<p class="bodytext">One day Elisha<n id="1" /> came for a visit; he went<n id="2" /> into the upper room and rested.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="poetry">I saw something else on earth:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">In the place of justice, there was wickedness,p> <p class="poetry">and in the place of fairness,<n id="2" /> there was wickedness.p>

There I will meet<n id="1" /> with the Israelites, and it will be set apart as holy by my glory.<n id="2" />p>

Shammah the Harodite, Elika the Harodite,

son of<n id="1" /> Shammah the Hararite, Ahiam son of Sharar the Hararite,

<p class="bodytext">The sons of Reuel:p> <p class="bodytext">Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.p>

<p class="poetry">The city is left in ruins;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the gate is reduced to rubble.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;Something horrible and shockingp> <p class="poetry">is going on in the land of Judah:p>

<p class="bodytext">Then God said to Abraham, &#8220;As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai;<n id="1" /> Sarah<n id="2" /> will be her name.

Look, this town<n id="1" /> over here is close enough to escape to, and it&#8217;s just a little one.<n id="2" /> Let me go there.<n id="3" /> It&#8217;s just a little place, isn&#8217;t it?<n id="4" /> Then I&#8217;ll survive.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Run there quickly,<n id="1" /> for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.&#8221; (This incident explains why the town was called Zoar.)<n id="2" />p>

There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah; there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah; and there I buried Leah.

He<n id="1" /> moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Maidens about His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Who is this coming up from the desert,p> <p class="poetry">leaning on her beloved?p> <p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Under the apple tree I aroused you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">there your mother conceived you,p> <p class="poetry">there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">After that she gave birth to a daughter and named her Dinah.p>

<p class="bodytext">You are to have a place outside the camp to serve as a latrine.<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Indeed,<n id="1" /> the leaders sit<n id="2" /> there on thrones and make legal decisions,p> <p class="poetry">on the thrones of the house of David.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">My heart is crushed because my dear people<n id="1" /> are being crushed.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Be careful<n id="1" /> never to take my son back there!&#8221; Abraham told him.<n id="2" />

This was the field Abraham had purchased from the sons of Heth.<n id="1" /> There Abraham was buried with his wife Sarah.