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1. Judges 11:39 וַיְהִ֞יוַתְּהִי־

   After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

2. Judges 12:2 הָיִ֛יתִי

   But Jephthah replied, “My people and I had a serious conflict with the Ammonites, and when I called, you did not save me out of their hands.

3. Judges 12:5 וְֽ֠הָיָה

   The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim, and whenever a fugitive from Ephraim would say, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites would ask him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

4. Judges 12:9 וַיְהִי־

   He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years.

5. Judges 12:14 וַיְהִי־

   He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

6. Judges 13:2 וַיְהִי֩

   Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

7. Judges 13:5 יִהְיֶ֥ה

   For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall come over his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”

8. Judges 13:7 יִהְיֶ֣ה

   But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”

9. Judges 13:12 יִּֽהְיֶ֥ה

   Then Manoah asked, “When your words come to pass, what will be the boy’s rule of life and mission?”

10. Judges 13:20 וַיְהִי֩

    When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.

11. Judges 14:11 וַיְהִ֖יוַיִּהְי֖וּ

    And when the Philistines saw him, they selected thirty men to accompany him.

12. Judges 14:15 וַיְהִ֣י׀

    So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

13. Judges 14:17 הָיָ֥הוַיְהִ֣י׀

    She wept the whole seven days of the feast, and finally on the seventh day, because she had pressed him so much, he told her the answer. And in turn she explained the riddle to her people.

14. Judges 14:20 וַתְּהִ֖י

    and his wife was given to one of the men who had accompanied him.

15. Judges 15:1 וַיְהִ֨י

    Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

16. Judges 15:2 תְּהִי־

    “I was sure that you thoroughly hated her,” said her father, “so I gave her to one of the men who accompanied you. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”

17. Judges 15:14 וַתִּהְיֶ֨ינָה

    When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

18. Judges 15:17 וַֽיְהִי֙

    And when Samson had finished speaking, he cast the jawbone from his hand; and he named that place Ramath-lehi.

19. Judges 16:4 וַֽיְהִי֙

    Some time later, Samson fell in love with a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

20. Judges 16:7 וְהָיִ֖יתִי

    Samson told her, “If they tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, I will become as weak as any other man.”

21. Judges 16:11 וְהָיִ֖יתִי

    He replied, “If they tie me up with new ropes that have never been used, I will become as weak as any other man.”

22. Judges 16:16 וַ֠יְהִי

    Finally, after she had pressed him daily with her words and pleaded until he was sick to death,

23. Judges 16:17 וְהָיִ֖יתִי

    Samson told her all that was in his heart: “My hair has never been cut, because I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, my strength will leave me, and I will become as weak as any other man.”

24. Judges 16:21 וַיְהִ֥י

    Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.

25. Judges 16:25 וַֽיְהִי֙

    And while their hearts were merry, they said, “Call for Samson to entertain us.” So they called Samson out of the prison to entertain them. And they stationed him between the pillars.

26. Judges 16:30 וַיִּהְי֤וּ

    Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.

27. Judges 17:1 וַֽיְהִי־

    Now a man named Micah from the hill country of Ephraim

28. Judges 17:4 וַיְהִ֖י

    So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.

29. Judges 17:5 וַיְהִי־

    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.

30. Judges 17:7 וַיְהִי־

    And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.

31. Judges 17:10 וֶֽהְיֵה־

    “Stay with me,” Micah said to him, “and be my father and priest, and I will give you ten shekels of silver per year, a suit of clothes, and your provisions.” So the Levite went in

32. Judges 17:11 וַיְהִ֤י

    and agreed to stay with him, and the young man became like a son to Micah.

33. Judges 17:12 וַיְהִי־וַיְהִ֖י

    Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.

34. Judges 17:13 הָיָה־

    Then Micah said, “Now I know that the LORD will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”

35. Judges 18:4 וָאֱהִי־

    “Micah has done this and that for me,” he replied, “and he has hired me to be his priest.”

36. Judges 18:19 וֶֽהְיֵה־הֱיוֹתְךָ֣הֱיוֹתְךָ֣

    “Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

37. Judges 18:27 הָיָה־

    After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.

38. Judges 18:30 הָי֤וּ

    The Danites set up idols for themselves, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

39. Judges 18:31 הֱי֥וֹת

    So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

40. Judges 19:1 וַיְהִי֙וַיְהִ֣י׀

    Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

41. Judges 19:2 וַתְּהִי־

    But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,

42. Judges 19:5 וַֽיְהִי֙

    On the fourth day, they got up early in the morning and prepared to depart, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Refresh your heart with a morsel of bread, and then you can go.”

43. Judges 19:30 וְהָיָ֣הנִהְיְתָ֤ה

    And everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has been seen or done from the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt until this day. Think it over, take counsel, and speak up!”

44. Judges 20:3 נִהְיְתָ֖ה

    (Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”

45. Judges 20:12 נִהְיְתָ֖ה

    And the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?

46. Judges 20:38 הָיָ֛ה

    The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

47. Judges 20:46 וַיְהִי֩

    That day 25,000 Benjamite swordsmen fell, all men of valor.

48. Judges 21:3 הָ֥יְתָה

    “Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”

49. Judges 21:4 וַֽיְהִי֙

    The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings.

50. Judges 21:5 הָיְתָ֗ה

    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.