Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Then they will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc> when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them among foreign countries.

&#8220;Bring trouble<n id="1" /> to the Midianites, and destroy them,

<p class="poetry">So he made a solemn vow<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">that he would make them die<n id="2" /> in the desert,p>

<p class="poetry">He caused all their conquerors<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to have pity on them.p>

&#8220;Go to the Rechabite community.<n id="1" /> Invite them to come into one of the side rooms<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and offer them some wine to drink.&#8221;

I gave them my statutes<n id="1" /> and revealed my regulations to them. The one<n id="2" /> who carries<n id="3" /> them out will live by them!<n id="4" />

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be a perpetual covenant with them.<n id="1" /> I will establish them,<n id="2" /> increase their numbers, and place my sanctuary among them forever.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

But take a few strands of hair<n id="1" /> from those and tie them in the ends of your garment.<n id="2" />

you slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols.<n id="1" />

Instruct them, &#8216;Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests<n id="1" /> stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.&#8217;&#8221;p>

So fire went out from the presence of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and consumed them so that they died before the <sc>Lordsc>.

and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt<n id="1" /> when they eat their holy offerings,<n id="2" /> for I am the <sc>Lordsc> who sanctifies them.&#8217;&#8221;p>

and you must set them in two rows, six in a row,<n id="1" /> on the ceremonially pure table before the <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="bodytext">So Moses accepted the carts and the oxen and gave them to the Levites.

He<n id="1" /> commanded them: &#8220;At the end of seven years, at the appointed time of the cancellation of debts,<n id="2" /> at the Feast of Temporary Shelters,<n id="3" />

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them<n id="1" />

He struck them down and defeated them.<n id="1" /> Then he went down and lived for a time in the cave in the cliff of Etam.p>

He replied, &#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.&#8221;<n id="1" />