There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets Moses had placed there in Horeb. ¹  (It was there that ²  the Lord made an agreement with the Israelites after he brought them out of the land of Egypt.)

Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. ¹  He went out among the people from Beer Sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and encouraged them to follow ²  the Lord God of their ancestors. ³ 

For ¹  evil burned like a fire, ²  it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke. ³ 

The land ¹  dries up ²  and withers away; the forest of Lebanon shrivels up ³  and decays. Sharon ⁴  is like the desert; ⁵  Bashan and Carmel ⁶  are parched. ⁷ 

Yes, a time is coming when watchmen ¹  will call out on the mountains of Ephraim, “Come! Let us go to Zion to worship the Lord our God!”’” ² 

Therefore, because of you, ¹  Zion will be plowed up like ²  a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the Temple Mount ³  will become a hill overgrown with brush! ⁴ 

The Lord says, ‘I have returned to Zion and will live within Jerusalem. ¹  Now Jerusalem will be called “truthful city,” “mountain of the Lord who rules over all,” “holy mountain.”’

Their dwelling place was from Mesha all the way to ¹  Sephar in the eastern hills.

Then Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified the people, and they washed their clothes.

So Moses set out ¹  with ²  Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God.

Now be sure to make ¹  them according to the pattern you were shown ²  on the mountain. ³ 

You are to set up the tabernacle according to the plan ¹  that you were shown on the mountain.

You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you ¹  on the mountain, so they must make it. ² 

and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. ¹  They are to be enclosed in gold in their filigree settings.

Edom will be a possession, Seir, ¹  his enemies, will also be a possession; but Israel will act valiantly.

At Horeb you provoked him and he was angry enough with you to destroy you.

Alammelech, Amad, and Mishal. Their border touched Carmel to the west and Shihor Libnath.

The mountains trembled ¹  before the Lord, the God of Sinai; ²  before the Lord God of Israel.

From there they traveled through the Ephraimite hill country and arrived at Micah’s house.

When Saul learned that David had fled to Gath, he did not mount a new search for him.