He had the altars of the Baals broken down, while he himself was present; and the sun-images which were placed on high over them he had cut down; and the pillars of wood and the metal images he had broken up and crushed to dust, dropping the dust over the resting-places of the dead who had made offerings to them.
He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.
And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.
And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.
And with the sandal-wood the king made steps for the house of the Lord and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody; never before had such been seen in the land of Judah.
And to the wall-builders and the stone-cutters, and to get wood and cut stone for building up the broken parts of the house of the Lord, and for everything needed to put the house in good order.
They put up pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree:
And have given their gods to the fire; for they were no gods, but wood and stone, the work of men's hands; so they have given them to destruction.
And turning back, he saw them, and put a curse on them in the name of the Lord. And two she-bears came out of the wood and put forty-two of the children to death.
To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.
The stone pillars were broken to bits and the wood pillars cut down, and the places where they had been were made full of the bones of the dead.
And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.
And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.
And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:
Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.
But you have been lifting yourself up against the Lord of heaven, and they have put the vessels of his house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your women, have taken wine in them; and you have given praise to gods of silver and gold, of brass and iron and wood and stone, who are without the power of seeing or hearing, and without knowledge: and to the God in whose hand your breath is, and whose are all your ways, you have not given glory;
They took their wine and gave praise to the gods of gold and silver, of brass and iron and wood and stone.
At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.
So I made an ark of hard wood, and had two stones cut like the others, and went up the mountain with the stones in my hands.
Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.
And the Lord will send you wandering among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other: there you will be servants to other gods, of wood and stone, gods of which you and your fathers had no knowledge.
And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:
And you have seen their disgusting doings, and the images of wood and stone and silver and gold which were among them:)
There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.
He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.
And they are to make an ark of hard wood; two and a half cubits long, and a cubit and a half wide and high.
And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,
Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.
And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;
And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.
And make rods of the same wood, five for the boards on the one side,
Hanging it by gold hooks from four pillars of wood, plated with gold and fixed in silver bases.
And make five pillars for the curtain, of hard wood plated with gold; their hooks are to be of gold and their bases of brass
And make an altar of hard wood, a square altar, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high.
And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.
The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.
And make these rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.
Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.
Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.
And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,
And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.
And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,
And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.
And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;
And he made the table of hard wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high;
The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.
And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.
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