Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

Isn’t this David, of whom they sang as they danced, ‘Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands’?”

Solomon demonstrated his loyalty to the Lord by following the practices of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.

The inner sanctuary was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. He plated it with gold, as well as the cedar altar.

King Baasha of Israel attacked Judah and established Ramah as a military outpost to prevent anyone from leaving or entering the land of King Asa of Judah.

David supplied a large amount of iron for the nails of the doors of the gates and for braces, more bronze than could be weighed,

They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the Lord, numbered two hundred eighty-eight.

The eleventh, assigned the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. His division consisted of 24,000 men.

So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things.

So Amaziah dismissed the troops that had come to him from Ephraim and sent them home. They were very angry at Judah and returned home incensed.

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

he said to take back this answer to Esther:

Guide me into your truth and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.

For this reason every one of your faithful followers should pray to you while there is a window of opportunity. Certainly when the surging water rises, it will not reach them.

By day the Lord decrees his loyal love, and by night he gives me a song, a prayer to the living God.

He brings an end to wars throughout the earth; he shatters the bow and breaks the spear; he burns the shields with fire.

when you deliver my life from death. You keep my feet from stumbling, so that I might serve God as I enjoy life.

“Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous.”

At that time you will say: “Praise the Lord! Ask him for help! Publicize his mighty acts among the nations! Make it known that he is unique!