You have been rebelling against him from the very first day I knew you!

Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.

You must not have in your bag different stone weights, a heavy and a light one.

You must not have in your house different measuring containers, a large and a small one.

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

They abandoned the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Ashtars.

After him Elon the Zebulunite led Israel for ten years.

When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them, “Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”

Sometime later Naomi’s husband Elimelech died, so she and her two sons were left alone.

Naomi took the child and placed him on her lap; she became his caregiver.

If a man sins against a man, one may appeal to God on his behalf. But if a man sins against the Lord, who then will intercede for him?” But Eli’s sons would not listen to their father, for the Lord had decided to kill them.

Now the day before Saul arrived, the Lord had told Samuel:

Then Samuel called the people together before the Lord at Mizpah.

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t be impressed by his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. God does not view things the way men do. People look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

Nathan told David all these words that were revealed to him.

The Gibeonites said to him, “We have no claim to silver or gold from Saul or from his family, nor would we be justified in putting to death anyone in Israel.” David asked, “What then are you asking me to do for you?”

The Lord thundered from the sky; the sovereign One shouted loudly.

He shot arrows and scattered them, lightning and routed them.

The king’s servants have even come to congratulate our master King David, saying, ‘May your God make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ Then the king leaned on the bed