INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_56","007_15_56","JOS","15","56","56","Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_57","007_15_57","JOS","15","57","57","Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah. There were ten towns altogether with their surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_58","007_15_58","JOS","15","58","58","The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns  in the central part of the hilly region: Halhul, Beth-Zur, Gedor, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_59","007_15_59","JOS","15","59","59","Maarath, Beth-Anoth, and Eltekon. There were six towns altogether with their surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_60","007_15_60","JOS","15","60","60","The tribe of Judah was also allotted two towns  in the northern part of the hilly region, Rabbah and Kiriath-Baal (which is also named Kiriath-Jearim). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_61","007_15_61","JOS","15","61","61","The tribe of Judah was also  allotted these towns in the desert  near the Dead Sea: Beth-Arabah, Middin, Secacah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_62","007_15_62","JOS","15","62","62","Nibshan, Salt city, and En-Gedi. There were six towns altogether with their surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS15_63","007_15_63","JOS","15","63","63"," The army of the tribe of Judah was not able to force the people of the Jebus people-group to leave Jerusalem. So the people of that group are still living among the tribe of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_1","007_16_1","JOS","16","1","1","The land that was allotted to  the two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh that were descended from Joseph started at the Jordan  River, east of the springs at Jericho. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_2","007_16_2","JOS","16","2","2","It extended west from Jericho to the hilly area near Bethel, which is also called Luz. It extended as far as Ataroth, at the border of the land where the Arki people-group lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_3","007_16_3","JOS","16","3","3","From there it extended west to the border of the land where the Japhleti people-group lived, and then it extended west to the area near Lower Beth-Horon. From there it extended west to Gezer  city and from there to the Mediterranean Sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_4","007_16_4","JOS","16","4","4","That is the land that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh were allotted. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_5","007_16_5","JOS","16","5","5","The border of the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim started at Ataroth-Addar  city in the east. It extended to Upper Beth-Horon ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_6","007_16_6","JOS","16","6","6","and from there to the Mediterranean Sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_7","007_16_7","JOS","16","7","7","From Michmethath  on the north it extended east to Taanath and from there on to Janoah. From there it extended  south to Ataroth  city and to Naarah  town. From there it extended to Jericho and from there to the Jordan  River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_8","007_16_8","JOS","16","8","8","The  northern border extended from Tappuah west to Kanah Ravine, and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. That was the land that was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_9","007_16_9","JOS","16","9","9","Many of those towns were really within the area allotted to the tribe of Manasseh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS16_10","007_16_10","JOS","16","10","10","The people of the tribe of Ephraim could not force the Canaan people-group to leave Gezer, so the Canaan people-group still live among the people of the tribe of Ephraim, but the Israelis forced the people of the Canaan people-group to become their slaves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_1","007_17_1","JOS","17","1","1"," This is a list of the land that was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh. Manasseh’s oldest son was Makir and his grandson was Gilead. Makir’s descendants were great warriors, so the lands in the Gilead and Bashan regions were allotted to their clan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_2","007_17_2","JOS","17","2","2","Land was also allotted to the other clans of the tribe of Manasseh: The clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_3","007_17_3","JOS","17","3","3","Hepher’s son Zelophehad had no sons, but he had five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_4","007_17_4","JOS","17","4","4","They went to Eleazar the Supreme Priest, and to Joshua and to the other Israeli leaders. They said, “ We want you to give us some land, because Yahweh told Moses that he should give to us some land, just like you gave to the men.” So Eleazar did what Yahweh had commanded, and he allotted to them some land, just like he allotted to their uncles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_5","007_17_5","JOS","17","5","5","So the tribe of Manasseh eventually had ten sections  of land west of the Jordan River and  two sections, Gilead and Bashan, on the east side of the Jordan  River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_6","007_17_6","JOS","17","6","6","So those female descendants of Manasseh also were allotted land  on the west side of the river just like the men were allotted. The other parts of the Gilead area were allotted to the male descendants of Manasseh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_7","007_17_7","JOS","17","7","7","The land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh was between the land where the tribe of Asher lives and Michmethath  town, near Shechem  city. The border extended south to the Tappuah Spring. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_8","007_17_8","JOS","17","8","8","The land near the Tappuah area belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah, which was at the border of the land that was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh, was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_9","007_17_9","JOS","17","9","9","The border  of the land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh extended south to Kanah Gorge. From there it extended  west along the north side of the gorge and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_10","007_17_10","JOS","17","10","10","The land on the south side of the gorge belonged to the tribe of Ephraim, and the land on the north side belonged to the tribe of Manasseh. The western border of the land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh was the Mediterranean Sea. To the north, the border of their land extended from the land allotted to the tribe of Asher  at the northwest to the land allotted to the tribe of Issachar  at the northeast. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_11","007_17_11","JOS","17","11","11","But there are cities inside the area allotted to the tribes of Issachar and Asher. Those cities, along with their surrounding villages, were allotted to people from the tribe of Manasseh. These cities are Beth-Shan, Ibleam, Dor (which is also named Naphoth-Dor,) Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_12","007_17_12","JOS","17","12","12","The men of the tribe of Manasseh were not able to force the people who lived in those cities to leave, so the people of the Canaan people-group continued to live in those cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_13","007_17_13","JOS","17","13","13","But  years later when the Israelis became better  warriors, they forced the Canaan people-group to work for them as slaves, although they did not force them to leave the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_14","007_17_14","JOS","17","14","14","The people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh said to Joshua, “You allotted to us only one area of land, but there are a lot of us. Yahweh has blessed us very much  with the result that our tribe has grown very large. So why did you give us only a small part of the land RHQ?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_15","007_17_15","JOS","17","15","15","Joshua replied to them, “ I agree that you do not have enough land in the hilly area of the tribe of Ephraim. So, since you have a lot of people, I will allot more land to you, in the hilly region. But you will have to  cut down the trees in the forest  and  make a place for yourselves in the land where the Periz and Repha people-groups live.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_16","007_17_16","JOS","17","16","16","The people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh replied, “It is true that the land in the hilly area is not big enough for us, but the Canaan people-group who live in the lowlands, in Beth-Shan and the surrounding villages in that area, and in the Jezreel Valley, have iron chariots,  so we will not be able to defeat them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_17","007_17_17","JOS","17","17","17","Joshua replied to them, “Your tribe is very numerous and very powerful. So I will allot more land for you in the hilly area, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS17_18","007_17_18","JOS","17","18","18","but you will have to cut down the trees in order to make a place for you to live.  It is true that the Canaan people-group are strong and have iron chariots, but you will be able to force them to leave that valley.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_1","007_18_1","JOS","18","1","2","The Israeli people captured all the land  that they were able to, but there were still seven tribes that had not been allotted any land. The Israeli people all gathered at Shiloh, and they set up the Sacred Tent there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_3","007_18_3","JOS","18","3","3","Joshua said to them, “Why are you waiting a long time to take control of  the rest of the land that Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors  worshiped, has promised to give to you RHQ? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_4","007_18_4","JOS","18","4","4","Choose three men from each of your seven tribes. Then I will send them to explore  the parts of the land  which you have not occupied yet. When they finish exploring it, they must write a report, in which they will ◄make a map/show the boundaries► of the land that each tribe wants to receive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_5","007_18_5","JOS","18","5","5","They will divide the remaining land into seven parts. The tribe of Judah will keep its land in the south, and the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will keep their land in the north. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_6","007_18_6","JOS","18","6","6","But in their report, the men from the seven tribes should describe the seven parts of the remaining land  that they wish to receive, and bring the report to me. While Yahweh is watching, I will ◄cast lots/throw marked stones►  to decide which land should be allotted to each tribe. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_7","007_18_7","JOS","18","7","7","But the tribe of Levi will not be allotted any land, because their  reward is that they will be Yahweh’s priests. The tribes of Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already been allotted their land on the east side of the Jordan  River, just as Moses, the man who served God  well, decided,  so they will not get any more land.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_8","007_18_8","JOS","18","8","8","When the men who were chosen  got ready to leave, Joshua told them, “Go and explore the land. Then write a report of what you have seen, and bring it back to me. Then while Yahweh is watching, I will ◄cast lots/throw marked stones► here at Shiloh,  to determine what area each tribe will receive.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_9","007_18_9","JOS","18","9","9","So the men left and walked through the area. Then they described in a scroll each town that was in the seven parts  into which they had divided the land. Then they returned to Joshua, who was still at Shiloh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_10","007_18_10","JOS","18","10","10"," After Joshua read their report, while Yahweh was watching, he ◄cast lots/threw marked stones► to choose which land would be allotted to each of the seven Israeli tribes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_11","007_18_11","JOS","18","11","11","The first tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Benjamin. Each clan in that tribe was allotted some of the land that was between the area that was allotted to the tribe of Judah and the area that was allotted to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_12","007_18_12","JOS","18","12","12","The northern border started at the Jordan  River and extended west along the northern side of Jericho, into the hilly area. From there the border extended west to the desert near Beth-Aven  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_13","007_18_13","JOS","18","13","13","From there it extended southwest to Luz (which is  now named Bethel). From there it extended southwest to Ataroth-Addar  town, which is on the hill south of Lower Beth-Horon  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_14","007_18_14","JOS","18","14","14","At the hill south of Beth-Horon, the border turned and extended south to Kiriath-Baal  town, which is  also named Kiriath-Jearim. That is a town where people of the tribe of Judah live. That was the western border of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_15","007_18_15","JOS","18","15","15","The southern border of their land started near Kiriath-Jearim and extended west to Nephtoah Springs. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_16","007_18_16","JOS","18","16","16","From there it extended south to the bottom of the hill, near Ben-Hinnom Valley, on the north side of Repha Valley. The border extended south along the Hinnom Valley, south of the city where the Jebus people-group lived, to En-Rogel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_17","007_18_17","JOS","18","17","17","From there the border extended west to En-Shemesh, and continued to Geliloth near Adummim Pass. Then it extended to the great stone of Reuben’s son Bohan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_18","007_18_18","JOS","18","18","18","From there the border extended to the northern edge of Beth-Arabah  town and down into the Jordan  River Valley. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_19","007_18_19","JOS","18","19","19","From there it extended east to the northern edge of Beth-Hoglah  town and ended at the north end of the Dead Sea, where the Jordan  River flows into the Dead Sea. That was the southern boundary  of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_20","007_18_20","JOS","18","20","20","The Jordan  River was the eastern boundary of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. Those were the boundaries of the land allotted to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_21","007_18_21","JOS","18","21","21","The cities in the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin were Jericho, Beth-Hoglah, Emek-Keziz, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_22","007_18_22","JOS","18","22","22","Beth-Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_23","007_18_23","JOS","18","23","23","Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_24","007_18_24","JOS","18","24","24","Kephar-Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba. Altogether there were fourteen towns and the surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_25","007_18_25","JOS","18","25","25","The tribe of Benjamin also had the towns of Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_26","007_18_26","JOS","18","26","26","Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_27","007_18_27","JOS","18","27","27","Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS18_28","007_18_28","JOS","18","28","28","Zelah, Haeleph, the city where the Jebus people-group lived (which is  now named Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath. Altogether there were 14 towns and the surrounding villages. All that area was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_1","007_19_1","JOS","19","1","1","The second/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Simeon. Each clan in that tribe was allotted some land that was inside the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_2","007_19_2","JOS","19","2","2","Their land included the towns of Beersheba ( which is also named Sheba), Moladah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_3","007_19_3","JOS","19","3","3","Hazar-Shual, Balah, Ezem, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_4","007_19_4","JOS","19","4","4","Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_5","007_19_5","JOS","19","5","5","Ziklag, Beth-Marcaboth. Hazar-Susah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_6","007_19_6","JOS","19","6","6","Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen. Altogether there were 13 towns and the surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_7","007_19_7","JOS","19","7","7","The land allotted to them also included the four cities of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, and their surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_8","007_19_8","JOS","19","8","8","They were also allotted some very small villages in an area that extended south to Baalath-Beer (which is  also named Ramah, in the southern desert). That was the land allotted to the clans of the tribe of Simeon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_9","007_19_9","JOS","19","9","9","The tribe of Judah had been allotted much more land than they needed, so part of their land was given to the tribe of Simeon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_10","007_19_10","JOS","19","10","10","The third/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Zebulun. Each clan of that tribe was allotted some of the land. The southern border started at Sarid  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_11","007_19_11","JOS","19","11","11","It extended west to Maralah  city and on to Dabbesheth  city, and on to the brook just north of Jokneam  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_12","007_19_12","JOS","19","12","12","The border extended east from Sarid to the area near Kisloth-Tabor  city and on to Daberath  town and on to Japhia  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_13","007_19_13","JOS","19","13","13","From there it extended east to Gath-Hepher  city and Eth-Kazin  town, and north to Rimmon  city. From there the border extended  west to Neah  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_14","007_19_14","JOS","19","14","14","From Neah it extended south to Hannathon  city and from there to Iphtah-El Valley. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_15","007_19_15","JOS","19","15","15","Their area included the towns of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. Altogether there were twelve towns and the surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_16","007_19_16","JOS","19","16","16","That was the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_17","007_19_17","JOS","19","17","17","The fourth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Issachar. Each of the clans of that tribe was allotted some of the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_18","007_19_18","JOS","19","18","18","Their land included the cities of Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_19","007_19_19","JOS","19","19","19","Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_20","007_19_20","JOS","19","20","20","Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_21","007_19_21","JOS","19","21","21","Remeth, En-Gannim, En-Haddah, and Beth-Pazzez. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_22","007_19_22","JOS","19","22","22","The border of the area that was allotted to the tribe of Issachar was close to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-Shemesh  cities, and ended  in the east at the Jordan  River. Altogether there were 16 cities and the surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_23","007_19_23","JOS","19","23","23","Those cities and villages were in the land allotted to the clans of the tribe of Issachar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_24","007_19_24","JOS","19","24","24","The fifth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Asher. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_25","007_19_25","JOS","19","25","25","Their land included the towns of Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_26","007_19_26","JOS","19","26","26","Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border started at Carmel  Mountain and Shihor-Libnath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_27","007_19_27","JOS","19","27","27","From there it extended  southeast to Beth-Dagon  town, and then to  the area that was allotted to the tribe of Zebulun and Iphtah-El Valley. From there the border extended east and then north to Beth-Emek  town and Neiel and Cabul  towns. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_28","007_19_28","JOS","19","28","28","From there it extended west to Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah  cities, and continued to Sidon, which is a big city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_29","007_19_29","JOS","19","29","29","From there the border extended south toward Ramah and to the big city of Tyre that had strong walls around it. From there the border extended  west to Hosah  town and ended at the Mediterranean Sea. Within their area were the towns of Aczib, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_30","007_19_30","JOS","19","30","30","Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. Altogether there were 22 towns and their surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_31","007_19_31","JOS","19","31","31","Those cities and villages were within the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Asher. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_32","007_19_32","JOS","19","32","32","The sixth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Naphtali. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_33","007_19_33","JOS","19","33","33","The border of their land started  in the west at the  huge oak tree at Zaanannim, near Heleph  town. It extended  east through Adami-Nekeb  city and Jabneel, and then to Lakkum, and ended at the Jordan  River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_34","007_19_34","JOS","19","34","34","The western boundary extended through Aznoth-Tabor as far as Hukkok  city. It extended to the borders of  the tribe of Zebulun at the south, to  the border of the tribe of Asher on the west, and the Jordan  River at the east. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_35","007_19_35","JOS","19","35","35"," Within their land were several cities with strong walls around them. They were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_36","007_19_36","JOS","19","36","36","Adamah, Ramah, Hazor, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_37","007_19_37","JOS","19","37","37","Kedesh, Edrei, En-Hazor, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_38","007_19_38","JOS","19","38","38","Iron, Migdal-El, Horem, Beth-Anath, and Beth-Shemesh. Altogether there were 19 cities and the surrounding villages. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_39","007_19_39","JOS","19","39","39","Those cities and surrounding villages were in the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Naphtali. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_40","007_19_40","JOS","19","40","40","The seventh/last tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Dan. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_41","007_19_41","JOS","19","41","41","Their land included the towns of Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-Shemesh, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_42","007_19_42","JOS","19","42","42","Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_43","007_19_43","JOS","19","43","43","Elon, Timnah, Ekron, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_44","007_19_44","JOS","19","44","44","Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_45","007_19_45","JOS","19","45","45","Jehud, Bene-Berak, Gath-Rimmon, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_46","007_19_46","JOS","19","46","46","Me-Jarkon, Rakkon, and the area near Joppa. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_47","007_19_47","JOS","19","47","47","But the people of the tribe of Dan were unable to take control of the land that had been allotted to them. So they went northeast and fought against the people in Leshem  city. They defeated and killed all the people who lived there. Then they began to live in Leshem, and changed the name of the city to Dan, the man from whom their tribe descended. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_48","007_19_48","JOS","19","48","48","All of those towns and surrounding villages were in the land that was allotted to the clans in the tribe of Dan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_49","007_19_49","JOS","19","49","49","After the Israeli leaders divided the land among the tribes, they allotted some land to Joshua. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_50","007_19_50","JOS","19","50","50","They allotted to him Timnath-Serah. Yahweh had said that he could have whatever city he wanted, and that was the city that he chose. It was in the hilly region which was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. Joshua rebuilt the city and lived there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS19_51","007_19_51","JOS","19","51","51","Those were the areas that were allotted to the various tribes of Israel. Eleazar the Supreme Priest and Joshua and the leaders of each tribe divided up the land while they were all at Shiloh, by ◄casting lots/throwing marked stones►  to decide which area each tribe would receive. They did that while Yahweh was watching, at the entrance of the Sacred Tent. In that way they completed dividing up the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_1","007_20_1","JOS","20","1","1","Then Yahweh said to Joshua, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_2","007_20_2","JOS","20","2","2","“Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people  can run in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that they should do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_3","007_20_3","JOS","20","3","3","If someone kills another person accidentally, not intending to kill that person, the one who killed that person may run/escape to one of these cities and be safe/protected from someone trying to get revenge for that person’s death MTY. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_4","007_20_4","JOS","20","4","4","When the one who killed someone arrives at the gate of one of those cities, he must stop there and tell the leaders of the city what happened.  If they believe him, they must allow him to enter the city, and they must give him a place to live among them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_5","007_20_5","JOS","20","5","5","If some relative of the one who was killed comes to that city to get revenge, the leaders of that city must not allow the relative to take the killer, because what happened was accidental. He did not hate that person and as a result deliberately kill him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_6","007_20_6","JOS","20","6","6","But the person who killed someone must stay in that city until the city judges put him on trial.  Only if the judges decide that the person who has run/escaped to their city did not deliberately kill the other person will they allow him to stay in that city, and he must stay there until the Supreme Priest dies. Then he may safely go back to his own town,  because the death of the Supreme Priest will be considered to atone/pay for the death of the person who was killed.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_7","007_20_7","JOS","20","7","7","So the Israelis chose these cities to be cities to which people could run to be safe/protected: Kedesh in the Galilee district in the hilly area where the tribe of Naphtali lived; Shechem in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived; Kiriath-Arba (which is  now named Hebron) in the hilly area where the tribe of Judah lived; ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_8","007_20_8","JOS","20","8","8","Bezer, on the east side of the Jordan  River near Jericho, in the flat land in the desert where the tribe of Reuben lived; Ramoth in the Gilead  region in the land where the tribe of Gad lived; and Golan in the Bashan region where the tribe of Manasseh lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS20_9","007_20_9","JOS","20","9","9","Any Israeli or any foreigner who lived among us, anyone who killed someone ◄accidentally/without planning to do it►, was allowed to run to one of those cities, and be safe/protected from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until there was a trial there  to decide whether he was telling the truth or not when he said that he did not plan to kill that person. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_1","007_21_1","JOS","21","1","2","While Eleazar the Supreme Priest and Joshua and the leaders of all the Israeli tribes were at Shiloh, the leaders of the clans of the tribe of Levi went to them and said, “Yahweh commanded Moses that you should give us towns where we can have pasture/fields/grassland for our animals,  but you have not done these things yet.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_3","007_21_3","JOS","21","3","3","So the Israeli leaders obeyed this command from Yahweh. They agreed to give towns and pasturelands to the tribe of Levi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_4","007_21_4","JOS","21","4","4"," First they allotted some cities to the Kohath clans, who belonged to the tribe of Levi. To those who were descendants of the first Supreme Priest Aaron, they allotted 13 towns in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_5","007_21_5","JOS","21","5","5","To the other members of the Kohath clan they allotted ten cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the part of the tribe of Manasseh  that lives on the west side of the Jordan River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_6","007_21_6","JOS","21","6","6","The people from the Gershon clans were allotted 13 cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the part of the tribe of Manasseh that lives on the east side of the Jordan  River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_7","007_21_7","JOS","21","7","7","The people from the Merari clans were allotted twelve cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_8","007_21_8","JOS","21","8","8","So the Israeli leaders gave cities and pastureland to the tribe of Levi, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses that they should do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_9","007_21_9","JOS","21","9","9","These are the names of the cities and surrounding pasturelands that were allotted to them, that were in the areas where the tribes of Judah and Simeon lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_10","007_21_10","JOS","21","10","10","First, they allotted cities to the members of the Kohath clans. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_11","007_21_11","JOS","21","11","11","They allotted to them Kiriath-Arba (which is  now named Hebron), in the hilly area of Judah. Arba received its name because Arba was the ancestor of  the giants of the Anak people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_12","007_21_12","JOS","21","12","12","But the fields and villages surrounding Arba had already been allotted to Caleb. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_13","007_21_13","JOS","21","13","13","They allotted to them Hebron, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected. They also allotted to the Kohath clan the cities of Libnah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_14","007_21_14","JOS","21","14","14","Jattir, Eshtemoa, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_15","007_21_15","JOS","21","15","15","Holon, Debir, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_16","007_21_16","JOS","21","16","16","Ain, Juttah, and Beth-Shemesh. Altogether they were allotted those nine cities which were located in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Judah and Simeon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_17","007_21_17","JOS","21","17","17","The Kohath clan was also allotted these four cities: Gibeon, Geba, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_18","007_21_18","JOS","21","18","18","Anathoth, and Almon. Those cities were in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_19","007_21_19","JOS","21","19","19","Altogether those 13 towns and surrounding pastureland were allotted to the priests who were descended from Aaron. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_20","007_21_20","JOS","21","20","20","The other members the Kohath clan were allotted four cities and the surrounding pastureland in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_21","007_21_21","JOS","21","21","21","Those cities were Shechem (which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected), Gezer, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_22","007_21_22","JOS","21","22","22","Kibzaim, and Beth-Horon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_23","007_21_23","JOS","21","23","23","They were also allotted four cities and surrounding pastureland in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Dan. Those cities were Eltekeh, Gibbethon, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_24","007_21_24","JOS","21","24","24","Aijalon, and Gath-Rimmon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_25","007_21_25","JOS","21","25","25","They were also allotted two towns and surrounding pastureland that had been allotted to  the  part of the tribe of Manasseh  that lived on the west side of the Jordan River. Those cities were Taanach and Gath-Rimmon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_26","007_21_26","JOS","21","26","26","Those were the ten cities and surrounding pastureland that were allotted to the other members of the Kohath clan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_27","007_21_27","JOS","21","27","27","They also allotted towns and the surrounding pastureland to the Gershon clans. Those clans were also descended from Levi. They were allotted two cities from the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Manasseh  that is on the east side of the Jordan River. Those cities were Golan in the Bashan region, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected, and Be-Eshtarah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_28","007_21_28","JOS","21","28","28","From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Issachar they were allotted four cities. Those cities were Kishion, Daberath, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_29","007_21_29","JOS","21","29","29","Jarmuth, and En-Gannim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_30","007_21_30","JOS","21","30","30","From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Asher they were allotted four cities. Those cities were Mishal, Abdon, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_31","007_21_31","JOS","21","31","31","Helkath, and Rehob. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_32","007_21_32","JOS","21","32","32","From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Naphtali they were allotted three cities. Those cities were Kedesh in the Galilee region (it was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected), Hammoth-Dor, and Kartan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_33","007_21_33","JOS","21","33","33","So altogether the Gershon clans were allotted 13 cities and the surrounding pasturelands. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_34","007_21_34","JOS","21","34","34","The other descendants of Levi, the ones who belonged to the Merari clans, were also allotted towns and their surrounding pasturelands. From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Zebulun they were allotted four cities. They were Jokneam, Kartah, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_35","007_21_35","JOS","21","35","35","Dimnah, and Nahalal. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_36","007_21_36","JOS","21","36","36","From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Reuben they were allotted four cities. They were Bezer, Jahaz, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_37","007_21_37","JOS","21","37","37","Kedemoth, and Mephaath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_38","007_21_38","JOS","21","38","38","From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Gad they were allotted four cities. They were Ramoth, which was one of the cities in the Gilead region to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected, Mahanaim, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_39","007_21_39","JOS","21","39","39","Heshbon, and Jazer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_40","007_21_40","JOS","21","40","40","Altogether twelve cities were allotted to the Merari clans. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_41","007_21_41","JOS","21","41","41","So altogether 48 cities were allotted to the tribe of Levi, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_42","007_21_42","JOS","21","42","42","and each city had surrounding pastureland. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_43","007_21_43","JOS","21","43","43","In that way Yahweh allotted to the Israeli people all the land that he had promised to give to their/our ancestors. The Israeli people took control of  most of those areas and started to live there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_44","007_21_44","JOS","21","44","44","Just like he had promised our ancestors, Yahweh allowed them/us to have peace with the enemies that surrounded them/us. Yahweh enabled the Israelis/us to defeat their/our enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS21_45","007_21_45","JOS","21","45","45","Yahweh did all the things that he had promised to the Israeli people/us. Everything that he said would happen did happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_1","007_22_1","JOS","22","1","1","Joshua then summoned the leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_2","007_22_2","JOS","22","2","2","He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses, who served Yahweh  well, told you to do. You have also done what I told you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_3","007_22_3","JOS","22","3","3","For a long time you have helped the other tribes  to defeat their enemies. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God commanded you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_4","007_22_4","JOS","22","4","4","He promised to give peace to us Israelis, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan  River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_5","007_22_5","JOS","22","5","5","Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to obey his commands, and to continue to worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_6","007_22_6","JOS","22","6","6","Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them, and they  prepared to leave and return to their homes  on the east side of the Jordan River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_7","007_22_7","JOS","22","7","7","Moses had given the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh, and land on the west side of the Jordan  River to the other half of the tribe. Before they left, he  asked God to bless them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_8","007_22_8","JOS","22","8","8","He said, “Go back to your homes and to all the things that you have taken from your enemies—the many animals and silver and gold and  things made of bronze and iron, and many beautiful clothes. But you should share some of those things with other people of your tribe.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_9","007_22_9","JOS","22","9","9","So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelis at Shiloh in Canaan land, to return to their homes in the Gilead region. That was the area that belonged to them. It had been allotted to them by Moses as Yahweh had commanded. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_10","007_22_10","JOS","22","10","10","The people from those three tribes arrived near the western side of the Jordan River, at a town called Geliloth. There they built a large altar.  Then they crossed the Jordan River to the Gilead region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_11","007_22_11","JOS","22","11","11","But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_12","007_22_12","JOS","22","12","12","They became very angry with the men of those tribes, so they decided to fight them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_13","007_22_13","JOS","22","13","13","The Israelis sent Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar the Supreme Priest, to  talk with the people of those three tribes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_14","007_22_14","JOS","22","14","14","They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes that were still at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his clan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_15","007_22_15","JOS","22","15","15","Those leaders went to the Gilead region to talk to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. They said, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_16","007_22_16","JOS","22","16","16","“All the other Israelis are asking, ‘Why have you rebelled against the God whom we Israelis  worship by building an altar for yourselves? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_17","007_22_17","JOS","22","17","17","Have you forgotten what happened at Peor,  when some Israelis sinned by worshiping the god that the Moab people-group worship? Many Israelis became very sick and died because of that sin, and we are still suffering because of their sin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_18","007_22_18","JOS","22","18","18","Are you now turning away from obeying Yahweh and refusing to do what he wants? If you do not stop rebelling against Yahweh today, he will be angry with all of us Israelis tomorrow.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_19","007_22_19","JOS","22","19","19","“f  you think that Yahweh considers that your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh’s Sacred Tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh and against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_20","007_22_20","JOS","22","20","20","Do you remember what happened when Zerah’s son Achan refused to obey  Yahweh’s command to destroy everything in Jericho? That one man disobeyed God’s command, but many HYP other Israelis were punished. Achan died because of his sin, but other Israelis also died.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_21","007_22_21","JOS","22","21","21","The  leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh replied, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_22","007_22_22","JOS","22","22","22","“Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows  why we did that, and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong  against Yahweh, you may kill us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_23","007_22_23","JOS","22","23","23","If we have disobeyed one of Yahweh’s laws, we request that he should punish us. We did not build that new altar to completely burn animals as sacrifices to Yahweh, or to offer on it sacrifices of grain or sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_24","007_22_24","JOS","22","24","24","“his is the reason that we built that altar: We were afraid/worried that some day your descendants would say that our descendants are not true Israelis. We were afraid that then they would say, ‘You are not allowed to worship Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  worship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_25","007_22_25","JOS","22","25","25","Yahweh caused the Jordan River to be a boundary between us and you people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. So you are not allowed to worship Yahweh.’ We were worried that your descendants would force our descendants to stop worshiping Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_26","007_22_26","JOS","22","26","26","“hat is the reason that we decided to build that  new altar. But it is not an altar for completely burning sacrifices of animals and  burning other sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_27","007_22_27","JOS","22","27","27","We built that new altar to prove/show to you and to us and to all of our descendants that we worship Yahweh by completely burning animal sacrifices and offerings of grain and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh  only at the place Yahweh chooses. We do not want your descendants to say to our descendants, ‘You do not belong to Yahweh.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_28","007_22_28","JOS","22","28","28","“n the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, ‘Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh’s altar  that our ancestors built, but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It only shows that we are Israelis!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_29","007_22_29","JOS","22","29","29","We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires, by building an altar for completely burning some sacrifices and burning grain offerings and making  other sacrifices.  We know that there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God, and it is in front of the Sacred Tent  at Shiloh.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_30","007_22_30","JOS","22","30","30","When Phinehas the priest and the other  ten leaders heard what they said, they were pleased. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_31","007_22_31","JOS","22","31","31","So Phinehas said to them, “Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelis, and that you were not rebelling against him  when you built that altar. And we know that Yahweh will not punish us Israelis  because of your having done that.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_32","007_22_32","JOS","22","32","32","Then Phinehas and the Israeli leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the Gilead region, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelis what had happened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_33","007_22_33","JOS","22","33","33","They were pleased, and they thanked God. And they did not talk anymore about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS22_34","007_22_34","JOS","22","34","34","The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar ‘A reminder to us all that Yahweh is God’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_1","007_23_1","JOS","23","1","1","Yahweh enabled the Israelis to live peacefully  for many years with the people-groups that were around them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_2","007_23_2","JOS","23","2","2","Joshua was now very old.  One day he summoned the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the leaders of the clans, the judges, and  other officials. He said to them, “I am now very old. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_3","007_23_3","JOS","23","3","3","You people have seen what Yahweh our God has done to help you defeat the people-groups  that lived in this land. Yahweh our God has fought for you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_4","007_23_4","JOS","23","4","4","But do not forget that he has given to you all this land, from the Jordan  River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, all this land that I have allotted to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_5","007_23_5","JOS","23","5","5","Yahweh our God will compel the people who are still living there to leave. He will push them out as you advance. Then the land will be yours, as Yahweh has promised you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_6","007_23_6","JOS","23","6","6","“e sure that you obey all the laws that are in the book that Moses wrote. Do not disobey any part of it IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_7","007_23_7","JOS","23","7","7","Do not associate with the people who live among us  who are not Israelis and who worship other gods. Do not mention the names of their gods, and do not use the names of their gods when you promise to do something. Do not serve their gods or worship them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_8","007_23_8","JOS","23","8","8","You must continue to do what Yahweh our God wants us to do, as you have been doing. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_9","007_23_9","JOS","23","9","9","“ahweh has forced  many very powerful people-groups to leave as you advanced. No people-group has been able to defeat you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_10","007_23_10","JOS","23","10","10","Each of you will be able to cause 1,000 of them to run away, because Yahweh your God will fight for you, just like he promised to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_11","007_23_11","JOS","23","11","11","So be sure that you continue to love Yahweh our God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_12","007_23_12","JOS","23","12","12","“f you turn away from doing what Yahweh desires and you associate with the people who are not Israelis, and if you marry them, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_13","007_23_13","JOS","23","13","13","then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you to expel those people-groups from your land. They will be  like traps DOU, MET  that will catch you. They will be  like whips  that strike your backs, and like thorns  that will scratch your eyes. As a result, none of you will be left in this good land that Yahweh our God is giving to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_14","007_23_14","JOS","23","14","14","“t is almost time for me to die, like everyone does EUP. You know in your hearts DOU that Yahweh has done for you LIT everything that he promised to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_15","007_23_15","JOS","23","15","15","He has given to you all the good things that he promised. In the same way, the other things that he promised,  things that are not good, will also happen. He said that if you do what is evil, he will get rid of you and send you away from this good land that he has given to you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS23_16","007_23_16","JOS","23","16","16","That will happen if you do not obey the commands that Yahweh our God told you to obey. If you serve other gods and worship them, Yahweh will become very angry with you. Very quickly  he will expel you from this good land that he has given to you,  and none of you will be left here.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_1","007_24_1","JOS","24","1","1"," Many years later, Joshua summoned representatives of all the tribes of Israel. He gathered together the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the other officials at Shechem  city. He told them to listen to what God wanted to tell them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_2","007_24_2","JOS","24","2","2","Joshua said to all of them, “This is what Yahweh, the God we Israeli people worship, is saying: ‘Long ago, your ancestors, including Abraham’s father Terah and Abraham’s younger brother Nahor, lived on the east side of the Euphrates River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_3","007_24_3","JOS","24","3","3","But I took your ancestor Abraham from that land east of the Euphrates River, and I led him as he lived in various places in this land of Canaan, and I enabled him to have many descendants. First, I enabled him to have a son, Isaac. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_4","007_24_4","JOS","24","4","4","When Isaac grew up, I enabled him to have twin sons, Jacob and Esau. I enabled Esau to live in the hilly area in Seir region, but many years later Jacob and his sons and their families went down to live in Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_5","007_24_5","JOS","24","5","5","“ Many years later, I sent Moses and his older brother Aaron to help your peoeple, and I caused  the people of Egypt to suffer very much because of what I did there. Then I enabled your ancestors to leave Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_6","007_24_6","JOS","24","6","6","When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the Red Sea. The Egyptian army pursued them, some riding in chariots and others on horses, and they also arrived at the Red Sea. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_7","007_24_7","JOS","24","7","7","Then  your ancestors pleaded with me to help them. So he caused ◄darkness/a very dark cloud► to come between your ancestors and the Egyptian army, so that the Egyptian army could not see your ancestors. I separated the water in the Red Sea so that your ancestors could cross it, but when the Egyptian army tried to cross in the same way to pursue them, I caused the water to come back and cover them, and the Egyptian soldiers all drowned, as your ancestors watched and were amazed IDM. But after that, you lived in the desert for many years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_8","007_24_8","JOS","24","8","8","“Then I brought your  ancestors to the area where the groups who were descendants of Amor lived, east of the Jordan River. They fought against you, but I enabled you to defeat them IDM. I  enabled you to destroy them so that you could live in their land IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_9","007_24_9","JOS","24","9","9","Then, Zippor’s son Balak, the King of Moab, ◄decided that his army would fight against/opposed► the Israelis. He summoned Beor’s son Balaam and asked him to curse you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_10","007_24_10","JOS","24","10","10","But I would not do what Balaam asked, so he ◄blessed/said that I would do great things for► you four times, and I did not enable the army of Moab to defeat you IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_11","007_24_11","JOS","24","11","11","“Then you all crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho prepared to fight against you,  and the armies of the descendants of Amor, Periz, Canaan, Heth, Girgash, Hiv, and Jebus  all prepared to do the same thing but I enabled you to defeat IDM them all. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_12","007_24_12","JOS","24","12","12","I am the one who caused them to panic as you advanced and enabled you to defeat them, as I had enabled you to do earlier to the two kings of the groups who were descendants of Amor. You did not defeat them by using your own bows and arrows and swords;  it was I who defeated them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_13","007_24_13","JOS","24","13","13","So I gave you a land that you had not tilled/planted, and I gave you cities that you did not build.  Now you live in those  cities and you eat the grapes from the grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_14","007_24_14","JOS","24","14","14"," Then Joshua said to the people, “ Because of all that Yahweh  has done for you, revere him, and serve/worship him very faithfully. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped on the east/other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve only Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_15","007_24_15","JOS","24","15","15","But if you do not want to serve/worship Yahweh, you should decide today what  gods you will serve/worship. You should decide whether you will serve/worship the gods that your ancestors who lived on the other/east side of the Euphrates River served, or whether you will serve/worship the gods that the descendants of Amor, who previously lived in the land where you are now living,  serve/worship. But as for me and my family MTY, we will serve/worship Yahweh!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_16","007_24_16","JOS","24","16","16","The Israeli people answered, “We will never quit  serving/worshiping Yahweh! We would never  think of IDM serving/worshiping other gods! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_17","007_24_17","JOS","24","17","17","It was our God, Yahweh, who brought our parents and grandparents up out of Egypt.  He rescued them from that land where they were slaves. As he rescued them, they saw him perform great miracles. He protected them all the time when they were traveling. He protected them from all the people-groups through whose territory they traveled. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_18","007_24_18","JOS","24","18","18","As our forefathers advanced, Yahweh expelled the descendants of Amor and the other people-groups who lived in this land. Yahweh is our God, so  we are saying that we also will serve/worship him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_19","007_24_19","JOS","24","19","19","Joshua replied to the people, “ I think that you are not able to serve/worship Yahweh, because he is a holy God. He will not forgive your sinning and rebelling  against him. He demands that you serve/worship only him IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_20","007_24_20","JOS","24","20","20","He has been good to you  in the past, but if you turn away from him and serve/worship foreign/other gods, he will turn  against you and he will cause you to experience disasters. He will punish IDM you severely!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_21","007_24_21","JOS","24","21","21","But the people replied to Joshua, “No,  we will not turn away from worshiping/serving Yahweh We will serve/worship Yahweh!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_22","007_24_22","JOS","24","22","22","Then Joshua said, “You yourselves are saying that you have decided to serve/worship Yahweh.” They replied, “Yes, we are saying that.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_23","007_24_23","JOS","24","23","23","Then Joshua said, “Since  you have decided that, you must throw away all the other gods/idols that you have among you. You must also promise that you will wholeheartedly give yourselves to Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  serve/worship.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_24","007_24_24","JOS","24","24","24","The people replied, “We will serve/worship Yahweh, our God, and obey him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_25","007_24_25","JOS","24","25","25","That day, Joshua established an agreement between the people and Yahweh. He wrote for them all the laws that they were required to obey. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_26","007_24_26","JOS","24","26","26","He wrote all those laws on a scroll. He called it ‘The laws of God’. Then he  told some men to set up a large stone there at Shechem, under the  large oak tree near the place where  they worshiped Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_27","007_24_27","JOS","24","27","27","He said to all the people, “Look!  It is as though this stone has heard everything that Yahweh said to you  and that you promised Yahweh. It will serve as a witness against you if you rebel against your God!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_28","007_24_28","JOS","24","28","28","Then Joshua sent the people away, and all of them returned to their own areas/homes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_29","007_24_29","JOS","24","29","29","Some time after that, Nun’s son Joshua, the faithful servant of Yahweh, died. He was 110 years old when he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_30","007_24_30","JOS","24","30","30","The Israeli people buried his body on his own property in Timnath-Serah  town town. It is north of Gaash Mountain in the hilly area of the tribe who were descendants of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_31","007_24_31","JOS","24","31","31","The Israeli people served/worshiped Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive. After Joshua died, they continued serving/worshiping Yahweh while the elders who had experienced everything that Yahweh had done for the Israeli people were still alive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_32","007_24_32","JOS","24","32","32","Joseph’s bones, which the Israeli people had brought with them from Egypt, were also buried at Shechem. The people buried them in the piece of land that Jacob had bought long ago for 100 pieces of silver from Hamor, the father of Shechem. That piece of land was in the area that was given to the people who were descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s sons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JS24_33","007_24_33","JOS","24","33","33","Eleazar, the Supreme Priest, the son of Aaron, also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, in the area that had been given to Eleazar’s son Phinehas, in the hilly area that belonged to the people who were descendants of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_1","008_1_1","JDG","1","1","1","After Joshua died, the Israeli people asked Yahweh, “Which  of our tribes should attack the Canaan people-group first?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_2","008_1_2","JDG","1","2","2","Yahweh replied, “I will enable the tribe of Judah to defeat IDM the Canaan people-group.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_3","008_1_3","JDG","1","3","3","The men of Judah went to their fellow Israelis,  the men from the tribe of Simeon, and said to them, “Come and help us to fight the Canaan people-group  in order that we can take from them the land  that Yahweh allotted to us. If you do that, we will go with you  and help you conquer the people in the land  that Yahweh promised to give to you.” So the men from the tribe of Simeon went with the men of the tribe of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_4","008_1_4","JDG","1","4","4","When the men of those two tribes attacked, Yahweh enabled them to defeat 10,000 men of the Canaan people-group and the Periz people-group DOU at Bezek  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_5","008_1_5","JDG","1","5","5","During the battle they found Adoni-Bezek, the leader of the city, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_6","008_1_6","JDG","1","6","6","but he  tried to run away. The Israelis pursued him and caught him. Then they cut off his thumbs and his big toes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_7","008_1_7","JDG","1","7","7","Adoni-Bezek said, “ My army captured 70 kings. We cut off their thumbs and big toes. After that,  we forced those kings to eat scraps that fell from our table. Now God has ◄paid me back for/done to me like►  what we did to them.” Then the men of Judah took Adoni-Bezek to Jerusalem, and he died there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_8","008_1_8","JDG","1","8","8","The army of Judah fought against the men of Jerusalem, and they captured the city. With their swords they killed  the people who lived there and they burned  the houses in the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_9","008_1_9","JDG","1","9","9","Later, the men of Judah went down to fight the Canaan people-group who lived in the hilly area, in the desert to the south, and in the foothills  to the west. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_10","008_1_10","JDG","1","10","10","The men of Judah also went to fight against the Canaan people-group who lived in Hebron  city, which at that time was named Kiriath-Arba. They defeated  the armies of kings Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_11","008_1_11","JDG","1","11","11","Then they left that area and went to fight against the people living in Debir  city, which was previously named Kiriath-Sepher. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_12","008_1_12","JDG","1","12","12"," Before they attacked the city, Caleb said to them, “If one of you attacks and captures Kiriath-Sepher, I will allow him to marry my daughter.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_13","008_1_13","JDG","1","13","13","Othniel, who was the son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz, captured the city. So Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him, to become his wife. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_14","008_1_14","JDG","1","14","14","When Acsah married Othniel, she told him to ask her father to give him a field.  But she decided to ask him herself. She rode to Caleb’s house on her donkey, and when she got off the donkey, Caleb  could see that something was troubling her. So he asked her, “What do you want?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_15","008_1_15","JDG","1","15","15","She replied, “I want you to do a favor for me. You have given me some land in the southern desert,  but it is very dry there. So please also give me some  land that has springs of water.” So Caleb gave her some land on higher ground that had a spring, and some land on lower ground that also had a spring. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_16","008_1_16","JDG","1","16","16","The people of the Ken people-group who were descendants of Moses’ father-in-law left Jericho, which was called ‘The City of Palm Trees’. They went with some of the men of Judah to live with them in the southern desert area, near Arad  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_17","008_1_17","JDG","1","17","17","The men of Judah and their fellow Israelis from the tribe of Simeon defeated the people of the Canaan people-group who lived in Zephath  city. They completely destroyed the city and gave it a new name, Hormah,  which means ‘complete destruction’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_18","008_1_18","JDG","1","18","18","The men of Judah also captured Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron  cities and all the land that is near those cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_19","008_1_19","JDG","1","19","19","Yahweh helped the men of Judah to capture the hilly area, but they could not force the people who were living in the plains to leave, because  those people had better weapons—they had iron chariots. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_20","008_1_20","JDG","1","20","20","Hebron  city was given to Caleb because Moses had promised him that he could have that city. And Caleb forced the three clans descended from Anak to leave that area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_21","008_1_21","JDG","1","21","21","But the people of the tribe of Benjamin could not force the people of the Jebus people-group to leave Jerusalem. So, since that time the people of the Jebus people-group have lived in Jerusalem with the people of the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_22","008_1_22","JDG","1","22","22","The men of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh went to fight against  the men of Bethel  city, and Yahweh helped them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_23","008_1_23","JDG","1","23","23","They sent some spies to  find out everything that they could find out about Bethel, which was previously called Luz. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_24","008_1_24","JDG","1","24","24","The spies saw a man who was coming out of the city. They said to him, “If you show us a way to get into the city, we will be kind to you  and we will not kill you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_25","008_1_25","JDG","1","25","25","So the man showed them a way to enter the city. The men of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh entered the city and killed all the people with their swords, but they did not kill the man  who showed them how to get into the city, and they did not kill his family. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_26","008_1_26","JDG","1","26","26","That man went to the area where the descendants of Heth lived, and built a city. He named the city Luz, and that is still the name of that city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_27","008_1_27","JDG","1","27","27","There were people of the Canaan people-group who lived in Beth-Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, and Megiddo  cities and in the surrounding villages.  The men of the tribe of Manasseh did not force those people to leave those towns, because the people of the Canaan people-group were determined to stay there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_28","008_1_28","JDG","1","28","28","Later, the Israelis became ◄stronger/more numerous►, and they forced the people of the Canaan people-group to work for them  as their slaves, but they did not force all the people of the Canaan people-group to leave their land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_29","008_1_29","JDG","1","29","29"," The men of the tribe of Ephraim did not force the people of the Canaan people-group to leave Gezer  city. So the people of the Canaan people-group continued to live with the people of the tribe of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_30","008_1_30","JDG","1","30","30"," The men of the tribe of Zebulun did nor compel the people of the Canaan people-group who were living in Kitron and Nahalol  cities to leave. They stayed there and lived among the people of the tribe of Zebulun, but the people of Zebulun forced them to work for them as their slaves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_31","008_1_31","JDG","1","31","31"," The men of the tribe of Asher did not force the people of the Canaan people-group who lived in Acco, Sidon, Ahlab, Aczib, Helbah, Aphek and Rehob  cities to leave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_32","008_1_32","JDG","1","32","32","So the people of the tribe of Asher lived among them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_33","008_1_33","JDG","1","33","33"," The men of the tribe of Naphtali did not compel the people who lived in Beth-Shemesh and Beth-Anath  cities to leave, so the people in those two ciities continued to live there, but the people of the Canaan people-group were forced to work as the slaves of the people of the tribe of Naphtali. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_34","008_1_34","JDG","1","34","34","The people of the Amor people-group forced the people of the tribe of Dan to live in the hills. They did not allow them to come down  and live on the plain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_35","008_1_35","JDG","1","35","35","The people of the Amor people-group were determined to stay in Heres Mountain and in Aijalon and Shaalbim  cities. But when the Israelis became ◄stronger/more numerous►, they forced the people of the Amor people-group to work as their slaves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG1_36","008_1_36","JDG","1","36","36","The land where the Amor people-group lived extended from Scorpion Pass  toward the west beyond Sela  town, up into the hilly area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_1","008_2_1","JDG","2","1","1","Yahweh  appeared in the form of an angel  and  went up from Gilgal to  a place that was later called Bokim. He said  to the Israeli people, “I brought your  ancestors up here from Egypt. I led them into this land that I solemnly promised to give to your ancestors. I said to them, ‘The agreement that I made with you, as for me, I will never ◄break it/say that it is ended►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_2","008_2_2","JDG","2","2","2","But as for you, you must never make a peace agreement with the people who live in this land. You must tear down the altars  where they make sacrifices to idols.’ But you have not obeyed me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_3","008_2_3","JDG","2","3","3","So now, I am telling you that I will not expel  your enemies as you advance. They will be like thorns in your sides. And  they will try to trap you  by making you worship their idols.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_4","008_2_4","JDG","2","4","4","After he told that to all the Israelis, the people cried loudly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_5","008_2_5","JDG","2","5","5","They called that place Bokim,  which means ‘weeping’. There they offered sacrifices to Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_6","008_2_6","JDG","2","6","6","After Joshua sent the Israeli people away, each group went to possess the land that had been allotted to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_7","008_2_7","JDG","2","7","7","They served Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive, and as long as the elders, those who had seen all the great things that Yahweh had done for Israel, were alive. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_8","008_2_8","JDG","2","8","8","Then Yahweh’s servant Joshua died. He was 110 years old when he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_9","008_2_9","JDG","2","9","9","They buried his body in the area he had received  from Moses, at Timnath-Serah, in the area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, north of Gaash Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_10","008_2_10","JDG","2","10","10","After all the people died who lived at the same time as Joshua EUP, a group of people grew up who did not know Yahweh, and did not know what great things he had done for the Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_11","008_2_11","JDG","2","11","13","They did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They worshiped  idols that represented the god Baal and the goddess Astarte. They worshiped DOU the various gods that the people-groups around them worshiped. They stopped worshiping Yahweh, the God their ancestors worshiped, the one who had brought their ancestors out of Egypt. That caused Yahweh to be very angry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_14","008_2_14","JDG","2","14","14","So he allowed people from other groups to raid them and steal their crops and animals. They were no longer able to resist their enemies, and Yahweh allowed all their enemies around them to defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_15","008_2_15","JDG","2","15","15","Whenever the Israelis went to fight  their enemies, Yahweh MTY was opposing them, and allowed their enemies to defeat them, just as he had promised he would do. So the Israelis were greatly distressed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_16","008_2_16","JDG","2","16","16","Then Yahweh gave leaders to them. These leaders rescued the Israelis from the people who were raiding them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_17","008_2_17","JDG","2","17","17","But the Israelis still would not pay attention to their leaders. Instead, they went to the idols,  acting like prostitutes  who gave themselves to men who were not their husbands MET, and they worshiped those idols. They were not like their ancestors. Their ancestors obeyed what Yahweh commanded, but their descendants quickly stopped behaving as their ancestors had behaved. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_18","008_2_18","JDG","2","18","18","Whenever Yahweh gave a leader to them, he helped that leader and enabled him to rescue the people from their enemies. He helped them like that as long as that leader was alive. Yahweh pitied them as they groaned because they were being oppressed and caused to suffer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_19","008_2_19","JDG","2","19","19","But after that leader died, the people went back to behaving in ways even more evil than their ancestors had behaved. They worshiped other gods and bowed down to them and did all LIT the things that they thought those gods wanted them to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_20","008_2_20","JDG","2","20","20","So Yahweh was very angry with the Israeli people. He said, “These people have disobeyed the agreement I made with their ancestors. They have not done what I told them to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_21","008_2_21","JDG","2","21","21","So I will no longer expel the people-groups that Joshua left in this land when he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_22","008_2_22","JDG","2","22","22","I will use them to test the Israeli people to see whether they will do what I want them to do, as their ancestors did.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG2_23","008_2_23","JDG","2","23","23","Yahweh had allowed those people-groups to stay in that land. He did not expel them by allowing Joshua  and his men to defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_1","008_3_1","JDG","3","1","2","At that time there were still many people-groups in Canaan. Yahweh left them there to test the Israeli people. But many of the Israelis in Canaan were ones who had not fought in any of the wars in Canaan. So Yahweh also left those people-groups in Canaan so that the descendants of those who had not fought in any of the wars might learn how to fight. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_3","008_3_3","JDG","3","3","3"," This is a list of the people-groups that Yahweh left there: The Philistines and their five leaders, the people living in the area near Sidon  city, the descendants of Canaan, and the descendants of Hiv who were living in the mountains of Lebanon between Baal-Hermon Mountain and Lebo-Hamath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_4","008_3_4","JDG","3","4","4","Yahweh left these people-groups there to test the Israelis, to see if they would obey his commands which he had told Moses to give them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_5","008_3_5","JDG","3","5","5","The Israelis lived among the Canaan people-group, the Hiv people-group, the Amor people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_6","008_3_6","JDG","3","6","6"," Moses had told the people not to associate with any of those people. But the Israelis took daughters of people from those people-groups  to be their own wives, and gave their own daughters to men of those groups, to marry them. And  as a result they started to worship the gods of those people-groups. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_7","008_3_7","JDG","3","7","7","The Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. They forgot about Yahweh, their God, and they started to worship  the idols that represented the god Baal and the goddess Asherah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_8","008_3_8","JDG","3","8","8","Yahweh became very angry with the Israelis. So he allowed king Cushan from Mesopotamia to conquer them and rule them for eight years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_9","008_3_9","JDG","3","9","9","But when they pleaded to Yahweh  to help them, he gave them a leader to rescue them. He was Othniel, the son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_10","008_3_10","JDG","3","10","10","Yahweh’s Spirit came upon him, and he became their leader. He  led an army that fought against  the army of Cushan, and defeated them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_11","008_3_11","JDG","3","11","11","After that, there was peace in the land for 40 years, until Othniel died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_12","008_3_12","JDG","3","12","12","After that, the Israelis again did things that Yahweh said were very evil. As a result, he allowed the army of King Eglon, who ruled  the  Moab  area, to defeat the Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_13","008_3_13","JDG","3","13","13","Eglon persuaded the leaders of the Ammon and Amalek people-groups to join their armies with his army to attack Israel. They captured  Jericho, which was called ‘The City of Palm Trees’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_14","008_3_14","JDG","3","14","14","Then King Eglon ruled the Israelis for eighteen years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_15","008_3_15","JDG","3","15","15","But then the Israelis again pleaded to Yahweh  to help them. So he gave them another leader to rescue them. He was Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera, from the descendants of Benjamin. The Israelis sent him to King Eglon to give him their yearly protection money. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_16","008_3_16","JDG","3","16","16","Ehud had with him a double-edged dagger, about a foot and a half long. He strapped it to his right thigh, under his clothes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_17","008_3_17","JDG","3","17","17","He gave the money to King Eglon, who was a very fat man. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_18","008_3_18","JDG","3","18","18","Then Ehud started to go back home with the men who had carried the money. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_19","008_3_19","JDG","3","19","19","When they arrived at the stone carvings near Gilgal,  he told the other men to go on, but he himself turned around and went back  to the king of Moab. When he arrived at the palace, he said to the king, “Your majesty, I have a secret message for you.” So the king told all his servants to be quiet, and sent them out of the room. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_20","008_3_20","JDG","3","20","20","Then, as Eglon was sitting alone in the upstairs room of his summer palace, Ehud came close to him and said, “I have a message for you from God.” As the king got up from his chair, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_21","008_3_21","JDG","3","21","21","Ehud reached with his left hand and pulled the dagger from his right thigh, and plunged it into the king’s belly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_22","008_3_22","JDG","3","22","22","He thrust it in so far that the handle went into the king’s belly, and the blade came out the king’s back. Ehud did not pull the dagger out.  He left it there, with the handle buried in the king’s fat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_23","008_3_23","JDG","3","23","23","Then Ehud left the room. He went out to the porch. He shut the doors to the room and locked them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_24","008_3_24","JDG","3","24","24","After he had gone, King Eglon’s servants came back, but they saw that the doors of the room were locked. They said, “The king must be defecating in the inner room.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_25","008_3_25","JDG","3","25","25","So they waited, but when the king did not open the doors of the room, after a while they were worried. They got a key and unlocked the doors. And they saw that their king was lying on the floor, dead. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_26","008_3_26","JDG","3","26","26","Meanwhile, Ehud escaped. He passed by the stone carvings and arrived at Seirah, in the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_27","008_3_27","JDG","3","27","27","There he blew a trumpet  to signal that the people should join him to fight the people of Moab. So the Israelis went with him from the hills. They went down  toward the Jordan river, with Ehud leading them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_28","008_3_28","JDG","3","28","28","He said to the men, “Yahweh is going to allow us to defeat your enemies, the people of Moab. So follow me!” So they followed him down to the river, and they stationed some of their men at the place where people can walk across the river, in order that they could  kill any people from Moab who tried to cross the river  to escape. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_29","008_3_29","JDG","3","29","29","At that time, the Israelis killed about 10,000 people from Moab. They were all strong and capable men, but not one of them escaped. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_30","008_3_30","JDG","3","30","30","On that day, the Israelis conquered the people of Moab. Then there was peace in their land for 80 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG3_31","008_3_31","JDG","3","31","31","After Ehud  died, Shamgar became their leader. He rescued the Israelis  from the Philistines. In one battle he killed 600 Philistines with an ◄ox goad/sharp wooden pole►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_1","008_4_1","JDG","4","1","1","After Ehud died, the Israelis again started doing things Yahweh said were very evil. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_2","008_4_2","JDG","4","2","2","So he allowed the army of Jabin, one of the kings of Canaan land, who ruled in Hazor  city, to conquer the Israelis. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-Haggoyim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_3","008_4_3","JDG","4","3","3","Sisera’s  army had 900 chariots. For 20 years he oppressed the Israelis. Then they pleaded to Yahweh to help them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_4","008_4_4","JDG","4","4","4","At that time Deborah, who was the wife of Lappidoth, was a prophetess who had become the leader in Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_5","008_4_5","JDG","4","5","5","She would sit under her palm tree at a place between Ramah and Bethel, in the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, and people would come to her and ask her to settle disputes between them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_6","008_4_6","JDG","4","6","6","One day she summoned Barak, the son of Abinoam, when he was in Kedesh, in the area where the descendants of Naphtali lived. She said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship, is commanding you to do: ‘ake with you 1,000 men, some from the descendants of Naphtali and some from the descendants of Zebulun, and lead them to Tabor Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_7","008_4_7","JDG","4","7","7","Yahweh will lure Sisera, the commander of King Jabin’s army, to come with his chariots and his army, to the Kishon River,  a few miles away. I will enable your men to defeat them there.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_8","008_4_8","JDG","4","8","8","Barak replied, “I will go only if you go with me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_9","008_4_9","JDG","4","9","9","She replied, “Okay, I will go with you. But because that is what you have decided to do, Yahweh will enable a woman to defeat Sisera, and the result will be that ◄you will not be honored/people will not honor you►  for doing that.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_10","008_4_10","JDG","4","10","10","So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh. There he summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men came to him, and then they went together with Deborah  to Tabor Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_11","008_4_11","JDG","4","11","11","At that time Heber, one of the descendants of the Ken people-group, had moved  with his wife Jael from the area where that group lived, and set up his tent near the big oak tree at Zaanannim, near Kedesh. Heber was a descendant of Moses’ brother-in-law Hobab. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_12","008_4_12","JDG","4","12","12","Someone told Sisera that Barak had gone up on Tabor Mountain  with an army. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_13","008_4_13","JDG","4","13","13","So he gathered his troops with their 900 chariots, and they marched from Harosheth-Haggoyim to the Kishon River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_14","008_4_14","JDG","4","14","14","Then Deborah said to Barak, “Get ready! This is the day that Yahweh will enable your  army to defeat the army of Sisera. Yahweh is going ahead of you!” So Barak led his men as they descended from Tabor Mountain. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_15","008_4_15","JDG","4","15","15","As they advanced, Yahweh caused Sisera and all his chariots and his army to have great difficulty maneuvering/moving around. So Sisera jumped down from his chariot and ran away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_16","008_4_16","JDG","4","16","16","But Barak and his men pursued the other chariots and the enemy soldiers as far as Harosheth-Haggoyim. They killed all of the men in Sisera’s army. Not one man survived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_17","008_4_17","JDG","4","17","17","But Sisera ran to Jael’s tent. He did that because  his boss, King Jabin of Hazor  city, was a good friend of Jael’s husband Heber. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_18","008_4_18","JDG","4","18","18","Jael went out to greet Sisera. She said to him, “Sir, come into my tent! Do not be afraid!” So he went into the tent  and lay down, and she covered him with a blanket. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_19","008_4_19","JDG","4","19","19","He said to her, “I’m thirsty; can you give me some water?” So she opened a leather container of milk, and gave him a drink. Then she covered him with the blanket again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_20","008_4_20","JDG","4","20","20","He said to her, “Stand in the entrance of the tent. If someone comes and asks ‘Is anyone else here?’, say ‘No.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_21","008_4_21","JDG","4","21","21","Sisera was very exhausted, so he soon was asleep. While he was sleeping, Jael crept quietly to him, holding a hammer and a tent peg. She pounded the peg into his skull, and all the way through his head into the ground, and he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_22","008_4_22","JDG","4","22","22","When Barak passed by Jael’s tent to look for Sisera, she went out to greet him. She said, “Come in, and I will show you the man you are searching for!” So he followed her into the tent, and he saw Sisera lying there, dead, with the tent peg through his head. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_23","008_4_23","JDG","4","23","23","On that day God enabled the Israelis to defeat  the army of Jabin, the king of the people of Canaan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG4_24","008_4_24","JDG","4","24","24","From that time, the Israeli people continued to become stronger, and  the army of King Jabin continued to become weaker. Finally the Israelis were able to completely subdue the people ruled by the king of Canaan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_1","008_5_1","JDG","5","1","1","On that day, Deborah sang this song, along with Barak: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_2","008_5_2","JDG","5","2","2","“hen the leaders of the Israeli people really lead them, and the people follow them,  it is time to praise Yahweh! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_3","008_5_3","JDG","5","3","3","Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you leaders! I will sing to Yahweh. With this song I will praise Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_4","008_5_4","JDG","5","4","4","O Yahweh, when you came from Seir, when you marched from that land  better known as Edom, the earth shook, and rain poured down from the skies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_5","008_5_5","JDG","5","5","5","The mountains shook when you came, just like Sinai Mountain shook when you appeared there, because you are Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_6","008_5_6","JDG","5","6","6","“hen Shamgar was our leader and when Jael ruled us,  we were afraid to walk on the main roads; instead, caravans of travelers walked on winding  less traveled roads  to avoid being molested. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_7","008_5_7","JDG","5","7","7","People left their small villages,  and moved into the walled cities until I, Deborah, became their leader.  I became like a mother to the Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_8","008_5_8","JDG","5","8","8","When the Israeli people  abandoned Yahweh and chose new gods, enemies attacked the gates of the cities, and then  they took away the shields and spears from 40,000 Israeli soldiers. Not one shield or spear was left. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_9","008_5_9","JDG","5","9","9","I am thankful for the leaders and soldiers who volunteered  to fight. Praise Yahweh  for them! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_10","008_5_10","JDG","5","10","10","“ou wealthy people who ride on donkeys, sitting on nice padded saddles, and you people who just walk on the road, you all listen! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_11","008_5_11","JDG","5","11","11","Listen to the voices of the singers who gather at the places where  the animals drink water. They tell about how Yahweh acted righteously when he enabled the Israeli warriors to conquer  their enemies. “ahweh’s people marched down to the gates of our city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_12","008_5_12","JDG","5","12","12","The people came to my house and shouted, ‘eborah, wake up! Wake up and start singing!’ They also shouted, ‘arak, son of Abinoam, get up, and capture our enemies!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_13","008_5_13","JDG","5","13","13","Later, some of the Israeli people came down  from Tabor Mountain with us, their leaders. These men who belonged to Yahweh came with me to fight their strong enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_14","008_5_14","JDG","5","14","14","Some came from the tribe descended from Ephraim. They came from land that once belonged to the descendants of Amalek. And men from the tribe descended from Benjamin followed them. Troops from the group descended from Makir also came down, and officers from the tribe descended from Zebulun came down, carrying staffs. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_15","008_5_15","JDG","5","15","15","Leaders from the tribes descended from Issachar joined Barak and me. They followed Barak, rushing down into the valley. But men from the tribe descended from Reuben could not decide whether or not to join us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_16","008_5_16","JDG","5","16","16","Why did you men stay at your sheep pens, waiting to hear the shepherds whistle for their flocks of sheep to come to the pens? Men in the tribe descended from Reuben could not decide whether they would join us to fight our enemies, or not. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_17","008_5_17","JDG","5","17","17","Similarly, the men living in the Gilead area stayed at home, east of the Jordan River. And the men from the tribe descended from Dan, why did they stay home? The tribe descended from Asher sat by the seashore. They stayed in their coves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_18","008_5_18","JDG","5","18","18","But men from the tribe descended from Zebulun risked ◄their lives/were ready to die fighting► on the battlefield, and men descended from Naphtali were ready to do that, also. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_19","008_5_19","JDG","5","19","19","“he kings of Canaan fought us at Taanach, near the springs in Megiddo  Valley.  But since they did not defeat us, they did not carry away any silver or other treasures from the battle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_20","008_5_20","JDG","5","20","20"," It was as though the stars in the sky fought for us  and as though those stars in their paths fought against Sisera. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_21","008_5_21","JDG","5","21","21","The Kishon River swept them away— that river that has been there for ages. I will tell myself to be brave and continue marching on. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_22","008_5_22","JDG","5","22","22","The hooves of the horses of Sisera’s  army pounded the ground. Those powerful horses kept galloping along. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_23","008_5_23","JDG","5","23","23","The angel sent by Yahweh said, ‘urse the people of Meroz  town, because they did not come to help Yahweh to defeat the mighty warriors  of Canaan.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_24","008_5_24","JDG","5","24","24","“ut God is very pleased with Jael, the wife of Heber from the Ken people-group. He is more pleased with her than with all the other women who live in tents. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_25","008_5_25","JDG","5","25","25","Sisera asked for some water, but Jael gave him some milk. She brought him some yogurt/curds in a bowl that was suitable for kings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_26","008_5_26","JDG","5","26","26","Then,  when he was asleep, she reached for a tent peg with her left hand, and she reached for a hammer with her right hand. She hit Sisera hard with it and crushed his head. She pounded the tent peg right through his head. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_27","008_5_27","JDG","5","27","27","He collapsed and fell dead at her feet. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_28","008_5_28","JDG","5","28","28","“isera’s mother looked out from her window. She waited for him to return. She said, ‘hy is he taking so long to come home in his chariot? Why don’t I hear the sound of the wheels of his chariot?’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_29","008_5_29","JDG","5","29","29","One wise woman replied to her, and she  kept consoling herself by repeating those words: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_30","008_5_30","JDG","5","30","30","‘erhaps they are dividing up the things and the people they captured after the battle. Each soldier will get one or two women. Sisera will get some beautiful robes, and some beautiful embroidered robes for me.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG5_31","008_5_31","JDG","5","31","31","But  that is not what happened! Yahweh, I hope that all your enemies will die as Sisera did! And I desire that all those who love you will be as strong as the sun when it rises! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_1","008_6_1","JDG","6","1","1","Again the Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. So he allowed the people of Midian to conquer them and rule them for seven years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_2","008_6_2","JDG","6","2","2","The people of Midian treated the Israelis so cruelly that the Israelis fled to the mountains. There they made places to live in caves and animal dens. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_3","008_6_3","JDG","6","3","3","Whenever the Israelis planted things in their fields, the people of Midian and Amalek and other groups from the east invaded Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_4","008_6_4","JDG","6","4","4","They set up tents in the area, and then destroyed the crops as far south as Gaza. They did not leave anything for the Israelis’ sheep or cattle or donkeys to eat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_5","008_6_5","JDG","6","5","5","They came into Israel with their tents and their livestock like a swarm of locusts. There were  so many of them that arrived riding on their camels that no one could count them. They stayed and ruined the Israelis’ crops. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_6","008_6_6","JDG","6","6","6","The people of Midian took almost everything the Israelis owned. So finally the Israelis pleaded for Yahweh to help them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_7","008_6_7","JDG","6","7","7","When the Israelis pleaded with Yahweh to help them because of  what the people from Midian  were doing to them, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_8","008_6_8","JDG","6","8","8","he sent to them a prophet, who said, “Yahweh, the God we Israelis worship, says this: ‘Your ancestors were slaves in Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_9","008_6_9","JDG","6","9","9","But I rescued them from the leaders of Egypt and from all the others who oppressed them. I expelled their enemies from this land, and gave it to your ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_10","008_6_10","JDG","6","10","10","I told you all, “I am Yahweh, your God. You are now in the land where the descendants of Amor live, but you must not worship the gods whom they worship.” But you did not pay attention to me.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_11","008_6_11","JDG","6","11","11","One day Yahweh appeared  in the form of an angel and sat underneath a big oak tree at Ophrah  town. That tree belonged to Joash, who was from the clan of Abiezer. Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in the pit where they pressed  grapes to make wine. He was threshing the grain there in order to hide it from the people of Midian. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_12","008_6_12","JDG","6","12","12","Yahweh  went over to Gideon and said to him, “You mighty warrior, Yahweh is helping you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_13","008_6_13","JDG","6","13","13","Gideon replied, “Sir, if Yahweh is helping us, why have all these  bad things happened to us? We heard about RHQ all the miracles that Yahweh performed for our ancestors. We heard people tell us about how he rescued them from  being slaves in Egypt. But now Yahweh has abandoned us, and we are ruled by the people from Midian.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_14","008_6_14","JDG","6","14","14","Then Yahweh turned toward him and said, “I will give you strength to enable you to rescue the Israelis from the people of Midian. I am sending you  to do that!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_15","008_6_15","JDG","6","15","15","Gideon replied, “But Yahweh, how can I rescue the Israelis? My clan is the least significant in the whole tribe descended from Manasseh, and I am the least significant person in my whole family!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_16","008_6_16","JDG","6","16","16","Yahweh said to him, “I will help you. So you will defeat the army of Midian  as easily as if you were fighting only one man!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_17","008_6_17","JDG","6","17","17","Gideon replied, “If you are truly pleased with me, do something which will prove that you who are speaking to me are really Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_18","008_6_18","JDG","6","18","18","But do not go away until I go and bring back an offering to you.” Yahweh answered, “Okay, I will stay here until you return.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_19","008_6_19","JDG","6","19","19","Gideon hurried to his home. He  killed a young goat  and cooked  it. Then he took ◄a half a bushel/18 liters► of flour and baked some bread without yeast. Then he put the cooked meat in a basket, and put the broth  from the meat in a pot, and took it to Yahweh, who was sitting under the tree. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_20","008_6_20","JDG","6","20","20","Then Yahweh said to him, “Put the meat and the bread on this rock. Then pour the broth on top of it.” So Gideon did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_21","008_6_21","JDG","6","21","21","Then Yahweh touched the meat and bread with the walking stick that was in his hand. A fire flamed up from the rock and burned up everything that Gideon had brought! And then Yahweh disappeared. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_22","008_6_22","JDG","6","22","22","When Gideon realized that it was really Yahweh  who had appeared in the form of an angel and talked with him, he exclaimed, “O, Yahweh, I have seen you face-to-face  when you had the form of an angel!  So I will surely die!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_23","008_6_23","JDG","6","23","23","But Yahweh called to him and said, “Do not be afraid! You will not die  because of seeing me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_24","008_6_24","JDG","6","24","24","Then Gideon built an altar to  worship Yahweh there. He named it ‘Yahweh gives us peace’. That altar is still there in Ophrah  town, in the land that belongs to the descendants of Abiezer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_25","008_6_25","JDG","6","25","25","That night Yahweh said to Gideon, “Take the second-best/oldest bull from your father’s herd, the bull that is seven years old.  Kill it. Then tear down the altar that your father built to  worship the god Baal. Also cut down the pole for worshipping  the goddess Astarte that is there beside it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_26","008_6_26","JDG","6","26","26","Then build a  stone altar to worship me, your God Yahweh, here on this hill. Take the wood from the pole you cut down and make a fire  to cook the meat of the bull as a burnt offering to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_27","008_6_27","JDG","6","27","27","So Gideon and his servants did what Yahweh commanded. But they did it at night, because he was afraid what the other members of his family and the other men in town would do to him if they found out that he had done that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_28","008_6_28","JDG","6","28","28","Early the next morning, as soon as the men got up, they saw that the altar to Baal had been torn down, and the pole for worshiping Astarte was gone. They saw that there was a new altar there, and on it was what remained from the bull they had sacrificed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_29","008_6_29","JDG","6","29","29","The people asked each other, “Who did this?” After they investigated, someone told them that it was Gideon, the son of Joash,  who had done it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_30","008_6_30","JDG","6","30","30","They went to Joash and said to him, “Bring your son out here! ◄He must be executed/We must kill him►, because he destroyed our god Baal’s altar and cut down the pole for our goddess Astarte!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_31","008_6_31","JDG","6","31","31","But Joash replied, “Are you trying to defend Baal? Are you trying to argue his case? Anyone who tries to defend Baal should be executed by tomorrow morning! If Baal is truly a god, he ought to be able to defend himself, and to get rid of the person who tore down his altar!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_32","008_6_32","JDG","6","32","32","From that time, people called Gideon Jerub-Baal, which means ‘Baal should defend himself’, because he tore down Baal’s altar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_33","008_6_33","JDG","6","33","33","Soon after that, the armies of the people of Midian and of Amalek and the people from the east gathered together. They crossed the Jordan River  to attack the Israelis. They set up their tents in Jezreel Valley. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_34","008_6_34","JDG","6","34","34","Then Yahweh’s Spirit took control of Gideon. He blew a ram’s horn to summon the men to prepare to fight. So the men of the clan of Abiezer came to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_35","008_6_35","JDG","6","35","35","He also sent messengers throughout the tribes descended from  the four tribes of Manasseh, Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali  to tell their soldiers to come, and all of them came. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_36","008_6_36","JDG","6","36","36","Then Gideon said to God, “If you are truly going to enable me to rescue the Israeli people as you promised, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_37","008_6_37","JDG","6","37","37","confirm it by doing this: Tonight I will put a dry wool fleece on the ground where I thresh the grain. Tomorrow morning, if the fleece is wet with dew but the ground is dry, then I will know that I am the one you will enable to rescue the people of Israel as you promised.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_38","008_6_38","JDG","6","38","38","And that is what happened. When Gideon got up the next morning, he picked up the fleece, and squeezed out a whole bowlful of water! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_39","008_6_39","JDG","6","39","39","Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me, but let me ask you to do one more thing. Tonight I will put the fleece out again. This time, let the fleece remain dry, while the ground is wet with the dew.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG6_40","008_6_40","JDG","6","40","40","So that night, God did what Gideon asked him to do. The next morning the fleece was dry, but the ground was covered with dew. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_1","008_7_1","JDG","7","1","1","The next morning, Gideon and his men got up early and went as far as Harod Spring. The army of Midian was camped north of them, in the valley near Moreh Hill. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_2","008_7_2","JDG","7","2","2","Yahweh said to Gideon, “You have too many soldiers with you. If I allow all of you to fight the army of Midian,  if your army defeats them, they will boast to me that they defeated their enemies by themselves,  without my help. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_3","008_7_3","JDG","7","3","3","So tell the men, ‘Whoever among you is timid or afraid may leave us and go home.’ ” So  after Gideon told that to them, 22,000 of them went home. Only 10,000 men were left there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_4","008_7_4","JDG","7","4","4","But Yahweh told Gideon, “There are still too many men! Take them down to the spring, and there I will choose from among them, which ones will go with you and which ones will not go.”. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_5","008_7_5","JDG","7","5","5","When Gideon took the men down to the spring, Yahweh told him, “When they drink, put into one group the ones who scoop the water into their hands, and then lap it up like dogs do. Put into another group the ones who kneel down  and bend over and drink with their mouths in the water.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_6","008_7_6","JDG","7","6","6","So when they drank, only 300 men drank from their hands. All the others drank with their mouths down in the water. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_7","008_7_7","JDG","7","7","7","Then Yahweh told Gideon, “The 300 men who lapped the water from their hands will be your army! I will enable them to defeat the Midian army. Let all the others go home!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_8","008_7_8","JDG","7","8","8","So Gideon’s 300 men collected the food and rams’ horns from all the other men, and then he sent them home. The men of Midian were camping in the valley below Gideon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_9","008_7_9","JDG","7","9","9","That night, Yahweh said to Gideon, “Get up and go down to their camp,  and you will hear something that will convince you that I will enable your men to defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_10","008_7_10","JDG","7","10","10","But if you are afraid to attack them by yourself, take your servant Purah with you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_11","008_7_11","JDG","7","11","11","Go down and listen to what some of the Midian soldiers are saying. Then you will be very encouraged, and you will be ready to attack their camp.” So Gideon took Purah with him, and they went down to the edge of the enemy camp. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_12","008_7_12","JDG","7","12","12","The armies of the people of Midian and Amalek and from the east had set up their tents and looked like a swarm of locusts. It seemed that their camels were as impossible to count as the grains of sand on the seashore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_13","008_7_13","JDG","7","13","13","Gideon crept closer and heard one man telling a friend about a dream. He said, “I just had a dream, and in the dream I saw a round loaf of barley bread tumble down into our Midian camp. It struck a tent so hard that the tent turned upside down and collapsed!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_14","008_7_14","JDG","7","14","14","His friend said, “Your dream can mean only one thing. It means that God will enable Gideon, the man of Israel, to defeat all of the armies that are here with us men from Midian.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_15","008_7_15","JDG","7","15","15","When Gideon heard the  man tell about his dream and the meaning of that dream, he thanked God. Then he  and Purah returned to the Israeli camp, and he shouted to the men, “Get up! Because God is enabling you to defeat the men from Midian!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_16","008_7_16","JDG","7","16","16","He divided his men into three groups. He gave each man a ram’s horn and an empty clay jar. He also gave each of them a torch  that they lit. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_17","008_7_17","JDG","7","17","17","Then he said to them, “Watch me. When we come close to the enemy camp,  spread out to surround the camp. Then do exactly what I do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_18","008_7_18","JDG","7","18","18","As soon as I and the men with me blow our ram’s horns, you men in the other two groups surrounding the camp blow your horns and shout, ‘ We are doing this for Yahweh and for Gideon!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_19","008_7_19","JDG","7","19","19","A while before midnight, just after a new group of Israeli guards took the places of the previous group, Gideon and the 100 men with him arrived at the edge of the Midian camp. Suddenly they all blew their horns, and broke their jars. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_20","008_7_20","JDG","7","20","20","Then the men in all three groups blew their horns and smashed their jars. They held the torches high with their left hands, and held up the horns with their right hands and alternatively blew them and shouted, “ We have swords  to fight for Yahweh and for Gideon!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_21","008_7_21","JDG","7","21","21","Each of Gideon’s men stood in his position around the enemy camp. As they watched, all the Midian men started running around and shouting in a panic. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_22","008_7_22","JDG","7","22","22","While the 300 Israeli men kept blowing their horns, Yahweh caused their enemies to start fighting each other with their swords/daggers. Some of them killed each other. The rest fled. Some fled south to Beth-Shittah. Some fled to Zerarah  village, near Tabbath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_23","008_7_23","JDG","7","23","23","Then Gideon sent messages to the soldiers in the areas where the descendants of Naphtali, Asher, and Manasseh lived, to tell them to come and pursue the army of Midian. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_24","008_7_24","JDG","7","24","24","He also sent messengers throughout the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, saying, “Come down to attack the army of Midian. Come down to the Jordan River, to the place where people can wade across, to prevent enemy troops from crossing it! Station men as far south as Beth-Barah.” So the men of Ephraim did what Gideon told them to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG7_25","008_7_25","JDG","7","25","25","They also captured Oreb and Zeeb, the two generals of the Midian army. They killed Oreb at  the big rock which is now called the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at  the place where people crush grapes that is now called the winepress of Zeeb. Afterwards, the Israelis cut off the heads of Oreb and Zeeb and brought them to Gideon, while he was near the Jordan River. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_1","008_8_1","JDG","8","1","1","Then the descendants of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you acted toward us like this? When you went out to fight against the people of Midian, why did you not summon us  to help you?” They rebuked Gideon severely. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_2","008_8_2","JDG","8","2","2","But Gideon replied, “I have done RHQ very little compared with what you have done! My small clan of descendants of Abiezer only started the battle, but  your very large group of descendants of Ephraim  helped me to finish the task very well. It is like the final grapes of the harvest being much better than the first grapes that are picked. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_3","008_8_3","JDG","8","3","3","God enabled you to defeat Oreb and Zeeb, the generals of the army from Midian. That is RHQ much more important than what I did!” After Gideon told them that, they no longer resented what he had done. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_4","008_8_4","JDG","8","4","4","Then Gideon and his 300 men  went east and crossed the Jordan  River. Although they were very tired, they continued to pursue their enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_5","008_8_5","JDG","8","5","5","When they arrived at Succoth  town, Gideon said to the town leaders, “Please give my men some food! They are very tired. We are pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_6","008_8_6","JDG","8","6","6","But the leaders of Succoth replied, “You have not caught RHQ Zebah and Zalmunna yet. So why should we give food to your troops  now? Catch them first, and then we will give you food.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_7","008_8_7","JDG","8","7","7","Gideon replied, “ Because you said that, after Yahweh enables us to defeat Zebah and Zalmunna, we will return. And then we will make whips from thorns from the desert, and with them we will rip the flesh off your bones!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_8","008_8_8","JDG","8","8","8","From there, Gideon  and his 300 men went to Peniel and asked for food there, but the people gave him the same answer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_9","008_8_9","JDG","8","9","9","So he said to the men of Peniel, “After I defeat those kings, I will return and tear down this tower!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_10","008_8_10","JDG","8","10","10","By that time, Zebah and Zalmunna had gone to Karkor  town with 15,000 troops. They were all that were left of the armies that had come from the east. 120,000 of their men had already been killed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_11","008_8_11","JDG","8","11","11","Gideon  and his men went east along the road on which caravans travel. They went past Nobah and Jogbehah  villages and arrived at the enemy camp by surprise. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_12","008_8_12","JDG","8","12","12","Zebah and Zalmunna fled, but Gideon’s men pursued them and captured them and all their warriors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_13","008_8_13","JDG","8","13","13","After that, Gideon and his men  took Zebah and Zalmunna with them and started to return, going through Heres Pass. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_14","008_8_14","JDG","8","14","14","There he captured a young man from Succoth, and demanded that he write down the names of all of the leaders in the town. The young man wrote down seventy-seven names. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_15","008_8_15","JDG","8","15","15","Then Gideon and his men returned to Succoth and said to those leaders, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. When we were here before, you made fun of me and said ‘You have not RHQ caught Zebah and Zalmunna yet! After you catch them, we will give your exhausted men some food.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_16","008_8_16","JDG","8","16","16","Then Gideon’s men took the town leaders and whipped them with whips made from briers from the desert, to teach them  that they deserved to be punished for not giving them any food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_17","008_8_17","JDG","8","17","17","Then  they went to Peniel and tore down the tower, and killed all the men in the town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_18","008_8_18","JDG","8","18","18","Then Gideon said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “The men you killed near Tabor  Mountain, what did they look like?” They replied, “They were like you; they all looked like they were sons of a king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_19","008_8_19","JDG","8","19","19","Gideon replied, “They were my brothers! Just as surely as Yahweh lives, I would not kill you if you had not killed them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_20","008_8_20","JDG","8","20","20","Then he turned to his oldest son, Jether. He said to him, “Kill them!” But Jether was only a boy, and he was afraid, so he did not pull out his dagger  to kill them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_21","008_8_21","JDG","8","21","21","Then Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, “Do not ask a young boy to do the work that a man should do!” So Gideon killed both of them. Then he took the gold ornaments from the necks of their camels. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_22","008_8_22","JDG","8","22","22","Then a group of Israeli men  came to Gideon and said to him, “You be our ruler!  We want you and your son and your grandsons  to be our rulers, because you rescued us from the Midian army.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_23","008_8_23","JDG","8","23","23","But Gideon replied, “No, I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you. Yahweh will rule over you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_24","008_8_24","JDG","8","24","24","Then he said, “I request only one thing. I request that each of you give me one earring from the things you captured after the battle.” All the men descended from Ishmael wore gold earrings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_25","008_8_25","JDG","8","25","25","They replied, “We will be glad to give earrings to you!” So they spread a cloth  on the ground, and each man threw on it one gold earring that he had taken  from a man he had killed in the battle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_26","008_8_26","JDG","8","26","26","The weight of all the earrings was ◄43 pounds/19.4 kg.►. That did not include other things  that they gave to Gideon—the other ornaments or the pendants or the clothes that the kings of Midian wore or the gold chains that were on the necks of their camels. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_27","008_8_27","JDG","8","27","27","Gideon made/decorated a sacred vest from the gold, and later he put it in his hometown, Ophrah. But soon the Israeli people started to worship the vest. So it became like a trap MET for the people,  causing them to worship it instead of worshiping only God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_28","008_8_28","JDG","8","28","28","That is how the Israelis defeated the people from Midian. The people of Midian did not become strong enough to attack Israel again. So while Gideon was alive, there was peace in the land for 40 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_29","008_8_29","JDG","8","29","29","Gideon went back home to live there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_30","008_8_30","JDG","8","30","30","He had many wives, and they bore him seventy sons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_31","008_8_31","JDG","8","31","31","He also had a slave wife in Shechem  town, who bore him a son whom he named Abimelech. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_32","008_8_32","JDG","8","32","32","Gideon died when he was very old. They buried his body in the grave where his father Joash was buried, at Ophrah, in the land belonging to the descendants of Abiether. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_33","008_8_33","JDG","8","33","33","But as soon as Gideon died, the Israelis  stopped worshiping God and started worshiping the images of the god Baal, like MET adultresses  leave their husbands and go to sleep with other men. They made a  statue of a new god called Baal-Berith. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_34","008_8_34","JDG","8","34","34","They forgot about Yahweh, the one who had rescued them from all their enemies that surrounded them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG8_35","008_8_35","JDG","8","35","35","And even though Gideon had done many good things for the Israelis, they were not kind to Gideon’s family. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_1","008_9_1","JDG","9","1","1","Gideon’s son Abimelech went to  talk with his mother’s brothers in Shechem  city. He said to them and to all his mother’s relatives, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_2","008_9_2","JDG","9","2","2","“Ask all the leaders of your city: ‘Do you  think it would be good for all 70 of Gideon’s sons to rule over you? Or would it be better to have only one of his sons,  me, to rule over you?’ And do not forget that I am your relative! MTY” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_3","008_9_3","JDG","9","3","3","So Abimelech’s mother’s brothers spoke to all the leaders of Shechem about what Abimelech had said. They said to each other, “We should allow Abimelech to rule over us, because he is our relative.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_4","008_9_4","JDG","9","4","4","So the leaders of Shechem took from the temple of  their god Baal-Berith ◄almost 2 pounds/0.8 kg.► of silver and gave it to Abimelech. With that silver he paid some worthless troublemakers to help him, and they went with Abimelech wherever he went. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_5","008_9_5","JDG","9","5","5","They went to Ophrah, his father’s town, and murdered 69 of his 70 brothers, the sons of his father Gideon. They killed all those men on one huge rock. But Gideon’s youngest son Jotham hid  from Abimelech and his men, and he escaped. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_6","008_9_6","JDG","9","6","6","Then all the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo gathered under the big sacred tree in Shechem. There they appointed Abimelech to be their leader. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_7","008_9_7","JDG","9","7","7","When Jotham heard about that, he climbed up Gerizim Mountain. He stood at the top of the mountain and shouted to the people  down below, “You leaders of Shechem, listen to me, in order that God will listen to you! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_8","008_9_8","JDG","9","8","8","One day the trees decided to appoint a king to rule over all of them. So they said to the olive tree, ‘You be our king!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_9","008_9_9","JDG","9","9","9","“ut the olive tree said, ‘No!  I will not be your king Men and gods enjoy the oil from my fruit. I will not RHQ stop producing  olives from which we make that oil, in order to rule over you other trees!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_10","008_9_10","JDG","9","10","10","“hen the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come and be our king!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_11","008_9_11","JDG","9","11","11","“ut the fig tree replied, ‘No! I do not want to RHQ stop producing my good sweet fruit, and rule over you other trees!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_12","008_9_12","JDG","9","12","12","“hen the trees said to the grapevine, ‘Come and be our king!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_13","008_9_13","JDG","9","13","13","“ut the grapevine replied, ‘No!  I will not be your king The new wine  that is made from my grapes causes people and gods  who drink it to become very happy. I do not want to stop producing grapes and rule over you other trees!’ RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_14","008_9_14","JDG","9","14","14","“hen all the trees said to the thornbush, ‘Come and be our king!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_15","008_9_15","JDG","9","15","15","“he thornbush replied, ‘If you truly want to appoint me to be your king, come into the shade of my tiny branches. But if you do not want to do that, I hope/desire that fire will come out from me and burn up all the huge cedar trees in Lebanon  country!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_16","008_9_16","JDG","9","16","16","“ After Jotham  finished telling them this parable, he said, “So now  I ask you, were you being completely honest and sincere when you appointed Abimelech to be your king RHQ? And have you treated Gideon and his family RHQ fairly? Have you rewarded Gideon by honoring him as he deserved  because of all the good things he did for you? No! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_17","008_9_17","JDG","9","17","17","“ Do not forget that my father fought a battle for you, and he was willing to die for you  if that had been necessary, to save you from the Midian people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_18","008_9_18","JDG","9","18","18","But now you have rebelled against my father’s family, and you have killed 69 of his sons on one huge rock. And you have appointed Abimelech—who is the son of my father’s slave girl,  not the son of his wife—to be the king who will rule you people of Shechem. You have done that only because he is one of your relatives! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_19","008_9_19","JDG","9","19","19","So, if today you have truly acted fairly and sincerely toward Gideon and his family, I hope/desire that he will cause you to be happy and that you will cause him to be happy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_20","008_9_20","JDG","9","20","20","But if what you did was not right, I wish/desire that Abimelech will burn up all of you leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo with fire! And I also hope/desire that the leaders of Shechem and Beth-Millo will cause fire to burn up Abimelech!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_21","008_9_21","JDG","9","21","21"," After Jotham  finished saying that, he escaped from them and ran away to Beer  town. He stayed there because he was afraid that his brother Abimelech  would try to kill him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_22","008_9_22","JDG","9","22","22","Abimelech  became the leader of all the people of Israel. He ruled them for three years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_23","008_9_23","JDG","9","23","23","Then God sent an evil spirit  to cause trouble between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem, with the result that the leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_24","008_9_24","JDG","9","24","24","The leaders of Shechem had previously helped Abimelech to kill 69 of Gideon’s sons, who were his brothers. So now God sent the evil spirit to punish all of them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_25","008_9_25","JDG","9","25","25","The leaders of Shechem ◄set an ambush/sent men to hide► on the hilltops to ambush Abimelech. Those men robbed everyone who passed by. But someone told Abimelech about it,  so he did not go near them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_26","008_9_26","JDG","9","26","26","There was a man named Gaal, the son of Ebed, who moved into Shechem  city, along with his brothers. Soon the leaders of Shechem started to trust him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_27","008_9_27","JDG","9","27","27","They went out  of the city to their vineyards and picked some grapes. They pressed the grapes  to make juice, and then they made wine. Then they had a feast in the temple of their god, and they ate  a lot of food and drank  a lot of wine. Then they cursed Abimelech. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_28","008_9_28","JDG","9","28","28","Gaal said, “◄Why should  we allow Abimelech to rule over us?/We should not allow Abimelech to rule over us!► RHQ He is only one of Gideon’s sons  so he really does not belong to us RHQ! And he appointed Zebul, the governor of our city, to be his deputy! We should ◄serve/be loyal to►  one of the descendants of Hamor,  the founder of our city, and let him be our leader, not Abimelech RHQ! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_29","008_9_29","JDG","9","29","29","If you would appoint me to be your leader, I would get rid of Abimelech. I would say to him, ‘Get your army ready,  and then come to fight us!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_30","008_9_30","JDG","9","30","30","When someone told Zebul what Gaal said, he was very angry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_31","008_9_31","JDG","9","31","31","He secretly sent some messengers to Abimelech. They told him, “Gaal and his brothers have come here to Shechem, and they are causing  the people of the city to rebel against you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_32","008_9_32","JDG","9","32","32","You and your men should get up during the night and go and hide in the fields outside the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_33","008_9_33","JDG","9","33","33","As soon as the sun rises in the morning, get up and attack the city. When Gaal and his men come out to fight against you, you can do to them whatever you want to.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_34","008_9_34","JDG","9","34","34","So Abimelech and all the men who were with him got up during the night. They  divided into four groups,  and  hid  in the fields near Shechem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_35","008_9_35","JDG","9","35","35"," The next morning, Gaal went out and stood at the entrance to the city gate. While he was standing there, Abimelech and his soldiers came out of their hiding places  and started walking toward the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_36","008_9_36","JDG","9","36","36","When Gaal saw the soldiers, he said to Zebul, “Look! There are people coming down from the hills!” But Zebul said, “You are seeing only the shadows  of trees on the hills. They  are not people; they only resemble people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_37","008_9_37","JDG","9","37","37","But Gaal  looked again  and said, “Look! There are people coming down from the top of the sacred mountain! There is a group of them coming down from where the tree is where people talk with the spirits of dead people!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_38","008_9_38","JDG","9","38","38","Zebul said to Gaal, “Now ◄what good is your bragging?/your bragging is worthless!► MTY, RHQ You said, ‘◄Why should we serve Abimelech/We should not allow Abimelech to rule over us►?’ You made fun of these men. So now go out and fight them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_39","008_9_39","JDG","9","39","39","So Gaal led the men of Shechem outside  the city to fight Abimelech  and his men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_40","008_9_40","JDG","9","40","40","Abimelech and his men pursued them, and they killed many of Gaal’s men before they could return  safely inside the city gate. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_41","008_9_41","JDG","9","41","41","Abimelech then stayed at Arumah,  about five miles away from Shechem, and Zebul’s men forced Gaal and his brothers to leave Shechem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_42","008_9_42","JDG","9","42","42","The next day, the people of Shechem  got ready to leave the city and work in their fields. When someone told Abimelech about that, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_43","008_9_43","JDG","9","43","43","he divided his men into three groups, and told them to hide in the fields. So they did that. And when they saw the people coming out of the city, they jumped up and attacked them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_44","008_9_44","JDG","9","44","44","Abimelech and the men who were with him ran to the city gate. The other two groups ran out to the people in the fields and attacked them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_45","008_9_45","JDG","9","45","45","Abimelech and his men fought all day. They captured the city and killed all the people. They tore down all the buildings, and then they threw salt over the ruins  in order that nothing would grow there again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_46","008_9_46","JDG","9","46","46","When the leaders who lived in the tower/fortress outside of Shechem heard what had happened, they ran and hid inside the  fortress, which was also a temple of  their god El-Berith. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_47","008_9_47","JDG","9","47","47","But someone told Abimelech that all the leaders had gathered there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_48","008_9_48","JDG","9","48","48","So he and all the men who were with him went up Zalmon Mountain  which is near Shechem. Abimelech cut some branches of trees with an axe, and put them on his shoulders. Then he said to all the men who were with him, “Quickly, do what I have just done!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_49","008_9_49","JDG","9","49","49","So his men all cut branches  then carried them down the mountain, following Abimelech. They went to the fortress and piled the branches against its walls. Then they kindled a fire, and the fire burned down the fortress and killed all the people who were inside. So all the people who were inside the fortress—about 1,000 men and women—died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_50","008_9_50","JDG","9","50","50","Then Abimelech and his men went to Thebes  city. They surrounded it and captured it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_51","008_9_51","JDG","9","51","51","But there was a strong tower inside the city. So all the men, women, and leaders of the city ran to the tower. When they were all inside, they locked the door. Then they climbed up to the roof of the tower. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_52","008_9_52","JDG","9","52","52","Abimelech and his men came to the tower and tried to get in the door,  but they could not. Then Abimelech prepared to light a fire to burn down the door. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_53","008_9_53","JDG","9","53","53","But when Abimelech came near the doorway, a woman  who was on the roof dropped a big grinding stone on his head, and crushed his skull. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_54","008_9_54","JDG","9","54","54","Abimelech quickly called to the young man who carried Abimelech’s weapons, and said, “Pull out your sword and kill me with it! I do not want people to say ‘It was a woman who killed Abimelech.’” So the young man thrust his sword into Abimelech, and Abimelech died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_55","008_9_55","JDG","9","55","55","When the Israeli soldiers saw that Abimelech was dead, they all returned to their homes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_56","008_9_56","JDG","9","56","56","In that way God punished Abimelech for the evil things that he had done to his father and especially for killing all 69 of his brothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG9_57","008_9_57","JDG","9","57","57","God also punished the men of Shechem for the evil things that they had done. And when those things happened, it fulfilled what Gideon’s son Jotham said when he cursed  Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_1","008_10_1","JDG","10","1","1","After Abimelech died, Tola the son of Puah and grandson of Dodo became the leader to rescue the Israeli people  from their enemies. He belonged to the tribe of Issachar, but he lived in Shamir  city in the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim live. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_2","008_10_2","JDG","10","2","2","He ruled the Israeli people for 23 years. Then he died and was buried in Shamir. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_3","008_10_3","JDG","10","3","3","After Tola died, Jair, from  the Gilead  region, became the Israelis’ leader, and he ruled them for 22 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_4","008_10_4","JDG","10","4","4","He had thirty sons, and each of them had his own donkey to ride on. They each controlled a different town in  the Gilead  region. That region is still named ‘The Towns of Jair’. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_5","008_10_5","JDG","10","5","5","When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon  city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_6","008_10_6","JDG","10","6","6","Again the Israelis did things that Yahweh said were wrong/evil. They worshiped  the idols of their god Baal and  their goddess Astarte. They also worshiped the gods of the Aram, Sidon, Moab, and Ammon people-groups, and the gods of the Philistia people-group. They abandoned Yahweh and stopped worshiping him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_7","008_10_7","JDG","10","7","7","So Yahweh was very angry with them, and he allowed the Philistia and Ammon people-groups to defeat IDM the Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_8","008_10_8","JDG","10","8","8","In that same year, those people started to oppress the Israelis who lived in  the Gilead  region on the east side of the Jordan  River. That was where the Amor people-group also lived. were They caused the Israelis who lived in that region to suffer for 18 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_9","008_10_9","JDG","10","9","9","Then the people of the Ammon people-group crossed the Jordan  River to fight against the people of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Ephraim. They caused the Israelis’ lives to be very miserable. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_10","008_10_10","JDG","10","10","10","So the Israelis cried out to Yahweh, saying “We have sinned against you. We have abandoned you, and we have been worshiping  the idols of their god Baal.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_11","008_10_11","JDG","10","11","11","Yahweh answered them, saying, “When the people of Egypt, and the Amor and Ammon and Philistia people-groups ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_12","008_10_12","JDG","10","12","12","and the Sidon and Amalek and Maon people-groups were cruel to you, you cried out to me, and then I rescued you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_13","008_10_13","JDG","10","13","13","But now you have abandoned me again, and you have been worshiping other gods. So I will not rescue you again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_14","008_10_14","JDG","10","14","14","You have chosen those gods  to be the ones that you worship. So call to them to help you. Allow them to rescue you when you have a lot of trouble!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_15","008_10_15","JDG","10","15","15","But the Israeli people said to Yahweh, “Truly we have sinned. Punish us in whatever way you wish to, but please rescue us now!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_16","008_10_16","JDG","10","16","16","Then the Israelis threw away the  idols of the gods that belonged to other people-groups, and they worshiped Yahweh again. He saw that they were suffering very much, and he felt sorry IDM for them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_17","008_10_17","JDG","10","17","17","The Ammon people-group gathered to fight  against the Israelis, and they set up their tents in  the  Gilead  region. The Israeli men also gathered and set up their tents at Mizpah,  which was a city in Gilead. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG10_18","008_10_18","JDG","10","18","18","The Israeli leaders said, “Who will lead our soldiers to attack the Ammon people-group? The one who will lead us will become the leader of all us who live in this Gilead  region.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_1","008_11_1","JDG","11","1","1"," There was a man from  the Gilead  region named Jephthah. He was a great warrior. His father was also named Gilead. But his mother was a prostitute. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_2","008_11_2","JDG","11","2","2","Gilead’s wife gave birth to several sons. When they grew up, they forced Jephthah to leave home, saying to him, “You are the son of a prostitute,  not the son of our mother. So  when our father  dies, you will not receive any of his property.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_3","008_11_3","JDG","11","3","3","So Jephthah ran away from his brothers, and he went to the Tob region. While he was there, some worthless men started to spend a lot of time with him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_4","008_11_4","JDG","11","4","4","Some time later, the Ammon people-group started to fight against the Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_5","008_11_5","JDG","11","5","5","When that happened DOU, the leaders of  the Gilead  region went to Jephthah to bring him back from the Tob region  to their area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_6","008_11_6","JDG","11","6","6","They said to him, “Come  with us and lead our army, and  help us to fight against the men from the Ammon people-group!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_7","008_11_7","JDG","11","7","7","But Jephthah replied, “You hated me RHQ previously! You forced me to leave my father’s house! So why are you coming to me now,  asking me to help you when you are experiencing trouble?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_8","008_11_8","JDG","11","8","8","The leaders from Gilead replied, “ Yes, we are having trouble, and that is the reason that we have come to you now. If you come with us and  help us to fight against the Ammon people-group,  after we defeat them, we will appoint you to be the leader of all us people in  the  Gilead  region.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_9","008_11_9","JDG","11","9","9","Jephthah replied, “If I go back to Gilead with you to fight against the Ammon people-group, and if Yahweh helps us to defeat them, will you truly appoint me to be your leader?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_10","008_11_10","JDG","11","10","10","They replied, “Yahweh is listening to everything that we say.  So he will punish us  if we do not do everything that you tell us to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_11","008_11_11","JDG","11","11","11","So Jephthah went with them back to  the Gilead  region, and the people appointed him to be their leader and the commander of their army. And Jephthah solemnly promised to Yahweh there at Mizpah  to serve him well. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_12","008_11_12","JDG","11","12","12","Jephthah sent some messengers to the king of the Ammon people-group. They asked the king, “What have we  done to make you angry, with the result  that your army is coming to fight  against the people in our land?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_13","008_11_13","JDG","11","13","13","The king replied, “ We have come to fight against you Israelis because you took our land when you came here from Egypt. You took all our land east of the Jordan  River, from the Arnon  River in the south to the Jabbok  River in the north. So if you now give it back to us, there ◄will be peace between us/we will not fight against you►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_14","008_11_14","JDG","11","14","14"," The messengers returned to Jephthah and told him what the king had said. So Jephthah sent the messengers to the king again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_15","008_11_15","JDG","11","15","15","They said to him, “This is what Jephthah says: ‘It is not  true  that we Israelis took the land from the Moab people-group and the Ammon people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_16","008_11_16","JDG","11","16","16","When the Israeli people came out of Egypt, they walked through the desert to the Red Sea, and then  walked across it and traveled to Kadesh town at the border of the Edom region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_17","008_11_17","JDG","11","17","17","They sent messengers to the king of the Edom people-group, to say to him, “Please allow us Israelis to walk across your land.” But the king of the Edom people-group refused. Later we sent the same message to the king of the Moab people-group, but he also refused to allow the Israelis to go through his land. So the Israelis stayed at Kadesh  for a long time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_18","008_11_18","JDG","11","18","18","Then the Israelis went into the desert and walked outside the borders of the Edom and Moab regions. They walked east of the Moab region, east of the Arnon  River, which is the eastern border of the Moab region. They did not cross that river to enter  the  Moab  region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_19","008_11_19","JDG","11","19","19","‘hen the Israelis sent a message to Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group, who lived in Heshbon  city. They asked him, “Will you please allow us Israeli people to cross through your land to arrive at the land to which we  are going.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_20","008_11_20","JDG","11","20","20","But Sihon did not trust the Israelis;  he thought that they would steal some of the things in his land. So he gathered all his troops and they set up their tents at Jahaz  village and then they attacked the Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_21","008_11_21","JDG","11","21","21","But Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  worship, enabled the Israeli army to defeat IDM Sihon and his army. Then they ◄took possession of/started to live in► all the land where the Amor people-group had lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_22","008_11_22","JDG","11","22","22","The Israelis took all the land that belonged to the Amor people-group, from the Arnon  River in the south to the Jabbok  River in the north, and from the desert  in the east to the Jordan  River in the west. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_23","008_11_23","JDG","11","23","23","‘t was Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  worship, who forced the Amor people-group to leave as the Israelis advanced. So do you now think that you can force the Israelis to leave RHQ? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_24","008_11_24","JDG","11","24","24","You take the land that your god Chemosh has given to you. And we will live in the land that Yahweh our God has given to us! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_25","008_11_25","JDG","11","25","25","◄You are no/Are you► better than Zippor’s son Balak, who was the king of the Moab people-group? He never RHQ quarreled with the Israeli people, and he never started to fight against us RHQ! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_26","008_11_26","JDG","11","26","26","For 300 years the Israeli people have lived in Heshbon and Aroer  cities in your region, and in the surrounding towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon  River. Why have you people of the Ammon people-group not taken back those cities during all those years RHQ? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_27","008_11_27","JDG","11","27","27","We have not sinned against you, but you are sinning against me by attacking me  and my army. I trust that Yahweh, the great judge, will decide whether we Israelis are right, or whether you people of the Ammon people-group are right.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_28","008_11_28","JDG","11","28","28","But the king of the Ammon people-group did not pay attention to that message from Jephthah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_29","008_11_29","JDG","11","29","29","Then the Spirit of Yahweh took control of Jephthah. Jephthah went through  the  Gilead  region and through the area where the tribe of Manasseh lived,  to enlist/gather men for his army.  He finally gathered them together in Mizpah  city in  the  Gilead  region to fight against the Ammon people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_30","008_11_30","JDG","11","30","30","There Jephthah made a solemn promise to Yahweh. He said, “If you will enable my army to defeat IDM the Ammon people-group, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_31","008_11_31","JDG","11","31","31","when I return from the battle, I will sacrifice to you the first person who comes out of my house  to greet me. It will be a sacrifice that will be completely burned  on the altar.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_32","008_11_32","JDG","11","32","32","Then Jephthah  and his men went from Mizpah to attack the Ammon people-group, and Yahweh enabled his army to defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_33","008_11_33","JDG","11","33","33","Jephthah and his men killed them, from Aroer  city all the way to the area around the city of Minnith. They destroyed 20 cities, as far as  the city of Abel Keramim. So the Israelis  completely defeated the Ammon people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_34","008_11_34","JDG","11","34","34","When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, his daughter was the first one to come out of the house to meet him. She was  joyfully playing a tambourine and dancing. She was his only child; he had no sons and no other daughters. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_35","008_11_35","JDG","11","35","35","When Jephthah saw his daughter, he tore his clothes  to show that he was very sad about what he was going to do. He said to her, “My daughter, you have caused me to become very sad DOU because I made a solemn promise to Yahweh  to sacrifice the first one who came out of my house, and I must do what I promised.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_36","008_11_36","JDG","11","36","36","His daughter said, “My father, you made a solemn promise to Yahweh. So you must do to me what you promised, because  you said that you would do that if Yahweh helped you to defeat our enemies, the Ammon people-group.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_37","008_11_37","JDG","11","37","37","Then she also said, “But allow me to do one thing. ◄First/before you do what you promised►, allow me to go up into the hilly area and wander around for two months. Since I will never be married  and have children, allow me and my friends to go and cry together.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_38","008_11_38","JDG","11","38","38","Jephthah replied, “All right, you may go.” So she left for two months. She and her friends stayed in the hills and they cried for her because she would never be married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_39","008_11_39","JDG","11","39","39","After two months, she returned to her father Jephthah, and he did to her what he had vowed. So his daughter never was married. Because of that, the Israelis now have a custom. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG11_40","008_11_40","JDG","11","40","40","Every year the young Israeli women go  into the hills for four days to remember  and cry about what happened to the daughter of Jephthah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_1","008_12_1","JDG","12","1","1","The men of the tribe of Ephraim summoned their soldiers, and they crossed  the Jordan River to  the town of  Zaphon  to talk with Jephthah. They said to him, “◄Why did you not ask us for help?/You should have requested us► to help your army fight the Ammon people-group. So we will burn down your house while you are in it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_2","008_12_2","JDG","12","2","2","Jephthah replied, “The Ammon people-group were oppressing us greatly. When we were prepared to start to attack them, I requested you to come and help us, but you refused. My men and I defeated the Ammon people-group, but you did not help us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_3","008_12_3","JDG","12","3","3","When I saw that you would not help us, I was willing to be killed in the battle against the Ammon people-group. But Yahweh helped us to defeat them.  You did not help us when we requested it before, so ◄why have you come here today to fight against me?/you should not have come here today to fight against me.►” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_4","008_12_4","JDG","12","4","4","Then Jephthah summoned the men of  the Gilead  region to fight  against the men of the tribe of Ephraim. The men of the tribe of Ephraim said, “You men from  the  Gilead  region are men who deserted us. Long ago you left us and moved to the area between our tribe and the tribe of Manasseh.”  Because of their saying that, the men of  the Gilead  region attacked the men of the tribe of Ephraim. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_5","008_12_5","JDG","12","5","5","The men of Gilead captured that ◄ford/place where people can walk across► at the Jordan  River to go to the land where the tribe of Ephraim live. Whenever one of the soldiers from the tribe of Ephraim came to the ford to try to escape, he would say, “Let me cross the river.” Then the men of Gilead would ask him, “Are you from the tribe of Ephraim?” If he said “No,” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_6","008_12_6","JDG","12","6","6","they would say to him, “Say the word ‘Shibboleth’.” The men of Ephraim could not pronounce that word correctly. So if the person from the tribe of Ephraim said ‘Sibboleth’,  they would know that he was lying and that he was really from the tribe of Ephraim, and they would kill him there at the ford. So the men of Gilead killed 42,000 people from the tribe of Ephraim at that time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_7","008_12_7","JDG","12","7","7","Jephthah, the man from  the Gilead  region, was a leader of the Israeli people for six years. Then he died and was buried in a town in  the Gilead  region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_8","008_12_8","JDG","12","8","8","After Jephthah died, a man named Ibzan, from Bethlehem, became the leader of the Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_9","008_12_9","JDG","12","9","9","He had 30 sons and 30 daughters. He forced all his daughters to marry men who were not in his clan, and brought women from outside his clan to marry his sons. He was the leader of the Israeli people for seven years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_10","008_12_10","JDG","12","10","10","When he died, he was buried in Bethlehem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_11","008_12_11","JDG","12","11","11","After Ibzan died, a man named Elon, from the tribe of Zebulun, became the leader of the Israeli people. He was their leader for ten years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_12","008_12_12","JDG","12","12","12","Then he died and was buried in Aijalon  city in the area where the tribe of Zebulun lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_13","008_12_13","JDG","12","13","13","After Elon died, a man named Abdon who was the son of Hillel, from Pirathon  city, in the area where the tribe of Ephraim live became the leader of the Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_14","008_12_14","JDG","12","14","14","He had 40 sons and 30 grandsons. Each of them had his own donkey on which to ride. Abdon was the leader of the Israeli people for eight years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG12_15","008_12_15","JDG","12","15","15","When Abdon died, he was buried in Pirathon, in the hilly area where the descendants of Amalek lived previously,  but now it is the area where the tribe of Ephraim lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_1","008_13_1","JDG","13","1","1","Again the Israeli people did things that Yahweh said were very evil. So Yahweh enabled the people of Philistia to conquer them. They ruled over the Israelis for 40 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_2","008_13_2","JDG","13","2","2","There was a man named Manoah from the descendants of Dan who lived in Zorah  town. His wife was unable to become pregnant, so they had no children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_3","008_13_3","JDG","13","3","3","One day, Yahweh appeared to Manoah’s wife in the form of an angel, and said to her, “Even though you have not been able to give birth to any children until now, you will soon become pregnant and give birth to a son. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_4","008_13_4","JDG","13","4","4"," From now until he is born, you must not drink any wine or other alcoholic/fermented drink, and you must not eat any food that will make you unacceptable to God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_5","008_13_5","JDG","13","5","5","After you give birth to your son, you must never allow his hair to be cut. He must be dedicated to God from the day he is born until the day he dies. He is the one who will rescue  many of the Israeli people from the people of Philistia.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_6","008_13_6","JDG","13","6","6","The woman ran and told her husband, “A prophet came to me. He looked awesome, like an angel from God. I did not ask where he came from, and he did not tell me his name. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_7","008_13_7","JDG","13","7","7","But he told me, ‘You will become pregnant and give birth to a son. Until then, you must not drink any wine or any alcoholic/fermented drink, and you must not eat any food that would make you unacceptable to God. Your son must be dedicated to God from the day he is born until the day he dies.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_8","008_13_8","JDG","13","8","8","Then Manoah prayed to Yahweh, saying, “O Yahweh, I plead with you, allow that prophet whom you sent to us to come again, and teach us how we should raise the boy who will be born to us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_9","008_13_9","JDG","13","9","9","God did what Manoah asked, and Yahweh again appeared to his wife in the form of an angel, while she was out in the field. But again her husband Manoah was not with her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_10","008_13_10","JDG","13","10","10","So she quickly ran and said to her husband, “The man who appeared to me a few days ago has come back again!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_11","008_13_11","JDG","13","11","11","Manoah ran back with his wife, and asked, “Are you the man who talked with my wife a few days ago?” He replied, “Yes, I am.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_12","008_13_12","JDG","13","12","12","Manoah asked him, “When what you promised occurs  and my wife gives birth to a son, what rules must he obey, and what work will he do  when he grows up?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_13","008_13_13","JDG","13","13","13","Yahweh replied, “Your wife must obey all the instructions I gave her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_14","008_13_14","JDG","13","14","14"," Before the baby is born, she must not eat grapes, or drink wine or any other alcoholic/fermented drink, or eat anything that would make her unacceptable to God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_15","008_13_15","JDG","13","15","15","Then Manoah said, “Please stay here until we can kill and cook a young goat for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_16","008_13_16","JDG","13","16","16","Yahweh replied, “I will stay here, but I will not eat anything. However, you may kill an animal and sacrifice it as a burned offering to Yahweh.” (Manoah did not realize that the  man he thought was an angel was really Yahweh.) ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_17","008_13_17","JDG","13","17","17","Then Manoah asked him, “What is your name? When what you have promised happens, we want to honor you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_18","008_13_18","JDG","13","18","18","Yahweh replied, “◄Why do you ask me my name?/You should not ask me my name.► RHQ It is ◄wonderful/it cannot be understood►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_19","008_13_19","JDG","13","19","19","Then Manoah killed a young goat and burned it on a rock, along with a grain offering, as a sacrifice to Yahweh. And Yahweh did an amazing thing while Manoah and his wife watched. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_20","008_13_20","JDG","13","20","20","Flames from the altar blazed up toward the sky, and Yahweh ascended in the flames. When Manoah and his wife saw that, they prostrated themselves on the ground. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_21","008_13_21","JDG","13","21","21","Although Yahweh did not appear in the form of an angel to Manoah and his wife again, Manoah realized that the  man they thought was an angel was really Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_22","008_13_22","JDG","13","22","22","So he said, “Now we will die, because we have seen God!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_23","008_13_23","JDG","13","23","23","But his wife said, “No, we will not die, because if Yahweh intended to kill us, he would not have accepted the burned offering and the grain offering. And he would not have appeared to us and told us the wonderful thing that would happen to us, and he would not have performed this miracle.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_24","008_13_24","JDG","13","24","24","When their son was born, they named him Samson. Yahweh blessed him as he grew up. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG13_25","008_13_25","JDG","13","25","25","And while he was in Mahaneh-Dan, which is between Zorah and Eshtaol  towns, Yahweh’s Spirit began to control him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_1","008_14_1","JDG","14","1","1","One day when Samson was in Timnah  town, he saw a young Philistine woman there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_2","008_14_2","JDG","14","2","2","When he returned home, he told his mother and father, “I saw a young Philistine woman in Timnah, and I want you to get her for me so I can marry her.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_3","008_14_3","JDG","14","3","3","His mother and father objected very strongly. They said, “Is there no woman from our tribe, or from the other Israeli tribes, that you could marry? Why must you go to the heathen Philistines to get a wife?” But Samson told his father, “Get her for me! She is the one I want!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_4","008_14_4","JDG","14","4","4","His mother and father did not realize that Yahweh was arranging this. He was preparing a way for  Samson to defeat the Philistines, who were ruling over Israel at that time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_5","008_14_5","JDG","14","5","5","So, as Samson was going down to Timnah, followed by his mother and father, a young lion attacked Samson near the vineyards close to Timnah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_6","008_14_6","JDG","14","6","6","Then Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully, with the result that he tore the lion apart with his hands. He did it  as easily as if it were a young goat. But he did not tell his mother and father about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_7","008_14_7","JDG","14","7","7","When they arrived in Timnah, Samson talked with the young woman, and he liked her very much.  And his father made arrangements for the wedding. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_8","008_14_8","JDG","14","8","8","Later, when Samson returned to Timnah for the wedding, he turned off the path to see the carcass of the lion. He discovered that  after other creatures had eaten all the flesh, a swarm of bees  had made a hive in the skeleton and had made some honey. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_9","008_14_9","JDG","14","9","9","So he scooped some of the honey into his hands and ate some of it as he was walking along. He also gave some of it to his mother and father, but he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the skeleton of the lion,  because anyone dedicated to God was not to touch any corpse. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_10","008_14_10","JDG","14","10","10","As his father was making the final arrangements for the marriage, Samson gave a party  for the young men in that area. That was the custom for men to do when they were about to be married. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_11","008_14_11","JDG","14","11","11","Thirty young man were invited to the party. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_12","008_14_12","JDG","14","12","12","Samson said to them, “Allow me to tell you a riddle. If you tel me the meaning of my riddle during these seven days of the celebration, I will give each of you a linen robe and an extra set of clothes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_13","008_14_13","JDG","14","13","13","But if you cannot tell me the meaning, you must each give me a linen robe and an extra set of clothes.” They replied, “All right. Tell us your riddle.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_14","008_14_14","JDG","14","14","14","So he said, “From the thing that eats came something to eat; out of something strong came something sweet.” But for three days they could not tell him the meaning of the riddle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_15","008_14_15","JDG","14","15","15","On the fourth day, they said to Samson’s bride, “Ask your husband to tell you the meaning of the riddle. If you do not do that, we will burn down your father’s house, with you inside it! Did you invite us here only to make us poor  by forcing us to buy a lot of clothes for your husband?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_16","008_14_16","JDG","14","16","16","So Samson’s wife came to him, crying, and said to him, “You do not really love me. You hate me! You have told a riddle to my friends, but you have not told me the meaning of the riddle!” He replied, “I have not told the meaning of the riddle even to my mother and father, so why should I tell it to you?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_17","008_14_17","JDG","14","17","17","She continued to cry every time she was with him, all during the rest of the celebration. Finally, on the seventh day, because she continued to nag him, he told her the meaning of the riddle. Then she told it to the young men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_18","008_14_18","JDG","14","18","18","So, before sunset on the seventh day, the young men came to Samson and said to him, “hat/Nothing is sweeter than honey RHQ. What/Nothing is stronger than a lion RHQ!” Samson replied, “ You should not force a heifer to plow a field MET. Similarly, if you had not forced my bride to ask me about the riddle MET, you would not have known the answer to my riddle!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_19","008_14_19","JDG","14","19","19","Then Yahweh’s Spirit powerfully took control of Samson. He went down to  the coast at Ashkelon  town, and killed 30 men. He took their clothes  and went back to Timnah and gave them to the men who had told him the meaning of the riddle. But he was very angry about what had happened, so he went back home to live with his mother and father. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG14_20","008_14_20","JDG","14","20","20","So ◄Samson’s wife was given/the bride’s father gave Samson’s wife► to the man who who had been Samson’s best man at the wedding,  but Samson did not know that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_1","008_15_1","JDG","15","1","1","During the time that they harvested wheat, Samson took a young goat to Timnah as a present for his wife. He planned to sleep with EUP his wife, but her father would not let him go into  her room. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_2","008_15_2","JDG","15","2","2","He said to Samson, “I really thought that you hated her. So I gave her to the man who had been your best man at the wedding, and she married him. But look, her younger sister is RHQ more beautiful than she is. You can marry her!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_3","008_15_3","JDG","15","3","3","Samson replied, “No! And this time I have a right to get revenge on you Philistines!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_4","008_15_4","JDG","15","4","4","Then he went out  into the fields and caught 300 foxes. He tied their tails together, two-by-two. He fastened torches to each pair of tails. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_5","008_15_5","JDG","15","5","5","Then he lit the torches and let the foxes run through the fields of the Philistines. The fire  from the torches burned all the grain to the ground, including the grain that had been cut and piled in bundles. The fire also burned down their grapevines and their olive trees. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_6","008_15_6","JDG","15","6","6","The Philistines asked, “Who did this?” Someone told them, “Samson did it. He married a woman from Timnah, but then his father-in-law gave her to the man who was Samson’s best man at the wedding, and she married him.” So the Philistines went  to Timnah and got the woman and her father, and burned them to death. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_7","008_15_7","JDG","15","7","7","Samson  found out about that, and he said to them, “Because you have done this, I will not stop until I get revenge on you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_8","008_15_8","JDG","15","8","8","So he attacked the Philistines furiously, and killed many of them. Then he went  to hide in a cave in the large rock at a place called Etam. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_9","008_15_9","JDG","15","9","9","The Philistines  did not know where he was, so they  went up to where the descendants of Judah lived, set up their tents near Lehi  town and then raided the town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_10","008_15_10","JDG","15","10","10","The men there asked the Philistines, “Why have you attacked us?” The Philistines replied, “We have come to capture Samson. We have come to get revenge on him for what he did to us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_11","008_15_11","JDG","15","11","11"," Someone there knew where Samson was hiding. So 3,000 men from Judah went down to get Samson at the cave in the rock where he was hiding. They said to Samson, “Do you not realize that the people of Philistia are ruling over us? Do you not realize what they will do to us?” Samson replied, “The only thing I did was that I got revenge on them for what they did to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_12","008_15_12","JDG","15","12","12","But the men from Judah said to him, “We have come to tie you up and put you in the hands of the Philistines.” Samson said, “All right, but promise me that you yourselves will not kill me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_13","008_15_13","JDG","15","13","13","They replied, “We will just tie you up and take you to the Philistines. We will not kill you.” So they tied him with two new ropes, and led him away from the cave. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_14","008_15_14","JDG","15","14","14","When they arrived at Lehi, the Philistines came toward him, shouting  triumphantly. But Yahweh’s Spirit came upon Samson powerfully. He snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were stalks of burned flax, and the ropes fell off his wrists. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_15","008_15_15","JDG","15","15","15","Then he saw a donkey’s jawbone lying on the ground. It was fresh,  so it was hard. He picked it up and killed about 1,000 Philistine men with it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_16","008_15_16","JDG","15","16","16","Then Samson wrote this poem: “ith the jawbone of a donkey I have made them like a heap of  dead donkeys. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed 1,000 men.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_17","008_15_17","JDG","15","17","17","When he finished killing those men, he threw the jawbone away, and later that place was called Jawbone Hill. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_18","008_15_18","JDG","15","18","18","Then Samson was very thirsty, so he called out to Yahweh, “You have given me strength to win a great victory. So now must I die because of being thirsty, with the result that those heathen Philistines will take away my body  and mutilate it?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_19","008_15_19","JDG","15","19","19","So God caused water to gush out of a depression in the ground at Lehi. Samson drank from it and soon felt strong again. He named that place ‘The spring of the one who called out’. That spring is still there at Lehi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG15_20","008_15_20","JDG","15","20","20","Samson was the leader of the Israeli people for 20 years, but during that time the Philistines  were the ones who really ruled over the land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_1","008_16_1","JDG","16","1","1","One day Samson went to Gaza  city in the Philistia area. He spent some time with a prostitute. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_2","008_16_2","JDG","16","2","2","People soon found out that Samson was there, so the men of Gaza gathered together at the city gate and waited all night. They said to themselves, “When it dawns tomorrow morning, we will kill him  when he tries to leave the city.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_3","008_16_3","JDG","16","3","3","But Samson did not stay there all night. At midnight, he got up. He went to the city gate, he took hold of its two posts, and he lifted it up out of the ground, with its connecting cross bar still attached. He put it on his shoulders and carried it  many miles uphill to Hebron. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_4","008_16_4","JDG","16","4","4","Later Samson fell in love with a woman named Delilah,  and started to live with her. She lived in Sorek Valley  in the Philistia area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_5","008_16_5","JDG","16","5","5","The Philistine leaders went to her and said, “Find out from Samson what makes him so strong. And find out how we can subdue him and tie him up securely. If you do that, each of us will give you 1,100 pieces of silver.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_6","008_16_6","JDG","16","6","6","So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes you so strong, and tell me how someone can subdue you and tie you up.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_7","008_16_7","JDG","16","7","7","Samson said, “If someone ties me with seven new bowstrings, ones that are not dry yet, I will become as weak as other men.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_8","008_16_8","JDG","16","8","8","So  after Delilah told that to the Philistine leaders, they brought seven new bowstrings to Delilah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_9","008_16_9","JDG","16","9","9","Then she hid the men in one of the rooms in her house. Then  while Samson was sleeping, she tied him up with the bowstrings. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come here to capture you!” But Samson snapped the bowstrings as easily as though they were strings that had been singed in a fire. So the Philistines did not find out what made Samson so strong. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_10","008_16_10","JDG","16","10","10","Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have deceived me and lied to me! Now tell me  the truth, how someone can tie you up securely.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_11","008_16_11","JDG","16","11","11","Samson replied, “If someone ties me with new ropes, ones that have never been used, I will be as weak as other men.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_12","008_16_12","JDG","16","12","12","So again,  she told the Philistine leaders, and they  came and hid in the room as they had done before. And again, while Samson was sleeping, she took the new ropes and tied him up with them. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson snapped the ropes on his arms as easily as if they were threads. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_13","008_16_13","JDG","16","13","13","Then Delilah said, “You have deceived me and lied to me  again! Please tell me how someone can tie you up securely!” Samson replied, “If you weave the seven braids of my hair into the threads you are weaving on the loom, and then fasten those threads with the pin  that makes the threads tight, then I will be as weak as other men.” So again, while Samson was sleeping on her lap, Delilah held the seven braids of his hair, and wove them into the threads on the loom, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_14","008_16_14","JDG","16","14","14","and she tightened them with the pin. Then she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” But Samson woke up and pulled out the pin, and pulled his hair from the threads on the loom. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_15","008_16_15","JDG","16","15","15","Then Delilah said to him, “How can you say that you love me when you do not tell me the truth about yourself? You have deceived me three times, and you still have not told me what really makes you so strong!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_16","008_16_16","JDG","16","16","16","Day after day she nagged him like that. He thought he would die from her nagging IDM. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_17","008_16_17","JDG","16","17","17","Finally Samson told her the truth. He said, “I have been set apart for God since the day I was born. And because of that, my hair has never been cut. If my hair were shaved off, my strength would be gone, and I would be as weak as other men.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_18","008_16_18","JDG","16","18","18","Delilah realized that this time he had told her the truth. So she summoned the Philistine leaders again, saying, “Come back one more time, because Samson has really told me everything  about why he is so strong”. So the Philistine leaders returned and brought to Delilah the money  that they promised to give her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_19","008_16_19","JDG","16","19","19","Again she lulled Samson to sleep, with his head in her lap. Then she called one of the Philistine men to come and shave off Samson’s hair. As he did that, Samson began to get weaker. And finally his strength was all gone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_20","008_16_20","JDG","16","20","20","Then  after she tied him up, she called out, “Samson! The Philistines have come to capture you!” He woke up and thought, “I will do as I did before. I will shake  these ropes off myself and be free!” But he did not realize that Yahweh had left him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_21","008_16_21","JDG","16","21","21","So the Philistine men seized him and gouged out his eyes. Then they took him to Gaza. There they put him in prison and bound him with bronze chains. They made him  turn a millstone to grind grain  every day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_22","008_16_22","JDG","16","22","22","But his hair started to grow again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_23","008_16_23","JDG","16","23","23"," Several months later the Philistine leaders celebrated a big festival. During the festival they offered sacrifices to their god Dagon. They praised him, saying, “Our god has enabled us to defeat our great enemy Samson!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_24","008_16_24","JDG","16","24","24","And when the other people saw Samson, they also praised their god Dagon, saying, “Samson ruined our crops and killed many of our people, but our god has put our enemy into our hands. Our god helped us to capture the one who has killed so many of us!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_25","008_16_25","JDG","16","25","25","By that time the people were half-drunk. They shouted, “Bring Samson out of the prison! Bring him here so that he can entertain us!” So they brought Samson from the prison and made fun of him. Then they made him stand in the center of the temple. They made him stand between the two pillars that held up the roof. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_26","008_16_26","JDG","16","26","26","Samson said to the servant who was leading him by his hand, “Place my hands against the two pillars. I want to rest against them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_27","008_16_27","JDG","16","27","27","At that time the temple was full of men and women. All the Philistine leaders were also there. And there were about 3,000 people on the roof, watching Samson and making fun of him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_28","008_16_28","JDG","16","28","28","Then Samson prayed, saying, “Yahweh, my Lord, think about me again! Please give me strength one more time, so that I may get revenge on the Philistines for gouging out my eyes!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_29","008_16_29","JDG","16","29","29","Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars of the temple. He put his right hand on one pillar and his left hand on the other pillar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_30","008_16_30","JDG","16","30","30","Then he shouted  to God, “Let me die with the Philistines!”, and he pushed with all his strength.  The pillars collapsed, and the temple crashed down on the Philistine leaders and all the other Philistine people,  and they all died. So Samson killed more people when he died than he had killed all during his life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG16_31","008_16_31","JDG","16","31","31","Later his brothers and their relatives went down  from Zorah to Gaza to get his body. They took it back home and buried it between Zorah and Eshtaol, at the place where Samson’s father Manoah was buried. Samson had been Israel’s leader for 20 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_1","008_17_1","JDG","17","1","1","There was a man named Micah who lived in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim live. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_2","008_17_2","JDG","17","2","2","One day he said to his mother, “I heard you curse whoever stole ◄1,100 pieces/28 pounds/13 kg.► of silver from your house. I am the one who took the silver, and I still have it.” His mother replied, “My son, I pray that Yahweh will bless you  for admitting that you took it.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_3","008_17_3","JDG","17","3","3","Micah gave all the silver back to his mother. Then she said  to herself, “I will give  some of this silver to Yahweh.” And she said to her son, “My son, I want you to make an idol and a statue  from this silver. So I will give  some of this silver back to you  for making these things.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_4","008_17_4","JDG","17","4","4","So when he gave all the silver to his mother, she took ◄200 pieces/about 5 pounds/1.6 kg.► of it to a ◄silversmith/man who made things from silver►. With the silver that man made an idol and a statue,  and gave them to Micah. Micah put them in his house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_5","008_17_5","JDG","17","5","5","He had in his house a special ◄shrine/place for putting sacred things►. He made a sacred vest and some small idols  and put them in this shrine along with the big idol and the statue. Then Micah chose one of his sons to become his priest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_6","008_17_6","JDG","17","6","6","At that time, the Israeli people did not have a king. So  Micah and everyone else did whatever they considered to be the right thing to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_7","008_17_7","JDG","17","7","7","There was a young man who had been living in Bethlehem in the area where the tribe of Judah lives. He  wanted to work as a priest because he was a member of the tribe of Levi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_8","008_17_8","JDG","17","8","8","So he left Bethlehem to find another place to live  and work. He came to Micah’s house in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim live. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_9","008_17_9","JDG","17","9","9","Micah asked him, “Where are you from?” He replied, “I come from Bethlehem. I am from the tribe of Levi, and I am looking for a place to live  and work as a priest.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_10","008_17_10","JDG","17","10","10","Micah said to him, “Stay with me, and you can become like a father  to counsel me, and be my priest. Each year I will give to you ten pieces of silver and some  new clothes. And I will provide food for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_11","008_17_11","JDG","17","11","11","So the young man agreed to live with Micah. He became like one of Micah’s own sons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_12","008_17_12","JDG","17","12","12","Micah appointed him to be a priest, and he lived in Micah’s house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG17_13","008_17_13","JDG","17","13","13","Then Micah said, “Now I know that Yahweh will do good things for me, because I have a man from the tribe of Levi to be my priest.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_1","008_18_1","JDG","18","1","1","At that time the Israelis had no king. Also at that time, the tribe of Dan was still searching for some land where they could live. The other Israeli tribes had  been able to ◄ capture/take possession of►  the land that had been allotted to them, but the tribe of Dan had not been able to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_2","008_18_2","JDG","18","2","2","So they chose five soldiers from their clans, men who lived in Zorah and Eshtaol  cities, to go through the land and explore it  and try to find some land where their tribe could live. They came to Micah’s house in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived, and they stayed there that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_3","008_18_3","JDG","18","3","3","While they were in his house and they heard the young man who had become Micah’s priest talking, they recognized from ◄his accent/the way that he talked►  that he was from the southern part of Israel. So they went to him and asked him, “Who brought you here? What are you doing here? Why did you come here?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_4","008_18_4","JDG","18","4","4","He told them the things that Micah had done for him. And he said, “Micah ◄has hired me/is paying me to work for him►, and I have become his priest.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_5","008_18_5","JDG","18","5","5","So they said to him, “Please ask God if we will succeed  in what we are trying to do on this journey.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_6","008_18_6","JDG","18","6","6","The young man replied, “Things will go well for you. Yahweh will go with you on this journey.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_7","008_18_7","JDG","18","7","7"," The next day the five men left. When they came to Laish  city, they saw that the people there lived safely, like the people in Sidon  city did. The people there thought that they were safe/protected  from any enemies, and they had plenty of  good fertile land. They lived very far from the people of Sidon,  so the people of Sidon would not be able to help defend/protect them. They had no other ◄allies/groups nearby that would help them in battles►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_8","008_18_8","JDG","18","8","8","When those five men returned to Zorah and Eshtaol, their relatives asked them “What did you find out?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_9","008_18_9","JDG","18","9","9","They replied, “We have found some land, and it is very good. We should go and attack the people  who live there. Why are you staying here and doing nothing RHQ? Do not wait any longer! We should go immediately and take possession of that land! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_10","008_18_10","JDG","18","10","10","When you go there, you will see that there is plenty of land, and it has everything  that we will need. The people there are not expecting anyone to attack them. Surely God is giving that land to us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_11","008_18_11","JDG","18","11","11","So 600 men from the tribe of Dan left Zorah and Eshtaol, carrying their weapons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_12","008_18_12","JDG","18","12","12","On their way they set up their tents near Kiriath-Jearim  city in  the area where the tribe of Judah  lives. That is why the area west of Kiriath-Jearim was named ‘Camp of Dan’, and that is still its name. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_13","008_18_13","JDG","18","13","13","From there, they went to the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lives. And they arrived at Micah’s house. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_14","008_18_14","JDG","18","14","14","The five men who had explored the land near Laish said to their fellow Israelis, “Do you know that in one of these houses there is a sacred vest, several idols, and a statue?  We think that you know what you should do.” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_15","008_18_15","JDG","18","15","15","So they went to the house where the man from the tribe of Levi lived, which was the house where Micah lived, and they greeted the young man from the tribe of Levi  who had become Micah’s priest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_16","008_18_16","JDG","18","16","16","The 600 men of the tribe of Dan stood outside the gate of the house, carrying their weapons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_17","008_18_17","JDG","18","17","17","The five men who had explored the land went into Micah’s house, and took all the idols, the sacred vest, and the statue. While they did that, the 600 men stood outside the gate,  talking with the priest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_18","008_18_18","JDG","18","18","18","When the priest saw them bringing out the idols and the sacred vest and the statue, he said to them, “What are you doing?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_19","008_18_19","JDG","18","19","19","They replied, “Be quiet! Do not say anything! You come with us and be  like a father to us and a priest for us. Is it better for you to  stay here and be a priest for the people in the house of one man, or to be a priest for a clan, and a priest for a whole tribe of Israelis?” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_20","008_18_20","JDG","18","20","20","The priest liked what they were suggesting. So he took the sacred vest and the idols, and he  prepared to go with the men from the tribe of Dan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_21","008_18_21","JDG","18","21","21","They all put their little children and their animals and everything else that they owned in front of them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_22","008_18_22","JDG","18","22","22","After they had gone a little distance from Micah’s house, Micah  saw what was happening. He quickly summoned the men who lived near him, and they ran and caught up with the men from the tribe of Dan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_23","008_18_23","JDG","18","23","23","They shouted at them. The men of the tribe of Dan turned around and said to Micah, “What is the problem? Why have you gathered these men  to pursue us?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_24","008_18_24","JDG","18","24","24","Micah shouted, “You took the silver idols that were made for me! You also took my priest! I do not have anything left RHQ! So why do you ask me, ‘What is the problem?’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_25","008_18_25","JDG","18","25","25","The men from the tribe of Dan replied, “You should not shout loudly like that! One of our angry men might attack you and kill you and your family!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_26","008_18_26","JDG","18","26","26","Then the men from the tribe of Dan continued walking. Micah realized that there was a very large group of them,  so that it would be useless for him to try to fight them. So he turned around and went home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_27","008_18_27","JDG","18","27","27","The men of the tribe of Dan were carrying the things that had been made for Micah, and they also took his priest, and they continued traveling to Laish. They attacked the people who were peacefully living there, and killed them with their swords, and then they burned everything in the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_28","008_18_28","JDG","18","28","28","Laish was far from  the city of Sidon,  so the people of Sidon could not rescue the people of Laish. And the people of Laish had no other allies. Laish was in a valley near Beth-Rehob  town. The people of the tribe of Dan rebuilt the city and started to live there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_29","008_18_29","JDG","18","29","29","They gave to the city a  new name, Dan, in honor of their ancestor Dan, who was one of the sons of Jacob. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_30","008_18_30","JDG","18","30","30","The people of the tribe of Dan set up  in the city the idols  that had been made for Micah. Jonathan, who was the son of Gershom and the grandson of Moses, was appointed to be their priest. His descendants continued to be priests until the Israelis were captured and taken  to Assyria. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG18_31","008_18_31","JDG","18","31","31","After the people of the tribe of Dan set up the idols that had been made for Micah,  they worshiped those idols, even though the Sacred Tent  where they had been commanded to worship God, was at Shiloh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_1","008_19_1","JDG","19","1","1","At that time the Israeli people had no king. There was a man from the tribe of Levi who lived in a remote place in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lives. He had previously taken as a wife a woman who was a slave. She was from Bethlehem, in the area where the tribe of Judah lives. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_2","008_19_2","JDG","19","2","2","But she started to sleep with other men also. Then she left him and returned to her father’s house in Bethlehem. She stayed there for four months. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_3","008_19_3","JDG","19","3","3","Then her husband took his servant and two donkeys and went to Bethlehem. He went to ask her to come back to live with him again. When he arrived at her father’s house, she invited him to come in. Her father was happy to see him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_4","008_19_4","JDG","19","4","4","The woman’s father asked him to stay. So he stayed there for three days. During that time he ate and drank and slept there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_5","008_19_5","JDG","19","5","5","On the fourth day, they all got up early in the morning. The man from the tribe of Levi was preparing to leave, but the woman’s father said to him, “Eat something before you go.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_6","008_19_6","JDG","19","6","6","So the two men sat down to eat and drink together. Then the woman’s father said to him, “Please stay another night. Relax/Rest and have a joyful time.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_7","008_19_7","JDG","19","7","7","The man from the tribe of Levi wanted to leave, but the woman’s father requested him to stay one more night. So he stayed again that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_8","008_19_8","JDG","19","8","8","On the fifth day, the man got up early and prepared to leave. But the woman’s father said to him again, “Have something to eat. Wait until this afternoon,  and then leave.” So the two men ate together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_9","008_19_9","JDG","19","9","9","In the afternoon, when the man from the tribe of Levi and his slave wife and his servant got up to leave, the woman’s father said, “It will soon be dark. The day is almost over. Stay here tonight and have a good/joyful time. Tomorrow morning you can get up early and leave for your home.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_10","008_19_10","JDG","19","10","10","But the man from the tribe of Levi did not want to stay for another night. He put saddles on his two donkeys, and started to go with his slave wife  and his servant toward Jebus  city, which is  now named Jerusalem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_11","008_19_11","JDG","19","11","11","Late in the afternoon, they came near to Jebus. The servant said to his master, “We should stop in this city where the Jebus people-group live, and stay here tonight.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_12","008_19_12","JDG","19","12","12","But his master said, “No, it would not be good for us to stay here where foreign people live. There are no Israeli people here. We will go on to Gibeah  city.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_13","008_19_13","JDG","19","13","13","He said to his servant, “Let’s go. It is not far to Gibeah. We can go there, or we can go a bit further to Ramah. We can stay in one of those two cities tonight.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_14","008_19_14","JDG","19","14","14","So they continued walking. When they came near Gibeah, where people from the tribe of Benjamin live, the sun was setting. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_15","008_19_15","JDG","19","15","15","They stopped to stay there that night. They went to the public square of that city and sat down. But no one  who passed by invited them to stay in their house for that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_16","008_19_16","JDG","19","16","16","Finally, in the evening, an old man came by. He had been working in the fields. He was from the hilly area of the tribe of Ephraim, but at that time he was living in Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_17","008_19_17","JDG","19","17","17","He realized that the man from the tribe of Levi was only traveling and did not have a home in that city. So he asked the man, “Where have you come from? And where are you going?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_18","008_19_18","JDG","19","18","18","He replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem to my home in the hilly area where people of the tribe of Ephraim live. I went from there to Bethlehem, but now we are going to  Shiloh where Yahweh’s Sacred tent (OR, my house) is. No one here has invited us to stay in their house tonight. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_19","008_19_19","JDG","19","19","19","We have straw and food for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me and the young woman and my servant. We do not need anything else.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_20","008_19_20","JDG","19","20","20","The old man said, “I wish that things will go well for you, but I would like to provide what you need. Do not stay here in the square tonight.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_21","008_19_21","JDG","19","21","21","Then the old man took them to his house. He gave food to the donkeys. He  gave water to the man and the woman and the servant to wash their feet. And he gave them something to eat and drink. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_22","008_19_22","JDG","19","22","22","While they were having a good/joyful time together, some wicked men from that city surrounded the house and started to bang on the door. They shouted to the old man, “Bring out to us the man who has come to your house. We want to have sex with him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_23","008_19_23","JDG","19","23","23","The old man went outside and said to them, “Friends, I will not do that. That would be a very evil thing. This man is a guest in my house. You should not do such a terrible/disgraceful/shameful thing! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_24","008_19_24","JDG","19","24","24","Look, my daughter is here. She is  still a virgin. And this man’s slave wife is here. I will bring them out to you now. You may do to them whatever you wish, but do not do such a terrible/disgraceful/shameful thing to this young man!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_25","008_19_25","JDG","19","25","25","But the men did not pay attention to what he said. So the man from the tribe of Levi took his slave wife and sent her to them, outside the house. They raped EUP her and abused her all night. Then at dawn, they allowed her to go. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_26","008_19_26","JDG","19","26","26","She returned to the old man’s house, where her husband was staying, but she fell down at the doorway and lay there all night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_27","008_19_27","JDG","19","27","27","In the morning, when the man from the tribe of Levi got up, he went outside of the house to continue his journey. He saw his slave wife lying there at the doorway of the house. Her hands were on the doorsill. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_28","008_19_28","JDG","19","28","28","He said to her, “Get up! Let’s go!” But she did not answer,  because she had died. He put her body on the donkey and traveled to his home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_29","008_19_29","JDG","19","29","29","When he arrived home, he took a knife and cut the body of the slave woman into twelve pieces. Then he sent one piece to each area of Israel,  along with a message telling what had happened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG19_30","008_19_30","JDG","19","30","30","Everyone who saw a piece of the body and the message said, “Nothing like this has ever happened before. Not since our ancestors left Egypt  have we heard of such a terrible thing. We need to think carefully about it. Someone should decide what we should do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_1","008_20_1","JDG","20","1","1","All the Israelis, from Dan  city in the north to Beersheba  city in the south, and even from  the  Gilead  region on the east side of the Jordan River, heard what had happened. So they they gathered together at Mizpah,  at the place where they worshiped Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_2","008_20_2","JDG","20","2","2","The leaders of  eleven of the tribes of Israel stood in front of the people who gathered there. There were 400,000 men with swords who were there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_3","008_20_3","JDG","20","3","3","The people of the tribe of Benjamin heard that the other Israelis had gone up to Mizpah,  but none of the men from their tribe went to the meeting there. The Israelis who had come to Mizpah asked about the evil thing that had happened. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_4","008_20_4","JDG","20","4","4","So the husband of the woman who had been killed replied, “My slave wife and I came to Gibeah  city, wanting to stay there that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_5","008_20_5","JDG","20","5","5","That evening, the men of Gibeah came to attack me. They surrounded the house  where I was staying and wanted to  have sex with me and then kill me. They  raped and abused my slave wife  all night, and she died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_6","008_20_6","JDG","20","6","6","I took her body home and cut it into pieces. Then I sent one piece to each area of Israel,  because I wanted you all to know about this wicked and disgraceful/shameful thing  that has been done here in Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_7","008_20_7","JDG","20","7","7","So now, all you Israeli people, speak, and tell me what you think should be done!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_8","008_20_8","JDG","20","8","8","All the people stood up, and in unison said, “None of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_9","008_20_9","JDG","20","9","9","This is what we must do to  the people of Gibeah. First, we will ◄cast lots/throw marked stones►  to determine which group should attack them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_10","008_20_10","JDG","20","10","10","We will choose ◄one tenth/one from every ten► of the men from all the Israeli tribes. Those men will go and find food for the men who will go to attack the people of Gibeah. Then the other men will go to Gibeah to ◄pay the people back/punish them► for this terrible thing that they have done  here in Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_11","008_20_11","JDG","20","11","11","And all the Israeli people agreed  that the people of Gibeah should be punished. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_12","008_20_12","JDG","20","12","12","Then the Israeli men sent messengers throughout the tribe of Benjamin. They demanded, “Do you realize that some of your men have done a very evil thing? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_13","008_20_13","JDG","20","13","13","Bring those wicked men to us, in order that we can execute them.  By doing that, we will be doing what should be done because of this evil thing that has happened in Israel.” But the  people of the tribe of Benjamin did not pay attention to their fellow Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_14","008_20_14","JDG","20","14","14","The men of the tribe of Benjamin left their cities and gathered at Gibeah to fight the  other Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_15","008_20_15","JDG","20","15","15","In that one day the men of the tribe of Benjamin recruited 26,000 soldiers who knew how to fight using swords. They also chose/recruited 700 men from Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_16","008_20_16","JDG","20","16","16","From all those soldiers there were 700 men who were left-handed, and each of them could sling a stone at  a target that was very small and as narrow as a hair, and the stone always hit the target! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_17","008_20_17","JDG","20","17","17","There were 400,000 men from the other Israeli tribes who had swords. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_18","008_20_18","JDG","20","18","18","Those other Israelis went up to Bethel and asked God, “Which tribe should be the first to attack the men from the tribe of Benjamin?” Yahweh answered, “ The men from the tribe of Judah should go first.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_19","008_20_19","JDG","20","19","19","The next morning, the Israeli men went and set up their tents near Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_20","008_20_20","JDG","20","20","20","Then they went to fight against  the men from the tribe of Benjamin, and stood in their positions for fighting a battle,  facing Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_21","008_20_21","JDG","20","21","21","The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and fought against them, and they killed 22,000 Israeli men on that day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_22","008_20_22","JDG","20","22","23"," Late that afternoon, the  remaining Israeli men went to the place of worship and cried until the sun set. Then they asked Yahweh, “Should we attack the men of the tribe of Benjamin again, even though they are our fellow Israelis?” Yahweh replied, “Yes, attack them again.” So the Israeli men encouraged each other. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_24","008_20_24","JDG","20","24","24","The next day they again stood in their positions for fighting, just like they had done on the previous day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_25","008_20_25","JDG","20","25","25","The men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and attacked the Israelis, and killed 18,000 more of their men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_26","008_20_26","JDG","20","26","26"," In the afternoon, all the people of Israel  who had not been killed again went to Bethel. There they sat down and cried to Yahweh, and they ◄fasted/abstained from eating food► until it was evening. They brought some offerings which they burned completely  on the altar, and they also brought some offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_27","008_20_27","JDG","20","27","28","At that time, the Sacred Chest that contained the stone tablets on which were written the Ten Commandments was there at Bethel. A priest named Phinehas, the son of Eleazar and grandson of Aaron, often stood in front of that chest  and talked with Yahweh. While he stood there on that day, he asked Yahweh, “Shall we go again to fight against our fellow Israelis from the tribe of Benjamin, or shall we stop fighting against them?” Yahweh answered, “Go again tomorrow, because tomorrow I will enable you to defeat them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_29","008_20_29","JDG","20","29","29","So  the next day, 10,000 of the Israeli men ◄set up ambushes/went to hide►  in the fields around Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_30","008_20_30","JDG","20","30","30","The  other Israeli men went and stood in their positions for fighting a battle just like they had done on the previous days. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_31","008_20_31","JDG","20","31","31","When the men of the tribe of Benjamin came out of the city to fight against them, the Israeli men retreated away from the city, and the men of the tribe of Benjamin pursued them. The men of the tribe of Benjamin killed many Israelis, like they had done before. They killed about 30 Israelis. They killed some in the fields, and they killed some on the road that went to Bethel and on the road that went to Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_32","008_20_32","JDG","20","32","32","The men of the tribe of Benjamin said, “We are defeating them like we did before!” But then Israeli men did what they had planned. The main group of Israeli men retreated a short distance from the city, to trick the men of Gibeah and cause them to pursue the Israeli men along the roads outside the city. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_33","008_20_33","JDG","20","33","33","The main group of Israeli men left their positions and retreated, and then they stood in their battle positions again at a place named Baal-Tamar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_34","008_20_34","JDG","20","34","34","Then  while the men of Gibeah were running out of the city toward them, the other 10,000 Israelis came out from the places where they had been hiding, west of Gibeah. They were men who had come from all parts of Israel. There was a very big battle. But the men of the tribe of Benjamin did not know that they were about to suffer a disastrous defeat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_35","008_20_35","JDG","20","35","35","Yahweh enabled the Israeli men to defeat the men of the tribe of Benjamin. They killed 25,000 of them, even though they all were using swords.  This is what happened: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_36","008_20_36","JDG","20","36","38","The main group of Israeli men arranged with the men who would be hiding that they should send up a smoke signal to enable the main group of soldiers to know when they should attack. Then the main group of Israeli men retreated for a short distance, because they knew that the other Israeli men who had been hiding on the other side of Gibeah would attack the people of the tribe of Benjamin by surprise. So  after the main group of Israeli men retreated a little distance, the men who had been hiding rushed out and ran into Gibeah and used their swords to kill everyone in the city.  Then they started to burn the buildings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_39","008_20_39","JDG","20","39","39","By that time, the men of the tribe of Benjamin said, “We are winning the battle, as we did before!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_40","008_20_40","JDG","20","40","40","But then smoke  from the burning buildings began to rise up from the city. The men of the tribe of Benjamin turned around and saw that the whole city was burning. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_41","008_20_41","JDG","20","41","41","Then the main group of Israeli men  also saw the smoke, and they knew that the smoke signaled that they should turn around and begin to attack. The men of the tribe of Benjamin were very afraid, because they realized that they were about to suffer a disastrous defeat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_42","008_20_42","JDG","20","42","42","So the men of the tribe of Benjamin tried to run away toward the desert to escape from the Israeli men, but they were not able to escape, because the Israeli men who had burned the two cities came out of those cities and killed many of them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_43","008_20_43","JDG","20","43","43","They surrounded  some of the men of the tribe of Benjamin, and pursued the others to the area east of Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_44","008_20_44","JDG","20","44","44","They killed 18,000 strong soldiers of the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_45","008_20_45","JDG","20","45","45","Then the rest of the men of the tribe of Benjamin realized that they had been defeated. They ran toward the desert to Rimmon Rock, but the Israeli men killed 5,000 more men of the tribe of Benjamin along the roads. They pursued the rest of them to Gidom, and they killed 2,000 more men of the tribe of Benjamin there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_46","008_20_46","JDG","20","46","46","Altogether, there were 25,000 men of the tribe of Benjamin who were killed, all of whom had swords. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_47","008_20_47","JDG","20","47","47","But 600 men of the tribe of Benjamin ran to Rimmon Rock in the desert. They stayed there for four months. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG20_48","008_20_48","JDG","20","48","48","Then the Israeli men went back to the land belonging to the tribe of Benjamin, and killed the people in every city. They also killed all the animals, and destroyed everything else that they found there. And they burned all the cities that they came to. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_1","008_21_1","JDG","21","1","1","When the Israeli men gathered at Mizpah  before the battle started, they vowed, “None of us will ever allow one of our daughters to marry any man from the tribe of Benjamin!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_2","008_21_2","JDG","21","2","2","But now the Israelis went to Bethel and they cried loudly to Yahweh all day, until the sun went down. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_3","008_21_3","JDG","21","3","3","They kept saying, “Yahweh, God of us Israeli people,  it is as though one of the tribes of us Israelis does not exist anymore! ◄Why has this happened to us?/It is terrible that this has happened to us!►” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_4","008_21_4","JDG","21","4","4","Early the next morning the people built an altar. Then they completely burned some sacrifices  on the altar, and also offered other sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_5","008_21_5","JDG","21","5","5","Then, because they had vowed that anyone who did not meet with them at Mizpah  to help fight the men of the tribe of Benjamin would be killed, they asked among themselves, “Were there any of the tribes of Israel who did not come to Mizpah to meet with us in the presence of Yahweh?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_6","008_21_6","JDG","21","6","6","The Israelis felt sorry for their fellow Israelis from the tribe of Benjamin. They said, “Today one of our Israeli tribes ◄has disappeared/no longer exists►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_7","008_21_7","JDG","21","7","7","Yahweh heard us solemnly declare that we would not allow any of our daughters to marry any man from the tribe of Benjamin. What can we do to make certain that the men of the tribe of Benjamin who were not killed will have wives?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_8","008_21_8","JDG","21","8","8","Then  one of them asked, “What group from any of the tribes of Israel did not send any men here to Mizpah?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_9","008_21_9","JDG","21","9","9"," They realized that when the soldiers were counted, there was no one from Jabesh-Gilead  city who had come there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_10","008_21_10","JDG","21","10","10","So all the Israelis decided to send 12,000 very good soldiers to Jabesh-Gilead to kill the people there with their swords, even to kill the married women and children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_11","008_21_11","JDG","21","11","11"," They told this to those men: “This is what you must do: You must kill every man in Jabesh-Gilead. You must also kill every married woman.  But do not kill the unmarried women.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_12","008_21_12","JDG","21","12","12","So those soldiers  went to Jabesh-Gilead and killed all the men, married women, and children. But they found 400 unmarried young women there. So they brought them to their camp at Shiloh, in Canaan,  across the river from the Gilead area that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_13","008_21_13","JDG","21","13","13","Then all the Israelis  who had gathered sent a message to the 600 men who were at Rimmon Rock. They said that they would like to make peace with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_14","008_21_14","JDG","21","14","14","So the men came back from Rimmon Rock. The Israelis gave to them the women from Jabesh-Gilead whom they had not killed. But there were  only 400 women. But there were not enough women  for those 600 men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_15","008_21_15","JDG","21","15","15","The Israelis  still felt sorry for the men of the tribe of Benjamin, because Yahweh had ◄decimated/almost wiped out► one of the Israeli tribes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_16","008_21_16","JDG","21","16","16","The Israeli leaders said, “We have killed all the married women of the tribe of Benjamin. Where can we get women to be wives of the men who are still alive? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_17","008_21_17","JDG","21","17","17","These men must have wives to give birth to children, in order that their families will continue. If that does not happen, all the people of one of the tribes of Israel will die. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_18","008_21_18","JDG","21","18","18","But we cannot allow our daughters to marry these men, because we vowed that Yahweh will curse anyone who gives one of his daughters to become a wife of any man of the tribe of Benjamin.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_19","008_21_19","JDG","21","19","19","Then  one of them ◄had an idea/thought of something that they could do►. He said, “Every year there is a festival to honor Yahweh at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel and east of the road that extends from Bethel to Shechem, and it is south of Lebonah  city.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_20","008_21_20","JDG","21","20","20","So the Israeli leaders told the men of the tribe of Benjamin, “ When it is the time for that festival, go to Shiloh and hide in the vineyards. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_21","008_21_21","JDG","21","21","21","Keep watching for the young women to come out of the city to dance.  When they come out, all of you should run out of the vineyards. Each of you can seize one of the young women of Shiloh. Then you can all return to your homes  with those women. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_22","008_21_22","JDG","21","22","22","If their fathers or brothers come to us and complain  about what you have done, we will say to them, ‘Be kind to the men of the tribe of Benjamin. When we fought them, we did not leave any women alive to become their wives, and you did not give those young women to the men from the tribe of Benjamin.  They stole them. So you will not be guilty,  even though you said that you would not allow any of your daughters to marry one of them.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_23","008_21_23","JDG","21","23","23","So that is what the men of the tribe of Benjamin did.  They went to Shiloh at the time of the festival. And when the young women were dancing, each man caught one of them and took her away and married her. Then they took their wives back to the land that God had given to them. They rebuilt their cities  that had been burned down, and they lived there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_24","008_21_24","JDG","21","24","24","The other Israelis went to their homes in the areas where their tribes and clans lived, the areas that God had allotted to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("JG21_25","008_21_25","JDG","21","25","25","At that time, the Israeli people did not have a king. Everyone did what they themselves thought was right. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_1","009_1_1","RUT","1","1","1","During the time before kings ruled Israel, ◄there was a famine/the people there had nothing to eat►. There was a man who lived there whose name was Elimelech. His wife’s name was Naomi, and his sons’ names were Mahlon and Chilion. They were all from Bethlehem  town, from the Ephrath  clan in Judah  region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_2","009_1_2","RUT","1","2","2","Because of the famine, they left Bethlehem and went east to  live for a while in Moab  region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_3","009_1_3","RUT","1","3","3","While they were there, Elimelech died, and Naomi had only her two sons with her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_4","009_1_4","RUT","1","4","4","They married women from Moab. One of them was named Orpah, and the other one was named Ruth. But after they had lived in that area for about ten years, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_5","009_1_5","RUT","1","5","5","Mahlon and Chilion died. So then Naomi had no husband and no sons. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_6","009_1_6","RUT","1","6","6","One day while Naomi was in Moab, she heard someone say that Yahweh had helped his people in Israel and that now there was plenty of food to eat. So she prepared to return  to Bethlehem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_7","009_1_7","RUT","1","7","7","She left the place where she had been living and started to walk  with her daughters-in-law along the road back to Judah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_8","009_1_8","RUT","1","8","8","Then as the three of them were walking, Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, “Each of you should turn around and go back to your mother’s home. You treated  your husbands kindly  before they died, and you have treated me kindly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_9","009_1_9","RUT","1","9","9","Now I desire that Yahweh will enable each of you to have another husband in whose home you will  feel secure.” Then she kissed both of them, and they cried aloud. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_10","009_1_10","RUT","1","10","10","They each said, “No, we want to go with you as you return to your relatives.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_11","009_1_11","RUT","1","11","11","But Naomi said, “No, my daughters, return home. ◄It will not do any good for you to come with me!/What good will it do for you to come with me?► RHQ Do you think I will get married again and have more sons who could become your husbands? ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_12","009_1_12","RUT","1","12","12","Even if I thought I could have another husband, and even if I got married today and became pregnant EUP tonight and later gave birth to sons, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_13","009_1_13","RUT","1","13","13","would you remain single/unmarried until they grew up  and became old enough for you to marry? No, my daughters,  you would not do that. Your situations are bad  because your husbands have died, but it is possible that you will each marry again. My situation is much worse, because Yahweh SYN has opposed me,  and now I am too old to get married again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_14","009_1_14","RUT","1","14","14","Then Ruth and Orpah cried again  because of what Naomi said. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye,  and left, but Ruth clung to Naomi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_15","009_1_15","RUT","1","15","15","Naomi said to her, “Look! Your sister-in-law is going back to her relatives and to her gods! Go back with her!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_16","009_1_16","RUT","1","16","16","But Ruth replied, “No! Don’t urge me to leave you! I  want to go with you. Where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your relatives will be my relatives, and the God you  worship will be the God I  worship. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_17","009_1_17","RUT","1","17","17","Where you die, I will die. Where you are buried, I will be buried. May Yahweh punish me severely if I separate from you. I will be separated from you only  when one of us dies.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_18","009_1_18","RUT","1","18","18","When Naomi realized that Ruth was very determined to go with her, she stopped urging her  to return home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_19","009_1_19","RUT","1","19","19","So the two women continued walking until they came to Bethlehem. When they arrived there, everyone in town was excited  to see them. The women  of the town exclaimed, “◄Can this be Naomi?/It is difficult to believe that this is Naomi!►” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_20","009_1_20","RUT","1","20","20","Naomi said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi,  which means ‘pleasant’. Instead, call me Mara,  which means ‘bitter’, because God Almighty has made my life very unpleasant. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_21","009_1_21","RUT","1","21","21","When I left here, I  felt rich,  because I had a family. But Yahweh has brought me back here and now I  feel poor,  because I have no family. Do not call me Naomi RHQ.  I feel as though Yahweh has spoken against (OR, afflicted) me. Almighty  God has caused me to experience a great tragedy.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT1_22","009_1_22","RUT","1","22","22","That summarizes the account of Naomi returning home along with her daughter-in-law Ruth, the woman from Moab. And  it happened that when they arrived in Bethlehem, the barley  grain harvest was just beginning. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_1","009_2_1","RUT","2","1","1","There was a man in Bethlehem who belonged to the clan of  Naomi’s dead husband, Elimelech. He was rich and well-known/influential. His name was Boaz. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_2","009_2_2","RUT","2","2","2"," One day Ruth said to Naomi, “Let me go to the fields and pick up the grain left behind by the workers.” Naomi replied, “Go ahead, my daughter.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_3","009_2_3","RUT","2","3","3","So Ruth went to the fields and began to pick up some of the left-over grain. And it happened that she was working in a field that belonged to Boaz,  the man from the clan of  her dead father-in-law, Elimelech! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_4","009_2_4","RUT","2","4","4","Just then, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem. He greeted the men who were harvesting the grain, saying, “I want Yahweh to bless you!” They replied, “We want Yahweh to bless you,  too!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_5","009_2_5","RUT","2","5","5","Then Boaz saw Ruth, and asked the ◄foreman/man in charge of the other workmen►, “Whose  daughter is that young woman?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_6","009_2_6","RUT","2","6","6","The foreman replied, “She is the woman from Moab who returned from there with  her mother-in-law Naomi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_7","009_2_7","RUT","2","7","7","She said to me, ‘Please let me walk behind the men who are harvesting the grain and pick up some of the grain they leave behind.’  I gave her permission, and she went into the field, and she has been working from this morning until now. The only time she did not work was when she rested for a short time in the shelter.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_8","009_2_8","RUT","2","8","8","So Boaz went over to Ruth and said to her, “Young lady, listen to me. Don’t go and pick up grain in another field. Do not go away from here. Stay here with my servant girls. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_9","009_2_9","RUT","2","9","9","Watch where the men are harvesting, and follow along behind the  servant girls. I will tell the men  who are working not to touch/molest you. And whenever you are thirsty, go and get some water to drink from the jars that the men have filled.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_10","009_2_10","RUT","2","10","10","When he said that, she knelt down in front of him  in respect, with her face touching the ground. She exclaimed, “Why are you acting so kindly toward me, by paying attention to me?  I am not even a Jew; I am a foreigner!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_11","009_2_11","RUT","2","11","11","Boaz replied, “People have told me all about what you have done for your mother-in-law. They told me that you left your parents and your homeland, and you came here to live among people whom you did not know before. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_12","009_2_12","RUT","2","12","12","I hope/desire that Yahweh will repay you for what you have done. You have put yourself in the care of Yahweh,  like a little bird puts itself under  its mother’s wings MET. I desire that he will reward you very greatly.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_13","009_2_13","RUT","2","13","13","She replied, “Sir, I hope you will continue to act kindly toward me. You have comforted/encouraged me, even though I am lower in status than any of your servant girls.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_14","009_2_14","RUT","2","14","14","At mealtime, Boaz said to her, “Come over here. Take some bread and dip it in the wine vinegar  and eat it.” Then when she sat down with the men who had been harvesting, he offered her some roasted grain. She ate all the grain she wanted, and had some left over. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_15","009_2_15","RUT","2","15","15","As she stood up to start gathering grain  again, Boaz ordered his workers, “Even if she gathers some grain near the bundles of grain that have been cut, do not scold her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_16","009_2_16","RUT","2","16","16","Instead, pull out some stalks of grain from the bundles, and leave them on the ground for her to pick up, and do not rebuke her.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_17","009_2_17","RUT","2","17","17","So Ruth gathered grain in the field until evening. Then she ◄threshed/beat with a stick► the barley that she had gathered,  to separate the kernels from the stalks, and the barley filled a large basket. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_18","009_2_18","RUT","2","18","18","She carried it back to town, and showed to her mother-in-law how much she had gathered. Ruth also showed to her the grain  that was left over after she had eaten enough from  what Boaz had given her at lunchtime. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_19","009_2_19","RUT","2","19","19","Her mother-in-law asked her, “Where did you gather grain today? In whose  field did you work?  God will surely bless the man who was kind to you.” Then Ruth told her about the man in whose field she had been working. She said, “The name of the man  who owns the field where I worked today is Boaz.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_20","009_2_20","RUT","2","20","20","Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will bless him! He has not stopped acting kindly toward  us, who are still living, and to  our husbands who have died.” Then she added, “That man is a close relative  of Elimelech; he is one of those who has a responsibility to help those who are his relatives.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_21","009_2_21","RUT","2","21","21","Then Ruth said, “He also said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they have finished harvesting all my grain.’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_22","009_2_22","RUT","2","22","22","Naomi replied, “My daughter, it will be good for you to go  to his field with his  servant girls, because if you go to someone else’s field, someone might harm/molest you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT2_23","009_2_23","RUT","2","23","23","So Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s  servant girls  while she was working. She gathered stalks of grain until the barley harvest and the wheat harvest were finished. During that time she lived with Naomi. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_1","009_3_1","RUT","3","1","1","One day, Naomi said to Ruth, “My daughter, I think that I should RHQ try to arrange for you to have a husband MTY who will ◄take care of/provide for► you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_2","009_3_2","RUT","3","2","2","Boaz, the man with whose  servant  girls you have been  gathering grain, is a close relative  of our dead husbands. Listen  carefully. Tonight he will be at the ground where  the barley has been threshed. He will be separating the barley grain from the chaff. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_3","009_3_3","RUT","3","3","3","Bathe yourself and put on some perfume. Put on your  best clothes. Then go down to the ground where they have threshed  the grain. But do not let Boaz know that you are there while he is eating supper and drinking. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_4","009_3_4","RUT","3","4","4"," When he has finished eating, notice where he lies down to sleep. Then  when he is asleep, take the blanket off his feet and lie  close to his feet.  When he wakes up, he will tell you what to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_5","009_3_5","RUT","3","5","5","Ruth replied, “I will do everything that you have told me  to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_6","009_3_6","RUT","3","6","6","So she went down to the ground where they had threshed  the barley grain. There she did everything that her mother-in-law had told her  to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_7","009_3_7","RUT","3","7","7","When Boaz finished eating supper and drinking  wine, he felt happy. Then he went over to the far end of the pile of grain. He lay down  and went to sleep. Then Ruth approached him quietly. She took the blanket off his feet and lay down  there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_8","009_3_8","RUT","3","8","8","In the middle of the night, he suddenly awoke. He sat up and saw that a woman was lying at his feet. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_9","009_3_9","RUT","3","9","9","He asked her, “Who are you?” She replied, “I am your servant, Ruth. Since you are the one who has a responsibility to take care of  someone like me whose dead husband was your close relative, spread the corner of your cloak over my  feet to show that you will marry me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_10","009_3_10","RUT","3","10","10","Boaz replied, “Young lady, I hope that Yahweh will ◄bless/be kind to► you! You have acted kindly  toward your mother-in-law, and now you are acting even more kindly  toward me by wanting to marry me, instead of wanting to marry a young man. You have not looked for either a rich young man or a poor young man,  to marry him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_11","009_3_11","RUT","3","11","11","Now, young lady, I will do everything you ask. Don’t worry  that people in this town might think I am doing wrong by marrying you because you are a woman from Moab. All the people in this town know that you are an honorable woman. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_12","009_3_12","RUT","3","12","12","But  there is one problem. Although it is true that I am a close relative  of your mother-in-law’s dead husband, there is another man who is a closer relative  than I am, and therefore he should be the one to  marry you and take care of you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_13","009_3_13","RUT","3","13","13","You stay here for the rest of this night. Tomorrow morning  I will tell this man about you. If he says that he will  marry you and take care of you, fine,  we will let him do that. But if he is not willing  to do that, I solemnly promise that as surely as Yahweh lives, I will  marry you and take care of you. So lie/sleep here until it is morning.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_14","009_3_14","RUT","3","14","14","So she lay at his feet until morning. But she got up and left before it was light enough that people would be able to recognize her, because Boaz said, “I do not want anyone to know that a woman was here.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_15","009_3_15","RUT","3","15","15","He also said to her, “Bring to me your cloak and spread it out.” When she did that, he poured into it six measures/24 liters/50 pounds of barley, and put in on her back. Then he (OR, she) went back to the town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_16","009_3_16","RUT","3","16","16","When Ruth arrived home, her mother-in-law asked her, “My daughter, how did ◄things go/Boaz act toward you►?” Then Ruth told her everything that Boaz had done for her  and said to her. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_17","009_3_17","RUT","3","17","17","She also said  to Naomi, “He gave me all this barley, saying ‘I do not want you to return to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT3_18","009_3_18","RUT","3","18","18","Then Naomi said, “My daughter, just wait until we see what happens.  I am sure that Boaz will take care of LIT the matter  of your marriage today. LIT” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_1","009_4_1","RUT","4","1","1"," Meanwhile, Boaz went up to the town gate and sat there.  That was the place where people met together to decide important matters. When the man that Boaz had mentioned came there, the close relative of Ruth and Naomi’s dead husbands  who had a responsibility to take care of Naomi and Ruth, Boaz said to him, “My friend, come over here and sit down.” So the man went and sat down. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_2","009_4_2","RUT","4","2","2","Boaz then gathered ten of the elders of the town and asked them to sit down  there also. After they sat down, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_3","009_4_3","RUT","4","3","3","he said to the man who had the responsibility to take care of Naomi, “Naomi has returned from Moab  region. She wants to sell the field that belonged to our relative Elimelech. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_4","009_4_4","RUT","4","4","4","I thought that I should tell you about that, and suggest that you buy it, while these elders who are sitting here are listening. If you are willing to buy the property, do that. But if you do not want to buy it, tell me, so that I will know. I am suggesting this to you because you are the one who has the first right to buy it, and I am the one who has the second/next right to buy it.” The man replied, “I will buy it!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_5","009_4_5","RUT","4","5","5","Then Boaz told him, “When you buy the land from Naomi, you will also be taking Ruth,  the woman who is from Moab,  to be your wife, in order that she may  give birth to a son who will  inherit the property of her dead husband MTY.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_6","009_4_6","RUT","4","6","6","Then the close relative  of Ruth’s dead husband said, “ If that is so, I do not  want to buy the field, because then my own  children would not inherit the property; Ruth’s children would inherit it. You buy the property!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_7","009_4_7","RUT","4","7","7","At that time, it was the custom in Israel, when a person bought property that belonged to another person, that the man who was selling the property would take off one of his sandals and give it to the one who was buying the property. That was the way they finalized sales in Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_8","009_4_8","RUT","4","8","8","So that close relative said to Boaz, “You buy the field yourself!” And he took off  one of his sandals  and gave it to Boaz. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_9","009_4_9","RUT","4","9","9","Then Boaz said to the elders and all the  other people  who were there, “Today you have all seen that I have bought from Naomi all the property that belonged to  her dead husband Elimelech and  his dead sons Mahlon and Chilion. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_10","009_4_10","RUT","4","10","10","I am also taking Ruth,  the woman from Moab, Mahlon’s widow, to be my wife, in order that she may give birth to a son who will inherit the property of the dead man. In that way, Elimelech’s name will continue LIT among the members of his family and among all the people of this town. Today you all are witnesses  of what I have done.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_11","009_4_11","RUT","4","11","11","All the elders and the  others who were sitting at the  town gate  agreed, and one of them said, “ Yes, we are witnesses. We hope/desire that Yahweh will enable this woman, who will be coming into your home, to give birth to many children, as Rachel and Leah did. They are the women from whom all  us people MTY of Israel are descended. We hope that you will become rich in the clan of Ephratah, and become famous MTY  here in Bethlehem. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_12","009_4_12","RUT","4","12","12","We hope/desire that Yahweh will enable you and this young woman to have many descendants. And we hope/desire that your family will be as important as the family of your ancestor Perez, the son of Judah and Tamar.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_13","009_4_13","RUT","4","13","13","So Boaz took Ruth  home, and she became his wife. He ◄slept with/had sexual relations with► her EUP and Yahweh enabled her to become pregnant, and she gave birth to a son. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_14","009_4_14","RUT","4","14","14","The women  of Bethlehem said to Naomi, “Praise Yahweh! Now he has given LIT you a grandson who will be the one who will have the responsibility to take care of you. We hope that he will become famous MTY throughout Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_15","009_4_15","RUT","4","15","15","He will make you feel young again, and he will take care of you when you become old. Your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given birth to a son, who will ◄be better to/do more for► you than  if you had seven sons  of your own.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_16","009_4_16","RUT","4","16","16","Then Naomi took the baby and put him on her lap, and took care of him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_17","009_4_17","RUT","4","17","17","The women who were living near her said, “ It is as though Naomi  now has a son!” And they named him Obed.  Later, Obed became the father of Jesse, and  later Jesse became the father of  King David. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("RT4_18","009_4_18","RUT","4","18","22","Here is  a list of the ancestors of  King David: Perez’s son was Hezron. Hezron’s son was Ram. Ram’s son was Amminadab. Amminadab’s son was Nahshon. Nahshon’s son was Salmon. Salmon’s son was Boaz. Boaz’s son was Obed. Obed’s son was Jesse. Jesse’s son was  King David. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_1","010_1_1","1SA","1","1","1","There was a man named Elkanah who lived in Ramah  town in the hilly area where  the tribe of Ephraim lived. His father was Jeroham, his grandfather was Elihu, and his great-grandfather was Tohu. He belonged to the Zuph clan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_2","010_1_2","1SA","1","2","2","He had two wives: Hannah and Peninnah. Peninnah had several children, but Hannah had no children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_3","010_1_3","1SA","1","3","3","Once every year Elkanah went up  with his family from Ramah to Shiloh  city. He went there to worship Yahweh,  the commander  of the armies  of angels, and to offer sacrifices to him. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas,  helped their father to do the work as priests of Yahweh there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_4","010_1_4","1SA","1","4","4","Each time Elkanah offered sacrifices there, he gave some of the meat to Peninnah and some to each of her sons and daughters. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_5","010_1_5","1SA","1","5","5","But even though he loved Hannah very much, he gave her only one special amount of meat because Yahweh had not permitted her to give birth to any children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_6","010_1_6","1SA","1","6","6","And his other wife, Peninnah, would ridicule Hannah to make her feel miserable, because Yahweh had not allowed her to bear children. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_7","010_1_7","1SA","1","7","7","This happened every year. When they went up to the temple of Yahweh  at Shiloh, Peninnah ridiculed Hannah so much that Hannah cried and would not eat. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_8","010_1_8","1SA","1","8","8","Then Elkanah would say to her, “Hannah, ◄why are you crying?/please quit crying!► RHQ ◄Why are you not eating?/Please eat something!► RHQ Why are you so upset/sad? You have me; is that not more important to you than if you had ten sons? (OR, I  love you more than your sons  would love you, even if you had ten sons.)” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_9","010_1_9","1SA","1","9","9","One year, after they had finished eating and drinking at Shiloh, Hannah stood up  to pray. Eli the priest was nearby, sitting on a chair by the doorway of the sacred tent of Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_10","010_1_10","1SA","1","10","10","Hannah was very distressed, and she cried very sorrowfully as she prayed to Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_11","010_1_11","1SA","1","11","11","She made a vow saying, “O Almighty Commander of the armies of angels, if you will look at me and see how miserable I am, and think about me and allow me to give birth to a son, then I will dedicate him to you  to serve you for the rest of his life. And  to show that he is dedicated to you, ◄no one will ever  be allowed to cut his hair/his hair will never be cut►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_12","010_1_12","1SA","1","12","12","As she was praying like that to Yahweh, Eli the priest saw Hannah’s lips  moving as she was praying. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_13","010_1_13","1SA","1","13","13","But Hannah was only praying silently; she was not making any sound. So Eli thought that she was drunk. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_14","010_1_14","1SA","1","14","14","He said to her, “How long will you continue to get drunk RHQ? ◄Throw away your wine/Quit drinking wine►!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_15","010_1_15","1SA","1","15","15","Hannah replied, “Sir, I am not drunk! I have not been drinking wine or any other alcoholic drink. I feel very distressed and I have been telling Yahweh about how I feel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_16","010_1_16","1SA","1","16","16","Do not think that I am a worthless/wicked woman! I have been praying like this because I am very distressed DOU.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_17","010_1_17","1SA","1","17","17","Eli replied, “I wish/desire that things will go well for you. I desire that God, the one we Israeli people  worship, will give you what you requested from him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_18","010_1_18","1SA","1","18","18","She replied, “I want you to think highly/well about me.” Then she returned  to her family and after she ate something, her face no longer looked sad. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_19","010_1_19","1SA","1","19","19","Early the next morning, Elkanah and his family got up and worshiped Yahweh  again, and then they returned to their home at Ramah. Elkanah ◄slept with/had sex with► Hannah. Then Yahweh answered her prayer, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_20","010_1_20","1SA","1","20","20","and she became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel,  which sounds like the words in the Hebrew language that mean ‘heard by God’, because she said “Yahweh  heard me when I requested from him  a son.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_21","010_1_21","1SA","1","21","21","The following year, Elkanah again went up  to Shiloh with his family to make the kind of sacrifice he made each year, and also to give a special offering to God that he had promised  to give him previously. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_22","010_1_22","1SA","1","22","22","But Hannah did not go  with them. She said to her husband, “After I have weaned the baby, I will take him  to Shiloh and present him to Yahweh, and he will stay there for the rest of his life.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_23","010_1_23","1SA","1","23","23","Elkanah said, “Do what seems the best to you. Stay here until you have weaned him. What I desire is that Yahweh will  enable you to do what you have promised.” So Hannah stayed at home and nursed her son until she weaned him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_24","010_1_24","1SA","1","24","24","After she weaned him, even though Samuel was very young, she took him to the temple/house of Yahweh at Shiloh.  To offer as a sacrifice, she took along a three-year-old bull,  a sack containing ◄20 pounds/9 kg.► of flour, and a container of wine. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_25","010_1_25","1SA","1","25","25","After the priest had slaughtered the bull  and offered it to Yahweh on the altar, Hannah and Elkanah brought the boy to Eli. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_26","010_1_26","1SA","1","26","26","Then Hannah said to him, “Sir, ◄Do you remember me?/I solemnly affirm►, I am the woman who prayed as I stood here beside you  several years ago. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_27","010_1_27","1SA","1","27","27","I prayed that Yahweh would enable me to give birth to a child, and this is the child whom I requested Yahweh to give me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S11_28","010_1_28","1SA","1","28","28","So now I am presenting him to Yahweh. He will belong to Yahweh as long as he lives.” Then Elkanah  and his family worshiped Yahweh there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_1","010_2_1","1SA","2","1","1","Then Hannah prayed, saying, “I rejoice in  what you, Yahweh, have done. I am strong MET because I belong to you. I ◄laugh at/ridicule► my enemies, because you, Yahweh have rescued me  from being taunted by them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_2","010_2_2","1SA","2","2","2","There is no one who is holy like you, Yahweh. There is no other god like you. There is no one like you, our God, who can protect us  as though you were putting us beneath a huge rock  where we can hide from danger. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_3","010_2_3","1SA","2","3","3"," You people who oppose God, stop boasting! Yahweh is a God who knows  everything, and he will evaluate/judge everyone’s actions. So don’t speak so arrogantly! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_4","010_2_4","1SA","2","4","4","Yahweh, you break the bows/weapons of mighty soldiers, and you give strength to those who stumble  because of being weak. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_5","010_2_5","1SA","2","5","5","Many people who previously had plenty to eat, now have to work for other people  to earn money to buy food, but many who were always hungry are not hungry anymore. The woman who did not have any children before, now has given birth to many/seven children, and the woman who had many children before, now is very lonely  because they have all died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_6","010_2_6","1SA","2","6","6","Yahweh, you cause some people to die, and you restore some people who are almost dead. For some people,  it seems that they will soon go to where the dead people are, but you cause them to become healthy again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_7","010_2_7","1SA","2","7","7","Yahweh, you cause some people to be poor and you cause some people to be rich, you humble some people and you honor some people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_8","010_2_8","1SA","2","8","8"," Sometimes you lift poor people up so that they are no longer  despondent, sitting in the dust, or sitting on heaps of ashes; you cause them to sit next to princes; you cause them to sit on chairs/thrones where people who are highly honored sit. Yahweh, you are the one who laid the foundations of the earth, and you have set the whole world on those foundations. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_9","010_2_9","1SA","2","9","9","You will protect your loyal/faithful people SYN, but you will cause the wicked to die EUP and descend to the dark  place where dead people are. We do not defeat  our enemies by our own strength; ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_10","010_2_10","1SA","2","10","10","Yahweh, you will break into pieces those who oppose you. You will cause thunder in the sky to show that you ◄oppose/are angry with► them. Yahweh, you will judge  people everywhere, even those who live in the most remote places on the earth. You will give strength to the king whom you will appoint, and give him great power  over his enemies.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_11","010_2_11","1SA","2","11","11","Then Elkanah  and his family returned to Ramah, but Samuel, the little boy, stayed to help Eli the priest serve Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_12","010_2_12","1SA","2","12","12","Eli’s two sons, who were also priests, were very wicked. They did not revere (OR, respect/obey) Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_13","010_2_13","1SA","2","13","13","While the people were boiling the meat from their sacrifices  in the huge pot at the temple, one of Eli’s sons,  would send his servant to come with a large three-pronged fork in his hand. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_14","010_2_14","1SA","2","14","14"," He would stick the fork into  the meat in the pot, and whatever meat fastened onto the fork, he would take  and give it to the priest who sent him. Eli’s sons did this to all the Israeli people who came to Shiloh  to offer sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_15","010_2_15","1SA","2","15","15","Furthermore, before the fat  on the meat was  cut off and and burned  as a sacrifice to Yahweh, the servant of the priest would  sometimes come to the man who was making the sacrifice and say to him, “Give me some meat  now to take to the priest for him to roast! He wants raw meat; he does not want boiled meat.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_16","010_2_16","1SA","2","16","16","If the man said to the servant, “Let the priests  cut off and burn the fat first; then you can take what you want,” the servant would reply, “No, give it to me now; if you do not give it to me, I will take it forcefully!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_17","010_2_17","1SA","2","17","17","Yahweh considered that the young  sons of Eli were committing a very great sin, because they were treating very disrespectfully the offerings that were being given to Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_18","010_2_18","1SA","2","18","18","As for Samuel, who was still a very young boy, he continued to do work for Yahweh, wearing a little sacred linen vest  like the Supreme Priest wore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_19","010_2_19","1SA","2","19","19","Each year his mother made a  new little robe for him and took it to him when she went up  to Shiloh with her husband to offer a sacrifice. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_20","010_2_20","1SA","2","20","20","Then Eli would  ask God to bless Elkanah and his wife, and he would say to Elkanah, “I hope/desire that Yahweh will enable your wife to give birth to other children, to take the place of the one whom she dedicated to Yahweh.” Then Elkanah and his family would return home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_21","010_2_21","1SA","2","21","21","And Yahweh was very kind to Hannah, and enabled her to give birth to three  other sons and two daughters. Their son Samuel grew up while he was doing work for Yahweh  in the Sacred Tent. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_22","010_2_22","1SA","2","22","22","Eli became very old. He often heard about all the  evil things that his sons were doing to the Israeli people. He heard that they  sometimes ◄slept with/had sex with► the women who worked at the entrance to the tent where  God spoke to  his people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_23","010_2_23","1SA","2","23","23","He said to them, “◄It is terrible that you do such things!/Why do you do such things?► RHQ Many people keep telling me about the evil things that you do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_24","010_2_24","1SA","2","24","24","My sons, stop it! The reports  about you that the people who belong to Yahweh tell others are terrible EUP! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_25","010_2_25","1SA","2","25","25","If one person sins against another person, God can ◄intercede/act as a referee► between them. But if someone sins against Yahweh, no one can RHQ ◄intercede/act as a referee► between them!” But Eli’s sons would not listen to what their father said. This was because Yahweh had decided  that someone should kill them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_26","010_2_26","1SA","2","26","26","The boy Samuel continued to grow up, and the things that he did pleased Yahweh and the people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_27","010_2_27","1SA","2","27","27","One day, a prophet came to Eli and told him, “This is what Yahweh has told me: ‘When your ancestors were slaves of the king of Egypt, I appeared to Aaron. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_28","010_2_28","1SA","2","28","28","From all the tribes of the Israeli people, I chose him  and his male descendants to be priests for me. I appointed them to go up to my altar, to burn incense, to wear a sacred apron  as they worked for me. And I declared that they could take  and eat some of the meat that the Israeli people burned  on the altar. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_29","010_2_29","1SA","2","29","29","So why do you show disrespect for the sacrifices and offerings that I commanded  the people to bring to me RHQ? You are honoring your sons more than you are honoring me, by allowing them to get fat from eating the best parts of all the sacrifices that the Israeli people bring to me!’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_30","010_2_30","1SA","2","30","30","“herefore, this is what Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  worship, declares: ‘I definitely promised that Aaron and his descendants would continue to serve IDM me forever.’ But now I declare this: ‘It will not continue like that! I will honor those who honor me, but I will despise those who despise me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_31","010_2_31","1SA","2","31","31","Listen carefully! There will soon be a time when I will cause all the strong  young men in your family to die. The result will be that no men in your family will  live long enough to become old men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_32","010_2_32","1SA","2","32","32","You will be distressed and envious as you see the blessings that I will give to  the other people in Israel. And  I repeat that no men in your family will ever live long enough to become old men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_33","010_2_33","1SA","2","33","33","There is one of your descendants whom I will spare, and not prevent him from serving me as a priest. But he will become blind, and then he will always be sad and grieving. But all your other descendants will die violently. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_34","010_2_34","1SA","2","34","34","And your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will both die on the same day. And that will prove to you  that all that I have said will come true/happen. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_35","010_2_35","1SA","2","35","35","‘ have chosen another man to be my priest. He is one who will serve me faithfully: He will do everything I want DOU him to do. And I will enable him to have many descendants IDM who will be priests and will always serve me by helping the king whom I will choose. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S12_36","010_2_36","1SA","2","36","36","All of your descendants who remain alive will have to go to that priest and ask him to give them money and food, and they will each have to say, “Please allow me to help the other priests, in order that I may earn some money to buy some food.”’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_1","010_3_1","1SA","3","1","1"," While he was still a boy, Samuel was working for Yahweh while Eli supervised him. At that time there were very few messages  that anyone received from Yahweh, and very few people saw visions  that Yahweh gave them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_2","010_3_2","1SA","3","2","2","By that time Eli’s eyes were very weak; he was almost blind.  One night he was sleeping in his room, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_3","010_3_3","1SA","3","3","3","and Samuel was sleeping in the sacred tent, where the chest that contained the Ten Commandments was kept. While the sacred lamp was still burning, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_4","010_3_4","1SA","3","4","4","Yahweh called, “Samuel! Samuel!” Samuel replied, “I’m here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_5","010_3_5","1SA","3","5","5","Then he  got up and ran to Eli. He said to him, “I am here, because you called me!” But Eli replied, “No, I did not call you. Go back to your bed.” So Samuel went and lay down again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_6","010_3_6","1SA","3","6","6","Then Yahweh called again, “Samuel!” So Samuel got up again and went to Eli and said, “I am here, because you called me!” But Eli said, “No, my son, I did not call you. Go back and lie down.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_7","010_3_7","1SA","3","7","7","At that time Samuel did not yet know  that  Yahweh  could speak to him, because Yahweh had not previously revealed anything to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_8","010_3_8","1SA","3","8","8"," After Samuel lay down again, Yahweh called him a third time. So again Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “I am here, because you called me!” Then Eli realized that it was Yahweh who was calling the boy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_9","010_3_9","1SA","3","9","9","So he said to Samuel, “Go and lie down again. If someone calls you again, say ‘Speak to me, Yahweh, because I am listening!’ ” So Samuel went and lay down again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_10","010_3_10","1SA","3","10","10","Then Yahweh came and stood there and called as he had done the other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” Then Samuel said, “Speak to me, because I am listening!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_11","010_3_11","1SA","3","11","11","Then Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen carefully. I am about to do something here in Israel that will shock/horrify IDM everyone who hears about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_12","010_3_12","1SA","3","12","12","When that happens, I will punish Eli and his family. I will do to them everything that I said that I would do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_13","010_3_13","1SA","3","13","13","His sons have shown great disrespect for me by the disgraceful things they have done, and Eli did not restrain them. So I told him that I would punish his family forever. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_14","010_3_14","1SA","3","14","14","I solemnly promised to Eli’s family, ‘You will never be able to avoid the consequences for your sin, even if you give me sacrifices or offerings.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_15","010_3_15","1SA","3","15","15","Samuel lay down again until morning. Then he got up and opened the doors of the Sacred Tent  as usual. He was afraid to tell Eli about the vision  that Yahweh had given him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_16","010_3_16","1SA","3","16","16","But Eli called him and said, “Samuel, my son!” Samuel answered, “I am here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_17","010_3_17","1SA","3","17","17","Eli asked him, “What was it that Yahweh told you? Do not conceal it! I want God to punish you severely if you do not tell me everything that he said to you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_18","010_3_18","1SA","3","18","18","So Samuel told him everything. He did not refuse to tell him anything. Then Eli said, “He is Yahweh. I am willing for him to do what he thinks is best.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_19","010_3_19","1SA","3","19","19","As Samuel grew up, Yahweh helped him, and caused everything to ◄come true/happen► that Samuel predicted. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_20","010_3_20","1SA","3","20","20","So all the people of Israel, from the northern end of the country to the southern end, realized that Samuel was truly a prophet of Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S13_21","010_3_21","1SA","3","21","21","Yahweh continued to appear to Samuel in Shiloh and give messages to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_1","010_4_1","1SA","4","1","1","And Samuel told to all the people of Israel the messages that God gave him. At that time the Israeli army went to fight against the army of the Philistine people. The Israeli army set up their tents at Ebenezer, and the Philistine army set up their tents at Aphek. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_2","010_4_2","1SA","4","2","2","The Philistine army attacked the Israeli army, and as the battle continued, the Philistines defeated the Israelis and killed about 4,000 of their soldiers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_3","010_4_3","1SA","4","3","3","When the remaining Israeli soldiers returned to their camp, the Israeli elders/leaders said, “Why did Yahweh allow the Philistine army to defeat us today? We should bring the chest that contains the Ten Commandments here from Shiloh, in order that Yahweh will go with us  when we go to the battle again, and in order that our enemies will not defeat us again!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_4","010_4_4","1SA","4","4","4","So the soldiers did that. They sent some men to Shiloh, and those men brought back the chest that contained the Ten Commandments.  They thought that if they did that, Yahweh would help them. They believed that Yahweh sat on a throne between the statues of winged creatures  that were on top of the chest that Yahweh Almighty  had given them. The two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, went with them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_5","010_4_5","1SA","4","5","5","When the Israeli people saw  the men bringing the box into their camp, they were so happy that they shouted loudly. They shouted so loudly that they made the ground shake! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_6","010_4_6","1SA","4","6","6","The Philistines asked, “What are the people in the Hebrew camp shouting about?” Someone told them that they were shouting because the chest that contained the Ten Commandments of Yahweh had been brought to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_7","010_4_7","1SA","4","7","7","Then the Philistines became very afraid. They said, “One of the Israelis’ gods has come into their camp  to help them We are in big trouble now! Nothing like this has happened to us before! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_8","010_4_8","1SA","4","8","8","◄Who can/Can anyone► save us from their powerful gods RHQ? They are the gods who struck the people of Egypt with many plagues  before the Israelis left Egypt and traveled through the desert. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_9","010_4_9","1SA","4","9","9","You Philistine men, be courageous! Fight very hard! If you do not do that,  they will defeat us, and then you will become their slaves, just like they have been our slaves previously!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_10","010_4_10","1SA","4","10","10","So the Philistine men fought very hard, and they defeated the Israelis. They killed 30,000 Israeli soldiers, and the other Israeli soldiers fled and ran away to their tents. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_11","010_4_11","1SA","4","11","11","The Philistines captured the sacred chest, and they killed Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_12","010_4_12","1SA","4","12","12","On that same day, one man of the tribe  descended from Benjamin tore his clothes and threw dirt on his head  to show that he was very sad. He ran from the place where the armies were fighting, and he arrived at Shiloh late  that afternoon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_13","010_4_13","1SA","4","13","13","Eli was waiting beside the road.  He wanted to hear news about the battle, and he was also very anxious to know if anything bad had happened to God’s sacred chest. When the messenger arrived and told people what had happened, everyone in the town started to cry loudly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_14","010_4_14","1SA","4","14","14","Eli asked, “Why are they making all that noise?” The messenger ran over to Eli and told him the news. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_15","010_4_15","1SA","4","15","15","At that time, Eli was 98 years old, and he was blind. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_16","010_4_16","1SA","4","16","16","The messenger said to Eli, “I have just come from where the armies were fighting. I left there earlier today.” Eli asked, “What happened?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_17","010_4_17","1SA","4","17","17","The man replied, “The Philistines defeated our Israeli army. They killed thousands of our soldiers, and the others ran away. The Philistines killed your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. They also captured God’s sacred chest.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_18","010_4_18","1SA","4","18","18","Eli was very old, and he was very fat; and when he heard what had happened to the sacred chest, he fell backward from his chair beside the town gate. His neck was broken and he died. He had led the Israeli people for 40 years before he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_19","010_4_19","1SA","4","19","19","The wife/widow of Eli’s son Phinehas was pregnant, and it was almost time for her to give birth to her baby. When she heard that God’s sacred chest had been captured and that her husband and her father-in-law were dead, her labor pains suddenly began. She quickly gave birth to a boy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_20","010_4_20","1SA","4","20","20","The women who were helping her tried to encourage her by saying to her, “You have given birth to a son!” But she did not pay any attention DOU to what they said. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_21","010_4_21","1SA","4","21","21","She named the boy Ichabod, which means ‘no glory’, because she said, “ God’s glory has departed from Israel.” She said that because God’s sacred chest had been captured and because her husband and her father-in-law had died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S14_22","010_4_22","1SA","4","22","22","She said, “ God’s glory has left Israel, because God’s sacred chest has been captured!” And then she died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_1","010_5_1","1SA","5","1","1","After the army of the Philistia people-group captured God’s sacred chest in Ebenezer  town, they took it to Ashdod  which is one of their biggest cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_2","010_5_2","1SA","5","2","2","They carried it into the temple of  their god Dagon, and placed it alongside a statue of Dagon. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_3","010_5_3","1SA","5","3","3","But early the next morning, when the people of Ashdod  went to see it, they saw that the statue had fallen on its face in front of Yahweh’s sacred chest! So they set the statue up in its place again. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_4","010_5_4","1SA","5","4","4","But the following morning,  they saw that it had fallen down in front of the sacred chest again. But this time, the statue’s head and hands had broken off, and were lying in the doorway. Only its body remained intact/unbroken. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_5","010_5_5","1SA","5","5","5","That is the reason that since that time, the priests of Dagon and everyone else who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on the doorsill  where the hands and head of Dagon fell. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_6","010_5_6","1SA","5","6","6","Then Yahweh SYN powerfully caused the people of Ashdod and the people who lived in nearby villages to have ◄a very great plague/serious illness► of tumors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_7","010_5_7","1SA","5","7","7","The men of Ashdod realized why this was happening, and they cried out, “The god of the Israeli people is punishing us and is also punishing our god Dagon. So we cannot allow the sacred chest of the god of the Israelis to remain here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_8","010_5_8","1SA","5","8","8","They summoned the five kings of the Philistia people-group, and asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of the god of the Israelis?” The kings replied, “Take the sacred chest to Gath  city.” So they moved it to Gath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_9","010_5_9","1SA","5","9","9","But after they took it to Gath, Yahweh powerfully struck the people of that city also, with the result that many men, including young men and old men, got tumors on their skin. Then the people became very afraid. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_10","010_5_10","1SA","5","10","10","So they took the sacred chest to Ekron  city. But when the men carried the sacred chest into Ekron, the people there cried out, “Why are you bringing the sacred chest of the God of the Israelis into our city RHQ?  By doing that you will cause us and the rest of our people to die!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_11","010_5_11","1SA","5","11","11","The people were terrified/in panic because  they knew that God was starting to punish them severely. So they summoned the  five kings of the Philistia people-group again, and  pleaded with them, saying, “Take this sacred chest of the god of the Israelis back to its own place! If you do not do that quickly, we will all die!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S15_12","010_5_12","1SA","5","12","12","Some of the people in Ekron had already died, and the rest of the people were suffering because of tumors on their skin. So they all cried out to their gods MTY  to help them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_1","010_6_1","1SA","6","1","1","The people of Philistia kept God’s sacred chest in their area for seven months. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_2","010_6_2","1SA","6","2","2","Then they summoned their priests and their ◄diviners/men who practice rituals to find out what would happen in the future►. They asked them, “What should we do with the sacred chest of Yahweh? Tell us how we should send it back to its own land.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_3","010_6_3","1SA","6","3","3","Those men replied, “Send with it an offering  to show Yahweh that you know that you are guilty  for having captured the chest, in order that the plague will stop. If you do that, and then if you are healed, you will know that Yahweh is the one who caused you to experience the plague.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_4","010_6_4","1SA","6","4","4","The people of Philistia asked, “What kind of offering should we send?” The men replied, “Make five gold models of the tumors on your skin, and five gold models of rats. Make five of each because that is the same number as the number of your kings, and because the plague has struck both you people and your five kings. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_5","010_6_5","1SA","6","5","5","Make models that represent the rats and the tumors that are ruining your land. Make them in order to honor the god of the Israeli people. If you do that, perhaps he will stop punishing IDM you, and your gods, and your land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_6","010_6_6","1SA","6","6","6","Do not be RHQ stubborn IDM like the Egyptians and their king were.  They did not do what the Israelis’ god told them to do, so he punished them. After the Israelis’ god finished punishing them very severely, they were glad to allow the Israelis to leave their country RHQ. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_7","010_6_7","1SA","6","7","7","“o you must build a new cart. Then get two cows that have very recently given birth to calves. They must be cows that have never been hitched to a cart MTY. Hitch those cows to the new cart, and take the calves away from their mothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_8","010_6_8","1SA","6","8","8","Put the Israelis’ god’s sacred chest on the cart. Also put in the cart the five gold models of the tumors on your skin and the five gold models of rats. Put them in a small box alongside the sacred chest. They will be an offering to show that you know that you deserved to be punished  for capturing the sacred chest. Then send  the cows down the road, pulling the cart. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_9","010_6_9","1SA","6","9","9"," Watch the cart as the cows pull it. If they pull it to Beth-Shemesh  town in Israel, we will know that it was the Israelis’ god who caused us to experience this plague. But if they do not take it there, we will know that it was not the god MTY of the Israelis who has punished us. We will know that it just happened.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_10","010_6_10","1SA","6","10","10","So the people did what the priests and men who predicted what would happen in the future told them to do. They  made a cart  and hitched two cows to it. They took the calves from their mothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_11","010_6_11","1SA","6","11","11","They put in the cart Yahweh’s sacred chest and the box with the models of the gold rats and the tumors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_12","010_6_12","1SA","6","12","12","Then the cows started walking, and they went straight toward Beth-Shemesh. They stayed on the road, and were mooing all the time. They did not turn to the left or to the right. The five kings of the Philistia area followed the cows until they reached the edge of Beth-Shemesh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_13","010_6_13","1SA","6","13","13","At that time, the people of Beth-Shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley  outside the city.  When the cows came along the road, they looked up and saw the sacred chest. They were extremely happy to see it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_14","010_6_14","1SA","6","14","15","The cows pulled the cart into the field of a man named Joshua, and they stopped alongside a large rock. Several men from the tribe of Levi lifted from the cart the sacred chest and the box containing the gold models of the rats and the tumors, and they put them all on the large rock. Then the people smashed the cart and kindled a fire with the wood  from which the cart had been made. They slaughtered the cows and burned their bodies/carcasses on the fire to be an offering for Yahweh that would be completely burned. That day the people of Beth-Shemesh offered to Yahweh  many sacrifices that were completely burned, and  other sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_16","010_6_16","1SA","6","16","16","The five kings from the Philistia area watched all this, and then they returned to Ekron, that same day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_17","010_6_17","1SA","6","17","17","The five gold models of tumors that they sent to be an offering to Yahweh to show that they knew that they deserved to be punished were gifts from  those five kings who were rulers of Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron  cities. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_18","010_6_18","1SA","6","18","18","The models of the five gold rats were gifts from the people of those five cities and the surrounding towns. The large rock at Beth-Shemesh, on which the  men of the tribe of Levi set the sacred chest, is still there in the field that belonged to Joshua. When people see it, they remember  what happened there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_19","010_6_19","1SA","6","19","19","But seventy men from Beth-Shemesh looked into Yahweh’s sacred chest, and because of that, Yahweh caused them to die. Then the people mourned very much because Yahweh punished IDM those men like that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_20","010_6_20","1SA","6","20","20","They said, “No one RHQ can ◄resist the power of/stand in the presence of► Yahweh, our holy God,  and remain alive! Where can we send the sacred chest?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S16_21","010_6_21","1SA","6","21","21","They sent messengers to the people of Kiriath-Jearim  city to tell them, “The people of Philistia have returned Yahweh’s sacred chest to us! Come here and take it away!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_1","010_7_1","1SA","7","1","1"," When the men of Kiriath-Jearim  received that message, they came to Beth-Shemesh and took the sacred chest of Yahweh. They took it to the house of Abinadab, which was on a hillside. They appointed Abinadab’s son Eleazar to take care of the chest. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_2","010_7_2","1SA","7","2","2","The sacred chest stayed in Kiriath-Jearim for a long time—a total of 20 years. During that time all the people of Israel mourned  because it seemed that Yahweh  had abandoned them (OR,  and then they asked Yahweh  to help them). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_3","010_7_3","1SA","7","3","3","Then Samuel said to all the Israeli people, “If you truly IDM want to act like Yahweh’s people should, you must get rid of your statues of  the goddess Astarte and the idols/statues of all the other foreign gods. You must decide to serve/worship only Yahweh. If you do that, he will rescue you from  the power of MTY the Philistia people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_4","010_7_4","1SA","7","4","4","So the Israelis got rid of all their statues of the gods Baal and Astarte, and they worshiped only Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_5","010_7_5","1SA","7","5","5","Then Samuel told them, “All you Israeli people must gather with me at Mizpah. Then I will pray to Yahweh for you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_6","010_7_6","1SA","7","6","6","So they gathered at Mizpah, which was the town where Samuel previously was the leader of the Israeli people. They had a big ceremony there. They drew water  from a well, and poured the water on the ground while Yahweh watched.  To show that they were sorry for having worshiped idols, they did not eat any food on that day, and they confessed that they had sinned against Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_7","010_7_7","1SA","7","7","7","When the kings of the Philistia area heard that the Israeli people had gathered at Mizpah, they led their armies there to attack the Israelis. When the Israelis found out that the Philistia army was approaching them, they became very afraid. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_8","010_7_8","1SA","7","8","8","They told Samuel, “Pray to Yahweh to rescue us from the Philistia army MTY, and do not stop pleading!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_9","010_7_9","1SA","7","9","9","So Samuel took a very young lamb  and killed it and offered it to Yahweh to be a sacrifice that was completely burned  on the altar. Then he prayed and pleaded that Yahweh  would help the Israelis, and Yahweh did help them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_10","010_7_10","1SA","7","10","10","While Samuel was burning the offering, the Philistia army came near to attack the Israelis. But Yahweh caused it to thunder very loudly. The soldiers of the Philistia army became very frightened, and then they ◄became confused/did not know what to do►. So the Israelis were able to defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_11","010_7_11","1SA","7","11","11","The Israeli men ran out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistia soldiers almost to Beth-Car  town, and killed many Philistia soldiers while they were trying to run away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_12","010_7_12","1SA","7","12","12","After that happened, Samuel took a large stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah  towns. He named the stone ‘Ebenezer’,  which means ‘stone of help’, because he said “Yahweh has helped us until the present time.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_13","010_7_13","1SA","7","13","13","So the Philistia people were defeated, and for a long time they did not enter the Israeli land  to attack them again. During the time that Samuel was alive, Yahweh powerfully protected MTY  the Israeli people from  being attacked by the Philistia army. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_14","010_7_14","1SA","7","14","14","The Israeli army was able to capture again the Israeli villages between Ekron and Gath that the Philistia army had captured before. The Israelis were also able to take again the other areas around those cities that the Philistia army had taken  from the Israelis previously. And there was peace between the Israelis and the Amor people-group. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_15","010_7_15","1SA","7","15","15","Samuel continued to be the leader of the Israeli people until he died. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_16","010_7_16","1SA","7","16","16","As long as he was alive, every year he traveled back and forth between Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah  cities. In those cities he listened to disputes between people and made decisions about them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S17_17","010_7_17","1SA","7","17","17","After he listened to disputes and made decisions in each of those towns, he returned to his home at Ramah, and he would listen to people’s disputes there, also,  and make decisions about them. And he built an altar at Ramah  to offer sacrifices to Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_1","010_8_1","1SA","8","1","1","When Samuel became old, he appointed his two sons, Joel and Abijah, to lead/rule the people of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_2","010_8_2","1SA","8","2","2","They judged people’s disputes/cases in Beersheba  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_3","010_8_3","1SA","8","3","3","But they were not like their father. They wanted only to get a lot of money. They accepted bribes, and they did not make honest decisions about people’s disputes/cases. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_4","010_8_4","1SA","8","4","4","Finally, the Israeli leaders met at Ramah  town to discuss the matter with Samuel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_5","010_8_5","1SA","8","5","5","They said to him, “Listen! You are now old, and your sons are not like you. Appoint a king to rule over us, like the kings that other countries have!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_6","010_8_6","1SA","8","6","6","Samuel was very unhappy with them for requesting that, so he prayed to Yahweh about it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_7","010_8_7","1SA","8","7","7","Yahweh replied, “Do what they have requested you to do. But ◄ do not think/the truth is not► that you are the one whom they are really rejecting. I have been their king, and I am the one they are really rejecting. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_8","010_8_8","1SA","8","8","8","Ever since I brought them out of Egypt, they have rejected me, and they have worshiped other gods. And now they are also rejecting you in the same way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_9","010_8_9","1SA","8","9","9","Do what they are asking you to do. But warn/tell them about how their kings will act toward them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_10","010_8_10","1SA","8","10","10","So Samuel told those people what Yahweh had said. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_11","010_8_11","1SA","8","11","11","He said, “If a king rules over you, this is what he will do to you: He will force many of your sons to join the army. He will make  some of them run in front of his chariots  to clear people out of his way. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_12","010_8_12","1SA","8","12","12"," Some of them will be commanders of his soldiers, but others will work for him like slaves. He will force some of them to plow his fields and  then later harvest his crops. He will force others to make his weapons and equipment for his chariots. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_13","010_8_13","1SA","8","13","13","The king will take  some of your daughters  from you and force them to make perfumes for him and cook food for him and bake  bread for him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_14","010_8_14","1SA","8","14","14","He will take your best fields and vineyards and olive tree groves/orchards, and give them to his own officials. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_15","010_8_15","1SA","8","15","15","He will take a tenth of your harvests and distribute it among the officers and servants  who work in his  palace. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_16","010_8_16","1SA","8","16","16","He will take from you your male and female servants, your best cattle and donkeys, and force them to work for him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_17","010_8_17","1SA","8","17","17","He will take one tenth of your sheep and goats. And you will become his slaves! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_18","010_8_18","1SA","8","18","18","When that time comes, you will complain loudly to the king, the king that you yourselves have chosen, but Yahweh will not ◄pay attention to/help► you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_19","010_8_19","1SA","8","19","19","But the people refused to pay attention to what Samuel said. They said, “We do not  care what you say! We want a king! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_20","010_8_20","1SA","8","20","20","We want to be like the other nations. We want a king to rule us and to lead our soldiers when they go to fight.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_21","010_8_21","1SA","8","21","21","When Samuel told Yahweh what the people had said, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S18_22","010_8_22","1SA","8","22","22","Yahweh replied, “Do what they are telling you to do. Give them a king!”  So Samuel agreed, and then he sent the people home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_1","010_9_1","1SA","9","1","1","There was a rich and influential man whose name was Kish. He belonged to the tribe descended from Benjamin. Kish was the son of Abiel and the grandson of Zeror. He was from the family of Becorath and from the clan of Aphiah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_2","010_9_2","1SA","9","2","2","Kish had a son whose name was Saul. He was more handsome than any of the other Israeli men, and he was a head/foot taller than any of the other Israeli men. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_3","010_9_3","1SA","9","3","3","One day, some of Kish’s female donkeys wandered off. So Kish told Saul, “Take one of my servants with you, and go and search for the donkeys!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_4","010_9_4","1SA","9","4","4","So Saul did that. He took a servant, and they walked through the hilly area where the descendants of Ephraim lived, and then they went through the areas named Shalishah and Shaalim, and then they went through all the area where the descendants of Benjamin lived, but they could not find the donkeys. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_5","010_9_5","1SA","9","5","5","Finally, they came to the area of Zuph. Then Saul said to the servant, “Let’s go back home. If we do not do that, my father will stop worrying about the donkeys and start worrying about us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_6","010_9_6","1SA","9","6","6","But the servant said, “I have another idea IDM. There is one of God’s prophets who lives in this town. People respect him very much, because everything he predicts comes true. Let’s go  talk to him. Perhaps he can tell us where we can go  to find the donkeys.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_7","010_9_7","1SA","9","7","7","Saul replied to the servant, “If we go talk with him,  we should give a gift to him, but what can we give to him? We have no more food in our sacks. Do we have anything else to give to him?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_8","010_9_8","1SA","9","8","8","The servant replied, “Look  at this! I have a small silver coin. I can give this to him, and then he will tell us where to go  to find the donkeys.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_9","010_9_9","1SA","9","9","11","Saul said, “Okay, let’s go  talk to him.” So they went to the town where the prophet lived. As they were going up the hill into the town, they met some young women who were coming out of the town to get some water  from a well. One of them asked the women, “Is the seer in the town  today?”  They said that because previously, if people  in Israel wanted a message from God, they would say, “Let’s go to the seer,” and people who now are called prophets were at that time called ‘those who see ◄visions from God/all that God sees►.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_12","010_9_12","1SA","9","12","12","The women replied, “Yes, he is in the town. In fact, he is  walking on the road ahead of you. He has just arrived in the town, because the people are going to offer a sacrifice on the altar where the people gather  to worship God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_13","010_9_13","1SA","9","13","13","If you go quickly, you will  have time to talk to him before he goes there. The people who have been invited will not start eating until he arrives there and ◄blesses/asks God to bless► the sacrifice.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_14","010_9_14","1SA","9","14","14","So Saul and the servant entered the town. As they went through the gates, they saw Samuel as he was coming toward them, on the way to where people were going to offer sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_15","010_9_15","1SA","9","15","15","On the previous day, Yahweh had told Samuel, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_16","010_9_16","1SA","9","16","16","“At this time tomorrow, I will send to you a man from the land where the descendants of Benjamin live. Pour olive oil on his  head to indicate that he will be the leader of my Israeli people. I have seen that my people are suffering  because the Philistine people are oppressing them, and I have heard my people as they have called out to me  for help. The man on whose  head you pour olive oil will rescue my people from the MTY Philistine people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_17","010_9_17","1SA","9","17","17","When Samuel saw Saul, Yahweh said to him, “This is the man I told you about yesterday! He is the one who will rule my people!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_18","010_9_18","1SA","9","18","18","Saul saw Samuel as he was sitting at the town gateway  but he did not know that it was Samuel. He went over to him and asked him, “Can you tell me, where is the house of the man who sees ◄visions from God/all that God sees►?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_19","010_9_19","1SA","9","19","19","Samuel replied, “I am that man. Go ahead of me with your servant to the place where the people make sacrifices. Both of you will eat with me today. Tomorrow morning I will tell you what you are wanting to know, and then I will send you home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_20","010_9_20","1SA","9","20","20","Also, do not worry anymore about those donkeys that wandered away three days ago. ◄Someone has found them/They have been found►. But  what you need to know is that it is you and your family that all the Israeli people are wanting!” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_21","010_9_21","1SA","9","21","21","Saul replied, “I am from the tribe of Benjamin RHQ. That is the smallest tribe in Israel RHQ! And my family is the least important family in our tribe! So why are you talking to me like this,  about the Israeli people wanting me and my family?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_22","010_9_22","1SA","9","22","22","Then Samuel brought Saul and the servant into the big dining room, and told them to sit at the head  of the table, indicating that he was honoring them more than he was honoring the 30 people who had been invited. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_23","010_9_23","1SA","9","23","23","Then Samuel told the cook, “Bring to me the special piece  of meat that I told you to set aside.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_24","010_9_24","1SA","9","24","24","So the cook brought the leg and the meat that was on it, and set it in front of Saul,  even though those portions were for only the priest to eat. Samuel said to Saul, “Start eating it. I told the cook to save this for you, so that you could eat it at this time, when all these people whom I invited are here.” So Saul and Samuel ate together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_25","010_9_25","1SA","9","25","25","After they finished eating, they returned to the town. Then Samuel took Saul up to the  flat roof  of his house, and fixed a bed for him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_26","010_9_26","1SA","9","26","26","As the sun was rising the next morning, Samuel called up to Saul, “Get up! It is time for me to send you on the road back home.” So Saul got up, and  later Samuel and Saul left the house together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S19_27","010_9_27","1SA","9","27","27","When they got to the edge of the town, Samuel told Saul to send his servant ahead. After the servant left, Samuel said to Saul, “Stay here for a few minutes, in order that I can give you a message I received from God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_1","010_10_1","1SA","10","1","1","Then Samuel took a small jar of olive oil and poured  some of it on Saul’s head. Then he kissed Saul  on the cheek, and told him, “I am doing this because Yahweh has chosen you to be the leader of his Israeli people. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_2","010_10_2","1SA","10","2","2"," And this will prove it to you: When you leave me today, when you arrive near Rachel’s tomb at Zelzah, in the area where the descendants of Benjamin live, you will meet two men. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys have been found, but now your father is worrying about you, and he is asking people, “Have you seen my son?’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_3","010_10_3","1SA","10","3","3","When you arrive at the  large oak tree at Tabor  town, you will see three men coming toward you. They will be on their way to  worship God at Bethel  town. One of them will be leading three young goats, one will be carrying three loaves of bread, and one will be carrying a container of wine. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_4","010_10_4","1SA","10","4","4","They will greet you, and they will offer you two of the loaves of bread. Accept them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_5","010_10_5","1SA","10","5","5","When you arrive at the hill  where people worship God near Gibeah  town, where there is the camp where the Philistine soldiers stay, you will meet a group of prophets who will be coming down from the altar on top of the hill. There will be people in front of them who will be playing  various musical instruments: a harp, a tambourine, a flute, and a lyre. And all of them will be speaking messages that come directly frrom God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_6","010_10_6","1SA","10","6","6","At that time the Spirit of Yahweh will come upon you, and you also will speak messages that come directly from God. ◄You will be changed/The Spirit of Yahweh will change you►, so that you will become like a different person. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_7","010_10_7","1SA","10","7","7","After those things occur, do whatever you think is right to do, and God will ◄be with/help► you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_8","010_10_8","1SA","10","8","8","Then go ahead of me, down to Gilgal  city, and wait for me there, for seven days. Then I will join you there, to burn sacrifices and offer other sacrifices to enable you to maintain fellowship with God. When I arrive there, I will tell you what  other things you should do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_9","010_10_9","1SA","10","9","9","As Saul started to leave there, God changed Saul’s inner being. And all the things that Samuel had predicted happened on that day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_10","010_10_10","1SA","10","10","10","When Saul and his servant arrived at Gibeah, they saw some prophets who were  speaking messages that came directly from God. As the prophets were approaching Saul and his servant, God’s Spirit came upon Saul powerfully, and he also began to speak messages from God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_11","010_10_11","1SA","10","11","11","When people who had known Saul previously heard him speaking messages from God as the prophets were doing, they said to each other, “What has happened to this son of Kish? Is he now really one of the ◄prophets/men who speak messages from God►?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_12","010_10_12","1SA","10","12","12","One of the men who lived there replied, “ Saul cannot be a prophet, because all prophets receive their power to speak messages from God, not from their parents.” And that is why,  when people hear about a report of someone prophesying, they think about what happened to Saul and say, “ We are surprised about that person becoming a prophet, like we were surprised to hear that Saul had really become one of the prophets.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_13","010_10_13","1SA","10","13","13","When Saul finished speaking the messages that God gave him, he went to the place where the people offered sacrifices. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_14","010_10_14","1SA","10","14","14","Later, Saul’s uncle  saw him there, and asked him, “Where did you go?” Saul replied, “We went to look for the donkeys. When we could not find them, we came here to ask Samuel  if he could tell us where they were.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_15","010_10_15","1SA","10","15","15","Saul’s uncle replied, “What did Samuel tell you?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_16","010_10_16","1SA","10","16","16","Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But he did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about him becoming the king  of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_17","010_10_17","1SA","10","17","17"," Later Samuel summoned the people of Israel to gather at Mizpah to  hear a message from Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_18","010_10_18","1SA","10","18","18","After they arrived, he said to them, “This is what Yahweh, the God we Israeli people  worship, says: I brought you Israeli people out of Egypt. I rescued your  ancestors from the power of the rulers of Egypt and from all the other kings who oppressed them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_19","010_10_19","1SA","10","19","19","I am the one who saves you from all your troubles and difficulties. But today you have rejected me, your God, and you have said, ‘We don’t care! Give us a king!’ So  I will do what you want. Now have  representatives of your tribes and  of  your clans stand here in the presence of Yahweh.’ ” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_20","010_10_20","1SA","10","20","20","When those representatives came near to Samuel,  God indicated that he had chosen someone from the tribe descended from Benjamin. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_21","010_10_21","1SA","10","21","21","Then Samuel told representatives of the tribe of Benjamin to come forward, and God indicated that  from that tribe he had chosen someone from the family of Matri, and then God indicated that  from the family of Matri he had chosen Saul, the son of Kish. But when they looked for Saul, they could not find him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_22","010_10_22","1SA","10","22","22","So they asked Yahweh, “Where is Saul?” Yahweh replied, “He is hiding among the army equipment.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_23","010_10_23","1SA","10","23","23","So they quickly went there  and found him, and brought him  in front of all the people. They could see that  truly he was a head taller than anyone else. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_24","010_10_24","1SA","10","24","24","Then Samuel said to all the people there, “This is the man whom Yahweh has chosen to be your king. Among all us Israeli people, there is no one like him!” Then all the people shouted, “We hope that this king will live a long time!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_25","010_10_25","1SA","10","25","25","Then Samuel told the people what things the king would force them to do, and all the things the king was required to do. He wrote all those things on a scroll, and then he put it in a sacred place in the temple. Then Samuel sent all the people home. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_26","010_10_26","1SA","10","26","26","When Saul returned to his home in Gibeah  town, a group of men decided to continually accompany Saul. They did that because God ◄motivated them/put it in their minds► to do that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S110_27","010_10_27","1SA","10","27","27","But some worthless men said, “◄How can this man save us  from our enemies?/This man will not be able to save us  from our enemies.►” RHQ They despised him, and refused to give him any gifts  to show that they would be loyal to him. But Saul did not say anything  to rebuke them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_1","010_11_1","1SA","11","1","1","About a month later, King Nahash of Ammon  led his army across the Jordan River, and they surrounded Jabesh  city in  the Gilead  region. But all the men of Jabesh  went and said to Nahash, “Make an agreement/treaty with us  not to kill us, and then we will let you rule us.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_2","010_11_2","1SA","11","2","2","Nahash replied, “I will do that if you do one thing. Allow us to gouge out all the right eyes of your people. By doing that we will cause the people  in other countries to despise all you Israeli people.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_3","010_11_3","1SA","11","3","3","The leaders of Jabesh replied, “Do not attack us for the next seven days. During that time, we will send messengers throughout Israel  to tell them what you are demanding. If no one will help us, then we will ◄surrender to you/allow you to do to us whatever you want►.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_4","010_11_4","1SA","11","4","4"," Being very confident that his army was very superior, Nahash agreed. So the leaders of Jabesh sent messengers throughout Israel. When the messengers came to Gibeah, which was  the city where Saul lived, and they told the people there about the situation, everyone started to cry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_5","010_11_5","1SA","11","5","5","At that time, Saul was plowing in the field. When he returned home, he asked, “Why are all the people  crying?” So they told him what the messengers from Jabesh had reported. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_6","010_11_6","1SA","11","6","6","Then God’s Spirit came powerfully upon Saul, and he became very angry  because of what Nahash wanted to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_7","010_11_7","1SA","11","7","7","He took two of his oxen  and killed them and cut them into pieces. Then he sent messengers  carrying those pieces throughout Israel to tell people this message: “Saul says that  he cut this ox in pieces, and that he  will do the same thing to the oxen of anyone who refuses to come with him and Samuel to fight  the army from Ammon!” Then Yahweh caused all the people of Israel to be afraid of what Saul might do to them (OR, of what Yahweh might do to them)  if they did not go and help Saul. So the men all gathered together. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_8","010_11_8","1SA","11","8","8","When Saul gave them all weapons at Bezek, he saw that there were 300,000 Israeli men there, as well as 30,000 men from the tribe of Judah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_9","010_11_9","1SA","11","9","9","So Saul sent messengers back to the people at Jabesh to tell them, “We will rescue/save you by noontime tomorrow.” When the people of Jabesh heard that message, they were very joyful/happy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_10","010_11_10","1SA","11","10","10","Then the men of Jabesh told  Nahash, “Tomorrow we will surrender to you, and then you can do to us whatever you want to.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_11","010_11_11","1SA","11","11","11","But before the sun rose the next morning, Saul  and his army arrived. He divided them into three groups. They rushed into the camp of the soldiers from Ammon, and attacked them. By noontime they had killed most of them, and those who were not killed scattered. Each of them who ran away ran away alone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_12","010_11_12","1SA","11","12","12","Then the people  of Jabesh said to Samuel, “Where are those men who said that they did not want Saul to be our king? Bring them here, and we will kill them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_13","010_11_13","1SA","11","13","13","But Saul replied, “ No, we are not going to execute anyone today, because this is the day that Yahweh has saved us Israeli people.  It is a day to rejoice, not to kill anyone.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_14","010_11_14","1SA","11","14","14","Then Samuel said to the people, “Let’s all go to Gilgal, and there we will again proclaim  that Saul is our king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S111_15","010_11_15","1SA","11","15","15","So they went to Gilgal. There, knowing that Yahweh was watching, they proclaimed that Saul was their king. Then they offered sacrifices to enable them to maintain fellowship with Yahweh. And Saul and all the other Israeli people were very happy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_1","010_12_1","1SA","12","1","1","Then Samuel said this to all the Israeli people: “I have done everything that you told me to do, and I have given/appointed a king to rule you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_2","010_12_2","1SA","12","2","2","My own sons  are grown up and with you now, but I have appointed Saul  instead of one of them, and he is now your leader. I am now old, and my hair is gray. I have been your leader ever since I was a boy. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_3","010_12_3","1SA","12","3","3","Now tell me, while Yahweh is listening, and while the king whom he has chosen is listening: whose ox or donkey have I stolen  during all those years? Whom have I cheated? Whom have I oppressed/treated badly? From whom have I accepted a bribe, in order that I would ignore  the evil things he had done? If I have done any of those things, tell me, and I will pay back what I owe.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_4","010_12_4","1SA","12","4","4","They replied, “ No, you have never cheated anyone or oppressed anyone or accepted a bribe from anyone.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_5","010_12_5","1SA","12","5","5","Then Samuel said, “Today Yahweh can testify, and the king whom you chose can testify, that I have not taken a bribe from anyone.” They replied, “Yes, Yahweh can say that he knows that is true.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_6","010_12_6","1SA","12","6","6","Samuel continued by saying, “Yahweh is the one who appointed Moses and Aaron  to lead our ancestors. He is the one who brought them out of Egypt.  And he is the one who will testify that what I am saying is true. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_7","010_12_7","1SA","12","7","7","Now while Yahweh is listening, stand here quietly while I accuse you  and tell you that your requesting a king instead of trusting Yahweh to lead you was wrong. I will do that by reminding you of all the great miracles that Yahweh performed for you and your ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_8","010_12_8","1SA","12","8","8","“any years after Jacob went to Egypt, our ancestors pleaded to Yahweh to help them. So Yahweh sent Moses and Aaron to them, and they led our ancestors out of Egypt, and eventually they settled in this land. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_9","010_12_9","1SA","12","9","9","“ut our ancestors soon forgot about Yahweh, their God. So he allowed Sisera, the commander of the army from Hazor, to defeat them. He also allowed the Philistines and the army of the king of Moab to fight our ancestors and defeat them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_10","010_12_10","1SA","12","10","10","Then our ancestors pleaded with Yahweh again to help them. They admitted, ‘Yahweh, we have sinned, and we have forsaken you. We have worshiped  idols that represent the god Baal and  the goddess Astarte. But if you rescue us from our enemies, we will worship you only.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_11","010_12_11","1SA","12","11","11","So Yahweh sent men such as Gideon, Barak, Jephthah, and me to save you. And as a result, you did not have to worry about any enemies attacking you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_12","010_12_12","1SA","12","12","12","“ut now, when king Nahash of Ammon came  with his army to attack you,  you were afraid. So, you  came to me, and said, ‘We want a king to rule us,’ even though Yahweh was already your king! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_13","010_12_13","1SA","12","13","13","So now, look, here is the king whom you have chosen. You asked for a king, and Yahweh has now appointed a king for you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_14","010_12_14","1SA","12","14","14","If you will revere Yahweh and if you serve him, and if you listen to what he says and obey what he commands, and if you and the king who rules over you do what Yahweh your God wants you to do, ◄things will go well for you all/Yahweh will bless you►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_15","010_12_15","1SA","12","15","15","But if you do not listen to what Yahweh says, if you disobey what he commands, then he will punish MTY you all, just as he punished our ancestors. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_16","010_12_16","1SA","12","16","16","“ow stand here quietly and see the great thing that Yahweh is about to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_17","010_12_17","1SA","12","17","17","You know that RHQ  it does not rain at this time of the year, during the time when you harvest wheat. But I will ask Yahweh to send thunder  and lightning and rain today. When he does that, you will realize that Yahweh considers that you have done a very wicked thing by requesting a king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_18","010_12_18","1SA","12","18","18","Then Samuel prayed to Yahweh, and Yahweh caused it to thunder  and lightning and rain. So all the people became very afraid of Yahweh and of Samuel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_19","010_12_19","1SA","12","19","19","They cried out to Samuel, “Pray for us! We have added to our previous sins by requesting a king! Pray to Yahweh, your God, in order that we will not die  because of having done that!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_20","010_12_20","1SA","12","20","20","Samuel replied, “Do not be afraid! You have done this evil thing, but do not turn away from doing the things that Yahweh wants you to do. Instead, serve Yahweh wholeheartedly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_21","010_12_21","1SA","12","21","21","Do not abandon  Yahweh and worship useless idols. They cannot help you or save you  from your enemies, because they are truly useless. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_22","010_12_22","1SA","12","22","22","Yahweh decided to make us his people. So he will not abandon us people whom he has chosen, because he would injure his own reputation  of being completely faithful if he did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_23","010_12_23","1SA","12","23","23","But as for me, I have solemnly promised that I will not sin against Yahweh by ceasing to pray for you. And I will continue to teach you what things are good and right  for you to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_24","010_12_24","1SA","12","24","24","But you must revere Yahweh and serve him wholeheartedly. Never forget all the great things that he has done for you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S112_25","010_12_25","1SA","12","25","25","But if you keep doing wicked things, he will get rid of you and your king!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_1","010_13_1","1SA","13","1","1","Saul was no longer a young man when he became the king. He ruled Israel for 42 years. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_2","010_13_2","1SA","13","2","2"," Several years after he became king, he chose three thousand men from the Israeli army to go with him  to fight the Philistines. Then he sent the other soldiers back home. Of the men he chose, 2,000 stayed with Saul at Micmash and in the hilly area near Bethel, and 1,000 stayed with  Saul’s son Jonathan at Gibeah, in the area where the descendants of Benjamin lived. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_3","010_13_3","1SA","13","3","3","Jonathan  and the men who were with him attacked the Philistine soldiers who were camped at Geba. The  other Philistines heard about that.  So Saul realized that the army of Philistia would probably come to fight the Israelis again. So Saul  sent messengers to blow trumpets throughout Israel  to gather the people together and proclaim to them, “All you Hebrews need to hear  that now the Philistines will start a war with us!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_4","010_13_4","1SA","13","4","4","The messengers told the rest of the army to gather together with Saul at Gilgal. And all the people in Israel heard the news. People were saying, “Saul’s army has attacked the Philistine camp, with the result that now the Philistines hate us Israelis very much.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_5","010_13_5","1SA","13","5","5","The Philistines gathered together and were given equipment to fight the Israelis. The Philistines had 3,000 chariots, and 6,000 chariot-drivers. Their soldiers  seemed to be as many as grains of sand on the seashore HYP. They went up and set up their tents at Micmash, to the east of Beth-Aven ( which means ‘house of wickedness’, and really referred to Bethel town). ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_6","010_13_6","1SA","13","6","6","The Philistines attacked the Israelis very strongly, and the Israeli soldiers realized that they were in a very bad situation. So many of the Israeli soldiers hid in caves and holes in the ground, or among the rocks, or in pits, or in wells. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_7","010_13_7","1SA","13","7","7","Some of them crossed the Jordan River at a place where it was very shallow. Then they went to the area where the descendants of Gad lived and to  the Gilead  region. But Saul stayed at Gilgal. All the soldiers who were with him were shaking  because they were so afraid. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_8","010_13_8","1SA","13","8","8","Saul waited seven days, which was the number of days that Samuel had told him to wait for him. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal  during that time, so many of the men in Saul’s army began to leave him and run away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_9","010_13_9","1SA","13","9","9","So Saul said to the soldiers, “Bring to me an animal to be completely burned  on the altar and one for the offering to enable us to maintain fellowship  with God.”  So the men did that. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_10","010_13_10","1SA","13","10","10","And just as he was finished burning those offerings, Samuel arrived. Saul went to greet him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_11","010_13_11","1SA","13","11","11","Samuel  saw what Saul had done, and he said to Saul, “Why have you done this?” Saul replied, “I saw that my men were leaving me and running away, and that you did not come here during the time that you said that you would come, and that the Philistine army was gathering together at Micmash. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_12","010_13_12","1SA","13","12","12","“o I thought, ‘The Philistine army is going to attack us here at Gilgal, and I have not yet asked Yahweh to bless/help us.’ So I felt it was necessary to offer the burnt offerings  to seek God’s blessings.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_13","010_13_13","1SA","13","13","13","Samuel replied, “What you did was very foolish! You have not obeyed what Yahweh, your God, commanded  about sacrifices. If you had obeyed him, God would have allowed you and your descendants to rule  Israel for a long time. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_14","010_13_14","1SA","13","14","14","But now  because of what you have done, you will die, and after you die, none of your descendants will rule. Yahweh is seeking for a man  to be king who will be just the kind of person that he wants him to be, so that he can appoint him to be the leader of his people. Yahweh will do this because you have not obeyed what he commanded.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_15","010_13_15","1SA","13","15","15","Then Samuel left Gilgal and went up to Gibeah. Saul stayed at Gilgal with his soldiers. There were only about 600 of them left  who had not run away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_16","010_13_16","1SA","13","16","16","Saul and his son Jonathan and the soldiers who were with them went to Geba  city in the area of the tribe of Benjamin  and set up their tents there. The Philistine army set up their tents at Micmash. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_17","010_13_17","1SA","13","17","17","Three groups of Philistia men soon left the place where their army was staying, and went and ◄raided the Israeli towns/attacked the Israelis and took their possessions►. One group went  north toward Ophrah  city in  the  Shual  region. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_18","010_13_18","1SA","13","18","18","One group went  west to Beth-Horon  city. The third group went toward the Israeli border, above Zeboim Valley, near the desert. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_19","010_13_19","1SA","13","19","19","At that time, there were no men in Israel who ◄were blacksmiths/could make things from iron►.  The people of Philistia would not permit the Israelis to do that, because they were afraid that they would make iron swords and spears for the Hebrews to fight with. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_20","010_13_20","1SA","13","20","20","So  whenever the Israelis needed to sharpen the blades of their plows, or picks, or axes, or sickles, they were forced to take those things to a Philistia man who could sharpen those things. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_21","010_13_21","1SA","13","21","21","They needed to pay ◄one fourth of an ounce/8 grams► of silver for sharpening a plow, and ◄an eighth of an ounce/4 grams► of silver to sharpen an axe, or a sickle, or ◄an ox goad/a pointed rod to jab an ox to make it walk►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_22","010_13_22","1SA","13","22","22","So  because the Israelis could not make weapons from iron, on the day that the Israelis fought  against the men of Philistia, Saul and Jonathan were the only Israeli men who had swords. None of the others had a sword;  they had only bows and arrows. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S113_23","010_13_23","1SA","13","23","23","Before the battle started, some Philistia men went to ◄the pass/a narrow place between two cliffs► outside Micmash to guard it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_1","010_14_1","1SA","14","1","1","One day, Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come with me; we will go over to where the Philistia soldiers have put up their tents.”  So they went, but Jonathan did not tell his father  what they were going to do. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_2","010_14_2","1SA","14","2","2","On that day, Saul and the 600 soldiers who were with him were sitting around a pomegranate tree at a place where the people threshed grain, near Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_3","010_14_3","1SA","14","3","3","Ahijah the priest was also there. He was wearing the sacred vest. Ahijah was the son of Ahitub, who was a brother of Ichabod. Ichabod and Ahitub were the sons of Phinehas, who was the son of Eli, who had been Yahweh’s priest at Shiloh. No one knew that Jonathan had left  the Israeli camp. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_4","010_14_4","1SA","14","4","4","Jonathan planned that he and the young man would go through a narrow ◄pass/place between two cliffs► to get to where the Philistia army was. The cliff on one side of the pass was named Bozez, and the other cliff was named Seneh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_5","010_14_5","1SA","14","5","5","One cliff faced north toward Micmash, and the cliff on the other side faced south toward Geba  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_6","010_14_6","1SA","14","6","6","Jonathan said to the young man who carried his weapons, “Come with me. We will go to where those ◄pagans/people who do not believe in Yahweh► MTY have set up their tents. Perhaps Yahweh will help us. It does not matter whether we are only two men or many people; nothing can hinder Yahweh from enabling us to defeat them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_7","010_14_7","1SA","14","7","7","The young man who was carrying Jonathan’s weapons said, “Do what you think is the best thing for us to do. I will help you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_8","010_14_8","1SA","14","8","8","Then Jonathan said, “Okay, come with me. We will cross the valley to where the Philistia army is, and allow them to see us. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_9","010_14_9","1SA","14","9","9","If they then say to us, ‘You two stay there until we come down to you,’ we will stay there and not go up to them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_10","010_14_10","1SA","14","10","10","But if they say to us, ‘Come up here  and fight against us,’ that will show us that Yahweh will enable us to defeat them. Then we will go up and fight them.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_11","010_14_11","1SA","14","11","11","When the two of them crossed the valley, the Philistia soldiers saw them coming. They said, “Look! The Hebrews are crawling out of the holes in which they have been hiding!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_12","010_14_12","1SA","14","12","12","Then the Philistia soldiers who were closest to Jonathan and the young man who carried his weapons said, “Come up here, and we will teach you something  about how to fight IDM!” Jonathan said to the young man who was with him, “Come behind me and climb up, because Yahweh is going to help us to defeat them!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_13","010_14_13","1SA","14","13","13","So Jonathan climbed up, using his hands and his feet  because it was very steep. The young man climbed up following him. As Jonathan climbed, he struck and killed many Philistia soldiers, and the young man who was with him killed many more as he followed behind Jonathan. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_14","010_14_14","1SA","14","14","14","In that first battle the two of them killed about 20 Philistia soldiers in an area that was about half an acre. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_15","010_14_15","1SA","14","15","15","Then all the other Philistia soldiers, the ones in the camp and the ones who had been attacking the Israeli towns, ones who were out in the field much closer, panicked. Then God caused the ground to shake, and they all became terrified/very afraid. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_16","010_14_16","1SA","14","16","16","Saul’s ◄lookouts/men who were watching to see if enemies were coming► were in Gibeah  town in the land of the tribe of Benjamin. They saw that the soldiers of the Philistia army were running away in all directions. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_17","010_14_17","1SA","14","17","17","Saul  realized that some of his soldiers must have attacked the Philistia army. So he  said to the soldiers who were with him, “Check to see if any of our men are not here.” So they checked, and they found out that Jonathan and the man who carried his weapons were gone. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_18","010_14_18","1SA","14","18","18","So Saul said to Ahijah  the Supreme Priest, “Bring the sacred vest here  and find out what we should do.” On that day Ahijah was wearing the sacred vest, going in front of the Israelis. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_19","010_14_19","1SA","14","19","19","But while Saul was talking to the priest,  he saw that the Philistia soldiers were becoming more panicked/confused. So Saul said to Ahijah, “Take your hand down  from the sacred vest. Do not waste any more time using the marked stones in the vest to find out what Yahweh wants us to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_20","010_14_20","1SA","14","20","20","Then Saul gathered his men and they went toward the battle. They found that the Philistia soldiers were so confused that they were striking each other with their swords. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_21","010_14_21","1SA","14","21","21","Before that, some of the Hebrew men had deserted their army and gone to join with the Philistia army. But now those men  revolted and joined with Saul and Jonathan and the other Israeli soldiers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_22","010_14_22","1SA","14","22","22","Some of the Israeli soldiers had previously run away and hidden in the mountains where the tribe of Ephraim lived. But when they heard that the Philistia soldiers were running away, they  came down and joined the other Israeli soldiers and pursued the Philistia soldiers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_23","010_14_23","1SA","14","23","23","So Yahweh rescued the Israelis on that day. The Israeli soldiers continued to pursue their enemies beyond Beth-Aven  town. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_24","010_14_24","1SA","14","24","24","Before Saul’s soldiers went to the battle, Saul declared to them solemnly, “I do not want any of you to eat any food before this evening, before we have defeated all our enemies. If anyone eats anything,  Yahweh will curse/punish him.” So none of the Israeli soldiers ate any food, and they became faint/weak because they were very hungry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_25","010_14_25","1SA","14","25","25","The Israeli army went into the forest, and they found honeycombs on the ground, but they did not eat any honey. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_26","010_14_26","1SA","14","26","26","They were afraid to eat any, because they had solemnly promised that they would not eat any food. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_27","010_14_27","1SA","14","27","27","But Jonathan did not hear what his father commanded  because he had left the camp very early in the morning. So  when he saw a honeycomb, he dipped the end of his walking stick into it and ate some honey. After he ate the honey, he felt stronger. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_28","010_14_28","1SA","14","28","28","But one of the Israeli soldiers saw him and said to him, “Your father solemnly declared to us that  Yahweh would curse/punish anyone who ate any food today. So now we are  very tired and weak from being hungry  because we obeyed him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_29","010_14_29","1SA","14","29","29","Jonathan exclaimed, “My father has caused trouble for all of us! See how refreshed/strong I am after eating a little honey! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_30","010_14_30","1SA","14","30","30","If he had permitted all of us to eat from the food we took from our enemies while we were pursuing them, we would have been able to kill many more of their soldiers!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_31","010_14_31","1SA","14","31","31","The Israelis pursued and killed Philistia soldiers all that day, from Micmash  town west to Aijalon. But they continued to become weaker from being hungry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_32","010_14_32","1SA","14","32","32","They had taken  many sheep and cattle that the Philistia soldiers had abandoned. Now, because they were extremely hungry, they butchered some of those animals and ate the meat without draining the blood from the animals. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_33","010_14_33","1SA","14","33","33","One of the soldiers told Saul, “Look! The men are sinning against Yahweh by eating meat that still has blood in it!” Saul replied  to the men who were near him, “They have disobeyed Yahweh! Roll a large stone over here!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_34","010_14_34","1SA","14","34","34","After they did that, he said to those men, “Go and tell all the soldiers that each of them must bring an ox or a sheep to me, and kill it here on this stone,  and drain the blood before he eats any of the meat. They should not sin against Yahweh by eating meat  from some animal without draining its blood.” So that night all the soldiers brought animals and slaughtered them there. Then Saul built an altar to  worship Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_35","010_14_35","1SA","14","35","35","That was the first  time that he built an altar for Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_36","010_14_36","1SA","14","36","36","Then Saul said  to the Israeli soldiers, “Let’s pursue the Philistia soldiers tonight. We can attack them all night. We will not allow any of them to escape alive.” The Israeli soldiers answered, “We will do whatever you think is the best thing for us to do.” But the priest said, “We should ask Yahweh  what he thinks we should do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_37","010_14_37","1SA","14","37","37","So Saul asked God, “Should we pursue the Philistine soldiers? Will you enable us to defeat them?” But God did not answer Saul that day. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_38","010_14_38","1SA","14","38","38","Then Saul summoned all the leaders of his army. He said to them, “ I am sure that God has not answered me because someone has sinned. We must find out what sin someone has committed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_39","010_14_39","1SA","14","39","39","Yahweh has rescued us  from the Philistia army. Just as certain as Yahweh lives, whoever has sinned must be executed. Even if it is my son Jonathan who has sinned, he must be executed.”  His men knew who was guilty, but none of them said anything  to Saul. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_40","010_14_40","1SA","14","40","40","Then Saul said to all the Israeli soldiers, “You stand on one side. My son Jonathan and I will stand on the other side.” His men replied, “Do whatever you think is best.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_41","010_14_41","1SA","14","41","41","Then Saul prayed to Yahweh, the Israelis’ God, “Tell me who is guilty and who is not guilty.” Then the priest ◄cast lots/threw the stones that were marked►, and they indicated that it was  either Jonathan or Saul who was the guilty one, and that the other men were not guilty. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_42","010_14_42","1SA","14","42","42","Then Saul said to the priest, “Throw the stones again to indicate which of us two is guilty.” So he did, and the stones indicated that Jonathan was the guilty one. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_43","010_14_43","1SA","14","43","43","Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done  that was wrong.” Jonathan replied, “I ate a little bit of honey. It was only a little bit that was on the end of my stick. Do I  deserve to be executed  because of doing that?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_44","010_14_44","1SA","14","44","44","Saul replied, “Yes, you must be executed! I hope/wish that God will strike me and kill me if you are not executed for having done that!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_45","010_14_45","1SA","14","45","45","But the Israeli soldiers said to Saul, “Jonathan has won a great victory for all us Israelis. Should he be executed for eating some honey RHQ? Certainly not! Just as surely as Yahweh lives, we will not allow you to injure him in any manner IDM,  because today God helped Jonathan  to kill many soldiers of the Philistia army!” So  by saying that the Israeli soldiers rescued Jonathan, and he was not executed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_46","010_14_46","1SA","14","46","46","Then Saul ordered his soldiers to stop pursuing the Philistia army, so the Philistia soldiers returned to their homes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_47","010_14_47","1SA","14","47","47","After Saul became the ruler/king of the Israeli people, his army fought against their enemies in many areas. They fought against armies of the Moab people-group, the Ammon people-group, the Edom people-group, the kings of Zobah  city/area, and the Philistia people-group. Wherever the Israeli army fought, they defeated their enemies. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_48","010_14_48","1SA","14","48","48","Saul’s army fought bravely and defeated the  very tall descendants of Amalek. His army rescued the Israelis from those who had ◄plundered/forcefully taken things from► them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_49","010_14_49","1SA","14","49","49","Saul’s sons were Jonathan, Ishbosheth, and Malchishua. He also had two daughters, Merab and her younger sister Michal. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_50","010_14_50","1SA","14","50","50","Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz. The commander of Saul’s army was Abner, who was the son of Saul’s uncle Ner. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_51","010_14_51","1SA","14","51","51","Saul’s father Kish and Abner’s father Ner were both sons of Abiel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S114_52","010_14_52","1SA","14","52","52","All the time that Saul was alive, his army fought against the Philistia army. And whenever Saul saw a young man who was ◄brave/not afraid to fight► and strong, he forced him to join his army. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_1","010_15_1","1SA","15","1","1"," One day Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to appoint you to be the king of the Israeli people. So now listen to this message from Yahweh: ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_2","010_15_2","1SA","15","2","2","Yahweh,  the commander  of the armies  of angels has declared this: ‘I am going to punish  the descendants of Amalek for  attacking the Israeli people after the Israelis left Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_3","010_15_3","1SA","15","3","3","So now go  with your army and attack the Amalek people-group. Destroy them completely—destroy them and everything that belongs to them—the men and women, their children and infants, their cattle and sheep and camels and donkeys. Do not ◄spare any of them/allow any of them to remain alive►!’” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_4","010_15_4","1SA","15","4","4","So Saul summoned the army, and they gathered at Telaim  town. There were 200,000 soldiers. 10,000 of them were from Judah,  and the others were from the other Israeli tribes. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_5","010_15_5","1SA","15","5","5","Then Saul went  with his army to a town where some of the Amalek people-group lived.  His army prepared to attack them suddenly by hiding in the valley. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_6","010_15_6","1SA","15","6","6","Then Saul sent this message to the Ken people-group  who lived in that area: “You acted kindly toward all our Israeli  ancestors when they left Egypt. But we are going to kill all of the Amalek people-group,  because they opposed/attacked our ancestors. So move away from where the Amalek people-group live.  If you do not move away, you will be killed when they are killed.” So  when  the Ken people-group  heard that, they immediately left that area. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_7","010_15_7","1SA","15","7","7","Then Saul’s  army slaughtered the Amalek people-group, from Havilah  town in the east to Shur  town in the west. Shur was at the border  between Israel and Egypt. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_8","010_15_8","1SA","15","8","8","Saul’s army captured Agag, the king of the Amalek people-group, but they killed everyone else. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_9","010_15_9","1SA","15","9","9","They not only ◄spared/did not kill► Agag, but they also took the best sheep and goats and cattle. They took everything that was good. They destroyed only the animals that they considered to be worthless. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_10","010_15_10","1SA","15","10","10","Then Yahweh said to Samuel, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_11","010_15_11","1SA","15","11","11","“I am sorry that I appointed Saul to be your king, because he has turned away from me and has not obeyed what I commanded him to do.” Samuel was very disturbed/upset  when he heard that, and he cried out to Yahweh all that night. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_12","010_15_12","1SA","15","12","12","Early the next morning, Samuel got up and went to talk with Saul. But someone told Samuel, “Saul went to Camel  city, where he has set up a monument to honor himself. Now he has left there and gone down to Gilgal.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_13","010_15_13","1SA","15","13","13","When Samuel arrived  at Gilgal he approached Saul, and Saul said tohim,, “I wish/desire that Yahweh will bless you! I have obeyed what Yahweh told me to do.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_14","010_15_14","1SA","15","14","14","But Samuel replied, “If that is true, why is it that I hear cattle mooing and I hear sheep bleating?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_15","010_15_15","1SA","15","15","15","Saul replied, “The soldiers took them from the Amalek people-group. They saved the best sheep and cattle, in order to offer them as sacrifices to Yahweh, your God. But we have completely destroyed all the others.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_16","010_15_16","1SA","15","16","16","Samuel said to Saul, “Stop  talking! Allow me to tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” Saul replied, “Tell me  what he said.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_17","010_15_17","1SA","15","17","17","Samuel said, “Previously you did not think that you were important. But now you have become RHQ the leader of the tribes of Israel. Yahweh appointed you to be their king. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_18","010_15_18","1SA","15","18","18","And Yahweh sent you to do something  for him. He said to you, ‘Go and get rid of all those sinful people, the Amalek people-group. Attack them and kill all of them.’ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_19","010_15_19","1SA","15","19","19","So why did you not obey Yahweh RHQ? Why did your men take the best animals RHQ? Why did you do what Yahweh said was evil?” RHQ ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_20","010_15_20","1SA","15","20","20","Saul replied to Samuel, “Hey, I did what Yahweh sent me to do! I brought back King Agag, but we killed everyone else! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_21","010_15_21","1SA","15","21","21","My men brought back only the best sheep and cattle and other things, in order to sacrifice them to Yahweh your God here at Gilgal.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_22","010_15_22","1SA","15","22","22","But Samuel replied, “Which  do you think pleases Yahweh more, animals that are completely burned  on the altar and other sacrifices, or people obeying him SYN? It is better to obey  Yahweh than  to offer sacrifices  to him. It is better to pay attention to what he says than  to burn the fat of rams,  even though God said they should be sacrificed to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_23","010_15_23","1SA","15","23","23","To rebel  against God is as sinful as doing sorcery/black magic, and being stubborn is as sinful as worshiping idols. So, because you disobeyed what Yahweh told you to do, he has declared that you will no longer be king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_24","010_15_24","1SA","15","24","24","Then Saul said to Samuel, “ Yes, I have sinned. I disobeyed what you told me to do, which is what Yahweh commanded. I did that because I was ◄afraid of/worried about► what my men would say  if I did not do what they wanted. So I did what they demanded. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_25","010_15_25","1SA","15","25","25","But now, please forgive me for having sinned. And come back with me  to where the people are in order that I may worship Yahweh.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_26","010_15_26","1SA","15","26","26","But Samuel replied, “No, I will not go back with you. You have rejected/disobeyed what Yahweh commanded you to do. So he has rejected you,  and declared that you will no longer be the king of Israel.  So I do not want to talk anymore with you.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_27","010_15_27","1SA","15","27","27","As Samuel turned to leave, Saul tried to stop him by grabbing the edge of Samuel’s robe, and it tore. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_28","010_15_28","1SA","15","28","28","Samuel said to him, “ You tore my robe! And today Yahweh has torn away from you the kingdom of Israel! He will appoint someone else to be king, someone who is a better man than you are. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_29","010_15_29","1SA","15","29","29","And since the one who is the glorious  God of the Israeli people does not lie, he will not change ◄his mind/what he has said►. Humans sometimes change their minds, but God does not do that, because he is not a human.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_30","010_15_30","1SA","15","30","30","Then Saul  pleaded again. He said, “I know that I have sinned. But please honor me in front of the leaders of the Israeli people and in front of all the other Israeli people by coming back  to them with me in order that I may worship Yahweh your God.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_31","010_15_31","1SA","15","31","31","So Samuel finally agreed to do that, and they went together back  to where the people were, and Saul worshiped Yahweh there. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_32","010_15_32","1SA","15","32","32","Then Samuel said, “Bring King Agag to me.” So they brought Agag to him. Agag was confidently expecting that they would spare him/not kill him. He was thinking, “Surely I will not have to endure an agonizing death!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_33","010_15_33","1SA","15","33","33","But Samuel said to him, “You have killed the sons of many women with your sword, so now your mother will no longer have a son.” And Samuel cut Agag into pieces  with his sword, there at Gilgal, in the presence of Yahweh. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_34","010_15_34","1SA","15","34","34","Then Samuel left there and returned to his home in Ramah, and Saul went to his home in Gibeah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S115_35","010_15_35","1SA","15","35","35","Samuel never saw Saul again, but he was very sad about  what Saul  had done. And Yahweh was very sorry that he had appointed Saul to be the king of Israel. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_1","010_16_1","1SA","16","1","1","Finally, Yahweh said to Samuel, “I have decided that I will not allow Saul to continue to be the king. So you should not RHQ keep feeling sad  about what he has done. Put some olive oil in a small container and go to Bethlehem  to anoint someone with the oil, and appoint him to be king. I am sending you there to a man named Jesse, because I have chosen one of his sons to be the king  of Israel.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_2","010_16_2","1SA","16","2","2","But Samuel said, “I am afraid RHQ to do that! If Saul hears about it, he will kill me!” Yahweh said, “Take a ◄heifer/young female cow► with you, and say to people that you have come to  kill it and offer it as a sacrifice to me. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_3","010_16_3","1SA","16","3","3","“nvite Jesse to come to the sacrifice.  When he comes, I will show you what you should do. And I will show you which of his sons  I have chosen to be the king. Then you should anoint that one  with the olive oil to be the king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_4","010_16_4","1SA","16","4","4","Samuel did what Yahweh told him to do. He went to Bethlehem. When the town leaders came to him, they trembled,  because they were worried that Samuel had come to rebuke them about something. One of them asked him, “Have you come  to speak peacefully  to us?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_5","010_16_5","1SA","16","5","5","Samuel replied, “Yes. I have come peacefully, to make a sacrifice to Yahweh.  Perform the rituals to make yourselves acceptable to Yahweh, and then come with me to where they will offer the sacrifice.” Then Samuel performed the ritual to make Jesse and his sons acceptable to God, and he also invited them to the sacrifice. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_6","010_16_6","1SA","16","6","6","When they arrived there, Samuel looked at  Jesse’s oldest son Eliab, and thought, “Surely this is the one whom Yahweh has appointed  to be king!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_7","010_16_7","1SA","16","7","7","But Yahweh said to Samuel, “No, he is not the one whom I have chosen. Don’t pay attention to his being handsome and very tall, because I have not chosen him. I do not evaluate people as people do. You people evaluate people by their appearance, but I evaluate people by what is in their inner beings.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_8","010_16_8","1SA","16","8","8","Then Jesse told  his next oldest son Abinadab to step forward and walk in front of Samuel.  But when he did that, Samuel said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_9","010_16_9","1SA","16","9","9","Then Jesse told  his next oldest son Shammah to step forward. He stepped forward, but Samuel said, “Yahweh has not chosen this one, either.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_10","010_16_10","1SA","16","10","10","Similarly, Jesse told his other four sons to walk in front of Samuel. But Samuel said to Jesse, “Yahweh has not chosen any of these sons of yours.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_11","010_16_11","1SA","16","11","11","Then Samuel asked Jesse, “Do you have any other sons?” Jesse replied, “My youngest son  is not here; he is out  in the fields taking care of the sheep.” Samuel said, “Send someone to bring him here! We will not sit down  to eat until he gets here.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_12","010_16_12","1SA","16","12","12","So Jesse sent  someone to bring  David there. And when David arrived, Samuel saw that he was handsome and healthy, and had bright eyes. Then Yahweh said, “This is the one  whom I have chosen; anoint him  to be king.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_13","010_16_13","1SA","16","13","13","So as David  stood there in front of his older brothers, Samuel took the container of oil that he had brought and poured some of it on David’s head  to set him apart to serve God. After they all ate, Samuel left  and returned to Ramah. But Yahweh’s Spirit came on David powerfully, and stayed with David for the rest of his life. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_14","010_16_14","1SA","16","14","14","But Yahweh’s Spirit left Saul. Instead  of his Spirit staying with Saul, Yahweh sent an evil spirit to Saul to terrify him  repeatedly. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_15","010_16_15","1SA","16","15","15","One of his servants said to him, “It is evident that an evil spirit sent by God is terrifying you. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_16","010_16_16","1SA","16","16","16","So  we suggest that you allow us, your servants here, to search for a man who plays the harp well. He can play the harp whenever the evil spirit bothers you. Then  you will calm down and you will be okay again.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_17","010_16_17","1SA","16","17","17","Saul replied, “ Fine/Okay, find for me a man who can play  the harp well, and bring him to me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_18","010_16_18","1SA","16","18","18","One of his servants said to him, “A man named Jesse, in Bethlehem  town, has a son who plays the harp very well. Furthermore, he is a brave man, and is a capable soldier. He is handsome and he always speaks wisely. And Yahweh always protects him.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_19","010_16_19","1SA","16","19","19","So Saul sent this message to Jesse: “Send your son David to me, the one who takes care of sheep.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_20","010_16_20","1SA","16","20","20"," So after they went to Jesse  and told him that, he agreed. He  got a young goat, a container of wine, a donkey on which he put some loaves of bread, and gave them to David to take to Saul  as a present. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_21","010_16_21","1SA","16","21","21","Then David went to Saul and started to work for him. Saul liked David very much, and he became the man who carried Saul’s weapons  when Saul went to fight in battles. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_22","010_16_22","1SA","16","22","22","Then Saul sent  a messenger  to Jesse to tell him, “I am pleased with David. Please let him stay here and work for me.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S116_23","010_16_23","1SA","16","23","23"," Jesse agreed, and after that, whenever the evil spirit whom God sent tormented Saul, David played the harp. Then Saul would become calm, and the evil spirit would leave him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_1","010_17_1","1SA","17","1","1","The Philistines gathered their army  to fight the Israeli army. They gathered together near Socoh, in the area where the descendants of Judah lived. They set up their tents at Ephes-Dammim, which is between Socoh and Azekah. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_2","010_17_2","1SA","17","2","2","Saul gathered the Israeli army near Elah Valley, and they set up their tents. Then they all took their places, ready to fight the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_3","010_17_3","1SA","17","3","3","So the Philistine and Israeli armies faced each other. They were on two hills, with a valley between them. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_4","010_17_4","1SA","17","4","4","Then Goliath, from Gath  city, came out from the Philistine camp. He was a champion warrior/soldier. He was ◄over 9 feet/3 meters► tall. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_5","010_17_5","1SA","17","5","5","He wore a helmet made of bronze  to protect his head, and he wore a coat made of metal plates  to protect his body. The coat weighed ◄125 pounds/56 kg.►. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_6","010_17_6","1SA","17","6","6","He wore bronze guards/protectors on his legs. He had a long bronze dagger fastened on his back. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_7","010_17_7","1SA","17","7","7","He also had a big spear. It had a cord on it to enable him to throw it better (OR, which was as thick as a weaver’s beam). The tip of the spear was made of iron and weighed ◄15 pounds/almost 7 kg.►. A soldier carrying a huge shield walked in front of him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_8","010_17_8","1SA","17","8","8","Goliath stood there and shouted to the Israeli army, “Why are you all lined up for battle? I am the great Philistine  soldier, and I think RHQ you are  merely Saul’s slaves. Choose one man to fight for all of you, and send him down here to me! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_9","010_17_9","1SA","17","9","9","If he fights with me and kills me, then my fellow Philistines will all be your slaves. But if I defeat him and kill him, then you Israelis will all be our slaves. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_10","010_17_10","1SA","17","10","10","I defy/challenge you men of the Israeli army. Send me a man who will fight with me!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_11","010_17_11","1SA","17","11","11","When Saul and all the Israeli soldiers heard that, they were extremely terrified DOU. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_12","010_17_12","1SA","17","12","12","David was the son of Jesse. Jesse was from the clan of Ephrath. He lived in Bethlehem, in the area where the descendants of Judah lived. Jesse had eight sons. When Saul  was king, Jesse had already become a very old man DOU. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_13","010_17_13","1SA","17","13","13","Jesse’s three oldest sons, Eliab and Abinadab and Shammah, had gone with Saul to fight  the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_14","010_17_14","1SA","17","14","14","David was Jesse’s youngest son. While his three oldest brothers were with Saul, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_15","010_17_15","1SA","17","15","15","David went back and forth: Sometimes he went to Saul’s camp, and sometimes he stayed in Bethlehem to take care of his father’s sheep. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_16","010_17_16","1SA","17","16","16","For 40 days Goliath came out from the Philistine camp and stood there  taunting the Israeli army/telling the Israelis to choose one man to fight with him. He did it twice each day, once in the morning and once in the evening. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_17","010_17_17","1SA","17","17","17"," One day, Jesse said to David, “Here is a sack of roasted grain and ten loaves of bread. Take these quickly to your  older brothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_18","010_17_18","1SA","17","18","18","And here are ten large chunks of cheese. Take them to their commander. And see how things are going with your  older brothers. Then  if they are okay, bring back something to show they are all right.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_19","010_17_19","1SA","17","19","19","His brothers were with Saul and all the other Israeli soldiers, camped alongside Elah Valley,  preparing to fight the Philistines. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_20","010_17_20","1SA","17","20","20","So David arranged for another shepherd to take care of the sheep. Early the next morning he took the food and went to the Israeli camp, as Jesse told him to do. He arrived there just as the Israeli soldiers were forming their ranks and going out to the battlefield. As they went, they were shouting a war cry. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_21","010_17_21","1SA","17","21","21","The Philistine army and the Israeli army stood  on the hillsides, facing each other, ready for the battle. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_22","010_17_22","1SA","17","22","22","David gave the food to the man who was taking care of the war equipment.  He told him to take care of the food that he brought, and then he went and greeted his older brothers. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_23","010_17_23","1SA","17","23","23","While he was talking with them, he saw Goliath coming out from among the Philistine soldiers, shouting  to the Israelis, challenging them  to send a man to fight him. David heard what Goliath was saying. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_24","010_17_24","1SA","17","24","24","When all the Israeli soldiers saw Goliath, they were terrified and started to ran away. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_25","010_17_25","1SA","17","25","25","They were saying to each other, “Look at him coming up toward us! And listen to him as he defies us Israelis! The king says that he will give a big reward to whoever kills this man. He also says that he will give his daughter to that man for him to marry her, and that he will no longer require that man’s family to pay taxes.” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_26","010_17_26","1SA","17","26","26","David talked to some of the men who were standing near him. He said, “What will be given to whoever kills this Philistine and frees us Israelis from this shame/disgrace? And who  does  this heathen Philistine  think he is, defying/ridiculing the army that serves the all-powerful God?” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_27","010_17_27","1SA","17","27","27","They told him the same thing that the other men had said, about what the king would do for anyone who killed Goliath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_28","010_17_28","1SA","17","28","28","But when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard David talking to the men, he was angry. He said to David, “Why have you come down here? Is someone taking care of those few sheep that you left in the desert? I know you are just a ◄smart-aleck/brat►! You just want to watch the battle!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_29","010_17_29","1SA","17","29","29","David replied, “Have I done something wrong? I was merely asking a question!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_30","010_17_30","1SA","17","30","30","Then he walked over to another man and asked him the same question, but the man gave him the same answer. Each time he asked someone, he received the same answer. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_31","010_17_31","1SA","17","31","31","Finally, someone told king Saul what David had asked, and Saul sent someone to bring David to him. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_32","010_17_32","1SA","17","32","32","David told king Saul, “No one should ◄worry/become a coward► because of that Philistine man. I will go and fight with him!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_33","010_17_33","1SA","17","33","33","Saul said to David, “You are only a young man, and he has been a very capable soldier all his life. So you are not able to go and fight with him!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_34","010_17_34","1SA","17","34","34","David replied, “I have been taking care of my father’s sheep  for many years. Whenever a lion or a bear came and carried away a lamb, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_35","010_17_35","1SA","17","35","35","I went after the lion or the bear and attacked it and rescued the lamb from the wild animal’s mouth. Then I grabbed the animal by its jaw/throat and struck it and killed it. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_36","010_17_36","1SA","17","36","36","I have killed both lions and bears. And  I will do the same to this heathen Philistine, because he has defied/ridiculed the army of the all-powerful God! ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_37","010_17_37","1SA","17","37","37","Yahweh has rescued me from paws of lions and bears, and he will rescue me from this Philistine!” Then Saul said to David, “All right, go  and fight him, and  I hope/desire that Yahweh will help you!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_38","010_17_38","1SA","17","38","38","Then Saul gave to David his own clothes that he always wore in battles, and he gave him a bronze helmet and a coat made of metal plates. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_39","010_17_39","1SA","17","39","39","David  put these things on. Then he fastened his sword over them, and tried to walk. But he could not walk, because he was not accustomed to wearing those things. So David said to Saul, “I cannot fight wearing all these things, because I am not accustomed to  wearing them!” So he took them off. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_40","010_17_40","1SA","17","40","40","Then he took his walking/shepherd’s stick, and he picked up five smooth stones from the brook/stream. He put them in the pouch of his shoulder-bag. Then he put his sling in his hand and started walking toward Goliath. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_41","010_17_41","1SA","17","41","41","Goliath walked toward David, with the soldier who was carrying his shield walking in front of him. When he got near David, ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_42","010_17_42","1SA","17","42","42","he looked at David closely. He saw that David had a handsome face and healthy body, but that he was only a young man. So he sneered at David. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_43","010_17_43","1SA","17","43","43","He said to David, “Are you coming to me with a stick because  you think that I am a dog?” Then he called out to his gods to harm David. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_44","010_17_44","1SA","17","44","44","He said to David, “Come here to me, and I will  kill you and give your dead body to the birds and wild animals to eat!” ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_45","010_17_45","1SA","17","45","45","David replied, “You are coming to me with a sword and a dagger and a spear. But I am coming to you ◄in the name/with the authority► of almighty Yahweh. He is the God whom the army of Israel  worships, and he is the God whom you have defied/ridiculed. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_46","010_17_46","1SA","17","46","46","Today Yahweh will enable me to defeat you. I will strike you down and cut off your head. And  we Israelis will kill many Philistine  soldiers and give their bodies to the birds and wild animals to eat. And everyone in the world will  hear about it and know that we Israeli people worship an all-powerful God. ");
INSERT INTO TranslationforTranslators_vpl VALUES ("S117_47","010_17_47","1SA","17","47","47","And everyone here will know that Yahweh can rescue people without a sword or a spear. Yahweh always wins his battles, and he will enable us to defeat all of you  Philistines.” ");
