The <sc>Lordsc> gave me the two stone tablets, written by the very finger<n id="1" /> of God, and on them was everything<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> said to you at the mountain from the midst of the fire at the time of that assembly.

The <sc>Lordsc> handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel<n id="1" /> put the sword to all who lived there; they<n id="2" /> left no survivors. They<n id="3" /> did to its king what they<n id="4" /> had done to the king of Jericho.<n id="5" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> handed Lachish over to Israel and they<n id="1" /> captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

She answered, &#8220;Please give me a special present.<n id="1" /> Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water. So he gave her both upper and lower springs.p>

They went before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders and said, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> told Moses to assign us land among our relatives.&#8221;<n id="1" /> So Joshua<n id="2" /> assigned them land among their uncles, as the <sc>Lordsc> had commanded.<n id="3" />

She answered, &#8220;Please give me a special present.<n id="1" /> Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.&#8221; So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.<n id="2" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s spirit empowered him<n id="1" /> and he led Israel. When he went to do battle, the <sc>Lordsc> handed over to him King Cushan-Rishathaim of Aram and he overpowered him.<n id="2" />

The <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel handed Sihon and his whole army over to Israel and they defeated them. Israel took<n id="1" /> all the land of the Amorites who lived in that land.

He scooped it up with his hands and ate it as he walked along. When he returned<n id="1" /> to his father and mother, he offered them some and they ate it. But he did not tell them he had scooped the honey out of the lion&#8217;s carcass.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s spirit empowered him. He went down to Ashkelon and murdered thirty men. He took their clothes<n id="1" /> and gave them<n id="2" /> to the men who had solved the riddle. He was furious as he went back home.<n id="3" />

Is this not the time of the wheat harvest? I will call on the <sc>Lordsc> so that he makes it thunder and rain. Realize and see what a great sin you have committed before the <sc>Lordsc> by asking for a king for yourselves.&#8221;p>

when David, along with his men, went out<n id="1" /> and struck down two hundred Philistine men. David brought their foreskins and presented all of them to the king so he could become the king&#8217;s son-in-law. Saul then gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.p>

<p class="bodytext">So the priest gave him holy bread, for there was no bread there other than the bread of the Presence. It had been removed from before the <sc>Lordsc> in order to replace it with hot bread on the day it had been taken away.

The <sc>Lordsc> will hand you and Israel over to the Philistines!<n id="1" /> Tomorrow both you and your sons will be with me.<n id="2" /> The <sc>Lordsc> will also hand the army<n id="3" /> of Israel over to the Philistines!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">But David said, &#8220;No! You shouldn&#8217;t do this, my brothers. Look at what the <sc>Lordsc> has given us!<n id="1" /> He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.

The <sc>Lordsc> has punished you for<n id="1" /> all the spilled blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you rule. Now the <sc>Lordsc> has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. Disaster has overtaken you, for you are a man of bloodshed!&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Absalom happened to come across David&#8217;s men. Now as Absalom was riding on his<n id="1" /> mule, it<n id="2" /> went under the branches of a large oak tree. His head got caught in the oak and he was suspended in midair,<n id="3" /> while the mule he had been riding kept going.p>

<p class="bodytext">Joab reported the number of warriors<n id="1" /> to the king. In Israel there were 800,000 sword-wielding warriors, and in Judah there were 500,000 soldiers.p>

He put the cherubs in the inner sanctuary of the temple.<n id="1" /> Their wings were spread out. One of the first cherub&#8217;s wings touched one wall and one of the other cherub&#8217;s wings touched the opposite wall. The first cherub&#8217;s other wing touched the second cherub&#8217;s other wing in the middle of the room.<n id="2" />

He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put &#8220;The Sea&#8221; on the south side, in the southeast corner.p>