even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.

The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

A toss of a coin ends disputes, and settles the issue between strong opponents.

a lion, mightiest of the beasts, who does not retreat from anything;

They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water.

“Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

In the seventh month of that very same year the prophet Hananiah died.

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

The Lord, who is the inheritance of Jacob’s descendants, is not like them. He is the one who created everything. And the people of Israel are those he claims as his own. He is known as the Lord who rules over all.”

The Lord who rules over all says to the people of Jerusalem: “Do not listen to what those prophets are saying to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They are reporting visions of their own imaginations, not something the Lord has given them to say.

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them: ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you coming to seek me? As surely as I live, I will not allow you to seek me, declares the sovereign Lord.’

Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.”

Abraham said to his servant, the senior one in his household who was in charge of everything he had, “Put your hand under my thigh

Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, or that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to approach him.

“Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, ‘You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.

When Saul counted them at Bezek, the Israelites were 300,000 strong and the men of Judah numbered 30,000.

When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she was determined to destroy the entire royal line.