<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">At that time Jeroboam&#8217;s son Abijah became sick.

Everything was verified<n id="1" /> by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.p>

<p class="bodytext">In the seventh month of that very same year<n id="1" /> the prophet Hananiah died.p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;At that time Michael,p> <p class="poetry">the great prince who watches over your people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">will arise.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">There will be a time of distressp> <p class="poetry">unlike any other from the nation&#8217;s beginning<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">up to that time.p> <p class="poetry">But at that time your own people,p> <p class="poetry">all those whose names are<n id="4" /> found written in the book,p> <p class="poetry">will escape.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now Deborah, a prophetess,<n id="1" /> wife of Lappidoth, was<n id="2" /> leading<n id="3" /> Israel at that time.

<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" />

<p class="bodytext">At that time, when David saw that the <sc>Lordsc> responded to him at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there.

Now the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s tabernacle (which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center<n id="1" /> in Gibeon.

<p class="bodytext">At that time King Ahaz asked the king<n id="1" /> of Assyria for help.

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant<n id="1" /> of David.p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;He will do what is just and right in the land.

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(4:1)" /><n id="1" /> For look! In those<n id="2" /> days and at that timep> <p class="poetry">I will return the exiles<n id="3" /> to Judah and Jerusalem.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">For this reason whoever is smart<n id="1" /> keeps quiet<n id="2" /> in such a time,p> <p class="poetry">for it is an evil<n id="3" /> time.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time the <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again.&#8221;<n id="1" />

The manna stopped appearing the day they ate<n id="1" /> some of the produce of the land; the Israelites never ate manna again.<n id="2" />p>

But Israel did plunder the cattle and the goods of the city, in accordance with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s orders to Joshua.<n id="1" />

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites<n id="1" /> &#8211; all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

Now his father and mother did not realize this was the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s doing,<n id="1" /> because he was looking for an opportunity to stir up trouble with the Philistines<n id="2" /> (for at that time the Philistines were ruling Israel).p>

The Benjaminites returned at that time, and the Israelites<n id="1" /> gave to them the women they had spared from Jabesh Gilead. But there were not enough to go around.<n id="2" />p>

Then the Israelites dispersed from there to their respective tribal and clan territories. Each went from there to his own property.<n id="1" />

So he got up and ate and drank. That meal gave him the strength to travel forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.p>