In the evening she went, and in the morning she returned to a separate part of the harem, to the authority of Shaashgaz the king’s eunuch who was overseeing the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king was pleased with her and she was requested by name.

“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.

When they heard the law, they removed from Israel all who were of mixed ancestry.

But your sinful acts have alienated you from your God; your sins have caused him to reject you and not listen to your prayers.

After all, you picked them out of all the nations of the earth to be your special possession, just as you, O sovereign Lord, announced through your servant Moses when you brought our ancestors out of Egypt.”

I said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “The work is demanding and extensive, and we are spread out on the wall, far removed from one another.

One who has isolated himself seeks his own desires; he rejects all sound judgment.

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

They had a sharp disagreement, so that they parted company. Barnabas took along Mark and sailed away to Cyprus,

To the married I give this command – not I, but the Lord – a wife should not divorce a husband

So I have said to you: You yourselves will possess their land and I myself will give it to you for a possession, a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the Lord your God who has set you apart from the other peoples.

As they were walking along and talking, suddenly a fiery chariot pulled by fiery horses appeared. They went between Elijah and Elisha, and Elijah went up to heaven in a windstorm.

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, “Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses’ father-in-law. He lived near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.

No foreigner who becomes a follower of the Lord should say, ‘The Lord will certainly exclude me from his people.’ The eunuch should not say, ‘Look, I am like a dried-up tree.’”

Therefore, I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

Then he measured the temple as 175 feet long, the courtyard of the temple and the building and its walls as 175 feet long,

At the beginning of the wall of the court toward the south, facing the courtyard and the building, were chambers