He was wiser than any man, including Ethan the Ezrahite or Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. He was famous in all the neighboring nations.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;May you be attentive<n id="1" /> to your servant&#8217;s and your people Israel&#8217;s requests for help and may you respond to all their prayers to you.<n id="2" />

May he make us submissive,<n id="1" /> so we can follow all his instructions<n id="2" /> and obey<n id="3" /> the commandments, rules, and regulations he commanded our ancestors.

He followed all the sinful practices of his father before him. He was not wholeheartedly devoted to the <sc>Lordsc> his God, as his ancestor David had been.<n id="1" />

He followed in the footsteps of Jeroboam son of Nebat and encouraged Israel to sin;<n id="1" /> they angered the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel with their worthless idols.<n id="2" />p>

They burned incense on all the high places just like the nations whom the <sc>Lordsc> had driven away from before them. Their evil practices made the <sc>Lordsc> angry.<n id="1" />

So the <sc>Lordsc> rejected all of Israel&#8217;s descendants; he humiliated<n id="1" /> them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

He trusted in the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel; in this regard there was none like him among the kings of Judah either before or after.<n id="1" />

Who among all the gods of the lands has rescued their lands from my power? So how can the <sc>Lordsc> rescue Jerusalem from my power?&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />

He followed in the footsteps of his father<n id="1" /> and worshiped and bowed down to the disgusting idols<n id="2" /> which his father had worshiped.<n id="3" />

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved<n id="1" /> and followed in his ancestor David&#8217;s footsteps;<n id="2" /> he did not deviate to the right or the left.p>

This will happen because they have abandoned me and offered sacrifices<n id="1" /> to other gods, angering me with all the idols they have made.<n id="2" /> My anger will ignite against this place and will not be extinguished!&#8217;&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">From Zebulun there were 50,000 warriors who were prepared for battle, equipped with all kinds of weapons, and ready to give their undivided loyalty.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">From the other side of the Jordan, from Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, there were 120,000 men armed with all kinds of weapons.p>

while David and all Israel were energetically<n id="1" /> celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments,<n id="2" /> tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

I was with you wherever you went and I defeated<n id="1" /> all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.<n id="2" />

David placed garrisons in the territory of the Arameans of Damascus;<n id="1" /> the Arameans became David&#8217;s subjects and brought tribute. The <sc>Lordsc> protected<n id="2" /> David wherever he campaigned.<n id="3" />

He placed garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became David&#8217;s subjects. The <sc>Lordsc> protected<n id="1" /> David wherever he campaigned.<n id="2" />p>

You are the source of wealth and honor;<n id="1" /> you rule over all. You possess strength and might to magnify and give strength to all.<n id="2" />

and prayed:<n id="1" /> &#8220;O <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel, there is no god like you in heaven or on earth! You maintain covenantal loyalty<n id="2" /> to your servants who obey you with sincerity.<n id="3" />