Then Shimei got up, and making ready his ass, he went to Gath, to Achish, in search of his servants; and he sent and got them from Gath.
Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did the work of cutting them, and put edges on them, and got the wood and the stone ready for the building of the house.
And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.
So the prophet said to his sons, Make ready an ass for me. So they made an ass ready, and he got on it,
Now after the meal he made ready the ass for him, for the prophet whom he had taken back.
And he said to his sons, Make ready the ass for me. And they did so.
And he put the body in the resting-place made ready for himself, weeping and sorrowing over it, saying, O my brother!
Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.
Now, let them give us two oxen; and let them take one for themselves, and have it cut up, and put it on the wood, but put no fire under it; I will get the other ox ready, and put it on the wood, and put no fire under it.
Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under.
So they took the ox which was given them, and made it ready, crying out to Baal from morning till the middle of the day, and saying, O Baal, give ear to us. But there was no voice and no answer. And they were jumping up and down before the altar they had made.
And the seventh time he said, I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then he said, Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.
And the children of Israel got themselves together, and food was made ready and they went against them; the tents of the children of Israel were like two little flocks of goats before them, but all the country was full of the Aramaeans.
Then she made the ass ready and said to her servant, Keep driving on; do not make a stop without orders from me.
Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.
So he made ready a great feast for them, and when they had had food and drink, he sent them away and they went back to their master. And no more bands of Aramaeans came into the land of Israel.
And elisha the prophet sent for one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Make yourself ready for a journey, and take this bottle of oil in your hand, and go to Ramoth-gilead.
Then Joram said, Make ready. So they made his carriage ready; and Joram, king of Israel, with Ahaziah, king of Judah, went out in their carriages for the purpose of meeting Jehu; and they came face to face with him at the field of Naboth the Jezreelite.
And from the copy King Ahaz sent from Damascus, Urijah made an altar and had it ready by the time King Ahaz came back from Damascus.
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
And some of their brothers, sons of the Kohathites, were responsible for the holy bread which was put in order before the Lord, to get it ready every Sabbath.
These are the numbers of the chiefs of the armed men, ready for war, who came to David at Hebron, to give the kingdom of Saul into his hands, as the Lord had said.
For three days they were there with David, feasting at his table, for their brothers had made ready food for them.
And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.
And David made all Israel come together at Jerusalem, to take the ark of the Lord to its place, which he had got ready for it.
And said to them, You are the heads of the families of the Levites: make yourselves holy, you and your brothers, so that you may take the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel, to the place which I have made ready for it.
And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.
Now see, poor though I am, I have got ready for the house of the Lord a hundred thousand talents of gold and a million talents of silver; and a weight of brass and iron greater than may be measured; and wood and stone have I made ready, and you may put more to it.
Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.
And see, there are the divisions of the priests and Levites for all the work of the house of God; and every trained and expert workman will be ready to do for you whatever is needed; and the captains and the people will be under your orders in everything.
Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.
And because this house of God is dear to me, I give my private store of gold and silver to the house of my God, in addition to all I have got ready for the holy house;
O Lord our God, all this store, which we have made ready for the building of a house for your holy name, comes from your hand and is yours.
And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.
But the ark of God had been moved by David from Kiriath-jearim to the place which he had made ready for it, for he had put up a tent for it at Jerusalem.
Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.
Then Hezekiah said that store-rooms were to be made ready in the house of the Lord; and this was done.
And make yourselves ready in your divisions, by your families, as it is ordered in the writings of David, king of Israel, and of Solomon his son;
And put the Passover lamb to death, and make yourselves holy, and make it ready for your brothers, so that the orders given by the Lord through Moses may be done.
So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.
And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.
And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.
So everything needed for the worship of the Lord was made ready that same day, for the keeping of the Passover and the offering of burned offerings on the altar of the Lord, as King Josiah had given orders.
Then the heads of families of Judah and Benjamin, with the priests and the Levites, got ready, even all those whose spirits were moved by God to go up and take in hand the building of the Lord's house in Jerusalem.
And now it is my order that all those of the people of Israel, and their priests and Levites in my kingdom, who are ready and have a desire to go to Jerusalem, are to go with you.
Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
Then he said to them, Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready: for this day is holy to our Lord: and let there be no grief in your hearts; for the joy of the Lord is your strong place.
Had made ready for him a great room, where at one time they kept the meal offerings, the perfume, and the vessels and the tenths of the grain and wine and oil which were given by order to the Levites and the music-makers and the door-keepers, and the lifted offerings for the priests.
And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God.
A copy of the writing, to be made public in every part of the kingdom, was sent out to all the peoples, so that they might be ready when that day came.
And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.
Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.
If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.
And Haman said further, Truly, Esther the queen let no man but myself come in to the feast which she had made ready for the king; and tomorrow again I am to be her guest with the king.
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a pillar, fifty cubits high, be made ready for hanging him, and in the morning get the king to give orders for the hanging of Mordecai: then you will be able to go to the feast with the king with a glad heart. And Haman was pleased with the suggestion, and he had the pillar made.
Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.
While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.
A copy of the writing, to be made public as an order in every division of the kingdom, was given out to all the peoples, so that the Jews might be ready when that day came to give punishment to their haters.
Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.
He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,
My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.
Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage.
He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?
When he gets ready for the fight, the strong are overcome with fear.
If a man is not turned from his evil, he will make his sword sharp; his bow is bent and ready.
He has made ready for him the instruments of death; he makes his arrows flames of fire.
But the Lord is King for ever: he has made ready his high seat for judging.
See, the bows of the evil-doers are bent, they make ready their arrows on the cord, so that they may send them secretly against the upright in heart.
Their backs will be turned when you make ready the cords of your bow against their faces.
You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
Take me out of the net which they have put ready for me secretly; for you are my strength.
For without cause they have put a net ready for me secretly, in which to take my soul.
All the day he is ready to have mercy and to give; his children are a blessing.
<To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A song of loves.> My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.
My haters are ever ready to put an end to me; great numbers are lifting themselves up against me.
They have made ready a net for my steps; my soul is bent down; they have made a great hole before me, and have gone down into it themselves. (Selah.)
For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.
You have given your blessing to the earth, watering it and making it fertile; the river of God is full of water: and having made it ready, you give men grain.
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?
You made ready a place for it, so that it might take deep root, and it sent out its branches over all the land.
So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
The Lord is kind and full of pity, not quickly made angry, but ever ready to have mercy.
The Lord has made ready his high seat in the heavens; his kingdom is ruling over all.
The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them.
My heart is ever ready to keep your rules, even to the end.
There I will make the horn of David fertile: I have made ready a light for my king.
For their hearts are full of evil designs; and they are ever making ready causes of war.
And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:
She has put her fat beasts to death; her wine is mixed, her table is ready.
He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.
In the lips of him who has knowledge wisdom is seen; but a rod is ready for the back of him who is without sense.
The hand of the ready worker will have authority, but he who is slow in his work will be put to forced work.
He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.
Rods are being made ready for the man of pride, and blows for the back of the foolish.
The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.
Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.
Like a nose-ring of gold and an ornament of the best gold, is a wise man who says sharp words to an ear ready to give attention.
Let your mouth be open for those who have no voice, in the cause of those who are ready for death.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.
I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.
The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.
Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.
For before the time of getting in the grapes, after the opening of the bud, when the flower has become a grape ready for crushing, he will take away the small branches with knives, cutting down and taking away the wide-stretching branches.
They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.
And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.
A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.
So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.
I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:
And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.
If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.
And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.
All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.
Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.
I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
So make yourself ready, and go and say to them everything I give you orders to say: do not be overcome by fear of them, or I will send fear on you before them.
Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.
But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.
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