They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.

One day some men were burying a man when they spotted a raiding party. So they threw the dead man into Elisha’s tomb. When the body touched Elisha’s bones, the dead man came to life and stood on his feet.

Adam, Seth, Enosh,

the fifth was Shephatiah, whose mother was Abital; the sixth was Ithream, whose mother was Eglah.

By his wife Hodesh he fathered Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malkam,

When they were few in number, just a very few, and foreign residents within it,

An adversary opposed Israel, inciting David to count how many warriors Israel had.

The king made a large throne decorated with ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.

When the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, he gave this message to Shemaiah: “They have humbled themselves, so I will not destroy them. I will deliver them soon. My anger will not be unleashed against Jerusalem through Shishak.

So Hathach returned and related Mordecai’s instructions to Esther.

“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.

Only his flesh has pain for himself, and he mourns for himself.”

Thus his anger burns against me, and he considers me among his enemies.

When he imposed a limit for the rain, and a path for the thunderstorm,

They crouch, they bear their young, they bring forth the offspring they have carried.

It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.

Its breath sets coals ablaze and a flame shoots from its mouth.

When it rises up, the mighty are terrified, at its thrashing about they withdraw.

He prepares to use deadly weapons against him; he gets ready to shoot flaming arrows.

When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.