So David and his men went on their way. But Shimei kept going along the side of the hill opposite him, yelling curses as he threw stones and dirt at them.

But he said, "Whatever happens, I want to go!" So Joab said to him, "Then go!" So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.

That day the people stole away to go to the city the way people who are embarrassed steal away in fleeing from battle.

Now when Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim, he crossed the Jordan with the king so he could send him on his way from there.

I will cross the Jordan with the king and go a short distance. Why should the king reward me in this way?

So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bicri. But the men of Judah stuck by their king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.

That's not the way things are. There is a man from the hill country of Ephraim named Sheba son of Bicri. He has rebelled against King David. Give me just this one man, and I will leave the city." The woman said to Joab, "This very minute his head will be thrown over the wall to you!"

The one true God is my mighty refuge; he removes the obstacles in my way.

All of Adonijah's guests panicked; they jumped up and rushed off their separate ways.

Then the king said to Shimei, "You are well aware of the way you mistreated my father David. The Lord will punish you for what you did.

In the same way he made doorposts of olive wood for the entrance to the main hall, only with four-sided pillars.

The palace where he lived was constructed in a similar way. He also constructed a palace like this hall for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had married.

On the top of each pillar, right above the bulge beside the latticework, there were two hundred pomegranate-shaped ornaments arranged in rows all the way around.

Under the rim all the way around it were round ornaments arranged in settings 15 feet long. The ornaments were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea."

He made the ten stands in this way. All of them were cast in one mold and were identical in measurements and shape.

then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

the Lord appeared to Solomon a second time, in the same way he had appeared to him at Gibeon.

For the Lord gave me strict orders, 'Do not eat or drink there and do not go home the way you came.'"

For the Lord gave me strict orders, 'Do not eat or drink there; do not go back the way you came.'"

After this happened, Jeroboam still did not change his evil ways; he continued to appoint common people as priests at the high places. Anyone who wanted the job he consecrated as a priest.

The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam's dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam's.

They divided up the land between them; Ahab went one way and Obadiah went the other.

Now the Lord energized Elijah with power; he tucked his robe into his belt and ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

The Lord said to him, "Go back the way you came and then head for the Desert of Damascus. Go and anoint Hazael king over Syria.

Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, "Which way did the Lord's spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?"

But the Lord's angelic messenger told Elijah the Tishbite, "Get up, go to meet the messengers from the king of Samaria. Say this to them: 'You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are on your way to seek an oracle from Baal Zebub the god of Ekron.

Therefore this is what the Lord says, "You will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die!"'" So Elijah went on his way.

When he arrived at the hill, he took them from the servants and put them in the house. Then he sent the men on their way.

He conquered all the land of Gilead, including the territory of Gad, Reuben, and Manasseh, extending all the way from the Aroer in the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He continued in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who had encouraged Israel to sin; he did not repudiate those sins.

But they did not repudiate the sinful ways of the family of Jeroboam, who encouraged Israel to sin; they continued in those sins. There was even an Asherah pole standing in Samaria.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin; he continued in those sins.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his ancestors had done. He did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin. During his reign,

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord; he did not repudiate the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat who encouraged Israel to sin.

The Lord solemnly warned Israel and Judah through all his prophets and all the seers, "Turn back from your evil ways; obey my commandments and rules that are recorded in the law. I ordered your ancestors to keep this law and sent my servants the prophets to remind you of its demands."

The Israelites followed in the sinful ways of Jeroboam son of Nebat and did not repudiate them.

Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears; I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came."

He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city," says the Lord.

So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

I will destroy Jerusalem the same way I did Samaria and the dynasty of Ahab. I will wipe Jerusalem clean, just as one wipes a plate on both sides.

Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord's temple.

The first time you did not carry it; that is why the Lord God attacked us, because we did not ask him about the proper way to carry it."

Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea."

then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel. Certainly you will then teach them the right way to live and send rain on your land that you have given your people to possess.

Zedekiah son of Kenaanah approached, hit Micaiah on the jaw, and said, "Which way did the Lord's spirit go when he went from me to speak to you?"

He posted guards at the gates of the Lord's temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

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 that the sound was heard a long way off.

They responded to us in the following way: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king of Israel built it and completed it.

I was embarrassed to request soldiers and horsemen from the king to protect us from the enemy along the way, because we had said to the king, "The good hand of our God is on everyone who is seeking him, but his great anger is against everyone who forsakes him."

On the twelfth day of the first month we began traveling from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from our enemy and from bandits along the way.

I also shook out my garment, and I said, "In this way may God shake out from his house and his property every person who does not carry out this matter. In this way may he be shaken out and emptied!" All the assembly replied, "So be it!" and they praised the LORD. Then the people did as they had promised.

But the former governors who preceded me had burdened the people and had taken food and wine from them, in addition to forty shekels of silver. Their associates were also domineering over the people. But I did not behave in this way, due to my fear of God.

They contacted me four times in this way, and I responded the same way each time.

The fifth time that Sanballat sent his assistant to me in this way, he had an open letter in his hand.

Isn't this the way your ancestors acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!"

The following events happened in the days of Ahasuerus. (I am referring to that Ahasuerus who used to rule over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces extending all the way from India to Ethiopia.)

And this very day the noble ladies of Persia and Media who have heard the matter concerning the queen will respond in the same way to all the royal officials, and there will be more than enough contempt and anger!

At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus -- for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women --

the woman would go to the king in the following way: Whatever she asked for would be provided for her to take with her from the harem to the royal palace.

"Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don't eat and don't drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. If I perish, I perish!"

Then King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, "Who is this individual? Where is this person to be found who is presumptuous enough to act in this way?"

The king's scribes were quickly summoned -- in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. They wrote out everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia -- a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all -- to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

"Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

"Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?

Certainly the Lord guards the way of the godly, but the way of the wicked ends in destruction.

Tremble with fear and do not sin! Meditate as you lie in bed, and repent of your ways! (Selah)

Lord, lead me in your righteousness because of those who wait to ambush me, remove the obstacles in the way in which you are guiding me!

The one true God gives me strength; he removes the obstacles in my way.

Make me understand your ways, O Lord! Teach me your paths!

The Lord is both kind and fair; that is why he teaches sinners the right way to live.

May he show the humble what is right! May he teach the humble his way!

The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.

For they do not understand the Lord's actions, or the way he carries out justice. The Lord will permanently demolish them.