Those survivors from Jacob will live among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. They will be like a lion among the animals of the forest, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep, which attacks when it passes through; it rips its prey and there is no one to stop it.

All the land will change and become like the Arabah from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem; and Jerusalem will be raised up and will stay in its own place from the Benjamin Gate to the site of the First Gate and on to the Corner Gate, and from the Tower of Hananel to the royal winepresses.

Every cooking pot in Jerusalem and Judah will become holy in the sight of the Lord who rules over all, so that all who offer sacrifices may come and use some of them to boil their sacrifices in them. On that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord who rules over all.

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ so that – whether I come and see you or whether I remain absent – I should hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind, by contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,

Jehu encountered the relatives of King Ahaziah of Judah. He asked, “Who are you?” They replied, “We are Ahaziah’s relatives. We have come down to see how the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons are doing.”

One of his attendants replied, “I have seen a son of Jesse in Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave warrior and is articulate and handsome, for the Lord is with him.”

Now an archer shot an arrow at random and it struck the king of Israel between the plates of his armor. The king ordered his charioteer, “Turn around and take me from the battle line, for I am wounded.”

Hezekiah gave him all the silver in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the royal palace.

The eleventh, assigned the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. His division consisted of 24,000 men.

But the eyes of the wicked fail, and escape eludes them; their one hope is to breathe their last.”

Later the Lord asked me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I answered, “I see a branch of an almond tree.”

So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

He named the second child Ephraim, saying, “Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

You are to put the atonement lid on the ark of the testimony in the Most Holy Place.

and two braided chains of pure gold, like a cord, and attach the chains to the settings.

Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites, “This is the word that the Lord has commanded:

“‘If he consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased, which is not part of his own landed property,

And to help you there is to be a man from each tribe, each man the head of his family.

and at the age of fifty years they must retire from performing the work and may no longer work.

You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.