Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.

Warriors were scarce, they were scarce in Israel, until you arose, Deborah, until you arose as a motherly protector in Israel.

Abimelech chased him, and Gaal ran from him. Many Shechemites fell wounded at the entrance of the gate.

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

They surrounded the Benjaminites, chased them from Nohah, and annihilated them all the way to a spot east of Geba.

So she gathered grain in the field until evening. When she threshed what she had gathered, it came to about thirty pounds of barley!

So he said to her, “How often do you intend to get drunk? Put away your wine!”

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

Jonathan replied to Saul, “David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.

From that time onward it was a binding ordinance for Israel, right up to the present time.

for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

Look, I will be waiting at the fords of the desert until word from you reaches me.”

He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; he is faithful to his chosen ruler, to David and to his descendants forever!”

The young woman was very beautiful; she became the king’s nurse and served him, but the king did not have sexual relations with her.

But King Solomon will be empowered and David’s dynasty will endure permanently before the Lord.”

He said to them, “Go away for three days, then return to me.” So the people went away.

This caused Israel to sin; the people went to Bethel and Dan to worship the calves.