Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

After a while, the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

Obadiah said, “What sin have I committed that you are ready to hand your servant over to Ahab for execution?

But Elijah said, “As certainly as the Lord who rules over all lives (whom I serve), I will make an appearance before him today.”

Then Elijah told Ahab, “Go on up and eat and drink, for the sound of a heavy rainstorm can be heard.”

But Micaiah said, “As certainly as the Lord lives, I will say what the Lord tells me to say.”

When the chariot commanders realized he was not the king of Israel, they turned away from him.

He replied, “Don’t be afraid, for our side outnumbers them.”

But when they went to bury her, they found nothing left but the skull, feet, and palms of the hands.

It was handed over to the foremen who used it to repair the Lord’s temple.

Instead you must worship the Lord your God; then he will rescue you from the power of all your enemies.”

For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this.

Do not audit the foremen who disburse the silver, for they are honest.”

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem.

Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. Sheshan had an Egyptian servant named Jarha.

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.”

They would spend the night in their posts all around God’s sanctuary, for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

Some of them were in charge of the articles used by those who served; they counted them when they brought them in and when they brought them out.

The musicians and Levite family leaders stayed in rooms at the sanctuary and were exempt from other duties, for day and night they had to carry out their assigned tasks.

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.