'Thus' in the Bible

the LORD sent a prophet to the people of Israel; and he said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of bondage;

Thus God requited the crime of Abim'elech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers;

and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,

And he said to them, "Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me: he has hired me, and I have become his priest."