Judges shall do no injustice judging a case and shall not show preference for the rich.
Elijah was a prophet of the Lord who told a rabbi about the righteousness of two men who were in the marketplace;
Elijah gave merit to the two men because when they saw people quarreling, the two men helped to settle disputes and bring friendship among the men again.
Jewish Prophets Elijah and Elisha
Elijah and Elisha were men of God who were sojourning from Gilgal to Bethel and to Jericho and the two stopped by the side of the Jordan River. And Elijah took his mantle and rolled it up and struck the waters and they divided, so that the two of them went over dry ground.
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It is believed that humans were taken as slave labor against their will, even to build great pyramids and aquaducts. The pyramids were the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs. Some seers and sages were interested in the ways of science and the unknowns of the earth, and the seers and sages were killed just for thinking, talking and philosophizing. Many people were fighting and killing over different religions, the ideas of the Unknown. Sages were killed for thinking the earth was round and not flat.
Some religions were peaceful, but some of the religions were forced upon people; this was happening in the entire world, not just the mideast. There was fighting among the twelve tribes of Israel and the Levites. Jews fought Jews over religious principles. Some Jews got angry with other Jews for worshipping the gods Baal and Ashtoreth of the Pagan
Gentiles in addition to going into the Tent of the Testimony that contained the Ark of the Ten Commandments.
Many people were killed just because they called the Holy Spirit by a different name than someone else did. Some kings destroyed religious buildings, idols and statues, while other kings created religious buildings, idols, and statues of gods and goddesses. Many people were afraid because of religious fighting and persecution. The Holy Spirit was watching all from the heavens, wondering when the people …show more content…
Delilah, who was a woman of the valley of Sorek, spied on Samson and determined that his hair was his strength. Delilah was a temptress of an enemy to Samson and he loved her. Delilah told an enemy to cut off Samson’s hair, Samson lost his strength and was put in prison. But when his hair grew back, he regained his strength. When Samson was summoned out of prison, he was made to stand in front of a house between two pillars. But he pulled on both pillars, one with each arm, and pulled the pillars together, and brought the roof down and killed 3000 people, including himself.
Ruth
Naomi and her husband Elimech left Bethlehem of Judea because of famine and went to sojourn in the land of Moab. Their two sons took Orpah and Ruth as their wives. But all three men died. Naomi and her daughter-in-law Ruth decided to return to Judea, but the other daughter-in-law Orpah wanted to stay.
Then the widow Ruth met her second husband, Boaz, and he went in to her, and the Lord caused her to conceive, and she bore a son named Obed who was the father of Jesse, who was the father of David; it is believed that David lived from 1040BCE-970BCE).
Samuel
Elkanah had 2 wives: Hannah and Peninnah. Samuel was the son of