The Israelites cried out for help to the Lord: “We have sinned against you. We abandoned our God and worshiped the Baals.”

Manoah said, “Now, when your announcement comes true, how should the child be raised and what should he do?”

When he looked up and saw the traveler in the town square, the old man said, “Where are you heading? Where do you come from?”

You will see trouble in my dwelling place! Israel will experience blessings, but there will not be an old man in your house for all time.

This will be a confirming sign for you that will be fulfilled through your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: in a single day they both will die!

Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Up to here the Lord has helped us.”

While Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines’ camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand!”

Nonetheless, because you have treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son who has been born to you will certainly die.”

After four years Absalom said to the king, “Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the Lord while I was in Hebron.

The king replied, “Kimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him whatever I deem appropriate. And whatever you choose, I will do for you.”

David said to the Gibeonites, “What can I do for you, and how can I make amends so that you will bless the Lord’s inheritance?”

So the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he had promised him. And Hiram and Solomon were at peace and made a treaty.

But respond favorably to your servant’s prayer and his request for help, O Lord my God. Answer the desperate prayer your servant is presenting to you today.

“Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don’t make us work as hard, we will serve you.”

But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up.

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper.

He was so wicked he worshiped the disgusting idols, just like the Amorites whom the Lord had driven out from before the Israelites.)

They replied, “He was a hairy man and had a leather belt tied around his waist.” The king said, “He is Elijah the Tishbite.”

But they did not obey, and Manasseh misled them so that they sinned more than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed from before the Israelites.

Ascribe to the Lord the splendor he deserves! Bring an offering and enter his presence! Worship the Lord in holy attire!