Then God said, "I certainly will be with you. And this will be the sign for you that it is I who sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will serve God on this mountain."

Now, go! I myself will help you with your speech, and I'll teach you what you are to say."

No one will be victorious against you for the rest of your life. I'll be with you just like I was with Moses I'll neither fail you nor abandon you.

As a result, whenever the LORD raised up leaders for them, the LORD remained present with their leader, delivering Israel from the control of their enemies during the lifetime of that leader. The LORD was moved with compassion by their groaning that had been caused by those who were oppressing and persecuting them.

The angel of the LORD appeared to him and told him, "The LORD is with you, you valiant warrior!"

David became more and more esteemed because the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies was with him.

"Isn't the LORD your God with you? Hasn't he surrounded you with comfort? He has delivered the inhabitants of the land into my control, and the land lies subdued both in the LORD's presence and before his people.

The LORD of the heavenly armies is with us; our refuge is the God of Jacob. Interlude

Take counsel together, but it will all be for nothing; go ahead and talk, but it will all be for nothing, for God is with us."

Don't be afraid, because I'm with you; don't be anxious, because I am your God. I keep on strengthening you; I'm truly helping you. I'm surely upholding you with my victorious right hand."

"See, a virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel,"

because where two or three have come together in my name, I am there among them."

teaching them to obey everything that I've commanded you. And remember, I am with you each and every day until the end of the age."

May the Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with all of you! Amen.

His father david

Asa practiced what the LORD his God considered to be right

Encouraged by what Oded's son Azariah the prophet had said in his prophecy, Asa removed the detestable idols from throughout the entire territories of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the LORD's altar that stood in front of the vestibule of the LORD's Temple.

Sought

So the Israelis practiced what the LORD considered to be evil by worshiping Canaanite deities.

Later on, as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelis again committed spiritual adultery with various Canaanite deities and appointed Baal-berith to be their god.

"How can you say, "I'm not defiled. I haven't gone after the Baals.'? Look at what you've done in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift young camel galloping aimlessly;