Lord, be merciful to us! We wait for you. Give us strength each morning! Deliver us when distress comes.

You have brought all this on yourself, Israel, by deserting the Lord your God when he was leading you along the right path.

You have been the object of Israel’s hopes. You have saved them when they were in trouble. Why have you become like a resident foreigner in the land? Why have you become like a traveler who only stops in to spend the night?

For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.

At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

“Once during breeding season I saw in a dream that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled, and spotted.

At that time Judah left his brothers and stayed with an Adullamite man named Hirah.

I furthermore admonished your judges at that time that they should pay attention to issues among your fellow citizens and judge fairly, whether between one citizen and another or a citizen and a resident foreigner.

At that time we seized all his cities and put every one of them under divine judgment, including even the women and children; we left no survivors.

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

Moreover, at that same time the Lord commanded me to teach you statutes and ordinances for you to keep in the land which you are about to enter and possess.

At that same time the Lord said to me, “Carve out for yourself two stone tablets like the first ones and come up the mountain to me; also make for yourself a wooden ark.

At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.”

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites – all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

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

When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

So Edom has remained free from Judah’s control to this very day. At that same time Libnah also rebelled.

At that time King Hezekiah of Judah stripped the metal overlays from the doors of the Lord’s temple and from the posts which he had plated and gave them to the king of Assyria.