When your ancestors went down to Egypt, they numbered only seventy, but now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of the sky. ¹ 

The ¹  sky ²  above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

Your carcasses will be food for every bird of the sky and wild animal of the earth, and there will be no one to chase them off.

Even if your exiles are in the most distant land, ¹  from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back.

For I raise up my hand to heaven, and say, ‘As surely as I live forever,

Of Joseph he said: May the Lord bless his land with the harvest produced by the sky, ¹  by the dew, and by the depths crouching beneath;

The people ¹  who did not die were struck with sores; the city’s cry for help went all the way up to heaven.

The earth heaved and shook; ¹  the foundations of the sky ²  trembled. ³  They heaved because he was angry.

Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky. ¹ 

then listen from your heavenly dwelling place to their prayers for help ¹  and vindicate them. ² 

Dogs will eat the members of Baasha’s family ¹  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

As for Ahab’s family, dogs will eat the ones ¹  who die in the city, and the birds of the sky will eat the ones who die in the country.”

Just before ¹  the Lord took Elijah up to heaven in a windstorm, Elijah and Elisha were traveling from Gilgal.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

then listen from heaven to their prayers for help ¹  and vindicate them. ² 

King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

In the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky.

The king responded, ¹  “What is it you are seeking?” Then I quickly prayed to the God of heaven

You multiplied their descendants like the stars of the sky. You brought them to the land you had told their ancestors to enter in order to possess.

“But now, ask the animals and they ²  will teach you, or the birds of the sky and they will tell you.