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See, I am going to wait at the fords of the wilderness until word comes from you to inform me."

David then said, "What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah, that you should this day be an adversary to me? Should any man be put to death in Israel today? For do I not know that I am king over Israel today?"

I am now eighty years old. Can I know between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

So he drew near to her, and the woman said, "Are you Joab?" And he answered, "I am." Then she said to him, "Listen to the words of your maidservant." And he answered, "I am listening."

I am of those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You are seeking to put to death a city, even a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up the inheritance of Yahweh?"

I call upon Yahweh, who is worthy to be praised,And I am saved from my enemies.

"Go and speak to David, ‘Thus says Yahweh, "I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, and I will do that to you."'"

Then David said to Gad, "I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of Yahweh, for His compassions are abundant. But do not let me fall into the hand of man."

"I am going the way of all the earth. So you shall be strong, and be a man.

So now, I am making one request of you; do not turn me away." And she said to him, "Speak."

Then she said, "I am making one small request of you; do not turn me away." And the king said to her, "Ask, my mother, for I will not turn you away."

So now, O Yahweh my God, You have made Your slave king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in.

So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, "Are you the man of God who came from Judah?" And he said, "I am."

And he said to him, "I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of Yahweh, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.'" But he dealt falsely with him.

Now it happened as Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, that he said, "Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

therefore behold, I am bringing evil on the house of Jeroboam: I will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bond and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.

behold, I am going to sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

But she said, "As Yahweh your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die."

Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, have You also brought calamity to the widow with whom I am sojourning, by causing her son to die?"

Then Elijah said to the people, "I alone am left a prophet of Yahweh, but Baal's prophets are 450 men.