But the man did not want to stay another night. He left<n id="1" /> and traveled as far as<n id="2" /> Jebus (that is, Jerusalem).<n id="3" /> He had with him a pair of saddled donkeys and his concubine.<n id="4" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> rewards each man for his integrity and loyalty.<n id="1" /> Even though today the <sc>Lordsc> delivered you into my hand, I was not willing to extend my hand against the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s chosen one.

So David was no longer willing to bring the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> to be with him in the City of David. David left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.p>

<p class="bodytext">But she said to him, &#8220;No I won&#8217;t, for sending me away now would be worse than what you did to me earlier!&#8221;<n id="1" /> But he refused to listen to her.

and said, &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc>, I will not do this!<n id="1" /> It is equivalent to the blood of the men who risked their lives by going.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three elite warriors.<n id="3" />p>

Then Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, &#8220;Let my sailors join yours in the fleet,&#8221;<n id="1" /> but Jehoshaphat refused.p>

But the <sc>Lordsc> was unwilling to destroy Judah. He preserved Judah for the sake of<n id="1" /> his servant David to whom he had promised a perpetual dynasty.<n id="2" />p>

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the <sc>Lordsc> was unwilling to forgive them.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this is what the master, the <sc>Lordsc>, the Holy One of Israel says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;If you repented and patiently waited for me, you would be delivered;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if you calmly trusted in me you would find strength,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but you are unwilling.p>

<p class="poetry">Who handed Jacob over to the robber?p> <p class="poetry">Who handed Israel over to the looters?<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Was it not the <sc>Lordsc>, against whom we sinned?p> <p class="poetry">They refused to follow his commands;p> <p class="poetry">they disobeyed his law.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The servant asked him, &#8220;What if the woman is not willing to come back with me<n id="1" /> to this land? Must I then<n id="2" /> take your son back to the land from which you came?&#8221;p>

But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the <sc>Lordsc> our<n id="1" /> God had made him obstinate<n id="2" /> and stubborn<n id="3" /> so that he might deliver him over to you<n id="4" /> this very day.

As for me, I stayed at the mountain as I did the first time, forty days and nights. The <sc>Lordsc> listened to me that time as well and decided not to destroy you.

But the <sc>Lordsc> your God refused to listen to Balaam and changed<n id="1" /> the curse to a blessing, for the <sc>Lordsc> your God loves<n id="2" /> you.

But if the man does not want to marry his brother&#8217;s widow, then she<n id="1" /> must go to the elders at the town gate and say, &#8220;My husband&#8217;s brother refuses to preserve his brother&#8217;s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!&#8221;

The <sc>Lordsc> will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger<n id="1" /> will rage<n id="2" /> against that man; all the curses<n id="3" /> written in this scroll will fall upon him<n id="4" /> and the <sc>Lordsc> will obliterate his name from memory.<n id="5" />

Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, &#8220;Please allow us<n id="1" /> to pass through your land.&#8221; But the king of Edom rejected the request.<n id="2" /> Israel sent the same request to the king of Moab, but he was unwilling to cooperate.<n id="3" /> So Israel stayed at Kadesh.

The men refused to listen to him, so the Levite<n id="1" /> grabbed his concubine and made her go outside.<n id="2" /> They raped<n id="3" /> her and abused her all night long until morning. They let her go at dawn.

Now, hand over the good-for-nothings<n id="1" /> in Gibeah so we can execute them and purge Israel of wickedness.&#8221;<n id="2" /> But the Benjaminites refused to listen to their Israelite brothers.