They replied, “The Lord needs it.”

and endurance, character, and character, hope.

Therefore we must progress beyond the elementary instructions about Christ and move on to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,

“‘No lay person may eat anything holy. Neither a priest’s lodger nor a hired laborer may eat anything holy,

These are the Israelites, numbered according to their families. All those numbered in the camps, by their divisions, are 603,550.

Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel’s elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

The Lord’s messenger did not appear again to Manoah and his wife. After all this happened Manoah realized that the visitor had been the Lord’s messenger.

They stopped there, went inside the young Levite’s house (which belonged to Micah), and asked him how he was doing.

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

The Benjaminites heard that the Israelites had gone up to Mizpah. Then the Israelites said, “Explain how this wicked thing happened!”

That day the Benjaminites mustered from their cities twenty-six thousand sword-wielding soldiers, besides seven hundred well-trained soldiers from Gibeah.

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.

When David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan and David became bound together in close friendship. Jonathan loved David as much as he did his own life.

while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.

On all the walls around the temple, inside and out, he carved cherubs, palm trees, and flowers in bloom.

The woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a prophet and that the Lord really does speak through you.”

I will abandon this last remaining tribe among my people and hand them over to their enemies; they will be plundered and robbed by all their enemies,

He did what the Lord approved and followed in his ancestor David’s footsteps; he did not deviate to the right or the left.

They seized the Hagrites’ animals, including 50,000 camels, 250,000 sheep, and 2,000 donkeys. They also took captive 100,000 people.

The Lord put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.