Now before the spies went to sleep, Rahab went up to the roof.

Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

Many times he delivered them, but they had a rebellious attitude, and degraded themselves by their sin.

There are four things on earth that are small, but they are exceedingly wise:

Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

They are with Saul and the whole Israelite army in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

They told David, “The Philistines are fighting in Keilah and are looting the threshing floors.”

His words are as smooth as butter, but he harbors animosity in his heart. His words seem softer than oil, but they are really like sharp swords.

But they rebelled and offended his holy Spirit, so he turned into an enemy and fought against them.

Has a nation ever changed its gods (even though they are not really gods at all)? But my people have exchanged me, their glorious God, for a god that cannot help them at all!

“Yet your people say, ‘The behavior of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their behavior that is not right.

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

But they do not know what the Lord is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: “Stop! Stop!” – but no one turns back.

So Naomi returned, accompanied by her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth, who came back with her from the region of Moab. (Now they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.)

As they were going up the ascent to the town, they met some girls coming out to draw water. They said to them, “Is this where the seer is?”

Then Samuel brought Saul and his servant into the room and gave them a place at the head of those who had been invited. There were about thirty people present.

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.