Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

He allowed the hungry to settle there, and they established a city in which to live.

even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry so that I may speak! What if thirty are found there?” He replied, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.”

Look, this town over here is close enough to escape to, and it’s just a little one. Let me go there. It’s just a little place, isn’t it? Then I’ll survive.”

Run there quickly, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

He then said, “Look, I hear that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy grain for us so that we may live and not die.”

He cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. When Moses threw it into the water, the water became safe to drink. There the Lord made for them a binding ordinance, and there he tested them.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

“This will be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.

Then the entire community of Israel entered the wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh. Miriam died and was buried there.

“During those days the Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-Yaaqan to Moserah. There Aaron died and was buried, and his son Eleazar became priest in his place.

But you must seek only the place he chooses from all your tribes to establish his name as his place of residence, and you must go there.

for you may do so only in the place the Lord chooses in one of your tribal areas – there you may do everything I am commanding you.

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family learned about it, they went down there to him.

The Lord was so furious with Uzzah, he killed him on the spot for his negligence. He died right there beside the ark of God.

The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed.

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!