²⁰ Then Hezekiah the king arose early, and gathered the princes of the city, and went up to the house of Yahweh.

³ Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

⁴ Moses wrote all the words of Yahweh, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mountain, and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

¹² Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.

⁴ Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear),