You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.

If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

‘Cursed is the one who perverts justice for the resident foreigner, the orphan, and the widow.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

your infants, your wives, and the foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water –

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

The sword will make people childless outside, and terror will do so inside; they will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant and the gray-haired man.

“Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.

Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.

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.

It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.

How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary.