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Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Will he esteem thy riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.
But the men that went up with him said, We be not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.
For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
And all the city was gathered together at the door.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?
And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
And thirty and six thousand beeves,
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them.
And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the LORD.
And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually.
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.
And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
