The <sc>Lordsc><n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Go out and stand on the mountain before the <sc>Lordsc>. Look, the <sc>Lordsc> is ready to pass by.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">A very powerful wind went before the <sc>Lordsc>, digging into the mountain and causing landslides,<n id="2" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the <sc>Lordsc> was not in the earthquake.

When Josiah turned around, he saw the tombs there on the hill. So he ordered the bones from the tombs to be brought;<n id="1" /> he burned them on the altar and defiled it. This fulfilled the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s announcement made by the prophet while Jeroboam stood by the altar during a festival. King Josiah<n id="2" /> turned and saw the grave of the prophet who had foretold this.<n id="3" />

<v id="(2:1)" /> Solomon had<n id="1" /> 70,000 common laborers<n id="2" /> and 80,000 stonecutters<n id="3" /> in the hills, in addition to 3,600 supervisors.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Solomon began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple in Jerusalem<n id="1" /> on Mount Moriah, where the <sc>Lordsc> had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan<n id="2" /> the Jebusite.

<p class="bodytext">He removed the foreign gods and images from the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and all the altars he had built on the hill of the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple and in Jerusalem; he threw them outside the city.

<p class="bodytext">But when<n id="1" /> the sovereign master<n id="2" /> finishes judging<n id="3" /> Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I<n id="4" /> will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.<n id="5" />

<p class="poetry">I will plant it on a high mountain of Israel,p> <p class="poetry">and it will raise branches and produce fruit and become a beautiful cedar.p> <p class="poetry">Every bird will live under it;p> <p class="poetry">Every winged creature will live in the shade of its branches.p>

<p class="poetry">It will so happen thatp> <p class="poetry">everyone who calls on the name of the <sc>Lordsc> will be delivered.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem<n id="2" /> there will be those who survive,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">just as the <sc>Lordsc> has promised;p> <p class="poetry">the remnant<n id="4" /> will be those whom the <sc>Lordsc> will call.<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">In that day you<n id="1" /> will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.p>