She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”

and went after the Israelite man into the tent and thrust through the Israelite man and into the woman’s abdomen. So the plague was stopped from the Israelites.

Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David also went out and confronted them at the pool of Gibeon. One group stationed themselves on one side of the pool, and the other group on the other side of the pool.

After the men had left, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well. Then they left and informed King David. They advised David, “Get up and cross the stream quickly, for Ahithophel has devised a plan to catch you.”

The armies were deployed opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day the battle began, and the Israelites killed 100,000 Syrian foot soldiers in one day.

Samaria’s food supply ran out. They laid siege to it so long that a donkey’s head was selling for eighty shekels of silver and a quarter of a kab of dove’s droppings for five shekels of silver.

Then the apostles and elders, with the whole church, decided to send men chosen from among them, Judas called Barsabbas and Silas, leaders among the brothers, to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas.

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family.

And by the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was dry.

Lot chose for himself the whole region of the Jordan and traveled toward the east. So the relatives separated from each other.

So the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house as they shut the door.

Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. The descendants of Dedan were the Asshurites, Letushites, and Leummites.

When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

He put the servants and their children in front, with Leah and her children behind them, and Rachel and Joseph behind them.

But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.

Intermarry with us. Let us marry your daughters, and take our daughters as wives for yourselves.

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.”