They said to one another, “Here comes this master of dreams!

returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy isn’t there! And I, where can I go?”

Then Judah said to Onan, “Have sexual relations with your brother’s wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her so that you may raise up a descendant for your brother.”

So when they came home to their father Reuel, he asked, “Why have you come home so early today?”

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt that he must release the Israelites from his land.”

He said to Moses, “I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

If its owner was with it, he will not have to pay; if it was hired, what was paid for the hire covers it.

If you do take the garment of your neighbor in pledge, you must return it to him by the time the sun goes down,

Now Jericho was shut tightly because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.

Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.

But a messenger came to Saul saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

David sent scouts and verified that Saul had indeed arrived.

Meanwhile David had gone to Mahanaim, while Absalom and all the men of Israel had crossed the Jordan River.

From the three he was given honor and he became their officer, even though he was not one of the three.

He received honor from the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

King David was very old; even when they covered him with blankets, he could not get warm.

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

Whenever the king visited the Lord’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties invaded the land at the beginning of the year.