seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

The people said to Joshua, “No! We really will worship the Lord!”

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in the coastal plain.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

The Lord said to him, “You are safe! Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest!

But since you abandoned me and worshiped other gods, I will not deliver you again.

But the Ammonite king disregarded the message sent by Jephthah.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.

The Israelites had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will allow his daughter to marry a Benjaminite.”

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!”

At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

He watches over his holy ones, but the wicked are made speechless in the darkness, for it is not by one’s own strength that one prevails.

This ought not to be, my sons! For the report that I hear circulating among the Lord’s people is not good.

Eli’s eyes had begun to fail, so that he was unable to see well. At that time he was lying down in his place,