² Now bands of raiders^(A) from Aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served Naaman’s wife.

²³ When they sent men to spy out Bethel (formerly called Luz),^(A)

¹⁴ So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your brothers^(A) and with the flocks, and bring word back to me.” Then he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron.^(B)

When Joseph arrived at Shechem,

³⁰ When the believers^(A) learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea^(B) and sent him off to Tarsus.^(C)

David and Bathsheba

11 In the spring,^(A) at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab^(B) out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army.^(C) They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.^(D) But David remained in Jerusalem.

The Capture of Rabbah^(A)

20 In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, Joab led out the armed forces. He laid waste the land of the Ammonites and went to Rabbah^(B) and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. Joab attacked Rabbah and left it in ruins.^(C)

¹² remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners^(A) to the covenants of the promise,^(B) without hope^(C) and without God in the world.

¹³ “The days are coming,”^(A) declares the Lord,

²⁶ People will come from the towns of Judah and the villages around Jerusalem, from the territory of Benjamin and the western foothills, from the hill country and the Negev,^(A) bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and incense, and bringing thank offerings to the house of the Lord.