The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish<n id="1" /> him.

When the Philistines saw he had no attendants, they gave him thirty groomsmen who kept him company.<n id="1" />

Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.<n id="1" />

So the prophet went back with him and ate and drank in his house.<n id="1" />p>

This is exactly what happened to him. The people trampled him to death in the city gate.p>

<p class="bodytext">When the sacrifices were completed, the king and all who were with him bowed down and worshiped.

<p class="poetry">May God bless us!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Then all the ends of the earth will give him the honor he deserves.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">When a person&#8217;s<n id="1" /> ways are pleasing to the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he<n id="3" /> even reconciles his enemies to himself.<n id="4" />p>

Then he<n id="1" /> put the tunic<n id="2" /> on Aaron,<n id="3" /> wrapped the sash around him,<n id="4" /> and clothed him with the robe.<n id="5" /> Next he put the ephod on him<n id="6" /> and placed on him<n id="7" /> the decorated band of the ephod, and fastened the ephod closely to him with the band.<n id="8" />

When you enter the town, you can find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people won&#8217;t eat until he arrives, for he must bless the sacrifice. Once that happens, those who have been invited will eat. Now go on up, for<n id="1" /> this is the time when you can find him!&#8221;p>

So Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram and sister of Ahaziah, took Ahaziah&#8217;s son Joash and sneaked<n id="1" /> him away from the rest of the royal descendants who were to be executed. She hid him and his nurse in the room where the bed covers were stored.<n id="2" /> So he was hidden from Athaliah and escaped execution.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">This is the record<n id="1" /> of the family line<n id="2" /> of Adam.p> <p class="bodytext">When God created humankind,<n id="3" /> he made them<n id="4" /> in the likeness of God.

Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared<n id="1" /> because God took<n id="2" /> him away.p>

<p class="bodytext">And Noah did all<n id="1" /> that God commanded him &#8211; he did indeed.<n id="2" />p>

Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons&#8217; wives because<n id="1" /> of the floodwaters.

Pharaoh gave his men orders about Abram,<n id="1" /> and so they expelled him, along with his wife and all his possessions.p>

All the men of his household, whether born in his household or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.p>

So Sarah became pregnant<n id="1" /> and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old,<n id="1" /> Abraham circumcised him just as God had commanded him to do.<n id="2" />

He had<n id="1" /> so many sheep<n id="2" /> and cattle<n id="3" /> and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous<n id="4" /> of him.