I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.

There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand:

There are three things that are magnificent in their step, four things that move about magnificently:

There may be sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and young women without number.

They lift their voices and shout joyfully; they praise the majesty of the Lord in the west.

They are worthless, mere objects to be mocked. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

They are worthless, objects to be ridiculed. When the time comes to punish them, they will be destroyed.

Now the tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, engraved on the tablets.

and the one who carries their carcass must wash his clothes and be unclean until the evening; they are unclean to you.

You are to assign the Levites to Aaron and his sons; they will be assigned exclusively to him out of all the Israelites.

These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the Lord, and his holiness was maintained among them.

Go and cry for help to the gods you have chosen! Let them deliver you from trouble!”

So they went up to the town. As they were heading for the middle of the town, Samuel was coming in their direction to go up to the high place.

They were the potters who lived in Netaim and Gederah; they lived there and worked for the king.

Mikloth was the father of Shimeah. They also lived near their relatives in Jerusalem.

he serves to this day at the King’s Gate on the east. These were the gatekeepers from the camp of the descendants of Levi.

According to David’s final instructions, the Levites twenty years old and up were counted.

His son Shemaiah also had sons, who were leaders of their families, for they were highly respected.

The sons of Hassenaah rebuilt the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.