Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite – Recab and Baanah – went at the hottest part of the day to the home of Ish-bosheth, as he was enjoying his midday rest.

When the members of the prophetic guild in Jericho, ¹  who were standing at a distance, ²  saw him do this, they said, “The spirit that energized Elijah ³  rests upon Elisha.” They went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

Jehu drove his chariot ¹  to Jezreel, for Joram was recuperating ²  there. (Now King Ahaziah of Judah had come down to visit ³  Joram.)

The dry soil will become a pool of water, the parched ground springs of water. Where jackals once lived and sprawled out, grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.

“Edom is there with her kings and all her princes. Despite their might they are laid with those killed by the sword; they lie with the uncircumcised and those who descend to the pit.

Therefore prophesy, and tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am about to open your graves and will raise you from your graves, my people. I will bring you to the land of Israel.

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining – this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

The waters completely overwhelmed ¹  the earth, and the ark floated ²  on the surface of the waters.

But as for you, ¹  you will go to your ancestors ²  in peace and be buried at a good old age. ³ 

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar below, so that the network will come ¹  halfway up the altar. ² 

He put the corpse into his own tomb, and they ¹  mourned over him, saying, “Ah, my brother!”

I know where you live, and everything you do. ¹ 

He was buried ¹  in his tomb in the garden of Uzzah, and his son Josiah replaced him as king.

For now ¹  I would be lying down and ²  would be quiet, ³  I would be asleep and then at peace ⁴ 

You will come to your grave in a full age, ¹  As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

I should have been as though I had never existed; ¹  I should have been carried right from the womb to the grave!

so that they had to live ¹  in the dry stream beds, ²  in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

“In what direction ¹  does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

Is it at your command ¹  that the eagle soars, and builds its nest on high?

A psalm of David. Lord, who may be a guest in your home? ²  Who may live on your holy hill? ³