Lexicon :: Strong's H4605 - maʿal

“Your corpses will fall in this wilderness ​— ​all of you who were registered in the census, the entire number of you twenty years old or more ​— ​because you have complained about me.

“Take a census of the entire Israelite community by their ancestral families[fn] of those twenty years old or more who can serve in Israel’s army.”

“‘Because they did not remain loyal to me, none of the men twenty years old or more who came up from Egypt will see the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ​— ​

“Today, recognize and keep in mind that the LORD is God in heaven above and on earth below; there is no other.

“Do not make an idol for yourself in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

“The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward if you listen to the LORD your God’s commands I am giving you today and are careful to follow them.

“When we heard this, we lost heart, and everyone’s courage failed[fn] because of you, for the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

“When the feet[fn] of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of the whole earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s water, its water will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a mass.”

The territory of the Amorites extended from the Scorpions’ Ascent, that is from Sela upward.

When Gideon arrived, there was a man telling his friend about a dream. He said, “Listen, I had a dream: a loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp, struck a tent, and it fell. The loaf turned the tent upside down so that it collapsed.”

He had a son named Saul, an impressive young man. There was no one more impressive among the Israelites than he. He stood a head taller than anyone else.[fn]

They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else.[fn]

So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully on David from that day forward. Then Samuel set out and went to Ramah.

And it has been so from that day forward. David established this policy[fn] as a law and an ordinance for Israel and it still continues today.

It was paneled above with cedar at the top of the chambers that rested on forty-five pillars, fifteen per row.

For the cherubim were spreading their wings over[fn] the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

All Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, from the youngest to the oldest, were summoned and took their stand at the border.

“The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

Then David knew that the LORD had established him as king over Israel and that his kingdom had been exalted for the sake of his people Israel.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I will make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

The Levites thirty years old or more were counted; the total number of men was thirty-eight thousand by headcount.

“Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above all that I’ve provided for the holy house:

Solomon son of David strengthened his hold on his kingdom. The LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east. The basin was on top of them and all their hindquarters were toward the center.

And the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark so that the cherubim formed a cover above the ark and its poles.

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the LORD but only the physicians.

Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger. He built fortresses and storage cities in Judah

Then the Levites from the sons of the Kohathites and the Korahites stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel shouting loudly.

Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral families,[fn] according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those twenty years old or more for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be three hundred thousand fit young men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.

The Ammonites[fn] paid tribute to Uzziah, and his fame spread as far as the entrance of Egypt, for God made him very powerful.

In addition, they distributed it to males registered by genealogy three[fn] years old and above; to all who would enter the LORD’s temple for their daily duty, for their service in their responsibilities according to their divisions.

Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the shrines[fn] that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God’s house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the LORD’s house.

And I said:

My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward you, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.

If only that day had turned to darkness!

May God above not care about it,

or light shine on it.