For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken afterward about another day.

On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

On the one hand a former command is set aside because it is weak and useless,

But be sure you live out the message and do not merely listen to it and so deceive yourselves.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

You also be patient and strengthen your hearts, for the Lord’s return is near.

And God will exalt you in due time, if you humble yourselves under his mighty hand

They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world’s perspective and the world listens to them.

because everyone who has been fathered by God conquers the world.This is the conquering power that has conquered the world: our faith.

and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up, “Who is like the great city?”

Later Moses sought diligently for the sin offering male goat, but it had actually been burnt. So he became angry at Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, saying,

If he has not prospered enough to refund a balance to him, then what he sold will belong to the one who bought it until the jubilee year, but it must revert in the jubilee and the original owner may return to his property.

but if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest will calculate the price for him according to the years that are left until the next jubilee year, and it will be deducted from the conversion value.

At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites equipped for battle.

Thus you must obey the Lord your God, keeping all his commandments that I am giving you today and doing what is right before him.

The Lord’s angelic messenger came and sat down under the oak tree in Ophrah owned by Joash the Abiezrite. He arrived while Joash’s son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress so he could hide it from the Midianites.

So they asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah?” Now it just so happened no one from Jabesh Gilead had come to the gathering.

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!”

Now be willing to bless your servant’s dynasty so that it may stand permanently before you, for you, O sovereign Lord, have spoken. By your blessing may your servant’s dynasty be blessed on into the future!”

In the meantime Absalom fled. When the servant who was the watchman looked up, he saw many people coming from the west on a road beside the hill.