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When she came to Othniel, she persuaded him to [allow her to] ask her father [Caleb] for a field. Then she [rode up to Caleb and] dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

Verse ConceptsDismounting

"I want this blessing from you," she replied. "Since you've given me land in the Negev, give me water springs, too." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

Then Gideon told God, "Don't let yourself be angry with me! I want to ask you once again: please let me make a test with the fleece just once more. Cause it to be dry only on the fleece, but let there be dew all around on the ground."

Verse ConceptsAskingTestingLet Not God Be AngryTestsexamsgideon

"Tell all the leaders of Shechem this: 'Why would you want to have seventy men, all Jerub-Baal's sons, ruling over you, when you can have just one ruler? Recall that I am your own flesh and blood.'"

Verse ConceptsBodySeventySame Bone And FleshSeventies

The thornbush said to the trees, 'If you really want to choose me as your king, then come along, find safety under my branches! Otherwise may fire blaze from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon!'

Verse ConceptsCedarShadowsBramblesBurning PlantsPerforming The Truth

So then Yahweh, the God of Israel, has driven out the Amorites from before his people Israel, and you want to possess it?

Verse ConceptsThe Lord Drove Them Out

The Angel of the Lord said to him, “If I stay, I won’t eat your food. But if you want to prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the Lord.” For Manoah did not know He was the Angel of the Lord.

But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife?”

But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”

Verse ConceptsCircumcision, physicalBad Decision Making ExamplesMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningUncircumcisionInfatuationIntermarriageLeaving Parents For Spouse

But if you can't explain it to me, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing." And they said to him, "Propose your riddle, we want to hear it."

Verse ConceptsThirty

After a while, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a {young goat}. He said, "I want to go to my wife's private room." But her father would not allow him to enter.

Verse ConceptsHarvestVisitingWheatSexual Union Intended

Samson said to them, "If you want to behave like this, [I swear] I will not rest unless I have taken revenge on you."

Verse ConceptsCessationMan AvengingRevenge

And the priest said to them, "Go in peace. Yahweh [is] in front of you on the journey you want to go on."

Verse ConceptsGoing In PeacePeace

When ye go, ye shall come unto a people secure, and to a large land: for God hath given it into your hands; a place where there is no want of any thing that is in the earth.

Verse ConceptsGiven Into One's Handsland

The five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their kinsmen, "Do you realize that inside these houses are an ephod, some personal idols, a carved image, and a metal image? Decide now what you want to do."

Verse ConceptsFive People

He said, "You stole my gods that I made, as well as this priest, and then went away. What do I have left? How can you have the audacity to say to me, 'What do you want?'"

Verse ConceptsWhat Is The Matter?Robbing GodsUnnamed Priests

But the man did not want to stay another night. He left and traveled as far as Jebus (that is, Jerusalem). He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.

Verse ConceptsPeople Unwilling

Yet there is both straw and provender for our asses; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for thy handmaid, and for the young man which is with thy servants: there is no want of any thing.

Verse ConceptsBread, As FoodMangersWineFeeding Animals

And the old man said, Peace be with thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

Verse ConceptsSalutationsHospitalityTravellersCity Squareswelcome

Here, let me bring out my virgin daughter and the man’s concubine now. Use them and do whatever you want to them. But don’t do this horrible thing to this man.”

Verse ConceptsdaughtersGirlsVirginAbusemistressharassmentvirginity