For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him,

‘Some of your very own descendants whom you father will be taken away and will be made eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines descended), and the Caphtorites.

the clans of Kiriath Jearim – the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. (The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these groups.)

Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.

From Asher there were 40,000 warriors prepared for battle.

So David became famous in all the lands; the Lord caused all the nations to fear him.

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance to the city, while the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

But the king’s edict stood, despite Joab’s objections. So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem.

The first lot went to Asaph’s son Joseph and his relatives and sons – twelve in all, the second to Gedaliah and his relatives and sons – twelve in all,

and Asa went out to oppose him. They deployed for battle in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

Then a spirit stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’

King Cyrus of Persia entrusted them to Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar the leader of the Judahite exiles.

(They gave their word to send away their wives; their guilt offering was a ram from the flock for their guilt.)

and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

After them the men of Tekoa worked on another section, from opposite the great protruding tower to the wall of Ophel.

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king’s gate.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,