Thursday in Season after Pentecost

20Verse 20. The people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing. 21Verse 21. And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22Verse 22. Solomon’s provisions for a single day were thirty cors of fine flour, sixty cors of meal, 23Verse 23. ten fat oxen, twenty range oxen, and a hundred sheep, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and fattened poultry. 24Verse 24. For Solomon had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates — over all the kingdoms from Tiphsah to Gaza — and he had peace on all sides. 25Verse 25. Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree. 26Verse 26. Solomon had 4,000 stalls for his chariot horses and 12,000 horses. 27Verse 27. Each month the governors in turn provided food for King Solomon and all who came to his table. They saw to it that nothing was lacking. 28Verse 28. Each one also brought to the required place their quotas of barley and straw for the chariot horses and other horses.

1Verse 1. Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2Verse 2. and told them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you. 3Verse 3. All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God. 4Verse 4. And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan. 5Verse 5. But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 6Verse 6. So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes. 7Verse 7. (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to their homes he blessed them, 8Verse 8. saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.” 9Verse 9. So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.