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For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses.

בָּ֖ם (בָּ֖) ba “by <the>”בְּיַד־ (בְּ) be. “by”

Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:

בְּקֶ֣רֶב (בְּ) be. “in”

And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years.

בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל (בְּ) be. “on”בְּיַד֙ (בְּ) be. “in”

And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him.

בְּיָד֔וֹ (בְּ) be. “in”

Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”בְּעֵינֵ֥י (בְּ) be. “in”

Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.

בְּיָדוֹ֙ (בְּ) be. “by”

Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.

בַּעֲלִיַּ֨ת (בַּ) ba. “in”

And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;

בְּבִטְנֽוֹ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.

בַּחֲדַ֥ר (בַּ) ba. “in”

And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.

בְּבוֹא֔וֹ (בְּ) be. “when”בַּשּׁוֹפָ֖ר (בַּ) ba. “on the”בְּהַ֣ר (בְּ) be. “in”

And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.

בְּיֶדְכֶ֑ם (בְּ) be. “in”

At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away.

בָּעֵ֣ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace.

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.

בְּמַלְמַ֖ד (בְּ) be. “with”

And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead.

בְּעֵינֵ֣י (בְּ) be. “in”

And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

בְּיַד֙ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּחָצ֑וֹר (בְּ) be. “in”בַּחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת (בַּ) ba. “in”

Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel.

בְּחָזְקָ֖ה (בְּ) be. “with”

Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time.

בָּעֵ֥ת (בָּ) ba. “at the”

(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.)

בְּהַ֣ר (בְּ) be. “in”

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali an

בְּהַ֣ר (בְּ) be. “at”

And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.

בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ (בְּ) be. “in”

And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

בְֽיַד־ (בְֽ) ve. “in”

Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him.

בְּרַגְלָ֔יו (בְּ) be. “at”

Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh.

בְּצַעֲנַנִּ֖ים (בְּ) ba “in”