“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

The Lord will deliver them over to you and you will do to them according to the whole commandment I have given you.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.

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

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

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.”

Whenever the day came for Elkanah to sacrifice, he used to give meat portions to his wife Peninnah and to all her sons and daughters.

But he would give a double portion to Hannah, because he especially loved her. Now the Lord had not enabled her to have children.

I prayed for this boy, and the Lord has given me the request that I asked of him.