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And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
But if any widow have children or nephews, let them learn first to shew piety at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month an holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;
And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the LORD.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the LORD in the midst of the congregation;
And the sons of Kohath by their families; Amram, and Izehar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
