"Is he well?" he asked. "He is well," they answered. "Look, here comes his daughter Rachel with his flock."

Joseph answered, "I cannot, Your Majesty, but God will give a favorable interpretation."

One day Jesse said to David, "Take a half-bushel of this roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread, and hurry with them to your brothers in the camp.

And take these ten cheeses to the commanding officer. Find out how your brothers are getting along and bring back something to show that you saw them and that they are well.

"Is the young man Absalom all right?" the king asked. The slave answered, "I wish that what has happened to him would happen to all your enemies, sir, and to all who rebel against you."

The punishment for their murders will fall on Joab and on his descendants forever. But the LORD will always give success to David's descendants who sit on his throne."

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

Work for the good of the cities where I have made you go as prisoners. Pray to me on their behalf, because if they are prosperous, you will be prosperous too.

saying, "If you only knew today what is needed for peace! But now you cannot see it!

She died in Hebron in the land of Canaan, and Abraham mourned her death.

Jacob went to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

They went first into the southern part of the land and came to Hebron, where the clans of Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of a race of giants called the Anakim, lived. (Hebron was founded seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him the city of Hebron as his possession.

Before this, Hebron was called the city of Arba. (Arba had been the greatest of the Anakim.) There was now peace in the land.