a land the <sc>Lordsc> your God looks after.<n id="1" /> He is constantly attentive to it<n id="2" /> from the beginning to the end of the year.<n id="3" />

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out<n id="1" /> nor have your sandals<n id="2" /> deteriorated.

<p class="poetry">May all your enemies perish like this, O <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">But may those who love you shinep> <p class="poetry">like the rising sun at its brightest!&#8221;<n id="1" />p> <p class="bodytext">And the land had rest for forty years.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites&#8217; fighting spirit was broken.<n id="1" /> The land had rest for forty years during Gideon&#8217;s time.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites again did evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight,<n id="1" /> so the <sc>Lordsc> handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.p>

Peninnah<n id="1" /> would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah<n id="2" /> went up to the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s house, Peninnah<n id="3" /> would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.

<t /><p class="bodytext">It was quite a long time &#8211; some twenty years in all &#8211; that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people<n id="1" /> of Israel longed for<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel,<n id="1" /> Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

In Hebron he reigned over Judah for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> he reigned for thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.p>

<p class="bodytext">After four<n id="1" /> years Absalom said to the king, &#8220;Let me go and repay my vow that I made to the <sc>Lordsc> while I was in Hebron.

But Barzillai was very old &#8211; eighty years old, in fact &#8211; and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich<n id="1" /> man.

David reigned over Israel forty years; he reigned in Hebron seven years, and in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> thirty-three years.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">After twenty years, during which Solomon built the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and the royal palace,<n id="1" />

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.<n id="1" />p>

Jeroboam ruled for twenty-two years; then he passed away.<n id="1" /> His son Nadab replaced him as king.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the third year of Asa&#8217;s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king over all Israel in Tirzah; he ruled for twenty-four years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-sixth year of King Asa&#8217;s reign over Judah, Baasha&#8217;s son Elah became king over Israel; he ruled in Tirzah for two years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-seventh year of Asa&#8217;s reign over Judah, Zimri became king over Israel; he ruled for seven days in Tirzah. Zimri&#8217;s revolt took place while the army was deployed<n id="1" /> in Gibbethon, which was in Philistine territory.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the eighteenth year of King Jehoshaphat&#8217;s reign over Judah, Ahab&#8217;s son Jehoram became king over Israel in Samaria;<n id="1" /> he ruled for twelve years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year of the reign of Israel&#8217;s King Joram, son of Ahab, Jehoram&#8217;s son Ahaziah became king over Judah.