After Jehoiada died, the officials of Judah visited the king and declared their loyalty to him. The king listened to their advice.

For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear.

Only in two things spare me, O God, and then I will not hide from your face:

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

Then I say, “Look! I come! What is written in the scroll pertains to me.

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

Let the fields and everything in them celebrate! Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy

The Beloved: I was a wall, and my breasts were like fortress towers. Then I found favor in his eyes.

“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

He upheld the cause of the poor and needy. So things went well for Judah.’ The Lord says, ‘That is a good example of what it means to know me.’

Then I will make their waters calm, and will make their streams flow like olive oil, declares the sovereign Lord.

And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.

So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen. (Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

You will be free from your oath if you go to my relatives and they will not give her to you. Then you will be free from your oath.’

(and I myself will walk in hostility against them and bring them into the land of their enemies), and then their uncircumcised hearts become humbled and they make up for their iniquity,

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army until no survivors remained.

Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.

God chose new leaders, then fighters appeared in the city gates; but, I swear, not a shield or spear could be found, among forty military units in Israel.

Hear the sound of those who divide the sheep among the watering places; there they tell of the Lord’s victorious deeds, the victorious deeds of his warriors in Israel. Then the Lord’s people went down to the city gates –

Kings came, they fought; the kings of Canaan fought, at Taanach by the waters of Megiddo, but they took no silver as plunder.