For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

Yahweh thundered from heaven. The Most High uttered his voice.

Most certainly my house is not so with God, yet he has made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, for it is all my salvation, and all [my] desire, although he doesn't make it grow.

But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They shall be utterly burned with fire in their place."

Wasn't he most honorable of the three? therefore he was made their captain: however he didn't attain to the [first] three.

The king said to Araunah, "No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing." So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.