When the time came for Rebekah to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace.

Jehoiada grew old and died at the age of 130.

I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

My enemies will turn back when I cry out to you for help; I know that God is on my side.

Give the king long life! Make his lifetime span several generations!

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the Lord all the time.

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

Abraham lived a total of 175 years.

Live with him for a little while until your brother’s rage subsides.

So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar.

These words I am commanding you today must be kept in mind,

Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer them, as the Lord promised.”

But David said, “What do we have in common, you sons of Zeruiah? You are like my enemy today! Should anyone be put to death in Israel today? Don’t you realize that today I am king over Israel?”

Whatever is needed – whether oxen or rams or lambs or burnt offerings for the God of heaven or wheat or salt or wine or oil, as required by the priests who are in Jerusalem – must be given to them daily without any neglect,

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble” into an “Opportunity for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.

While they were there, the time came for her to deliver her child.