The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the
battle, that could handle shield and buckler, whose faces were like the
faces of lions, and were as swift as the roes upon the mountains;
CH1 12:9 Ezer the first, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,
CH1 12:10 Mishmannah the fourth, Jeremiah the fifth,
CH1 12:11 Attai the sixth, Eliel the seventh,
CH1 12:12 Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth,
CH1 12:13 Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.
CH1 12:14 These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of
the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.
CH1 12:15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: wives which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead: and yet
so they sufficed them not.
JDG 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
JDG 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?
JDG 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
JDG 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the
children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife
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