Balak said to Balaam, “Come, please; I will take you to another place. Perhaps it will please God to let you curse them for me from there.”

He delivered us from there so that he could give us the land he had promised our ancestors.

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I am commanding you to do all this.

Caleb drove out from there three Anakites – Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.

It turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, extended from there to Hukok, touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the Jordan on the east.

Caleb received Hebron, just as Moses had promised. He drove out the three Anakites.

He went up from there to Penuel and made the same request. The men of Penuel responded the same way the men of Succoth had.

A man who was from there replied, “And who is their father?” Therefore this became a proverb: “Is even Saul among the prophets?”

So David left there and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of his father’s family learned about it, they went down there to him.

David brought the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son from there; they also gathered up the bones of those who had been executed.

Then Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed him king in Gihon. They went up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound you hear.

Next the king summoned Shimei and told him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there – but you may not leave there to go anywhere!

They sailed to Ophir, took from there four hundred twenty talents of gold, and then brought them to King Solomon.

Jeroboam built up Shechem in the Ephraimite hill country and lived there. From there he went out and built up Penuel.

Let’s go to the Jordan. Each of us will get a log from there and we will build a meeting place for ourselves there.” He said, “Go.”

They were worshiping the Lord and at the same time serving their own gods in accordance with the practices of the nations from which they had been deported.

Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the Lord’s holy items!

Many days later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to Perath and get the shorts I ordered you to bury there.”

They say to the people: “Journey over to Calneh and look at it! Then go from there to Hamath-Rabbah! Then go down to Gath of the Philistines! Are they superior to our two kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours?”

Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”