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you, for your part, are not to make any covenant with the inhabitants of this land but must tear down their altars.' However, you have paid no attention to what I said. What is this you have done?

This is why I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they will be on your flanks, and their gods will become a snare for you.'"

But then Adonai raised up judges, who rescued them from the power of those who were plundering them.

Yet they did not pay attention to their judges, but made whores of themselves to other gods and worshipped them; they quickly turned away from the path on which their ancestors had walked, the way of obeying Adonai 's mitzvot — they failed to do this.

But after the judge died, they would relapse into worse behavior than that of their ancestors, following other gods to serve and worship them; they abandoned none of their practices or stubborn ways.

But when the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , Adonai raised up a savior for the people of Isra'el; and he rescued them; this was ‘Otni'el, the son of Kalev's younger brother K'naz.

But the people of Isra'el again did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai strengthened ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av against Isra'el, because they had done what was evil from Adonai 's perspective.

But when the people of Isra'el cried out to Adonai , Adonai raised up for them a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, from the tribe of Binyamin, a left-handed man. The people of Isra'el appointed him to take their tribute to ‘Eglon the king of Mo'av.

But he himself, after reaching the quarries at Gilgal, went back and said, "King, I have a secret message for you." The king commanded silence, and all his attendants withdrew.

They waited until they became embarrassed, but he still didn't open the doors of the upstairs room. So they took the key and opened them; and there before them lay their master, dead on the ground.

But while they were delaying, Ehud escaped — he passed beyond the quarries and arrived safely in Se‘irah.

But after Ehud had died, the people of Isra'el again did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective.

Barak answered her: "If you go with me, I'll go; but if you won't go with me, I won't go."

She replied, "Yes, I will gladly go with you; but the way you are doing it will bring you no glory; because Adonai will hand Sisra over to a woman." Then D'vorah set out and went with Barak to Kedesh.

But Barak pursued the chariots and the army all the way to Haroshet-HaGoyim. Sisra's entire army was put to the sword; not one man was left.

But when he was deeply asleep, Ya‘el the wife of Hever took a tent peg and a hammer in her hand, crept in to him quietly and drove the tent peg into his temple, right through to the ground; so that he died without waking up.

But why did you stay at the pens for the sheep, and listen to the shepherd's flute playing for the flocks? Concerning the divisions of Re'uven there were great searchings of heart.

"Kings came; they fought. Yes, the kings of Kena‘an fought at Ta‘anakh, by the waters of Megiddo; but they took no spoil of silver.

"May all your enemies perish like this, Adonai ; but may those who love him be like the sun going forth in its glory!" Then the land had rest for forty years.

But the people of Isra'el did what was evil from Adonai 's perspective, so Adonai handed them over to Midyan for seven years.