Its porches faced the outer court, and decorative palm trees were on its jambs, and its stairway had eight steps.

revealing ¹  that you are a letter of Christ, delivered by us, ²  written not with ink but by the Spirit of the living God, not on stone tablets ³  but on tablets of human hearts.

After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, ¹  if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind ²  and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him, ³ 

A man uses it to make a fire; ¹  he takes some of it and warms himself. Yes, he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Then he makes a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it. ² 

Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles. ¹ 

Now Ehud had escaped while they were delaying. When he passed the carved images, he escaped to Seirah.

They worshiped ¹  the disgusting idols ²  in blatant disregard of the Lord’s command. ³ 

“O that ¹  my words were written down, O that they were written on a scroll, ² 

May their names be deleted from the scroll of the living! ¹  Do not let their names be listed with the godly! ² 

They made him angry with their pagan shrines, ¹  and made him jealous with their idols.

I have spread my bed with elegant coverings, ¹  with richly colored fabric ²  from Egypt.

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out its seven pillars. ² 

This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

to the space above the entrance, to the inner room, and on the outside, and on all the walls in the inner room and outside, by measurement. ¹ 

But the more I summoned ¹  them, the farther they departed from me. ²  They sacrificed to the Baal idols and burned incense to images.

But he went back ¹  once he reached ²  the carved images ³  at Gilgal. He said to Eglon, ⁴  “I have a secret message for you, O king.” Eglon ⁵  said, “Be quiet!” ⁶  All his attendants left.

He was buried in the tomb he had carved out in the City of David. ¹  They laid him to rest on a bier covered with spices and assorted mixtures of ointments. They made a huge bonfire to honor him. ² 

Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” ¹  When questioned, he replies, ²  “Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

You will desecrate your silver-plated idols ¹  and your gold-plated images. ²  You will throw them away as if they were a menstrual rag, saying to them, “Get out!”

To make a contribution one selects wood that will not rot; ¹  he then seeks a skilled craftsman to make ²  an idol that will not fall over.