It is better to live on a corner of the housetop than in a house in company with a quarrelsome wife.

This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene – God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end.

For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”

Don’t you realize the Lord’s day of judgment will bring darkness, not light – gloomy blackness, not bright light?

I will leave in your midst a humble and meek group of people, and they will find safety in the Lord’s presence.

“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

But Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, that he should betray Jesus.

On behalf of such an individual I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except about my weaknesses.

for you were at one time darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of the light –

Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you all.

At the end of seventy years the Lord will revive Tyre. She will start making money again by selling her services to all the earth’s kingdoms.

Leave Babylon! Flee from the Babylonians! Announce it with a shout of joy! Make this known! Proclaim it throughout the earth! Say, ‘The Lord protects his servant Jacob.

In regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but in regard to election they are dearly loved for the sake of the fathers.

The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the Lord had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.

just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace.

The king sent a third captain and his fifty soldiers. This third captain went up and fell on his knees before Elijah. He begged for mercy, “Prophet, please have respect for my life and for the lives of these fifty servants of yours.

Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Why are you here? Go to your father’s prophets or your mother’s prophets!” The king of Israel replied to him, “No, for the Lord is the one who summoned these three kings so that he can hand them over to Moab.”

He wrote letters mocking the Lord God of Israel and insulting him with these words: “The gods of the surrounding nations could not rescue their people from my power. Neither can Hezekiah’s god rescue his people from my power.”

From there I will give back her vineyards to her, and turn the “Valley of Trouble” into an “Opportunity for Hope.” There she will sing as she did when she was young, when she came up from the land of Egypt.