For in fact when we were with you, we were telling you in advance that we would suffer affliction, and so it has happened, as you well know.

Joseph collected all the money that could be found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan as payment for the grain they were buying. Then Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh’s palace.

When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she met with his approval. The king extended to Esther the gold scepter that was in his hand, and Esther approached and touched the end of the scepter.

The Lord said, “Announce this in Judah and proclaim it in Jerusalem: ‘Sound the trumpet throughout the land!’ Shout out loudly, ‘Gather together! Let us flee into the fortified cities!’

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

I in them and you in me – that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

Let the heavens and the earth praise him, along with the seas and everything that swims in them!

A song of ascents. In my distress I cried out to the Lord and he answered me.

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished.

Let them give the Lord the honor he deserves; let them praise his deeds in the coastlands.

“‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you.

though I am confident in the Lord that I too will be coming to see you soon.

When Samlah died, Shaul from Rehoboth by the River reigned in his place.

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.

These were the sons of Rachel who were born to Jacob, fourteen in all.

Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and presented him before Pharaoh. Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

In all your landed property you must provide for the right of redemption of the land.

Then Samuel went to Ramah, while Saul went up to his home in Gibeah of Saul.

The father of Gibeon lived in Gibeon; his wife’s name was Maacah.

In Jerusalem David married more wives and fathered more sons and daughters.