and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the country of Moab, near the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the wilderness.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks toward the wilderness.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord. The boy was dressed in a linen ephod.

Now the whole army entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.

Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.

So he had them stay with the king of Moab; they stayed with him the whole time that David was in the stronghold.

This sin caused Jeroboam’s dynasty to come to an end and to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

“Leave here and travel eastward. Hide out in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

So he did as the Lord told him; he went and lived in the Kerith Valley near the Jordan.

O Lord God, do not reject your chosen ones! Remember the faithful promises you made to your servant David!”

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man.

The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.

Who can uncover its outer covering? Who can penetrate to the inside of its armor?

I grind them as fine windblown dust; I beat them underfoot like clay in the streets.

My heart tells me to pray to you, and I do pray to you, O Lord.