and gave after their ability, unto the treasure of the work, one and three score thousand drams, and five thousand pounds of silver, and a hundred priests' garments.

and of the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, with 70 men.

And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri.

All of them were wanting to scare us, supposing, "Their hands will grow slack from the work, and it won't get done." So now, strengthen my hands!

He had been hired to scare me so that I would do this and thereby sin. They would thus bring reproach on me and I would be discredited.

Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat in light of these actions of theirs -- also Noadiah the prophetess and the other prophets who were trying to scare me!

They were telling me about his good deeds and then taking back to him the things I said. Tobiah, on the other hand, sent letters in order to scare me.

And the other people gave twenty thousand drams, and two thousand pound of silver, and seven and three score priests' garments.

Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,

and Joel the son of Zicri was their overseer, and Judah the son of Senuah was second over the city.

of Abijah, Zicri; of Miniamin; of Moadiah, Piltai;

And certain of the priests' sons with trumpets; namely, Zechariah the son of Jonathan, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Mattaniah, the son of Michaiah, the son of Zaccur, the son of Asaph:

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

Then You frighten me with dreams
And terrify me through visions,

So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.

what is man that thou remember him? And the son of man that thou succor him?

But be not thou far off, O Jehovah: O thou my succor, haste thee to help me.

O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succor; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God my Saviour.

Let not the foot of pride reach me, nor, the hand of the lawless, scare me away.

The God of my mercy will succor me: God will let me see my desire upon my enemies.

They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue swaggers through the earth.

O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily succor us: for we are brought very low.

The days of our years, have, in them, three score years and ten, And, if, by reason of strength, they have fourscore years, Yet, their boast, is labour and sorrow, For it hath passed quickly, and we have flown away.

But let Israel trust in the LORD, for he is their succor and defense.

Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes reach the innermost parts.

He who makes treasure by a lying tongue [is a] fleeting vapor [and] seeker of death.

He that by violence sheddeth any man's blood, shall be a renagade unto his grave; and no man shall be able to succor him.

And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet fragrance there shall be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; and a burning scar instead of beauty.

And immediately I called unto me faithful witnesses: Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the son of Barachiah.

Now then hear this, O pleasure seeker, who lives carelessly; who says in her heart, I am, and none else is; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I know the loss of children.

Stand, now, in your enchantments, and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you may be able to benefit; perhaps you may {scare away}.

The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of the instructed, that I should know how to succour by a word him that is weary. He wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the instructed.

And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall scare them away.

and this whole land shall become a wilderness, and they shall serve the said people and the king of Babylon, three score years and ten.

Ye harness your horses, and set yourselves upon them. Ye set your helmets fast on, ye bring forth your spears. Ye scour your swords, and put on your breastplates.

Damascus traded with you because of the abundance of your handiworks and the immense wealth of every kind, with the wine of Helbon [Aleppo] and the white wool [of Sachar in Syria].

And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high, upon which they laid the instruments of which they killed the burnt-offering and the sacri

Now the building that was separated toward the west, was seventy cubits wide: the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length four score cubits and ten.

This shall he do, seeking help and succor at the mighty Idols and strange gods. Such as receive him, and take him for God, he shall give them great worship and power: yea and make them lords of the multitude, and give them the land with rewards.

And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.

that they may be scattered away from Egypt, as men scare birds: and frayed away, as doves used to be, from the Assyrians' land: and that because I would have them tarry at home, sayeth the LORD.

Who shall endure in the day of his coming, or who shall stand to behold him? For he is as trying fire, and as the herb that fullers scour withal.

for every one who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

for Herod having secur'd John, bound him, and put him in prison to please Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

"Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you scour sea and land in order to win one convert--and when he is gained, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar.

Jesus said to him, friend, what are you come about? when the others advancing, seized upon Jesus, and secur'd him.

no one can enter into a strong man's house, and plunder his goods, unless the man be first secur'd.

In the days of Herod [the Great], king of Judea, there was a certain priest whose name was Zacharias, of the division of Abijah. His wife was a descendant of Aaron [the first high priest of Israel], and her name was Elizabeth.

Now while Zachariah was acting as priest before God in the due course of his class, it fell to his lot, according to the custom of priesthood,

When Zacharias saw the angel, he was troubled and overcome with fear.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zacharias, because your petition [in prayer] was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you will name him John.

And Zacharias said to the angel, “How will I be certain of this? For I am an old man and my wife is advanced in age.”

The people [outside in the court] were waiting for Zacharias, and were wondering about his long delay in the temple.

and she entered the house of Zacharias and greeted Elizabeth.

It happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child [as required by the Law], and they intended to name him Zacharias, after his father;

And he asked for a writing tablet and wrote as follows, “His name is John.” And they were all astonished.

Now Zacharias his father was filled with the Holy Spirit and empowered by Him, and he prophesied, saying,

And she had been a widow about four score and four years of age, which went never out of the temple, but served God there with fasting and prayer night and day.

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas [his son-in-law], the word of God came to John, the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness.

And they nodded to partners, those in the other ship, that having come they should succor them. And they came and filled both ships, so that they were sinking.

And he said to them, "Take no thing to succor you by the way: neither staff, nor scrip, neither bread neither money, neither have two coats.

for everyone who asks receives, the seeker finds, the door is opened to anyone who knocks.

that the blood of all the prophets, which has been shed from the founding of the world, may be required of this generation??51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah who perished between the altar and the house??ea, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation.'

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.

Or again, suppose a woman has ten shillings. If she loses one of them, does she not light a lamp and scour the house and search carefully till she finds it?

After that he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' And he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' He says to him, 'Take your accounts, and write, Four score.'

And behold, two of them went that same day to a town, which was from Jerusalem about three score furlongs, called Emmaus:

Then sent Joseph and caused his father to be brought, and all his kin: three score and fifteen souls.

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, purposed to send succour unto the brethren which dwelt in Jewry,

And, a vision, by night, unto Paul appeared: - A man of Macedonia, there was, standing and beseeching him, and saying - Come over into Macedonia, and bring us succour!

I showed you how this was the way to work hard and succour the needy, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'To give is happier than to get.'"

and has attempted to prophane the temple: we secur'd him, and would have try'd him by our law:

We were all together in the ship, two hundred and three score and sixteen souls.

where the inhabitants, as much barbarians, as they were, receiv'd us with great humanity. they kindled a fire, and secur'd us from the falling rains, as well as the cold:

There is not one who is really wise, nor one who is a diligent seeker after God.

for no person will be acquitted in his sight on the score of obedience to law. What the Law imparts is the consciousness of sin.

it was to demonstrate his justice at the present epoch, showing that God is just himself and that he justifies man on the score of faith in Jesus.

Well then, there is one God, a God who will justify the circumcised as they believe and the uncircumcised on the score of faith.

This, that if 'Abraham was justified on the score of what he did,' he has something to be proud of. But not to be proud of before God.

when I have dispatch'd this affair, and have secur'd to them this collection, I will come to you in my way to Spain.

(for he saith, At an acceptable time I hearkened unto thee, And in a day of salvation did I succor thee: behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation):

that your abundance succor their lack at this present time of dearth - that their abundance may supply your lack; that there may be equality,

[Now] I do not want to appear to be trying to scare you by my letters.

Since many boast on the score of the flesh, I will do the same.)

And because no one is justified on the score of the Law before God (plainly, the just shall live by faith, ??12 and the Law is not based on faith: no, he who performs these things shall live by them),

And ye Philippians know, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I was departing from Macedonia, no church communicated to me on the score of giving and receiving, but you only.

Let a widow not be taken into account under three score years, the wife of one husband,

If any, believing woman, hath widows, let her be giving them succour, and not suffer the assembly to be burdened, - that, them who are indeed widows, it may itself succour.

For surely He doth not succor angels, but He succoreth Abraham's seed.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.

Let us, then, be approaching with freedom of speech, unto the throne of favour, that we may receive mercy, and, favour, may find, for seasonable succour.

It was by faith that Abel offered God a richer sacrifice than Cain did, and thus won from God the record of being 'just,' on the score of what he gave; he died, but by his faith he is speaking to us still.

And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days, clothed in sackcloth.

And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and three score days.

Here is wisdom. Let him that has understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is six hundred three score and six.