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"After this, you are to exact a tribute for the LORD from the soldiers who went to war, consisting of the tribute earned by one person out of every 500, whether from people, cattle, donkeys, or flocks.

Verse ConceptsTributes

So after you've built cities for your families and corrals for your cattle, be sure to keep your promises."

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelStock Keeping

Nebo, Baal-meon (after having changed their names), and Sibmah. The cities that they rebuilt were renamed.

Nobah captured Kenath and its towns and renamed it Nobah after himself.

Verse ConceptsCommemorationPeople Naming Things

Here's the travel itinerary for the Israelis after they left the land of Egypt in groups under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

Verse ConceptsLeaving Egypt

Moses recorded their departures in their travels after being commanded to do so by the LORD. Here's a list of their travels based on their departures:

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of that first month. The day after the Passover, the Israelis came out confidently, and all the Egyptians watched them leave,

Verse ConceptsBoldness, To PeopleSpectators

Then Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor in obedience to the LORD's command and died there, in the fortieth year after the Israelis had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTMonthMonth 5

The inadvertent killer is to live in the town of refuge until the High Priest dies. After the death of the High Priest, the inadvertent killer is to return to the land of his inheritance.

Verse ConceptsDeath Of Office HoldersPermission To Return Home

This took place after he defeated Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon and Og, king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth at Edrei.

Verse Conceptsdefeat

Manasseh's son Jair captured all the Argob region as far as the territory of the descendants of Geshur and the descendants of Maacath. Bashan was named after him; that's why it is called Havvoth-jair to this day.

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Things

The LORD commanded me at that time to teach you to observe the statutes and ordinances in the land after you cross over to take possession of it.

Verse ConceptsScripture TeachingKeep The Commandments!

"After you've borne children and grandchildren, have been there for a long time in the land, have become so corrupted that you make images of any form, and have done evil in the eyes of the LORD your God, you will provoke him to anger.

Verse ConceptsProvokingIdols

Moreover, he loved your ancestors, chose their descendants after them, and brought you out of Egypt, accompanied by his presence and great power,

Verse ConceptsPeople Of God, In OtGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod's Love For IsraelDadsFathers Love

May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I'm giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you'll live a long life in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you permanently."

Verse ConceptsTemporal Blessingsethics, and graceBlessings, To AbrahamOld Age, Attainment OfHow To Live LongEternal PossessionResults Of Keeping The CommandmentsKeep The Commandments!

He did this east of the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and whom Moses and the Israelis defeated after leaving Egypt.

Verse ConceptsdefeatLeaving EgyptBeyond JordanGay Marriage

After the LORD has expelled them before you, you are not to say to yourselves, "The LORD caused me to enter and possess this land because of my righteousness.'

Verse ConceptsRetributionSelf Righteousness, Nature OfWhy It Happened

yet the LORD committed himself to love your ancestors and did so! He chose you their descendants after them from all the nations, as it is today.

Verse Conceptselection, privileges ofAs At This DayGod's Love For IsraelAffection

But after you have crossed the Jordan River and settled in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and after you have received relief from the enemies around you and are living securely,

Verse ConceptsSafetyCrossing Into The Promised LandTime Of Peace

You must not eat it, so that life will go well for you and for your children after you. Then you'll do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsPeople Consuming BloodPersonal GoodForbidden Food

Be sure to observe all these words that I'm commanding you, in order that life may go well for you and your children after you forever, for this is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God."

Verse ConceptsTemporal BlessingsPersonal GoodObeying God

after they have been destroyed in your sight, be careful not to be ensnared as they were. Otherwise, you will seek their gods and ask yourselves, "How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.'

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionParticipation, In SinImitatingEvil AssociationsNot Imitating EvilAsking Particular QuestionsEvil TrappingDo Not Have Other gods

"Celebrate the Festival of Tents for seven days after you harvest from your threshing floor and your wine press.

Verse ConceptsCropsFeastingFeast Of TabernaclesNew Year, TheThreshing FloorSeven DaysCelebrationcelebrating

Remove her prisoner's clothing and let her remain for a month in your house, mourning her parents. After that, you may become her husband and she is to become your wife.

Verse ConceptsMonthOne MonthMourning DeathDistinctive Clothing

"Then the generation to come your descendants after you and the foreigners who come from afar will see plagues and illnesses infecting the land that the LORD will inflict on it.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGenerationsPeople From Far Away

because after I've brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey that I promised to their ancestors by an oath, they'll eat, grow fat, and then they'll turn to other gods and serve them, while despising me and breaking my covenant.

Verse ConceptsFoodRejection Of GodTrust, Lack OfIngratitude To GodThe Promised LandDifferent GodsBreaking The CovenantMilk And Honey

because indeed I know your rebellion and stubbornness. Note that even while I'm still alive, you've been rebelling against the LORD how much more so after my death!

Verse ConceptsRebellion, Of IsraelNecksSelf WillObstinate IndividualsKnowing FactsRebellion against Godrebellion

because I know that after my death, you'll surely act wickedly and turn from the road that I've instructed you. As a result, evil will fall on you in days to come, because you'll act wickedly in the sight of the LORD, causing him to become angry due to your behavior."

Verse ConceptsCorruption, CausesGod's WaysProvoking GodSin, Nature OfKnowing Beforehand

The Israelis mourned for Moses at the desert plain of Moab for 30 days, after which the period of mourning for Moses was completed.

Verse ConceptsBereavement, Expression OfLossMonthMourningSorrowSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfWeepingOne MonthMourning The Death Of Others

After Moses, the servant of the LORD, had died, the LORD spoke to Nun's son Joshua, announcing to him,

Verse Conceptslosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A ChildDeath Of Loved OneLoss Of A Loved Onebridges

After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.

Verse ConceptsAdulteress ExamplesTwoLand, As A Divine GiftProperty, HousesProstitutionSecrecyActing In SecretTwo Other Menexploring

At dusk, when it was time to close the city gates, the men left. I don't know where the men went. Go after them quickly, and you might overtake them."

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

So the men pursued them along the road that leads to the fords of the Jordan River. As soon as the search party had left, they shut the city gate after them.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsPursuing PeopleShutting GatesFords

She told them, "Go out to the hill country, so the search party won't find you, and hide for three days. After that, you may go on your own way."

Verse ConceptsHillsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsHiding From People

"Since you put it that way," she replied, "I agree." After she sent them on their way and they had left, she tied the red cord in the window.

Verse ConceptsAgreement, Making AgreementsCordsRed Cords

After this, Joshua instructed the priests, "Take up the Ark of the Covenant and cross over ahead of the people." So they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went on ahead of the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved AroundCrossing Into The Promised LandRiver CrossingsThings Going BeforePriests In ActionArk Of The Covenant

Although everyone who had left Egypt had been circumcised, nevertheless all the people born during the journey after their departure from Egypt had not been circumcised.

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The Wilderness

As they completed the seventh time, after the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua told the army, "Shout, because the LORD has given you the city!

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

piling up a large mound of boulders that remains to this day. After this, the LORD turned his burning anger away, and that is why that place is called "the Valley of Achor" to this day.

Verse ConceptsCairnsGod Will No More Be AngryPlaces To This Day

I and all of the army with me will advance upon the city. When they come out after us like they did before, we'll run away from them.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies In

They'll come after us until we've drawn them away from the city, because they'll say, "They're running away from us just like they did before.' While we're running away from them,

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

everyone in the city followed after them. As they pursued Joshua, they were drawn away from the town.

Verse ConceptsBringing People Out Of Other Places

There wasn't a single man left in Ai or Bethel who didn't run out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesUnguarded

When Israel had completed executing all of the residents of Ai in the open wilderness where they had chased them, and after all of them to the very last of them had been killed by swords, the entire fighting force of Israel returned to Ai and attacked it with swords.

Verse ConceptsCarnageConquest

But three days after they had made the treaty with them, they learned that they were their neighbors and were living in their midst.

Verse ConceptsNeighbours

So after an all-night march from Gilgal, Joshua attacked them by surprise.

Verse ConceptsSuddenlyWalking All Nightsurprises

After this, Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal with the entire fighting force of Israel.

Now it came about that after Joshua and the Israelis had finished the battle, destroying and scattering their survivors, who retreated into their fortified cities,

Verse ConceptsCityCarnageExterminationSurvivors Of The Nations

After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfFive ThingsKilling KingsAction Until EveningPeople Hung To Death

After this, Joshua, accompanied by all of Israel, proceeded from Lachish to Eglon, laid siege to it, and attacked it.

Verse ConceptsEncampments

After all these kings had gathered together, they went out and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight Israel.

After this, the descendants of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal. Jephunneh the Kenizzite's son Caleb told him, "You know the promise that the LORD gave Moses the man of God concerning the two of us in Kadesh-barnea.

Verse ConceptsPeople Of Judah

Hebron used to be known as Kiriath-arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. After all of this, the land enjoyed rest from war.

Verse ConceptsRest, PhysicalGiantsTime Of Peace

Now Joshua gave an allotment among the descendants of Judah to Jephunneh's son Caleb, just as God told Joshua, Kiriath-arba, which was named after the ancestor of Anak (that is, Hebron).

After this, the entire assembly of the Israelis gathered together at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there, where the land lay conquered before them.

Verse ConceptsCongregationPriesthood, In OtShrinesTent Of MeetingArk Of The Covenant, EventsSacred PlacesThe House Of God At Shiloh

Later, when the descendants of Dan lost their territory, they went up and attacked Leshem. After they captured it and executed its inhabitants, they took possession of it and settled there, renaming the city of Leshem to Dan in memory of their ancestor Dan.

Verse ConceptsSwordsFighting EnemiesPeople Naming Things

They gave them Kiriath-arba, also known as Hebron, (Arba was named after the ancestor of Anak), in the hill country of Judah, along with its surrounding pasture lands.

After they arrived at an area of the Jordan River that is in the land of Canaan, the descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh constructed an altar there by the Jordan River, and it was very large.

Verse ConceptsAltars, Built ByFractions, One HalfBuilding AltarsThe Region Of Jordan

but instead it will serve as a reminder between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to serve the LORD with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings. That way your descendants will not say to our descendants in the future, "You have no allotment from the LORD."'

Verse ConceptsFutureGenerationsServanthood, And Worship Of God

Many years later, after the LORD had given peace between Israel and all its surrounding enemies, and after Joshua had become very old,

Verse ConceptsTime Of Peace

Joshua called together all Israel, including their leaders, officials, judges, and tribal officers. He told them, "I am old now after having lived many years.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersInfirmities

If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."

Verse ConceptsServanthood, And Worship Of GodConsequences Of Forsaking GodGod Will Bring HarmForgiving Others Who Hurt YouServing God

Sometime after Joshua had died, the Israelis asked the LORD, "Who is to lead us against the Canaanites in our opening attack against them?"

Verse ConceptsFirst To FightFighting Enemies

Later on, after she had arrived, she urged Othniel to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you want for yourself?"

Verse ConceptsDismounting

Furthermore, the Amorites continued to inhabit Mount Heres in Aijalon and Shaalbim. Eventually, however, after the tribe of Joseph had become strong, the Amorites were subjected to conscripted labor.

Verse ConceptsForced Labour

After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelis returned to their respective inheritances to take possession of the land.

After that whole generation had died, another generation grew up after them that was not acquainted with the LORD or with what he had done for Israel.

Verse ConceptsBecoming An AdultGenerationsGod, Revelation OfSpiritual IgnoranceGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A FatherRosesKnowing God

However, after the leader had died, they would relapse to a condition more corrupt than their ancestors, following other gods, serving them, and worshiping them. They would not abandon their activities or their obstinate lifestyles.

Verse ConceptsHabitsSin, Nature OfSelf WillBowing To False GodsDifferent GodsDeath Of Office HoldersGod's People Sinning

I'm also going to stop expelling any of the nations that remained after Joshua died.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them Out

After he left, Eglon's attendants came to look, but the doors to the cool chamber were locked! So they said, "He must be relieving himself in the inner part of the cool chamber."

Verse ConceptsDefecation

he told them, "Attack them, because the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your control." So the Israeli army followed after him, seized the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross.

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsFordsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

After Ehud, Anath's son Shamgar attacked 600 Philistines with a cattle prod. He also delivered Israel.

Verse ConceptsGoadsDeliverersSix To Seven HundredSharp ToolsSix Hundred And AboveNumbers Of Foreigners Killed

After Ehud died, while the LORD was watching, the Israelis made the evil they had been practicing even worse,

Verse ConceptsGod's People Sinning

But Heber's wife Jael grabbed a tent peg in one hand and a hammer in the other, crept up to him quietly, and drove the tent peg right through his temple into the ground below after he had fallen sound asleep from exhaustion. That's how he died.

Verse ConceptsTentsTirednessHammersNailsPegsSharp ToolsTired In FlightKilling Named Individuals

After this, the angel of the LORD arrived and sat down in the shade of the oak tree in Ophrah that belonged to Joash, a descendant of Abiezer, while his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a wine press in order to safeguard it from the Midianites.

Verse ConceptsAgriculture, TermsAppearances Of God In OtGrainThreshingWheatWinepressWarriorsOaksActing In Secretgideon

But Joash responded to everyone who was opposing him, "Do you really intend to fight on Baal's behalf? Do you really intend to rescue him by ordering that whoever fights him will be executed by morning? If Baal is a god, let him fight for himself. After all, it was his altar that was torn down."

So Gideon and the 100 men with him arrived at the outer perimeter of the encampment at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had posted sentries. They blew their trumpets and smashed the jars that they were carrying in their hands.

Verse ConceptsBeginningNightOne Hundredgideon

Israeli soldiers were called out from the territories of Naphtali, Asher, and throughout Manasseh, and they chased after the Midianites.

After him, Jair the Gileadite arose and governed Israel for 22 years.

Verse Concepts20 To 30 YearsJudging Israel

Later, after the two months were concluded, she returned to her father, and he fulfilled what he had solemnly vowed and she never married. That's how the custom arose in Israel

After he died, Ibzan from Bethlehem governed Israel for ten years.

Verse ConceptsJudging Israel

Elon the Zebulunite governed Israel after him for ten years.

Verse ConceptsTen To Fourteen YearsJudging Israel

Hillel the Pirathonite's son Abdon governed Israel after him.

So God split a hollow place that's in Lehi, and water sprang out of it. After he had taken a drink, his strength returned, and he revived. That's why it was named "En-hakkore," which is in Lehi to this day.

Verse ConceptsSplitting RocksGod Providing WaterPartridgesPlaces To This Dayrevival

After this incident, he loved a woman in Sorek Valley whose name was Delilah.

Verse ConceptsLove, In RelationshipsMen And Women Who Loved

But the hair on his head began to grow again after it had been shaved off.

Verse ConceptsReinstatementLong HairHair GrowingGrowingHair

After they went into Micah's home and took possession of the carved image, the ephod, the household idols, and the cast image, the priest challenged them. "What are you doing?" he asked them.

Verse ConceptsHousehold GodsCarvingWhat Do You Do?

They renamed the city Dan, after the name of their ancestor Dan, who had been born in Israel. The former name of the city was Laish.

when her husband got up and went after her, intending to speak lovingly to her in order to win her back. He took with him his young man servant and a pair of donkeys. When she brought him into her father's house to see him, her father was happy to have met him.

Verse ConceptsPersuasion

After they entered the city, they had to sit down in the public square because no one would take them into their home for the night. Just then, an old man was coming out of the fields that evening from work. The man was from the mountainous region of Ephraim and had been staying in Gibeah, even though the men of that place were descendants of Benjamin.

Verse ConceptsEveningMen Working

Each of her sons married Moabite women: one named Orpah and the other named Ruth. After they lived there about ten years,

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningGood Wives ExamplesTen To Fourteen Years

I left here full, but the LORD brought me back empty. So why call me "Naomi'? After all, the LORD is against me, and the Almighty has broken me."

Verse ConceptsemptinessLossPessimismEmpty PeopleFilling PeopleTragedy

After she had left to glean, Boaz commanded his servants, "Allow her to glean also among the cut sheaves, and don't taunt her.

So get cleaned up, put on some perfume, dress up, and go to the threshing floor, but don't let him see you until after he's finished eating and drinking.

Verse ConceptsAnointing, Social CustomAnointing With OilOintmentPerfumeClothing OneselfOuter GarmentsAnointing OneselfClean FacesEating And DrinkingPeople Made Known

After Boaz had finished eating and drinking to his heart's content, he went over and lay down next to the pile of threshed grain. Ruth came in quietly, uncovered his feet, and lay down.

Verse ConceptsAlcohol ConsumptionLying Down To RestEating And Drinking

So I thought to myself I ought to tell you that you must make a public purchase of this before the town residents and the elders of my people. So if you intend to act as the related redeemer, then do so. But if not, let me know, because except for you and I after you there is no one to fulfill the duties of a related redeemer." The man responded, "I will act as related redeemer."

Verse ConceptsNegotiationKnowing Facts

Elkanah would do this year after year, as often as Hannah went up to the house of the LORD. Likewise, Peninnah would provoke her, and Hannah would cry and would not eat.

Verse ConceptsFasting, Reasons ForFasting, Nature OfdiseasesSuffering, Nature OfProvokingLost Appetite

Hannah got up after she had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the chair by the doorpost of the tent of the LORD.

Verse ConceptsDoorpostsHigh Priest, In OtPeople Sitting DownThe Temple At Shilohfinishing

After they moved it, the LORD moved against the town, causing a very great panic. He struck the men of the town, from young to old with tumors of the groin.