Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, sing to it!

Balak again sent princes, more numerous and more distinguished than the first.

So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

These were those numbered of the Israelites, 601,730.

But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

But the Egyptians mistreated and oppressed us, forcing us to do burdensome labor.

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be blessed.

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

I will increase their disasters, I will use up my arrows on them.

When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”

But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city’s riches. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. The Lord was furious with the Israelites.

Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.

The wisest of her ladies answer; indeed she even thinks to herself,

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, “Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me! You have brought me disaster! I made an oath to the Lord, and I cannot break it.”

After him Elon the Zebulunite led Israel for ten years.