So they picked two horsemen and the king sent them out to track the Syrian army. He ordered them, “Go and find out what’s going on.”

Azariah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after the king had passed away.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

Later King Nahash of the Ammonites died and his son succeeded him.

Uzziah built up Elat and restored it to Judah after King Amaziah had passed away.

“And now what are we able to say after this, our God? For we have forsaken your commandments

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to the gods called Baal, as their fathers taught them to do.

But after I have uprooted the people of those nations, I will relent and have pity on them. I will restore the people of each of those nations to their own lands and to their own country.

But they just keep saying, ‘We do not care what you say! We will do whatever we want to do! We will continue to behave wickedly and stubbornly!’”

He sent it after King Jeconiah, the queen mother, the palace officials, the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the craftsmen, and the metal workers had been exiled from Jerusalem.

Then a wind lifted me up and I heard a great rumbling sound behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from its place,

“‘After all of your evil – “Woe! Woe to you!” declares the sovereign Lord –

I will do these things to you because you engaged in prostitution with the nations, polluting yourself with their idols.

Ephraim will be oppressed, crushed under judgment, because he was determined to pursue worthless idols.

He will roar like a lion, and they will follow the Lord; when he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.

Afterward David got up and went out of the cave. He called out after Saul, “My lord, O king!” When Saul looked behind him, David kneeled down and bowed with his face to the ground.

The length of time Adam lived after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had other sons and daughters.

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

Enosh lived 815 years after he became the father of Kenan, and he had other sons and daughters.