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.”

Fields will again be bought with silver, and deeds of purchase signed, sealed, and witnessed. This will happen in the territory of Benjamin, the villages surrounding Jerusalem, the towns in Judah, the southern hill country, the western foothills, and southern Judah. For I will restore them to their land. I, the Lord, affirm it!’”

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.

The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah, the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention.

Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

So Moab wails over its demise – they all wail! Completely devastated, they moan about what has happened to the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth.

But Pharaoh’s protection will bring you nothing but shame, and the safety of Egypt’s protective shade nothing but humiliation.

So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to all the people who were living in Jerusalem.

The following events also occurred while the Babylonian forces had temporarily withdrawn from Jerusalem because the army of Pharaoh was coming.

The captain of the royal guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest who was second in rank, and the three doorkeepers.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor

The Lord who rules over all says, ‘It will someday come to pass that people – residents of many cities – will come.

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.