"I am here on the king's business," David answered. "He told me not to let anyone know what he sent me to do. As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.

Jacob answered, "I am your older son Esau; I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of the meat that I have brought you, so that you can give me your blessing."

Isaac said, "How did you find it so quickly, son?" Jacob answered, "The LORD your God helped me find it."

but asked again, "Are you really Esau?" "I am," he answered.

"Some men did come to my house," she answered, "but I don't know where they were from. They left at sundown before the city gate was closed. I didn't find out where they were going, but if you start after them quickly, you can catch them." (Now Rahab had taken the two spies up on the roof and hidden them under some stalks of flax that she had put there.)

(SEE 2:4)

Absalom's officials came to the house and asked the woman, "Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?" "They crossed the river," she answered. The men looked for them but could not find them, and so they returned to Jerusalem.

Keep me from going the wrong way, and in your goodness teach me your law.

I hate and detest all lies, but I love your law.

It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you, but if you trust the LORD, you are safe.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him in public, because he was clearly wrong.

The other Jewish believers also started acting like cowards along with Peter; and even Barnabas was swept along by their cowardly action.

No more lying, then! Each of you must tell the truth to the other believer, because we are all members together in the body of Christ.

Hezron had three sons: Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb.

Jerahmeel, the oldest son of Hezron, had five sons: Ram, the oldest, Bunah, Oren, Ozem, and Ahijah.

He sent a warning to the Kenites, a people whose ancestors had been kind to the Israelites when they came from Egypt: "Go away and leave the Amalekites, so that I won't kill you along with them." So the Kenites left.

In his vision he saw the Kenites, and uttered this prophecy: "The place where you live is secure, Safe as a nest set high on a cliff,

The descendants of Moses' father-in-law, the Kenite, went on with the people of Judah from Jericho, the city of palm trees, into the barren country south of Arad in Judah. There they settled among the Amalekites.

In the meantime Heber the Kenite had set up his tent close to Kedesh near the oak tree at Zaanannim. He had moved away from the other Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses.

The most fortunate of women is Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite--- the most fortunate of women who live in tents.