Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Gideon said to God, “If you really intend to use me to deliver Israel, as you promised, then give me a sign as proof.

That night God did as he asked. Only the fleece was dry and the ground around it was covered with dew.

The Israelites did not remain true to the Lord their God, who had delivered them from all the enemies who lived around them.

God sent a spirit to stir up hostility between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem. He made the leaders of Shechem disloyal to Abimelech.

Then David said to Abigail, “Praised be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has sent you this day to meet me!

Then David prayed to God for the child and fasted. He would even go and spend the night lying on the ground.

I, the servant of my lord the king, give it all to the king!” Araunah also told the king, “May the Lord your God show you favor!”

Benaiah son of Jehoiada responded to the king: “So be it! May the Lord God of my master the king confirm it!

One night in Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream. God said, “Tell me what I should give you.”

God gave Solomon wisdom and very great discernment; the breadth of his understanding was as infinite as the sand on the seashore.

May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the Lord our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”

and had warned him about this very thing, so that he would not follow other gods. But he did not obey the Lord’s command.

God also brought against Solomon another enemy, Rezon son of Eliada who had run away from his master, King Hadadezer of Zobah.

But they did not pay attention and were as stubborn as their ancestors, who had not trusted the Lord their God.

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.

and she said to them: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the man who sent you to me: