“This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

When it became the turn of Esther daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai (who had raised her as if she were his own daughter) to go to the king, she did not request anything except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who was overseer of the women, had recommended. Yet Esther met with the approval of all who saw her.

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites, “In the evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt,

the oracle of the one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, although falling flat on the ground with eyes open:

Now at the end of the forty days and nights the Lord presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

An Ammonite or Moabite may not enter the assembly of the Lord; to the tenth generation none of their descendants shall ever do so,

So I am ready to burn up Baasha and his family, and make your family like the family of Jeroboam son of Nebat.

In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king over Israel. He ruled for twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was deported from its land.

From the mouths of children and nursing babies you have ordained praise on account of your adversaries, so that you might put an end to the vindictive enemy.

He lifted me out of the watery pit, out of the slimy mud. He placed my feet on a rock and gave me secure footing.

You saw the many breaks in the walls of the city of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

Yes, the descendants of Jonadab son of Rechab have carried out the orders that their ancestor gave them. But you people have not obeyed me!

The king of Babylon ordered them to be executed at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile away from its land.

He was given daily provisions by the king of Babylon for the rest of his life until the day he died.

ט (Tet) Those who died by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, those who waste away, struck down from lack of food.

“‘I will restore their fortunes, the fortunes of Sodom and her daughters, and the fortunes of Samaria and her daughters (along with your fortunes among them),

wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.