After him Abdon son of Hillel the Pirathonite led Israel.

Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver.

As she continued praying to the Lord, Eli was watching her mouth.

The Lord impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, his eyes gleamed.

Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.

when David, along with his men, went out and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king’s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

Then David chanted this lament over Saul and his son Jonathan.

The Philistines again came up and spread out in the valley of Rephaim.

When the Ammonites realized that David was disgusted with them, they sent and hired 20,000 foot soldiers from Aram Beth Rehob and Aram Zobah, in addition to 1,000 men from the king of Maacah and 12,000 men from Ish-tob.

The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”

Then David went to his palace in Jerusalem. The king took the ten concubines he had left to care for the palace and placed them under confinement. Though he provided for their needs, he did not have sexual relations with them. They remained in confinement until the day they died, living out the rest of their lives as widows.

From the brightness in front of him came coals of fire.

The Lord thundered from the sky; the sovereign One shouted loudly.

They confronted me in my day of calamity, but the Lord helped me.

Solomon made an alliance by marriage with Pharaoh, king of Egypt; he married Pharaoh’s daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he could finish building his residence and the temple of the Lord and the wall around Jerusalem.

He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple. Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub’s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub’s wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub’s other wing touched the second cherub’s other wing in the middle of the room.

The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

Hiram had sent to the king one hundred twenty talents of gold.

So Israel has been in rebellion against the Davidic dynasty to this very day.