<t /><p class="poetry">I increased my possessions:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I built houses for myself;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I planted vineyards for myself.p>

<p class="poetry">They will build houses and live in them;p> <p class="poetry">they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.p>

&#8216;Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.

And because the midwives feared God, he made<n id="1" /> households<n id="2" /> for them.p>

The rings were close to the frame to provide places for the poles to carry the table.

He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grating, to provide places for the poles.

<t /><p class="bodytext">David constructed buildings in the City of David; he then prepared a place for the ark of God and pitched a tent for it.

Now the city was spread out<n id="1" /> and large, and there were not a lot of people in it.<n id="2" /> At that time houses had not been rebuilt.

<p class="poetry">he lived in ruined towns<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and in houses where<n id="2" /> no one lives,p> <p class="poetry">where they are ready to crumble into heaps.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">In the dark the robber<n id="1" /> breaks into houses,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but by day they shut themselves in;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">they do not know the light.<n id="4" />p>

We have not built any houses to live in. We do not own any vineyards, fields, or crops.

They say,<n id="1" /> &#8216;The time is not near to build houses;<n id="2" /> the city<n id="3" /> is a cooking pot<n id="4" /> and we are the meat in it.&#8217;

Look, I will pay your servants who cut the timber 20,000 kors<n id="1" /> of ground wheat, 20,000 kors of barley, 120,000 gallons<n id="2" /> of wine, and 120,000 gallons of olive oil.&#8221;p>

You are to overlay the frames with gold and make their rings of gold to provide places for the bars, and you are to overlay the bars with gold.

He overlaid the frames with gold and made their rings of gold to provide places<n id="1" /> for the bars, and he overlaid the bars with gold.p>

He tore down the quarters<n id="1" /> of the male cultic prostitutes in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, where women were weaving shrines<n id="2" /> for Asherah.p>

It was four fingers thick and its rim was like that of a cup shaped like a lily blossom. It could hold 18,000 gallons.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> who commands armies told me this:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Many houses will certainly become desolate,p> <p class="poetry">large, impressive houses will have no one living in them.<n id="2" />p>

For he has even sent a message to us here in Babylon. He wrote and told us,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You will be there a long time. Build houses and settle down. Plant gardens and eat what they produce.&#8221;&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

For the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel who rules over all<n id="1" /> says, &#8220;Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.&#8221;&#8217;<n id="2" />p>