And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”

The LORD our God said to us at Horeb: “You have stayed at this mountain long enough.

The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

King Cyrus also brought out the articles belonging to the house of the LORD that Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from Jerusalem and placed in the temple of his gods.

That night God appeared to Solomon and said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”

Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”

God called the expanse “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”

Solomon replied to God: “You have shown much loving devotion to my father David, and You have made me king in his place.