<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites again did evil in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight,<n id="1" /> so the <sc>Lordsc> handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.p>

<p class="bodytext">But this request displeased Samuel, for<n id="1" /> they said, &#8220;Give us a king to lead us.&#8221; So Samuel prayed to the <sc>Lordsc>.

Then Saul sent word to Jesse saying, &#8220;Let David be my servant, for I really like him.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So his servants told David these things and David agreed<n id="1" /> to become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">All the people noticed this and it pleased them.<n id="1" /> In fact, everything the king did pleased all the people.

But Amnon became frustrated because he was so lovesick<n id="1" /> over his sister Tamar. For she was a virgin, and to Amnon it seemed out of the question to do anything to her.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then the king said to Zadok, &#8220;Take the ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sight he will bring me back and enable me to see both it and his dwelling place again.

Pharaoh liked Hadad so well<n id="1" /> he gave him his sister-in-law (Queen Tahpenes&#8217; sister) as a wife.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Judah did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. They made him more jealous by their sins than their ancestors had done.<n id="2" />

This happened because of the sins he committed. He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and followed in Jeroboam&#8217;s footsteps and encouraged Israel to continue sinning.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;So, you have found me, my enemy!&#8221; Elijah<n id="2" /> replied, &#8220;I have found you, because you are committed<n id="3" /> to doing evil in the sight of<n id="4" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

(There had never been anyone like Ahab, who was firmly committed<n id="1" /> to doing evil in the sight of<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, urged on by his wife Jezebel.<n id="3" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> and followed in the footsteps<n id="2" /> of his father and mother; like Jeroboam son of Nebat, he encouraged Israel to sin.<n id="3" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, but not to the same degree as his father and mother. He did remove the sacred pillar of Baal that his father had made.

He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab&#8217;s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab&#8217;s daughter.<n id="1" /> He did evil in the sight of<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>.

He followed in the footsteps of Ahab&#8217;s dynasty and did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, like Ahab&#8217;s dynasty, for he was related to Ahab&#8217;s family.<n id="2" />p>

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He continued in<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.<n id="3" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>. He did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.<n id="3" />

He did what the <sc>Lordsc> approved,<n id="1" /> but not like David his father. He followed the example of his father Joash.<n id="2" />

He did evil in the sight of<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>; he did not repudiate<n id="2" /> the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.