The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs." And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

Then the survivors came down to the mighty ones; the Lord's people came down to me as warriors.

She wrote out orders, signed Ahab's name to them, and sealed them with his seal. She then sent the orders to the leaders and to the nobles who lived in Naboth's city.

He summoned the officers of the units of hundreds, the nobles, the rulers of the people, and all the people of land, and he then led the king down from the Lord's temple. They entered the royal palace through the Upper Gate and seated the king on the royal throne.

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers.

The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.

Laid not

The Lord said to Moses, "Go down and solemnly warn the people, lest they force their way through to the Lord to look, and many of them perish.

But he added, "You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live."

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

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

Manoah said to his wife, "We will certainly die, because we have seen a supernatural being!"

They saw

and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear like the sky itself.

So Hagar named the Lord who spoke to her, "You are the God who sees me," for she said, "Here I have seen one who sees me!"

Did eat

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

After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

Go, eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a happy heart, because God has already approved your works.

Bring the fattened calf and kill it! Let us eat and celebrate,

Is not the cup of blessing that we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ? Is not the bread that we break a sharing in the body of Christ?

General references

Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?