Listen, you Israelites, to this message which the Lord is proclaiming against you! This message is for the entire clan I brought up from the land of Egypt:

At that time,” the Lord says, “I will destroy the wise sages of Edom! the advisers from Esau’s mountain!

who has become a priest not by a legal regulation about physical descent but by the power of an indestructible life.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s servant, bore to Abraham.

and you are to make for the breastpiece two gold rings and attach the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.

and they made two gold filigree settings and two gold rings, and they attached the two rings to the upper two ends of the breastpiece.

“Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed as the people looked on.

The men of Israel (not counting Benjamin) had mustered four hundred thousand sword-wielding soldiers, every one an experienced warrior.

Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.

I grind them as fine as the dust of the ground; I crush them and stomp on them like clay in the streets.

(Hiram’s fleet, which carried gold from Ophir, also brought from Ophir a very large quantity of fine timber and precious gems.

He will hand Israel over to their enemies because of the sins which Jeroboam committed and which he made Israel commit.”

Then Elijah told Ahab, “Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.”

He picked up Elijah’s cloak, which had fallen off him, and went back and stood on the shore of the Jordan.

He did not seek the Lord’s guidance, so the Lord killed him and transferred the kingdom to David son of Jesse.

Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

So the Israelites who were present observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.

For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

to the land of utter darkness, like the deepest darkness, and the deepest shadow and disorder, where even the light is like darkness.”