And Ahijah went on to say to Jeroboam's wife, "Now go back home. As soon as you enter the town, your son will die.

All the people of Israel will mourn for him and bury him. He will be the only member of Jeroboam's family who will be properly buried, because he is the only one with whom the LORD, the God of Israel, is pleased.

There had never been a king like him before, who served the LORD with all his heart, mind, and strength, obeying all the Law of Moses; nor has there been a king like him since.

The LORD said, "I will do to Judah what I have done to Israel: I will banish the people of Judah from my sight, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and the Temple, the place I said was where I should be worshiped."

While Josiah was king, King Neco of Egypt led an army to the Euphrates River to help the emperor of Assyria. King Josiah tried to stop the Egyptian army at Megiddo and was killed in battle.

Good people die, and no one understands or even cares. But when they die, no calamity can hurt them.

David fled from the city of Gath and went to a cave near the town of Adullam. When his brothers and the rest of the family heard that he was there, they joined him.

David saw that Saul was out to kill him. David was at Horesh, in the wilderness near Ziph.

Some people from Ziph went to Saul at Gibeah and said, "David is hiding out in our territory at Horesh on Mount Hachilah, in the southern part of the Judean wilderness.

Find out exactly the places where he hides, and be sure to bring back a report to me right away. Then I will go with you, and if he is still in the region, I will hunt him down, even if I have to search the whole land of Judah."

When Saul came back from fighting the Philistines, he was told that David was in the wilderness near Engedi.

He came to a cave close to some sheep pens by the road and went in to relieve himself. It happened to be the very cave in which David and his men were hiding far back in the cave.

Some men from Ziph came to Saul at Gibeah and told him that David was hiding on Mount Hachilah at the edge of the Judean wilderness.

"Leave this place and go east and hide yourself near Cherith Brook, east of the Jordan.

and when Jezebel was killing the LORD's prophets, Obadiah took a hundred of them, hid them in caves in two groups of fifty, and provided them with food and water.)

Haven't you heard that when Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD I hid a hundred of them in caves, in two groups of fifty, and supplied them with food and water?

There he went into a cave to spend the night. Suddenly the LORD spoke to him, "Elijah, what are you doing here?"

I call to the LORD for help; I plead with him.

I bring him all my complaints; I tell him all my troubles.

When I look beside me, I see that there is no one to help me, no one to protect me. No one cares for me.

Listen to my cry for help, for I am sunk in despair. Save me from my enemies; they are too strong for me.