“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

Five of the virgins were foolish, and five were wise.

But Jesus rebuked him: “Silence! Come out of him!”

They began to salute him: “Hail, king of the Jews!”

and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all.

They did as ordered; they brought the five kings out of the cave to him – the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.

Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)

Some of them were in charge of the equipment and articles of the sanctuary, as well as the flour, wine, olive oil, incense, and spices.

along with their entire bodies, their backs, their hands, and their wings. The wheels of the four of them were full of eyes all around.

In the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, the king sent the scribe Shaphan son of Azaliah, son of Meshullam, to the Lord’s temple with these orders:

So I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say: ‘I will punish the king of Babylon and his land just as I punished the king of Assyria.

with twenty posts and their twenty bronze bases, with the hooks of the posts and their bands of silver.

At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers

They abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods – the gods of the nations who lived around them. They worshiped them and made the Lord angry.

He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord among us or not?”

Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.

from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Hammoth Dor, and Kartan, along with the grazing areas of each – a total of three cities.

“As for me, this is my covenant with you: You will be the father of a multitude of nations.

She said to him, “I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah, whom Milcah bore to Nahor.