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One day when she came to Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What can I do for you?”
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The Benjamites, however, did not drive out the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem; to this day the Jebusites live there with the Benjamites.
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the spies saw a man coming out of the city and they said to him, “Show us how to get into the city and we will see that you are treated well.”
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He then went to the land of the Hittites, where he built a city and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.
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The people served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the Lord had done for Israel.
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I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the Lord and walk in it as their ancestors did.”
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They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the Lord’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.
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That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.
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Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the Lord has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the Lord gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.
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On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.
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The Song of Deborah
On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:
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“In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were abandoned; travelers took to winding paths.
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God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.
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When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the Lord, he exclaimed, “Alas, Sovereign Lord! I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face!”
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So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. To this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
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So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord told him. But because he was afraid of his family and the townspeople, he did it at night rather than in the daytime.
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So because Gideon broke down Baal’s altar, they gave him the name Jerub-Baal that day, saying, “Let Baal contend with him.”
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And that is what happened. Gideon rose early the next day; he squeezed the fleece and wrung out the dew—a bowlful of water.
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One day the trees went out to anoint a king for themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Be our king.’
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The next day the people of Shechem went out to the fields, and this was reported to Abimelek.
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All that day Abimelek pressed his attack against the city until he had captured it and killed its people. Then he destroyed the city and scattered salt over it.
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he and all his men went up Mount Zalmon. He took an ax and cut off some branches, which he lifted to his shoulders. He ordered the men with him, “Quick! Do what you have seen me do!”
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He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys. They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.
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I have not wronged you, but you are doing me wrong by waging war against me. Let the Lord, the Judge, decide the dispute this day between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
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that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
