Leaders Buried in the Promised Land

After this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110.

“Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

“‘But I will not take the entire kingdom from Solomon at this time. For the sake of my servant David, the one whom I chose and who obeyed my commands and decrees, I will keep Solomon as leader for the rest of his life.

“Now go and say to my servant David, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared: I took you from tending sheep in the pasture and selected you to be the leader of my people Israel.

I sent them to Iddo, the leader of the Levites at Casiphia, to ask him and his relatives and the Temple servants to send us ministers for the Temple of God at Jerusalem.

joined their leaders and bound themselves with an oath. They swore a curse on themselves if they failed to obey the Law of God as issued by his servant Moses. They solemnly promised to carefully follow all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the Lord our Lord:

The Temple servants, however, whose leaders were Ziha and Gishpa, all lived on the hill of Ophel.

What sorrow for the land ruled by a servant, the land whose leaders feast in the morning.

Yet Thebes fell, and her people were led away as captives. Her babies were dashed to death against the stones of the streets. Soldiers threw dice to get Egyptian officers as servants. All their leaders were bound in chains.

But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,

But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,

But among you it will be different. Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant.