Poor dear Egypt will be put to shame. She will be handed over to the people from the north.”

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

So the Lord spoke through the prophet Haggai as follows:

What follows is divine revelation. The word of the Lord came to Israel through Malachi:

David then sent out the army – a third under the leadership of Joab, a third under the leadership of Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under the leadership of Ittai the Gittite. The king said to the troops, “I too will indeed march out with you.”

Then she handed the tasty food and the bread she had made to her son Jacob.

But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go, not even under force.

So Aaron and his sons did all the things the Lord had commanded through Moses.

He laid his hands on him and commissioned him, just as the Lord commanded, by the authority of Moses.

These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority of Moses and Aaron.

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

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

Therefore the Lord brought us out of Egypt with tremendous strength and power, as well as with great awe-inspiring signs and wonders.

The land assignments to the nine-and-a-half tribes were made by drawing lots, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.

The Lord was furious with Israel and turned them over to the Philistines and Ammonites.

Now at your own discretion, O king, come down. Delivering him into the king’s hand will be our responsibility.”

He put his brother Abishai in charge of the rest of the army and they were deployed against the Ammonites.

In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.