<t /><p class="bodytext">The second lot belonged to the tribe of Simeon by its clans.<n id="1" />

as well as all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath Beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the land assigned to the tribe of Simeon by its clans.<n id="1" />

Simeon&#8217;s assigned land was taken from Judah&#8217;s allotted portion, for Judah&#8217;s territory was too large for them; so Simeon was assigned land within Judah.<n id="1" />p>

I grabbed hold of my concubine and carved her up and sent the pieces<n id="1" /> throughout the territory occupied by Israel,<n id="2" /> because they committed such an unthinkable atrocity<n id="3" /> in Israel.

I represent the peaceful and the faithful in Israel. You are attempting to destroy an important city<n id="1" /> in Israel. Why should you swallow up the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s inheritance?&#8221;p>

David said to the Gibeonites, &#8220;What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s inheritance?&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Then you will find joy in your relationship to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and I will give you great prosperity,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and cause crops to grow on the land I gave to your ancestor Jacob.&#8221;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Know for certain that the <sc>Lordsc> has spoken.<n id="4" />p>

Moreover,<n id="1" /> you have not brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, nor given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Do you think you can blind<n id="2" /> these men? We will not come up.&#8221;p>

They said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> commanded my lord to give<n id="1" /> the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites; and my lord was commanded by the <sc>Lordsc> to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

Now if they should be married to one of the men<n id="1" /> from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry.<n id="2" /> As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father&#8217;s tribe, so that every Israelite<n id="1" /> may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

<p class="bodytext">So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.&#8221;<n id="2" /> He lay down on his bed, pouted,<n id="3" /> and would not eat.

<p class="poetry">No weapon forged to be used against you will succeed;p> <p class="poetry">you will refute everyone who tries to accuse you.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> will do for his servants &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">I will vindicate them,&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">says the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;I thought to myself,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;Oh what a joy it would be for me to treat you like a son!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">What a joy it would be for me to give<n id="3" /> you a pleasant land,p> <p class="poetry">the most beautiful piece of property there is in all the world!&#8217;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I thought you would call me, &#8216;Father&#8217;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">and would never cease being loyal to me.<n id="6" />p>