If you do this, and God so commands you, you will be able to stand the strain, and all these people will also go to their homes in peace."

it will be a nation whose language you don't understand, whose stern appearance neither shows regard nor extends grace to anyone whether old or young.

They went out in the direction of the Jordan River, and the entire roadway was strewn with clothes and equipment that the Arameans had abandoned in their haste to leave! So the messengers returned and reported to the king.

And you carried the tent of your king and Saturn, your star god idols that you crafted for yourselves.

Fearing that we might run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the stern and began praying for daylight to come.

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and couldn't be moved, while the stern was broken to pieces by the force of the waves.