"That's a hard thing to ask for," Elijah answered, "but if you see me while I'm being taken from you, it will happen for you. But if you don't see me, it won't happen."

Elisha replied, "Stop being afraid, because there are more with us than with them!"

But King Joram's daughter Jehosheba, who was Ahaziah's sister, rescued Ahaziah's son Joash from the group of the king's sons who were being executed and hid him and his nurse in her bedroom, concealing him from Athaliah so he was not put to death.

Jehoash spoke to the priests about all of the proceeds of the consecrated gifts that were being brought into the LORD's Temple, cash from every man who was traveling through the area, cash obtained by personal assessment, and all the cash that came through voluntary gifts into the LORD's Temple:

When he heard that it was being said about King Tirhakah of Ethiopia, "Look! He has come out to attack you!" he again sent messengers to Hezekiah.

All of Israel was enumerated by genealogy and recorded in the Book of the Kings of Israel as Judah was being taken captive into exile to Babylon due to their disobedience.

David realized that the LORD was affirming him as king over Israel, and that his government was being exalted in order to benefit his people Israel.

Meanwhile, the tent of the LORD that Moses had crafted in the desert, along with the altar of burnt offerings, were being stored at the high place in Gibeon at that time,

Then King David addressed the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God alone has chosen, is still young and inexperienced, and the task is great, since this structure will be a citadel to the LORD God and not for human beings.

and yet, will God truly reside on earth with human beings? Look! Neither the sky nor the highest heaven can contain you! How much less this Temple that I have built!

then hear from heaven, the place where you reside, and forgive, repaying each person according to all of his ways, since you know their hearts for you alone know the hearts of human beings

"When they sin against you because there isn't a single human being who doesn't sin and you become angry with them and deliver them over to their enemy, who takes them away captive to a land that's near or far away,

after being summoned. When Jeroboam and all of Israel arrived, they spoke to Rehoboam,

After he had humbled himself, the LORD stopped being angry with him, and did not destroy Rehoboam completely. Furthermore, conditions became good in Judah.

When the army of Judah turned around to look, they were being attacked from both front and rear, so they cried out to the LORD while the priests sounded their trumpets.

Abijah and his army defeated them in a tremendous slaughter that resulted in 500,000 special forces from Israel being slain.

"Pay careful attention to your duties, because you are judging not only for the sake of human beings but also for the LORD and he is present with you as you make your rulings.

"Pay attention, everyone in Judah, in Jerusalem, and you, too, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says to you: "Stop being afraid, and stop being discouraged because of this vast invasion force, because the battle doesn't belong to you, but to God.

But Amaziah refused to listen, because the situation was being orchestrated by God in order to turn them over to the control of their enemies because they had pursued those Edomite gods.

Now look! Our ancestors have been killed with swords and our sons, daughters, and wives are being held captive because of all of this.

so they published a decree that was circulated throughout Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan that they are to come celebrate the Passover to the LORD God of Israel in Jerusalem. The Passover had not been celebrated in great numbers as was being prescribed by the decree.

So don't be stiff-necked like your ancestors were. Instead, submit to the LORD, enter his sanctuary that he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God so that he'll stop being angry with you.

These genealogical enrollments also included all of their little children, their wives, and their sons and daughters for the entire assembly, because they were being faithful to consecrating themselves in holiness.

In doing so, they spoke about the God of Jerusalem as if he were like the gods of the nations of the earth that are made by the hands of human beings.

Shaphan took the book to the king and gave an additional report to the king, telling him "Everything that you've entrusted to your servants is being carried out.

After that, they offered all of the continual burnt offerings and the New Moon sacrifices for all of the designated festivals of the LORD that were being consecrated, along with all the voluntary offerings that were dedicated to the LORD.

Now a number of the priests, the Levities, and the leading officials of the elders who were very elderly had seen the former Temple with their own eyes. When they observed the foundation of the Temple being laid, they wept with a loud voice, while the rest of them shouted for joy.

This is to inform the king that we traveled to the Temple of the great God in the Judean province, which is being built with large stones and reinforced with wooden beams in its walls. The work proceeds diligently and is in capable hands.

Distribution was according to inventory and weight, with all weights being recorded at that time.

"The land you are entering to possess is a morally unclean land due to the moral uncleanness of the nations of the lands along with their abominations that has filled it from one end to the other with their impurities. So, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor marry their daughters to your sons, and under no circumstances are you to seek their well-being or their wealth, so that you may remain strong, enjoying the best things the land has to give, and so that you may establish an inheritance for your children forever.'

"Listen, our God, because we are being mocked. Let their insults fall back on them, and let them be dragged away as captives into exile.

But when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the repair work on the Jerusalem wall was progressing and that its breaches were being repaired, they flew into a rage.

It is reported among the nations and Gashmu confirms this that you and the Jews are planning a revolt, and that you're rebuilding the wall in order to declare yourself king. According to these reports, you also have appointed prophets to proclaim about you in Jerusalem, "There is a king in Judah!" Since these words are being reported to the king, come and let's meet together.

So all the people went to eat, to drink, to send something to those who had nothing, and to celebrate with great joy, because they understood the words that were being declared to them.

You admonished them to return to your Law, but they acted arrogantly, and would not listen to your commands. They sinned against your regulations, which if anyone obeys, he will live by them. They turned away, being stubborn and stiff-necked, and they did not listen.

Every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to find out about Esther's well-being and what was happening to her.

"Every servant of the king and every person in the king's provinces knows that for any man or woman who goes to the king in the inner court without being summoned there is only one law that he be put to death unless the king holds out the golden scepter to him. Only then he will live. For these last 30 days I've not been summoned to come to the king."

One day, divine beings presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them.

Some time later, divine beings again presented themselves to the LORD, and Satan accompanied them to present himself to the LORD.

Why didn't I die while I was still in the womb, or die while I was being born?

"What is a human being, that you make so much of him; that you set your affections on him,

Otherwise, I would speak without being terrified of him, because I'm not like that inside myself."

Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man?

Will your irrational babble silence people, and when you mock them, will you escape without being shamed?

An empty-headed person will gain understanding when a wild donkey is born a human being!"

and that the life of every living thing rests in his control, along with the breath of every living human being?

Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being?

Withdraw your hand far from me and keep me from being petrified with terror.

Human beings born by women are short-lived and full of trouble.

If a human being dies, will he live again? I will endure the entire time of my assigned service, until I am changed.

Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

"What is mankind, that he can be blameless? Or does being born of a woman mean he'll be in the right?

crying for him to arbitrate between this man and God; as a human being does with his fellow neighbor.

"He has made me a byword among people; I'm being spit on in the face.

His roots wither underneath, while his branches above are being cut off.

After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient?

"Can a human being be useful to God, since he, who is wise, is sufficient to himself?

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

"You aren't right about this; My response is that God is greater than human beings.

"He is being reproved by painful bed rest, with continual aching in his bones.

Yes, Job, his eyes constantly watch the behavior of human beings; he carefully observes their every step.

Your wickedness affects only yourself; and your righteousness, only human beings.

All of mankind sees him; human beings observe him from afar off."

while the morning stars sang together and all the divine beings shouted joyfully?

to bring rain upon a land without inhabitants, a desert in which no human beings live,

"Because the poor are being oppressed, because the needy are sighing, I will now arise," says the LORD, "I will establish in safety those who yearn for it."

The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

Therefore, my heart is glad, my whole being rejoices, and my body will dwell securely.

Ascribe to the LORD, you heavenly beings; ascribe to the LORD glory and strength.

When the LORD looks down from heaven, he observes every human being.

Indeed, I am being set up for a fall, and I am continuously reminded of my pain.

I delight to do your will, my God. Your Law is part of my inner being."

For your sake we are being killed all day long. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

Human beings are a mere vapor, while people in high positions are not what they appear. When they are placed on the scales, they weigh nothing; even when weighed together, they are less than nothing.

Come and see the awesome works of God on behalf of human beings:

I am being mocked because of you. Dishonor overwhelms me.

Get up, God, and prosecute your case remember that you're being scorned by fools all day long.

But he, being merciful, forgave their iniquity and didn't destroy them; He restrained his anger and didn't vent all his wrath.

to make their blood flow like water around Jerusalem, with no one being buried.

God takes his stand in the divine assembly; among the divine beings he renders judgment:

However, as all human beings do, you will die, and like other rulers, you will fall.'

Restore us, God of our salvation, and stop being angry with us.

I will praise you, Lord my God, with my whole being; and I will honor your name continuously.

For who in the skies compares to the LORD? Who is like the LORD among the divine beings?

But I will not cut off my gracious love from him, and I will not stop being faithful.

Remember how short my lifetime is! How powerless have you created all human beings!

The LORD knows the thoughts of human beings that they are futile.

For the LORD is an awesome God; a great king above all divine beings.

For you, LORD, are the Most High above all the earth; you are exalted high above all divine beings.

The LORD continuously does what is right, executing justice for all who are being oppressed.

I will sing to the LORD with my whole being; I will sing to my God continually!

My heart is firm, God; I will sing and praise you with my whole being.

He wore curses like a garment may they enter his inner being like water and his bones like oil.

The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but he gave the earth to human beings.

The idols of the nations are silver and gold, worked by the hands of human beings.

LORD, I thank you with all of my heart; because you heard the words that I spoke, I will sing your praise before the heavenly beings.

My frame was not hidden from you while I was being crafted in a hidden place, knit together in the depths of the earth.

LORD, what are human beings, that you should care about them, or mortal man, that you should think about him?

Do not look to nobles, nor to mere human beings who cannot save.

Indeed, the LORD will be your confidence, and he will keep your foot from being caught.