<p class="poetry">the promise<n id="1" /> he made to Abraham,p> <p class="poetry">the promise he made by oath to Isaac!<n id="2" />p>

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

<p class="bodytext">So Saul died because he was unfaithful to the <sc>Lordsc> and did not obey the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s instructions; he even tried to conjure up underworld spirits.<n id="1" />

I was with you wherever you went and I defeated<n id="1" /> all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.<n id="2" />

I will become his father and he will become my son. I will never withhold my loyal love from him, as I withheld it from the one who ruled before you.<n id="1" />

So now, O <sc>Lordsc>, may the promise you made about your servant and his family become a permanent reality!<n id="1" /> Do as you promised,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The son<n id="1" /> of Carmi:p> <p class="bodytext">Achan,<n id="2" /> who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Recall the miraculous deeds he performed,p> <p class="poetry">his mighty acts and the judgments he decreed,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Let the sea and everything in it shout!p> <p class="poetry">Let the fields and everything in them celebrate!p>

So David went up as Gad instructed him to do in the name of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines descended<n id="1" />), and the Caphtorites.p>

<p class="bodytext">The sons born to Hezron:p> <p class="bodytext">Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.<n id="1" />p>

Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, both of whom ruled in Moab and Jashubi Lehem. (This information is from ancient records.)<n id="1" />

They also lived in all the settlements that surrounded these towns as far as Baal.<n id="1" /> These were their settlements; they kept genealogical records.p>

and his son Beerah, whom King Tiglath-pileser<n id="1" /> of Assyria carried into exile. Beerah<n id="2" /> was the tribal leader of Reuben.p>

But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors<n id="1" /> and worshiped instead<n id="2" /> the gods of the native peoples<n id="3" /> whom God had destroyed before them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">These are the men David put in charge of music in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s sanctuary,<n id="1" /> after the ark was placed there.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The sons of Manasseh:p> <p class="bodytext">Asriel, who was born to Manasseh&#8217;s Aramean concubine.<n id="1" /> She also gave birth to Makir the father of Gilead.

The first to resettle on their property and in their cities were some Israelites, priests, Levites, and temple servants.<n id="1" />

When all the residents of Jabesh Gilead heard about everything the Philistines had done to Saul,