The men of Israel marched out to fight Benjamin; they arranged their battle lines against Gibeah.

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.

David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, “Get everyone out of here!” So everyone left.

and took off after the prophet, whom he found sitting under an oak tree. He asked him, “Are you the prophet from Judah?” He answered, “Yes, I am.”

He said, “Capture them alive!” So they captured them alive and then executed all forty-two of them in the cistern at Beth Eked. He left no survivors.

and the men of Judah gave the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

Now there happened to be a Jewish man in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai. He was the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

Everyone was supposed to free their male and female Hebrew slaves. No one was supposed to keep a fellow Judean enslaved.

They all tore their clothes! Then each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

A man from the household of Levi married a woman who was a descendant of Levi.

“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

Whoever makes anything like it, to use as perfume, will be cut off from his people.”

“‘You must not steal, you must not tell lies, and you must not deal falsely with your fellow citizen.

“‘In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property.

If a man redeems part of his tithe, however, he must add one fifth to it.

So they said to one another, “Let’s appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”

Suppose a man marries a woman, has sexual relations with her, and then rejects her,

If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering.

Sometime later Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone.