The number of soldiers on horseback was two hundred million; I heard their number.

On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times.

As they went through the towns, they passed on the decrees that had been decided on by the apostles and elders in Jerusalem for the Gentile believers to obey.

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

The officers of the units of hundreds did just as Jehoiada the priest ordered. Each of them took his men, those who were on duty during the Sabbath as well as those who were off duty on the Sabbath, and reported to Jehoiada the priest.

Vent your anger on the nations that do not acknowledge you. Vent it on the peoples who do not worship you. For they have destroyed the people of Jacob. They have completely destroyed them and left their homeland in utter ruin.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: The gate of the inner court that faces east will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

But I will execute judgment on the nation that they will serve. Afterward they will come out with many possessions.

On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

“You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames on one side of the tabernacle,

And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf – the one Aaron made.

But when the cloud was lifted up from the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out on all their journeys;

If it is spreading further on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. It is an infection.

If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front, he is clean.

“‘Then the priest will write these curses on a scroll and then scrape them off into the bitter water.

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!

The son of Carmi: Achan, who brought the disaster on Israel when he stole what was devoted to God.

On the sealed documents were the following names: Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, along with Zedekiah,

The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

Will you rely on it because its strength is great? Will you commit your labor to it?