These were the traveling arrangements of the Israelites according to their companies when they traveled.

“To these the land must be divided as an inheritance according to the number of the names.

Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the Lord has spoken.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.

Of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, when you go outside, and Issachar, when you are in your tents.

Of Dan he said: Dan is a lion’s cub; he will leap forth from Bashan.

When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them.

The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.

Barak summoned men from Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. Ten thousand men followed him; Deborah went up with him as well.

Meanwhile the six hundred Danites, fully armed, stood at the entrance to the gate.

They worshiped Micah’s carved image the whole time God’s authorized shrine was in Shiloh.

That day twenty-five thousand sword-wielding Benjaminites fell in battle, all of them capable warriors.

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

The Benjaminites formed their ranks behind Abner and were like a single army, standing at the top of a certain hill.

But David’s soldiers had slaughtered the Benjaminites and Abner’s men – in all, 360 men had died!

You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

Heled son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai son of Ribai from Gibeah in Benjamin,