The Lord said to him, “You are safe! ¹  Do not be afraid! You are not going to die!”

Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go. But if you do not go with me, I will not go.”

This is why ¹  the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; ²  he did not hand them over to Joshua.

Now be careful! Do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat any food that will make you ritually unclean. ¹ 

The ¹  remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out. ² 

She should not drink ¹  anything that the grapevine produces. She must not drink wine or beer, and she must not eat any food that will make her ritually unclean. ²  She should obey everything I commanded her to do.”

All Israel rose up in unison ¹  and said, “Not one of us will go home! ²  Not one of us will return ³  to his house!

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites ¹  – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

She said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when you will not share your secret with me? ¹  Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong.”

Gideon said to them, “I will not rule over you, nor will my son rule over you. The Lord will rule over you.”

So Samson’s bride cried on his shoulder ¹  and said, “You must ²  hate me; you do not love me! You told the young men ³  a riddle, but you have not told me the solution.” He said to her, “Look, I have not even told my father or mother. Do you really expect me to tell you?” ⁴ 

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. ¹  We will travel on to Gibeah.”

The Israelites asked, “Who from all the Israelite tribes has not assembled before the Lord?” They had made a solemn oath that whoever did not assemble before the Lord at Mizpah must certainly be executed. ¹ 

The Lord said to the Israelites, “Did I not deliver you from Egypt, the Amorites, the Ammonites, the Philistines,

The Amorites forced the people of Dan to live in the hill country. They did not allow them to live in ¹  the coastal plain.

and said to him, “This is what Jephthah says, ‘Israel did not steal ¹  the land of Moab and the land of the Ammonites.

The Israelites did not remain true ¹  to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

The men of Ephraim did not conquer the Canaanites living in Gezer. The Canaanites lived among them in Gezer.

But since you abandoned me and worshiped ¹  other gods, I will not deliver you again.