And there are different results, but the same God who produces all of them in everyone.

Just as Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,

Now an intermediary is not for one party alone, but God is one.

“With God are wisdom and power; counsel and understanding are his.

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

He said, “I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.

Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”

You have the right to take what Chemosh your god gives you, but we will take the land of all whom the Lord our God has driven out before us.

and the lamp of God had not yet been extinguished. Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord as well; the ark of God was also there.

Too bad for us! Who can deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all sorts of plagues in the desert!

When all the people saw this, they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said, “The Lord is the true God! The Lord is the true God!”

They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.

So David again asked God what he should do. This time God told him, “Don’t march up after them; circle around them and come against them in front of the trees.

They brought the ark of God and put it in the middle of the tent David had pitched for it. Then they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

Please remember me for this, O my God, and do not wipe out the kindness that I have done for the temple of my God and for its services!

The nobles of the nations assemble, along with the people of the God of Abraham, for God has authority over the rulers of the earth. He is highly exalted!

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me.