When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
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14The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could no longer withstand their enemies’ attacks.
15Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.
16The LORD raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.
17But they did not obey their leaders. Instead they prostituted themselves to other gods and worshiped them. They quickly turned aside from the path their ancestors had walked. Their ancestors had obeyed the LORD’s commands, but they did not.
19When a leader died, the next generation would again act more wickedly than the previous one. They would follow after other gods, worshiping them and bowing down to them. They did not give up their practices or their stubborn ways.
20A Divine Decision The LORD was furious with Israel. He said,“This nation has violated the terms of the covenant I made with their ancestors by disobeying me.
27Therefore you delivered them into the hand of their adversaries, who oppressed them. But in the time of their distress they called to you, and you heard from heaven. In your abundant compassion you provided them with deliverers to rescue them from their adversaries.
28“Then, when they were at rest again, they went back to doing evil before you. Then you abandoned them to their enemies, and they gained dominion over them. When they again cried out to you, in your compassion you heard from heaven and rescued them time and again.
36The LORD will judge his people, and will change his plans concerning his servants; when he sees that their power has disappeared, and that no one is left, whether confined or set free.
9“But they forgot the LORD their God, so he gave them into the hand of Sisera, the general in command of Hazor’s army, and into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
10Then they cried out to the LORD and admitted,‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’
11So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
14For the LORD vindicates his people, and has compassion on his servants.
16They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the LORD. Finally the LORD grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.
6He told the judges,“Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the LORD, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.
4Because of their distress, they turned back to the LORD God of Israel. They sought him and he responded to them.
6Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.
7When the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help because of Midian,
34The Israelites did not remain true to the LORD their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.
42Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority.
20All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.
13They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
44Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.
6They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
24God heard their groaning, God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,
8They ruthlessly oppressed the Israelites that eighteenth year– that is, all the Israelites living east of the Jordan in Amorite country in Gilead.
11The LORD said to the Israelites,“Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,
12the Sidonians, Amalek, and Midian when they oppressed you? You cried out for help to me, and I delivered you from their power.
3The Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, because Sisera had nine hundred chariots with iron-rimmed wheels, and he cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.
9You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
26They judged the people under normal circumstances; the difficult cases they would bring to Moses, but every small case they would judge themselves.
22They will judge the people under normal circumstances, and every difficult case they will bring to you, but every small case they themselves will judge, so that you may make it easier for yourself, and they will bear the burden with you.
41They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the LORD, but he does not answer them.
16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”
19They cried out to the LORD in their distress; he delivered them from their troubles.
2Jephthah said to them,“My people and I were in a struggle and the Ammonites were oppressing me greatly. I asked for your help, but you did not deliver me from their power.
18That day the Israelites were defeated; the men of Judah prevailed because they relied on the LORD God of their ancestors.
25If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him then?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father. Indeed the LORD had decided to kill them.
4When the LORD’s angel finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.
13The LORD takes his position to judge; he stands up to pass sentence on his people.
18He said to the Israelites,“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said,‘I brought Israel up from Egypt and I delivered you from the power of the Egyptians and from the power of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.
7So we cried out to the LORD, the God of our ancestors, and he heard us and saw our humiliation, toil, and oppression.
18Provision for Justice You must appoint judges and civil servants for each tribe in all your villages that the LORD your God is giving you, and they must judge the people fairly.
18The LORD’s Response Then the LORD became zealous for his land; he had compassion on his people.
1Oppression and Confrontation The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight, so the LORD turned them over to Midian for seven years.
27The Israelites asked the LORD(for the ark of God’s covenant was there in those days;