Sing to him! Make music to him! Tell about all his miraculous deeds!

"So now, say this to my servant David: 'This is what the Lord who commands armies says: "I took you from the pasture and from your work as a shepherd to make you a leader of my people Israel.

I was with you wherever you went and I defeated all your enemies before you. Now I will make you as famous as the great men of the earth.

He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

From Tibhath and Kun, Hadadezer's cities, David took a great deal of bronze. (Solomon used it to make the big bronze basin called "The Sea," the pillars, and other bronze items.

Joab replied, "May the Lord make his army a hundred times larger! My master, O king, do not all of them serve my master? Why does my master want to do this? Why bring judgment on Israel?"

David said, "My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. Therefore I will make preparations for its construction." So David made extensive preparations before he died.

All these were the sons of Heman, the king's prophet. God had promised him these sons in order to make him prestigious. God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the Lord, numbered two hundred eighty-eight.

David did not count the males twenty years old and under, for the Lord had promised to make Israel as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Make my son Solomon willing to obey your commands, rules, and regulations, and to complete building the palace for which I have made preparations."

Now give me wisdom and discernment so I can effectively lead this nation. Otherwise no one is able to make judicial decisions for this great nation of yours."

God said to Solomon, "Because you desire this, and did not ask for riches, wealth, and honor, or for vengeance on your enemies, and because you did not ask for long life, but requested wisdom and discernment so you can make judicial decisions for my people over whom I have made you king,

He designated 70,000 as common laborers, 80,000 as stonecutters in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.

and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord's temple were made from polished bronze.

listen from heaven and make a just decision about your servants' claims. Condemn the guilty party, declare the other innocent, and give both of them what they deserve.

then I will remove you from my land I have given you, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and I will make you an object of mockery and ridicule among all the nations.

May the Lord your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! Because of your God's love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions."

Rehoboam traveled to Shechem, for all Israel had gathered in Shechem to make Rehoboam king.

"Your father made us work too hard! Now if you lighten the demands he made and don't make us work as hard, we will serve you."

My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh.'"

and followed the advice of the younger ones. He said, "My father imposed heavy demands on you; I will make them even heavier. My father punished you with ordinary whips; I will punish you with whips that really sting your flesh."

The Lord says this: "Do not attack and make war with your brothers. Each of you go home, for I have caused this to happen."'" They obeyed the Lord and called off the attack against Jeroboam.

"I want to make a treaty with you, like the one our fathers made. See, I have sent you silver and gold. Break your treaty with King Baasha of Israel, so he will retreat from my land."

The Lord put fear into all the kingdoms surrounding Judah; they did not make war with Jehoshaphat.

The king said to him, "How many times must I make you solemnly promise in the name of the Lord to tell me only the truth?"

He told the judges, "Be careful what you do, for you are not judging for men, but for the Lord, who will be with you when you make judicial decisions.

Respect the Lord and make careful decisions, for the Lord our God disapproves of injustice, partiality, and bribery."

They agreed to make large seagoing merchant ships; they built the ships in Ezion Geber.

After about two years his intestines came out because of the disease, so that he died a very painful death. His people did not make a bonfire to honor him, as they had done for his ancestors.

When they were finished, they brought the rest of the silver to the king and Jehoiada. They used it to make items for the Lord's temple, including items used in the temple service and for burnt sacrifices, pans, and various other gold and silver items. Throughout Jehoiada's lifetime, burnt sacrifices were offered regularly in the Lord's temple.

Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

Then the priests slaughtered them. They offered their blood as a sin offering on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, because the king had decreed that the burnt sacrifice and sin offering were for all Israel.

I will not make Israel again leave the land I gave to their ancestors, provided that they carefully obey all I commanded them, the whole law, the rules and regulations given to Moses."

Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the Lord commanded through Moses."

May God who makes his name to reside there overthrow any king or nation who reaches out to cause such change so as to destroy this temple of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have given orders. Let them be carried out with precision!"

On the first day of the first month he had determined to make the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.

and that they should make a proclamation and disseminate this message in all their cities and in Jerusalem: "Go to the hill country and bring back olive branches and branches of wild olive trees, myrtle trees, date palms, and other leafy trees to construct temporary shelters, as it is written."

for the loaves of presentation and for the regular grain offerings and regular burnt offerings, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the appointed meetings, for the holy offerings, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the temple of our God.

Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.

"Have I ever said, 'Give me something, and from your fortune make gifts in my favor'?

"What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

But if you will look to God, and make your supplication to the Almighty,

he makes the Bear, Orion, and the Pleiades, and the constellations of the southern sky;

If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, and many will seek your favor.

He leads counselors away stripped and makes judges into fools.

He makes nations great, and destroys them; he extends the boundaries of nations and disperses them.

He deprives the leaders of the earth of their understanding; he makes them wander in a trackless desert waste.

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

"How long until you make an end of words? You must consider, and then we can talk.

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.

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?

You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.

Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

I said to myself, 'Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.'

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

For he says, 'It does not profit a man when he makes his delight with God.'

who teaches us more than the wild animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

Do you make it leap like a locust? Its proud neighing is terrifying!

It makes its tail stiff like a cedar, the sinews of its thighs are tightly wound.

Will it make numerous supplications to you, will it speak to you with tender words?

Will it make a pact with you, so you could take it as your slave for life?

Arrows do not make it flee; slingstones become like chaff to it.

It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,

You make me happier than those who have abundant grain and wine.

I will lie down and sleep peacefully, for you, Lord, make me safe and secure.

May the evil deeds of the wicked come to an end! But make the innocent secure, O righteous God, you who examine inner thoughts and motives!

and make them a little less than the heavenly beings? You grant mankind honor and majesty;

He judges the world fairly; he makes just legal decisions for the nations.

Lord, you have heard the request of the oppressed; you make them feel secure because you listen to their prayer.

He despises a reprobate, but honors the Lord's loyal followers. He makes firm commitments and does not renege on his promise.

their troubles multiply, they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.

Lord, you give me stability and prosperity; you make my future secure.

Make a just decision on my behalf! Decide what is right!

You give me strength for battle; you make my foes kneel before me.

You make my enemies retreat; I destroy those who hate me.

You rescue me from a hostile army; you make me a leader of nations; people over whom I had no authority are now my subjects.

The one true God completely vindicates me; he makes nations submit to me.

The Lord's precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord's commands are pure and give insight for life.

For the music director; a psalm of David. May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure!

For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

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

He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.

Then make sure you don't speak evil words or use deceptive speech!

For they do not try to make peace with others, but plan ways to deceive those who are unsuspecting.

Do not let arrogant men overtake me, or let evil men make me homeless!

For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of David. I decided, "I will watch what I say and make sure I do not sin with my tongue. I will put a muzzle over my mouth while in the presence of an evil man."

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools' insults!

Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.

All your garments are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.

Your sons will carry on the dynasty of your ancestors; you will make them princes throughout the land.

We heard about God's mighty deeds, now we have seen them, in the city of the Lord, the invincible Warrior, in the city of our God. God makes it permanently secure. (Selah)