Then the Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Meeting Tent:

He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.

Some from Benjamin and Judah also came to David’s stronghold.

to give you thanks, and to tell about all your amazing deeds.

Look at them shake uncontrollably, like a woman writhing in childbirth.

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in your young wife –

I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, with richly colored fabric from Egypt.

How deserted will that once-famous city be, that city that was once filled with joy!

I will hand them over to Nebuchadnezzar and his troops, who want to kill them. But later on, people will live in Egypt again as they did in former times. I, the Lord, affirm it!”

All the men who assembled at the city gate agreed with Hamor and his son Shechem. Every male who assembled at the city gate was circumcised.

This is the law for the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering sacrifice,

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless.

“I have heard Moab’s taunts and the Ammonites’ insults. They taunted my people and verbally harassed those living in Judah.

The Lord said to Solomon:

Solomon worshiped the Sidonian goddess Astarte and the detestable Ammonite god Milcom.

At that time Jeroboam’s son Abijah became sick.

Zimri destroyed Baasha’s entire family, just as the Lord had predicted to Baasha through Jehu the prophet.

The Lord told him:

The Lord told him,

She went up and laid him down on the prophet’s bed. She shut the door behind her and left.