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so that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow yourselves down to them,

For if you turn back, and join the survivors of these nations left here among you, and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things, until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.

but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I rescued you out of his hand.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

So Joshua sent the people away to their inheritances.

Judah said to his brother Simeon, "Come up with me into the territory allotted to me, that we may fight against the Canaanites; then I too will go with you into the territory allotted to you." So Simeon went with him.

Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

She said to him, "Give me a present; since you have set me in the land of the Negeb, give me also Gulloth-mayim." So Caleb gave her Upper Gulloth and Lower Gulloth.

Judah went with his brother Simeon, and they defeated the Canaanites who inhabited Zephath, and devoted it to destruction. So the city was called Hormah.

But the Benjaminites did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived in Jerusalem among the Benjaminites to this day.

So he showed them the way into the city; and they put the city to the sword, but they let the man and all his family go.

So the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city, and named it Luz; that is its name to this day.

So now I say, I will not drive them out before you; but they shall become adversaries to you, and their gods shall be a snare to you."

So they named that place Bochim, and there they sacrificed to the Lord .

So they buried him within the bounds of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers who plundered them, and he sold them into the power of their enemies all around, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel; and he said, "Because this people have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their ancestors, and have not obeyed my voice,

So the Israelites lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel son of Kenaz died.