I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

“Come to my aid so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

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

I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept prophesying good things about you, and I rescued you from his power.

This is why the Lord permitted these nations to remain and did not conquer them immediately; he did not hand them over to Joshua.

When the Israelites saw that Abimelech was dead, they went home.

The Israelites regretted what had happened to their brother Benjamin. They said, “Today we cut off an entire tribe from Israel!

He will take your male and female servants, as well as your best cattle and your donkeys, and assign them for his own use.

Saul accepted Jonathan’s advice and took an oath, “As surely as the Lord lives, he will not be put to death.”

With regard to the matter that you and I discussed, the Lord is the witness between us forever!”

Jonathan replied to Saul, “David urgently requested that he be allowed to go to Bethlehem.

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for him.

As she brought them to him to eat, he grabbed her and said to her, “Come on! Get in bed with me, my sister!”

Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

He gives his chosen king magnificent victories; he is faithful to his chosen ruler, to David and to his descendants forever!”

besides 3,300 officials who supervised the workers.

Everyone in the world wanted to visit Solomon to see him display his God-given wisdom.

Solomon acquired his horses from Egypt and from Que; the king’s traders purchased them from Que.

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?”