He prayed, " LORD, God of my master Abraham, give me success today and keep your promise to my master.

Give praise to the LORD, the God of Shem! Canaan will be the slave of Shem.

May the Most High God, who gave you victory over your enemies, be praised!" And Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of all the loot he had recovered.

and said, "Praise the LORD, who saved you from the king and the people of Egypt! Praise the LORD, who saved his people from slavery!

The women said to Naomi, "Praise the LORD! He has given you a grandson today to take care of you. May the boy become famous in Israel!

David said to her, "Praise the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!

When David heard that Nabal had died, he said, "Praise the LORD! He has taken revenge on Nabal for insulting me and has kept me his servant from doing wrong. The LORD has punished Nabal for his evil." Then David sent a proposal of marriage to Abigail.

Ahimaaz called out a greeting to the king, threw himself down to the ground before him, and said, "Praise the LORD your God, who has given you victory over the men who rebelled against Your Majesty!"

There in front of the whole assembly King David praised the LORD. He said, "LORD God of our ancestor Jacob, may you be praised forever and ever!

All riches and wealth come from you; you rule everything by your strength and power; and you are able to make anyone great and strong.

Praise the Lord, who carries our burdens day after day; he is the God who saves us.

Praise the LORD, the God of Israel! He alone does these wonderful things.

Praise his glorious name forever! May his glory fill the whole world. Amen! Amen!

"Let us praise the Lord, the God of Israel! He has come to the help of his people and has set them free.

Let us give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! For in our union with Christ he has blessed us by giving us every spiritual blessing in the heavenly world.

To the eternal King, immortal and invisible, the only God---to him be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.

I am not worth all the kindness and faithfulness that you have shown me, your servant. I crossed the Jordan with nothing but a walking stick, and now I have come back with these two groups.

He kept his promise to the people of Israel with loyalty and constant love for them. All people everywhere have seen the victory of our God.

The LORD is good; his love is eternal and his faithfulness lasts forever.

You will show your faithfulness and constant love to your people, the descendants of Abraham and of Jacob, as you promised our ancestors long ago.

God gave the Law through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

I knelt down and worshiped the LORD. I praised the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me straight to my master's relative, where I found his daughter for my master's son.

Remember the LORD in everything you do, and he will show you the right way.

I have taught you wisdom and the right way to live.

Always remember what you have learned. Your education is your life---guard it well.

I walk the way of righteousness; I follow the paths of justice,

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives."

Then Abram said to Lot, "We are relatives, and your men and my men shouldn't be quarreling.

When Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his people, the Hebrews, and he saw how they were forced to do hard labor. He even saw an Egyptian kill a Hebrew, one of Moses' own people.

The next day he went back and saw two Hebrew men fighting. He said to the one who was in the wrong, "Why are you beating up a fellow Hebrew?"