when we invade the land, if you don't tie this rope made with red cords in the window through which you let us down, and if you don't gather your father, your mother, your brothers, and all of the rest of your father's household into your house.

"Since you put it that way," she replied, "I agree." After she sent them on their way and they had left, she tied the red cord in the window.

All the doorways and doorposts had rectangular frames, with the doorways facing each other in three tiers.

He fashioned two bronze pillars, each one eighteen cubits high, with a circumference of twelve cubits.

The boundary lines have fallen in pleasant places for me; truly, I have a beautiful heritage.

yet their message goes out into all the world, and their words to the ends of the earth. He has set up a tent for the sun in the heavens,

He drove out nations before them and allotted their tribal inheritance, settling the tribes of Israel in their tents.

For it is: "Do this and do that, do this and do that, Line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there."

The carpenter measures it with a line; he traces its shape with a stylus, then fashions it with planes and shapes it with a compass. He makes the idol like a human figure, with human beauty, to be at home in a shrine.

A measuring line will go straight out from there to the hill of Gareb, and then it will turn to Goah.

That's where he took me. All of a sudden, there was a man whose appearance resembled glowing bronze! He had a measuring reed and line in his hand as he stood in the city gate.

Then he went over to the gate that faced toward the east, ascended its steps, and measured its thresholds. One threshold measured one reed and the other one measured one reed.

As the man went out toward the east, he carried a measuring line in his hand. He measured out 1,000 cubits as he led me through water that was ankle-deep.

"Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Your wife will become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters will die by the sword. Your land will be divided and apportioned, and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will surely go into exile, far from its homeland."'"

"Therefore this is what the LORD says: "I have returned to Jerusalem with compassionate intentions. My Temple will be rebuilt there," declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and the measuring line will be stretched out over Jerusalem."'"

Then I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

But I ask, "Didn't they hear?" Certainly they did! In fact, "Their voice has gone out into the whole world, and their words to the ends of the earth."

It is not the person who commends himself who is approved, but the person whom the Lord commends.