They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

Jephthah made a vow to the Lord, saying, “If you really do hand the Ammonites over to me,

But we can’t allow our daughters to marry them, for the Israelites took an oath, saying, ‘Whoever gives a woman to a Benjaminite will be destroyed!’

He asked for water, and she gave him milk; in a bowl fit for a king, she served him curds.

She answered, “Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

The Lord said, “The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to 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.

They took the Canaanites’ daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.

That night the Lord said to Gideon, “Get up! Attack the camp, for I am handing it over to you.

The officials of Succoth said, “You have not yet overpowered Zebah and Zalmunna. So why should we give bread to your army?”

Jephthah approached the Ammonites to fight with them, and the Lord handed them over to him.

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

He said to them, “Follow me, for the Lord is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!” They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.

The men of Judah attacked, and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

Caleb said, “To the man who attacks and captures Kiriath Sepher I will give my daughter Acsah as a wife.”

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it, Caleb gave him his daughter Acsah as a wife.

Caleb received Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

I will bring Sisera, the general of Jabin’s army, to you at the Kishon River, along with his chariots and huge army. I will hand him over to you.”