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Ask a QuestionAnd the king of Israel answered, "Tell him, 'Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.'"
So she went from him and shut the door behind herself and her sons. And as she poured they brought the vessels to her.
They also feared the Lord and appointed from among themselves all sorts of people as priests of the high places, who sacrificed for them in the shrines of the high places.
And the king commanded all the people, "Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant."
So they and their sons were in charge of the gates of the house of the Lord, that is, the house of the tent, as guards.
As he went to Ziklag, these men of Manasseh deserted to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.
And the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.
As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David and went out from the threshing floor and paid homage to David with his face to the ground.
"Now, my son, the Lord be with you, so that you may succeed in building the house of the Lord your God, as he has spoken concerning you.
These divisions of the gatekeepers, corresponding to their chief men, had duties, just as their brothers did, ministering in the house of the Lord.
These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but they were not found there, and so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
When the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem.
These sought their registration among those enrolled in the genealogies, but it was not found there, so they were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
As for the sons of Levi, their heads of fathers' houses were written in the Book of the Chronicles until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
And they performed the service of their God and the service of purification, as did the singers and the gatekeepers, according to the command of David and his son Solomon.
And drinking was according to this edict: "There is no compulsion." For the king had given orders to all the staff of his palace to do as each man desired.
"As God lives, who has taken away my right,and the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter,
Terrors are turned upon me;my honor is pursued as by the wind,and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
His back is made of rows of shields,shut up closely as with a seal.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!