“They shall besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So Sihon gathered all his people together, encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

The God of my strength, in whom I will trust; My shield and the horn of my salvation, My stronghold and my refuge; My Savior, You save me from violence.

As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.

He trusted in the Lord God of Israel, so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor who were before him.

Then the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria: “What confidence is this in which you trust?

You speak of having plans and power for war; but they are mere words. And in whom do you trust, that you rebel against me?

Now look! You are trusting in the staff of this broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?” ’

How then will you repel one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?

nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us; this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” ’

“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

And they were helped against them, and the Hagrites were delivered into their hand, and all who were with them, for they cried out to God in the battle. He heeded their prayer, because they put their trust in Him.

All those chosen as gatekeepers were two hundred and twelve. They were recorded by their genealogy, in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their trusted office.

For in this trusted office were four chief gatekeepers; they were Levites. And they had charge over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.

Mattithiah of the Levites, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the trusted office over the things that were baked in the pans.

“Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria: ‘In what do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

If He puts no trust in His servants, If He charges His angels with error,

Whose confidence shall be cut off, And whose trust is a spider’s web.

He deprives the trusted ones of speech, And takes away the discernment of the elders.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Even so, I will defend my own ways before Him.

If God puts no trust in His saints, And the heavens are not pure in His sight,

Let him not trust in futile things, deceiving himself, For futility will be his reward.

Job Trusts in His Redeemer

Then Job answered and said:

Will you trust him because his strength is great? Or will you leave your labor to him?