1 Kings 11:15

Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

He put garrisons in Edom. Throughout all Edom, he put garrisons, and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

When Yahweh your God delivers it into your hand, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword;

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

Haven’t you, God, rejected us? You don’t go out with our armies, God.

Turn us again, God. Cause your face to shine, and we will be saved.

I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, “Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them.”

Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Your brother Israel says: You know all the travail that has happened to us;

Edom shall be a possession. Seir, his enemies, also shall be a possession, while Israel does valiantly.

David came to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there. Then he said, “Yahweh has broken my enemies before me, like the breach of waters.” Therefore he called the name of that place Baal Perazim.

I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

David struck also Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.

Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

Hadadezer sent, and brought out the Syrians who were beyond the River: and they came to Helam, with Shobach the captain of the army of Hadadezer at their head.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

David defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

Moab is my wash basin. I will throw my sandal on Edom. I shout in triumph over Philistia.”

Let the wilderness and its cities raise their voices, with the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing. Let them shout from the top of the mountains!

You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and every one of you defiles his neighbor’s wife. So should you possess the land?” ’

“As for me, behold, my covenant is with you. You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.

His mother said to him, “Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me.”

You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”

The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

On the third day, when they were sore, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword, came upon the unsuspecting city, and killed all the males.

They took their flocks, their herds, their donkeys, that which was in the city, that which was in the field,

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, and all the members of his household, with his livestock, all his animals, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan, and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.

Moses said to them, “Have you saved all the women alive?

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known man by lying with him.

and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

He who brought the news answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”

Samuel said, “What have you done?” Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that you didn’t come within the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves together at Michmash;

David earned a reputation when he returned from striking down eighteen thousand men of the Syrians in the Valley of Salt.

and keep the instruction of Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, his commandments, his ordinances, and his testimonies, according to that which is written in the law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do, and wherever you turn yourself.

God raised up an adversary to him, Rezon the son of Eliada, who had fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah.

There was no king in Edom. A deputy ruled.

In his days Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah, and made a king over themselves.

He killed ten thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt, and took Sela by war, and called its name Joktheel, to this day.

You have indeed struck Edom, and your heart has lifted you up. Enjoy the glory of it, and stay at home; for why should you meddle to your harm, that you fall, even you, and Judah with you?’ ”

Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah struck eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

He put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became servants to David. Yahweh gave victory to David wherever he went.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time from under his hand, because he had forsaken Yahweh, the God of his fathers.

Amaziah took courage, and led his people out, and went to the Valley of Salt, and struck ten thousand of the children of Seir.

For again the Edomites had come and struck Judah, and carried away captives.

Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.

Deliver me from my enemies, my God. Set me on high from those who rise up against me.

Don’t kill them, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your power, and bring them down, Lord our shield.

God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.

Save me, God, for the waters have come up to my neck!

God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.

Turn us, God of our salvation, and cause your indignation toward us to cease.

“I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David, my servant,

a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who has led me to Edom?

Haven’t you rejected us, God? You don’t go out, God, with our armies.

Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”

You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.

Yahweh, the Lord, the strength of my salvation, you have covered my head in the day of battle.

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian.

I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, who went to Babylon,’ says Yahweh; ‘for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.’ ”

“I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back; for I have mercy on them; and they will be as though I had not cast them off: for I am Yahweh their God, and I will hear them.

But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’ ”

it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”