Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.”

But a young man saw them on one occasion and informed Absalom. So the two of them quickly departed and went to the house of a man in Bahurim. There was a well in his courtyard, and they got down in it.

And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

Now the beast that I saw was like a leopard, but its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. The dragon gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority to rule.

By day it will be a shelter to provide shade from the heat, as well as safety and protection from the heavy downpour.

then the one who presents his offering to the Lord must bring a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of finely ground flour mixed with one fourth of a hin of olive oil.

In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

There was a Benjaminite man named Kish son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah of Benjamin. He was a prominent person.

You must present a gift to the Lord for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

He cuts down cedars and acquires a cypress or an oak. He gets trees from the forest; he plants a cedar and the rain makes it grow.

Disaster after disaster will come, and one rumor after another. They will seek a vision from a prophet; priestly instruction will disappear, along with counsel from the elders.

If a place will not welcome you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.”

(Now Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.)

“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

A person plans his course, but the Lord directs his steps.

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, do not crave his delicacies;

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,