Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, "Who brought you here? What do you do in this place? What do you have here?"

Jonadab said to him, "Lay down on your bed, and pretend to be sick. When your father comes to see you, tell him, 'Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand.'"

Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

Are you greater than our father, Abraham, who died? The prophets died. Who do you make yourself out to be?"

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."