When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

“Therefore, keep the terms of this covenant and obey them so that you may be successful in everything you do.

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.

They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:

Now today you dare to turn back from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the Lord your God promised you.

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.’”

When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, ‘For the Lord and for Gideon!’”

Jephthah said to the leaders of Gilead, “But you hated me and made me leave my father’s house. Why do you come to me now, when you are in trouble?”

But if you cannot solve it, you will give me thirty linen robes and thirty sets of clothes.” They said to him, “Let us hear your riddle.”

They said to him, “We have come down to take you prisoner so we can hand you over to the Philistines.” Samson said to them, “Promise me you will not kill me.”

When these men broke into Micah’s house and stole the carved image, the ephod, the personal idols, and the metal image, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.