So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers presented by those who had been burned up, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar.

“‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you are to have a holy assembly. You must humble yourselves; you must not do any work on it.

you must say to them, “We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt in a powerful way.

Fix these words of mine into your mind and being, and tie them as a reminder on your hands and let them be symbols on your forehead.

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

Joshua made a peace treaty with them and agreed to let them live. The leaders of the community sealed it with an oath.

Samson went and captured three hundred jackals and got some torches. He tied the jackals in pairs by their tails and then tied a torch to each pair.

He said, “Who are you?” She replied, “I am Ruth, your servant. Marry your servant, for you are a guardian of the family interests.”

Don’t keep speaking so arrogantly, letting proud talk come out of your mouth! For the Lord is a God who knows; he evaluates what people do.

The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.”

She arose, bowed her face toward the ground, and said, “Your female servant, like a lowly servant, will wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom had sex with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

So the Lord sent a plague through Israel from the morning until the completion of the appointed time. Seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beer Sheba.

Next the king summoned Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere!

So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty.

“You have with you the sons of your master, chariots and horses, a fortified city, and weapons. So when this letter arrives,

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

Solomon went up to the bronze altar before the Lord which was at the meeting tent, and he offered up a thousand burnt sacrifices.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

(This is a copy of the letter they sent to him:) “To King Artaxerxes, from your servants in Trans-Euphrates: