They left and went up to the hill country, coming to the Eshcol Valley,<n id="1" /> which they scouted out.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> and recklessly went up to the hill country.

<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.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that same time the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.<n id="1" />

So I made an ark of acacia<n id="1" /> wood and carved out two stone tablets just like the first ones. Then I went up the mountain with the two tablets in my hands.

She told them, &#8220;Head<n id="1" /> to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don&#8217;t find you.<n id="2" /> Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you<n id="3" /> to return. Then you can be on your way.&#8221;

They went<n id="1" /> to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them<n id="2" /> to return. Their pursuers<n id="3" /> looked all along the way but did not find them.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel<n id="1" /> and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the <sc>Lordsc> and worshiped the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="2" />

When they had brought them outside, they<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Run<n id="2" /> for your lives! Don&#8217;t look<n id="3" /> behind you or stop anywhere in the valley!<n id="4" /> Escape to the mountains or you will be destroyed!&#8221;p>

Your<n id="1" /> servant has found favor with you,<n id="2" /> and you have shown me great<n id="3" /> kindness<n id="4" /> by sparing<n id="5" /> my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because<n id="6" /> this disaster will overtake<n id="7" /> me and I&#8217;ll die.<n id="8" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> said to Moses, &#8220;Come up to me to the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets<n id="2" /> with<n id="3" /> the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then you responded to me and admitted, &#8220;We have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc>. We will now go up and fight as the <sc>Lordsc> our God has told us to do.&#8221; So you each put on your battle gear and prepared to go up to the hill country.

When I went up the mountain to receive the stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant that the <sc>Lordsc> made with you, I remained there<n id="1" /> forty days and nights, eating and drinking nothing.