Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe.

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

“Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

(Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he rewarded them,

Jair the Gileadite rose up after him; he led Israel for twenty-two years.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told Samuel:

Then Esther replied to Hathach with instructions for Mordecai:

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

let him weigh me with honest scales; then God will discover my integrity.

“They are dismayed and cannot answer any more; they have nothing left to say.

Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.

so that the godless man should not rule, and not lay snares for the people.

when I made the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band,

Why do the nations rebel? Why are the countries devising plots that will fail?

You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

They are dividing up my clothes among themselves; they are rolling dice for my garments.

By David. O Lord, I come before you in prayer.

I am safe, and among the worshipers I will praise the Lord.

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

All who pass by have robbed him; he has become an object of disdain to his neighbors.