There were twelve statues of lions on the six steps, one lion at each end of each step. There was nothing like it in any other kingdom. ¹ 

“Ask for a confirming sign from the Lord your God. You can even ask for something miraculous.” ¹ 

There were seven steps going up to it; its porches were in front of them. It had decorative palm trees on its jambs, one on either side.

There were narrow windows and decorative palm trees on either side of the side walls of the porch; this is what the side chambers of the temple and the canopies were like.

She replied, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, “I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]] ¹ 

They did not find me arguing ¹  with anyone or stirring up a crowd ²  in the temple courts ³  or in the synagogues ⁴  or throughout the city, ⁵ 

I have ¹  the power to do you harm, but the God of your father told me last night, ‘Be careful ²  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.’ ³ 

They will no longer trust in ¹  the altars their hands made, or depend on the Asherah poles and incense altars their fingers made. ² 

The length of the porch was 35 feet ¹  and the width 19¼ feet; ²  steps ³  led up to it, and there were pillars beside the jambs on either side.

Do you not know that if you present yourselves ¹  as obedient slaves, ²  you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? ³ 

Now, brothers and sisters, ¹  if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?

not to be easily ¹  shaken from your composure or disturbed by any kind of spirit or message or letter allegedly from us, ²  to the effect that the day of the Lord is already here.

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live. ¹ 

As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.

Do not be excessively wicked and do not be a fool; otherwise ¹  you might die before your time.

“‘Do not go to a house where people are feasting and sit down to eat and drink with them either.

For the law brings wrath, because where there is no law there is no transgression ¹  either.

Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

For we have brought nothing into this world and so ¹  we cannot take a single thing out either.

‘If Balak would give me his palace full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond ¹  the commandment ²  of the Lord to do either good or evil of my own will, ³  but whatever the Lord tells me I must speak’?