Like you eat the gazelle or ibex, so you may eat these; the ritually impure and pure alike may eat them.

if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

That is why the Lord’s anger erupted against this land, bringing on it all the curses written in this scroll.

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

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

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

My heart went out to Israel’s leaders, to the people who answered the call to war. Praise the Lord!

When he finished speaking, he threw the jawbone down and named that place Ramath Lehi.

Micah paid the Levite; the young man became his priest and lived in Micah’s house.

They said to him, “Seek a divine oracle for us, so we can know if we will be successful on our mission.”

But the people refused to heed Samuel’s warning. Instead they said, “No! There will be a king over us!

Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.

He had bronze shin guards on his legs, and a bronze javelin was slung over his shoulders.

The gift was for those in the following locations: for those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;

So they buried Abner in Hebron. The king cried loudly over Abner’s grave and all the people wept too.

All the people noticed this and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people.