2 Kings 7:11
7:11 The gatekeepers relayed the news to the royal palace.
2 Kings 7:2
7:2 An officer who was the king’s right-hand man
responded to the prophet,
“Look, even if the
Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?”
Elisha
said, “Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!”
2 Kings 18:26
18:26 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, “Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”
Psalms 127:1
Psalm 127
A song of ascents, by Solomon.
127:1 If the Lord does not build a house,
then those who build it work in vain.
If the Lord does not guard a city,
then the watchman stands guard in vain.
Mark 13:34-35
13:34 It is like a man going on a journey. He left his house and put his slaves
in charge, assigning
to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to stay alert.
13:35 Stay alert, then, because you do not know when the owner of the house will return – whether during evening, at midnight, when the rooster crows, or at dawn –