Under his authority, Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah served in the priestly cities, making sure contributions were distributed faithfully to their relatives division by division, no matter how large or how small,

Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of my hand?

That's how the LORD delivered Hezekiah, as well as those who lived in Jerusalem, from Assyria's King Sennacherib and all his forces, and provided for all of their needs.

This is how Manasseh deceived Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to practice more evil than the nations whom the LORD had eliminated in front of the Israelis.

and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.

His prayer also, and how God received his entreaty, and all his sins, and his trespass, and the places in which he built high places, and set up idol poles and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they are written among the sayings of the seers.

That's how the LORD's service was prepared that day to celebrate the Passover and to offer burnt offerings on the LORD's altar according to what King Josiah had commanded.

and I have commanded to make search: and it is found, that this city, of old, hath made insurrection against kings; and how the uproar and rebellion hath been committed therein.

Unto a hundred talents of silver, and to a hundred cors of wheat, and to a hundred baths of wine, and to a hundred baths of oil, and salt without prescribing how much.

Then I called for a fast there at the Ahava River so we could humble ourselves before our God and seek from him an appropriate way for us and our little ones to live, and how we should guard our personal wealth,

and Hanani, one of my brethren, came with certain men of Judah, and I asked them how the Jews did that were delivered and escaped from the captivity, and how it went at Jerusalem.

And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall your journey be? and when will you return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

So I went forth through the valley-gate by night, even unto the front of the snake-fountain, and into the dung-gate, - and I viewed the walls of Jerusalem, how, they, were broken down, and, the gates thereof, consumed with fire.

Then said I unto them, You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we are no more a reproach.

I told them how the gracious hand of my God had been on me, and what the king had said to me.

They said, “Let’s start rebuilding,” and they were encouraged to do this good work.

Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

I also shook out my garment and said, "This is how God will shake out everyone from his house who will not keep this promise. So this is how his possessions will be shaken out and emptied." And all the assembly said, "Amen!" And they praised Yahweh, and the people kept this promise.

But I said, “Should a man like me run away? How can I enter the temple and live? I will not go.”

They found written in the law how the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in booths during the festival of the seventh month.

You performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh,
all his officials, and all the people of his land,
for You knew how arrogantly they treated our ancestors.
You made a name for Yourself
that endures to this day.

and, their children, were one-half speaking the language of Ashdod, and understood not how to speak the language of the Jews, - but after the tongue of both people.

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

And it was found written how Mordecai had reported concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold who had conspired {to assassinate} King Ahasuerus.

On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

The sum of the writing was, how there was a commandment given in all lands to be published unto all the people, that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and the report of him was noised in all lands, how he increased and grew.

how that Haman, the son of Hammedatha all the Jews' enemy, had devised to destroy all the Jews, and caused to cast Pur, that is lot, for to put them in fear, and to bring them to naught:

and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.

how that these days are not to be forgotten, but to be kept of the children's children among all kindreds in all lands and cities. They are the days of Purim, which are not to be overslipped among the Jews, and the memorial of them ought not to perish from their seed.

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, and how that he is an innocent and virtuous man: such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land?"

Then said the LORD unto Satan, "Hast thou not considered my servant Job, how that he is an innocent and virtuous man such one as feareth God, and escheweth evil, and that there is none like him in the land? But thou movedst me against him, to punish him: yet is it in vain, for he continueth still in his godliness."

How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth?

See how happy the man is God corrects;
so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand how I have erred.

How forceful are right words! but what does your arguing prove?

How long will you not look away from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

How long will you speak these things? and how long shall the words of your mouth be like a strong wind?

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just before God?

"[He is the one] who moves mountains, and they do not know [how], who overturns them in his anger.

How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?

O remember, I beseech thee, how that thou madest me of the mould of the earth, and shalt bring me into dust again.

And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, how that they are the double of what is realised; and know that +God passeth by much of thine iniquity!

He is higher than heaven; what wilt thou do? Deeper than hell; how wilt thou then know him?

How many are my iniquities and sins? make me know my transgression and my sin.

How doth thine own heart carry thee away, and how thine eyes do roll!

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?

Though I speak, my grief is not relieved: and though I forbear, how am I eased?

How long will it be before you make an end of words? consider, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will you torment my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

"If you say, 'How will we persecute him?' And 'The root of the trouble is found' in me,

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!

And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

If only I knew how to find Him,
so that I could go to His throne.

I would learn how He would answer me;
and understand what He would say to me.

Considering then that there is no time hid from the Almighty, how happeneth it, that they which know him, will not regard his days?

How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, who is a worm?

How have you helped him that is without power? how save you the arm that has no strength?

How have you counseled him that has no wisdom? and how have you plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

How cometh a man then by wisdom? Where is the place that men find understanding?

Verily, no man can tell how worthy a thing she is, neither is she found in the land of the living.

The Topaz that cometh out of Ethiopia may in no wise be likened unto her: yea, no manner of apparel how pleasant and fair soever it be.

God understands how to get there; he knows where they live.

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

Yea, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom vigor has perished?

“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:

"I made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I look closely upon a virgin?

For how great a portion shall I have of God from above? And what inheritance from the Almighty on high?

then what shall I do when God rises up? And when he enquires, how shall I answer him?

It is not only the old who are wise
or the elderly who understand how to judge.

For I know not how to give flattery; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

“If there is an angel as a mediator for him,
One out of a thousand,
To explain to a man what is right for him [that is, how to be in right standing with God],

How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

How much less to him that regards not the persons of princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

Teach me what I do not see [in regard to how I have sinned];
If I have done wrong (injustice, unrighteousness),
I will not do it again’?

Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,

If you ask what it profits you: 'How do I benefit {by refraining from my sin}?'

Look unto the heaven, and behold it: consider the clouds, how they are higher than thou.

If you sin, how does it affect God?
If you multiply your transgressions, what does it do to Him?

{How much less} [when] you say [that] you do not see him, that [the] case [is] {before him}, and you are waiting for him!

God tells them what they have done
and how arrogantly they have transgressed.

"O consider how great and excellent his works be, whom all men love and praise:

Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out
or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.

Do you know {how God commands them} and [how] he causes his cloud's lightning to shine?

Do you understand how the clouds float,
those wonderful works of Him who has perfect knowledge?

How thy garments are warm, In the quieting of the earth from the south?

How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

“Out of the north comes golden splendor [and people can hardly look on it];
Around God is awesome splendor and majesty [far too glorious for man’s eyes].

Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,

Knowest thou, when thou wast born, how old thou shouldest be?