在你中间寄居的，必渐渐上升，比你高而又高；你必渐渐下降，低而又低。

在你中间寄居的必上升高过你，高而又高；你必下降，低而又低。

在你中间寄居的必上升高过你，高而又高；你必下降，低而又低。

“你们中间的外族人要日益兴旺，你们却要日渐衰微。

住在你中间的寄居者必渐渐高升，比你高而又高；你必渐渐下降，低而又低。

在你中間寄居的，必漸漸上升，比你高而又高；你必漸漸下降，低而又低。

在你中間寄居的必上升高過你，高而又高；你必下降，低而又低。

在你中間寄居的必上升高過你，高而又高；你必下降，低而又低。

「你們中間的外族人要日益興旺，你們卻要日漸衰微。

住在你中間的寄居者必漸漸高升，比你高而又高；你必漸漸下降，低而又低。

在你中間的寄居者必漸漸上升、比你高了又高，你卻要漸漸下降，低了又低。

爾中賓旅、必愈升愈高、爾愈降愈卑、

爾中之賓旅、必舉於至高、爾降於至卑。

寄居爾中之外邦客旅、必日升為高、爾必日降為卑、

The foreigners who reside among you will rise above you higher and higher, but you will sink lower and lower.

Outsiders who live among you will become your leaders. They will rise higher and higher. But you will sink lower and lower.

The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

“ The foreigners living among you will become stronger and stronger, while you become weaker and weaker.

The resident alien among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

The stranger who is among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

“ The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower.

The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower.

The stranger that[ is] within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

The foreigner who is among you will mount up above you higher and higher, and you will come down lower and lower.

The Lord will make you the head, not the tail. If you pay attention to the commands of the Lord your God that I give you this day and carefully follow them, you will always be at the top, never at the bottom. (niv)

And I have also said,‘ I will not drive them out before you; they will become traps for you, and their gods will become snares to you.’” (niv)

Then three thousand men from Judah went down to the cave in the rock of Etam and said to Samson,“ Don’t you realize that the Philistines are rulers over us? What have you done to us?” He answered,“ I merely did to them what they did to me.”They said to him,“ We’ve come to tie you up and hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said,“ Swear to me that you won’t kill me yourselves.” (niv)

He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans— a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans. (niv)

Pilate said,“ Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.”“ But we have no right to execute anyone,” they objected. (niv)

he became angry with them. He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites,who that year shattered and crushed them. For eighteen years they oppressed all the Israelites on the east side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.The Ammonites also crossed the Jordan to fight against Judah, Benjamin and Ephraim; Israel was in great distress.Then the Israelites cried out to the Lord,“ We have sinned against you, forsaking our God and serving the Baals.” (niv)

Therefore the Lord rejected all the people of Israel; he afflicted them and gave them into the hands of plunderers, until he thrust them from his presence. (niv)

So the Lord sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the Lord for help. (niv)

until the Lord removed them from his presence, as he had warned through all his servants the prophets. So the people of Israel were taken from their homeland into exile in Assyria, and they are still there. (niv)

But they shouted,“ Take him away! Take him away! Crucify him!”“ Shall I crucify your king?” Pilate asked.“ We have no king but Caesar,” the chief priests answered. (niv)

Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord and served the Baals.They forsook the Lord, the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshiped various gods of the peoples around them. They aroused the Lord’s angerbecause they forsook him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.In his anger against Israel the Lord gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.Whenever Israel went out to fight, the hand of the Lord was against them to defeat them, just as he had sworn to them. They were in great distress. (niv)

Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Then Saul had the trumpet blown throughout the land and said,“ Let the Hebrews hear!”So all Israel heard the news:“ Saul has attacked the Philistine outpost, and now Israel has become obnoxious to the Philistines.” And the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.The Philistines assembled to fight Israel, with three thousand chariots, six thousand charioteers, and soldiers as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Mikmash, east of Beth Aven.When the Israelites saw that their situation was critical and that their army was hard pressed, they hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in pits and cisterns.Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul remained at Gilgal, and all the troops with him were quaking with fear. (niv)

( His parents did not know that this was from the Lord, who was seeking an occasion to confront the Philistines; for at that time they were ruling over Israel.) (niv)

Not a blacksmith could be found in the whole land of Israel, because the Philistines had said,“ Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears!”So all Israel went down to the Philistines to have their plow points, mattocks, axes and sickles sharpened.The price was two- thirds of a shekel for sharpening plow points and mattocks, and a third of a shekel for sharpening forks and axes and for repointing goads.So on the day of the battle not a soldier with Saul and Jonathan had a sword or spear in his hand; only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.Now a detachment of Philistines had gone out to the pass at Mikmash. (niv)