Quotes about Conflict
“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.
— Judges 15:6
Then the Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and deployed themselves near the town of Lehi.
— Judges 15:9
“Why have you attacked us?” said the men of Judah. The Philistines replied, “We have come to arrest Samson and pay him back for what he has done to us.”
— Judges 15:10
In response, three thousand men of Judah went to the cave at the rock of Etam, and they asked Samson, “Do you not realize that the Philistines rule over us? What have you done to us?” “I have done to them what they did to me,” he replied.
— Judges 15:11
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
— Judges 15:15
So the Danites went on their way, and Micah turned to go back home, because he saw that they were too strong for him.
— Judges 18:26
(Meanwhile the Benjamites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah.) And the Israelites asked, “Tell us, how did this wicked thing happen?”
— Judges 20:3
And during the night, the men of Gibeah rose up against me and surrounded the house. They intended to kill me, but they abused my concubine, and she died.
— Judges 20:5
Hand over the wicked men of Gibeah so we can put them to death and purge Israel of this evil.” But the Benjamites refused to heed the voice of their fellow Israelites.
— Judges 20:13
And from their cities they came together at Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
— Judges 20:14
The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
— Judges 20:17
And the men of Israel went out to fight against Benjamin and took up their battle positions at Gibeah.
— Judges 20:20