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there were still no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no person to care for the ground,

After your great-great-grandchildren are born, your people will come to this land again. It will take that long, because I am not yet going to punish the Amorites for their evil behavior."

But I know that you and your officers do not yet fear the Lord God."

He has brought you and all your fellow Levites near to himself, yet now you want to be priests.

You have not yet come to a resting place, to the land the Lord your God will give you as your own.

Is any man engaged to a woman and not yet married to her? He may go home, because he might die in battle and someone else would marry her."

But there were still seven tribes of Israel that had not yet received their land.

But the leaders of Succoth said, "Why should we give your soldiers bread? You haven't caught Zebah and Zalmunna yet."

When Gideon came to Succoth, he said to the people of that city, "Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. You made fun of me by saying, ‘Why should we give bread to your tired men? You have not caught Zebah and Zalmunna yet.'"

At that time Israel did not have a king. And at that time the tribe of Dan was still looking for a land where they could live, a land of their own. The Danites had not yet been given their own land among the tribes of Israel.

Samuel did not yet know the Lord , and the Lord had not spoken directly to him yet.

They asked the Lord , "Has Saul come here yet?" The Lord said, "Yes. He's hiding behind the baggage."

Yet what David said was told to Saul, and he sent for David.

The Temple for the worship of the Lord had not yet been finished, so people were still sacrificing at altars in many places of worship.

David said, "We should build a great Temple for the Lord , which will be famous everywhere for its greatness and beauty. But my son Solomon is young. He hasn't yet learned what he needs to know, so I will prepare for the building of it." So David got many of the materials ready before he died.

King David said to all the Israelites who were gathered, "God chose my son Solomon, who is young and hasn't yet learned what he needs to know, but the work is important. This palace is not for people; it is for the Lord God.

They could not celebrate it at the normal time, because not enough priests had made themselves ready to serve the Lord , and the people had not yet gathered in Jerusalem.

On the first day of the seventh month they began to bring burnt offerings to the Lord , but the foundation of the Lord 's Temple had not yet been laid.

So Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the Temple of God in Jerusalem. From that day until now the work has been going on, but it is not yet finished."

The guards did not know where I had gone or what I was doing. I had not yet said anything to the Jewish people, the priests, the important men, the officers, or any of the others who would do the work.