<p class="poetry">The wild animals go to their lairs,p> <p class="poetry">and in their dens they remain.p>

<p class="poetry">He made cursing a way of life,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so curses poured into his stomach like waterp> <p class="poetry">and seeped into his bones like oil.<n id="2" />p>

So they traveled on,<n id="1" /> and the sun went down when they were near Gibeah in the territory of Benjamin.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the queen of Sheba heard about Solomon,<n id="1" /> she came to challenge<n id="2" /> him with difficult questions.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">So Jeroboam&#8217;s wife got up and went back to<n id="1" /> Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

She came in, fell at his feet, and bowed down. Then she picked up her son and left.p>

<p class="bodytext">When Athaliah heard the royal guard<n id="1" /> shout, she joined the crowd<n id="2" /> at the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<p class="bodytext">At that time the generals<n id="1" /> of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city.<n id="2" />

The city remained under siege until King Zedekiah&#8217;s eleventh year.

The city remained under siege until Zedekiah&#8217;s eleventh year.

She arrived in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> with a great display of pomp,<n id="2" /> bringing with her camels carrying spices,<n id="3" /> a very large quantity of gold, and precious gems. She visited Solomon and discussed with him everything that was on her mind.

When<n id="1" /> the dove returned to him in the evening, there was<n id="2" /> a freshly plucked olive leaf in its beak! Noah knew that the waters had receded from the earth.

<p class="bodytext">So that night they made their father drunk with wine,<n id="1" /> and the older daughter<n id="2" /> came and had sexual relations with her father.<n id="3" /> But he was not aware that she had sexual relations with him and then got up.<n id="4" />

God also repaid the men of Shechem for their evil deeds. The curse spoken by Jotham son of Jerub-Baal fell<n id="1" /> on them.p>

The woman arrived back at daybreak and was sprawled out on the doorstep of the house where her master<n id="1" /> was staying until it became light.<n id="2" />

When Boaz had finished his meal and was feeling satisfied, he lay down to sleep at the far end of the grain heap.<n id="1" /> Then Ruth<n id="2" /> crept up quietly,<n id="3" /> uncovered his legs,<n id="4" /> and lay down beside him.<n id="5" />

The Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, but David killed 22,000 of the Arameans.

<p class="bodytext">So Bathsheba visited the king in his private quarters.<n id="1" /> (The king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.)

<t /><p class="bodytext">King David responded,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Summon Bathsheba!&#8221;<n id="2" /> She came and stood before the king.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Jeroboam&#8217;s wife did as she was told. She went to Shiloh and visited Ahijah.<n id="1" /> Now Ahijah could not see; he had lost his eyesight in his old age.<n id="2" />