Moses said to them, “Have you allowed all the women to live?

The men of the city, the leaders and the nobles who lived there, followed the written orders Jezebel had sent them.

Then the Lord said to me, “When you tell them all this, they will not listen to you. When you call out to them, they will not respond to you.

So I, the Lord, say this: ‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.

The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and hard-hearted, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says.’

He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:

When Joseph came to them in the morning, he saw that they were looking depressed.

When the messengers returned to the king, he asked them, “Why have you returned?”

Jeremiah answered them, “Tell Zedekiah

When she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.

So I said to them: “The word of the Lord came to me:

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Now Joseph’s brothers saw him from a distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him.

Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.

He said to them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Even Ephraim’s leftover grapes are better quality than Abiezer’s harvest!

Jonathan replied, “All right! We’ll go over to these men and fight them.

He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him. The king listened to their advice.

So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.

He spoke to them from a pillar of cloud; they obeyed his regulations and the ordinance he gave them.