You must also anoint the large basin and its pedestal, and you are to sanctify it.

“‘Then the priest must take all its fat and offer the fat up in smoke on the altar.

The right thigh you must give as a contribution offering to the priest from your peace offering sacrifices.

and assemble the whole congregation at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.”

You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act.

“‘If you walk in my statutes and are sure to obey my commandments,

The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice.

He also tore down the tower of Penuel and executed the city’s men.

You deliver oppressed people, but you watch the proud and bring them down.

He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help and vindicate them.

That day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard that is in front of the Lord’s temple. He offered there burnt sacrifices, grain offerings, and the fat from the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that stood before the Lord was too small to hold all these offerings.

Solomon built up Gezer, lower Beth Horon,

Drink from the stream; I have already told the ravens to bring you food there.”

I know where you live, and everything you do.

Josiah also got rid of the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

Canaan was the father of Sidon – his firstborn – and Heth,

Caleb’s concubine Maacah bore Sheber and Tirhanah.

David gathered together the descendants of Aaron and the Levites:

He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.