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

Micaiah said, “If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he added, “Take note, all you people.”

“Go, tell my servant David: ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must not build me a house in which to live.

He will build me a house, and I will make his dynasty permanent.

The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.

King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures of hammered gold were used for each shield.

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

The inventory of these items was as follows: 30 gold basins, 1,000 silver basins, 29 silver utensils,

30 gold bowls, 410 other silver bowls, and 1,000 other vessels.

the son of Shecaniah; from the descendants of Parosh, Zechariah, and with him were enrolled by genealogy 150 men;

from the descendants of Azgad, Johanan son of Hakkatan, and with him 110 men;

And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates – 172.

The following events happened in the days of Ahasuerus. (I am referring to that Ahasuerus who used to rule over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces extending all the way from India to Ethiopia.)

They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

He deprives the trusted advisers of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

“But turn, all of you, and come now! I will not find a wise man among you.

“If I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I receive no answer; I cry for help, but there is no justice.