Armed troops marched ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark blowing rams’ horns.

Their father asked them, “Which road did he take?” His sons showed him the road the prophet from Judah had taken.

They divided up the land between them; Ahab went one way and Obadiah went the other.

So Jacob went on his way and the angels of God met him.

“I am about to die. Be strong and become a man!

When Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had then returned,

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.

A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.

Look! The winter has passed, the winter rains are over and gone.

Those who live uprightly enter a place of peace; they rest on their beds.

When the men got up to leave, they looked out over Sodom. (Now Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

While Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that belonged to her father.

Now I understand that you have gone away because you longed desperately for your father’s house. Yet why did you steal my gods?”

So the princes of Moab departed and went back to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

Balaam got up and departed and returned to his home, and Balak also went his way.

Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.

Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

Now the boy Samuel was growing up and finding favor both with the Lord and with people.