The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

My shield is with God, who saves the upright in heart.

Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

Before the lamp of God had gone out, Samuel was lying down in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was located.

May God punish Abner, and ever so severely, if I do not do for David what the LORD has sworn to him:

Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.

Only acknowledge your guilt, that you have rebelled against the LORD your God. You have scattered your favors to foreign gods under every green tree and have not obeyed My voice,’” declares the LORD.

Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.

Solomon also made all the furnishings for the house of God: the golden altar; the tables on which was placed the Bread of the Presence;