{"id":5131,"date":"2021-09-18T15:08:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2021-09-18T15:08:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T20:08:58","slug":"1-kings-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/?p=5131","title":{"rendered":"1 Kings 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Twas the month of Ethanim (2) <br>When they gathered all the team; <br>Number seven on the calendar of Israel. <br>Time to bring up that ark of the Covenant. (1) <br>They brought the ark to the &#8220;tent of meeting.&#8221; (4) <br>Had holy forks, spoons, and knives (4) <br>So they could feed their holy lives,  <br>The congregation of Israel, <br>Among whom the Almighty did dwell. <br>So the king and people did assemble; (5) <br>Must have been in His presence quite a tremble: <br>Oxen and sheep without number! (5) <br>Such a sight!\u00a0 No man could slumber. <br>They carried that box to its place, (6) <br>The inner sanctuary of the house, (6) <br>A most holy place with nary a mouse, <br>Under the wings of the cherubim, (6) <br>Hangin&#8217; right over that ark. (7) <br>Made for a find place to park <br>And come out of the dark, <br>See the light of the inner sanctuary. (8) <br>Better thrills than a god-mother ferry! <br>Nothin&#8217; in that ark but tablets of stone, (9) <br>But no better laws had the world ever known! <br>A covenant with the sons of Israel <br>To keep them out of that place called &#8220;hell&#8221;! <br>Had to go to Egypt &#8217;cause they&#8217;d been bad; <br>And found more misery than they&#8217;d every had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A.m. on 17 Sept., 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Twas the month of Ethanim (2) When they gathered all the team; Number seven on the calendar of Israel. Time to bring up that ark of the Covenant. (1) They brought the ark to the &#8220;tent of meeting.&#8221; (4) Had holy forks, spoons, and knives (4) So they could feed their holy lives, The congregation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,52,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5132,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/michaelbray.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}