Only my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit and has followed me fully – I will bring him into the land where he had gone, and his descendants will possess it.

When the Canaanite king of Arad who lived in the Negev heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at a city of Moab which was on the border of the Arnon at the boundary of his territory.

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

He said:The Lord came from Sinai and revealed himself to Israel from Seir. He appeared in splendor from Mount Paran, and came forth with ten thousand holy ones. With his right hand he gave a fiery law to them.

When Joshua was very old, the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

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

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

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!

Gaal again said, “Look, men are coming down from the very center of the land. A unit is coming by way of the Oak Tree of the Diviners.”

The woman ran at once and told her husband, “Come quickly, the man who visited me the other day has appeared to me!”

Now at that very moment, Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and greeted the harvesters, “May the Lord be with you!” They replied, “May the Lord bless you!”

The Philistines were scared because they thought that gods had come to the camp. They said, “Too bad for us! We’ve never seen anything like this!

They replied, “Yes, straight ahead! But hurry now, for he came to the town today, and the people are making a sacrifice at the high place.

“When you saw that King Nahash of the Ammonites was advancing against you, you said to me, ‘No! A king will rule over us’ – even though the Lord your God is your king!

He waited for seven days, the time period indicated by Samuel. But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, and the army began to abandon Saul.

The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you are coming after me with sticks?” Then the Philistine cursed David by his gods.

When Saul was told that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he has boxed himself into a corner by entering a city with two barred gates.”