The descendants of Shecaniah: Shemaiah and his sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah, and Shaphat – six in all.

These were the family leaders of the Levites, as listed in their genealogical records. They lived in Jerusalem.

The son of Eliezer was Rehabiah, the oldest. Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had many descendants.

But Jehoshaphat asked, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord still here, that we may ask him?”

20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.

I will appoint him to be my firstborn son, the most exalted of the earth’s kings.

The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down into the person’s innermost being.

The king’s terrifying anger is like the roar of a lion; whoever provokes him sins against himself.

Like legs that hang limp from the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

I will restore Judah and Israel and will rebuild them as they were in days of old.

Listen and warn the family of Jacob! The sovereign Lord, the God who commands armies, is speaking!

The Lord confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob: “I swear I will never forget all you have done!

“As in the days when you departed from the land of Egypt, I will show you miraculous deeds.”

The offerings of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord as in former times and years past.

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make his paths straight.’”

Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

They came to the house of the synagogue ruler where he saw noisy confusion and people weeping and wailing loudly.

A report about them came to the attention of the church in Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas to Antioch.

A person should examine himself first, and in this way let him eat the bread and drink of the cup.

But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,