The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.

So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house.

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.

When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

May God bless us! Then all the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves.

When a person’s ways are pleasing to the Lord, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.

Then he put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, and clothed him with the robe. Next he put the ephod on him and placed on him the decorated band of the ephod, and fastened the ephod closely to him with the band.

When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won’t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for this is the time when you can find him!”

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah’s son Joash and sneaked him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored. So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.

And Noah did all that God commanded him – he did indeed.

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives because of the floodwaters.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram, and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

So Sarah became pregnant and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.