and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.

For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?

The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.

Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.

so that they may follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

You are to diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and the testimonies and statutes He has given you.

After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an outpost. As you approach the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place, preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Then the cherubim, with the wheels beside them, spread their wings, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.

And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

Then I told them, “You are holy to the LORD, and these articles are holy. The silver and gold are a freewill offering to the LORD, the God of your fathers.

God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.