5 It is not for your righteousness+ or for the uprightness of your heart+ that you are going in to take possession of their land; in fact, it is for the wickedness of these nations that Jehovah your God is driving them away from before you,+ and in order to carry out the word that Jehovah swore to your forefathers, Abraham,+ Isaac+ and Jacob.+

12 Then the men of Eʹphra·im were called together and crossed over northward and said to Jephʹthah: “Why is it that you crossed over to fight against the sons of Amʹmon, and to us you did not issue a call to go with you?+ Your very house we shall burn over you with fire.”+

15 And it came about on the fourth* day that they began to say to Samson’s wife: “Fool your husband that he may tell us the riddle.+ Otherwise we shall burn you and the house of your father with fire.+ Was it to take our possessions+ that YOU people invited us here?”

8 He that is sowing unrighteousness will reap what is hurtful,+ but the very rod of his fury will come to its end.+