One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security. ¹ 

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day). ¹ 

Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings ¹  out of the cave to me.”

The inside of the temple was all cedar and was adorned with carvings of round ornaments and of flowers in bloom. Everything was cedar; no stones were visible. ¹ 

They set up sacred pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.

The Lord thundered ¹  in ²  the sky; the sovereign One ³  shouted. ⁴ 

Honest scales and balances ¹  are from the Lord; all the weights ²  in the bag are his handiwork.

Like tying a stone in a sling, ¹  so is giving honor to a fool.

His arms are like rods of gold set with chrysolite. His abdomen ¹  is like polished ivory inlaid with sapphires.

So I went down to the potter’s house and found him working ¹  at his wheel. ² 

But the tenants seized his slaves, beat one, ¹  killed another, and stoned another.

the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing ¹  in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you.

you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated ¹  his neighbor’s fiancée; ²  in this way you will purge ³  evil from among you.

Then build an altar for the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern. ¹  Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.”

He also tore down the altar in Bethel ¹  at the high place made by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who encouraged Israel to sin. ²  He burned all the combustible items at that high place and crushed them to dust; including the Asherah pole. ³ 

But if the ministry that produced death – carved in letters on stone tablets ¹  – came with glory, so that the Israelites ²  could not keep their eyes fixed on the face of Moses because of the glory of his face ³  (a glory ⁴  which was made ineffective), ⁵ 

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

or a hunchback, or a dwarf, ¹  or one with a spot in his eye, ²  or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, ³  or a crushed testicle.

And he revealed to you the covenant ¹  he has commanded you to keep, the ten commandments, ²  writing them on two stone tablets.

So I turned and went down the mountain while it ¹  was blazing with fire; the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.