but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.’ But you have disobeyed me. Why would you do such a thing?

Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.”

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.’”

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.”

But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”

All Israel rose up in unison and said, “Not one of us will go home! Not one of us will return to his house!

The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

But his wife said to him, “If the Lord wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us. He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.”

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder and said, “You must hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?”

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

The Lord said to him, “You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest!

But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.

But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.