<p class="bodytext">Joseph said to his brothers, &#8220;I am Joseph! Is my father still alive?&#8221; His brothers could not answer him because they were dumbfounded before him.

They told him, &#8220;Joseph is still alive and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!&#8221; Jacob was stunned,<n id="1" /> for he did not believe them.

<p class="bodytext">Israel said to Joseph, &#8220;Now let me die since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.&#8221;<n id="1" />

The priest will then examine it,<n id="1" /> and if<n id="2" /> a white swelling is on the skin, it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the swelling,<n id="3" />

but the goat which has been designated by lot for Azazel is to be stood alive<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> to make atonement on it by sending it away to Azazel into the wilderness.<n id="2" />p>

Say to them, &#8216;As I live,<n id="1" /> says<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, I will surely do to you just what you have spoken in my hearing.<n id="3" />

He said, &#8220;They were my brothers, the sons of my mother. I swear,<n id="1" /> as surely as the <sc>Lordsc> is alive, if you had let them live, I would not kill you.&#8221;

She said, &#8220;Just as surely as you are alive, my lord, I am the woman who previously stood here with you in order to pray to the <sc>Lordsc>.

For as surely as the <sc>Lordsc>, the deliverer of Israel, lives, even if it turns out to be my own son Jonathan, he will certainly die!&#8221; But no one from the army said anything.<n id="1" />p>

David went on to say, &#8220;As the <sc>Lordsc> lives, the <sc>Lordsc> himself will strike him down. Either his day will come and he will die, or he will go down into battle and be swept away.

Joab replied, &#8220;As surely as God lives, if you had not said this, it would have been morning before the people would have abandoned pursuit<n id="1" /> of their brothers!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then David became very angry at this man. He said to Nathan, &#8220;As surely as the <sc>Lordsc> lives, the man who did this deserves to die!<n id="1" />

He replied, &#8220;While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept because I thought,<n id="1" /> &#8216;Perhaps<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc> will show pity and the child will live.

<p class="bodytext">Joab replied, &#8220;I will not wait around like this for you!&#8221; He took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the middle of Absalom while he was still alive in the middle of the oak tree.<n id="1" />

Elijah took the boy, brought him down from the upper room to the house, and handed him to his mother. Elijah then said, &#8220;See, your son is alive!&#8221;

Pay attention, <sc>Lordsc>, and hear! Open your eyes, <sc>Lordsc>, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">I desperately want to be<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">in the courts of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">My heart and my entire being<n id="3" /> shout for joyp> <p class="poetry">to the living God.p>

<t /><p class="poetry">But whoever is among<n id="1" /> the living<n id="2" /> has hope;p> <p class="poetry">a live dog is better than a dead lion.p>

Pay attention, <sc>Lordsc>, and hear! Open your eyes, <sc>Lordsc>, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Look all around you!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">All of them gather to you.p> <p class="poetry">As surely as I live,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;you will certainly wear all of them like jewelry;p> <p class="poetry">you will put them on as if you were a bride.p>