So the Lord God expelled him from the orchard in Eden to cultivate the ground from which he had been taken.

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

But the Lord’s angel called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.

So Pharaoh’s heart remained hard, and he did not release the Israelites, as the Lord had predicted through Moses.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When any man has a discharge from his body, his discharge is unclean.

They must not profane the holy offerings which the Israelites contribute to the Lord,

Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the Lord continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

If he consecrates his field in the jubilee year, the conversion value will stand,

We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

But the Lord took note and despised them because his sons and daughters enraged him.

Then the whole army safely returned to Joshua at the camp in Makkedah. No one dared threaten the Israelites.

The Gershonite clans received thirteen cities and their grazing areas.

Jephthah led Israel for six years; then he died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

Don’t consider your servant a wicked woman, for until now I have spoken from my deep pain and anguish.”

Now sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born to Ahinoam the Jezreelite.

and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah for the Lord’s sake.

He also made ten bronze movable stands. Each stand was six feet long, six feet wide, and four-and-a-half feet high.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh’s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.