Lexicon :: Strong's H2490 - ḥālal

All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth split open from the sound.[fn]

In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory

In those days the LORD began sending Aram’s King Rezin and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.

Cush fathered Nimrod, who was the first to become a great warrior on earth.

These were the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel. He was the firstborn, but his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph son of Israel, because Reuben defiled his father’s bed. He is not listed in the genealogy according to birthright.

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them, but he didn’t complete it. There was wrath against Israel because of this census, and the number was not entered in the Historical Record[fn] of King David.

Then Solomon began to build the LORD’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD[fn] had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan[fn] the Jebusite.

The moment they began their shouts and praises, the LORD set an ambush against the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir who came to fight against Judah, and they were defeated.

They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the portico of the LORD’s temple. They consecrated the LORD’s temple for eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

In the third month they began building up the piles, and they finished in the seventh month.

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images.

On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the LORD, even though the foundation of the LORD’s temple had not yet been laid.

When Sanballat, Tobiah, and the Arabs, Ammonites, and Ashdodites heard that the repair to the walls of Jerusalem was progressing and that the gaps were being closed, they became furious.

I rebuked the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil you are doing ​— ​profaning the Sabbath day?

Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai is Jewish, and you have begun to fall before him, you won’t overcome him, because your downfall is certain.”

So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.

By his breath the heavens gained their beauty;

his hand pierced the fleeing serpent.[fn]

My friend acts violently

against those at peace with him;

he violates his covenant.

They set your sanctuary on fire;

they utterly[fn] desecrated

the dwelling place of your name.

Singers and dancers[fn] alike will say,[fn]

“My whole source of joy is[fn] in you.”

“if they dishonor my statutes

and do not keep my commands,

For I am suffering and needy;

my heart is wounded within me.

The LORD of Armies planned it,

to desecrate all its glorious beauty,

to disgrace all the honored ones of the earth.

“So I defiled the officers of the sanctuary,

and set Jacob apart for destruction

and Israel for scorn.

“I was angry with my people;

I profaned my possession,

and I handed them over to you.

You showed them no mercy;

you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.

“I will act for my own sake, indeed, my own,

for how can I[fn] be defiled?

I will not give my glory to another.

Wake up, wake up!

Arm of the LORD, clothe yourself with strength.

Wake up as in days past,

as in generations long ago.

Wasn’t it you who hacked Rahab to pieces,

who pierced the sea monster?

But he was pierced because of our rebellion,

crushed because of our iniquities;

punishment for our peace was on him,

and we are healed by his wounds.

Happy is the person who does this,

the son of man who holds it fast,

who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it,

and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

“I will first repay them double for their iniquity and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.”

“For I am already bringing disaster on the city that bears my name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth. This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies.’

You will plant vineyards again

on the mountains of Samaria;

the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.

“But you have changed your minds and profaned my name. Each has taken back his male and female slaves who had been set free to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up

all the dwellings of Jacob.

In his wrath he has demolished

the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.

He brought them to the ground

and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.

I will hand these things over

to foreigners as plunder

and to the wicked of the earth as spoil,

and they will profane them.

“Slaughter the old men, the young men and women, as well as the children and older women, but do not come near anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were in front of the temple.

“You profane me among my people for handfuls of barley and scraps of bread; you put those to death who should not die and spare those who should not live, when you lie to my people, who listen to lies.

“But I acted for the sake of my name, so that it would not be profaned in the eyes of the nations they were living among, in whose sight I had made myself known to Israel by bringing them out of Egypt.