But if you do not agree to our terms by being circumcised, then we will take our sister and depart.”

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us.”

The Lord our God spoke to us at Horeb and said, “You have stayed in the area of this mountain long enough.

Let’s move the ark of our God back here, for we did not seek his will throughout Saul’s reign.”

They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.”

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

“We will not listen to what you claim the Lord has spoken to us!

They said to one other, “Surely we’re being punished because of our brother, because we saw how distressed he was when he cried to us for mercy, but we refused to listen. That is why this distress has come on us!”

The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon your subjects! Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.”

They shouted to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them!”

But if you will not send him, we won’t go down there because the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

For we will not accept any inheritance on the other side of the Jordan River and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

Then they took some of the produce of the land and carried it back down to us. They also brought a report to us, saying, “The land that the Lord our God is about to give us is good.”

If they say to us, ‘Stay put until we approach you,’ we will stay right there and not go up to them.

The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and attacked us in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way to the door of the city gate.

Let’s make a small private upper room and furnish it with a bed, table, chair, and lamp. When he visits us, he can stay there.”

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!”

There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.

O Lord, my God, you have accomplished many things; you have done amazing things and carried out your purposes for us. No one can thwart you! I want to declare them and talk about them, but they are too numerous to recount!