Then she had yet another son, whom she named Shelah. She gave birth to him in Kezib.

Afterward his brother came out – the one who had the scarlet thread on his hand – and he was named Zerah.

one who casts spells, one who conjures up spirits, a practitioner of the occult, or a necromancer.

The Ammonites assembled and camped in Gilead; the Israelites gathered together and camped in Mizpah.

So Saul mustered all his army to go down to Keilah and besiege David and his men.

Jabez was more respected than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, for she said, “I experienced pain when I gave birth to him.”

“All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court – that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”

If I cry to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My Mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

“If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.

“As soon as the ear heard these things, it blessed me, and when the eye saw them, it bore witness to me,

“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security!’

A psalm by Asaph. El, God, the Lord speaks, and summons the earth to come from the east and west.

For he will rescue the needy when they cry out for help, and the oppressed who have no defender.

I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.

The sound of their voices shook the door frames, and the temple was filled with smoke.

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

Then the chief priests and the elders of the people met together in the palace of the high priest, who was named Caiaphas.

A man named Barabbas was imprisoned with rebels who had committed murder during an insurrection.

So Joseph sent a message and invited his father Jacob and all his relatives to come, seventy-five people in all.

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen one who sees me!”