So Saul inquired of the Lord, but the Lord did not answer him – not by dreams nor by Urim nor by the prophets.

Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name was Mica. All the members of Ziba’s household were Mephibosheth’s servants.

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans.

The four wheels were under the frames and the crossbars of the axles were connected to the stand. Each wheel was two and one-quarter feet high.

He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

then listen from heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them back to the land you gave to their ancestors.

Hadad, who was only a small boy at the time, escaped with some of his father’s Edomite servants and headed for Egypt.

The king of Israel replied, “It is just as you say, my master, O king. I and all I own belong to you.”

The king asked them, “Describe the appearance of this man who came up to meet you and told you these things.”

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their sons in the fire as an offering to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

Now the Philistines fought against Israel. The Israelites fled before the Philistines and many of them fell dead on Mount Gilboa.

At that time, when David saw that the Lord responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Look how they are repaying us! They come to drive us out of our allotted land which you assigned to us!

But the Lord was unwilling to destroy David’s dynasty because of the promise he had made to give David a perpetual dynasty.

because it did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb on me, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes!

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident – who carry their god in their hands.

If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’

Now I was paying you close attention, yet there was no one proving Job wrong, not one of you was answering his statements!