Now once again there was war. So David went out to fight the Philistines. He defeated them thoroughly and they ran away from him.

But David struck them down from twilight until the following evening. None of them escaped, with the exception of four hundred young men who got away on camels.

Your hands were not bound, and your feet were not put into irons. You fell the way one falls before criminals.” All the people wept over him again.

The army of Israel was defeated there by David’s men. The slaughter there was great that day – 20,000 soldiers were killed.

Under the rim all the way around it were round ornaments arranged in settings 15 feet long. The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with “The Sea.”

Therefore Naaman’s skin disease will afflict you and your descendants forever!” When Gehazi went out from his presence, his skin was as white as snow.

Jehu drove his chariot to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit Joram.)

Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of King Uzziah’s reign over Judah. He reigned for one month in Samaria.

David was thirsty and said, “How I wish someone would give me some water to drink from the cistern in Bethlehem near the city gate!”

and the men of Judah gave the battle cry. As the men of Judah gave the battle cry, the Lord struck down Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

This is what you must do. One third of you priests and Levites who are on duty during the Sabbath will guard the doors.

By David. The Lord delivers and vindicates me! I fear no one! The Lord protects my life! I am afraid of no one!

Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Exalt the one who rides on the clouds! For the Lord is his name! Rejoice before him!

I will favor the honest people of the land, and allow them to live with me. Those who walk in the way of integrity will attend me.

Grab me and rescue me from the power of foreigners, who speak lies, and make false promises.

So I decided to discern the benefit of wisdom and knowledge over foolish behavior and ideas; however, I concluded that even this endeavor is like trying to chase the wind!

So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile – like chasing the wind.

Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study is exhausting to the body.

So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”

This is what the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, says: “Go visit this administrator, Shebna, who supervises the palace, and tell him: