Now I mean that the heir, as long as he is a minor, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything.

I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.

Now, as certainly as the Lord lives (he who made me secure, allowed me to sit on my father David’s throne, and established a dynasty for me as he promised), Adonijah will be executed today!”

Elijah said to him, “Elisha, stay here, for the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

Elijah said to him, “Stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” But he replied, “As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you.” So they traveled on together.

This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

As smoke is driven away by the wind, so you drive them away. As wax melts before fire, so the wicked are destroyed before God.

just as also you have partly understood us, that we are your source of pride just as you also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

The Lord your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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.

as well as wine that makes people feel so good, and so they can have oil to make their faces shine, as well as food that sustains people’s lives.

When they left Egypt, Israel traveled through the desert as far as the Red Sea and then came to Kadesh.

He said, “Go and ask all your neighbors for empty containers. Get as many as you can.

As for me, I know that my Redeemer lives, and that as the last he will stand upon the earth.

He does not deal with us as our sins deserve; he does not repay us as our misdeeds deserve.

He will speak for you to the people, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were his God.

And your raised offering will be credited to you as though it were grain from the threshing floor or as new wine from the winepress.

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

The messengers journeyed from city to city through the land of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun, but people mocked and ridiculed them.

But exhort one another each day, as long as it is called “Today,” that none of you may become hardened by sin’s deception.