When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

When it was time for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

In the fourth year all its fruit will be holy, praise offerings to the Lord.

So you must love the resident foreigner because you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

You will be cursed when you come in and cursed when you go out.

In King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord as his ancestors had done.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.

All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

They agreed to make large seagoing merchant ships; they built the ships in Ezion Geber.

My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.

For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

No! You plan how to do what is unjust; you deal out violence in the earth.

Yet they continued to sin against him, and rebelled against the sovereign One in the desert.

They are sustained as they travel along; each one appears before God in Zion.

The depths of the earth are in his hand, and the mountain peaks belong to him.

You godly ones, rejoice in the Lord! Give thanks to his holy name.

So he made a solemn vow that he would make them die in the desert,