so that what you can be proud of may increase because of me in Christ Jesus, when I come back to you.

If it accepts your terms and submits to you, all the people found in it will become your slaves.

They assigned them Shechem (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer,

The four head gatekeepers, who were Levites, were assigned to guard the storerooms and treasuries in God’s sanctuary.

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

He showed me this: I saw the sovereign One standing by a tin wall holding tin in his hand.

Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

Everyone with me greets you. Greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

and whether the land they live in is good or bad, and whether the cities they inhabit are like camps or fortified cities,

See, I have given the Levites all the tithes in Israel for an inheritance, for their service which they perform – the service of the tent of meeting.

The king of Arad, the Canaanite king who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard about the approach of the Israelites.

He buried him in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

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.

For the music director; a psalm of David. In you, O Lord, I have taken shelter! Never let me be humiliated! Vindicate me by rescuing me!

You hide them with you, where they are safe from the attacks of men; you conceal them in a shelter, where they are safe from slanderous attacks.

“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”

Do not ignore me in my time of trouble! Listen to me! When I call out to you, quickly answer me!