So he continued to question him for a long time, but Jesus gave him no answer at all.

So be careful that what the prophets said doesn't happen to you:

But if a person wishes to redeem his tithe, he is to add a fifth to it.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he is to pay an amount equal to the bride price for virgins.

Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high.

I went down to the walnut orchard, to look at the green sprouts in the valley, to see whether the vine had budded, whether the pomegranates had blossomed.

because his only daughter, who was about twelve years old, was dying. While Jesus was on his way, the crowds continued to press in on him.

Yet they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; so he changed and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.

That's when the LORD appeared to Isaac. "You are not to go down to Egypt," he said. "Instead, you are to settle down in an area within this land where I'll tell you.

Ointments and perfume encourage the heart; in a similar way, a friend's advice is sweet to the soul.

Then Jacob sent messengers ahead of him into the land of Seir (that is, into the territory of Edom) to meet his brother Esau.

Then Abraham's servant took ten camels from his master's herd of camels and left on his journey with all kinds of gifts from his master's inventory. Eventually, he traveled as far as Aram-naharaim, Nahor's home town.

After Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob told Laban, "Send me off so that I can go back to my place and country.

Insightful people will impart understanding to many, though they'll fall by sword, by fire, by captivity, and as war booty for a while.

When he learned with certainty that Jesus came from Herod's jurisdiction, he sent him off to Herod, who was in Jerusalem at that time.

Maybe next year it will bear fruit. If not, then cut it down.'"

As a result, the water springs remain pure to this day, just as Elisha had declared.

These three men stopped responding to Job, because he was claiming to be righteous, in his own opinion.

The wicked man puts up a bold appearance, but the upright thinks about what he is doing.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the LORD! Let us bless you from the LORD's house.

When the priest undertakes his examination and finds that it appears more extensive than skin deep and that its hair has turned white, then the priest is to declare him unclean, since an infectious skin disease has flourished in the boil.

Israel's branches will spread out, and its beauty will be like an olive tree, with its scent like that of Lebanon.

and they will cry so loud you won't be able to make yourself heard! How bitterly they'll cry! They'll throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.

On their way down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, "Don't tell anyone about this vision until the Son of Man has been raised from the dead."

Your soldiers are willing volunteers on your day of battle; in majestic holiness, from the womb, from the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.

because I delivered the poor who were crying for help, along with orphans who had no one to help them.

Jonathan told his armor bearer, "Come, let's go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised ones. Perhaps the LORD will work for us, since nothing prevents the LORD from delivering, whether by many or by a few."

Jesus told them, "Yes! Haven't you ever read, "From the mouths of infants and nursing babies you have created praise'?" Then he left them and went out of the city to Bethany and spent the night there.

Whenever the ark was ready to travel, Moses would say: "Arise, LORD, to scatter your enemies, so that whoever hates you will flee from your presence."

All the people answered together: "We'll do everything that the LORD has said!"

A crushed reed he will not break, and a fading candle he won't snuff out. He'll bring forth justice for the truth.

But King Jehoash of Israel sent this message to King Amaziah of Judah: "The thorn bush in Lebanon sent this message to the cedar of Lebanon: "Give your daughter to my son in marriage.' But just then a wild beast from Lebanon wandered by and trampled down the thorn bush.

He answered them, "Who are my mother and my brothers?"

Therefore, my heart is glad, my whole being rejoices, and my body will dwell securely.

This is what the LORD says: "The people who survived the sword, found favor in the desert while Israel was seeking rest.

Or when they give the book to someone who cannot read, and say, "Read this, please,' he answers, "I don't know how to read.'"

Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eyesight wasn't impaired and he was still vigorous and strong.

"You have led with your gracious love this people whom you redeemed. You have guided them with your strength to your holy dwelling.

Listen to this, all you people! Pay attention, all you who live in the world,

"There is still one man left by whom we could ask the LORD what to do," the king of Israel replied to Jehoshaphat, "but I hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me. Instead, he prophesies evil. He is Imla's son Micaiah." But Jehoshaphat rebuked Ahab, "Kings should never talk like that."

"If people quarrel and one strikes the other with a rock or his fist, and he does not die but ends up in bed,

The army at the encampment heard this report: "Zimri has conspired against the king and killed him." So the entire army of Israel made Omri, their commander, king over Israel.

the Moabites told the elders of Midian, "This horde of people is about to lick up everything around us, like an ox licks up the green ground."

Those who are trusting in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be overthrown. They remain forever.

"When you see the ox or sheep of your fellow countryman straying, don't go away and leave it. Instead, be sure to return it to him.

We sailed along the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia and reached Myra in Lycia.

I tell all of you with certainty, wherever this gospel is proclaimed throughout the whole world, what she has done will also be told as a memorial to her."

"In those days people will no longer say, "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, but the children's teeth have been set on edge.'

But Jesus said, "Don't stop him, because no one who works a miracle in my name can slander me soon afterwards.

Keep well informed of the condition of your flocks and pay attention to your herds,

Who has ever heard of such a thing? And who ever sees such things? Can a country be born in a single day, or can a nation be brought forth in a single moment? Yet no sooner was Zion in labor than she delivered her children.

At that time, the LORD will winnow grain from the Euphrates River channel to the Wadi of Egypt, and you will be gathered in one by one, O people of Israel.

From the blue, purple, and scarlet material they made finely woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, and they made the holy garments for Aaron, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

It is not for kings, Lemuel Not for kings to drink wine or for rulers to desire liquor.

How terrible it will be for you! You build monuments for the prophets, and it was your ancestors who killed them!

the oath that he swore to our ancestor Abraham.

Saul told his servants, "Find me a woman who is a medium so I can go to her and make my inquiry through her." His servants told him, "Look, there's a woman at Endor who is a medium."

Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as he loved himself.

"As for these things that you see, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another that won't be knocked down."

Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth from Bahurim,

Something gnaws on his skin; a deadly disease consumes his limbs.

"My spirit is crushed, my days are over; it's the grave for me!

A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'

The LORD is with me. I will not be afraid. What can people do to me?

As for me, I have trusted in your gracious love, my heart will rejoice in your deliverance.

but after they had gotten a bond from Jason and the others, they let them go.

If you scourge a scoffer, the simple person may learn to be discreet; rebuke a discerning man and he will gain understanding.

He burned his sons as an offering in the Ben-hinnom Valley, practiced fortune-telling, witchcraft, sorcery, and communicated with mediums and separatists. He did a lot of things that the LORD considered to be evil, thus provoking him.

And they couldn't argue with him about this.

The LORD told Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover: No foreigner is to eat it,

when it's planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade."

He doesn't praise the servant for doing what was commanded, does he?

David was the son of that Ephrathite man named Jesse from Bethlehem in Judah. He had eight sons; at the time when Saul was king he was old, having lived to an advanced age.

The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who among us can live with the consuming fire? Who among us can live with everlasting flames?"

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

Then all the people from the region surrounding the Gerasenes asked Jesus to leave them, because they were terrified. So he got into a boat and started back.

At one moment I may speak about a nation or a kingdom to uproot it, pull it down, or destroy it.

And many more believed because of what he said.

Then the LORD told me, "Even if Moses and Samuel were standing before me, I wouldn't be favorably disposed toward this people. Send them out of my presence! Let them go!

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey, but I won't go up among you, because you are an obstinate people, and otherwise I might consume you along the way."

Some time later, both the senior security advisor to the king of Egypt and his head chef offended their master, Egypt's king.

He's not a man like me, so that I can answer him, or that we can enter into litigation with one another.

because he came close to death for the work of the Messiah by risking his life to complete what remained unfinished in your service to me.

Hallelujah! Praise the LORD, my soul!

For you have brought these men here, although they neither rob temples nor blaspheme our goddess.

"God is truly awesome, beyond what we know; the number of his years is unknowable.

I am poured out like water; all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax, melting within me.

But Judah approached him and begged him, "Your Excellency, please allow your servant to speak to you privately. Please don't be angry with your servant, since you are equal to Pharaoh.

Look!" Abram said, "You haven't given me any offspring, so a servant born in my house is going to be my heir."

Remember the days of old, reflect on the years of previous generations. Ask your father, and he'll tell you; your elders will inform you.

Although I have a great deal to write to you, I would prefer not to use paper and ink. Instead, I hope to come to you and talk face to face, so that our joy may be complete.

Therefore I'll make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, at the time of his burning anger.

This message came from the LORD to Jeremiah:

A while later during the wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife, bringing along a young goat, and told his father-in-law, "I'm going into my wife's room." But her father wouldn't give permission for him to go.

These people also stagger from wine and reel from strong drink. Priests and prophets stagger from strong drink; they're drunk from wine; they reel from strong drink, waver when seeing visions, and stumble when rendering decisions.

"The LORD's Passover is to take place on the fourteenth day of the first month.

I robbed other churches by accepting support from them in order to serve you.

to crush the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will turn away from you, and his burden from your shoulders."

So Pilate asked them again, "Then what should I do with the man you call "the King of the Jews'?"

Be careful to obey all the statutes and ordinances that I'm placing before you today."

Jesus answered them, "Stop grumbling among yourselves.

After he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.

His hands are rods of gold, set with beryl. His stomach is carved ivory, inlaid with sapphires.

Look, if God doesn't trust his holy ones, if even the heavens aren't pure as he looks at them,

How pleasing is what you have to say to me tasting better than honey.

I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

So she asked him, "Give Abishag the Shunammite to your brother Adonijah as a wife."

"Those slain by the LORD on that day will extend from one end of the earth to the other. They won't be mourned for or gathered up or buried. They'll be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Nations will come to your light, and kings before your dawn.

I exalt you, LORD, for you have lifted me up, and my enemies could not gloat over me.

If an alien who resides with you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may come near to observe it. He is to be like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised person is to eat it.

Then he went back upstairs, broke bread, and ate. He talked with them for a long time, until dawn, and then left.

You didn't anoint my head with oil, but this woman has anointed my feet with perfume.

"After you, another kingdom will arise that is inferior to yours, and then a third kingdom of bronze will arise to rule all the earth.

Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal, and on the west Carmel and Shihor-libnath,

So one of the men ran off at once, took a sponge, and soaked it in some sour wine. Then he put it on a stick and offered Jesus a drink.

Whoever spreads gossip betrays confidences; so don't get involved with someone who talks too much.

At that time, Zippor's son Balak was the king of Moab. He sent messengers to Beor's son Balaam in Pethor, near the Euphrates River, the land where the descendants of his people originated, to summon his aid. He said, "Look! A group of people have escaped from Egypt. They cover the surface of the whole earth, and are sitting here right in front of me.

So take seven bulls and seven rams and bring them to my servant Job. And bring a whole burnt offering for yourselves and my servant Job will pray for you. I'll encourage him by not responding as your disgraceful folly deserves, since you didn't speak about me correctly as did my servant Job."

Now a large herd of pigs was grazing there on the hillside. So the demons begged Jesus to let them go into those pigs, and he consented to that.

Then they understood that he did not say to beware of the yeast used in bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Josiah's servants drove his corpse in a chariot from Megiddo to Jerusalem and buried him in a tomb made for him.

If only I knew where to find him, I would visit him where he has taken his seat.

Day after day I was with you in the Temple teaching, yet you didn't arrest me. But the Scriptures must be fulfilled."

Back in those days, Israel didn't have a king yet, and during that time the tribe of Dan had been seeking a territorial inheritance to live in, because up until that time no territory had been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

Then the officers returned to the high priests and Pharisees, who asked them, "Why didn't you bring him?"

"Get up, move to Zarephath in Sidon, and stay there. Look! I've commanded a widow to sustain you there."

"Listen to these things, Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called. I am the One: I am the first, I am even the last.

"This is what Hezekiah says: "Today is a day of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, because children are about to be born, but there is no strength to bring them to birth. Perhaps the LORD your God will take note of everything that Rab-shakeh has said, whom his master the king of Assyria sent to taunt the living God, and then he will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore offer a prayer for the survivors who remain.'"

When they called for the King, Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who managed the household, Shebnah the scribe, and Asaph's son Joah the recorder went out to them.

When Moses saw that the people were out of control since Aaron had let them get out of control, something that incited ridicule from their enemies

"I yes, I am the one who comforts you. Who are you, that you are so afraid of humans who will die, descendants of mere men, who have been made like grass?

May you observe his statutes and keep his commands that I'm giving you today, so that life may go well for you and for your descendants after you. That way, you'll live a long life in the land that the LORD your God is about to give you permanently."

and they were burned by the fierce heat. They cursed the name of God, who has the authority over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

Jonathan asked his father Saul, "Why should he be killed? What did he do?"

The decree was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar immediately. He was driven away from people to eat grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky, until his hair grew like eagles' feathers and his nails like birds' claws.

God arises, and his enemies are scattered. Those who hate him flee from his presence.

By his power he disturbs the sea; and with his skill he shatters the sea monster.

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sephar-vaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my control?

"The wings of the ostrich flap joyously, but aren't its pinions and feathers like the stork?

Now the rest of Solomon's accomplishments, including everything else he did, as well as records of his wisdom, are recorded in the Book of the Acts of Solomon, are they not?

and that if it's God's will, I may come to you with joy and be refreshed together with you.

But Elijah replied, "I'm no destroyer of Israel. But you and your ancestor's household have been doing that, because you have abandoned the LORD's commandments and have followed the Baals.

Then looking at the people sitting around him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers!

Suddenly, Zechariah could open his mouth, his tongue was set free, and he began to speak and to praise God.

After this, fire came from the LORD and incinerated the 250 men who offered the incense.

While they were eating, he said, "I tell all of you with certainty, one of you is going to betray me."

The wicked go astray from the womb; they go astray, telling lies even from birth.

Only he must not amass horses for himself or cause the people to return to Egypt to obtain more horses. For the LORD said you must never return that way again.

This was now the third time that Jesus revealed himself to the disciples after he had been raised from the dead.

The world wasn't worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and from caves to holes in the ground.

Moses told Joshua, "Choose some men for us and go out to fight against the Amalekites. Tomorrow I'll stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand."

Everything that she sleeps on during her uncleanness will be unclean. Moreover, everything that she sits on will become unclean.

You are to erect the tent according to the plan for it that was shown you on the mountain.

LORD, if you were to record iniquities, Lord, who could remain standing?

You love justice and hate wickedness. That is why God, even your God, has anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.

Night after night on my bed, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but didn't find him.

Now, if I've found favor in your sight, please show me your ways so I may know you in order to find favor in your sight. And remember, this nation is your people."

Then he asked another debtor, "How much do you owe?' The man replied, "A hundred containers of wheat.' The manager told him, "Get your bill and write "80."'

"The LORD will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture,

After many years, I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.

Indeed, every animal of the forest is mine, even the cattle on a thousand hills.

Then Samuel told Jesse, "Are these all the young men?" He said, "There yet remains the youngest one, and right now he's tending the sheep." Samuel told Jesse, "Send someone to get him, for we won't do anything else until he arrives here."

Bildad from Shuah replied, saying:

Then he spoke to them a third time: "What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go."

But the high priests and elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to demand that Jesus be put to death.

The wicked triumph only briefly; the joy of the godless is momentary.

I'll make a secure covenant with them, one that will last forever. I will establish them, make them increase in population, and will place my sanctuary in their midst forever.

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them, got the better of them, and so violently overpowered all of them that they fled out of the house naked and bruised.

He reigned for three years in Jerusalem. His mother was Uriel's daughter Micaiah from Gibeah.

"Look, now," his advisors suggested, "we've heard that the Israeli kings are merciful. So let's clothe ourselves with sackcloth, tie our hair back with ropes, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he'll spare your life."

"If a man is found kidnapping his relative, a fellow Israeli, and mistreats or sells him, that kidnapper must die. By doing this, you will remove this evil from among you.

How can a human being become right with God? How can a human being be pure?

"I'm about to send many fishermen," declares the LORD, "and they'll catch them. Afterwards, I'll send for many hunters and they'll hunt for them on every mountain and hill and in the crevices of the rocks.

That's when this message from the LORD came to Elijah the foreigner:

His anger tears me in his persistent resentment against me; he gnashes his teeth at me. My adversary glares at me.

"Therefore you men of understanding, listen to me! Far be it for God to practice wickedness, or the Almighty to do what is wrong,

For all of the gods of the other nations are mere idols, but the LORD fashioned the heavens!

according to your multiple schemes. Let them stand up now those who conjure the heavens and gaze at the stars, predicting at the new moons and save you from what is about to happen to them.

"How terrible for him who builds his house without righteousness, and its upper rooms without justice, who makes his neighbor work for nothing, and does not pay him his wage.

Everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was malcontent gathered around him, and he became their leader. There were about 400 men with him.

"So separate the Israelis from their uncleanness so that they won't die in their uncleanness if they defile my tent that is in their midst.

They move boundary stones, steal flocks, and pasture them.

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

Now this happened to fulfill what had been spoken through the prophet when he said,

"He'll scatter you among the nations from one end of the earth to the other, and there you'll serve other gods made of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

The LORD told Moses,

"As the LORD your God lives," she replied, "I don't have so much as a muffin, just a handful of flour in a bowl and some oil left in a bottle. Now I'm going to find some sticks so I can cook a last meal for my son and for me. Then we're going to eat it and die."

His cheeks are like beds of spices, like towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with liquid myrrh.

You neglected the Rock that fathered you; you abandoned God, who was awaiting your birth.

When did we see you as a stranger and welcome you, or see you naked and clothe you?

He never asks, "Where is God, my Creator, who gives me songs in the night,

Crows would bring him bread and meat both in the morning and in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

"You are to make a Mercy Seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

"You have heard his blasphemy! What is your verdict?" All of them condemned him as deserving death.

a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume and poured it on his head while he sat at the table.

During the twenty-sixth year of the reign of King Asa of Judah, Baasha's son Elah became king over Israel and reigned at Tirzah for two years.

Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill will be lowered; the rough ground will become level, and the mountain ridges made a plain.

And also the pig, because even though its hoof is divided, it does not chew the cud. It is therefore unclean for you. You must not eat their meat or even touch their carcasses.

Whoever gives to the poor will never lack, but whoever shuts his eyes to their poverty will be cursed.

so will he startle many nations. Kings will shut their mouths at him; for what had not been told them they will see, and what they had not heard they will understand.

Get up! Let's go! See, the one who is betraying me is near!"

For the LORD has poured out upon you a spirit of deep sleep he has closed your eyes, you prophets, he has covered your heads, you seers!"

They aren't in the heavens, so you have to ask, "Who'll go up to the heavens for us and get it for us so we can hear it and act on it?'

Some time later, during the wheat harvest season, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field and brought them back for his mother Leah. Then Rachel told Leah, "Please give me your son's mandrakes."

Don't rejoice when your enemy falls; don't let yourself be glad when he stumbles.

Yet the LORD's gracious love remains throughout eternity for those who fear him and his righteous acts extend to their children's children,

For as surely as the LORD God of Israel lives, the one who restrained me from harming you indeed, had you not quickly come to meet me, by dawn there wouldn't be a single male left to Nabal."

Then he is to make atonement on the sacred place on account of the uncleanness of the Israelis, their transgressions, and all their sins. This is how he is to act in the Tent of Meeting, which will remain with them in the middle of their uncleanness.

Before a man's downfall, his mind is arrogant, but humility precedes honor.

Later, Joseph told his brothers, "I'm going to die soon, but God will certainly provide for you and bring you up from this land to the land that he promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

They went back and told the others, who didn't believe them, either.

Hezekiah also sent word to all of Israel and Judah, and wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh that they should come to the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem to observe the Passover to the LORD God of Israel.

Then his master will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

in a dream or night vision, when a deep sleep falls on mankind while they sleep on their beds.

That very day, Gad approached David and told him, "Go up and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor that belongs to Araunah the Jebusite."

The glory of God was its radiance, and its light was like a valuable gem, like jasper, as clear as crystal.

He plucked me out of a pit of confusion, even out of the quicksand; he placed my feet on a rock and established my steps.

"O afflicted one, passed back and forth, and not comforted, Look! I am about to set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

When he could not be persuaded otherwise, we remained silent except to say, "May the Lord's will be done."

The territorial allotment for the descendants of Joseph proceeded from the Jordan River by Jericho eastward of the Jericho waters into the wilderness, proceeding from Jericho through the hill country of Bethel

Because your gracious love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.

Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth just as he had caused a disfigurement against another man, so it is to be done against him.

Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and he went to his own land.

I will tell a parable, speaking riddles from long ago

I will not even think about doing anything lawless; I hate to do evil deeds; I will have none of it.

"You have destroyed yourself, Israel, although I remain your help.

"This is what the Lord GOD says, "I'm about to turn you over to the control of those you hate, to the control of those from whom you turned away in disgust.

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the noise of your harps. Maggots are spread out beneath you, and worms are your covering."

Those who linger over their wine, who consume mixed drinks.

How can you fail to understand that I wasn't talking to you about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!"

If that sentinel notices that violence is approaching, but does not sound an alarm, then because the nation does not take warning and the sword arrives and destroys their lives because of their guilt, I'll seek retribution for their shed blood from the one who was acting as sentinel.'"

and all the people who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

Three months later, it was reported to Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has turned to prostitution! And look! She's pregnant because of it!" "Bring her out," Judah responded. "Let's burn her to death!"

After this, he left from there to go to Mt. Carmel, and from there he went back to Samaria.

Your eyes will see strange things, and with slurred words you'll speak what you really believe.

His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge. They are all dumb dogs they cannot bark. They keep on dreaming and lying around, and they're lovers of sleep!

The second lottery went to the tribe of Simeon according to its families. Its inheritance was enclosed within the inheritance of the tribe of Judah.

The slave does not remain in the household forever, but the son does remain forever.

But even as they were chewing the meat and before they had swallowed it, the LORD became very angry with the people and struck them with a disastrous plague.

If someone from the descendants of Levi redeems the houses in the cities that they own, they are to be returned in the jubilee, because the houses of the cities of the descendants of Levi are to remain their property among the Israelis.

The angel of the LORD also told her, "I will greatly multiply your offspring, who will be too many to count.

"Be silent before me, you coastlands, and let the people renew their strength! Let them come forward, then let them speak together let's draw near for a ruling.

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

When Moses went up on the mountain, he went into the center of the cloud and was on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.

"Son of Man, prophesy against Israel's shepherds. Tell those shepherds, "This is what the Lord GOD says:

The descendants of Dan set up the carved image, and Gershom's son Jonathan, a descendant of Manasseh, served along with his descendants as priests to the tribe of Dan until the land was taken captive.

I'll eliminate anyone who does work that day from among his people.

On the third day he looked ahead and saw the place from a distance.

So the magistrates came, apologized to them, and escorted them out. Then they asked them to leave the city.

This message came to me from the LORD:

But if this charge is true, and the evidence of the young lady's virginity wasn't found,

The entire place was called the Eshcol Valley on account of the cluster of grapes that the men of Israel had taken from there.

Then Job continued with his discourse:

"The kingdom has been taken from you! You're to be driven away from people. You're to live with the wild animals of the field. You are to be made to eat grass like cattle, and seven years will pass you by until you realize that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires.'"

Do you have strength like God? Can you create thunder with a sound like he can?"

King David rose to his feet and said, "My fellow citizens, may I have your attention. I intended to build a house of rest for the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, for a footstool of our God, so I began preparations for its construction.

Therefore, my brothers, desire the ability to prophesy, and do not prevent others from speaking in foreign languages.

You are not to take interest or profit from him. Instead, you are to fear your God and let your relative live with you.

"When a person has a swelling or a scab in the skin on his body that turns white in appearance and appears to be more extensive than skin deep, he is to be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons among the priests.

No, my son! No, my son whom I conceived! No, my son to whom I gave birth!

At that time, the servants of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem and the city was placed under siege.

But you are our Father, even Abraham does not know us and Israel has not acknowledged us; you are he, O LORD, our Father, from long ago, "Our Redeemer' is your name.

I saw them from the top of the rocks. I watched them from the hills. Truly this is a people that lives by itself and doesn't matter among the nations.

How terrible it will be for you! You are like unmarked graves people walk on them without realizing it."

So Omri died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in Samaria. His son Ahab became king in his place.

Atrothshophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

All who heard him were amazed at his intelligence and his answers.

"See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the high priests and scribes, and they will condemn him to death.

Indeed, these are the fringes of his ways, and how faint is the whisper we've heard of it! But who can comprehend the thunder of his might?"

David told Abigail, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who sent you to meet me today.

But the people were thirsty there for water, so they complained against Moses: "Why did you bring us up from Egypt to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

Jonathan attacked the Philistine garrison in Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land: "Listen, Hebrews!"

The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.

Like snowfall in summer or rain at harvest time, so honor is inappropriate for a fool.

"Come in, wife of Jeroboam. What is this pretension at being someone else? I have some harsh news. Go tell Jeroboam: "I raised you up from among the people. "I made you Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel.

Jesus took the bread, gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.

So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD, a three-day trip, with the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD traveling in front of them a three day trip to explore a place for them to rest.

Then Samson went down in the direction of Timnah with his father and mother and arrived as far as the vineyards of Timnah. And surprise! a young lion came roaring at him!

You scrutinize my life and my rest; you are familiar with all of my ways.

Then Israel made this vow in the LORD's presence: "If you give these people into our control, we intend to devote their cities to total destruction."

But Jesus asked him, "Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?"

Shout with joy, you heavens, and rock with glee, you earth! Break out in song, you mountains! The LORD is comforting his people and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

Meanwhile, the tent of the LORD that Moses had crafted in the desert, along with the altar of burnt offerings, were being stored at the high place in Gibeon at that time,

Put pure frankincense on each row for a memorial offering. It will serve as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Later that evening quail came up and covered the camp, and then in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

its legs made of iron, and its feet made partly of iron and partly of clay.

"The tribe of Simeon is to camp beside Reuben. The leader of Simeon is to be Zurishaddai's son Shelumiel.

because a door has opened wide for me to do effective work, although many people are opposing me.

"Come down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a chair, Daughter of the Chaldeans! For no longer will they call you tender and attractive.

They answered him, "If he weren't a criminal, we wouldn't have handed him over to you."

"This is the ordinance of the law that the LORD commanded that the Israelis be told: They are to bring you a spotless red heifer, without physical defect, that has never been fitted with a yoke.

See, the former things have taken place, and I'm announcing the new things before they spring into being I'm telling you about them."

Woe to the land of whirring wings that is beyond the rivers of Cush,

Saul and the Israelis assembled and camped in the valley of Elah, where they set up their forces to meet the Philistines.

Furthermore, there were also many burnt offerings, fat from peace offerings, and drink offerings. And that's how the service of the Lord's Temple was restored.

"If a person sells a residential house in a walled city, he is to redeem it within the year in which it was sold. He may have right to its redemption for a full year.

I've made Pharaoh's heart stubborn so he will pursue them. But I'll receive honor by means of Pharaoh and his army, so that the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD." So this is what the Israelis did.

"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!

because David had practiced what the LORD considered to be right. He never avoided anything that the LORD had commanded him during his entire lifetime, except for the case of Uriah the Hittite.

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don't know how to interpret the present time?"

The territorial boundary proceeded from Heleph, the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel as far as Lakkum, terminating at the Jordan River.

The Israelis ate manna for 40 years until they came to a land where they could settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

then hear from heaven, the place where you reside, and forgive, repaying each person according to all of his ways, since you know their hearts for you alone know the hearts of all human beings

Let those who have been redeemed by the LORD declare it those whom he redeemed from the power of the enemy,

"We can't attack those people," the men who were with him said, "because they're too strong compared to us."

"Look! If I go east, he isn't there! If I go to the west, I don't perceive him.

"I'm Abraham's servant," he said.

They'll deal with you with hatred. They'll take away your productivity, leaving you naked and defenseless, so that the nakedness of your sexual immorality will be uncovered your licentious sexual immorality.

"I've been very zealous for the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies," he replied. "The Israelis have abandoned your covenant, demolished your altars, executed your prophets with swords, and I that's right, just me! am the only one left. Now they're seeking my life, to get rid of me!"

They gathered together against Moses and Aaron and told them, "You have appropriated too much for yourselves from the entire congregation, since all of them are holy, and the LORD is among them, too. Why do you exalt yourselves over the LORD's assembly?"

Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home.

"Don't deny justice to a foreigner or to an orphan, nor take a widow's garment as collateral for a loan.

Greet Rufus, the one chosen by the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

When Saul became king over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side against Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Everywhere he turned he was victorious.

You will let go of your inheritance which I gave you, and I'll make you serve your enemies in a land that you don't know. For with my anger you have started a fire that will burn forever.

God, nations have invaded your land to desecrate your holy Temple, to destroy Jerusalem,

The LORD sent raiding parties from the Chaldeans, Arameans, Moabites, and Ammonites against Jehoiakim. He sent them against Judah to destroy it, in keeping with the message from the LORD that he had spoken through his servants, the prophets.

"Therefore, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when it will no longer be said, "As surely as the LORD lives, who brought up the Israelis from the land of Egypt.'

"Come near, you nations, to listen, and pay attention, you nations! Let the earth hear, and all that fills it; the world, and all that comes out of it.

Later on, as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelis again committed spiritual adultery with various Canaanite deities and appointed Baal-berith to be their god.

When I was with you and needed something, I did not bother any of you, because our brothers who came from Macedonia supplied everything I needed. I kept myself from being a burden to you in any way, and I will continue to do so.

"The priest is to command that the house be cleared before he comes to examine the contagion so that not everything in the house becomes unclean. After this, the priest is to enter the house and examine it.

From the tribe of Issachar were allocated Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

And you are to tell your child on that day, "This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.'

""Cursed is the one who makes a sculptured or cast image a detestable thing to the LORD, the work of a craftsman and sets it up secretly.' "Then all the people are to respond by saying, "Amen!'

"Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her heavy service has been completed, that her penalty has been paid, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins."

But when they had prepared a meal and set it in front of him, he said, "I'm not eating until I've spoken." "Speak up!" Laban exclaimed.

The LORD had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that they gave them what they requested. As a result, they plundered the Egyptians.

Again he says, "Rejoice, you gentiles, with his people!"

The LORD hears those who cry out, and he delivers them from all their distress.

Reward her for her work let her actions result in public praise.

while others were saying, "This is the Messiah!"

When Jesus saw them, he told them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." While they were going, they were made clean.

Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? Under theapple tree I awakened you. There your mother had gone into labor with you; there she went into labor and gave birth to you.

That very moment, one of the Israelis arrived, bringing to his brothers one of the Midianite women, right in front of Moses and the entire community of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting!

Now as for the people who remained in the land of Judah whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had left behind, he appointed Ahikam's son Gedaliah, the grandson of Shaphan, to rule.

He had sex with Hagar, and she became pregnant. When she realized that she was pregnant, she looked with contempt on her mistress.

Then Doeg the Edomite, who was in charge of Saul's servants answered: "I saw Jesse's son coming to Nob to Ahitub's son Ahimelech.

Their calyxes and their branches are to be of one piece with it; all of it is to be made of one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

The firstborn gave birth to a son and named him Moab, and he is the ancestor of the Moabites to this day.

As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool."

"Do you have anyone else here in the city?" the angels asked Lot. "A son-in-law? Sons? Daughters? Get them out of this place,

the angel who has been rescuing me from all sorts of evil, bless these young men. May my name continue to live on within them, including the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a vast multitude throughout the earth."

Later, Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother Sarah and married her. Isaac loved her, and that's how he was comforted following the loss of his mother.

Then he told them, "Fellow Israelis, consider carefully what you propose to do to these men.

Bildad from Shuah responded and said:

This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.

Absalom happened to run into David's soldiers. While Absalom was trying to get away on his mule, it ran under the thick branches of a giant oak tree, and Absalom's head got caught in the tree! As his mule ran out from under him, Absalom was left hanging above the ground.

"When you make a vow to the LORD your God, don't delay paying it, because the LORD your God will certainly demand payment from you, and then you will be guilty of sin.

It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, "May the LORD watch between you and me, when we are estranged from each other.

Let us examine our lifestyles, putting them to the test, and turn back to the LORD.

As for the land to which you want to return, you won't return there!

Now, just as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without human hands and that it crushed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold to pieces so also the great God has revealed to the king what will take place after this. Your dream will come true, and its meaning will prove trustworthy."

Meanwhile, a state of war continued to exist between Asa and Baasha king of Israel, throughout their reigns.

But since Jesus no longer answered, Pilate was astonished.

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

because they didn't come to meet you with food and water along the way as you were coming out of Egypt. Instead, they hired Beor's son Balaam from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to curse you.

Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken back Moses' wife Zipporah after she had been sent away,

He measured the court in the form of a square at 100 cubits long and 100 cubits wide. The altar stood in front of the Temple.

so send messengers to Joppa and summon Simon, who is called Peter, to come to you. He is a guest in the home of Simon, a leatherworker, by the sea.'

When the crowd told them harshly to be silent, they shouted even louder, "Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!"

He draws up drops of water, distilling it to rain and mist.

At the beginning of year 25 of our captivity, on the tenth day of the fourteenth year after the destruction of Jerusalem on that very day the LORD grabbed me in his hand and took me there.

The leech has two daughters: "Give" and "Give". Three things will never be satisfied; four will never say "Enough" -

Sound a horn on the tenth day of the seventh month of this fiftieth year. Likewise, on the Day of Atonement, sound the horn throughout your land.

I'll wear it on my shoulder, or tie it on my head for a crown!

The next day, while David was playing the lyre as he had before, the evil spirit from the LORD attacked Saul, and he began to rave inside the house with a spear in his hand.

Cold water to someone who is thirsty that's what good news from a distant land is.

But all the people who saw this began to complain: "Jesus is going to be the guest of a notorious sinner!"

Now as to your birth, on the day you were born your umbilical cord wasn't cut. You weren't washed with water to clean you, and nobody rubbed you with salt. And it's certain that you weren't wrapped in strips of cloth.

She seeks out wool and flax, working with eager hands.

The intentions of a person's heart are deep waters, but a discerning person reveals them.

Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.

So he attacked them ruthlessly in a massive slaughter, then left to live in the caves of Etam.

They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

Then Rachel told her father, "Sir, please don't be angry that I cannot stand up in your presence. It's that time of the month." So Laban searched for the idols, but never did find them.

Now, you can go if you must go, because you certainly are longing to go to your father's house. But why did you steal my gods?"

In that place, worms never die, and the fire is never put out.

Now the betrayer personally had given them a signal, saying, "The one I kiss is the man. Arrest him."

Now then, return the man's wife. As a matter of fact, he's a prophet and can intercede for you so you'll live. But if you don't return her, be aware that you and all who are yours will certainly die."

Isaac replied, "Your brother came here deceitfully and stole your blessing."

The people of the land were vigorously oppressive and took possession of plunder by violence. They've afflicted the poor and the needy and unjustly treated the foreigner.

He found favor with God and asked to design a dwelling for the house of Jacob,

"The high priest among his relatives whose head has been anointed with oil and who has been consecrated to put on the priestly clothing is not to let his hair hang loose or to tear his clothes.

I'll say to the north, "Give them up'! and to the south, "Don't keep them back!' Bring my sons from far away and my daughters from the ends of the earth

This is why they could not believe: Isaiah also said,

This is what the LORD says: "Uphold justice and righteousness. Deliver from their oppressor those who have been robbed. Don't mistreat or do violence to the alien, the orphan, or the widow, or shed the blood of innocent people in this place.

The king told Daniel, "Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and the Revealer of Secrets, because you were able to reveal this mystery."

In the morning let me hear of your gracious love, for in you I trust. Cause me to know the way I should take, because I have set my hope on you.

Declare his glory among the nations and his awesome deeds among all the nations!

Hezekiah listened to the entourage and showed them his entire treasury, including the silver, gold, and spices, the precious oil, his armory, and everything that was inventoried in his treasuries. There was nothing in his household or in his holdings that Hezekiah did not show them.

You are not to do any work. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations, wherever you live.

"Raise a banner on a bare hilltop! Cry out loud to them! Give a wave of the hand, signaling for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

"""Many days from now in the latter years you will be summoned to a land that has been restored from violence. You will be gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which formerly had been a continuous waste, but which will be populated with people who have been brought back from the nations. All of them will be living there securely.

For this reason, her diseases that result in death, misery, and famine will come in a single day. She will be burned up in a fire, because powerful is the Lord God who judges her."

"I'm your brother Joseph, whom you sold into slavery in Egypt!" he told them. "But don't be distressed or angry at yourselves because you sold me here, because God sent me ahead of you all in order to deliver us.

nor by the earth, because it is his footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is the city of the Great King.

"I raised you from the dirt to become Commander-in-Chief over my people Israel, but you've been living like Jeroboam, you've been leading my people Israel into sin, and you've been provoking me to anger with their sins.

so Jeroboam suggested to his wife, "Get up, disguise yourself so that no one will know that you're Jeroboam's wife, and go to Shiloh where the prophet Ahijah lives. He's the one who told me that I would be king over this people.

Is not my dynasty like this with God? Has he not made an eternal covenant with me, preparing every detail of it? And he has made it secure, including my complete salvation, has he not? He has been of continual help, has he not, even with respect to all of my desires?

"When are you going to stop your word hunt? Think first, and then we can talk.

I'll rejoice over them to do good for them, and I'll faithfully plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.'

To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.

and said, "You may come only this far and no more. Your majestic waves will stop here.'?

You are my hiding place; you will deliver me from trouble and surround me with shouts of deliverance. Interlude

The man's hearing and speech were restored at once, and he began to talk normally.