No king before or after repented before the Lord as he did, with his whole heart, soul, and being in accordance with the whole law of Moses.

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the trees, then attack. For at that moment the Lord is going before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”

As the ark of the Lord’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him.

As for the Hebronites: Jeriah was the leader of the Hebronites according to the genealogical records. In the fortieth year of David’s reign, they examined the records and discovered there were highly respected men in Jazer in Gilead.

He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build my temple and my courts, for I have chosen him to become my son and I will become his father.

Asa was so angry at the prophet, he put him in jail. Asa also oppressed some of the people at that time.

He placed the men at their posts, each holding his weapon in his hand. They lined up from the south side of the temple to the north side and stood near the altar and the temple, surrounding the king.

Ahaz gathered riches from the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and the officials and gave them to the king of Assyria, but that did not help.

The Lord was angry at Judah and Jerusalem and made them an appalling object of horror at which people hiss out their scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.

The singers: the descendants of Asaph: 128.

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;

the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;

The singers: the descendants of Asaph, 148.

and his followers, Gabbai and Sallai – 928 in all.

And so Job died, old and full of days.

By David. To you, O Lord, I cry out! My protector, do not ignore me! If you do not respond to me, I will join those who are descending into the grave.

I rashly declared, “All men are liars.”

Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all transgressions.

For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.