“Look, I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

Please forgive the iniquity of this people according to your great loyal love, just as you have forgiven this people from Egypt even until now.”

I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the Lord, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting.

“Look, a nation has come out of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them and drive them out.”

Look, these people through the counsel of Balaam caused the Israelites to act treacherously against the Lord in the matter of Peor – which resulted in the plague among the community of the Lord!

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

Gideon said to him, “But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.”

He sent messengers to Abimelech, who was in Arumah, reporting, “Beware! Gaal son of Ebed and his brothers are coming to Shechem and inciting the city to rebel against you.

Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center of the land. A unit is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”

The Lord’s angelic messenger appeared to the woman and said to her, “You are infertile and childless, but you will conceive and have a son.

The woman ran at once and told her husband, “Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”

Delilah said to Samson, “Look, you deceived me and told me lies! Now tell me how you can be subdued.”

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

Now Boaz, with whose female servants you worked, is our close relative. Look, tonight he is winnowing barley at the threshing floor.

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

In fact, days are coming when I will remove your strength and the strength of your father’s house. There will not be an old man in your house!

The Lord said to Samuel, “Look! I am about to do something in Israel; when anyone hears about it, both of his ears will tingle.