(SEE 20:17)

Yet he has cheated me and changed my wages ten times. But God did not let him harm me.

When Jacob and his sons started to leave, great fear fell on the people of the nearby towns, and they did not pursue them.

After I have driven out the nations before you and extended your territory, no one will try to conquer your country during the three festivals.

It is the LORD who has kept you from taking revenge and killing your enemies. And now I swear to you by the living LORD that your enemies and all who want to harm you will be punished like Nabal.

The LORD has kept me from harming you. But I swear by the living God of Israel that if you had not hurried to meet me, all of Nabal's men would have been dead by morning!"

The LORD is our protector and glorious king, blessing us with kindness and honor. He does not refuse any good thing to those who do what is right.

The LORD controls the mind of a king as easily as he directs the course of a stream.

So I am going to fence her in with thorn bushes and build a wall to block her way.

She will run after her lovers but will not catch them. She will look for them but will not find them. Then she will say, "I am going back to my first husband---I was better off then than I am now."

I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?"

An offering is to be made if any of you sin against the LORD by refusing to return what another Israelite has left as a deposit or by stealing something from him or by cheating him

I have sinned against you---only against you--- and done what you consider evil. So you are right in judging me; you are justified in condemning me.

So I let them go their stubborn ways and do whatever they wanted.

The Mysterious Wickedness is already at work, but what is going to happen will not happen until the one who holds it back is taken out of the way.

And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.

"except the tree in the middle of it. God told us not to eat the fruit of that tree or even touch it; if we do, we will die."

Abimelech warned all the people: "Anyone who mistreats this man or his wife will be put to death."

Now, to deal with the matters you wrote about. A man does well not to marry.

And so the Lord says, "You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you.