Then Joshua executed them ¹  and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army ¹  until no survivors remained.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword ¹  – no one who breathed remained – and burned ²  Hazor.

My countrymen ¹  who accompanied ²  me frightened the people, ³  but I remained loyal to the Lord my God. ⁴ 

The rest of the Kohathite clans of the Levites were allotted cities from the tribe of Ephraim.

The men of Zebulun did not conquer the people living in Kitron and Nahalol. ¹  The Canaanites lived among them and were forced to do hard labor.

There was a man named Manoah from Zorah, from the Danite tribe. His wife was infertile and childless. ¹ 

They worshiped ¹  Micah’s carved image ²  the whole time God’s authorized shrine ³  was in Shiloh.

So the people came to Bethel ¹  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ² 

Then Elkanah went back home to Ramah. But the boy was serving the Lord under the supervision of ¹  Eli the priest.

David and four hundred men continued the pursuit, but two hundred men who were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor stayed there.

But Zadok the priest, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, Nathan the prophet, Shimei, Rei, and David’s elite warriors ¹  did not ally themselves ²  with Adonijah.

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out completely). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews, and they continue in that role to this very day. ¹ 

The high places were not eliminated, yet Asa was wholeheartedly devoted to the Lord throughout his lifetime. ¹ 

When they came back, Elisha ¹  was staying in Jericho. He said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”

So the Lord was furious ¹  with Israel and rejected them; ²  only the tribe of Judah was left.

He was loyal to ¹  the Lord and did not abandon him. ²  He obeyed the commandments which the Lord had given to ³  Moses.

The people were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

These are the men David put in charge of music in the Lord’s sanctuary, ¹  after the ark was placed there.

In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them. ¹  Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.