The Lord said, “The men of Judah should take the lead. Be sure of this! I am handing the land over to them.”

The people of Asher live among the Canaanites residing in the land because they did not conquer them.

When Joshua dismissed the people, the Israelites went to their allotted portions of territory, intending to take possession of the land.

Israel humiliated Moab that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.

Now the whole army entered the forest and there was honey on the ground.

But a messenger came to Saul saying, “Come quickly, for the Philistines have raided the land!”

The earth heaved and shook; the foundations of the sky trembled. They heaved because he was angry.

They went through all the land and after nine months and twenty days came back to Jerusalem.

Then all the nations of the earth will recognize that the Lord is the only genuine God.

besides what he collected from the merchants, traders, Arabian kings, and governors of the land.

He removed the male cultic prostitutes from the land and got rid of all the disgusting idols his ancestors had made.

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord’s temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

The king of Assyria marched through the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city was so severe the residents had no food.

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors and worshiped instead the gods of the native peoples whom God had destroyed before them.

David and the whole Israelite army advanced to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus). (The Jebusites, the land’s original inhabitants, lived there.)

Sing to the Lord, all the earth! Announce every day how he delivers!

Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is established, it cannot be moved.

Then let the trees of the forest shout with joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth!