When he sits on his royal throne he must make a copy of this law on a scroll given to him by the Levitical priests.

Fathers must not be put to death for what their children do, nor children for what their fathers do; each must be put to death for his own sin.

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord will live safely by him; he protects him all the time, and the Lord places him on his chest.

We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.”

Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.

Their territory started at Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

Divide it into seven regions. Judah will stay in its territory in the south, and the family of Joseph in its territory in the north.

The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting bandits in the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it.

He said, “You may go.” He permitted her to leave for two months. She went with her friends and mourned her virginity as she walked through the hills.

As the flame went up from the altar toward the sky, the Lord’s messenger went up in it while Manoah and his wife watched. They fell facedown to the ground.

So Delilah took new ropes and tied him with them and said to him, “The Philistines are here, Samson!” (The Philistines were hiding in the bedroom.) But he tore the ropes from his arms as if they were a piece of thread.

She made him go to sleep on her lap and then called a man in to shave off the seven braids of his hair. She made him vulnerable and his strength left him.

She said, “The Philistines are here, Samson!” He woke up and thought, “I will do as I did before and shake myself free.” But he did not realize that the Lord had left him.

Samson said to the young man who held his hand, “Position me so I can touch the pillars that support the temple. Then I can lean on them.”

Samson took hold of the two middle pillars that supported the temple and he leaned against them, with his right hand on one and his left hand on the other.

The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying. They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.