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

Then the men of Israel left Mizpah and chased the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth Car.p>

<n id="1" /> Then the leaders of the Philistines would march out, and as often as they did so, David achieved more success than all of Saul&#8217;s servants. His name was held in high esteem.p>

The Ammonites marched out and were deployed for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the men from Aram Zobah, Rehob, Ish-tob, and Maacah were by themselves in the field.p>

When the men of the city came out and fought with Joab, some of David&#8217;s soldiers<n id="1" /> fell in battle. Uriah the Hittite also died.p>

The messenger said to David, &#8220;The men overpowered us and attacked us<n id="1" /> in the field. But we forced them to retreat all the way<n id="2" /> to the door of the city gate.

But when she took the pan and set it before him, he refused to eat. Instead Amnon said, &#8220;Get everyone out of here!&#8221;<n id="1" /> So everyone left.<n id="2" />p>

Then they went to the fortress of Tyre<n id="1" /> and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beer Sheba.

They marched out at noon, while Ben Hadad and the thirty-two kings allied with him were drinking heavily<n id="1" /> in their quarters.<n id="2" />

The servants of the district governors led the march. When Ben Hadad sent messengers, they reported back to him, &#8220;Men are marching out of Samaria.&#8221;<n id="1" />

The <sc>Lordsc> provided a deliverer<n id="1" /> for Israel and they were freed from Syria&#8217;s power.<n id="2" /> The Israelites once more lived in security.<n id="3" />

&#8220;They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die,<n id="1" /> and the fire that consumes them will not die out.<n id="2" /> All people will find the sight abhorrent.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to me, &#8220;Even if Moses and Samuel stood before me pleading for<n id="1" /> these people, I would not feel pity for them!<n id="2" /> Get them away from me! Tell them to go away!<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">Go ahead and<n id="1" /> charge into battle, you horsemen!p> <p class="poetry">Drive furiously, you charioteers!p> <p class="poetry">Let the soldiers march out into battle,p> <p class="poetry">those from Ethiopia and Libya who carry shields,p> <p class="poetry">and those from Lydia<n id="2" /> who are armed with the bow.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">He said to them, &#8220;Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!&#8221; So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.

<p class="poetry">The one who can break through barriers will lead them out<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they will break out, pass through the gate, and leave.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Their king will advance<n id="3" /> before them,p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> himself will lead them.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram&#8217;s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew<n id="1" /> Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired<n id="2" /> in Haran, and they left for<n id="3" /> the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.p>

I will be standing<n id="1" /> before you there on<n id="2" /> the rock in Horeb, and you will strike<n id="3" /> the rock, and water will come out of it so that the people may drink.&#8221;<n id="4" /> And Moses did so in plain view<n id="5" /> of the elders of Israel.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely,<n id="1" /> but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman&#8217;s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.<n id="2" />