The remnant of Benjamin must be preserved. An entire Israelite tribe should not be wiped out.

When the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

Later the king of the Ammonites died and his son Hanun succeeded him.

The sons of Zerah: Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Kalkol, Dara – five in all.

The sons of Jada, Shammai’s brother: Jether and Jonathan. (Jether died without having sons.)

Listen carefully to the thunder of his voice, to the rumbling that proceeds from his mouth.

In your large assemblies praise God, the Lord, in the assemblies of Israel!

But God has been my king from ancient times, performing acts of deliverance on the earth.

Even Assyria has allied with them, lending its strength to the descendants of Lot. (Selah)

He brought them out of the utter darkness, and tore off their shackles.

The Lord extends your dominion from Zion. Rule in the midst of your enemies!

The fear of the Lord provides wise instruction, and before honor comes humility.

A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Haughty eyes and a proud heart – the agricultural product of the wicked is sin.

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.

Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.

And which of you by worrying can add even one hour to his life?

For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,