Samaria and its king will be carried off like a twig on the surface of the waters.

But the Lord is in his majestic palace. The whole earth is speechless in his presence!”

“I will destroy everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Now Joshua was dressed in filthy clothes as he stood there before the angel.

When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord.

Nadab and Abihu died before the Lord when they offered strange fire before the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai, and they had no children. So Eleazar and Ithamar ministered as priests in the presence of Aaron their father.

As for the Lord your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the Lord has said.

They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, “The Lord told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.” So Joshua assigned them land among their uncles, as the Lord had commanded.

So David said, “Good! I will make an agreement with you. I ask only one thing from you. You will not see my face unless you bring Saul’s daughter Michal when you come to visit me.”

‘You displayed a sensitive spirit and humbled yourself before God when you heard his words concerning this place and its residents. You humbled yourself before me, tore your clothes and wept before me, and I have heard you,’ says the Lord.

Now, O Lord, God of Israel, keep the promise you made to your servant, my father David, when you said, ‘You will never fail to have a successor ruling before me on the throne of Israel, provided that your descendants watch their step and serve me as you have done.’

Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

but with Cain and his offering he was not pleased. So Cain became very angry, and his expression was downcast.

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why is your expression downcast?

So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.