for the gold used in the display tables, including the amount to be used in each table, for the silver to be used in the silver tables,

I used you to smash men and women. I used you to smash old men and young men. I used you to smash young men and young women.

I used you to smash shepherds and their flocks. I used you to smash farmers and their teams of oxen. I used you to smash governors and leaders.” ¹ 

I used you to smash horses and their riders. ¹  I used you to smash chariots and their drivers.

Year after year he used to travel the circuit of Bethel, ¹  Gilgal, and Mizpah; he used to judge Israel in all of these places.

“Babylon, ¹  you are my war club, ²  my weapon for battle. I used you to smash nations. ³  I used you to destroy kingdoms.

(The Emites ¹  used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

From there he attacked the people of Debir. ¹  (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

From there they attacked the people of Debir. ¹  (Debir used to be called Kiriath Sepher.)

When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),

Above the foundation ¹  the best ²  stones, chiseled to the right size, ³  were used along with cedar.

He decorated the temple with precious stones; the gold he used came from Parvaim. ¹ 

My harp is used for ¹  mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

So he used suffering to humble them; ¹  they stumbled and no one helped them up.

Before I was afflicted I used to stray off, ¹  but now I keep your instructions. ² 

to the one who used wisdom to make the heavens, for his loyal love endures,

(Now it used to be in Israel that whenever someone went to inquire of God he would say, “Come on, let’s go to the seer.” For today’s prophet used to be called a seer.)

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah (no exemptions were granted) to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  King Asa used the materials to build up ²  Geba (in Benjamin) and Mizpah.

He gave him ¹  the prescribed weight for all the gold items to be used in various types of service in the Lord’s temple, for all the silver items to be used in various types of service, ² 

King Asa ordered all the men of Judah to carry away the stones and wood that Baasha had used to build Ramah. ¹  He used the materials to build up ²  Geba and Mizpah.