I will proclaim your greatness through the coming years, ¹  then the nations will praise you ²  forever.

so that the rest of humanity ¹  may seek the Lord, namely, ²  all the Gentiles ³  I have called to be my own,’ ⁴  says the Lord, ⁵  who makes these things

You must not worship the Lord your God the way they worship.

the men of Kiriath Jearim, ¹  Kephirah and Beeroth: 743;

The men of Bethlehem ¹  and Netophah, 188;

the men of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah, and Beeroth, 743;

He makes nations great, ¹  and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses ²  them. ³ 

They asked for food, ¹  and he sent quails; he satisfied them with food from the sky. ² 

Righteousness exalts ¹  a nation, but sin is a disgrace ²  to any people.

My hand discovered the wealth of the nations, as if it were in a nest, as one gathers up abandoned eggs, I gathered up the whole earth. There was no wing flapping, or open mouth chirping.” ¹ 

It is trampled underfoot by the feet of the oppressed, by the soles of the poor.”

So the Lord said, ¹  “Hear, you nations! Be witnesses and take note of what will happen to these people. ² 

They will attack ¹  you with weapons, ²  chariots, wagons, and with a huge army; ³  they will array themselves against you on every side with large shields, small shields, and helmets. I will assign them the task of judgment; ⁴  they will punish you according to their laws.

The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

and because lawlessness will increase so much, the love of many will grow cold.

They came from Ephraim, who uprooted Amalek, ¹  they follow ²  after you, Benjamin, with your soldiers. From Makir leaders came down, from Zebulun came ³  the ones who march carrying ⁴  an officer’s staff.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their armies. There were about fifteen thousand survivors from the army of the eastern peoples; a hundred and twenty thousand sword-wielding soldiers had been killed. ¹ 

Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. ¹ 

The Lord was angry at Amaziah and sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why are you following ¹  these gods ²  that could not deliver their own people from your power?” ³ 

People were unable to tell the difference between the sound of joyous shouting and the sound of the people’s weeping, for the people were shouting so loudly ¹  that the sound was heard a long way off.