One day he came there and stopped and went to the room upstairs to lie down.

The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.

He ordered his attendant Gehazi, "Call this Shunammite woman." So he called her and she stood before him.

Their territory went to Jezreel, and [included] Chesulloth, Shunem,

The Philistines came together and camped at Shunem. So Saul gathered all Israel, and they camped at Gilboa.

They searched for a beautiful girl throughout the territory of Israel; they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.

Barzillai was a very old man-- 80 years old-- and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the needs of the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.

His estate included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man among all the people of the east.

It is not [only] the old who are wise or the elderly who understand how to judge.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord and will never drink wine or beer. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit while still in his mother's womb.

But he urged them so strongly that they followed him and went into his house. He prepared a feast and baked unleavened bread for them, and they ate.

"Peace to you," said the old man. "I'll take care of everything you need. Only don't spend the night in the square."

She seduces him with her persistent pleading; she lures with her flattering talk.

"Then the master told the slave, 'Go out into the highways and lanes and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.

But they urged Him: "Stay with us, because it's almost evening, and now the day is almost over." So He went in to stay with them.

After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, "If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house." And she persuaded us.