when an individual becomes guilty with regard to one of these things he must confess how he has sinned,

You must not take a woman in marriage and then marry her sister as a rival wife while she is still alive, to have sexual intercourse with her.

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

I myself will make the land desolate and your enemies who live in it will be appalled.

All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

“But every vow of a widow or of a divorced woman which she has pledged for herself will remain intact.

When you approach a city to wage war against it, offer it terms of peace.

If it does not accept terms of peace but makes war with you, then you are to lay siege to it.

Joshua said, “Roll large stones over the mouth of the cave and post guards in front of it.

Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops and fought against it.

Joshua and all Israel marched up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it.

They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”

The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his generals were besieging it.

Hadad died.The tribal chiefs of Edom were: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

Who set its measurements – if you know – or who stretched a measuring line across it?

I, the Lord, protect it; I water it regularly. I guard it night and day, so no one can harm it.

They will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field because they have rebelled against me,” says the Lord.

Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

So their land will become an object of horror. People will forever hiss out their scorn over it. All who pass that way will be filled with horror and will shake their heads in derision.