<n id="1" /><p class="poetry">On a bare hill raise a signal flag,p> <p class="poetry">shout to them,p> <p class="poetry">wave your hand,p> <p class="poetry">so they might enter the gates of the princes!p>

At that time<n id="1" /> the nation of Judah and the nation of Israel will be reunited.<n id="2" /> Together they will come back from a land in the north to the land that I gave to your ancestors as a permanent possession. &#8221;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The officials put the scroll in the room of Elishama, the royal secretary, for safekeeping.<n id="1" /> Then they went to the court and reported everything<n id="2" /> to the king.<n id="3" />

eighty men arrived from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria.<n id="1" /> They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves to show they were mourning.<n id="2" /> They were carrying grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the <sc>Lordsc> in Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

The Babylonians crawled into bed with her.<n id="1" /> They defiled her with their lust; after she was defiled by them, she<n id="2" /> became disgusted with them.

On the same day they slaughtered their sons for their idols, they came to my sanctuary to desecrate it. This is what they have done in the middle of my house.p>

The king issued an order<n id="1" /> to summon the magicians, astrologers, sorcerers, and wise men<n id="2" /> in order to explain his dreams to him.<n id="3" /> So they came and awaited the king&#8217;s instructions.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The king of Assyria sent his commanding general, the chief eunuch, and the chief adviser<n id="1" /> from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem,<n id="2" /> along with a large army. They went up and arrived at Jerusalem. They went<n id="3" /> and stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot (the son of Haran), and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram&#8217;s wife, and with them he set out from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to Canaan. When they came to Haran, they settled there.

And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew<n id="1" /> Lot, and all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired<n id="2" /> in Haran, and they left for<n id="3" /> the land of Canaan. They entered the land of Canaan.p>

<p class="bodytext">When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there<n id="1" /> and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up<n id="2" /> his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

In three days, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob&#8217;s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah&#8217;s brothers, each took his sword<n id="1" /> and went to the unsuspecting city<n id="2" /> and slaughtered every male.

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians<n id="1" /> came to Joseph and said, &#8220;Give us food! Why should we die<n id="2" /> before your very eyes because our money has run out?&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">When that year was over, they came to him the next year and said to him, &#8220;We cannot hide from our<n id="1" /> lord that the money is used up and the livestock and the animals belong to our lord. Nothing remains before our lord except our bodies and our land.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">When<n id="2" /> they journeyed from Elim, the entire company<n id="3" /> of Israelites came to the Desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their exodus<n id="4" /> from the land of Egypt.

Everyone<n id="1" /> whose heart stirred him to action<n id="2" /> and everyone whose spirit was willing<n id="3" /> came and brought the offering for the <sc>Lordsc> for the work of the tent of meeting, for all its service, and for the holy garments.<n id="4" />

They came, men and women alike,<n id="1" /> all who had willing hearts. They brought brooches, earrings, rings and ornaments, all kinds of gold jewelry,<n id="2" /> and everyone came who waved<n id="3" /> a wave offering of gold to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">They came back<n id="1" /> to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh.<n id="2" /> They reported<n id="3" /> to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.

They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the plains<n id="1" /> of Moab, along the Jordan River<n id="2" /> across from Jericho.<n id="3" />

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and commanders<n id="1" /> of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial<n id="2" /> for the Israelites before the <sc>Lordsc>.p>