So Naaman came with his horses and chariots and stood in the doorway of Elisha’s house.

<p class="poetry">He makes the barren woman of the family<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">a happy mother of children.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Praise the <sc>Lordsc>!p>

<p class="poetry">Because of laziness the roof<n id="1" /> caves in,p> <p class="poetry">and because of idle hands<n id="2" /> the house leaks.p>

and also the width of the front of the temple and the courtyard on the east as 175 feet.<n id="1" />p>

He constructed the walls inside the temple with cedar planks; he paneled the inside with wood from the floor of the temple to the rafters<n id="1" /> of the ceiling. He covered the temple floor with boards made from the wood of evergreens.

He put five basins on the south side of the temple and five on the north side. He put &#8220;The Sea&#8221; on the south side, in the southeast corner.p>

Laban said to him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Come, you who are blessed by the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="2" /> Why are you standing out here when I have prepared<n id="3" /> the house and a place for the camels?&#8221;p>

So they approached the man who was in charge of Joseph&#8217;s household and spoke to him at the entrance to the house.

then whoever owns the house<n id="1" /> must come and declare to the priest, &#8216;Something like an infection is visible to me in the house.&#8217;

The priest must return on the seventh day and examine it, and if<n id="1" /> the infection has spread in the walls of the house,

Anyone who enters<n id="1" /> the house all the days the priest<n id="2" /> has quarantined it will be unclean until evening.

Then he<n id="1" /> is to take two birds, a piece of cedar wood, a scrap of crimson fabric, and some twigs of hyssop<n id="2" /> to decontaminate<n id="3" /> the house,

By royal order<n id="1" /> they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple&#8217;s foundation with chiseled stone.

<p class="bodytext">He prepared the inner sanctuary inside the temple so that the ark of the covenant of the <sc>Lordsc> could be placed there.

<p class="bodytext">So Jeroboam&#8217;s wife got up and went back to<n id="1" /> Tirzah. As she crossed the threshold of the house, the boy died.

Another third of you will be stationed at the Foundation<n id="1" /> Gate. Still another third of you will be stationed at the gate behind the royal guard.<n id="2" /> You will take turns guarding the palace.<n id="3" />

including craftsmen, builders, and masons, and should buy wood and chiseled stone for the repair work.<n id="1" />

to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.

He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim.<n id="1" />

He overlaid the temple&#8217;s rafters, thresholds, walls and doors with gold; he carved decorative cherubim on the walls.p>