When our enemies heard that we were aware of their scheme and that God had frustrated it, each of us returned to his own work on the wall.

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

“Return, O faithless children, and I will heal your faithlessness.” “Here we are. We come to You, for You are the LORD our God.

You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor.

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

Then the woman said to her husband, “Behold, now I know that the one who often comes our way is a holy man of God.

When they arrived at the house of the LORD in Jerusalem, some of the heads of the families gave freewill offerings to rebuild the house of God on its original site.

Surely deception comes from the hills, and commotion from the mountains. Surely the salvation of Israel is in the LORD our God.

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.

And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.

Therefore the LORD God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Do not hide it from me. May God punish you, and ever so severely, if you hide from me anything He said to you.”

Let us lie down in our shame; let our disgrace cover us. We have sinned against the LORD our God, both we and our fathers; from our youth even to this day we have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God.”