You must investigate thoroughly and inquire carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing is being done among you,

However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

A person of illegitimate birth may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation no one related to him may do so.

Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the Lord your God as a freewill offering.

So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they assigned Hebron (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Libnah,

But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”

At that time, Naomi, her mother-in-law, said to her, “My daughter, I must find a home for you so you will be secure.

Now Saul was sitting under a pomegranate tree in Migron, on the outskirts of Gibeah. The army that was with him numbered about six hundred men.

We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.”

He stretched out and fell asleep under the shrub. All of a sudden an angelic messenger touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”

I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among those who want to devour me; men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are a sharp sword.

All the relatives of a poor person hate him; how much more do his friends avoid him – he pursues them with words, but they do not respond.

for it is better for him to say to you, “Come up here,” than to put you lower before a prince, whom your eyes have seen.

For look, the Lord comes with fire, his chariots come like a windstorm, to reveal his raging anger, his battle cry, and his flaming arrows.

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like broken clay pots, made by a potter.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Their wicked deeds do not allow them to return to their God; because a spirit of idolatry controls their heart, and they do not acknowledge the Lord.

It will happen in one day (a day known to the Lord); not in the day or the night, but in the evening there will be light.

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?

A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road. Others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.