Abner said to David, “Let me leave so that I may go and gather all Israel to my lord the king so that they may make an agreement with you. Then you will rule over all that you desire.” So David sent Abner away, and he left in peace.

The one true God is my mighty refuge; he removes the obstacles in my way.

You widen my path; my feet do not slip.

He added, “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

Solomon took thirteen years to build his palace.

But the officer replied to the prophet, “Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?” Elisha said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”

Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.

An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.

But some men from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.

After this Manasseh built up the outer wall of the City of David on the west side of the Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate and all around the terrace; he made it much higher. He placed army officers in all the fortified cities in Judah.

They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things – wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.

For the Jews there was radiant happiness and joyous honor.

Look, you have instructed many; you have strengthened feeble hands.

And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

What man is like Job, who drinks derision like water!

Men of understanding say to me – any wise man listening to me says –

when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors,

when the waters become hard like stone, when the surface of the deep is frozen solid?

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.