<t /><p class="bodytext">If a homicide victim<n id="1" /> should be found lying in a field in the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,<n id="2" /> and no one knows who killed<n id="3" /> him,

<t /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="1" /> you enter the land that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you as an inheritance, and you occupy it and live in it,

The <sc>Lordsc> will plague you with deadly diseases<n id="1" /> until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When Joshua was very old,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> told him, &#8220;You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei. (He was one of the few remaining Rephaites.)<n id="1" /> Moses defeated them and took their lands.<n id="2" />

But the Israelites did not conquer<n id="1" /> the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

Caleb drove out<n id="1" /> from there three Anakites &#8211; Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

<p class="bodytext">The Ephraimites<n id="1" /> did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites live among the Ephraimites to this very day and do hard labor as their servants.p>

But the men<n id="1" /> of Manasseh were unable to conquer these cities; the Canaanites managed<n id="2" /> to remain in those areas.

<p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors,<n id="1" /> and they conquered<n id="2" /> it and lived in it.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you<n id="1" /> to this very day.

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,<n id="1" /> while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered<n id="1" /> their land and I destroyed them from before you.

Caleb received<n id="1" /> Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

The men of Benjamin, however, did not conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> The Jebusites live with the people of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this very day.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol.<n id="1" /> The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.p>

So I will no longer remove before them any of the nations that Joshua left unconquered when he died.

Eglon formed alliances with<n id="1" /> the Ammonites and Amalekites. He came and defeated Israel, and they seized the City of Date Palm Trees.

There were also male cultic prostitutes<n id="1" /> in the land. They committed the same horrible sins as the nations<n id="2" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> had driven out from before the Israelites.p>

When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead,<n id="1" /> he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.p>