You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the Lord your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

However, if the servant says to you, “I do not want to leave you,” because he loves you and your household, since he is well off with you,

When the Lord your God destroys the nations whose land he is about to give you and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and houses,

Or who among you has planted a vineyard and not benefited from it? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else benefit from it.

Or who among you has become engaged to a woman but has not married her? He may go home, lest he die in battle and someone else marry her.”

You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the Lord your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the Lord your God.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

You will be engaged to a woman and another man will rape her. You will build a house but not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but not even begin to use it.

But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house.

He then made Zabdi’s family approach man by man and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was selected.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

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

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.

Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.

The Amorites managed to remain in Har Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. Whenever the tribe of Joseph was strong militarily, the Amorites were forced to do hard labor.

Gideon said to him, “But Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.”

Gideon used all this to make an ephod, which he put in his hometown of Ophrah. All the Israelites prostituted themselves to it by worshiping it there. It became a snare to Gideon and his family.

They did not treat the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) fairly in return for all the good he had done for Israel.