She lusted after the Assyrians – governors and officials, warriors in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.

“Remember the law of my servant Moses, to whom at Horeb I gave rules and regulations for all Israel to obey.

You are to engrave the two stones with the names of the sons of Israel with the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a seal; you are to have them set in gold filigree settings.

I prayed, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.

Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. He then sent letters by couriers on horses, who rode royal horses that were very swift.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions’ dens and the mountain haunts of the leopards.

Look! Like an eagle with outspread wings, a nation will soar up and swoop down on Bozrah. At that time the soldiers of Edom will be as fearful as a woman in labor.”

onyx stones, and other gems to be set in the ephod and in the breastpiece.

(the Sidonians call Hermon Sirion and the Amorites call it Senir),

The Lord our God made a covenant with us at Horeb.

Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar on the hill in the valley,

There was a man named Micah from the Ephraimite hill country.

These were their names: Ben-Hur was in charge of the hill country of Ephraim.

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought; he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the Lord’s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.

When the sovereign judge scatters kings, let it snow on Zalmon!

He lives in Salem; he dwells in Zion.

You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.

They made an image of a calf at Horeb, and worshiped a metal idol.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:

The cherubim spread their wings, and they rose up from the earth while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord’s temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.