The next morning the people got up early and built an altar there. They offered up burnt sacrifices and token of peace. ¹ 

Boaz chose ten of the village leaders ¹  and said, “Sit down here!” So they sat down.

But the high places were not eliminated; the people continued to offer sacrifices and burn incense on the high places.

Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is established, it cannot be moved.

Now I am sending you Huram Abi, ¹  a skilled and capable man,

They did not neglect any detail of the king’s orders pertaining to the priests, Levites, and treasuries. ¹ 

He had many supplies stored in the cities of Judah and an army of skilled warriors stationed in Jerusalem. ¹ 

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific ¹  duties to the priests and the Levites.

“How long until you ¹  make an end of words? ²  You must consider, ³  and then ⁴  we can talk.

Certainly ¹  the Lord is just; ²  he rewards godly deeds; ³  the upright will experience his favor. ⁴ 

The Lord grants success to the one whose behavior he finds commendable. ¹ 

O God, listen to my prayer! Pay attention to what I say! ¹ 

for you live among them. ¹  You sustain the oppressed with your good blessings, O God.

Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One ¹  might become inactive. ² 

Each morning I will destroy all the wicked people in the land, and remove all evildoers from the city of the Lord.

He put him in charge of his palace, ¹  and made him manager of all his property,

He has taken a bag of money with him; ¹  he will not return until ²  the end of the month.” ³ 

The Lord abhors ¹  dishonest scales, ²  but an accurate weight ³  is his elight.

One who has isolated himself ¹  seeks his own desires; ²  he rejects ³  all sound judgment.

A king sitting on the throne to judge ¹  separates out ²  all evil with his eyes. ³