He measured the porch at 105 feet high; the gateway went all around to the jamb of the courtyard.

From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet.

Then he brought me to the inner court on the east side. He measured the gate; it had the same dimensions as the others.

and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.

All the sinners among my people will die by the sword – the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’

He sent messengers on ahead of him. As they went along, they entered a Samaritan village to make things ready in advance for him,

They blindfolded him and asked him repeatedly, “Prophesy! Who hit you?”

Then he said to them, “What are these matters you are discussing so intently as you walk along?” And they stood still, looking sad.

When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

Every day I am in danger of death! This is as sure as my boasting in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For indeed, what had been glorious now has no glory because of the tremendously greater glory of what replaced it.

The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, and brought it back into the ark.

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

They will be spread out and exposed to the sun, the moon and the stars. These are things they adored and served, things to which they paid allegiance, from which they sought guidance, and worshiped. The bones of these people will never be regathered and reburied. They will be like manure used to fertilize the ground.

His intention will be to come with the strength of his entire kingdom, and he will form alliances. He will give the king of the south a daughter in marriage in order to destroy the kingdom, but it will not turn out to his advantage.

(But there is one who made the constellations Pleiades and Orion; he can turn the darkness into morning and daylight into night. He summons the water of the seas and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name!

For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the Lord, the Lord will not be with you.”

Now don’t let my blood fall to the ground away from the Lord’s presence, for the king of Israel has gone out to look for a flea the way one looks for a partridge in the hill country.”

During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur.