When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

So David’s friend Hushai arrived in the city, just as Absalom was entering Jerusalem.

And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

For I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to wage war; the city will be taken, its houses plundered, and the women raped. Then half of the city will go into exile, but the remainder of the people will not be taken away.

and Resen, which is between Nineveh and the great city Calah.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

So the Lord scattered them from there across the face of the entire earth, and they stopped building the city.

Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

Jacob’s sons killed them and looted the city because their sister had been violated.

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

And he told the army, “Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

(Now the city’s fields and surrounding towns they had assigned to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his property.)

When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),

When Zebul, the city commissioner, heard the words of Gaal son of Ebed, he was furious.

So all the men of Israel gathered together at the city as allies.

The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush sent up a smoke signal from the city,