Bread made without yeast must be eaten for seven days; no bread made with yeast shall be seen among you, and you must have no yeast among you within any of your borders.

And now, I am about to go back to my own people. Come now, and I will advise you as to what this people will do to your people in the future.”

In your distress when all these things happen to you in the latter days, if you return to the Lord your God and obey him

The Lord commanded us to obey all these statutes and to revere him so that it may always go well for us and he may preserve us, as he has to this day.

For the Lord your God has chosen them and their sons from all your tribes to stand and serve in his name permanently.

As for the produce of your land and all your labor, a people you do not know will consume it, and you will be nothing but oppressed and crushed for the rest of your lives.

He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power and so you might always obey the Lord your God.”

After some time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, thinking, “I asked the Lord for him.

Now I dedicate him to the Lord. From this time on he is dedicated to the Lord.” Then they worshiped the Lord there.

His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.

You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.

Then I will raise up for myself a faithful priest. He will do what is in my heart and soul. I will build for him a secure dynasty and he will serve my chosen one for all time.

It was quite a long time – some twenty years in all – that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people of Israel longed for the Lord.

So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

Saul became even more afraid of him. Saul continued to be at odds with David from then on.

David stayed in the strongholds that were in the desert and in the hill country of the desert of Ziph. Saul looked for him all the time, but God did not deliver David into his hand.

David was king in Hebron over the people of Judah for seven and a half years.

But Absalom fled and went to King Talmai son of Ammihud of Geshur. And David grieved over his son every day.

Now the people were offering sacrifices at the high places, because in those days a temple had not yet been built to honor the Lord.

Then they will obey you throughout their lifetimes as they live on the land you gave to our ancestors.