“Look,” says the Teacher, “this is what I have discovered: “Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—

And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”

By the wrath of the Lord Almighty the land will be scorched and the people will be fuel for the fire; they will not spare one another.

You will leave your name for my chosen ones to use in their curses; the Sovereign Lord will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.

From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the Lord.

In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.

“They make ready their tongue like a bow, to shoot lies; it is not by truth that they triumph in the land. They go from one sin to another; they do not acknowledge me,” declares the Lord.

Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh because their enemies will press the siege so hard against them to destroy them.’

“People from many nations will pass by this city and will ask one another, ‘Why has the Lord done such a thing to this great city?’

They think the dreams they tell one another will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name through Baal worship.

“Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.

No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’ because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,” declares the Lord. “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

The nations will hear of your shame; your cries will fill the earth. One warrior will stumble over another; both will fall down together.”

“Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged.

One courier follows another and messenger follows messenger to announce to the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured,

Do not lose heart or be afraid when rumors are heard in the land; one rumor comes this year, another the next, rumors of violence in the land and of ruler against ruler.

and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.

Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites and another against Judah and fortified Jerusalem.

In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

“‘As for you, my flock, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will judge between one sheep and another, and between rams and goats.

I will save my flock, and they will no longer be plundered. I will judge between one sheep and another.

The Rooms for the Priests

Outside the inner gate, within the inner court, were two rooms, one at the side of the north gate and facing south, and another at the side of the south gate and facing north.

The side rooms were on three levels, one above another, thirty on each level. There were ledges all around the wall of the temple to serve as supports for the side rooms, so that the supports were not inserted into the wall of the temple.

There were entrances to the side rooms from the open area, one on the north and another on the south; and the base adjoining the open area was five cubits wide all around.