May it hang over Joab’s head and his father’s whole family, and may the house of Joab never be without someone who has a discharge or a skin disease, or a man who can only work a spindle, or someone who falls by the sword or starves.’
The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with leprosy are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor are told the good news,
The Lord afflicted the king, and he had a serious skin disease until the day of his death. He lived in quarantine, , while Jotham, the king’s son, was over the household governing the people of the land.
For Solomon had made a bronze platform 2.25 metres long, 2.25 metres wide, and 1.35 metres high and put it in the court. He stood on it, knelt down in front of the entire congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands towards heaven.