<p class="bodytext">Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order<n id="1" /> and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Now, divide up this land<n id="1" /> among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Samuel brought all the tribes of Israel near, and the tribe of Benjamin was chosen by lot.

<p class="poetry">Your throne,<n id="1" /> O God, is permanent.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">The scepter<n id="3" /> of your kingdom is a scepter of justice.p>

<p class="poetry">The tribes go up<n id="1" /> there,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">the tribes of the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">where it is required that Israelp> <p class="poetry">give thanks to the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Dan<n id="1" /> will judge<n id="2" /> his peoplep> <p class="poetry">as one of the tribes of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">who<n id="1" /> would take his<n id="2" /> rod<n id="3" /> away from mep> <p class="poetry">so that his terror<n id="4" /> would not make me afraid.p>

<p class="poetry">You will break them<n id="1" /> with an iron scepter;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">you will smash them like a potter&#8217;s jar!&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">their sin by inflicting them with bruises.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He brought his people<n id="1" /> out enriched<n id="2" /> with silver and gold;p> <p class="poetry">none of his tribes stumbled.p>

If you strike<n id="1" /> him with the rod,p> <p class="poetry">you will deliver him<n id="2" /> from death.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has broken the club of the wicked,p> <p class="poetry">the scepter of rulers.p>

<t /><p class="lamhebrew">&#1488; (<i>Alefi>)<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I am the man<n id="2" /> who has experienced<n id="3" /> afflictionp> <p class="poetry">from the rod<n id="4" /> of his wrath.p>

The workers of the city from all the tribes of Israel will cultivate it.

Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe.

<p class="bodytext">The tribes of Israel sent men throughout the tribe<n id="1" /> of Benjamin, saying, &#8220;How could such a wicked thing take place?<n id="2" />

He will retain one tribe, for my servant David&#8217;s sake and for the sake of Jerusalem, the city I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.

&#8220;Do not allow the tribe of the families of the Kohathites to be cut off<n id="1" /> from among the Levites;

<p class="bodytext">Joshua told the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh:

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