<t /><p class="bodytext">When the men got up to leave,<n id="1" /> they looked out over<n id="2" /> Sodom. (Now<n id="3" /> Abraham was walking with them to see them on their way.)<n id="4" />

So they got up early on the next day and offered up burnt offerings and brought peace offerings, and the people sat down to eat and drink,<n id="1" /> and they rose up to play.<n id="2" />p>

She brought it to Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and left that same night.p>

<p class="bodytext">All of Adonijah&#8217;s guests panicked;<n id="1" /> they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

His servants conspired against him<n id="1" /> and murdered Joash at Beth-Millo, on the road that goes down to Silla.<n id="2" />

Then some of the elders of Judah<n id="1" /> stepped forward and spoke to all the people gathered there. They said,

<p class="bodytext">Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together<n id="1" /> for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.<n id="2" />p>

All his sons and daughters stood by<n id="1" /> him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. &#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I will go to the grave mourning my son.&#8221;<n id="2" /> So Joseph&#8217;s<n id="3" /> father wept for him.p>

<p class="bodytext">So the men took these gifts, and they took double the money with them, along with Benjamin. Then they hurried down to Egypt<n id="1" /> and stood before Joseph.

and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders<n id="1" /> of the community, chosen from the assembly,<n id="2" /> famous men.<n id="3" />

Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me.<n id="1" />

The leaders of Gibeah attacked me and at night surrounded the house where I was staying.<n id="1" /> They wanted to kill me; instead they abused my concubine so badly that she died.

<p class="bodytext">So they got up and crossed over by number: twelve belonging to Benjamin and to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David.

The elders of his house stood over him and tried to lift him from the ground, but he was unwilling, and refused to eat food with them.p>

So Absalom&#8217;s servants did to Amnon exactly what Absalom had instructed. Then all the king&#8217;s sons got up; each one rode away on his mule and fled.p>

When they approached the Israelite camp, the Israelites rose up and struck down the Moabites, who then ran from them. The Israelites<n id="1" /> thoroughly defeated<n id="2" /> Moab.

Then all the people, from the youngest to the oldest, as well as the army officers, left for<n id="1" /> Egypt, because they were afraid of what the Babylonians might do.p>

Then some Levites, from the Kohathites and Korahites, got up and loudly praised the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.<n id="1" />p>

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.<n id="1" />p>

The priests and Levites got up and pronounced blessings on the people. The <sc>Lordsc> responded favorably to them<n id="1" /> as their prayers reached his holy dwelling place in heaven.p>