Each of the pillars was about 27 feet high, about 18 feet in circumference, three inches thick, and hollow.

I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.

wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.

For her blood was in it; she poured it on an exposed rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it up with dust.

when they grasped you with their hand, you broke and tore their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you splintered and caused their legs to be unsteady.

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement.

As for the outer wall by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court facing the chambers, it was 87½ feet long.

In the first year of Darius son of Ahasuerus, who was of Median descent and who had been appointed king over the Babylonian empire –

These who are wise among the people will teach the masses. However, they will fall by the sword and by the flame, and they will be imprisoned and plundered for some time.

Sound the alarm! An eagle looms over the temple of the Lord! For they have broken their covenant with me, and have rebelled against my law.

Listen to this, you elders; pay attention, all inhabitants of the land. Has anything like this ever happened in your whole life or in the lifetime of your ancestors?

You are no more secure than Thebes – she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.

Look, I am about to empower the Babylonians, that ruthless and greedy nation. They sweep across the surface of the earth, seizing dwelling places that do not belong to them.

This is the kind of plague that will devastate horses, mules, camels, donkeys, and all the other animals in those camps.

The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed; it was utterly destroyed!”

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

Now I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality, and marries another commits adultery.”

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: Whenever its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves, you know that summer is near.

“Who then is the faithful and wise slave, whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves their food at the proper time?

But one of those with Jesus grabbed his sword, drew it out, and struck the high priest’s slave, cutting off his ear.