who ate the best of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise and help you; let them be your refuge!

So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find David and his men in the region of the rocks of the mountain goats.

The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite for three months. The Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his family.

The king asked him, “Where is he?” Ziba told the king, “He is at the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.

So David sent someone to inquire about the woman. The messenger said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?”

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria and attacked Shallum son of Jabesh. He killed him and took his place as king.

David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

In the third year of his reign he sent his officials Ben-Hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah to teach in the cities of Judah.

They appointed the priests by their divisions and the Levites by their divisions over the worship of God at Jerusalem, in accord with the book of Moses.

Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study is exhausting to the body.

“These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.

until I come and take you to a land just like your own – a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Tell them that the Lord, the God of Israel, says, ‘Anyone who does not keep the terms of the covenant will be under a curse.

Just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm. Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the Lord’s house. I noticed women sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

“Son of man, what is this proverb you have in the land of Israel, ‘The days pass slowly, and every vision fails’?

The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month:

In the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Then he measured the wall of the temple as 10½ feet, and the width of the side chambers as 7 feet, all around the temple.