You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.

So now, go back where you came from! I said that I would greatly honor you; but now the Lord has stood in the way of your honor.”

Next we set out on the route to Bashan, but King Og of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.

You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.

She said, “Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the Lord.

Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?” David replied, “I am the son of your servant Jesse in Bethlehem.”

When the time came for Merab, Saul’s daughter, to be given to David, she instead was given in marriage to Adriel, who was from Meholah.

The three sons of Zeruiah were there – Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. (Now Asahel was as quick on his feet as one of the gazelles in the field.)

Now Joab returned from chasing Abner and assembled all the people. Nineteen of David’s soldiers were missing, in addition to Asahel.

When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David’s soldiers fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible.

All the people of the land celebrated, for the city had rest now that they had killed Athaliah with the sword in the royal palace.

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting that you would dare to rebel against me?

I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’

All these were the sons of Jediael. Listed in their genealogical records were 17,200 family leaders and warriors who were capable of marching out to battle.

So David did not move the ark to the City of David; he left it in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite.

Only may the Lord give you insight and understanding when he places you in charge of Israel, so you may obey the law of the Lord your God.

(This is a copy of the letter they sent to him:) “To King Artaxerxes, from your servants in Trans-Euphrates:

You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.