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As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.
And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers.
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
And his brethren, men of valour, were two thousand and seven hundred chief fathers, whom king David made rulers over the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, for every matter pertaining to God, and affairs of the king.
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house of the LORD; and they prepared them,
For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.
Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God.
My defence is of God, which saveth the upright in heart.
I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
Then it shall be, that, when ye eat of the bread of the land, ye shall offer up an heave offering unto the LORD.
The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillers; and they shall lift up a shout against thee.
And Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in Michmash.
