When Samuel turned to leave, Saul grabbed the edge of his robe and it tore.

The king said, “Turn aside and take your place here.” So he turned aside and waited.

Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

and Saul threw the spear, thinking, “I’ll nail David to the wall!” But David escaped from him on two different occasions.

He turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

The king of Babylon made Mattaniah, Jehoiachin’s uncle, king in Jehoiachin’s place. He renamed him Zedekiah.

He did not seek the Lord’s guidance, so the Lord killed him and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

Then all the people returned to their homes, and David went to pronounce a blessing on his family.

He turned away from them and wept. When he turned around and spoke to them again, he had Simeon taken from them and tied up before their eyes.

So God brought the people around by the way of the desert to the Red Sea, and the Israelites went up from the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

Then he turned from those who were nearby to someone else and asked the same question, but they gave him the same answer as before.

But the king said, “Let him go over to his own house. He may not see my face.” So Absalom went over to his own house; he did not see the king’s face.

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

Then the king turned around and pronounced a blessing over the whole Israelite assembly as they stood there.

Then Israel went through the desert and bypassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab. They traveled east of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon River; they did not go through Moabite territory (the Arnon was Moab’s border).

Then Samuel got up early to meet Saul the next morning. But Samuel was informed, “Saul has gone to Carmel where he is setting up a monument for himself. Then Samuel left and went down to Gilgal.”

Then the king said to Doeg, “You turn and strike down the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite turned and struck down the priests. He killed on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

Amasa was squirming in his own blood in the middle of the path, and this man had noticed that all the soldiers stopped. Having noticed that everyone who came across Amasa stopped, the man pulled him away from the path and into the field and threw a garment over him.

So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, “I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, pouted, and would not eat.