And there was no water for the community, and so they gathered themselves together against Moses and Aaron.

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

But if the accusation is true and the young woman was not a virgin,

They were assigned to the Kohathite clans of the Levites who were descendants of Aaron, ¹  for the first lot belonged to them.

The Israelites and the men hiding in ambush had arranged a signal. When the men hiding in ambush ¹  sent up a smoke signal from the city,

Samuel continued to grow, and the Lord was with him. None of his prophecies fell to the ground unfulfilled. ¹ 

So Saul feared David, because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, had no children to the day of her death.

Jonadab said to the king, “Look! The king’s sons have come! It’s just as I said!”

Then a messenger came to David and reported, “The men of Israel are loyal to Absalom!” ¹ 

When David got up the next morning, the Lord had already spoken ¹  to Gad the prophet, David’s seer:

May the Lord our God be with us, as he was with our ancestors. May he not abandon us or leave us.

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

After a while, ¹  the stream dried up because there had been no rain in the land.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem. ¹ 

Isaiah was still in the middle courtyard when the Lord told him, ¹ 

By the ninth day of the fourth month ¹  the famine in the city was so severe the residents ²  had no food.

Sheshan had no sons, only daughters. Sheshan had an Egyptian servant named Jarha.

Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader in earlier times, and the Lord was with him.

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