“The following tribes must stand to bless the people on Mount Gerizim when you cross the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

The Lord will afflict you in your knees and on your legs with painful, incurable boils – from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.

God’s messenger said to him, “Put the meat and unleavened bread on this rock, and pour out the broth.” Gideon did as instructed.

But his master said to him, “We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live. We will travel on to Gibeah.”

While they were still on their way, the following report reached David: “Absalom has killed all the king’s sons; not one of them is left!”

and he told them, “Take your master’s servants with you, put my son Solomon on my mule, and lead him down to Gihon.

King Solomon also built ships in Ezion Geber, which is located near Elat in the land of Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

The king of Israel replied, “Tell him the one who puts on his battle gear should not boast like one who is taking it off.”

Solomon sat on the Lord’s throne as king in place of his father David; he was successful and all Israel was loyal to him.

On the eighth day they held an assembly, for they had dedicated the altar for seven days and celebrated the festival for seven more days.

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Then the Levites – Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Kenani – stood on the steps and called out loudly to the LORD their God.

“You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

I will sing to my love – a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month:

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: