All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

All Jerusalem was terrified because Gibeon was a large city, like one of the royal cities. It was larger than Ai and all its men were warriors.

Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me.”

The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.

Be very strong! Carefully obey all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

One of you makes a thousand run away, for the Lord your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

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

the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him, “If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you.”

So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.

When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.

The Lord did as he asked. When he got up the next morning, he squeezed the fleece, and enough dew dripped from it to fill a bowl.

He said to them, “Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

Gideon continued, “I would like to make one request. Each of you give me an earring from the plunder you have taken.” (The Midianites had gold earrings because they were Ishmaelites.)

When Gaal son of Ebed came out and stood at the entrance to the city’s gate, Abimelech and his men got up from their hiding places.

he took his men and divided them into three units and set an ambush in the field. When he saw the people coming out of the city, he attacked and struck them down.

Her father said, “I really thought you absolutely despised her, so I gave her to your best man. Her younger sister is more attractive than she is. Take her instead!”

The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized they were too strong to resist, he turned around and went home.

The Benjaminites attacked from Gibeah and struck down twenty-two thousand Israelites that day.