Joshua and all Israel marched from Libnah to Lachish. He deployed his troops and fought against it.

He happened to see a solid jawbone of a donkey. He grabbed it and struck down a thousand men.

The priest said to them, “Go with confidence. The Lord will be with you on your mission.”

Again they wept loudly. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law goodbye, but Ruth clung tightly to her.

Make sure you pull out ears of grain for her and drop them so she can gather them up. Don’t tell her not to!”

So David assembled all the army and went to Rabbah and fought against it and captured it.

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

So he started back on another road; he did not travel back on the same road he had taken to Bethel.

But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands.

He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.

The people from Tyre who lived there were bringing fish and all kinds of merchandise and were selling it on the Sabbath to the people of Judah – and in Jerusalem, of all places!

Relent, let there be no falsehood; reconsider, for my righteousness is intact!

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

But it is said of Zion’s residents, “Each one of these was born in her, and the sovereign One makes her secure.”

So it is with the one who has sex with his neighbor’s wife; no one who touches her will escape punishment.

For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.

Better is a dry crust of bread where there is quietness than a house full of feasting with strife.

The Beloved’s Brothers: We have a little sister, and as yet she has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is spoken for?

How tragic that the once-faithful city has become a prostitute! She was once a center of justice, fairness resided in her, but now only murderers.

I am not angry. I wish I could confront some thorns and briers! Then I would march against them for battle; I would set them all on fire,