so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab as the Lord had said.

The mountains trembled before the Lord, the God of Sinai; before the Lord God of Israel.

The Israelites did evil in the Lord’s sight, so the Lord turned them over to Midian for seven years.

The Lord’s messenger appeared and said to him, “The Lord is with you, courageous warrior!”

Now Samuel did not yet know the Lord; the word of the Lord had not yet been revealed to him.

Why haven’t you obeyed the Lord? Instead you have greedily rushed upon the plunder! You have done what is wrong in the Lord’s estimation.”

Now the Spirit of the Lord had turned away from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him.

May the Lord judge between the two of us, and may the Lord vindicate me over you, but my hand will not be against you.

David was afraid of the Lord that day and said, “How will the ark of the Lord ever come to me?”

Perhaps the Lord will notice my affliction and this day grant me good in place of his curse.”

Solomon did evil in the Lord’s sight; he did not remain loyal to the Lord, like his father David had.

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out from before the Israelites.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my home.”

He abandoned the Lord God of his ancestors and did not follow the Lord’s instructions.

Then a spirit stepped forward and stood before the Lord. He said, ‘I will deceive him.’ The Lord asked him, ‘How?’

They assembled their brothers and consecrated themselves. Then they went in to purify the Lord’s temple, just as the king had ordered, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations whom the Lord drove out ahead of the Israelites.

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, about which the Lord had said, “Jerusalem will be my permanent home.”