And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning, “Woe, Woe, O great city – in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth – because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”

After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,

The Lord said to the man dressed in linen, “Go between the wheelwork underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” He went as I watched.

You go get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, because there will be no reduction at all in your workload.’”

You are to put the altar for the burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.

The burnt offering itself they handed to him by its parts, including the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar,

If there are still many years, in keeping with them he must refund most of the cost of his purchase for his redemption,

along with one male goat for a purification offering, in addition to the continual burnt offering with its grain offering and its drink offering.

You must not tremble in their presence, for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a great and awesome God.

They brought it with the ark of God up from the house of Abinadab on the hill. Ahio was walking in front of the ark,

Yet he persisted in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin; he did not turn from them.

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in his father Amaziah’s place.

He received honor from the thirty warriors, though he was not one of the three elite warriors. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.

These men worked for Solomon as supervisors; there were a total of 250 of them who were in charge of the people.

Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?”

For he is not a human being like I am, that I might answer him, that we might come together in judgment.

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

for the Lord will be the source of your confidence, and he will guard your foot from being caught in a trap.

The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich – both end up only in poverty.

Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.