<p class="bodytext">In the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:

<p class="bodytext">In the eleventh year, in the first month, on the seventh day of the month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:

<p class="bodytext">In the twelfth year, on the fifteenth day of the month,<n id="1" /> the word of the <sc>Lordsc> came to me:

<p class="poetry">You did not bring me<n id="1" /> sacrifices and grain offerings during the forty years you spent in the wilderness, family<n id="2" /> of Israel.p>

<p class="poetry">With what should I<n id="1" /> enter the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence?p> <p class="poetry">With what<n id="2" /> should I bow before the sovereign God?<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Should I enter his presence with burnt offerings,p> <p class="poetry">with year-old calves?p>

This was my lot<n id="1" /> for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave<n id="2" /> for you &#8211; fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times!

<t /><p class="bodytext">During David&#8217;s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" /> The <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family,<n id="2" /> because he murdered the Gibeonites.&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon&#8217;s reign over Israel, during the month Ziv<n id="1" /> (the second month), he began building the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s temple.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirty-eighth year of Asa&#8217;s reign over Judah, Omri&#8217;s son Ahab became king over Israel. Ahab son of Omri ruled over Israel for twenty-two years in Samaria.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-third year of the reign of Judah&#8217;s King Joash son of Ahaziah, Jehu&#8217;s son Jehoahaz became king over Israel. He reigned in Samaria<n id="1" /> for seventeen years.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the fifteenth year of the reign of Judah&#8217;s King Amaziah, son of Joash, Jeroboam son of Joash became king over Israel. He reigned for forty-one years in Samaria.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king and he reigned for twenty-five years in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> His mother was Azubah, the daughter of Shilhi.

<p class="poetry">Never again will one of her infants live just a few days<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">or an old man die before his time.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">anyone who fails to reach<n id="4" /> the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.p>

&#8220;For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah<n id="1" /> until now, the <sc>Lordsc> has been speaking to me. I told you over and over again<n id="2" /> what he said.<n id="3" /> But you would not listen.

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city<n id="1" /> was struck down, on this very day,<n id="2" /> the hand<n id="3" /> of the <sc>Lordsc> was on me, and he brought me there.<n id="4" />

The length of time Adam lived<n id="1" /> after he became the father of Seth was 800 years; during this time he had<n id="2" /> other<n id="3" /> sons and daughters.

Seth lived 807 years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had<n id="1" /> other<n id="2" /> sons and daughters.

After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God<n id="1" /> for 300 years,<n id="2" /> and he had other<n id="3" /> sons and daughters.

<p class="bodytext">After Noah was 500 years old, he<n id="1" /> became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.p>