<p class="poetry">In the days of Shamgar son of Anath,p> <p class="poetry">in the days of Jael caravans<n id="1" /> disappeared;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">travelers<n id="3" /> had to go on winding side roads.p>

Samson led<n id="1" /> Israel for twenty years during the days of Philistine prominence.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">just as I was in my most productive time,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when God&#8217;s intimate friendship<n id="2" /> was experienced in my tent,p>

<p class="poetry">Why should I be afraid in times of trouble,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">when the sinful deeds of deceptive men threaten to overwhelm me?<n id="2" />p>

He removed from the land any male cultic prostitutes who had managed to survive the reign of his father Asa.<n id="1" />

All of them were listed in the genealogical records in the time of King Jotham of Judah and in the time of King Jeroboam of Israel.p>

Let&#8217;s move the ark of our God back here,<n id="1" /> for we did not seek his will<n id="2" /> throughout Saul&#8217;s reign.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Jeroboam did not regain power during the reign of Abijah.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> struck him down and he died.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders<n id="1" /> of the priests and their colleagues<n id="2" /> in the days of Jeshua.p>

For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there had been directors<n id="1" /> for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanks to God.

<p class="poetry">That night &#8211; let darkness seize<n id="1" /> it;p> <p class="poetry">let it not be included<n id="2" /> among the days of the year;p> <p class="poetry">let it not enter among the number of the months!<n id="3" />p>

Yet I will remember the covenant I made with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish a lasting<n id="1" /> covenant with you.

<t /><p class="bodytext">At that time<n id="1" /> Amraphel king of Shinar,<n id="2" /> Arioch king of Ellasar, Kedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred<n id="1" /> in the days of Abraham.<n id="2" /> Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up<n id="1" /> all the wells that his father&#8217;s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Israelites humiliated Midian; the Midianites&#8217; fighting spirit was broken.<n id="1" /> The land had rest for forty years during Gideon&#8217;s time.<n id="2" />

Hezekiah said to Isaiah, &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s word which you have announced is appropriate.&#8221;<n id="1" /> Then he added,<n id="2" /> &#8220;At least there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

He followed<n id="1" /> God during the lifetime of<n id="2" /> Zechariah, who taught him how to honor God. As long as he followed<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc>, God caused him to succeed.<n id="4" />p>

But then Hezekiah and the residents of Jerusalem humbled themselves and abandoned their pride, and the <sc>Lordsc> was not angry with them for the rest of Hezekiah&#8217;s reign.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">As for the Levites,<n id="1" /> in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan and Jaddua the heads of families were recorded, as were the priests during the reign of Darius the Persian.