They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen in charge of the livestock. They carried off many sheep and camels and then returned to Jerusalem.

They returned from investigating the land after forty days.

They lived in Beer Sheba, Moladah, Hazar Shual,

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

The five leaders of the Philistines watched what was happening and then returned to Ekron on the same day.

They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

The Edomites had again invaded and defeated Judah and carried off captives.

They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Then some men from Israel’s elders came to me and sat down in front of me.

The waters kept receding steadily from the earth, so that they had gone down by the end of the 150 days.

When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”

They sat before him, arranged by order of birth, beginning with the firstborn and ending with the youngest. The men looked at each other in astonishment.

But Moses called to them, so Aaron and all the leaders of the community came back to him, and Moses spoke to them.

They are a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaites in advance of the Ammonites, so they dispossessed them and settled down in their place.

As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

When all the men had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they had healed.

Boaz chose ten of the village leaders and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down.

When the Israelites returned from their hot pursuit of the Philistines, they looted their camp.

So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.