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Then Adonai your God will give you more than enough in everything you set out to do — the fruit of your body, the fruit of your livestock, and the fruit of your land will all do well; for Adonai will once again rejoice to see you do well, just as he rejoiced in your ancestors.

He said, ‘I will hide my face from them and see what will become of them; for they are a perverse generation, untrustworthy children.

For our enemies have no rock like our Rock — even they can see that!

See now that I, yes, I, am he; and there is no god beside me. I put to death, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal; no one saves anyone from my hand!

So you will see the land from a distance, but you will not enter the land I am giving to the people of Isra'el." Haftarah Ha'azinu: Sh'mu'el Bet (2 Samuel) 22:1–51 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ha'azinu: Romans 10:14 –21; 12:14–21; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 12:28–39

Adonai said to him, "This is the land concerning which I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov, ‘I will give it to your descendants.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over there."

and gave the people these orders: "When you see the ark for the covenant of Adonai your God and the cohanim, who are L'vi'im, carrying it, you are to leave your position and follow it.

because the people of Isra'el walked forty years in the desert until the whole nation, that is, the fighting men who had left Egypt, had died out; because they had not heeded what Adonai said. Adonai had sworn that he would not allow them to see the land which Adonai swore to their ancestors that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Now, as you see, we are in your hands; do to us whatever seems good and right to you."

Y'hoshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will be a witness against us; because it has heard all the words of Adonai which he said to us; therefore it will be a witness against you, in case you deny your God."

This is how I will test Isra'el, to see whether or not they will keep the way of Adonai , living according to it, as their ancestors did."

But after a while, during the wheat-harvest season, Shimshon went to see his wife. He brought a young goat for her and said to her father, "I want to go to my wife in her room." But he wouldn't let him.

When the man got up to leave with his concubine and servant, his father-in-law, the girl's father, said to him, "Look, it's almost evening. Please stay the night — you see that it's getting late. Stay on, enjoy yourself, and tomorrow get going early on your way home."

At a time when Isra'el is prospering, you will see a rival in my Dwelling; and never will anyone in your family live to old age.

Once, during that period, ‘Eli had gone to bed — his eyes had begun to grow dim, so that it was hard for him to see.

but watch to see if it goes up the road to Beit-Shemesh in its own territory. If it does, he is responsible for this great tragedy; if not, we will know that it is not his oppression which has been over us, but that what has been happening to us has been only by chance."

The people of Beit-Shemesh were harvesting their wheat in the valley when they looked up and saw the ark. They were so happy to see it!

The servant replied again to Sha'ul: "See, I have here in my hand a silver quarter-shekel [one-tenth of an ounce]. I will give it to the man of God to tell us which way to go."

Sh'mu'el said to all the people, "Do you see the man Adonai has chosen, that there is no one like him among all the people?" Then all the people shouted, "Long live the king!"

Now, here's the king you have chosen, the one you asked for. See, Adonai has put a king over you.