PETITION

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• Exodus 5:15

  Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

• Exodus 5:16

  No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, ‘Make brick!’ and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”

• Exodus 5:17

  But he said, “You are idle! You are idle! Therefore you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to Yahweh.’

• Exodus 5:18

  Go therefore now, and work, for no straw shall be given to you, yet you shall deliver the same number of bricks!”

• Numbers 27:1

  Then the daughters of Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph came near. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Tirzah.

• Numbers 27:2

  They stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, at the door of the Tent of Meeting, saying,

• Numbers 27:3

  “Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.

• Numbers 27:4

  Why should the name of our father be taken away from among his family, because he had no son? Give to us a possession among the brothers of our father.”

• Numbers 27:5

  Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

• Numbers 32:1

  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. When they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;

• Numbers 32:2

  the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,

• Numbers 32:3

  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

• Numbers 32:4

  the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”

• Numbers 32:5

  They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

• Numbers 36:1

  The heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the princes, the heads of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel.

• Numbers 36:2

  They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the children of Israel. My lord was commanded by Yahweh to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.

• Numbers 36:3

  If they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then will their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of our fathers, and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So will it be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.

• Numbers 36:4

  When the jubilee of the children of Israel shall be, then will their inheritance be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they shall belong. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

• Numbers 36:5

  Moses commanded the children of Israel according to Yahweh’s word, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph speaks right.

• Joshua 17:4

  They came to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the princes, saying, “Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers.” Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

• Joshua 17:14

  The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, “Why have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since we are a numerous people, because Yahweh has blessed us so far?”

• Joshua 17:16

  The children of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

• Joshua 21:1

  Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 21:2

  They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “Yahweh commanded through Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for our livestock.”

• 1 Kings 1:15

  Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.

• 1 Kings 1:16

  Bathsheba bowed, and showed respect to the king. The king said, “What would you like?”

• 1 Kings 1:17

  She said to him, “My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, ‘Assuredly Solomon your son shall reign after me, and he shall sit on my throne.’

• 1 Kings 1:18

  Now, behold, Adonijah reigns; and you, my lord the king, don’t know it.

• 1 Kings 1:19

  He has slain cattle and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the sons of the king, Abiathar the priest, and Joab the captain of the army; but he hasn’t called Solomon your servant.

• 1 Kings 1:20

  You, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, that you should tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

• 1 Kings 1:21

  Otherwise it will happen, when my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered criminals.”

• 1 Kings 12:1

  Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

• 1 Kings 12:2

  When Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was yet in Egypt, where he had fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam lived in Egypt,

• 1 Kings 12:3

  and they sent and called him), Jeroboam and all the assembly of Israel came, and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

• 1 Kings 12:4

  “Your father made our yoke difficult. Now therefore make the hard service of your father, and his heavy yoke which he put on us, lighter, and we will serve you.”

• 1 Kings 12:5

  He said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” The people departed.

• 1 Kings 12:6

  King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”

• 1 Kings 12:7

  They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”

• 1 Kings 12:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• 1 Kings 12:9

  He said to them, “What counsel do you give, that we may answer these people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Make the yoke that your father put on us lighter?’”

• 1 Kings 12:10

  The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Tell these people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but make it lighter to us;’ tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

• 1 Kings 12:11

  Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.’”

• 1 Kings 12:12

  So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king asked, saying, “Come to me again the third day.”

• 1 Kings 12:13

  The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.”

• 1 Kings 12:15

  So the king didn’t listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about from Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

• 1 Kings 12:16

  When all Israel saw that the king didn’t listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, “What portion have we in David? We don’t have an inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel departed to their tents.

• 1 Kings 12:17

  But as for the children of Israel who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

• 2 Kings 8:3

  At the end of seven years, the woman returned from the land of the Philistines. Then she went out to beg the king for her house and for her land.

• 2 Kings 8:6

  When the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed to her a certain officer, saying, “Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.”