He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering.

The pig is unclean to you because its hoof is divided (the hoof is completely split in two), even though it does not chew the cud.

So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

including all the Arabah of the Transjordan in the east to the sea of the Arabah, beneath the watershed of Pisgah.)

They will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.

They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.

He said to them, “Why do you behave in this way? For I hear about these evil things from all these people.

So all Israel had to go down to the Philistines in order to get their plowshares, cutting instruments, axes, and sickles sharpened.

Jonathan once again took an oath with David, because he loved him. In fact Jonathan loved him as much as he did his own life.

So David went, accompanied by his six hundred men. When he came to the Wadi Besor, those who were in the rear stayed there.

When Abner, accompanied by twenty men, came to David in Hebron, David prepared a banquet for Abner and the men who were with him.

For the sake of your promise and according to your purpose you have done this great thing in order to reveal it to your servant.

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

You are my brothers – my very own flesh and blood! Why should you delay any further in bringing the king back?’

So Amasa went out to call Judah together. But in doing so he took longer than the time that the king had allotted him.

Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, wrote down what happened. Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was in charge of the records.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

So they yelled louder and, in accordance with their prescribed ritual, mutilated themselves with swords and spears until their bodies were covered with blood.

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

May the Lord God of Israel be praised, in the future and forevermore. Then all the people said, “We agree! Praise the Lord!”