The word of the Lord came to me:

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children – Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.

We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added, ¹  “and room for you ²  to spend the night.”

Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within ¹  the camp until they were all gone.

He made a bronze altar, 30 feet ¹  long, 30 feet ²  wide, and 15 feet ³  high.

The Lord stirred up against Jehoram the Philistines ¹  and the Arabs who lived beside the Cushites.

And the gatekeepers: Akkub, Talmon and their colleagues who were guarding the gates – 172.

You turn back ¹  his sword from the adversary, ²  and have not sustained him in battle. ³ 

I also gave ¹  them decrees ²  which were not good and regulations by which they could not live.

Now we make known to you, brothers and sisters, ¹  the grace of God given to the churches of Macedonia,

The king’s servants have even come to congratulate ¹  our master ²  King David, saying, ‘May your God ³  make Solomon more famous than you and make him an even greater king than you!’ ⁴  Then the king leaned ⁵  on the bed

Josiah also got rid of ¹  the ritual pits used to conjure up spirits, ²  the magicians, personal idols, disgusting images, ³  and all the detestable idols that had appeared in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. In this way he carried out the terms of the law ⁴  recorded on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had discovered in the Lord’s temple.

Now, to show my commitment to the temple of my God, I donate my personal treasure of gold and silver to the temple of my God, in addition to all that I have already supplied for this holy temple.

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 

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 

Uzziah had an army of skilled warriors trained for battle. They were organized by divisions according to the muster rolls made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, a royal official.

The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, ¹  when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones ²  and heals their severe wound. ³ 

Also you may buy slaves ¹  from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are ²  with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, ¹  for the Lord has said you must never again return that way.

His mother used to make him a small robe and bring it up to him at regular intervals when she would go up with her husband to make the annual sacrifice.