Now it happened, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed,
Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.
They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, "Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
He took him into the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.
The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,
and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.
For the LORD has built up Zion. He has appeared in his glory.
Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;
He built his sanctuary like the heights, like the earth which he has established forever.
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, "We are witnesses. May the LORD make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Your neck is like David's tower built for an armory, whereon a thousand shields hang, all the shields of the mighty men.
Give praise to the Lord, for he is good, and praise the everlasting King, so that his tabernacle may be built in you again with joy; and there let him make joyful in you those who are captives, and love in you for ever those who are miserable.
For Jerusalem shall be built up with sapphires and emeralds and precious stone, your walls and towers and battlements with pure gold.
And when I was in my own country, in the land of Israel, in my youth, with all the tribe of Naphtali, my father fell away from the house of Jerusalem, which was chosen out of all the tribes of Israel so that all the tribes should sacrifice there, where the Temple of the dwelling place of the most High was consecrated and built for all ages.
And again God will have mercy on them and bring them again into the land, where they shall build a temple, but not like the first, until the time of that age is fulfilled; and afterward they shall return from all the places of their captivity and build up Jerusalem gloriously, and the house of God shall be built in it for ever with a glorious building, just as the prophets have spoken.
Therefore thus says the LORD: "I have returned to Jerusalem with mercy. My house shall be built in it," says the LORD of Armies, "and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem."'
Thus says the LORD of Armies: "Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets who were in the day that the foundation of the house of the LORD of Armies was laid, even the temple, that it might be built.
Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.
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