The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with offspring, the offspring of your livestock, and your land’s produce in the land the Lord swore to your ancestors to give you.
So the Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt #– #over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs #– #and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.’
During his reign, Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn, he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest, he finished its gates, according to the word of the Lord which he had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
While Obadiah was walking along the road, Elijah suddenly met him. When Obadiah recognised him, he fell face down and said, ‘Is it you, my lord Elijah? ’
At that time Joshua imposed this curse: The man who undertakes the rebuilding of this city, Jericho, is cursed before the Lord. He will lay its foundation at the cost of his firstborn; he will finish its gates at the cost of his youngest.
But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers we sent.
Wasn’t it reported to my lord what I did when Jezebel slaughtered the Lord’s prophets? I hid a hundred of the prophets of the Lord, fifty men to a cave, and I provided them with food and water.