Worship the LORD in holy splendor; tremble before him, all the earth.

He answered them, "I, too, will ask you a question. Tell me:

For through wise counsel you will wage your war, and victory lies in an abundance of advisors.

You, his godly ones, sing to the LORD, give thanks at the mention of his holiness.

"Who cuts canals for storm floods, and paths for the lightning and thunder,

When they raised their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus all by himself.

and boasting, "I'm going to invade a land comprised of open country that is at rest, its people living confidently, all of whose inhabitants will be living securely, with neither fortification nor bars on their doors.

How blessed are those who observe his decrees, who seek him with all of their heart,

I'll scatter them like chaff blown away by a desert wind.

because he spoke and it came to be, because he commanded, it stood firm.

"Why are you so depressed these past few mornings," Jonadab asked Amnon, "since you're a son of the king? Why not tell me?" Amnon replied, "I'm in love with my brother Absalom's sister Tamar."

However, don't rebel against the LORD or be afraid of the people who live in the land, because we'll gobble them right up. Their defenses will collapse, because the LORD is with us. You are not to be afraid of them."

You're tearing yourself to pieces in your anger. Will the land be abandoned because of you, or the rock be moved from its place?"

But they fell upon their faces. Then Moses told Aaron. "Take the censer, put fire on it from the altar, and burn some incense. Then walk quickly to the congregation and atone for them, because wrath has already come out from the LORD the plague has begun."

Abraham agreed with Ephron, so he weighed out to Ephron the money to which he had agreed publicly while the Hittites were listening: 400 shekels of silver at the current merchant rate.

You didn't give me a kiss, but this woman, from the moment I came in, has not stopped kissing my feet.

Then he addressed the entire community of Israel, "If it seems good to you and something from the Lord our God, let's spread word to all of our relatives who remain throughout the entire land of Israel, including the priests and descendants of Levi in the cities and pasture lands, so they can gather together with us.

David left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him all the time David was in the stronghold.

Then David sent word to Abigail that he would take her as his wife. David's servants went to Abigail at Carmel and told her, "David sent us to you to take you to him as his wife."

You are not to eat bread, parched grain, or fresh grain until that day when you've brought the offering of your God. This is to be an eternal ordinance throughout your generations, wherever you live."

But Peter said, "Mister, I don't know what you're talking about!" Just then, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

Under pressure because of his promises and his assembled guests, the king ordered that it be done.

Some years later, Shua's daughter (that is, Judah's wife) died. As Judah was grieving, he visited the shearers of his flock in Timnah, accompanied by his Adullamite friend Hirah.

"Then the generation to come your descendants after you and the foreigners who come from afar will see plagues and illnesses infecting the land that the LORD will inflict on it.

But when the disciples saw this, they became irritated and said, "Why this waste?

"Later, the angel of God spoke to me in a dream, "Jacob.' ""Here I am,' I replied

So the soldiers took the money, did as they were instructed, and this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

I have already warned those who sinned previously and all the rest. Although I am absent now, I am warning them as I did on my second visit: If I come back, I will not spare you,

"They struck me," you will say, "but I never felt it. They beat me, but I never knew it When will I wake up? I want another drink."

Then the Lord GOD brought me back through the east-facing outer gate of the sanctuary. But it was shut.

You'll be fuel for the conflagration. Your blood will be spilled throughout the land. You won't be remembered anymore, now that I, the LORD, have spoken."

At that time Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, when he heard he had been sick and had survived.

And now Son of Man, prophesy to the Ammonites that this is what the Lord GOD says to the Ammonites about their approaching humiliation: "A sword! A sword is being drawn for slaughter. It's polished to flash like lightning.

"Go ask the LORD for me, for the people, and for all of Judah about what's written in this book that has been discovered, because the LORD's anger is burning against us, since our ancestors have not listened to the words written in this book and have not lived according to everything that is written concerning us."

"Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea; his best officers sank in the Reed Sea.

When the Chaldean army was leaving Jerusalem because of Pharaoh's army,

Righteous lips know what is prudent, but the words of the wicked are perverse.

and whatever was torn by beasts, I never bothered to bring to you. Instead, I bore the losses myself. Even so, you demanded that I provide restitution for anything that was stolen, whether during the day or the night.

You aren't to listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, and your sorcerers who say to you, "Don't serve the king of Babylon.'

"When you have adorned yourself with exalted majesty, clothed yourself with splendor and dignity,

You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.

Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, because of what happened to the Egyptians when they acted arrogantly against Israel."

In addition, all of the surrounding nations came to Joseph to buy grain from Egypt, because the famine had become severe throughout the world.

Helkath with its pasture lands, and Rehob with its pasture lands, for a total of four cities.

you will be visited by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies with thunder, an earthquake, and great noise, with a windstorm, a tempest, and flames from a devouring fire.

Blessed is the man who always fears the LORD, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into disaster.

when I proscribed a boundary for it, set in place bars and doors for it;

"But now it's your time to be wrecked at the bottom of the sea! Your products and your workers have sunk, and so have you!

every living thing would die all at once, and mankind would return to dust."

For six years you may plant your fields, and for six years you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce.

A friend's loud blessing early in the morning will be thought of as a curse.

My days are passed; my plans have been shattered; along with my heart's desires.

Encouraged by what Oded's son Azariah the prophet had said in his prophecy, Asa removed the detestable idols from throughout the entire territories of Judah and Benjamin, and from the cities that he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He repaired the LORD's altar that stood in front of the vestibule of the LORD's Temple.

because all this wealth has been destroyed in a single hour!"

The LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example set during his ancestor David's preliminary years by not pursuing the Baals.

At this point in his address, David transferred to his son Solomon the construction plans for the Hall of Justice, its buildings, its treasure vaults, its upper rooms, its inner chambers, the housing for the Mercy Seat,

He may be following and serving other gods by bowing down to them that is, to the sun, the moon, or to any of the heavenly host (something I did not command).

Then he is to take the two male goats and present them in the LORD's presence at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

But they paid no attention to this and went away, one to his farm, another to his business.

Any of you whom I don't eliminate from serving at my altar will grow tired from weeping, and their souls will grieve. All the increase of your family will die by violence.

As a result, Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold tribute to Pharaoh, but he passed on the costs to the inhabitants of the land in taxes, in keeping with Pharaoh's orders. He exacted the silver and gold from the people who lived in the land, from each according to his assessment, in order to pay it to Pharaoh Neco.

David took from her what she had brought him and told her, "Go up to your house in peace. Look, I've heard your request and will grant it."

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father did, leaving no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar became priests.

Everything that opens the womb, any living thing that they bring to the LORD whether from human beings or animals are for you. Just be sure that you redeem the firstborn of people and the firstborn of unclean animals.

Correct your son and he will comfort you; he will also delight your soul.

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

But he shook the snake into the fire and wasn't harmed.

The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies."

My heart is committed, God, my heart is committed, so I will sing and play music.

Instead, he is to serve with you like a hired servant or a traveler who lives with you, until the year of jubilee.

When he goes to the altar in the LORD's presence to make atonement for himself, he is to take some of the blood from the bull and the male goat, place it around the horns of the altar,

If you say, "Look here, we didn't know about this," doesn't God, who examines motives, discern it? Doesn't the one who guards your soul know about it? Won't he repay each person according to what he has done?

When she arrived, Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came through the doorway. He said this to her:

After they entered the city, they had to sit down in the public square because no one would take them into their home for the night. Just then, an old man was coming out of the fields that evening from work. The man was from the mountainous region of Ephraim and had been staying in Gibeah, even though the men of that place were descendants of Benjamin.

"I myself will go before you, and he will make the mountains level; I'll shatter bronze doors and cut through iron bars.

Since you hear prayer, everybody will come to you.

So Manoah prayed to the LORD, "Please, Lord, have the man of God whom you sent before come again so he can instruct us what to do on behalf of the child who is to be born."

The one who walks righteously and has spoken sincere words, who rejects gain from extortion and waves his hand, rejecting bribes, who blocks his ears from hearing plots of murder and shuts his eyes against seeing evil

Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (which was also known as Zoar) prepared for battle in the Valley of Siddim

The wicked borrow but never pay back; but the righteous are generous and give.

My God, my soul feels depressed within me; therefore I will remember you from the land of Jordan, from the heights of Hermon, even from the foothills.

and they cannot prove to you the charges they are now bringing against me.

None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, have they?

God of vengeance, LORD God of vengeance, display your splendor!

"Using a flint, he thrusts his hand, overturning mountains by the roots.

David and all of Israel were dancing in the presence of God with all of their might with songs, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

In times to come, Jacob will take root, and Israel will blossom, sprout shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit.

Thorns and snares lie in the path of the perverse person, but whoever is cautious stays far away from them.

You must not yield to him, listen to him, look with pity on him, show compassion to him, or even cover up for him.

He'll vanish like a dream, and no one will find him; he will be chased away like a night vision."

"When a young woman makes a vow to the LORD or pledges herself to an obligation while she still lives in her father's house,

You are to take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint him.

Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.

That way, when you see the tassel, you'll remember all the commands of the LORD and you'll observe them. Then you won't seek your own interests and desires that lead you to be unfaithful.

The Philistines were standing on the hill on one side while the Israelis were standing on the hill on the other side, with the valley between them.

These are the men to whom David handed responsibility for music in the Temple of the LORD, after the ark came to rest there.

When the LORD heard what Israel had decided to do, he delivered the Canaanites to them, and Israel exterminated them and their cities. They named the place Hormah.

But the time will come when the groom will be taken away from them, and at that time they will fast."

"Tarshish was your business partner because of your phenomenal wealth. They traded silver, iron, tin, and lead for your merchandise.

"When a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and it's stolen from the neighbor's house, the thief, if found, is to repay double.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.

"Son of Man," the Lord GOD told me, "This is where my throne is, where I place the soles of my feet, and where I will live among the Israelis forever. The house of Israel will no longer defile my holy name neither they nor their kings by their unfaithfulness, by the lifeless idols of their kings on their funeral mounds,

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because your lust has been poured out and your nakedness has been uncovered by your acts of fornication with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your sons, whom you offered to them,

It will also come about that if any man would dare to prophesy, then his father and his mother who bore him will respond to him, "You will not live, because you are speaking lies in the name of the LORD.' Then his father and mother who bore him will stab him for prophesying.

For you won't go out in haste, nor will you go in flight; for the LORD will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. He is called the God of all the earth."

"The earth dries up and withers; the world languishes and fades away; heaven fades away, along with the earth.

"This is what you're to tell them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Every wineskin is to be filled with wine."' When they say to you, "Don't we know very well that every wineskin is to be filled with wine?',

The wise will inherit honor, but he holds fools up for ridicule.

then I'll send your rain in its season so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will yield their fruit.

Let them give thanks to the LORD for his gracious love and his awesome deeds for mankind.

When a king is ready to speak officially, what he says should not err with respect to justice.

I call upon God, and the LORD will deliver me.

Hezekiah stationed descendants of Levi in the LORD's Temple to play cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the seer, and Nathan the prophet had directed, because the command to do so was from the LORD through those prophets.

Many bulls have surrounded me; the vicious bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

Gather all the first produce of the ground that you harvest from your land that the LORD your God is about to give you, place it in a basket, and bring it to the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.

They brought him a denarius. Then he asked them, "Whose face and name is this?"

unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, which you are to make from fine wheat flour.

The messengers were told, "This is what you are to say to King Hezekiah of Judah: "Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you by telling you "Jerusalem won't be turned over to the control of Assyria's king."

"Furthermore, let the officials ask the army, "Is there a man here who has built a new house but has not yet dedicated it? Let him go back home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

You have given them blood to drink because they spilled the blood of saints and prophets. This is what they deserve."

then Gadi's son Menahem approached Samaria from Tirzah and attacked Jabesh's son Shallum, executed him, and reigned in his place.

They are to be arranged every Sabbath day in the LORD's presence as a gift from the Israelis an eternal covenant.

"You are to bring the best of the first fruits of the ground to the house of the LORD your God. "You are not to boil a young goat in its mother's milk."

You are to take two onyx stones and engrave the names of the sons of Israel on them,

The LORD has bared his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.

"Issachar is a strong donkey, resting between sheepfolds.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

He mounted him on a high place above the earth, feeding him from the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and with oil from the flint rock,

Does the eagle soar high at your command and build its nest on the highest crags?

He is like dawn's first light, like bright sun blazing on a cloudless morning, glistening on grassland that flourishes after a rain shower.

He took them across the river, along with all his possessions.

Absalom also sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, to come from his home town of Giloh while Absalom was presenting the sacrificial offerings. And so the conspiracy widened, because the common people increasingly sided with Absalom.

Asa practiced what the LORD considered to be right, just like his ancestor David.

"Take the one who cursed outside the camp. Everyone who heard him is to lay their hands on his head. Then the entire congregation is to stone him to death.

"I'm still complaining bitterly today; my hand is heavy because of groaning.

"If a woman approaches any animal to have sexual relations with it, both the woman and the animal are to be put to death. Their guilt will remain their responsibility.

Indeed, have you opened your eyes on one like this to bring me into a legal fight with you?

He told his mother, "Do you remember those 1,100 silver coins that were stolen from you and about which you uttered a curse when I could hear it? Well, I have the silver. I took it." So she replied, "May my son be blessed by the LORD."

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of a fire just as you did, and survived it?

"When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed over or releases his livestock so that they graze in another man's field, he is to make restitution from the best of his field or vineyard.

He made the bronze basin and its bronze base from mirrors contributed by the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

"Please," Jacob inquired, "Tell me your name." But he asked, "Why are you asking about my name?" And he blessed Jacob there.

The descendants of Manasseh's son Machir attacked Gilead and then captured and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

The people joined the Baal-peor cult. As a result, the anger of the LORD flared up against Israel,

Because she had been asking, "May God give me another son," she named him Joseph.

I didn't send these prophets, but they ran anyway. I didn't speak to them, but they prophesied.

Pay attention to my prayer, God, and do not hide yourself from my appeal.

Mattan's son Shephatiah, Pashhur's son Gedaliah, Shelemiah's son Jucal, and Malchijah's son Pashhur heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people:

This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah a second time while he was still confined in the courtyard of the guard:

He is the grandest of God's undertakings, yet his creator is approaching him with his sword.

Then sacrifice sheep and cattle for the Passover to the LORD your God at the place where the LORD your God will choose to establish his name.

Turn your eyes from me, for they excite me. Your hair is like a flock of goats coming down from Mt. Gilead.

Because your sin dictates your speech, you have chosen the language of the crafty.

Either three years of famine, or three months of reversals as you are swept away by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days with the sword of the LORD, consisting of pestilence infecting the land, with the angel of the LORD wreaking destruction from border to border throughout all of Israel.' Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me."

"As the LORD lives," Micaiah replied, "I'll say what my God tells me to say."

you are to dedicate to the LORD everything that first opens the womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the LORD.

"Now please listen to what I have to say, Job. Listen to every word!

These towns and villages are the inheritance of the tribe of Asher according to its families.

But he took her hand and called out, "Young lady, get up!"

I'm going to make them a united people in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and I'll set a single king to rule over them. They'll never again be two separate people. They'll never again be divided into two kingdoms.

The LORD told Moses,

If Timothy comes, see to it that he does not have anything to be afraid of while he is with you, for he is doing the Lord's work as I am.

My help is from the LORD, maker of heaven and earth.

But with you there is forgiveness, so that you may be feared.

Gather the people the men, women, children, and the foreigners that live in your cities so they may hear and fear the LORD your God, and so they may be careful to obey the words contained in this Law.

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Have you seen the gates of the deepest darkness?

Whoever obeys a commandment keeps himself safe, but someone who is contemptuous in conduct will die.

From the end of the earth I will cry to you whenever my heart is overwhelmed. Place me on the rock that's too high for me.

Sing to the LORD! Bless his name! Proclaim his deliverance every day!

"Neither your father's nakedness nor your mother's nakedness is to be exposed. She's your mother, so you are not to have sexual relations with her.

because he has crushed and abandoned the poor; he has seized a house that he didn't build.

So go into the roads leading out of town and invite as many people as you can find to the wedding.'

So Moses and Nun's son Joshua came and recited all the words of this song while the people were assembled.

"Indeed, he drew you away from the brink of distress to a spacious place without constraints, filling your festive table with bountiful food.

"Indeed, God is exalted in his power. Who is like him as a teacher?

David escaped and fled. He came to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went and stayed at Naioth.

"May the LORD God of the spirits of all living creatures appoint a man over the community

"Look how old I am! I could die any day now,

A single law exists for the native and the alien who resides among you."

If David calls him "Lord', how can he be his son?"

But they did not understand what he told them.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "You'll drink from your sister's cup, which is both large and deep. You'll become a laughing stock and an object of derision, since the cup is so full!

The people who had seen it told them how the demon-possessed man had been healed.

A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool.

He is to sprinkle the blood seven times on the person with the infectious skin disease and then pronounce him clean. Then he is to release the live bird into the open fields.

You are to gird Aaron and his sons with sashes and tie headdresses on them. The priesthood is to belong to them by perpetual ordinance, and you are to ordain Aaron and his sons.

Then God replied to him in the dream, "I know that you did this with pure intentions, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore, I didn't allow you to touch her.

"For this what the LORD says, "Watch! I'll lift up my hand to the nations and raise my banner to the nations. They will bring your sons in their arms, and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.'

You've asked, "What does God know? Can he sort through pitch black darkness?'

May the LORD act as judge, and may he decide between me and you. May he see, may he plead my case, and may he vindicate me in this dispute against you."

Their feet rush to evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; ruin, destruction, and violence are in their paths.

"Don't talk to me! It's my turn to speak; then whatever happens, happens.

Meshelemiah's sons Zechariah, his firstborn, Jediael his second, Zebadiah his third, Jathniel his fourth,

He is to take blood from the ox and sprinkle it with his forefinger toward the surface of the Mercy Seat. Then he is to sprinkle the blood on the surface of the Mercy Seat with his forefinger seven times.

Then the LORD instructed Moses,

But if we say, "From humans,' all the people will stone us to death, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

Then Pilate asked him, "Don't you hear how many charges they're bringing against you?"

Instead, I have composed and quieted myself like a weaned child with its mother; I am like a weaned child.

"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

The officials went to the king in the courtyard, but they deposited the scroll in the office of Elishama the scribe. Then they reported everything written on the scroll to the king.

"Any person who eats a carcass or an animal that was torn by beasts (whether that person is native born or is a resident alien), is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will remain unclean until evening, and then he'll become clean.

Show me the coin used for the tax."

In the fourth year of the reign of Josiah's son King Jehoiakim of Judah, this message came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

"Now therefore, our God, the great, mighty, and awesome God, who keeps the covenant and gracious love, don't let all of the difficulties seem trifling to you, all of hardships that have come upon us, upon our kings, upon our leaders, upon our priests, upon our prophets, upon our ancestors, and upon all of your people from the time of the kings of Assyria until this day.

Binding his donkey to the vine and his mare's foal to its thick tendrils, he will wash his garments in wine and his robe in the juice of grapes.

Behold, even the moon isn't bright, and the stars aren't pure in his eyes.

All the skilled craftsmen among the workers made the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen, blue, purple, and scarlet material. He made them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Then David told Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of those who say, "Look, David is trying to harm you?'

When a person from the house of Israel slaughters an ox, a lamb, or a goat (whether in the camp or outside the camp),

But Israel stretched out his right hand, laying it on Ephraim's head (he was the younger son) and laying his left hand on Manasseh's head (even though Manasseh was the firstborn).

because what he predicted by a message from the LORD against the altar in Bethel and the temples built in the high places of the cities of Samaria will certainly come about."

The angel who was talking to me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed those for whom you are building monuments.

You fool! The seed you plant does not come to life unless it dies,

"But he told one of them, "Friend, I'm not treating you unfairly. You did agree with me for a denarius, didn't you?

cargo of gold, silver, gems, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all articles made of ivory, all articles made of very costly wood, bronze, iron, marble,

and will throw them into a blazing furnace. In that place there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

When you withdraw your favor, they are disappointed; Take away their breath, and they die and return to dust.

"Surely our Law does not condemn a person without first hearing from him and finding out what he is doing, does it?"

Accept what he has to teach you, and treasure his words in your heart.

They provoked him to jealousy over foreigners and to anger over detestable things.

For this is what the LORD says: "David will never be without a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel,

"This is what the LORD says: "Stand in the courtyard of the LORD's Temple and tell those from all the cities of Judah who are coming to worship at the LORD's Temple everything that I've commanded you to say to them. Don't leave out a word!

Josiah observed the Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem. They slaughtered the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Even if it's true that I've erred, my error only affects me.

He said, "Peace, I've come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." Samuel consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Don't let the prophets and diviners who are among you deceive you, and don't listen to them when they tell you their dreams.

"You are not to have sexual relations with your mother's sister or your father's sister, because that is laying bare the nakedness of his close relative. They'll continue to bear responsibility for their iniquity.

You are to bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the Tent of Meeting, and wash them with water.

Then the five men who had gone to scout out the territory of Laish told their relatives, "Are you aware that in these houses there's an ephod, some household idols, a carved image, and a cast image? You know what you need to do."

Kings detest wrongdoing, for through righteousness the throne is established.

As long as it lies desolate, it will have rest that it will not have had during your Sabbaths when you were living in it.

"Don't touch my anointed or hurt my prophets!"

The LORD will guard you from all evil, preserving your life.

"Who sets the wild donkey free? Who loosens the bonds of the wild donkey

If anyone should arise to pursue you and seek your life, may the life of your majesty be bound up with the LORD your God in a bundle of the living, and may he sling out the lives of your enemies from the pocket of a sling.

As dawn was breaking, the woman approached the door of the man's home where her master was and collapsed. Eventually, full daylight came.

Samuel approached Saul. "May the LORD bless you," Saul said. "I've carried out the LORD's command."

When birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away.

God has caused me to faint; the Almighty makes me terrified!

But Jehoahaz sought the LORD, and the LORD paid attention to him, because the LORD had been watching the oppression that Israel was enduring from the king of Aram.

While Absalom had been living, he had erected a pillar as a monument to himself in King's Valley because he had been telling himself, "I don't have a son to carry on my family name." So he named the pillar after himself it's called Absalom's Monument even today.

When the woman saw that she couldn't hide, she came forward trembling. Bowing down in front of him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched Jesus and how she had been instantly healed.

Look! The one who is guarding Israel never sleeps and does not take naps.

About five o'clock he went out and found some others standing around. He asked them, "Why are you standing here all day long without work?'

"For I, the LORD, love justice, and I hate robbery and iniquity; I will faithfully present your reward and make an everlasting covenant with you.

These were the descendants of Seir the Horite, who lived in the territory: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,

Timnah was a concubine of Esau's son Eliphaz. She bore Amalek to Eliphaz.

After the voice had spoken, Jesus was alone. The disciples kept silent and at that time told no one about what they had seen.

When we heard this, we and the people who lived there begged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.

The LORD sat enthroned over the flood, and the LORD sits as king forever.

Abigail returned to Nabal, and he was there in his house holding a festival like the festival of a king. Nabal's heart was glad, and he was very drunk, so she didn't tell him anything at all until morning.

The light of the righteous shines, but the lamp of the wicked is extinguished.

As smoke is driven away, so you drive them away. As wax melts in the presence of fire, so the wicked die in the presence of God.

But the righteous rejoice and exult before God; they are overwhelmed with joy.

to show favor to him and to plead, "Deliver him from having to go down to the Pit I know where his ransom is!'

When he saw her, he ripped his clothes and cried out, "Oh no! My daughter! You have terribly burdened me! You've joined those who are causing me trouble, because I've given my word to the LORD, and I cannot go back on it.

Job lived 140 years after this, and saw his children and grandchildren to the fourth generation.

He told me, "Surprise! you're going to conceive and give birth to a son!' and as for you, "Be sure that you don't drink wine or anything intoxicating, and don't eat anything unclean,' "because the young man will be a Nazirite dedicated to God from inside the womb' until the day he dies."

"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,

Balaam uttered this prophetic statement: "A declaration by Beor's son Balaam, a declaration by the strong, blind man.

Jehoiakim died, as did his ancestors, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.

Then he addressed Korah and his entire company, "In the morning, may the LORD reveal who belongs to him and who is holy. May he cause that person to approach him. May he cause to approach him the one whom he has chosen.

The priest is to examine it. If it is, indeed, a white swelling in the skin that has turned the hair white, and yet it sustains live flesh on the swelling,

They had no one else to deliver them, because they lived far from Sidon and had no dealings with anyone. It lay in the valley near Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.

Keep my statutes and observe them. I am the LORD, who has set you apart."

Indeed, if you carefully obey him and do everything that I say, then I'll be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries,

The seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the Temple wearing clean, shining linen with gold sashes around their chests.

""Look, I'll bring restoration and healing to it, and I'll heal them. I'll reveal to them an abundance of peace and faithfulness.

At this, his father Isaac replied to him, "Look! Away from the fertile land will be your dwellings; away from the dew of the skies above.

but it was Solomon who built a house for him.

You'll arise suddenly, like a tornado, coming like a windstorm to cover the land, you and all your soldiers with you, along with many nations."'"

"Now suppose that he produced a son who practiced all of his father's sins, but then that son began to fear me and stopped doing all of these things.

"But stand up now with your spells and your many incantations, at which you have labored from your childhood until today,

I said, "Must I leave in the prime of my life? Must I be consigned to the control of Sheol? Bitter are my years!"

They washed the chariot by the reservoir of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood near where the prostitutes went to bathe, in keeping with the message that the LORD had spoken.

But Naboth replied to Ahab, "No way! The LORD prohibits the sale to you of the inheritance of my ancestors!"

My flesh trembles out of fear of you, and I am in awe of your judgments. Ayin

So Ahab got up to get something to eat and drink while Elijah went back up to the top of Mount Carmel, where he bowed low to the ground and placed his face between his knees.

"He is petrified by terror that surrounds him on all sides; they chase at his heels.

"Aren't you the reigning king of Israel," his wife Jezebel replied. "Get up, have a meal, and get ready to be happy. I'll go get you the vineyard that Naboth the Jezreelite owns."

Afterwards, war broke out against the Philistines at Gezer, where Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the Rephaim, defeating the Philistines.

He lived like his father Asa and never abandoned that life. He did what the LORD considered to be right. Nevertheless, the high places were not demolished, and the people continued to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.

Ahab's son Ahaziah became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of King Jehoshaphat of Judah. He reigned for two years over Israel.

Araunah responded to David, "May your majesty the king take it and offer whatever pleases him. Here are oxen for a burnt offering, along with the threshing sledges and yokes from the oxen for wood!

Then Aiah's daughter Rizpah grabbed some sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock where her children had been hanged from the beginning of harvest until the first rain fell from the sky. She would not allow any scavenger birds to land on them during the day nor the beasts of the field to approach them at night.

then hear in heaven, forgive the sin of your people Israel, and return them to the soil that you gave to their ancestors.

David went from there to Mizpah of Moab, and he told the king of Moab, "Please let my father and mother come and stay with you until I know what God is going to do for me."

The tribune took him by the hand, stepped aside to be alone with him, and asked, "What have you got to tell me?"

I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you will no longer be their slaves, since I've broken their oppressive yoke upon you to make you walk upright."

Then whoever takes an oath by the God of faithfulness, and whoever takes an oath in the land, will swear by the God of faithfulness, because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.

Now Kohath had a son named Amram. Amram's wife was Levi's daughter Jochebed, who was born to Levi in Egypt. She gave birth to Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.

Then the whole city went out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him, they begged him to leave their region.

For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who observe my Sabbaths, who choose the things that please me, and who hold fast my covenant

then a throne will be established in gracious love, and there will sit in faithfulness in the Tent of David one who judges, seeks justice, and is swift to do what is right."

if I call out to the Pit, "You're my father!' or say to the worm, "My mother!' or "My sister!'

The dead won't live, and the departed spirits won't rise to that end, you punished and destroyed them, then locked away all memory of them.

The lifestyle of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but he loves those who ardently pursue righteousness.

My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to graze his flock in the gardens and gather lilies.

"The bull for the sin offering and the male goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the sacred place, are to be taken outside the camp. Their skin, meat, and offal are to be incinerated.

The person who has great anger must pay the consequences, because if you rescue him, you will have to do it again.

When I say that my foot is shaking, your gracious love, LORD, will sustain me.

Abaddon and death said, "We did hear a rumor about it.'

arrested Joseph, and locked him up in the same prison where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph remained there in prison.

So once he heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab got up, went down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and confiscated it.

Later on, Delilah told Samson, "You're still mocking me and telling me lies! Tell me how to tie you up!" He answered her, "If you weave the seven locks on my head into a loom and fasten it with a peg, then I will become weak and just like any other human being."

The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe his body with water. After doing so, he may enter the camp."

and the Temple was completely finished according to its plans and specifications in the eighth month of the eleventh year of Solomon's reign, that is, during the month of Bul. It took about seven years to build.

Your own mouth is condemning you, not I; your own lips will testify against you."

Are God's encouragements inconsequential to you, even a word that has been spoken gently to you?

The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

"Give me 12,000 men! I'll leave tonight and pursue David," Ahithophel advised Absalom.

Meanwhile, since they could not risk being seen entering the city, Jonathan and Ahimaaz had been waiting at En-rogel, where a young servant woman was to go to inform them and they would then go brief King David.

"The tribe of Manasseh is to encamp beside them. The leader of Manasseh is to be Pedahzur's son Gamaliel.

So Jacob drew closer to kiss him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his son's clothes, he blessed him and said, "How my son's scent is the fragrance of the field that the LORD has blessed.

The third lottery went to the tribe of Zebulun according to its families. The boundary of its inheritance extended to Sarid,

He told the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Look, Aaron and Hur are with you, and whoever has a dispute, let him come to them."

Festus talked it over with the council and then answered, "To the emperor you have appealed; to the emperor you will go!"

Therefore I'll surely forget you and cast you and the city I gave you and your ancestors out of my presence.

Furthermore, it will come about at that time that every prophet will become ashamed of his vision as he prophesies. They will wear no rough garments intended to deceive others."

"Since I know that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I am pleased to present my defense. You can verify for yourself that I went up to worship in Jerusalem no more than twelve days ago.

The LORD marches out like a warrior; he stirs up his rage like a man of war; he makes his anger heard; he shouts aloud; he declares his mastery over his enemies:

"Hear this message from the LORD, you who tremble at his words: "Your own brothers who hate you and exclude you because of my name have said: "Let the LORD be glorified; he will see your joy,' yet it is they who will be put to shame.

For he will deliver the needy when they cry out for help, and the poor when there is no deliverer.

So Elijah left and did exactly what the LORD had told him to do he went to live near the Wadi Cherith, where it enters the Jordan River.

His father and mother asked him, "Isn't there a woman suitable among the daughters of your relatives or among all of our people, since you're going to get your wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?"

When Solomon had completed saying this entire prayer to the LORD, he got up from kneeling with his hands spread out toward heaven in the presence of the LORD's altar,

wore a bronze helmet on his head, and wore bronze scale armor that weighed about 5,000 shekels.

Now then, give me that hill country about which the LORD spoke back on that day, because you yourself heard back then that the Anakim were there, with great reinforced cities. Perhaps the LORD will be with me and I will expel them, just as the LORD said."

No hand is to touch that person, but he is certainly to be stoned or shot; whether animal or person, he is not to live.' They are to approach the mountain only when the ram's horn sounds a long blast."

God spoke once, but I heard it twice, "Power belongs to God."

The righteous will inherit the land, and they will dwell in it forever.

Simon answered, "I suppose the one who had the larger debt canceled." Jesus told him, "You have answered correctly."

Then he began to curse violently. "I don't know the man!" he swore solemnly. Just then a rooster crowed.

They are to be holy to their God. They are not to defile the name of their God, because they're the ones who bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire the food of their God so they are to be holy.

Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,

You must completely destroy the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, just as the LORD your God commanded you,

If the scab remains in place and doesn't spread, then it's the scab from the boil. The priest is to declare him clean."

He journeyed by stages from the Negev to Bethel, the place where his tent had formerly been, between Bethel and Ai,

Both of these things will overtake you suddenly on a single day: loss of children and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, despite the multitude of your incantations and the great power of your spells."

And many believed in Jesus there.

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but later his mouth will be full of gravel.

Also to you, Lord, belongs gracious love, because you reward each person according to what he does. A Davidic Psalm, while he was in the Judean wilderness.

During the eleventh year, on the first day of the month of our captivity, this message came to me from the LORD:

If they listen and serve him, they'll finish their lives in prosperity and their years will be pleasant.

One day while the Philistine army was camping in the valley of giants, three of the 30 leaders joined David at the cave of Adullam.

when you enter the land where you'll be living that I'm about to give you, you are to make an offering by fire to the LORD, either a burnt offering, a sacrificial offering to fulfill a vow, or a voluntary offering at the appointed time, to make a pleasing aroma to the LORD either from your cattle or from your flocks.

As soon as the demon had been driven out, the man began to speak. The crowds were amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel!"

and encourage you with what I have to say; my words of comfort would lessen your pain.

"What a help you are to the weak! How powerfully you deliver those without strength!

"Haven't you known this from ancient times, since mankind was placed on the earth?

When the Gazites were informed, "Samson has come here!" they surrounded him, intending to lay in wait for him at the city gate throughout the entire night. They kept quiet all night, telling each other, "At first light, let's kill him!"

Eventually, Baasha died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah was installed as king in his place.

to David, "You are more righteous than I am, because you have treated me well even though I've treated you poorly.

On the first day, you are to hold a sacred assembly, when you are not to do any servile work.

You may give them as inherited property to your children after you, to own as properties in perpetuity. You may make bond slaves of them, but no one is to rule over his fellow Israeli with harshness.

Then the LORD said, "Just as my servant Isaiah has walked around naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and a warning for Egypt and Ethiopia,

They also took Abram's nephew Lot captive, and confiscated his possessions, since he was living in Sodom.

"You are my war-club and weapons of war. I'll smash nations with you and destroy kingdoms with you.

He judged the case of the poor and needy. And then it went well for him. Isn't this what it means to know me?

The LORD told Moses,

"I said: "I've labored for nothing. I've exhausted my strength on futility and on emptiness.' Yet surely my recompense is with the LORD, and my reward is with my God.

Now if only you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your success like the waves of the sea.

Like the maniac who shoots fiery darts and deadly arrows

This message came to me from the LORD:

The LORD will afflict you with tuberculosis, fever, inflammation, high fever, drought, blight, and mildew. These will attack you until you are completely destroyed.

LORD, you are righteous, and your judgments are right.

My feet stay where his footsteps lead; I kept on his pathway and haven't turned aside.

Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, because I will praise him once again, since his presence saves me and he is my God. To the Director: An instruction of the Sons of Korah.

You'll have olive trees throughout your territory, but you won't be able to anoint yourself with oil because the olives will drop off the trees.

So Hilkiah and the others who had received orders from the king went to visit Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Tokhath's son Shallum, grandson of Hasrah. She was the king's wardrobe supervisor, and she lived in Jerusalem's Second Quarter. They asked her about what had happened.

He said, "May God do to me and more also! if the head of Shaphat's son Elisha remains on his shoulders today!"

Saul said, "Let's go down after the Philistines tonight and plunder them until dawn, and let's not leave a single one of them alive." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you!" But the priest said, "Let's draw near to God here."

Then Solomon died, as had his ancestors, and he was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

The one who has innocent hands and a pure heart; the person who does not delight in what is false and does not swear an oath deceitfully.

The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you struck down in the Valley of Elah is wrapped up in a cloth behind the ephod. If you want it, take it because there is no other except it here." So David said, "There is none like it. Give it to me."

He lived just like Nebat's son Jeroboam, and by his sin he led Israel into sin, provoking the LORD God of Israel with their idolatry.

Then Moses told Korah, "You and your entire company are to present yourselves in the LORD's presence tomorrow you, they, and Aaron.

because those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to those who practice witchcraft and divination. But the LORD does not allow you to act this way."

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,

I'll send wild beasts against you from the open country to deprive you of your children, destroy your cattle, and decrease your number so that your roads become desolate.

Rebekah's nurse Deborah died and was buried there, under the oak tree that was below Beth-el. That's why the place was named Allon-bacuth.

and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.

There were 5,000 men who had eaten the loaves.

Though I walk straight into trouble, you preserve my life, stretching out your hand to fight the vehemence of my enemies, and your right hand delivers me.

What happened became known throughout Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. "How did the fig tree dry up so quickly?" they asked.

The one who goes out weeping, carrying a bag of seeds, will surely return with a joyful song, bearing sheaves from his harvest. A Solomonic Song of Ascents

Persia, Cush, and Libya will be accompanying them, all of them equipped with shields and helmets.

The cords of death entangled me; the rivers of Belial made me afraid.

Severe punishment awaits anyone who wanders off the path anyone who despises reproof will die.

"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Write all the words that I've spoken to you in a book.

And I know, God, that it is you who searches the heart and you who finds pleasure in righteousness. With a righteous heart I have freely given all these things, and now I have seen all of these people of yours giving freely and joyfully to you!

"Therefore, look! I will gather you to your ancestors, and you will be placed in your grave in peace. Your eyes will never see all the evil that I will bring on this place.'"'"

Isaiah said, "Take a fig cake." So some attendants took it, laid it on Hezekiah's boil, and he recovered.

She evaluates a field and purchases it; from the proceeds she plants a vineyard.

He is driven away from light to darkness, made to wander the landscape.

"The LORD will assign you to be a holy people for himself, just as he promised you, as long as you keep his commands and walk in his ways.

His troops march in a column against me, erecting their siege ramps against me; they surround my tent."

At this point, Zeruiah's son Abishai asked the king, "Why should this dead dog be cursing your majesty the king? May I have permission to go over and cut off his head?"

Three years later, they captured Samaria during the sixth year of Hezekiah's reign, which was the ninth year of Hoshea's reign as king of Israel.

David's uncle Jonathan was a counselor, since he was a man of understanding and a scribe, and Hachmoni's son Jehiel was an attendant to the king's sons.

But Jesus, knowing their inner thoughts, took a little child and had him stand beside him.

Then the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of leftover bread and fish.

"Furthermore, he is to marry a true virgin.

so Pharaoh asked his servants, "Can we find anyone else like this someone in whom the Spirit of God lives?

When you present your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with your idols to this day. Should I be inquired of by you, you house of Israel? As I live," declares the LORD, "I certainly won't be inquired of by you."

"I am God; also from ancient days I am the one. And there is no one who can deliver out of my hand; when I act, who can reverse it?"

You are not to light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath."

"When the LORD brings you to the land of the Canaanite and gives it to you, just as he promised you and your ancestors,

Its tongs and trays are to be of pure gold.

I didn't speak in secret, from somewhere in a land of darkness; I didn't say to Jacob's descendants, "Seek me in chaos.' I, the LORD, speak truth, declaring what is right.

How blessed is the one you choose, the one you cause to live in your courts. We will be satisfied with the goodness of your house, yes, even with the holiness of your Temple.

God will truly redeem me from the power of Sheol. He will surely receive me! Interlude

My son, eat honey, because it's good for you; indeed, drippings from the honeycomb are sweet to your taste;

"His snorting releases flashes of light; his eyes are like the rays of the dawn.

Can you attach a bridle to his snout, or pierce his jaw with a hook?

So they got up early the next morning and traveled to the top of the mountain, telling themselves, "Look, we're here and we're going to go up to the place that the LORD had spoken about, even though we've sinned."

Binding ropes from Sheol entangled me while lethal snares hindered me.

"Get out of here! Get out!" Shimei yelled as he cursed. "You murderer! You who think you're above the law!

If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and children belong to her master, and he is to go out by himself.

So Abram brought him all these animals and cut each of them in half, down the middle, placing the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut the birds in half.

So all of the other Israeli soldiers abandoned David to follow Bichri's son Sheba, while the army of Judah remained with the king all the way from the Jordan River to Jerusalem.