And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

They traveled from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon; and they camped before Migdal.

This very day I will begin to fill all the people of the earth with dread and to terrify them when they hear about you. They will shiver and shake in anticipation of your approach.”

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

But I will certainly hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they will have done by turning to other gods.

He said, “I will reject them, I will see what will happen to them; for they are a perverse generation, children who show no loyalty.

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half of Ammonite territory as far as Aroer near Rabbah.

The border of Manasseh went from Asher to Micmethath which is near Shechem. It then went south toward those who live in Tappuah.

Their border went up westward to Maralah and touched Dabbesheth and the valley near Jokneam.

but Hannah did not go up with them. Instead she told her husband, “Once the boy is weaned, I will bring him and appear before the Lord, and he will remain there from then on.”

Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of Eli the priest.

The sin of these young men was very great in the Lord’s sight, for they treated the Lord’s offering with contempt.

Don’t ever cut off your loyalty to my family, not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth

So Saul took three thousand select men from all Israel and went to find David and his men in the region of the rocks of the mountain goats.

The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Isn’t David hiding on the hill of Hakilah near Jeshimon?”

So Abner spoke again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me! I do not want to strike you to the ground. How then could I show my face in the presence of Joab your brother?”

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel’s best men and deployed them against the Arameans.

In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”

His wife then took the covering and spread it over the top of the well and scattered some grain over it. No one was aware of what she had done.

The battle there was spread out over the whole area, and the forest consumed more soldiers than the sword devoured that day.