<p class="poetry">The sons of Naphtali:p> <p class="poetry">Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Naphtali:p> <p class="bodytext">Jahziel,<n id="1" /> Guni, Jezer, and Shallum<n id="2" /> &#8211; sons of Bilhah.p>

The king of Assyria marched through<n id="1" /> the whole land. He attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.

King Tiglath-pileser<n id="1" /> of Assyria came, but he gave him more trouble than support.<n id="2" />

Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

He accepted the gold<n id="1" /> from them,<n id="2" /> fashioned<n id="3" /> it with an engraving tool, and made a molten calf.<n id="4" /> Then they said, &#8220;These are your gods,<n id="5" /> O Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.&#8221;p>

Whenever they went out to fight,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> did them harm,<n id="2" /> just as he had warned and solemnly vowed he would do.<n id="3" /> They suffered greatly.<n id="4" />p>

But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick<n id="1" /> over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Later King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled his entire army and attacked<n id="1" /> and besieged Samaria.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">Your thinking is perverse!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the potter be regarded as clay?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Should the thing made say<n id="3" /> about its maker, &#8220;He didn&#8217;t make me&#8221;?p> <p class="poetry">Or should the pottery say about the potter, &#8220;He doesn&#8217;t understand&#8221;?p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the third<n id="1" /> year of the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar<n id="2" /> of Babylon advanced against Jerusalem<n id="3" /> and laid it under siege.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The revelation of the word of the <sc>Lordsc> concerning Israel: The <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person<n id="1" /> &#8211; says,

The <sc>Lordsc> God formed<n id="1" /> out of the ground every living animal of the field and every bird of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would<n id="2" /> name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

<p class="bodytext">He fashioned two bronze pillars; each pillar was 27 feet<n id="1" /> high and 18 feet<n id="2" /> in circumference.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now King Ben Hadad of Syria assembled all his army, along with thirty-two other kings with their horses and chariots. He marched against Samaria<n id="1" /> and besieged and attacked it.<n id="2" />

Naaman said, &#8220;Please accept two talents of silver.<n id="1" /> He insisted, and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, along with two suits of clothes. He gave them to two of his servants and they carried them for Gehazi.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">In the fourth year of King Hezekiah&#8217;s reign (it was the seventh year of the reign of Israel&#8217;s King Hoshea, son of Elah), King Shalmaneser of Assyria marched<n id="1" /> up against Samaria<n id="2" /> and besieged it.

<p class="bodytext">In the spring, at the time when kings normally conduct wars,<n id="1" /> Joab led the army into battle and devastated the land of the Ammonites. He went and besieged Rabbah, while David stayed in Jerusalem. Joab defeated Rabbah and tore it down.