Discovery Box| (0.13) | Ezr 5:11 |
| They responded to us in the following way: ‘We are servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple which was previously built many years ago. A great king 1 of Israel built it and completed it. |
| (0.13) | Ezr 7:21 |
| “I, King Artaxerxes, hereby issue orders to all the treasurers of 1 Trans-Euphrates, that you precisely execute all that Ezra the priestly scribe of the law of the God of heaven may request of you – |
| (0.13) | Ezr 8:17 |
| I sent them to Iddo, who was the leader in the place called Casiphia. I told them 1 what to say to Iddo and his relatives, 2 who were the temple servants in 3 Casiphia, so they would bring us attendants for the temple of our God. |
| (0.13) | Ezr 9:2 |
| Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race 1 has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!” |
| (0.13) | Neh 2:8 |
| and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve, 1 so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall 2 and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests, 3 for the good hand of my God was on me. |
| (0.13) | Neh 5:14 |
| From the day that I was appointed 1 governor 2 in the land of Judah, that is, from the twentieth year until the thirty-second year of King Artaxerxes – twelve years in all – neither I nor my relatives 3 ate the food allotted to the governor. 4 |
| (0.13) | Neh 11:3 |
| These are the provincial leaders 1 who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities, |
| (0.13) | Est 6:10 |
| The king then said to Haman, “Go quickly! Take the clothing and the horse, just as you have described, and do as you just indicated to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Don’t neglect 1 a single thing of all that you have said.” |
| (0.13) | Est 7:8 |
| When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet of wine, Haman was throwing himself down 1 on the couch where Esther was lying. 2 The king exclaimed, “Will he also attempt to rape the queen while I am still in the building!” As these words left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. |
| (0.13) | Est 9:19 |
| This is why the Jews who are in the rural country – those who live in rural cities – set aside the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a holiday for happiness, banqueting, holiday, and sending gifts to one another. |
| (0.13) | Psa 57:1 |
| For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; 2 a prayer 3 of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. 4 Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me! For in you I have taken shelter. 5 In the shadow of your wings 6 I take shelter until trouble passes. |
| (0.13) | Ecc 2:3 |
| I thought deeply 1 about the effects of 2 indulging 3 myself 4 with wine (all the while 5 my mind was guiding me 6 with wisdom) 7 and the effects of 8 behaving foolishly, 9 so that |
| (0.13) | Isa 10:12 |
| But when 1 the sovereign master 2 finishes judging 3 Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I 4 will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays. 5 |
| (0.13) | Isa 18:2 |
| that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, 1 to a people that are feared far and wide, 2 to a nation strong and victorious, 3 whose land rivers divide. 4 |
| (0.13) | Isa 18:7 |
| At that time tribute will be brought to the Lord who commands armies, by a people that are tall and smooth-skinned, a people that are feared far and wide, a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide. 1 The tribute 2 will be brought to the place where the Lord who commands armies has chosen to reside, on Mount Zion. 3 |
| (0.13) | Isa 22:25 |
| “At that time,” 1 says the Lord who commands armies, “the peg fastened into a solid place will come loose. It will be cut off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off.” 2 Indeed, 3 the Lord has spoken. |
| (0.13) | Isa 28:7 |
| Even these men 1 stagger because of wine, they stumble around because of beer – priests and prophets stagger because of beer, they are confused 2 because of wine, they stumble around because of beer; they stagger while seeing prophetic visions, 3 they totter while making legal decisions. 4 |
| (0.13) | Isa 30:6 |
| This is a message 1 about the animals in the Negev: Through a land of distress and danger, inhabited by lionesses and roaring lions, 2 by snakes and darting adders, 3 they transport 4 their wealth on the backs of donkeys, their riches on the humps of camels, to a nation that cannot help them. 5 |
| (0.13) | Isa 35:8 |
| A thoroughfare will be there – it will be called the Way of Holiness. 1 The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it 2 – fools 3 will not stray into it. |
| (0.13) | Isa 44:13 |
| A carpenter takes measurements; 1 he marks out an outline of its form; 2 he scrapes 3 it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, 4 like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine. 5 |
