His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

They said, “We are happy to give you earrings.” So they spread out a garment, and each one threw an earring from his plunder onto it.

They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

Then Jesse presented Shammah. But Samuel said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.”

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

There he shattered the arrows, the shield, the sword, and the rest of the weapons of war. (Selah)

With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers.

I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains. My chosen ones will take possession of the land; my servants will live there.

You will never come back to this land to which you will long to return!”

Babylon will become a heap of ruins. Jackals will make their home there. It will become an object of horror and of hissing scorn, a place where no one lives.

“When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

They engaged in prostitution in Egypt; in their youth they engaged in prostitution. Their breasts were squeezed there; lovers fondled their virgin nipples there.

You will be overcome by drunkenness and sorrow. The cup of your sister Samaria is a cup of horror and desolation.

I was concerned for my holy reputation which the house of Israel profaned among the nations where they went.