In each city there were shields and spears; he strongly fortified them. Judah and Benjamin belonged to him.

Abijah ascended Mount Zemaraim, in the Ephraimite hill country, and said: “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel!

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king and he reigned for eight years in Jerusalem.

He was twenty-five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned for sixteen years in Jerusalem.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for two years in Jerusalem.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned for thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

and his accomplishments, from start to finish, are recorded in the Scroll of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he ruled for eleven years in Jerusalem.

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in just fifty-two days.

“You saw the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and you heard their cry at the Red Sea.

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, and Jedaiah. These were the leaders of the priests and their colleagues in the days of Jeshua.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

Can food that is tasteless be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

“I am weary of my life; I will complain without restraint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

in whose hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all the human race.

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God.

He locks the waters in his clouds, and the clouds do not burst with the weight of them.

Now in this, you are not right – I answer you, for God is greater than a human being.