He built up the city around it, from the terrace to the surrounding walls;<n id="1" /> Joab restored the rest of the city.

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal.<n id="1" /> These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.p>

<p class="bodytext">They were allotted Hebron in the territory of Judah, as well as its surrounding pasturelands.

They would spend the night in their posts all around God&#8217;s sanctuary,<n id="1" /> for they were assigned to guard it and would open it with the key every morning.

They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.

He gave him<n id="1" /> the blueprints of all he envisioned<n id="2" /> for the courts of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, all the surrounding rooms, the storehouses of God&#8217;s temple, and the storehouses for the holy items.p>

Look, you will have a son, who will be a peaceful man.<n id="1" /> I will give him rest from all his enemies on every side.<n id="2" /> Indeed, Solomon<n id="3" /> will be his name; I will give Israel peace and quiet during his reign.<n id="4" />

He told them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> your God is with you!<n id="2" /> He has made you secure on every side,<n id="3" /> for he handed over to me the inhabitants of the region<n id="4" /> and the region<n id="5" /> is subdued before the <sc>Lordsc> and his people.