On that day the army struck down the Philistines from Micmash to Aijalon, and they became very tired.

He captured King Agag of the Amalekites alive, but he executed all Agag’s people ¹  with the sword.

He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions. ¹ 

After all this happened, the Lord afflicted him with an incurable intestinal disease. ¹ 

Your instructions are totally reliable; all your just regulations endure. ¹ 

For ¹  there is not one truly ²  righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

and the Lord has sent the people off to a distant place, and the very heart of the land is completely abandoned. ¹ 

Egypt is totally incapable of helping. ¹  For this reason I call her ‘Proud one ²  who is silenced.’” ³ 

I spelled out my law for him in great detail, but they regard it as something totally unknown ¹  to them!

Surely they will be totally consumed ¹  like ²  entangled thorn bushes, ³  like the drink of drunkards, ⁴  like very ⁵  dry stubble.

And people will settle there, and there will no longer be the threat of divine extermination – Jerusalem will dwell in security.

For whenever someone says, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” are you not merely human? ¹ 

For ¹  neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for ²  anything; the only thing that matters is a new creation! ³ 

Then Laban and Bethuel replied, “This is the Lord’s doing. ¹  Our wishes are of no concern. ² 

So Israel made a vow ¹  to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver ²  this people into our ³  hand, then we will utterly destroy ⁴  their cities.”

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them ¹  under divine judgment, ²  including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

We put all of these under divine judgment ¹  just as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon – every occupied city, ²  including women and children.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ¹  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ²  Hazor.

My countrymen ¹  who accompanied ²  me frightened the people, ³  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁴ 

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them. ¹