then he promises, “I will send rain for your land in its season, the autumn and the spring rains, so that you may gather in your grain, new wine, and olive oil.

Indeed, he may live among you in any place he chooses, in whichever of your villages he prefers; you must not oppress him.

The Lord will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

Of Joseph he said: May the Lord bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;

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

to the south; all the Canaanite territory, from Arah in the region of Sidon to Aphek, as far as Amorite territory;

It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern border.

It then descended westward to Japhletite territory, as far as the territory of lower Beth Horon and Gezer, and ended at the sea.

The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Micmethath which is near Shechem. It then went south toward those who live in Tappuah.

From Sarid it turned eastward to the territory of Kisloth Tabor, extended to Daberath, and went up to Japhia.

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

The people buried him in his allotted land in Timnath Heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

So Jephthah left his half-brothers and lived in the land of Tob. Lawless men joined Jephthah’s gang and traveled with him.

Samson then said, “With the jawbone of a donkey I have left them in heaps; with the jawbone of a donkey I have struck down a thousand men!”

Ten thousand men, well-trained soldiers from all Israel, then made a frontal assault against Gibeah – the battle was fierce. But the Benjaminites did not realize that disaster was at their doorstep.

The Lord annihilated Benjamin before Israel; the Israelites struck down that day 25,100 sword-wielding Benjaminites.

Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!”

another band turned toward the road leading to Beth Horon; and yet another band turned toward the road leading to the border that overlooks the valley of Zeboim in the direction of the desert.