It is as if I have been given fertile fields or received a beautiful tract of land. ¹ 

Israel and the Philistines drew up their battle lines opposite one another.

and Asa went out to oppose him. They deployed for battle in the Valley of Zephathah near Mareshah.

As he was speaking with them, the champion named Goliath, the Philistine from Gath, was coming up from the battle lines of the Philistines. He spoke the way he usually did, ¹  and David heard it.

The Gershonites included Ladan and Shimei.

He defeated the Moabites. He made them lie on the ground and then used a rope to measure them off. He put two-thirds of them to death and spared the other third. ¹  The Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute. ² 

On that day ¹  a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.

For we do not write you anything other than what ¹  you can read and also understand. But I hope that you will understand completely ² 

There were three rows of windows arranged in sets of three. ¹ 

These were their descendants:Ishmael’s firstborn son was Nebaioth; the others were ¹  Kedar, Adbeel, Mibsam,

They press out the olive oil between the rows of olive trees; ¹  they tread the winepresses while they are thirsty. ² 

Do not move an ancient boundary stone ¹  which was put in place by your ancestors. ² 

Do not move an ancient boundary stone, or take over ¹  the fields of the fatherless,

Then the soldiers cut the ropes ¹  of the ship’s boat and let it drift away. ² 

These are the families of the sons of Noah, according to their genealogies, by their nations, and from these the nations spread ¹  over the earth after the flood.

The man said to Eli, “I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli ¹  asked, “How did things go, my son?”

So David got up early in the morning and entrusted the flock to someone else who would watch over it. ¹  After loading up, he went just as Jesse had instructed him. He arrived at the camp ²  as the army was going out to the battle lines shouting its battle cry.

In the letter he wrote: “Station Uriah in the thick of the battle and then withdraw from him so he will be cut down and killed.”

When David was informed, he gathered all Israel, crossed the Jordan River, ¹  and marched against them. ²  David deployed his army against the Arameans for battle and they fought against him. ³ 

So now, let the power of my Lord ¹  be great, just as you have said,