So a thousand from every tribe, twelve thousand armed for battle in all, were provided out of the thousands of Israel.

Year after year visitors brought their gifts, which included items of silver, items of gold, clothes, perfume, spices, horses, and mules.

When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him.

Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them,

From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach is satisfied, with the product of his lips is he satisfied.

Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.

His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees yielding perfume. His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.

“And you, son of man, take a brick and set it in front of you. Inscribe a city on it – Jerusalem.

Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for the region of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you!”

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

Then some of the residents of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?

Someone who rejected the law of Moses was put to death without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

From Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to those temporarily residing abroad (in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, the province of Asia, and Bithynia) who are chosen

The prophet Jehu son of Hanani received from the Lord the message predicting the downfall of Baasha and his family because of all the evil Baasha had done in the sight of the Lord. His actions angered the Lord (including the way he had destroyed Jeroboam’s dynasty), so that his family ended up like Jeroboam’s.

Just like their relatives, the descendants of Aaron, they also cast lots before King David, Zadok, Ahimelech, the leaders of families, the priests, and the Levites. The families of the oldest son cast lots along with the those of the youngest.

“The Lord God of Israel who rules over all also has something to say about Ahab son of Kolaiah and Zedekiah son of Maaseiah, who are prophesying lies to you and claiming my authority to do so. ‘I will hand them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and he will execute them before your very eyes.

For the outlook of the flesh is death, but the outlook of the Spirit is life and peace,

“‘If a man consecrates to the Lord some of his own landed property, the conversion value must be calculated in accordance with the amount of seed needed to sow it, a homer of barley seed being priced at fifty shekels of silver.

Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father’s procreative power – to him should go the right of the firstborn.