

    10 Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.

  • Deut 2:17
    70%

    17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Exod 2:23
    70%

    23 Now after a long time the king of Egypt came to his end: and the children of Israel were crying in their grief under the weight of their work, and their cry for help came to the ears of God.

  • 1 Sam 4:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.

    6 And the Philistines, hearing the noise of their cry, said, What is this great cry among the tents of the Hebrews? Then it became clear to them that the ark of the Lord had come to the tent-circle.

  • Num 14:39
    70%

    39 And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.

  • Judg 10:16
    69%

    16 So they put away the strange gods from among them, and became the Lord's servants; and his soul was angry because of the sorrows of Israel.

  • Exod 14:10
    69%

    10 And when Pharaoh came near, the children of Israel, lifting up their eyes, saw the Egyptians coming after them, and were full of fear; and their cry went up to God.

  • Deut 1:45
    69%

    45 And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.

  • 1 Sam 7:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7 Now when the Philistines had news that the children of Israel had come together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the children of Israel, hearing of it, were full of fear.

    8 And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.

  • Judg 2:15
    69%

    15 Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them.

  • Hos 12:4
    69%

    4 In the body of his mother he took his brother by the foot, and in his strength he was fighting with God;

  • Judg 4:3
    69%

    3 Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

  • Judg 20:23
    69%

    23 Now the children of Israel went up, weeping before the Lord till evening, requesting the Lord and saying, Am I to go forward again to the fight against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.

  • Zech 3:6
    68%

    6 And the angel of the Lord made a statement to Joshua, and said,

  • Exod 4:31
    68%

    31 And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.

  • Judg 6:22
    68%

    22 Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.

  • 1 Sam 30:4
    68%

    4 Then David and the people who were with him gave themselves up to weeping till they were able to go on weeping no longer.

  • Judg 2:18
    68%

    18 And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.

  • Deut 2:2
    68%

    2 And the Lord said to me,

  • Judg 2:11
    68%

    11 And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals;

  • Jer 50:4
    68%

    4 In those days and in that time, says the Lord, the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping and making prayer to the Lord their God.

  • Jer 30:4
    68%

    4 And these are the words which the Lord said about Israel and about Judah.

  • Jer 3:21
    68%

    21 A voice is sounding on the open hilltops, the weeping and the prayers of the children of Israel; because their way is twisted, they have not kept the Lord their God in mind.

  • 1 Sam 12:10
    68%

    10 Then crying out to the Lord, they said, We have done evil, because we have been turned away from the Lord, worshipping the Baals and the Astartes: but now, make us safe from those who are against us and we will be your servants.

  • Exod 6:9
    68%

    9 And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.

  • 2 Sam 24:16
    68%

    16 And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

  • 1 Sam 4:14
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    14 And Eli, hearing the noise and the cries, said, What is the reason of this outcry? And the man came quickly and gave the news to Eli.

  • 1 Sam 12:8
    67%

    8 When Jacob and his sons had come into Egypt, and were crushed by the Egyptians, the prayers of your fathers came up to the Lord, and the Lord sent Moses and Aaron, who took your fathers out of Egypt, and he put them into this place.

  • 1 Sam 4:3
    67%

    3 And when the people came back to their tents, the responsible men of Israel said, Why has the Lord let the Philistines overcome us today? Let us get the ark of the Lord's agreement here from Shiloh, so that it may be with us and give us salvation from the hands of those who are against us.

  • Num 11:10
    67%

    10 And at the sound of the people weeping, every man at his tent-door, the wrath of the Lord was great, and Moses was very angry.