Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the cakes into the bedroom; then I will eat from your hand.” So Tamar took the cakes that she had prepared and brought them to her brother Amnon in the bedroom.

O Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt no one can really stand before you.”

So they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified – see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name. Look, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood on us!”

They said, “My lord, we did indeed come down the first time to buy food.

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Your father and your brothers have come to you.

“These are the decisions that you will set before them:

This is the offering you are to accept from them: gold, silver, bronze,

It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

When the army came back to the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s take with us the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh. When it is with us, it will save us from the hand of our enemies.

One of his advisers replied, “Pick some men and have them take five of the horses that are left in the city. (Even if they are killed, their fate will be no different than that of all the Israelite people – we’re all going to die!) Let’s send them out so we can know for sure what’s going on.”

I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;

I will serve the Lord in the land of the living.

I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!

For too long I have had to reside with those who hate peace.

Indeed, the leaders sit there on thrones and make legal decisions, on the thrones of the house of David.

A worthless and wicked person walks around saying perverse things;

The word of the Lord who rules over all came to me as follows:

Show me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought him a denarius.

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.