The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spoke to me, and that swore to me, saying, To your descendents will I give this land; he shall send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from there.
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I do not seek your possessions, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful appearance: but the man was rude and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.