One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

One day Jonathan son of Saul said to the young man bearing his armor, “Come, let us cross over to the Philistine outpost on the other side.” But Jonathan did not tell his father.

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and there was food every day for Elijah and the woman and her household.

Before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard, the word of the LORD came to him, saying,

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.

But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.

And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight in God.’

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.