The sons of Beriah: Heber and Malkiel, who was the father of Birzaith.

Next in command was Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite. He was one of the three elite warriors.

the pure gold flower-shaped ornaments, lamps, and tongs,

He entered Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.

Everything was verified by number and by weight, and the total weight was written down at that time.

Small and great are there, and the slave is free from his master.

For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

He is a well-watered plant in the sun, its shoots spread over its garden.

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

What do you know that we don’t know? What do you understand that we don’t understand?

Make then my pledge with you. Who else will put up security for me?

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

But he is unchangeable, and who can change him? Whatever he has desired, he does.

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

Does he not see my ways and count all my steps?

then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

But it is a spirit in people, the breath of the Almighty, that makes them understand.

And its young ones devour the blood, and where the dead carcasses are, there it is.”

It ranks first among the works of God, the One who made it has furnished it with a sword.