If God were to set his heart on it, and gather in his spirit and his breath,

The Lord’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!”

The Lord told him:

The Lord told him,

defiantly charging against him with a thick, strong shield!

You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him.

I cried out to him for help and praised him with my tongue.

When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he was almost blind, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son!” “Here I am!” Esau replied.

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?

Then his wife Jezebel came in and said to him, “Why do you have a bitter attitude and refuse to eat?”

The king sent another captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. He went up and told him, “Prophet, this is what the king says, ‘Come down at once!’”

Then they asked him, “Where is Sarah your wife?” He replied, “There, in the tent.”

The man asked him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”

But they exclaimed, “No, my lord! Your servants have come to buy grain for food!

But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies!

The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.”

God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

He asked me, ‘Who are you?’ I told him, ‘I’m an Amalekite.’

He then said to him, “Come home with me and eat something.”

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