You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers,<n id="1" /> with warriors and all the soldiers,&#8217; declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

This is the land which you will allot to the tribes of Israel, and these are their portions, declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">They will not remain in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s land.p> <p class="poetry">Ephraim will return to Egypt;p> <p class="poetry">they will eat ritually unclean food in Assyria.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> also has a covenant lawsuit<n id="1" /> against Judah;p> <p class="poetry">he will punish Jacob according to his waysp> <p class="poetry">and repay him according to his deeds.p>

<p class="poetry">Listen and warn<n id="1" /> the family<n id="2" /> of Jacob!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, the God who commands armies,<n id="4" /> is speaking!p>

<p class="poetry">I said, &#8220;Sovereign <sc>Lordsc>, stop!p> <p class="poetry">How can Jacob survive?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He is too weak!&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> decided not to do this.<n id="1" /> The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;This will not happen either.&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, the residents of Maroth<n id="1" /> hope for something good to happen,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">though the <sc>Lordsc> has sent disaster against the city of Jerusalem.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> is my source of strength.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">He gives me the agility of a deer;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.<n id="3" />p> <p class="bodytext">(This prayer is for the song leader. It is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.)<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">for they taunted and verbally harassed<n id="2" /> the people of the <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies.p>

Now the people of Bethel<n id="1" /> had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s favor

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> will go to battle<n id="1" /> and fight against those nations, just as he fought battles in ancient days.<n id="2" />

but the entrails and the legs he washed with water,<n id="1" /> and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar &#8211; it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the <sc>Lordsc>, just as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded Moses.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;Surely anything which a man permanently dedicates to the <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> from all that belongs to him, whether from people, animals, or his landed property, must be neither sold nor redeemed; anything permanently dedicated is most holy to the <sc>Lordsc>.

You have witnessed what the <sc>Lordsc> did at Baal Peor,<n id="1" /> how he<n id="2" /> eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.<n id="3" />

In the presence of the <sc>Lordsc> your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine,<n id="1" /> your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the <sc>Lordsc> your God always.

They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Joshua<n id="2" /> assigned them land among their uncles, as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded.<n id="3" />

This happened because they did not obey<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> their God and broke his agreement with them.<n id="2" /> They did not pay attention to and obey all that Moses, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, had commanded.<n id="3" />p>

Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed,<n id="2" /> and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the <sc>Lordsc> our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis.<n id="3" />

May the <sc>Lordsc> your God be praised because he favored<n id="1" /> you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf!<n id="2" /> Because of your God&#8217;s love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them,<n id="3" /> he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions.&#8221;<n id="4" />