The sovereign master says, “These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

In the presence of all these people I instructed Baruch,

ע (Ayin) The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power.

the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them, desirable young men, all of them governors and officials, officers and nobles, all of them riding on horses.

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with rage, and his disposition changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He gave orders to heat the furnace seven times hotter than it was normally heated.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to depart from Rome. Paul approached them,

The Levites did what Moses ordered, and that day about three thousand men of the people died.

So she went down to the threshing floor and did everything her mother-in-law had instructed her to do.

But the leaders of the Philistines became angry with him and said to him, “Send the man back! Let him return to the place that you assigned him! Don’t let him go down with us into the battle, for he might become our adversary in the battle. What better way to please his lord than with the heads of these men?

They marched out of the city with the servants of the district governors in the lead and the army behind them.

Nebuzaradan, captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

These Gadites were military leaders; the least led a hundred men, the greatest a thousand.

along with Zadok, a young warrior, and twenty-two leaders from his family.

From Naphtali there were 1,000 officers, along with 37,000 men carrying shields and spears.

We inquired of those elders, asking them, ‘Who gave you the authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?’

The Lord speaks; many, many women spread the good news.

His acts are characterized by faithfulness and justice; all his precepts are reliable.

I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.