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But Naomi said, "Return, my daughters. Why should you go with me? Have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will be put to death in the prime of life.

and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of Yahweh where the ark of God was,

Then Yahweh called yet again, "Samuel!" So Samuel arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." But he answered, "I did not call, my son; go back, lie down."

Now Samuel did not yet know Yahweh, nor had the word of Yahweh yet been revealed to him.

But you have today rejected your God, who saves you from all your calamities and your distresses; yet you have said, ‘No, but set a king over us!' So now, take your stand before Yahweh by your tribes and by your clans."

Therefore they inquired further of Yahweh, "Has the man come here yet?" So Yahweh said, "Behold, he is hiding himself by the baggage."

And Samuel said to the people, "Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following Yahweh, but serve Yahweh with all your heart.

And Samuel said to Jesse, "Are these all the young men?" And he said, "There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is shepherding the sheep." Then Samuel said to Jesse, "Send and bring him, for we will not turn around until he comes here."

Yet David swore again, saying, "Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.' But truly as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death."

And you have declared today that you have done good to me, that Yahweh surrendered me into your hand, and yet you did not kill me.

Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not dishonored, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with them, while we were in the field.

Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, "Am I a dog's head that belongs to Judah? Today I show lovingkindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.

Then the Philistines yet again came up and spread themselves out in the valley of Rephaim.

And yet this was a small thing in Your eyes, O Lord Yahweh, for You have spoken also of the house of Your slave concerning the distant future. And this is the law of man, O Lord Yahweh.

Yet You have established for Yourself Your people Israel as Your own people forever, and You, O Yahweh, have become their God.

Then David said, "Is there yet anyone left of the house of Saul, that I may show him lovingkindness for Jonathan's sake?"

And the king said, "Is there not yet anyone of the house of Saul to whom I may show the lovingkindness of God?" And Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan who is crippled in both feet."

For we will surely die and are like water spilled on the ground which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away life, but thinks up ways so that the banished one will not be cast out from him.

Then Joab said, "I will not wait around here before you." So he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.