So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.

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This went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the Lord, her rival provoked her till she wept and would not eat.(A)

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(A)He burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, (C)he burned with fire.

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He set fire(A) to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down.(B)

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34 We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, (A)for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God (B)as it is written in the Law.

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34 “We—the priests, the Levites and the people—have cast lots(A) to determine when each of our families is to bring to the house of our God at set times each year a contribution of wood(B) to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law.

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35 And we made ordinances (A)to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the Lord;

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35 “We also assume responsibility for bringing to the house of the Lord each year the firstfruits(A) of our crops and of every fruit tree.(B)

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