He burned down the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem, including every large house.

<p class="poetry">I will destroy both the winter and summer houses.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">The houses filled with ivory<n id="2" /> will be ruined,p> <p class="poetry">the great<n id="3" /> houses will be swept away.&#8221;<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> is speaking!p>

If you do not release<n id="1" /> my people, then I am going to send<n id="2" /> swarms of flies<n id="3" /> on you and on your servants and on your people and in your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground they stand on.<n id="4" />

then you will say, &#8216;It is the sacrifice<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck<n id="2" /> Egypt and delivered our households.&#8217;&#8221; The people bowed down low<n id="3" /> to the ground,

Whatever someone among the Levites might redeem &#8211; the sale of a house which is his property in a city &#8211; must revert in the jubilee,<n id="1" /> because the houses of the cities of the Levites are their property in the midst of the Israelites.

When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and said, &#8220;Oh no! My daughter! You have completely ruined me!<n id="1" /> You have brought me disaster!<n id="2" /> I made an oath to the <sc>Lord,sc> and I cannot break it.&#8221;<n id="3" />

Here are my virgin daughter and my guest&#8217;s<n id="1" /> concubine. I will send them out and you can abuse them and do to them whatever you like.<n id="2" /> But don&#8217;t do such a disgraceful thing to this man!&#8221;

One day Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, &#8220;Let me go<n id="1" /> to the fields so I can gather<n id="2" /> grain behind whoever permits me to do so.&#8221;<n id="3" /> Naomi<n id="4" /> replied, &#8220;You may go, my daughter.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">So Boaz said to Ruth, &#8220;Listen carefully,<n id="1" /> my dear!<n id="2" /> Do not leave to gather grain in another field. You need not<n id="3" /> go beyond the limits of this field. You may go along beside<n id="4" /> my female workers.<n id="5" />

<n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Then Saul said to David, &#8220;Here&#8217;s my oldest daughter, Merab. I want to give her to you in marriage. Only be a brave warrior<n id="2" /> for me and fight the battles of the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8221; For Saul thought, &#8220;There&#8217;s no need for me to raise my hand against him. Let it be the hand of the Philistines!&#8221;p>

for the prophecy he announced with the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s authority<n id="1" /> against the altar in Bethel<n id="2" /> and against all the temples on the high places in the cities of the north<n id="3" /> will certainly be fulfilled.&#8221;p>

But now at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you and they will search through your palace and your servants&#8217; houses. They will carry away all your valuables.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">Josiah also removed all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria. The kings of Israel had made them and angered the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" /> He did to them what he had done to the high place in Bethel.<n id="2" />

The houses in Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled by dead bodies<n id="1" /> just like this place, Topheth. For they offered sacrifice to the stars<n id="2" /> and poured out drink offerings to other gods on the roofs of those houses.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Therefore, because you make the poor pay taxes on their crops<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and exact a grain tax from them,p> <p class="poetry">you will not live in the houses you built with chiseled stone,p> <p class="poetry">nor will you drink the wine from the fine<n id="2" /> vineyards you planted.<n id="3" />p>