The king summoned all the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem.

“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

He is wise in heart and mighty in strength – who has resisted him and remained safe?

“As for you, if you prove faithful, and if you stretch out your hands toward him,

You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

Why do you contend against him, that he does not answer all a person’s words?

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?

Those who look to him for help are happy; their faces are not ashamed.

for he is too proud to recognize and give up his sin.

The one who digs a pit will fall into it; the one who rolls a stone – it will come back on him.

The king sent a captain and his fifty soldiers to retrieve Elijah. The captain went up to him, while he was sitting on the top of a hill. He told him, “Prophet, the king says, ‘Come down!’”

The Lord said to him, “Take for me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a dove and a young pigeon.”

The Lord appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

“Be careful never to take my son back there!” Abraham told him.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, “and room for you to spend the night.”

The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Come here and kiss me, my son.”