When Baasha heard the news, he stopped fortifying Ramah and abandoned the project.

He had many supplies stored in the cities of Judah and an army of skilled warriors stationed in Jerusalem.

supervised the laborers and all the foremen on their various jobs. Some of the Levites were scribes, officials, and guards.

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

Shabbethai and Jozabad, leaders of the Levites, were in charge of the external work for the temple of God;

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.

Do you see a person skilled in his work? He will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.

Establish your work outside and get your fields ready; afterward build your house.

So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working at his wheel.

A curse on anyone who is lax in doing the Lord’s work! A curse on anyone who keeps from carrying out his destruction!

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as craftsmen, as designers, as embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and in fine linen, and as weavers. They are craftsmen in all the work and artistic designers.

All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary (namely, the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, according to the sanctuary shekel.

“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a craftsman in bronze from Tyre. He had the skill and knowledge to make all kinds of works of bronze. He reported to King Solomon and did all the work he was assigned.

Have them hand it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn should pay the temple workers to repair it,

They handed it over to the construction foremen assigned to the Lord’s temple. They in turn paid the temple workers to restore and repair it.

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

One day he went into the house to do his work when none of the household servants were there in the house.

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.