but you must not make an agreement with the people who live in this land. You should tear down the altars where they worship.&#8217;<n id="1" /> But you have disobeyed me.<n id="2" /> Why would you do such a thing?<n id="3" />

Barak said to her, &#8220;If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.&#8221;

I said to you, &#8220;I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God! Do not worship<n id="1" /> the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living!&#8221; But you have disobeyed me.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

Gideon said to them, &#8220;I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The <sc>Lordsc> will rule over you.&#8221;

But his master said to him, &#8220;We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live.<n id="1" /> We will travel on to Gibeah.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">All Israel rose up in unison<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;Not one of us will go home!<n id="2" /> Not one of us will return<n id="3" /> to his house!

The<n id="1" /> remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.<n id="2" />

But his wife said to him, &#8220;If the <sc>Lordsc> wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from us.<n id="1" /> He would not have shown us all these things, or have spoken to us like this just now.&#8221;p>

So Samson&#8217;s bride cried on his shoulder<n id="1" /> and said, &#8220;You must<n id="2" /> hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men<n id="3" /> a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.&#8221; He said to her, &#8220;Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?&#8221;<n id="4" />

Whenever Israel was strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.p>

<p class="bodytext">The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.p>

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.p>

<p class="bodytext">The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in<n id="1" /> the coastal plain.

This is why<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately;<n id="2" /> he did not hand them over to Joshua.p>

The <sc>Lordsc> said to him, &#8220;You are safe!<n id="1" /> Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!&#8221;

He said to them, &#8220;Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim&#8217;s leftover grapes<n id="1" /> are better quality than Abiezer&#8217;s harvest!<n id="2" />

But since you abandoned me and worshiped<n id="1" /> other gods, I will not deliver you again.

But the Ammonite king disregarded<n id="1" /> the message sent by Jephthah.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.<n id="1" />

So the rulers of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried and they tied him up with them.