“The well, which the leaders sank,
Which the nobles of the people dug,
With the scepter and with their staffs.”
And from the wilderness they continued to Mattanah,

“Then survivors came down to the nobles;
The people of the Lord came down to me as warriors.

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from the house of the Lord, and came through the upper gate to the king’s house. And they placed the king upon the royal throne.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; nor had I as yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials or the rest who did the work.

“Their nobles have sent their servants for water;
They have come to the cisterns and found no water.
They have returned with their vessels empty;
They have been put to shame and humiliated,
And they cover their heads.

Laid not

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”

Then Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

So Manoah said to his wife, “We will surely die, for we have seen God.”

They saw

and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet

there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself.

Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees”; for she said, “Have I even remained alive here after seeing Him?”

Did eat

Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his kinsmen to the meal; and they ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate;

Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the

bread which we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

General references

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the sons of Israel;

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?