The <sc>Lordsc> was with him; he succeeded in all his endeavors.<n id="1" /> He rebelled against the king of Assyria and refused to submit to him.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So David became famous<n id="1" /> in all the lands; the <sc>Lordsc> caused all the nations to fear him.<n id="2" />p>

O <sc>Lordsc>, there is none like you; there is no God besides you! What we heard is true!<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">But the king&#8217;s edict stood, despite Joab&#8217;s objections.<n id="1" /> So Joab left and traveled throughout Israel before returning to Jerusalem.<n id="2" />

You also have available many workers, including stonecutters, masons, carpenters,<n id="1" /> and an innumerable array of workers who are skilled

He ruled all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River<n id="1" /> to the land of the Philistines as far as the border of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">The priests and Levites who lived throughout Israel supported him, no matter where they resided.<n id="1" />

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.<n id="1" />

They solemnly agreed<n id="1" /> to seek the <sc>Lordsc> God of their ancestors<n id="2" /> with their whole heart and being.

They taught throughout Judah, taking with them the scroll of the law of the <sc>Lordsc>. They traveled to all the cities of Judah and taught the people.p>

<p class="bodytext">These were the ones who served the king, besides those whom the king placed in the fortified cities throughout Judah.p>

He appointed judges throughout the land and in each of the fortified cities of Judah.<n id="1" />

and to all the infants, wives, sons, and daughters of the entire assembly listed in the genealogical records, for they faithfully consecrated themselves.

<p class="bodytext">This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what the <sc>Lordsc> his God considered good and right and faithful.

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.p>

<p class="bodytext">And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.p>

<p class="bodytext">The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.

In all this Job did not sin, nor did he charge God with moral impropriety.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Which of all these<n id="1" /> does not knowp> <p class="poetry">that the hand of the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> has done<n id="3" /> this,p>

<p class="poetry">I am exhausted as I groan;p> <p class="poetry">all night long I drench my bed in tears;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.<n id="2" />p>