“This is the law for all diseased infections, for scall,

“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

(30:1) So Moses told the Israelites everything, just as the Lord had commanded him.

But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

His hair began to grow back after it had been shaved off.

I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.”

At that time King Jehoram left Samaria and assembled all Israel for war.

Jehoash said to the priests, “I place at your disposal all the consecrated silver that has been brought to the Lord’s temple, including the silver collected from the census tax, the silver received from those who have made vows, and all the silver that people have voluntarily contributed to the Lord’s temple.

So the Israelites gave to the Levites these cities and their pasturelands.

He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

From the Levites: Jozabad, Shimei, Kelaiah (also known as Kelita), Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day he was born.

Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

It claps its hands at him in derision and hisses him away from his place.

He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

The lotus trees conceal it in their shadow; the poplars by the stream conceal it.

The countries are assembled all around you; take once more your rightful place over them!

for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

foreigners lose their courage; they shake with fear as they leave their strongholds.