God chose new leaders(A)
    when war came to the city gates,(B)
but not a shield or spear(C) was seen
    among forty thousand in Israel.

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They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?

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35 Now Gaal son of Ebed had gone out and was standing at the entrance of the city gate(A) just as Abimelek and his troops came out from their hiding place.(B)

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35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entering of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from lying in wait.

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The people of Gaza were told, “Samson is here!” So they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the city gate.(A) They made no move during the night, saying, “At dawn(B) we’ll kill him.”

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And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

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