Their relatives, listed according to their families, included Michael, Meshullam, Sheba, Jorai, Jacan, Zia, and Eber – seven in all.

These were the family leaders listed in the genealogical records; they lived in Jerusalem.

Each day men came to help David until his army became very large.

David said to Gad, “I am very upset! I prefer to be attacked by the Lord, for his mercy is very great; I do not want to be attacked by men!”

Solomon left the meeting tent at the worship center in Gibeon and went to Jerusalem, where he reigned over Israel.

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple and the royal palace, and accomplished all his plans for the Lord’s temple and his royal palace,

She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn’t hear even half the story! Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.

He commanded them: “Carry out your duties with respect for the Lord, with honesty, and with pure motives.

During Jehoram’s reign Edom freed themselves from Judah’s control and set up their own king.

He remained in hiding in God’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Hezekiah ordered that storerooms be prepared in the Lord’s temple. When this was done,

Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”

“Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are!

Look, I am just like you in relation to God; I too have been molded from clay.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

Instead he finds pleasure in obeying the Lord’s commands; he meditates on his commands day and night.