But we had hoped ¹  that he was the one who was going to redeem ²  Israel. Not only this, but it is now the third day since these things happened.

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, ¹  each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ² 

Amaziah assembled the people of Judah ¹  and assigned them by families to the commanders of units of a thousand and the commanders of units of a hundred for all Judah and Benjamin. He counted those twenty years old and up and discovered there were 300,000 young men of fighting age ²  equipped with spears and shields. ³ 

David said to the priest, “Certainly women have been kept away from us, just as on previous occasions when I have set out. The soldiers’ ¹  equipment is holy, even on an ordinary journey. How much more so will they be holy today, along with their equipment!”

These will be the allotments for the holy portion: for the priests, toward the north eight and a quarter miles ¹  in length, toward the west three and one-third miles ²  in width, toward the east three and one-third miles ³  in width, and toward the south eight and a quarter miles ⁴  in length; the sanctuary of the Lord will be in the middle.

“Alongside the border of the priests, the Levites will have an allotment eight and a quarter miles ¹  in length and three and one-third miles ²  in width. The whole length will be eight and a quarter miles ³  and the width three and one-third miles. ⁴ 

After Noah was 500 years old, he ¹  became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

The sons of Noah who came out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Now Ham was the father of Canaan.) ¹ 

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives.” ¹ 

Each ¹  frame is to be fifteen feet long, and each frame is to be two feet three inches wide,

He made a surrounding frame for it about three inches wide, and he made a surrounding border of gold for its frame.

So Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they went up Mount Hor in the sight ¹  of the whole community.

David was going back and forth ¹  from Saul in order to care for his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.

The sons of his brother Eshek: Ulam was his firstborn, Jeush second, and Eliphelet third.

David divided them into groups corresponding to the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

I will never ¹  declare that you three ²  are in the right; until I die, I will not set aside my integrity!

then let thorns sprout up in place of wheat, and in place of barley, weeds!” ¹  The words of Job are ended.

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

Hezekiah said, “What is the confirming sign that I will go up to the Lord’s temple?”

The following is a record of what Jeremiah son of Hilkiah prophesied. ¹  He was one of the priests who lived at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin.