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🗓️ 17 September 2025

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0:00.0	The Spirit of the Lord came on him. Judges chapter 3, verse 10.
0:08.4	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. God's strength was written by Karen Huang
0:15.7	and read by Joyce Dinkins.
0:21.9	Judges chapter 3, verses 7 through 11.
0:27.3	The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
0:31.9	They forgot the Lord their God and served the Bales and the Asheras.
0:37.3	The anger of the Lord burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan
0:44.6	Rishatham, king of Aram Naharayam, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
0:52.6	But when they cried out to the Lord, he raised up for them a deliverer,
0:59.0	Athneal, son of Kanaaz, Caleb's younger brother, who saved them. The spirit of the Lord
1:07.1	came on him so that he became Israel's judge and went to war. The Lord gave Kushan
1:14.5	Rishathayim, king of Aram, into the hands of Athneal, who overpowered him. So the land had
1:22.6	peace for 40 years until Athnealil, son of Knaz, died.
1:31.4	God's Strength, written by Karen Huang.
1:36.5	Her husband's death began a period of transition for Nora.
1:41.9	She took over his hardware business and cared for their three children on her own.
1:49.4	Be strong, friends often told her. But what does that mean, she'd think, that I must deliver without
1:57.0	fail in my responsibilities? God gave great responsibilities to Othniel in a time of transition
2:05.6	for the people of Israel. As discipline for the nation's idolatry, God had given them into the hands of
2:13.6	Kushan Rishatayim, to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.
2:20.0	Under the cruel king of Mesopotamia, the Israelites cried out to the Lord,
2:25.8	and he raised up for them a deliverer, Othneal, whose name means God's strength.
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