The Lord again spoke to Ahaz:

You delivered your people by your strength – the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah)

(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

All the people who were directly descended from Jacob numbered seventy. But Joseph was already in Egypt,

Jephthah sent messengers back to the Ammonite king

Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.

During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt. An Egyptian named Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard, purchased him from the Ishmaelites who had brought him there.

Now Joseph was 30 years old when he began serving Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph was commissioned by Pharaoh and was in charge of all the land of Egypt.

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

I will go down with you to Egypt and I myself will certainly bring you back from there. Joseph will close your eyes.”

Then the angel of the Lord went farther, and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn either to the right or to the left.

“The following tribes must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

So David asked the Lord once again. But again the Lord replied, “Arise, go down to Keilah, for I will give the Philistines into your hand.”

Ahab also made an Asherah pole; he did more to anger the Lord God of Israel than all the kings of Israel who were before him.

From the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah. The sons of Asaph were supervised by Asaph, who prophesied under the king’s supervision.

They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to the servant who was over his household, “Pursue the men at once! When you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid good with evil?

Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God make the army a hundred times larger right before the eyes of my lord the king! But why does my master the king want to do this?”