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Deuteronomy 4:29-31
But if you seek the LORD your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the LORD your God and obey him( for he is a merciful God), he will not let you down or destroy you, for he cannot forget the covenant with your ancestors that he confirmed by oath to them.
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1 Samuel 12 10-1 Samuel 12 11
Then they cried out to the LORD and admitted,‘ We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’So the LORD sent Jerub-Baal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of the enemies all around you, and you were able to live securely.
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2 Kings 13 5
The LORD provided a deliverer for Israel and they were freed from Syria’s power. The Israelites once more lived in security.
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Judges 10:15-16
But the Israelites said to the LORD,“ We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”They threw away the foreign gods they owned and worshiped the LORD. Finally the LORD grew tired of seeing Israel suffer so much.
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2 Chronicles 36 17
He brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who slaughtered their young men in their temple. He did not spare young men or women, or even the old and aging. God handed everyone over to him.
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Psalms 106:41-45
He handed them over to the nations, and those who hated them ruled over them.Their enemies oppressed them; they were subject to their authority.Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.Yet he took notice of their distress, when he heard their cry for help.He remembered his covenant with them, and relented because of his great loyal love.
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Daniel 9:10-14
We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.“ All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us– what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.
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Judges 6:6-10
Israel was so severely weakened by Midian that the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help.When the Israelites cried out to the LORD for help because of Midian,he sent a prophet to the Israelites. He said to them,“ This is what the LORD God of Israel says:‘ I brought you up from Egypt and took you out of that place of slavery.I rescued you from Egypt’s power and from the power of all who oppressed you. I drove them out before you and gave their land to you.I said to you,“ I am the LORD your God! Do not worship the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!” But you have disobeyed me.’”
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Judges 2:18
When the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD was with each leader and delivered the people from their enemies while the leader remained alive. The LORD felt sorry for them when they cried out in agony because of what their harsh oppressors did to them.
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2 Kings 14 27
The LORD had not decreed that he would blot out Israel’s memory from under heaven, so he delivered them through Jeroboam son of Joash.
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Judges 2:14-16
The LORD was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies’ attacks.Whenever they went out to fight, the LORD did them harm, just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do. They suffered greatly.The LORD raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.
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Judges 3:8-30
The LORD was furious with Israel and turned them over to King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram-Naharaim. They were Cushan-Rishathaim’s subjects for eight years.When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for the Israelites who rescued them. His name was Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.The LORD’s spirit empowered him and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the LORD handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.The land had rest for forty years; then Othniel son of Kenaz died.The Israelites again did evil in the LORD’s sight. The LORD gave King Eglon of Moab control over Israel because they had done evil in the LORD’s sight.Eglon formed alliances with the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.The Israelites were subject to King Eglon of Moab for eighteen years.When the Israelites cried out for help to the LORD, he raised up a deliverer for them. His name was Ehud son of Gera the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The Israelites sent him to King Eglon of Moab with their tribute payment.Ehud made himself a sword– it had two edges and was eighteen inches long. He strapped it under his coat on his right thigh.He brought the tribute payment to King Eglon of Moab.( Now Eglon was a very fat man.)After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it.But he went back once he reached the carved images at Gilgal. He said to Eglon,“ I have a secret message for you, O king.” Eglon said,“ Be quiet!” All his attendants left.When Ehud approached him, he was sitting in his well-ventilated upper room all by himself. Ehud said,“ I have a message from God for you.” When Eglon rose up from his seat,Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and drove it into Eglon’s belly.The handle went in after the blade, and the fat closed around the blade, for Ehud did not pull the sword out of his belly.As Ehud went out into the vestibule, he closed the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them.When Ehud had left, Eglon’s servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said,“ He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room.”They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.He said to them,“ Follow me, for the LORD is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!” They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites– all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
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Obadiah 1:21
Those who have been delivered will go up on Mount Zion in order to rule over Esau’s mountain. Then the LORD will reign as King!
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Deuteronomy 31:16-18
Then the LORD said to Moses,“ You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that I have made with them.At that time my anger will erupt against them and I will abandon them and hide my face from them until they are devoured. Many disasters and distresses will overcome them so that they will say at that time,‘ Have not these disasters overcome us because our God is not among us?’But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.