and her husband hears about it, but remains silent about her when he hears about it, then her vows will stand and her obligations which she has pledged for herself will stand.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

Then we turned and set out toward the desert land on the way to the Red Sea just as the Lord told me to do, detouring around Mount Seir for a long time.

These cities are Bezer, in the desert plateau, for the Reubenites; Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for the Manassehites.

Just like the nations the Lord is about to destroy from your sight, so he will do to you because you would not obey him.

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

If you build a new house, you must construct a guard rail around your roof to avoid being culpable in the event someone should fall from it.

You will see the land before you, but you will not enter the land that I am giving to the Israelites.”

Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

They invaded the land and devoured its crops all the way to Gaza. They left nothing for the Israelites to eat, and they took away the sheep, oxen, and donkeys.

Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.

The Danites went on their way; when Micah realized they were too strong to resist, he turned around and went home.

The Israelite army took heart and once more arranged their battle lines, in the same place where they had taken their positions the day before.

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

Now, my dear, don’t worry! I intend to do for you everything you propose, for everyone in the village knows that you are a worthy woman.

Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the Lord’s house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

Now the boy Samuel continued serving the Lord under Eli’s supervision. Word from the Lord was rare in those days; revelatory visions were infrequent.

The Philistines arranged their forces to fight Israel. As the battle spread out, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who killed about four thousand men in the battle line in the field.

So the Philistines fought. Israel was defeated; they all ran home. The slaughter was very great; thirty thousand foot soldiers fell in battle.

So David asked the Lord, “Should I go and strike down these Philistines?” The Lord said to David, “Go, strike down the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”