Enlightened Tunnel

Numbers 2:1-4The Message 

2 1-2 God spoke to Moses and Aaron. He said, “The People of Israel are to set up camp circling the Tent of Meeting and facing it. Each company is to camp under its distinctive tribal flag.”

3-4 To the east toward the sunrise are the companies of the camp of Judah under its flag, led by Nahshon son of Amminadab. His troops number 74,600.

Ruth 2:1-4

2 Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. 2 And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, “Let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.” 3 So she set out and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers, and she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech. 4 And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem. And he said to the reapers, “The Lord be with you!” And they answered, “The Lord bless you.”

2 Kings 4:1-7

4 The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the Lord. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

2 Elisha replied to her, “How can I help you? Tell me, what do you have in your house?”

“Your servant has nothing there at all,” she said, “except a small jar of olive oil.”

3 Elisha said, “Go around and ask all your neighbors for empty jars. Don’t ask for just a few. 4 Then go inside and shut the door behind you and your sons. Pour oil into all the jars, and as each is filled, put it to one side.”

5 She left him and shut the door behind her and her sons. They brought the jars to her and she kept pouring. 6 When all the jars were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another one.”

But he replied, “There is not a jar left.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

7 She went and told the man of God, and he said, “Go, sell the oil and pay your debts. You and your sons can live on what is left.”

Esther 2:1-6

1 After these things, when the wrathof king Ahasuerus was appeased, heremembered Vashti, and what she haddone, and what was decreed against her. 

2 Then said the king's servantsthat ministered unto him, Let there befair* young virgins sought for the king:

3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair*young virgins unto Shushan the palace,to the house of the women, unto thecustody of Hege the king'schamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be giventhem: 

4 And let the maiden whichpleaseth* the king be queen instead ofVashti. And the thing pleased* the king;and he did so. 

5 Now in Shushan thepalace there was a certain Jew, whosename was Mordecai, the son of Jair,the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, aBenjamite; 

6 Who had been carriedaway from Jerusalem with the captivitywhich had been carried away withJeconiah king of Judah, whomNebuchadnezzar the king of Babylonhad carried away.