After Ehud brought the tribute payment, he dismissed the people who had carried it. ¹ 

While I was still speaking and praying, confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my request before the LORD my God concerning his holy mountain ¹  –

The messenger replied, “These are the four spirits ¹  of heaven that have been presenting themselves before the Lord of all the earth.

And those men said to him, “We are ceremonially defiled by the dead body of a man; why are we kept back from offering the Lord’s offering at its appointed time among the Israelites?”

“‘Every native-born person must do these things in this way to present an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

If they do this, tell ¹  them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to die in the dungeon of Jonathan’s house.’” ² 

So they took Paul and ¹  brought him to the Areopagus, ²  saying, “May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

“‘These are the appointed times of the Lord that you must proclaim as holy assemblies to present a gift to the Lord – burnt offering, grain offering, sacrifice, and drink offerings, ¹  each day according to its regulation, ² 

Next, the one presenting the offering ¹  must skin the burnt offering and cut it into parts,

Meanwhile for forty days the Philistine approached every morning and evening and took his position.

The king and all Israel with him were presenting sacrifices to the Lord.

The king and all the people were presenting sacrifices to the Lord.

The Lord takes his position to judge; he stands up to pass sentence on his people. ¹ 

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

And you ¹  will provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah, and a third of a gallon ²  of olive oil to moisten the choice flour, as a grain offering to the Lord; this is a perpetual statute.

and do not present your members to sin as instruments ¹  to be used for unrighteousness, ²  but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments ³  to be used for righteousness.

Be certain to keep all the statutes and ordinances that I am presenting to you today.

That will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves.

As one who is above your ¹  brothers, I give to you the mountain slope, ²  which I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow.”

Just when he had finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel appeared on the scene. Saul went out to meet him and to greet him. ¹