<p class="bodytext">Joshua rewarded<n id="1" /> them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> your children sinned against him,p> <p class="poetry">he gave them over<n id="2" /> to the penalty<n id="3" /> of their sin.p>

<p class="poetry">If he holds back the waters, then they dry up;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if he releases them,<n id="2" /> they destroy<n id="3" /> the land.p>

Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other.<n id="1" /> Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.<n id="2" />p>

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines<n id="1" /> and sent them off to the east, away from his son Isaac.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai.<n id="1" /> Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

<p class="bodytext">So Hanun seized David&#8217;s servants and shaved off half of each one&#8217;s beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed,<n id="1" /> and then sent them away.

He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of<n id="1" /> the work crews.

So he threw a big banquet<n id="1" /> for them and they ate and drank. Then he sent them back<n id="2" /> to their master. After that no Syrian raiding parties again invaded the land of Israel.p>

So Hanun seized David&#8217;s servants and shaved their beards off.<n id="1" /> He cut off the lower part of their robes so that their buttocks were exposed<n id="2" /> and then sent them away.

Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place<n id="1" /> west of Ai, between Bethel<n id="2" /> and Ai.<n id="3" /> Joshua spent that night with the army.<n id="4" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> sent against him Babylonian, Syrian, Moabite, and Ammonite raiding bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as he had warned he would do through his servants the prophets.<n id="1" />

So Ebed Melech took the men with him and went to a room under the treasure room in the palace.<n id="1" /> He got some worn-out clothes and old rags<n id="2" /> from there and let them down by ropes to Jeremiah in the cistern.

Asa took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and of the royal palace and handed it to his servants. He then told them to deliver it<n id="1" /> to Ben Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, ruler in Damascus, along with this message: