He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread was dry and hard.

Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby.

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

But the Israelites said to the Lord, “We have sinned. You do to us as you see fit, but deliver us today!”

When they called out to the Danites, the Danites turned around and said to Micah, “Why have you gathered together?”

Among this army were seven hundred specially-trained left-handed soldiers. Each one could sling a stone and hit even the smallest target.

How can we find wives for those who are left? After all, we took an oath in the Lord’s name not to give them our daughters as wives.”

So the Lord graciously attended to Hannah, and she was able to conceive and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. The boy Samuel grew up at the Lord’s sanctuary.

The Lord will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The Lord was pleased to make you his own people.

David replied to Saul, “Your servant has been a shepherd for his father’s flock. Whenever a lion or bear would come and carry off a sheep from the flock,

Since you did not obey the Lord and did not carry out his fierce anger against the Amalekites, the Lord has done this thing to you today.

David was angry because the Lord attacked Uzzah; so he called that place Perez Uzzah, which remains its name to this very day.

When the Ammonites saw the Arameans flee, they fled before Joab’s brother Abishai and withdrew into the city. Joab went back to Jerusalem.

The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones; cedar was as plentiful as sycamore fig trees are in the lowlands.

He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,