for the gold used in the display tables, including the amount to be used in each table, for the silver to be used in the silver tables,

Men were assigned to take the prisoners and find clothes among the plunder for those who were naked. ¹  So they clothed them, supplied them with sandals, gave them food and drink, and provided them with oil to rub on their skin. ²  They put the ones who couldn’t walk on donkeys. ³  They brought them back to their brothers at Jericho, ⁴  the city of the date palm trees, and then returned to Samaria.

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, ¹  “You know nothing at all!

So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out ¹  by name men who were leaders in their family groups. ²  They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

then the priest is to command that the stones that had the infection in them be pulled and thrown ¹  outside the city ²  into an unclean place.

Aaron must then present the goat which has been designated by lot for the Lord, ¹  and he is to make it a sin offering,

“The Israelites will camp according to their divisions, each man in his camp, and each man by his standard.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods they did not know and that he did not permit them to worship. ¹ 

They assigned from the tribes of Judah and Simeon the cities listed below.

Absalom would then say to him, “Look, your claims are legitimate and appropriate. ¹  But there is no representative of the king who will listen to you.”

(The silver collected in conjunction with reparation offerings and sin offerings was not brought to the Lord’s temple; it belonged to the priests.)

He gave him ¹  the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service, ² 

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as the leader over his brothers, for he intended to name him his successor. ¹ 

I also provided for ¹  the wood offering at the appointed times and also for the first fruits. Please remember me for good, O my God.

Now the day came when ²  the sons of God ³  came to present themselves before ⁴  the Lord – and Satan ⁵  also arrived among them.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. ¹  For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come.

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; ¹  I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, ²  my boasting, arrogant ones. ³ 

You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

Of this area a square 875 feet ¹  by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87½ feet ²  set aside for its open space round about.

And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ ¹  but you are turning it into a den ²  of robbers!” ³