So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal. She sent the letters to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

The men of his city, the elders and nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had commanded them, as was written in the letters she had sent them.

One day Elisha went to Shunem. A prominent woman who lived there persuaded him to eat some food. So whenever he passed by, he stopped there to eat.

So the woman got ready and did what the man of God said. She and her household lived as foreigners in the land of the Philistines for seven years.

They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites and the customs the kings of Israel had introduced.

Even Judah did not keep the commands of the Lord their God but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.

When they first lived there, they did not fear Yahweh. So the Lord sent lions among them, which killed some of them.

So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should fear Yahweh.

But the people of each nation were still making their own gods in the cities where they lived and putting them in the shrines of the high places that the people of Samaria had made.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went to the prophetess Huldah, wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem in the Second District. They spoke with her.

Yet he has no root in himself, but is short-lived. When pressure or persecution comes because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

They found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, peaceful, and quiet, for some Hamites had lived there previously.

I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.

One person could not see another, and for three days they did not move from where they were. Yet all the Israelites had light where they lived.

The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

indeed being exposed both by reproaches and afflictions, and while you became companions of those who lived so.