Gideon<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;But Lord,<n id="2" /> how<n id="3" /> can I deliver Israel? Just look! My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my family.&#8221;<n id="4" />

The Philistines captured him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him in bronze chains. He became a grinder in the prison.

When he gave the silver back to his mother, she<n id="1" /> took two hundred pieces of silver<n id="2" /> to a silversmith, who made them into a carved image and a metal image. She then put them in Micah&#8217;s house.<n id="3" />

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.

<p class="bodytext">So the men did as instructed.<n id="1" /> They took two cows that had calves and harnessed them to a cart; they also removed their calves to their stalls.

<t /><p class="bodytext">As the war continued between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner was becoming more influential<n id="1" /> in the house of Saul.

The king said to Nathan the prophet, &#8220;Look! I am living in a palace made from cedar, while the ark of God sits in the middle of a tent.&#8221;

I have not lived in a house from the time I brought the Israelites up from Egypt to the present day. Instead, I was traveling with them and living in a tent.<n id="1" />

As the temple was being built, only stones shaped at the quarry<n id="1" /> were used; the sound of hammers, pickaxes, or any other iron tool was not heard at the temple while it was being built.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple, be willing to forgive the accused if the accusation is false.<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;The time will come when<n id="1" /> your people Israel are defeated by an enemy<n id="2" /> because they sinned against you. If they come back to you, renew their allegiance to you,<n id="3" /> and pray for your help<n id="4" /> in this temple,

The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David&#8217;s spears and the shields that were kept in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

But Amaziah would not heed the warning,<n id="1" /> so King Jehoash of Israel attacked.<n id="2" /> He and King Amaziah of Judah met face to face<n id="3" /> in Beth Shemesh of Judah.

He also removed the Sabbath awning<n id="1" /> that had been built<n id="2" /> in the temple and the king&#8217;s outer entranceway, on account of the king of Assyria.<n id="3" />p>

So one of the priests whom they had deported from Samaria went back and settled in Bethel.<n id="1" /> He taught them how to worship<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<p class="bodytext">But each of these nations made<n id="1" /> its own gods and put them in the shrines on the high places that the people of Samaria<n id="2" /> had made. Each nation did this in the cities where they lived.

At the same time they worshiped<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. They appointed some of their own people to serve as priests in the shrines on the high places.<n id="2" />

He tore down the quarters<n id="1" /> of the male cultic prostitutes in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, where women were weaving shrines<n id="2" /> for Asherah.p>

Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as a priest in the temple Solomon built in Jerusalem.<n id="1" />

For I have not lived in a house from the time I brought Israel up from Egypt<n id="1" /> to the present day. I have lived in a tent that has been in various places.<n id="2" />