There I will meet with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory.

Do two walk together without having met?

If he designated her for his son, then he will deal with her according to the customary rights of daughters.

If it is a matter of strength, most certainly he is the strong one! And if it is a matter of justice, he will say, ‘Who will summon me?’

For look, the kings assemble; they advance together.

Cut sharply on the right! Swing to the left, wherever your edge is appointed to strike.

When they blow them both, all the community must come to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting.

“But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.

But how can it rest when I, the Lord, have given it orders? I have ordered it to attack the people of Ashkelon and the seacoast.

Listen! The Lord is calling to the city! It is wise to respect your authority, O Lord! Listen, O nation, and those assembled in the city!

If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully with her.

“This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

“You are to put it in front of the curtain that is before the ark of the testimony (before the atonement lid that is over the testimony), where I will meet you.

You are to beat some of it very fine and put some of it before the ark of the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it is to be most holy to you.

I, the Lord, have said, “I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

Therefore you and all your company have assembled together against the Lord! And Aaron – what is he that you murmur against him?”

All these kings gathered and joined forces at the Waters of Merom to fight Israel.

Now King Solomon and all the Israelites who had assembled with him went on ahead of the ark and sacrificed more sheep and cattle than could be counted or numbered.