I have seen personally what is the only beneficial and appropriate course of action for people: ¹  to eat and drink, ²  and find enjoyment in all their ³  hard work ⁴  on earth ⁵  during the few days of their life which God has given them, for this is their reward. ⁶ 

When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, “Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. ¹  You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods. ² 

“Micah from Moresheth ¹  prophesied during the time Hezekiah was king of Judah. ²  He told all the people of Judah, ‘The Lord who rules over all ³  says, “Zion ⁴  will become a plowed field. Jerusalem ⁵  will become a pile of rubble. The temple mount will become a mere wooded ridge.”’ ⁶ 

But God turned away from them and gave them over ¹  to worship the host ²  of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘It was not to me that you offered slain animals and sacrifices ³  forty years in the wilderness, was it, ⁴  house of Israel?

I was consumed by scorching heat ¹  during the day and by piercing cold ²  at night, and I went without sleep. ³ 

If ¹  it is spreading further ²  on the skin, then the priest is to pronounce him unclean. ³  It is an infection.

Indeed, ¹  any person who does not behave with humility on this particular day will be cut off from his people. ² 

As for any person ¹  who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate ²  that person from the midst of his people! ³ 

You must live in temporary shelters ¹  for seven days; every native citizen in Israel must live in temporary shelters,

“‘All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact ¹  a dead body. ² 

¹ On the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle of the testimony. ² 

When the Israelites were ¹  in the wilderness they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day. ² 

Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

Now, come up ¹  at night with your men ²  and set an ambush in the field outside the city. ³ 

Now sons were born to David in Hebron. His firstborn was Amnon, born to Ahinoam the Jezreelite.

All the men of Israel assembled before King Solomon during the festival ¹  in the month Ethanim ²  (the seventh month).

In the third year King Jehoshaphat of Judah came down to visit ¹  the king of Israel.

So he sent horses and chariots there, along with a good-sized army. ¹  They arrived during the night and surrounded the city.

In those days the Lord prompted King Rezin of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah to attack Judah. ¹ 

At that time the generals ¹  of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon marched to Jerusalem and besieged the city. ²