They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. But be strong and brave!”

Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

Their territory started from Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley), included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba as far as Dibon,

Their territory started at Aroer (on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,

and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.

These were the nations the Lord permitted to remain so he could use them to test Israel – he wanted to test all those who had not experienced battle against the Canaanites.

Abimelech and his units attacked and blocked the entrance to the city’s gate. Two units then attacked all the people in the field and struck them down.

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.

After they had gone a good distance from Micah’s house, Micah’s neighbors gathered together and caught up with the Danites.

She carried it back to town, and her mother-in-law saw how much grain she had gathered. Then Ruth gave her the roasted grain she had saved from mealtime.

When he gets ready to go to sleep, take careful notice of the place where he lies down. Then go, uncover his legs, and lie down beside him. He will tell you what you should do.”

May your family become like the family of Perez – whom Tamar bore to Judah – through the descendants the Lord gives you by this young woman.”

He will encourage you and provide for you when you are old, for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, has given him birth. She is better to you than seven sons!”

Samuel said to the cook, “Give me the portion of meat that I gave to you – the one I asked you to keep with you.”

Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

Here is what the Lord of hosts says: ‘I carefully observed how the Amalekites opposed Israel along the way when Israel came up from Egypt.

Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you should do. You will anoint for me the one I point out to you.”

Afterward David’s conscience bothered him because he had cut off an edge of Saul’s robe.