Moreover,<n id="1" /> you are to tell the Israelites, &#8216;If any man curses his God<n id="2" /> he will bear responsibility for his sin,

but then<n id="1" /> he may go free,<n id="2" /> he and his children with him, and may return to his family and to the property of his ancestors.<n id="3" />

But Hobab<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;I will not go, but I will go instead to my own land and to my kindred.&#8221;

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

When you enter the vineyard of your neighbor you may eat as many grapes as you please,<n id="1" /> but you must not take away any in a container.<n id="2" />

and the northern kings who ruled in<n id="1" /> the hill country, the Arabah south of Kinnereth,<n id="2" /> the lowlands, and the heights of Dor to the west.

So Naomi<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Look, your sister-in-law is returning to her people and to her god.<n id="2" /> Follow your sister-in-law back home!&#8221;

<p class="poetry">In my distress I called to the <sc>Lordsc>;p> <p class="poetry">I called to my God.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">From his heavenly temple<n id="2" /> he heard my voice;p> <p class="poetry">he listened to my cry for help.<n id="3" />p>

He received honor from<n id="1" /> the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.p>

Then they went on to Gilead and to the region of Tahtim Hodshi, coming to Dan Jaan and on around to Sidon.<n id="1" />

May the <sc>Lordsc> our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

He said, &#8220;Throw her down!&#8221; So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground,<n id="1" /> her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.<n id="2" />

<p class="poetry">He will go back the way he came.p> <p class="poetry">He will not enter this city,&#8221; says the <sc>Lord.sc>p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Solomon went to Ezion Geber and to Elat on the coast in the land of Edom.

But as for you, be strong and don&#8217;t get discouraged,<n id="1" /> for your work will be rewarded.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

I passed on to the Gate of the Well and the King&#8217;s Pool, where there was not enough room for my animal to pass with me.

<p class="bodytext">Then the Levites quieted all the people saying, &#8220;Be quiet, for this day is holy. Do not grieve.&#8221;

<p class="poetry">That day<n id="1" /> &#8211; let it be darkness;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">let not God on high regard<n id="3" /> it,p> <p class="poetry">nor let light shine<n id="4" /> on it!p>

<p class="poetry">Let its morning stars<n id="1" /> be darkened;p> <p class="poetry">let it wait<n id="2" /> for daylight but find none,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">nor let it see the first rays<n id="4" /> of dawn,p>

<p class="poetry">The hungry<n id="1" /> eat up his harvest,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and take it even from behind the thorns,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the thirsty<n id="4" /> swallow up<n id="5" /> their fortune.<n id="6" />p>