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 on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine 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 prayed to him. Moved by Manasseh's entreaties, the LORD heard his supplications and brought him back to his kingdom in Jerusalem. That's how Manasseh learned that the LORD is God.

His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all his sin, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up groves 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 an hundred talents of silver, and to an hundred measures of wheat, and to an hundred baths of wine, and to an 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 thy journey be? and when wilt thou 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, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be 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.”

And they found written in the law, how that Jehovah had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast 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.

It was found written there how Mordecai had reported that Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, had planned to attack King Ahasuerus (Xerxes).

That day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jewish people, and Mordecai came into the king's presence because Esther had told him how Mordecai 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, which 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 myself will be silent; and make me understand how I have gone astray.

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

How long wilt thou speak these things? and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind?

I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with 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 mine iniquities and sins? make me to 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, which drinketh iniquity like water?

If I speak, my pain is not relieved; and [if] I cease, how much will leave me?

How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

If ye say, How we will persecute him! And that the root of the matter is found in me;

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth 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 comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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

And thou sayest, How doth 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, which is a worm?

How hast thou helped him that is without power? how savest thou the arm that hath no strength?

How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?

Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion 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,

“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.

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

“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look 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 flatter; 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 accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth 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,

“For you say, ‘What advantage have you [by living a righteous life]?
What profit will I have, more [by being righteous] than if I had sinned?’

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

“If you have sinned, what do you accomplish against Him?
And if your transgressions are multiplied, what have you done to Him?

How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest 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.

Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

“Do you know about the layers of thick clouds [and how they are balanced and poised in the heavens],
The wonderful works of Him who is perfect in knowledge,

How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?

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?