This is the Lord’s gate – the godly enter through it.

We must pay money for our own water; we must buy our own wood at a steep price.

But the Kohathites are not to go in to watch while the holy things are being covered, or they will die.”

They will come and tell about his saving deeds; they will tell a future generation what he has accomplished.

Enemies seek to destroy my life, but they will descend into the depths of the earth.

You hear prayers; all people approach you.

Hold them accountable for all their sins! Do not vindicate them!

The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

Every skilled person among you is to come and make all that the Lord has commanded:

Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?

Elisha died and was buried. Moabite raiding parties invaded the land at the beginning of the year.

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

Look, they come from far away! Look, some come from the north and west, and others from the land of Sinim!

Kings will come against it with their armies. They will encamp in siege all around it. Each of them will devastate the portion assigned to him.

They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

They rush into the city; they scale its walls. They climb up into the houses; they go in through the windows like a thief.

The Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come.

Of the birds after their kinds, and of the cattle after their kinds, and of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you so you can keep them alive.

“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.