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So Kareah's son Johanan, all the military leaders, and all the people did not obey the instructions given by the LORD to remain in the land of Judah.
I spoke to you when you were secure, but you said, "I won't listen!" This has been your way since your youth, for you haven't obeyed me.
They traveled and then stopped at Geruth Chimham near Bethlehem on their way to Egypt
Judah and all its towns will live together in the land, along with farmers and those who follow the flock.
that's what someone is like who lies to his neighbor and then says, "I was joking, wasn't I?"
With your hand you expelled the nations and established our ancestors. You afflicted nations and cast them out.
Descendants of Jaalah, Darkon, and Giddel.
The descendants of Levi will surround the king, brandishing weapons in their hands, and anybody who enters the Temple will be killed. Stay near the king wherever he enters and leaves."
These were appointed to enter the Temple of the LORD according to their protocols established by their ancestor Aaron, as commanded by the LORD God of Israel.
Zabad fathered Ephlal, Ephlal fathered Obed,
Attai fathered Nathan, and Nathan fathered Zabad.
So Benaiah went into the LORD's tent and told Joab, "The king orders you to come out!" "No," Joab said, "I'd rather die here!" So Benaiah went and informed the king, "This is how Joab answered me."
So Moses wrote the song that very day and taught it to the Israelis.
Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
Every open vessel that has no covering fastened around it is to be considered unclean.
The LORD will hand them over to you, so you can do to them what I've instructed you to do.
If he consecrates a field that he had bought and that isn't part of his inheritance,
Afterwards all the Israelis came near and he gave them everything the LORD told him on Mount Sinai as commandments.
So Balaam returned to where Balak had been standing, that is, next to his offerings, accompanied by the Moabite officials. "What did the LORD say?" Balak asked him.
They are to fasten the rings on the breast piece to the rings on the ephod with a blue cord so it will rest on the skillfully woven band of the ephod and so the breast piece won't come loose from the ephod.
"As certainly as I'm alive and living, my sheep have truly become victims, food for all of the wild animals because there are no shepherds. My shepherds did not go searching for my flock. Instead, the shepherds fed themselves, and my flock they would not feed!'
"Watch me! I'm on your side! I'll be turning in your direction, and you mountains will be plowed and planted.
After all the money had been spent throughout Egypt and Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and demanded, "Give us food! Why should we die right in front of you? Our money is spent!"
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "If the Regent Prince gives a gift to someone, it is to remain with the man's descendants as their own inheritance.
""Look around!' he said. "Go ahead, look! All the male goats have been mating with the flock, producing offspring that are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I've been watching everything that Laban has done to you.
Everyone is stupid and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is put to shame by his own idols, for his images are false, and there is no life in them.
At the sound of the galloping hooves of his horses, at the rumbling of his chariots, the clatter of his wheels, fathers won't turn back for their children because their hands are weak,
because testing is sure to come. "In putting the sword to the test along with the scepter, it won't keep on rejecting, will it?' declares the Lord GOD."
My eyes run with rivers of tears over the destruction of my cherished people.
He will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt. He will burn their idols and take them captive. He will wrap himself with the land of Egypt like a shepherd wraps himself with a garment, and then he will leave from there in peace.
Don't follow other gods to serve and worship them. Don't provoke me with the idols you make with your hands, and I won't bring disaster on you.'
"Go and say to Hananiah, "This is what the LORD says: "You have broken wooden yokes, but you have made iron yokes in their place."
LORD of the Heavenly Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the inner motives and the heart, let me see you take vengeance on them, for I've committed my case to you.
Ishmael threw the bodies of the men he killed on account of Gedaliah into the cistern that King Asa had made for protection against King Baasha of Israel. That is the same one Nethaniah's son Ishmael filled with those he killed.
Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with him (that is, with Gedaliah) at Mizpah, along with the Chaldean soldiers who were found there.
My heart is trembling within me, and the terrors of death have assaulted me.
Your insolence has reached my ears, so I'll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I'll make you turn back on the road by which you came.
Where are your wise men now? Let them tell you, let them make known what the LORD has planned against Egypt.
"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.
Let them offer sacrifices of thanksgiving and talk about his works with shouts of joy.
He regards iron like straw, and hardened bronze like a dead tree.
Now you, LORD my God, defend me for your name's sake; because your gracious love is good, deliver me!
Both his servants and the woman urged him, and so he listened to them. He got up off the ground and sat on the bed. The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
For your gracious love extends to the sky, and your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
He set up an altar to the LORD, sacrificed peace offerings on it, and ordered Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
so they published a decree that was circulated throughout Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan that they are to come celebrate the Passover to the LORD God of Israel in Jerusalem. The Passover had not been celebrated in great numbers as was being prescribed by the decree.
Hezekiah gave an order to prepare storerooms in the LORD's Temple, and so they did.
You claim you've defeated Edom, but you're really only puffed up with arrogant boasting. So stay home. Why stir up trouble so you die, and the rest of Judah with you?"
for Zebulun there was Obadiah's son Ishmaiah; for Naphtali, there was Azriel's son Jerimoth;
Isn't this the same David about whom the maidens sang when they were dancing, "Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his ten thousands'?"
the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his relatives, for a total of twelve;
the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils, and the basin and its base.
These are to be the statutes and ordinances for you throughout all your generations, regardless of where you live."
"I'll send you a young goat from the flock," he responded. But she pressed him, asking, "What security will you put up until you've sent it?"
"If it's an animal from which they make an offering to the LORD, everything that he gives to the LORD from it will be holy.
In order to cleanse the house, he is to take two birds, some cedar wood, two crimson threads, and some hyssop.
and Jogli's son Bukki is to be leader of the tribe of Dan.
They traveled from Bene-jaakan, then rested in Hor-haggidgad.
When the field is released in the jubilee, it will be holy to the LORD. As a field that's devoted, it is to belong to the priest as his inheritance.
They traveled from Kibroth-hattaavah, then rested in Hazeroth.
You are to make 50 loops along the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and 50 loops along the edge of the curtain of the other set.
Laban also gave his woman servant Bilhah to his daughter Rachel to be her maidservant.
He measured a wall that encompassed all four sides, 500 hundred long and 500 wide, dividing between the sacred and common areas.
Moreover, Jacob had deceived Laban the Aramean, because he had never told him that he was intending to leave.
I'll set fire to Egypt, and Aswan will writhe in agony. Thebes will be demolished, and Memphis will face daily distress.
Each of the pillars was twelve cubits high and its circumference twelve cubits. It was hollow and about a handbreadth thick.
Then Abimelech ordered Isaac, "Move away from us! You've become more powerful than we are."
They'll also name the city that is there "Hamonah,' as they purify the land."
It's intended to be polished so it can be grasped in the hand. The sword is sharpened. It's polished for placement into the hand of the executioner."
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "I'm going to give the land of Egypt to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. He's going to carry off her wealth, confiscate her war implements, and use it all to pay wages for his army!
Your sister Sodom and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Samaria and her daughters will be restored to their former status. Then you and your daughters will be restored to your former status.
Then he put out Zedekiah's eyes and bound him with bronze fetters to take him to Babylon.
I'll make this city into a desolate place and an object of scorn. All who pass by it will be astonished and will scoff because of all its wounds.
My soul looks to the Lord more than watchmen look for the morning more, indeed, than watchmen for the morning.
They sent for Jeremiah and took him from the courtyard of the guard. They handed him over to Ahikam's son Gedaliah, the grandson of Shaphan, to take him home. So he remained among the people.
You will have enough goat's milk to drink and to supply your household needs, as well as sustenance for your servant girls.
"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, "Look, Pharaoh's army that has come to help will go back to its own land of Egypt,
"Among the smooth stones of the ravines is your portion there they are as your lot. To them you have poured out drink offerings; you have brought grain offerings. Should I be lenient over such things?
"The message from the LORD that you have spoken is good," Hezekiah replied to Isaiah, since he was thinking, ""at least there will be peace and security in my lifetime."
When he heard it, he returned and sent messengers to Hezekiah: "Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: "Don't let your God on whom you depend deceive you when he says, "Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria."
Break me out of this prison, so I can give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will deal generously with me. A Davidic Song
He is remembered for his awesome deeds; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.
Blessed are you, LORD God of Israel, from eternity to eternity; Let all the people say, "Amen!" Hallelujah!
Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.
He led them with a cloud during the day, and during the night with light from the fire.
We have sinned, along with our ancestors; we have committed iniquity and wickedness.
Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others.
I also will praise you with the harp; because of your faithfulness, my God, I will praise you with the lyre Holy One of Israel.
The LORD is great in Zion and is exalted above all nations.
These people searched for their ancestral records, but they couldn't be located. Accordingly, they were considered disqualified from the priesthood.
He practiced what the LORD considered to be right, following the example of his ancestor David, turning neither to the right nor to the left.
Its army will consume the offspring of your animals and the produce of your soil until you are exterminated. They will leave you without your grain, wine, oil, the increase of your cattle, and the lamb of your flock, until you are completely destroyed.
from the choicest products of the sun, the rich fruit of the harvest moon,
He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus that had defeated him, reasoning, "The gods of the kings of Aram helped them, so I'll sacrifice to them so they will help me!" But those gods brought about his downfall, and the downfall of all of Israel, too.
He placed a large amount of supplies into storage throughout the cities of Judah and stationed soldiers all of them valiant men in Jerusalem.
They lived in it and have built there a sanctuary for your name, where they said,
Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all of the treasuries of dedicated gifts given by King David, by the heads of families, by the officers of groups of thousands and groups of hundreds, and by the leading army officers.
Uzzia the Ashterathite, Hotham the Aroerite's sons Shama and Jeiel,
But when Amasa went out to muster the army of Judah, he delayed to act within the time allotted to him.
These are the instructions, decrees, and ordinances that Moses declared to the Israelis when they came out of Egypt.
The total number of towns that you are to give to the descendants of Levi is to be 48 towns, including grazing lands surrounding these towns.
Depending on the number of offerings that you prepare, do for each one according to their number.
"Now as for the house, they are to scrape off inside and outside the house and then discard the torn out plaster in an unclean place outside the city.
They traveled from Rephidim, then rested in the Wilderness of Sinai.
Now Pallu's son was Eliab.
At this, Joseph hurried out, deeply moved because of his brother, and looked for a place to weep by himself. He entered his personal quarters, wept there awhile,
They are not to defile the sacred things of the Israelis that they have offered to the LORD,
"You are to take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.
When the flocks mated in front of the branches, they would bear offspring that were striped, speckled, or spotted.
He led me here and there throughout the valley, and I was amazed to see that the surface of the entire valley was covered with myriads of very dry bones!
Therefore, please allow your servant to remain as a slave to Your Excellency, instead of the young man, and let the young man go back home with his brothers.
Later, Leah's servant Zilpah bore a second son for Jacob.
The hearth is to be four cubits high, and four horns are to extend upwards from the hearth.
So tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "You keep eating flesh along with its blood, you keep looking to your idols, and you keep shedding blood, and you're going to take possession of the land?
The birds in the sky made nests in its boughs; all the beasts of the field gave birth under its branches. All the great nations rested in its shade.
As for his living expenses, a regular allowance was given him daily by the king of Babylon as long as he lived, until the day of his death.
A sword against the Chaldeans," declares the LORD, "and against the inhabitants of Babylon, against her officials and her wise men.
They'll drink, stagger, and act like madmen because of the sword I'm sending among them."
For this is what the LORD says: "Look, like an eagle one will fly swiftly and spread his wings against Moab.
"Make him drunk for he has exalted himself against the LORD. Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he will be the object of mocking.
Go up to Gilead and get balm, virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you multiply remedies, but there is no healing for you.
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD.
"As for you, my servant Jacob, don't be afraid, and Israel, don't be dismayed. For I'll deliver you from a distant place, and your descendants from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return. He will be undisturbed and secure, and no one will cause him to fear.
There is an outcry in the streets over wine; all cheer turns to gloom; the fun times of the earth are banished.
"Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Look, I'm going to fulfill my promise against this city for disaster rather than for good, and on that day it will happen before your eyes.
Can your gracious love be declared in the grave or your faithfulness in Abaddon?
His descendants will be powerful in the land, a generation of the upright who will be blessed.
I will praise you because you have answered me and have become my deliverer.
There the Israelis were seized with terror, when there was nothing to fear. For God scattered the bones of those who laid siege against you you put them to shame, for God rejected them.
We will praise God all day long; and to your name we will give thanks forever. Interlude
When I said in my panic, "I have been cut off in your sight," then you surely heard the voice of my prayer in my plea to you for help.
Your dead bodies will be food for the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the earth, with no one to chase them away.
Otherwise, my enemy will say, "I have overcome him;" Otherwise, my persecutor will rejoice when I am shaken.
Ahaz also collected the utensils of God's Temple, cut them all into pieces, and closed the doors of the LORD's Temple. Then he made altars to himself on every corner in Jerusalem
Many people gathered together and plugged up all the springs, along with the stream that flowed through the region. They were thinking to themselves, "Why should the Assyrian kings invade and discover an abundant water supply?"
Shiza the Reubenite's son Adina, a leader of the descendants of Reuben, along with thirty others with him,
David and 400 men continued the pursuit, while the 200 men who were too exhausted to cross over the Wadi Besor remained there.
Moreover, the LORD will inflict you with illnesses and plagues that were not written in this Book of the Law, until you are exterminated.
David came to the 200 men who were too exhausted to follow him and who had been left at the Wadi Besor. They came out to meet David and the people who were with him. As David approached the people, he asked them how they were doing.
and the priest comes, undertakes an examination, and determines that the contagion has spread in the house, it's a chronic fungal infection in the house. It's unclean.
They are then to take other stones and bring them to replace those stones. Lastly, they are to replaster the house."
"If any of the animals that you may eat dies, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.
Saul told Jonathan, "Tell me what you've done." So Jonathan spoke to him: "I did taste a little honey from the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am; I'm ready to die!"
The descendants of Beriah included: From Heber, the family of the descendants of Heber; and from Malchiel, the family of the descendants of Malchiel.
We only appropriated the livestock for our use, along with plunder from the cities that we captured.
All the craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left the work they were doing
The hangings for the one section are to be fifteen cubits long, with their three pillars and three sockets.
"You are to make chains of pure gold, twisted like cords, for the breast piece.
These were all sons from Zilpah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Leah. She bore these sixteen children for Jacob.
But they said, "We'll call the young lady and see what she has to say about this."
I'll even offer myself to guarantee that I'll be responsible for him. If I don't bring him back and present him to you, I'll personally bear the consequences forever.
The hearth is to be twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide; that is, it will be a four-sided square.
Just as you rejoiced when Israel's inheritance became desolate, I'm going to do the same thing to you. Mount Seir, you and Edom all of you will become a desolate wasteland.' Then they will learn that I am the LORD."
Eliminate from Babylon the one who plants seeds and the one who uses the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor's sword, let each one turn toward his own people and flee to his own land."
That's how I'll save my sheep so they won't be plundered any longer. I'm going to judge between one sheep and another.'"
Indeed, they're prophesying lies to you in my name. I didn't send them,' declares the LORD.
This message came to me from the LORD:
But listen to this message from the LORD, all you people of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt. "Look, I've sworn by my great name', says the LORD, "my name will no longer be invoked by the mouth of any person in the entire land of Egypt, as he says, "As surely as the Lord GOD lives""
Then Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and Asaph's son Joah, the recorder, approached Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and let him know what the field commander had said.
The hearts of reckless people will understand sound judgment, and the tongues of those who stammer will be ready to speak clearly.
Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.
I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.
Now look, he has invented charges against her by saying, "I haven't found your daughter to be a virgin." But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity.' Then they are to spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
For you, LORD, are the Most High above all the earth; you are exalted high above all divine beings.
Sinners will be destroyed together; the future of the wicked will be cut off.
But the Lord laughs at him because he sees that his day is coming!
The troubles of my heart have increased; bring me out of my distress!
The king trusts in the LORD; because of the gracious love of the Most High, he will stand firm.
the choicest portion of the eternal mountains, and the best of the everlasting hills;
"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Tell the man who sent you to me, "This is what the LORD says: "Pay attention! I'm bringing evil to visit this place and its inhabitants every single curse written in the book that they've been reading to the King of Judah.
The number of senior leaders of the ancestral houses of his elite forces numbered 2,600.
He answered, "Micah did such and such for me, and has hired me, so I've become his priest."
Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
but we will keep ourselves armed and stay ready to go with the Israelis until we've brought them to their own places. Our families intend to live in fortified cities in the presence of the inhabitants of the land,
And if he that consecrated it wishes to redeem his house, he is to add one fifth to your valuation, after which it is to belong to him.
They traveled from Dophkah, then rested in Alush.
"Why would you discourage the Israelis from crossing over to the land that the LORD has given them?
They placed him in custody until a decision would be made to them according to the word of the LORD.
But Joseph had already recognized his brothers, even though they had not recognized him.
The Regent Prince is to enter through the portico of the gate from outside and is to stand at the doorframe of the gate where the priests are to present the Regent Prince's burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the Regent Prince is to worship at the threshold of the gate and go out. The gate is not to be closed until evening.
when he notices that the young man hasn't come back with us, he'll die, and your servants really will have brought death to your servant, our father, along with his sad, gray hair!
so the young man did not delay the matter any further, since he was delighted with Jacob's daughter.
Anah's children were Dishon and Anah's daughter Oholibamah.
If they are ashamed of everything that they've done, you are to reveal to them the design of the Temple, its structure, its exits and entrances, its plans, its ordinances, and all of its regulations. Write it down where they can see it and remember all of its designs and regulations, so they will implement them.
This is to be the regulation for the Temple: the entire area on top of the mountain is to be considered wholly consecrated. This is to be the law of the Temple."
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "The people of Israel are oppressed, along with the people of Judah. All their captors have held on to them and refused to let them go.
"This is what the LORD says: "I'm putting an end to that gang from Egypt, and I'm going to use King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, to do it!
So I took Jeremiah's son Jaazaniah (a descendant of Habazziniah), his brothers, all his sons, and the whole family of the Rechabites.
Then King Zedekiah told Jeremiah, "I'm afraid of the Judeans who have gone over to the Chaldeans. The Chaldeans may turn me over to them, and they may treat me harshly."
In the towns of the hill country, in the towns of the Shephelah, in the towns of the Negev, in the territory of Benjamin, in the areas around Jerusalem, and in the towns of Judah flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them,' says the LORD."
and within two years I'll bring back to this place all the vessels of the LORD's Temple that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took from this place and carried to Babylon.
The priests and prophets told the officials and all the people, "A death sentence for this man, because he prophesied against this city, as you heard with your own ears!"
I clothe the skies with darkness and make sackcloth their covering."
There's exultation for deliverance in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD is victorious!
First, to Zion: "There is slumber." And to Jerusalem: "I'll send a messenger with good news."
and a spirit of justice to the one who sits in judgment, a source of strength to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
Instead, they mingled among the nations and learned their ways.
Sing to him! Praise him! Declare all his awesome deeds!
The heavens declare his righteousness so that all the nations see his glory.
Your name, LORD, exists forever, and your reputation, LORD, throughout the ages.
May your face shine on your servant; in your gracious love, deliver me.
Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be held guilty.
But if I do lift up my head, you will hunt me like a lion! You will perform miracles in order to fight against me.
But now its abundant produce belongs to the kings whom you placed over us because of our sin. They also have power over our bodies and our herds at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.
They found an Egyptian man in the field, and they took him to David. They gave him food to eat and provided water for him.
the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, for a total of twelve;
"A wandering Aramean was my ancestor, who went down to Egypt and traveled there with very few family members, yet there he became a great, powerful, and populous nation. But the Egyptians oppressed us, afflicted us, and assigned us to hard labor.
Eleasah fathered Sismai, Sismai fathered Shallum.
If you ever leave and cross the Kidron Brook, you can be sure that you'll die. You'll be responsible for your own death."
David and his men came to the town, and it had been burned down. Their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive.
Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
Ammihud's son Shemuel from the tribe of Simeon,
Then the LORD told Moses,
They traveled from Kehelathah, then rested at Mount Shepher.
Then present one goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you,
then the owner of the house is to approach the priest and tell him, "There appears to be a contagion in the house.'
The length of the court is to be 100 cubits, the width 50 cubits, and the height five cubits, with the hangings of fine woven linen, and the sockets of bronze.
Our ancestors went down to Egypt, where we lived for many years. But the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors viciously.
When Moses would go out to the tent, all the people would get up, and each would stand in the doorway of his tent, watching Moses until he entered the tent.
"My father told me, "Look! I'm about to die. Bury me in my grave that I dug for myself in the land of Canaan." So please let me travel to bury my father. I'll be right back.'"
Furthermore, you are to provide the foreigner's inheritance there in the tribe within which he remains," declares the Lord GOD.
Abundant water made it great, Subterranean rivers made it grow. Rivers surrounded the area where it had been planted, and water channels nourished all the trees in the fields.
From the city he arrested one of the officers who had been in charge of the troops, seven men from the king's personal advisors who were found in the city, the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and 60 men of the people of the land who were found inside the city.
I'll see to it that Egypt becomes a devastated land in the midst of devastated lands. Her cities deep inside her territories will be laid waste and desolate for 40 years. I will scatter Egypt among the nations and disperse them throughout the land.'"
The border is to proceed from the Mediterranean Sea to Hazer-enan (a border of Damascus), and on the north facing north is to be the border of Hamath. This is to be the north side.
A sword against the diviners. They'll be made fools. A sword against her warriors. They'll be shattered.
May the violence done to me and my flesh be on Babylon," says the inhabitant of Zion. "May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea," says Jerusalem.
Abandon the cities, and live on the cliffs, you inhabitants of Moab. Be like a dove that builds a nest by the mouth of a cave.
Deploy the troops all around Babylon. All who bend the bow, shoot at her and spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD.
Ah, sword of the LORD, how long before you are quiet? Put yourself into your scabbard, be at rest, be silent!
Each person was to set free his male and female slaves who were Hebrews, so that no Jewish person would enslave his brother.
so he drenched him with the heat that is his anger, the violence of war. It enveloped him in flames, but still he had no insight. It burned him up, but he didn't take it to heart."
This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah after the king burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah's dictation:
"I will denounce your righteousness and your works, for your collections of idols will not benefit you.
You descendants of Abraham, his servant, You children of Jacob, his chosen ones.
Your builders are working faster than your destroyers, and those who devastated you go away from you.
Then the hordes of all the nations that fight against Aruel, all that attack her and her fortification and besiege her, will become like a dream, with its visions in the night
Though malice disguises itself with deception, its evil will be exposed publicly.
More than the sound of surging waters the majestic waves of the sea the LORD on high is majestic.
Praise the LORD, because the LORD is good; Sing to his name, for he is gracious.
That's why King Hezekiah's officials came to Isaiah.
How long, LORD, will you be angry? Forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; my hands were raised at night and they did not grow weary. I refused to be comforted.
You are awesome, God, from your sanctuaries. The God of Israel is the one who gives strength and power to the people. Blessed be God! To the Director: To the tune of "The Lilies". Davidic.
But he sent messengers to him, who asked him, "What do we have in common, King of Judah? I am not here today opposing you. I am fighting the dynasty that is fighting me, and God has ordered me to hurry. For your own good, stop interfering with God, who is with me, and he won't destroy you!"
Tomorrow you are to go down to attack them. Pay attention, now they'll be coming up near the ascent of Ziz. You'll find them at the end of the valley that looks out over the Jeruel wilderness.
Solomon also provided four-sided doorposts made of cypress wood for the entrance to the outer sanctuary,
Lord GOD, I will come in the power of your mighty acts, remembering your righteousness yours alone.
His spokesmen shouted these things out with loud voices in the language of Judah to frighten and terrify the people of Jerusalem who were stationed on the city walls, to make it easier to conquer the city.
When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out loudly. The woman told Saul, "Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!"
Has it been relayed to God that I want to talk? Can a person speak when he is confused?"
Jether's descendants included Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.
Shema fathered Raham, who fathered Jorkeam.
So get up at night, take your soldiers with you, and wait in ambush out in the field.
Then they will answer themselves,
"Incinerate the clothing, the woven material, the knitted material (whether wool or linen), or any of the leather articles on which the contagion is found, because it's a chronic fungal infection. It is to be incinerated.
So Joseph purchased all of the Egyptian territory for Pharaoh. Every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine's effect was so severe. That's how Pharaoh came to own the land.
Their sacrifice for a peace offering, two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Shedeur's son Elizur.
The seven gaunt cows that arose after the healthy cows are seven years, as are the seven gaunt ears scorched by the east wind. There will be seven years of famine.
He made all the utensils for the altar the pans, the shovels, the bowls, the forks, and the fire-pans and he made all its utensils of bronze.
This is what the LORD had commanded Moses on Mount Sinai on the day he commanded the Israelis to bring their offerings to the LORD in the Sinai wilderness.
You are to make two gold rings and attach them in front on the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod close to the place where it's joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.
"It's enough," Israel replied. "My son Joseph is still alive. I'm going to go see him before I die!"
As it is, you didn't even allow me to kiss my grandchildren and daughters goodbye! You've acted foolishly.
"How old are you?" Pharaoh asked Jacob.
Jacob was thinking, "If Esau comes to one group and attacks it, then the remaining group may escape."
The porch was 20 cubits long and eleven cubits wide. The stairway by which it was ascended was equipped with columns attached to its side pillars, one on each side.
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you've applauded, stamped your feet, and rejoiced with all sorts of malice in your heart against the land of Israel,
Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Watch out! I'm coming to get you, Mount Seir! I'm stretching out my hand to strike you, and I'm going to turn you into a desolate wasteland.
As for us, we have sinned and rebelled; but you have not pardoned us.
They have ears, but cannot hear; they have noses, but cannot smell.
Therefore, I'll wail for Moab, and for the whole of Moab I'll cry out, for the men of Kir-heres I'll moan.
Moab will be ashamed because of Chemosh just as the house of Israel was ashamed because of Bethel, their confidence.
This is what the LORD says: "Look, waters are rising from the north, and they'll become an overflowing river. They'll overflow the land and all that fills it the city and those that live in it. People will cry out, and all those living in the land will wail.
Now, look, I've freed you today from the chains that were on your hands. If you want to come with me to Babylon, come, and I'll look after you. But if you don't want to come with me to Babylon, don't. Look, the whole land lies before you, so go wherever it seems good and right for you to go."
"The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those houses with the dead bodies of the people that I've struck down in my anger and wrath, for I've hidden my face from this city because of all their wickedness.
I'll turn over all the wealth of this city, all its possessions, all its valuables, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah right into the hands of their enemies, and they'll plunder them, capture them, and take them to Babylon.
Whom are you mocking? And against whom do you make a wide mouth and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of lies,
Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to give this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
Lord, you have told me, "Buy the field for yourself with money and call in witnesses," even though the city is being given over to the Chaldeans.'"
They plot against your people and conspire against your cherished ones.
It is time for the LORD to act, since they have violated your instruction.
You grew tired with your many wanderings, but you wouldn't say: "It is hopeless.' You found new strength for your desire, and so you did not falter.
The nations roared; the kingdoms were shaken. His voice boomed; the earth melts.
My Strength, I will watch for you, for God is my fortress.
Pay attention to me and answer me. I moan and groan in my thoughts,
The descendants of Israel and Judah who lived throughout the cities of Judah also brought tithes of cattle and sheep, as well as tithes of gifts that had been dedicated to the LORD their God.
After this, the priests arose, blessed the people, and their voices were heard in prayer all the way to heaven, where God resides in holiness.
Descendants of Bakbuk, Hakupha, and Harhur.
Because there were so many in the assembly that had not consecrated themselves, therefore the descendants of Levi supervised the slaughter of the Passover sacrifices on behalf of everyone who remained unclean, so they could be consecrated to the LORD.
Heldai the Netophathite, from Othniel, was twelfth for the twelfth month; 24,000 soldiers served in his division.
Uzziah commanded an army of 307,500 who could fight formidably on behalf of the king against any enemy.
When the Ammonites saw the Arameans retreating, they also retreated from Joab's brother Abishai back to the city and Joab left for Jerusalem.
The Ammonites went out in battle formation in front of the entrance to the city while the kings who had come stayed by themselves in the open fields.
Japhlet's descendants included Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the descendants of Japhlet.
Salma's descendants were Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
Saul said, "All you army officers are to come here to find out what constitutes this sin today.
Everybody from Judah shouted to the men from Israel, "We did this because the king is closely related to us. So why are you angry about this? Have we lived off the king's expense? Have we appropriated anything for ourselves?"
Saul told David, "Blessed are you, my son David. In whatever you do you will surely succeed." So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
then one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering, to make atonement, along with the regular burnt offering and its corresponding grain and drink offerings."
Their drink offerings are to be half a hin of wine for each bull, one third of a hin for the ram, and one fourth of a hin for each lamb. This burnt offering is to be presented each and every month throughout the year.
When they arrived in the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelis from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
The descendants of Gershon received thirteen cities by random lot from the families of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and from the half-tribe of Manasseh located in Bashan.
He is to clean the house with the blood of the bird over flowing water, including cleansing the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the crimson thread.
Shelomi's son Ahihud to be leader of the tribe of Asher,
The cattle and the wild animals in your land everything it produces are for your food.
"You are to make two gold rings for it under its molding. You are to make them on its two opposite sides, and they are to be holders for poles by which to carry it.
Then you are to slaughter the bull in the LORD's presence at the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.
Then you are to bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.
They made tunics for Aaron and his sons, woven from fine linen,
As soon as Jacob was informed, "Look! Your son Joseph has come to visit you," Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.
Then I took the deed of purchase both the sealed one with the terms and conditions and the open one
He cried so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, including Pharaoh's household.
Adjacent to the border of Gad to the south and extending toward the south, the border is to proceed from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, then to the Wadi of Egypt, and from there to the Mediterranean Sea.
Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Look, I'm going to argue your case and take vengeance for you. I'll dry up her sea and make her fountain dry.
He gives wild animals their food, including the young ravens when they cry.
Flee, turn around! Go to a remote place to stay, residents of Dedan! For I'll bring Esau's disaster on him at the time when I punish him.
You are the one who performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt and continue to do so until this day, both in Israel and among the rest of humanity. You made a reputation for yourself that continues to this day.
all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
He prepares food for those who fear him; he is ever mindful of his covenant.
We all growl like bears; we sigh mournfully like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, and for deliverance, but it's far from us.
Watch this! I'm going to place an attitude within him, so that when he hears a certain report, he'll return to his own country. Then I'll have him cut down by the sword in his own land."
maker of heaven and earth, the seas and everything in them, forever the guardian of truth,
Your mind will ponder at that time of terror: "Where is the king's accountant? Where is the one who weighed the revenue? Where is the officer who supervises the towers?'
Never take your truthful words from me, For I wait for your ordinances.
With trumpets and the sound of a ram's horn shout in the presence of the LORD, the king!
Moses and Aaron were among his priests; Samuel also was among those who invoked his name. When they called on the LORD, he answered them.
They cut off his head and stripped him of his weapons. They sent people throughout the territory of the Philistines to report the good news in the temples of their idols and to the people.
Summon the power of your God, the power, God, that you have shown us.
Stop looking at me with chastisement, so I can smile again, before I depart and am no more. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.
All 7,000 of the most valiant soldiers and 1,000 of the craftsmen and ironworkers all physically fit and trained for battle were brought by the king of Babylon into exile in Babylon.
so I may praise you loudly with thanksgiving and declare all your wondrous acts.
"The Almighty was still with me back then, and my children were still around me.
Azariah fathered Helez, Helez fathered Eleasah,
This thing that you did is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, you who didn't guard your lord, the LORD's anointed. Where is the king's spear and where is the jug of water that was at his head?"
Also included were Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
the land that the LORD defeated in the sight of the community of Israel is perfect for cattle and your servants have cattle.
in woven or knitted material, in leather, or with any article containing leather,
They traveled from Rimmon-perez, then rested in Libnah.
"The first ripe fruits of everything that the land produces and that they bring to the LORD are yours, too. Everyone who is clean in your household may eat it.
You may eat them as consecrated gifts. Every male may eat them. They're sacred for you.
Instead, when I've died, as my ancestors have, you are to carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their tomb." "I'll do what you've asked," Joseph replied.
They made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates, on the hem of the robe, all around between the pomegranates.
You are to put the Ark of the Testimony there, and screen off the ark with the curtain.
I'll feed them in excellent pastures, and even the very heights of Israel's mountains will serve as verdant pastures for them in which they'll rest and feed yes, even on the fertile mountains of Israel!
So Joseph's brothers left Egypt and returned to the land of Canaan and to their father Jacob,
Later on, after we had gone back to your servant, my father, we told him what Your Excellency had said.
"Feel free to put my own two sons to death," Reuben responded to his father, "if I don't bring him back to you. Trust me I'll bring him back to you."
Whenever they enter at the gates of the inner court, they are to be clothed with linen garments. They are not to wear wool when they are ministering within the gates of the inner courtyard or in the Temple.
After Jobab died, Husham from the territory of the Temanites ruled in his place.
But her brother and mother said, "Let the young lady stay with us a few days at least ten and after that she may go."
Dishan's children were Uz and Aran.
Neither man nor beast will walk through that area. It won't even be inhabited for 40 years.
From the time we stopped offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out liquid offerings to her, we have lacked everything, and we have been consumed by the sword and famine.
"Indeed, this city has provoked me to anger and wrath from the day they built it until now, and so I'll remove it from my sight
"I'll give away your wealth and your treasures as plunder, for free, because of all your sins throughout your territory.
For a long time we have been those you do not rule, those who are not called by your name.
"Your rigging hangs loose; it cannot reliably hold the mast in its place, and the sail cannot spread out. Then an abundance of spoils will be divided even the lame will carry off plunder.
Be ashamed, Sidon, because the sea has spoken, the fortress of the sea: I have neither been in labor nor given birth, I have neither reared young men nor brought up young women."
And may those who pass by never tell them, "May the LORD's blessing be upon you. We bless you in the name of the LORD." A Song of Ascents
Then I will not be ashamed, since my eyes will be fixed on all of your commands.
The LORD remembers and blesses us. He will indeed bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron.
The field and all that is in it will rejoice; then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy
So I allowed them to continue in their stubbornness, living by their own advice.
I say, "My God, whose years continue through all generations, do not take me in the middle of my life.
May they fear you as long as the sun and moon shine from generation to generation.
As for me, I am afflicted and hurting; may your deliverance, God, establish me on high.
Rescue me from the mud and do not let me sink. Rescue me from those who hate me, and from the deep waters.
He gathered the oceans into a single place; he put the deep water into storehouses.
Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who practice iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors while harboring evil in their hearts.
So we cried out to the LORD God of our ancestors, and he heard our cries and observed our affliction, trouble, and oppression.
Ebed's son Gaal went out and stood in the entrance to the city gate while Abimelech and his army were creeping out of their ambush.
The LORD your God will expel them in front of you, driving them out of your sight. You will take possession of this land, just as the LORD your God promised you.
Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
If you stop following him, he will once again abandon them in the wilderness. You'll end up destroying this entire people."
from Ekron to the Mediterranean Sea, including everything by the edge of Ashdod, along with their villages,
You are to make 50 bronze clasps, put the clasps into the loops, and join the tent together so that it will be one piece.
Joseph wept when they talked to him. So Joseph's brothers went to visit him, fell prostrate in front of him, and declared, "Look! We're your servants."
You know I've been serving your father with all my heart.
He put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it for washing.
Mercenaries from Arvad and Helech stood guard duty on your walls, while brave men manned your towers. They hung their shields all around your walls just the right touch to perfect your interior decorating!"
Look! When the wall collapses, won't it be said of you, "Where's the coat of paint that you spread all over the wall?'
to punishment. They may have escaped one fire, but the coming fire will burn them up completely, and they will know that I am the LORD, when I set myself in opposition to them
I will turn Rabbah into a pasture for camels, and Ammon will become a resting place for flocks of sheep. That's how they'll learn that I am the LORD."'"
Their inhabitants are devoid of power, and are terrified and put to shame. They've become like plants in the field, like green shoots, like grass on rooftops, scorched by the east wind.
I will also clap my hands; then my anger will subside. I, the LORD have spoken it."
then I might reject the descendants of Jacob and my servant David by not taking some of his descendants as rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Indeed, I'll restore their fortunes, and I'll have compassion on them.'"
I've heard a message from the LORD, and a messenger has been sent among the nations: "Gather together and come up against her, and rise up to fight.
The LORD supports the afflicted while he casts the wicked to the ground.
This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "You and your wives have spoken with your mouths and acted with your hands: "We will certainly carry through on the vows that we vowed to offer sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pour out liquid offerings to her!" Go ahead, carry through on your vows, and diligently do what you vowed!'
But when I look, there is no one among them there's no one to give counsel, no one to give an answer when I ask them.
Yet when they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, the LORD brought them out of their distress.
There I will create a power base for David I have prepared a lamp for my anointed one.
You are my God, and I will praise you; my God, and I will exalt you.
Do not let those who look up to you be ashamed because of me, Lord God of the Heavenly Armies. Let not those who seek you be humiliated because of me, God of Israel.
For your gracious love is great, extending even to the heavens, and your truth even to the skies.
They will not experience shame in times of trouble; in times of famine they will have plenty.
From generation to generation, I will cause your name to be remembered. Therefore people will thank you forever and ever. To the Director: A song by the Sons of Korah, to the tune of "The Maidens".
As the LORD lives, the LORD will strike him down, or his time will come to die, or he will go into battle and perish.
He will withhold from each of them the flesh of his sons that he is eating since there will be nothing left on account of the siege and distress with which your enemy will oppress you in all your cities.
Arise, LORD, confront them, bring them to their knees! Deliver me from the wicked by your sword
Tell us! What are we to say to him? Can we prepare our case to face him when our faces are in darkness?
the thirteenth to Shubael, his sons and his relatives, for a total of twelve;
captured it, and executed its inhabitants its king, all of its cities, and every person in it, leaving no one remaining, the same way he had dealt with Eglon. He completely destroyed it, along with everyone in it.
"Why, LORD God of Israel," they asked him, "is one tribe missing from Israel?"
You are to make two gold rings for the breast piece, and put the two rings on the two edges of the breast piece.
All the utensils of the tent for its service, all its pegs, and all the pegs for the court are to be made of bronze."
Whenever the Regent Prince presents a voluntary offering, burnt offering, or peace offering, he is to present it voluntarily to the LORD, and the east-facing gate is to be opened for him. He is to provide his burnt offering and peace offering as he does on the Sabbath. When he leaves, the gate is to be shut behind him.
To the first group he said, "When you meet my brother Esau, if he asks, "To whom do you belong? Where are you going? And to whom do these herds belong?'
His appearance in the vision that I was having was similar to what I observed in the vision where he had come to destroy the city, and also like the visions that I saw by the Chebar River. I fell flat on my face
Then I'll fling you out into the desert, you and all those fish in your waterways. You'll fall out in the open fields; you'll never be reunited. I'm giving you to the wild beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky, and they will dine on you!
Therefore, look! I'm bringing foreigners in your direction, the most terrifying of nations! They will direct their violence against the grandeur that you've created by your wisdom.
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "When I turn your city into a ghost town, when I flood you with deep water that covers you completely,
The nations heard about him. He had become caught in their trap. They brought him with hooks to the land of Egypt.
Judgment has come to the plateau: to Holon and Jahzah, and against Mephaath,
The LORD told me, "What do you see?" I replied, "Figs. The good figs are very good, and the bad figs are very bad. They're too bad to be eaten."
Let him drink, forget his poverty, and remember his troubles no more.
because of the Chaldeans. They were afraid of the Chaldeans because Nethaniah's son Ishmael had killed Ahikam's son Gedaliah, whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.
Why do you cry out because of your injury? Your wound won't heal. Because your wickedness is severe, and your sins are numerous, I've done all these things to you.
He gives food to all creatures, for his gracious love is everlasting.
For this is what the LORD says about the sons and daughters who are born in this place, about their mothers who give birth to them, and about their fathers who father them in this land:
I said, "I won't see the LORD in the land of the living; and I'll no longer observe human beings among the denizens of the grave.
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sephar-vaim, or of Hena, or of Ivvah, or of Samaria?'"
Through you we will knock down our oppressors; through your name we will tread down those who rise up against us.
Descendants of Barkos, Sisera, and Temah.
Now therefore look! The Ammonites, the Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir, whom you would not permit Israel to attack when they arrived from the land of Egypt since they turned away from them and did not eliminate them
who had been fathered by Hashabiah, who had been fathered by Amaziah, who had been fathered by Hilkiah,
David told him, "To whom do you belong and where are you from?"
But King Solomon will be blessed, and David's throne will be established in the presence of the LORD forever."
so the king sent for Shimei and asked him, "Didn't I make a promise to the LORD and warn you, "The day you leave and go anywhere else, you can be sure you'll die'? And you told me, "What your majesty has decreed is acceptable to me.'
At this point, all the wicked and worthless men of the group who had gone with David answered, "Because they didn't go with us, we won't give them any of the spoil that we recovered, except that each person may take his wife and his children and go."
Ask your young men and they'll tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor with you since we came on a special day. Please give whatever you have available to your servants and to your son David.'"
and the blood avenger finds him outside the town of refuge where he had fled and kills him, the blood avenger is not to be found guilty of murder.
To sum up, the soldiers from the tribe of Benjamin who died that day totaled 25,000 men, all of them expert swordsmen and valiant soldiers.
So the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin returned at that time, and the Israelis gave them the women whom they had kept alive from the raid on Jabesh-gilead. Even so, there weren't enough for them.
When you invade, you'll meet a carefree people living in a spacious territory. God has given it into your control it's a place that lacks nothing on this earth!"
This burnt offering, which was prescribed at Mount Sinai, is to be offered every day as a pleasing aroma made by fire to the LORD.
I'll command my blessing on you during the sixth year so that it will yield produce for three years!
Parnach's son Elizaphan to be leader of the tribe of Zebulun,
They traveled from Tahath, then rested in Terah.
You are to overlay it with pure gold, its top, its sides all around, and its horns, and you are to make a molding of gold all around it.
"Tell them this: "This is what the Lord GOD says: "As certainly as I'm alive and living, those who live in the wastelands are certain to die violently, I'll give those who die in the open fields to the wild animals for food, and whoever takes refuge in caves and fortified places will die of diseases.
He put the golden altar in the Tent of Meeting in front of the curtain
He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the north side of the tent, outside the curtain,
When Joseph arrived at his palace, his brothers brought to him their gifts that they had carried with them and bowed to the ground in front of him.
"Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and speak to its mountains, hills, ravines, and valleys. Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Pay attention! In my zealous anger I'm speaking because you've had to endure the mockery of the world's nations."'"
"The man who was in charge of the land spoke harshly to us," they said. "He accused us of being spies!
like melting silver at the center of a furnace. When you've been melted from the center out, then you'll know that I am the LORD. I'll pour out my anger on you.'"
"I was afraid," Jacob replied. "I thought you might take your daughters from me.
"So I'm going to plant a hook in your jaw and make the fish in your waterways grab hold of your scales. I'll bring you up out of the middle of your waterways, along with all of the fish from your waterways that cling to your scales,
When his voice sounds, there is thunder from the waters of heaven, and he makes clouds rise up from the ends of the earth. He makes lightning for the rain and brings wind out of his storehouses.
and dedicate the land to desolation because of their unfaithful unbelief," declares the Lord GOD.
The LORD of the Heavenly Armies has sworn by himself: "I'll surely fill you with soldiers like a swarm of locusts, and they'll sing songs of victory over you."
Indeed, Israel and Judah haven't been abandoned by their God, by the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, although their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel."
"Edom will become an object of horror. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and will scoff because of all her wounds.
Flee! Run away quickly! Go to a remote place to stay, residents of Hazor," declares the LORD. "For King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has formed a plan and devised a strategy against them.
The high mountains are for wild goats; the cliffs are a refuge for the rock badger.
"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Take these deeds both this sealed deed of purchase and this open deed and put them in a clay pot so they'll last for a long time.
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the earth, than he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest sweeps them away like stubble.
When he struck them, they sought him; they repented, and eagerly sought God.
As for me, I'll remain at Mizpah to represent you before the Chaldeans who come to us. As for you, gather wine, summer fruit, and oil. Put it in your containers and live in your cities that you have taken over."
Distress will quickly be set free. He won't die in the Pit, nor will he lack food."
Consider this, you who have forgotten God Otherwise, I will tear you in pieces and there will be no deliverer:
LORD our God, you answered them; you were their God who forgave them, but also avenged their evil deeds.
David struck the land and did not leave a man or woman alive. He took sheep, cattle, donkeys, camels, and clothing, and then came back and went to Achish.
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai from Beeroth, who was the armor-bearer for Zeruiah's son Joab,
Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth.
The servant was not aware of anything. Only Jonathan and David understood what had happened.
Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (also known as Debir),
If he isn't redeemed by these, then he is to be set free in the year of jubilee he and his children with him
Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
"If the one who consecrated the field intends to redeem it, then he is to add one fifth of your valuation to it in silver, then it is to be established as his.
These are the names of the men: Appoint Jephunneh's son Caleb from the tribe of Judah,
They traveled from Makheloth, then rested in Tahath.
If we've found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as our possession instead of us crossing the Jordan River."
For the west side there were hangings 50 cubits long with their ten pillars and ten sockets. The hooks of the pillars and their bands were made of silver.
the bronze altar and the bronze lattice for it, its poles, all its furnishings, the basin and its base,
So Aaron and his sons did everything that the LORD had commanded through Moses.
Later on, Judah sent his Adullamite friend to take her a young goat, intending to retrieve what he had put up as security from the woman, but he could not find her.
He made the utensils which were on the table, its plates, dishes, bowls, and jars out of which libations are poured. He made them of pure gold.
They had not traveled far from the city when Joseph ordered his palace manager, "Get up, follow those men, and when you've caught up with them, ask them, "Why did you repay evil for good?
But the thin ears gobbled up the seven good ears. I told all this to my advisors, but nobody was able to explain it to me."
"We each related our dreams, and then he interpreted them for us. He provided specific meanings for each of our dreams. And what he interpreted for each of us came true! Pharaoh restored me to my responsibilities, but he executed the other man."
trading garments made into the finest blue and embroidered mantels, and also multi-colored carpets, ropes, and other merchandise.
But we'll agree to your request, only if you will become like us by circumcising every male among you.
Shechem also addressed Dinah's father and brothers. He told them, "If you'll just approve me, I'll give whatever you ask of me.
He and the men with him ate and drank, and then they spent the night. When they got up the next morning, the servant requested, "Send me off to my master."
"These are the exits from the city: On the north side, 4,500 units by measurement,
There was too much bronze to weigh in the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze oxen that were under the sea, and the stands which King Solomon had made for the LORD's Temple.
You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns of the altar, on the four corners of its ledge, and on the border that surrounds it, thus cleansing it and making an atonement for it.
"Look, people are coming from the north. A great nation and many kings will be stirred up from the ends of the earth.
"Look, I'm against you, arrogant one," declares the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies. "Indeed your day is coming, the time of your judgment.
You will die peacefully, and as they burned fires for your ancestors, the former kings who were before you, so they'll burn fires for you, wailing, "Oh how terrible, your majesty!"' For I've spoken the message," declares the LORD.
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and told him, "The LORD your God has predicted this disaster on this place.
Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard until the day Jerusalem was captured.
"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: "In this place that is now a ruin without people or animals, and in all its towns there will again be pasture for shepherds resting their flocks.
and give him no rest until he prepares, establishes and makes Jerusalem a song of praise throughout the earth.
Indeed, the Israelis and Judeans have been doing only evil in my presence since their youth. Indeed, the Israelis have done nothing but provoke me by what they have made with their hands," declares the LORD.
See if there is any offensive tendency in me, and lead me in the eternal way. To the Music Director: A Davidic Song
Hananiah, in front of all the people, said, "This is what the LORD says: "In the same way, within two years, I'll break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.'" Then Jeremiah the prophet went on his way.
I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.
The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.
Have mercy on me Lord, for I call on you all day long.
The descendants of Ephraim were sharp shooters with the bow, but they retreated in the day of battle.
You have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy, but you have set my feet in a sturdy place.
They carried out their service obligations to their God and their service obligations of purification according to what David and his son Solomon had commanded.
"Go and tell David, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm holding three choices out for you: pick one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you."'"
Aijalon with its surrounding suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its surrounding suburbs,
Nadab's descendants were Seled and Appaim. Seled died childless.
Achish answered David, "I know that I'm pleased with you. You're like an angel of God. But the Philistine leaders have said, "He mustn't go into battle with us.'
The people felt sorry for the tribe of Benjamin because the LORD had broken one of the tribes of Israel.
and every one of your armed soldiers crosses over the Jordan River in the presence of the LORD until he has dispossessed his enemies ahead of him
So Moses instructed Eleazar the priest and Nun's son Joshua, and the officers of the ancestral tribes of the Israelis,
the woven garments for ministering in the Holy Place, the holy garments of Aaron the priest and the garments of his sons for serving as priests.'"
Then he put the lamp stand in the Tent of Meeting, opposite the table on the south side of the tent,
Then he told Joseph, "I never thought I'd see you again, and now God has allowed me to see your children as well!"
So why should we and our land die right in front of you? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we and our land will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed, so we can survive and not die, and so the land won't stay desolate."
As Joseph looked up and recognized his brother Benjamin, his own mother's son, he asked, "Is this your youngest brother about whom you spoke to me?" And he addressed him directly, "May God be gracious to you, my son."
He reported to his brothers, "My money has been returned! It's right here in my sack!" Trembling with mounting consternation, each of them asked one another, "What is God doing to us?"
The men were terrified as they were being taken to Joseph's palace. "It's because of that money that was returned to our sacks the first time we were brought to him," they reasoned. "He's seeking an excuse to attack us, enslave us, and confiscate our donkeys!"
As soon as they had returned to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him everything that had happened to them.
Israel's sons went in a caravan that included others who were going to Egypt to buy grain, because the famine pervaded the land of Canaan, too.
There was a Hebrew young man incarcerated with us, who was also working as a servant to the captain of the bodyguard.
But he didn't put the branches in front of any of the feeble members of the flock. As a result, the feeble ones belonged to Laban, but the stronger ones belonged to Jacob.
returned to his brothers, and shouted, "He's not there! Now what? Where am I to go?"
So I poured out my anger on them because of all the bloodshed throughout the land and because they had defiled it with their idolatry.
I made it beautiful, including all of its branches; all the trees in God's garden of Eden envied it!'"
"At the end of seven years, each of you is to set free your fellow Hebrew who has sold himself to you and has served you for six years. You are to send him out from you with no further obligation." But your ancestors didn't obey me or pay attention.
"The rest, 5,000 units wide and 25,000 units along its front, will serve as a common portion for use by the city for housing and open spaces, since the city is to be in its midst.
The land quakes and writhes because the LORD's purposes against Babylon stand firm, to make the land of Babylon a waste without inhabitants.
How can it be quiet, when the LORD has ordered disaster to come to Ashkelon and the seashore? That's where he has assigned it."
You recently repented and did what was right in my eyes by proclaiming release for one another, and you made a covenant before me in the house that is called by my name.
The fierce anger of the LORD won't turn back until he has accomplished and established the plan of his heart. In the days to come, you will understand this.
because they didn't listen to my words,' declares the LORD. "When I sent my servants, the prophets, to you again and again, you didn't listen,' declares the LORD.
Don't be angry beyond measure, LORD, and don't remember our iniquity for a season. Please look now, we are all your people.
and have thrown their gods into the fire but they are not gods, but rather the products of human hands, mere wood and stone. So the Assyrians destroyed them.
Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;
"Now, all you exiles whom I sent from Jerusalem to Babylon, listen to this message from the LORD!
Lebanon would not provide enough fuel, nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.
Arise, LORD, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your strength.
Then they will put their trust in God and they will not forget his awesome deeds. Instead, they will keep his commandments.
Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed,
The prominent people mock me, composing drinking songs.
There is only loathsome destruction through a people that cannot benefit them, who bring neither help nor profit, but only shame and disgrace."
Look Out! The LORD is about to hurl you away violently, my strong fellow! He will fold you up completely,
So I cry to you, Lord, declaring, "You are my refuge, my only possession while I am on this earth."
Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.
The righteous rejoiced in the LORD, because they had fled to him for refuge. Let all the upright in heart exult. To the Director: A song. Lyrics by David.
You made your people go through hard times; you had us drink wine that makes us stagger.
My heart pounds, my strength fails me, even the gleam in my eye is gone.
My tongue will declare your righteousness and praise you all day long. To the Director: By the servant of the LORD, David.
He also built altars in the LORD's Temple, about which the LORD had spoken "My name will reside in Jerusalem forever."
In the morning you'll say, "I wish it were evening.' Yet in the evening you'll say, "I wish it were morning,' on account of what you'll dread and what you'll see.
Ner fathered Kish, Kish fathered Saul, and Saul fathered Jonathan, Malchi-shua, Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
From the tribe of Naphtali were allotted Kedesh in Galilee with its surrounding suburbs, Hammon with its surrounding suburbs, and Kiriathaim with its surrounding suburbs.
But there was a fortified tower in the center of the city, and all the men, women, and leaders of the city escaped to it, shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
The descendants of Merari were allotted 12 towns according to their families from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
David's young men came to Nabal and told him all this in David's name, and then they waited.
They discovered abundant and excellent grazing lands there, where the land was very broad, secure, and tranquil, because the former inhabitants there were descendants of Ham.
They kept this genealogical record for themselves: Meshobab, Jamlech, Amaziah's son Joshah,
Then Joshua returned to the camp at Gilgal, along with the entire fighting force of Israel.
"We'll do just what the LORD told your servants," the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben responded.
accompanied by one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering, with its corresponding grain and drink offerings."
accompanied by one goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you.
including the Tent of Meeting, the Ark of the Testimony, the Mercy Seat that is on it, all the furnishings of the tent
that is, he restored his senior security advisor to his former responsibilities, including attending to Pharaoh's personal wine cup,
So out he went, got them, and brought them to his mother, who then prepared some delicious food, just the way his father liked it.
to distinguish when it's unclean and clean. This is the law for infectious skin diseases."
They took their livestock and their household property that they had acquired in the land of Canaan and traveled to Egypt. Jacob and all of his descendants went with him
But your rowers have brought you into dangerous waters. The east wind has broken you in the heart of the ocean!
He issued similar instructions to the second and third group, as well as to all the others who drove the herds that followed: "This is how you are to speak to Esau when you find him.
I'm going to send disease into that city and blood into her streets. People will drop dead in her midst from the violence done to her from every side. Then they'll learn that I am the Lord GOD."
Harness the horses! Riders, mount up! Take your positions with your helmets! Polish lances, and put on armor!
When all of this comes about and you can be sure that it will! they'll learn that a prophet has been in their midst."
I'll send foreigners to Babylon, and they'll winnow her, and devastate her land. They'll come against her from every side on the day of her disaster.
He spoke and stirred up a windstorm that made its waves surge.
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the office of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi read it to the king and to all the officials who were standing beside the king.
I myself dug wells and drank foreign waters; with the soles of my feet I dried up all the streams of Egypt."
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Just as my anger and my wrath were poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you when you enter Egypt. You will be a curse and an object of horror, ridicule, and scorn, and you will never again see this place.'
But Nethaniah's son Ishmael and eight other men escaped from Jonathan and went to the Ammonites.
who brings out chariots and horsemen, and armies and warriors at the same time. They lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a candle:
Extend your ear, LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, LORD, and look! Listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.
therefore, this is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel says: "Rechab's son Jonadab won't lack a descendant who serves me always.'"
He does not maintain a dispute continuously or remain angry for all time.
He will not consider any payment, nor will he be willing to accept it, no matter how large the bribe.
He would have destroyed them but for Moses, his chosen one, who stood in the breach before him to avert his destructive wrath.
They will proclaim: "The LORD is upright; my rock, in whom there is no injustice."
We had good fellowship together; and we even walked together in the house of God!
For he remembered that they were only flesh, a passing wind that doesn't return.
who took back to Babylon every article in God's Temple, whether large or small, including the treasuries of the LORD's Temple, the king's assets, and those of his officers.
the land quaked. Indeed, the heavens poured down rain from the presence of God, this God of Sinai, from the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Let me make my home in your tent forever; let me hide under the shelter of your wings. Interlude
Descendants of Lebanah, Hagabah, and Shalmai.
and Shaaph, who fathered Madmannah. Sheva fathered Machbenah and Gibe. Caleb's daughter was Achsah.
The king reminded his staff, "Don't you know that a prince and a great man has fallen today in Israel?
David told Achish, "If it pleases you, give me a place in one of the outlying towns, so I may live there. Why should your servant live with you in the royal city?"
from Arod, the family of the descendants of Arod; and from Areli, the family of the descendants of Areli.
Everyone who had blue, purple, and scarlet material, fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, and dolphin skins brought them.
Let them collect all the food during the coming fruitful years, store up the grain in cities governed by Pharaoh's authority, and place it under guard.
Then his entire army also cut down a branch for each soldier, followed Abimelech to the inner chamber, and set fire to it while they were inside. As a result, all the men of the tower of Shechem died, including about a thousand men and women.
But Balaam replied to Balak, "I told your messengers,
and the fourth row beryl, onyx, and jasper. They were set in gold filigree when they were mounted.
On the eleventh day, Ochran's son Pagiel, leader of the descendants of Asher, presented
"You are to take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head.
"Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five curtains are to be joined together.
and you are to attach the other two ends of the two cords to the filigree settings and attach them to the shoulder pieces of the ephod in front.
Because Jacob learned that Shechem had dishonored his daughter Dinah while his sons were still out with their cattle on the open range, he remained silent until they returned.
and then this is what she told him: "That Hebrew slave whom you brought to us came in here to rape me.
They carried off all their wealth, their children, and their wives as captives, plundering everything that remained in the houses.
So here's Rebekah she's right in front of you. Take her and go, so she can become a wife for your master's son, just as the LORD has decreed."
None of the priests are to drink wine after entering the inner courtyard.
so he took his relatives with him and pursued Jacob. Laban was on the road for seven days when he finally caught up with Jacob in the hill country of Gilead.
Pay attention! It's coming and will certainly happen,' declares the Lord GOD. "This will be the day about which I've spoken!'"'"
It was transplanted into good soil near abundant water, and it produced branches and bore fruit, becoming a magnificent vine."'
"This is what the Lord GOD says: "The army of the king of Babylon will attack you.
I'll dry up their waterways, and evil men will sell off the land. I'm going to make that land desolate, along with everything that's in it, and I'm going to use foreigners to do it. I, the LORD have spoken!'"
"When that happens, couriers will go out in ships to terrify Ethiopia in its complacency. Anguish will visit them as it will visit Egypt. Watch out! It's coming!'"
I'll cover the mountains with your flesh and fill their valleys with your rotting carcass.
and the land of Egypt will be turned into a desolate ruin. Then you will know that I am the LORD. Because Egypt said, "The Nile is mine. I made it!"
If it was useless before it was burned, now that it's been burned and charred through, it's even more useless!
Then I said, "O Lord GOD! They're saying about me, "Isn't he one to propound parables?'"
Ten men who were among them told Ishmael, "Don't kill us, because we have stores of wheat, barley, oil, and honey hidden in the field." So Ishmael stopped and did not kill them or their companions.
Dibon, Nebo, and Beth-diblathaim,
King Zedekiah said, "Look, he's in your hands, and the king can do nothing to you."
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says about the pillars, the bronze sea, the stands, and the rest of the vessels that remain in this city
Look, the siege ramps have reached the city to take it. Because of the sword, famine, and plague, the city has been given over to the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What you said has happened, and you are watching it occur!
But I will put it into the hands of those who tormented and oppressed you, those who said to you, "Lie down, so we can step over you,' so that you had to make your back like the ground, and like a street for them to walk over."
No longer do they drink wine accompanied by singing; even beer tastes bitter to those who drink it.
Then this message from the LORD came to me:
All of them will be put to shame indeed, disgraced! The makers of idols will go off in disgrace together.
At that time, the inhabitants of this coastland will say, "See, this is what has happened to those on whom we counted and relied for help and deliverance from the king of Assyria! How, then, can we escape?'"
For when he looked down from his holy heights the LORD looked over the earth from heaven
things that we have heard and known and that our ancestors related to us.
Mountains melt like wax in the LORD's presence In the presence of the LORD of all the earth.
When you men lie down among the sheepfolds, you are like the wings of the dove covered with silver, with its feathers in glittering gold."
God, according to your name, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness.
Arise! Deliver us! Redeem us according to your gracious love! To the Director: An instruction by the Sons of Korah. A love song to the tune of "Lilies".
the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his relatives, for a total of twelve;
The order of Esther established these instructions for Purim, and it was officially recorded.
Jokmeam with its surrounding suburbs, Beth-horon with its surrounding suburbs,
Shobal, who fathered Kiriath-jearim, had other sons, including Haroeh, half of the Menuhoth.
David called out to the army and to Ner's son Abner, "Abner, won't you answer me?" Abner answered: "Who are you who calls out to the king?"
David took all the rest of the sheep and cattle, driving them ahead of their rescued livestock. People said about all this, "This is David's spoil."
But the descendants of Benjamin wouldn't obey the request of their own relatives, the Israelis, so the descendants of Benjamin assembled from the cities of Gibeah to fight the Israelis in battle.
Then Moses gave the tribute, a raised offering to the LORD, to Eleazar the priest, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.
You are to take half their share and give it to Eleazar the priest as a raised offering to the LORD.
If it's an unclean animal, then he is to ransom it according to your valuation, adding a fifth to it. If it's not redeemed, then it is to be sold according to your valuation.
but he beheaded and hanged the head chef, just as Joseph had interpreted for them.
You are to put the altar for burnt offerings in front of the doorway of the tent of the Tent of Meeting.
Six branches extended from its sides, three branches of the lamp stand from one side of it, and three branches of the lamp stand from its other side.
Joseph provided food for his father, his brothers, and all of his father's household, proportionate to the number of young children.
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such great sin against me and my kingdom? You've done things to me that ought not to have been done."
Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest of the people, the rest of the people left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.
He entrusted them into the care of his servants, one herd at a time. Then he told his servants, "Go in front of me, making sure there's plenty of space between herds."
He blinded Zedekiah and bound him in bronze shackles. Then the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until he died.
You'll be fully satiated at my table, dining on horse flesh, horsemen, elite soldiers, and every kind of warrior," declares the Lord GOD.
The house of Israel will learn that I am the LORD their God from that day forward!
As scouts go searching throughout the land, whenever they see someone's bones, they will place a sign beside the remains until the remains have been buried in the Valley of Gog's Gang.
I'm turning Mount Seir over to ruin and desolation. I'm going to eliminate everyone who comes and goes,
Now when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against the land, we said, "Come on! Let's go to Jerusalem because of the army of the Chaldeans and the army of Aram. And now we're living in Jerusalem.'"
Then Jeremiah told the house of the Rechabites, "This is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel says: "Because you obeyed the commandment of your ancestor Jonadab, have observed all his commandments, and have done everything that he commanded you,'
This message from the LORD came to Jeremiah:
For this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "I've put an iron yoke on the necks of all these nations to serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. They'll serve him, and I've even given the wild animals to him."'"
When the Judean officials heard all these things, they came up from the king's house to the LORD's Temple and sat in the doorway of the New Gate of the LORD's Temple.
The prophet Jeremiah said, "May the LORD truly do this thing! May the LORD fulfill the words that you prophesied to bring back the vessels of the LORD's Temple and all the exiles from Babylon to this place.
Give them this order for their masters: "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says, and this is what you are to say to your masters,
We have escaped like a bird from the hunter's trap. The trap has been broken, and we have escaped.
After a long time, the LORD told me, "Arise, go to the Euphrates, and get the belt that I commanded you to hide there."
They exchanged their glory with the image of a grass-eating bull.
You fill the furrows of the field with water so that their ridges overflow. You soften them with rain showers; their sprouts you have blessed.
The LORD is exalted high above all the nations; his glory beyond the heavens.
"These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword who can console you?
He will turn to the prayer of the destitute, not despising their prayer.
I will bring you a thanksgiving offering and call on the name of the LORD!
A deceitful person will not sit in my house; A liar will not remain in my presence.
A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:
Now therefore, don't let Hezekiah lie to you or mislead you like this. Don't believe him, because no god of any nation has been able to deliver his people from my control or from the control of my predecessors. So how much less will your God deliver you from me?'"
Their children who don't know will hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as you live in the land that you are crossing the Jordan River to possess."
Your sons will take the place of your ancestors, and you will set them up as princes in all the earth.
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Helez the Pelonite, an Ephraimite, was seventh for the seventh month; 24,000 soldiers served in his division.
My feet stand on level ground; among the worshiping congregations I will bless the LORD. Davidic
with some Levitical divisions of Judah pertaining to Benjamin.
Meanwhile, Aaron and his sons presented offerings on the altar of burnt offering and on the altar of incense, carrying out the work of the Most Holy Place, making atonement for Israel in accordance with everything that Moses the servant of God had commanded.
The families of Kiriath-jearim included the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishraites. The Zorathites and the Eshtaolites came from them.
So the LORD appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud that stood above the entrance.
Build the altar to the LORD your God with uncut stones, then offer a burnt offering to him.
That's how God repaid Abimelech for the evil thing he did to his father by killing his 70 brothers.
Also included were Kiriath-baal (also known as Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah, for a total of two cities and villages.
Remember to observe this because you were slaves in Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you from there. That is why I am commanding you to do this.
There is to be eight boards with their sixteen silver sockets, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.
They traveled from Hor-haggidgad, then rested in Jotbathah.
Then Moses took out all the rods from the LORD's presence to show all the Israelis. Everybody looked, and then each man took his rod.
The half cubit that remain on either end of the length of the curtains of the tent is to hang over each side of the tent to cover it.
Then Shechem told his father Hamor, "Get this young woman for me to be my wife."
He brought the ark into the tent, set up the curtain, and screened off the Ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.
And with 1,775 talents he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their tops, and made bands for them.
Name your wage, and I'll give it to you."
These were the descendants of Esau (also known as Edom) and their tribal leaders.
"Then join them together end-to-end so that they become a single baton in your hand.
Apportion it for their inheritances, distributing everything equally as if you were distributing things to your own brother, which is how I promised to give it to your ancestors. This way, the land will fall to you as an inheritance.
The Regent Prince is not to appropriate the nation's inheritance nor take advantage of them by taking their property from them. Instead, he is to provide an inheritance for his sons from his own possessions so that my people will not be separated from their possessions.'"
This is what the man told me: "Son of Man, watch carefully, listen closely, and remember everything I'm going to be showing you, because you've been brought here to be shown what you're about to see. Be sure that you tell the house of Israel everything that you observe."
and they will learn that I am the LORD their God, who sent them into exile and who gathered them back to their land. I will not leave any of them remaining in exile.
You aren't to build houses, you aren't to sow seeds, and you aren't to plant vineyards, or own them. Instead, you are to live in tents all your lives, so you will enjoy a long life in the land where you reside.'
"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "I hereby raise my hand to swear this oath: the nations that surround you will have their own mockery to endure!
Jeremiah told Seraiah, "When you come to Babylon, see that you read all these words,
"Therefore listen to what the Lord GOD has to say, you mountains of Israel: "This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains, to the hills, to the waterways, to the valleys, to the desolate wastelands, and to the abandoned cities that have become an object of derision to the mountains that surround you:
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine became so severe that there was no food for the people of the land.
"Take large stones in your hands, and, in the sight of the men of Judah, bury them in the mortar of the brickwork at the entrance of Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes.
For your hand was heavy upon me day and night; my strength was exhausted as in a summer drought. Interlude
The Chaldeans will become plunder, and all who plunder them will get more than enough," declares the LORD.
May that man be like the cities that the LORD overthrew without compassion. Let him hear a cry in the morning, and a battle cry at noon,
that you have deceived yourselves. Indeed, you yourselves sent me to the LORD your God, saying, "Pray to the LORD your God for us, and whatever the LORD our God tells us we will do.'
Therefore, this is what the LORD says: "I'm about to remove you from the face of the earth. This year you will die because you have preached rebellion against the LORD.'"
I kept my heart pure for nothing and kept my hands clean from guilt.
For I didn't send them," declares the LORD, "and they're falsely prophesying in my name, so I will drive both you and the prophets who prophesy to you out of the land."
He has raised up a source of strength for his people, an object of praise for all of his holy ones, that is, for the people of Israel who are near him. Hallelujah!
He brings down the high fortifications of your walls and lays them low; he will raze them to the ground, right down to the dust.
Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous ones! Give thanks at the mention of his holiness! A psalm
Indeed, about Zion it will be said: "More than one person was born in it," and "The Most High himself did it."
Arise, God, to judge the earth, for all nations belong to you. A song. A Psalm of Asaph
Let the heavens and earth praise him, along with the sea and its swarming creatures.
Say to God: "How awesome are your works! Because of your great strength your enemies cringe before you."
Don't kill them! Otherwise, my people may forget. By your power make them stumble around; bring them down low, Lord, our Shield.
They all got to work and removed the idolatrous altars that were throughout Jerusalem. They also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Brook.
Your hand will find all your enemies, your right hand will find those who hate you.
But Hezekiah humbled himself while he was arrogant in heart, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem joined him in this. As a result, the LORD's wrath did not come upon them during Hezekiah's lifetime.
Hilkiah reported his finding to Shaphan the scribe, telling him, "I found the Book of the Law in the LORD's Temple. Then he gave the book to Shaphan.
So David took the spear and the jug of water at Saul's head, and they left. No one saw, and no one knew, because no one was awake. They were all asleep, because a deep sleep from the LORD had fallen over them.
these people, enumerated by name, were leaders in their respective families, and their clans grew to be very abundant.
Also included were Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
Meanwhile, stay here overnight so I may learn what the LORD might say to me."
"You are to put the golden altar for incense in front of the Ark of the Testimony and then set up the screen for the doorway to the tent.
"No, father, this one is the firstborn. Place your right hand on his head."
On the ninth day, Gideoni's son Abidan, leader of the descendants of Benjamin, presented
He set up the screen for the doorway of the tent.
The length of each curtain is to be 30 cubits, and the width of each curtain two cubits; the measurements of each of the eleven curtains is to be the same.
After he had fallen back to sleep, he had a second dream, in which seven ears of plump, fruit-filled grain grew up on a single stalk.
Right after that, seven more cows came up out of the Nile. Ugly and gaunt, they stood next to the other cows on the bank of the Nile River.
and all of a sudden seven healthy, plump, beautiful cows emerged from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds that line the bank.
He didn't recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau, so Isaac blessed him.
Then, as he was bringing me back along the river bank, he asked me, "Son of Man, did you see all of this?"
He burned the LORD's Temple, the king's house, and all the houses in Jerusalem. He also burned every public building with fire.
As a result, when Jacob's family was beginning to eat the last of the grain that they had brought back from Egypt, their father Jacob told his sons, "Go back to Egypt and buy us some food."
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you've made your heart like that of God
Then say, "Babylon will sink like this and won't rise from the disaster that I'm bringing on her. Her people will be exhausted.'" This concludes the writings of Jeremiah.
But he told them, "If I tell you, you won't believe me, and if I ask you a question, you won't answer me.
Half the wood he burns in the fire, and over that half he places meat so he can eat. He sits by its coals, warms himself, and says, "Ah! I am warm in front of the fire."
"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city I'm also going to add to my pile of kindling.
Be careful not to let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, "The LORD will save us." Has any god of any nation ever delivered his country from the king of Assyria?
But know for certain that if you kill me, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves and on this city and its residents because the LORD really did send me to you to say all these things for you to hear."
How terrible for you, Moab! The people of Chemosh will perish. Indeed, your sons will be taken into captivity, and your daughters as well.
They came and took possession of it, but they didn't obey you or walk according to your Law. They didn't do what you commanded them to do, so you caused all this calamity to happen to them.
Instead, you said, "No! We'll escape on horses!' Therefore, you'll flee away. And you said, "We'll ride off on swift steeds!' Therefore your pursuers will be swift.
King Jehoiakim, all his troops, and all the officials heard his words, and the king sought to kill him. Uriah heard about this and was afraid, so he fled and went to Egypt.
Don't let my heart turn toward evil or involve itself in wicked activities with men who practice iniquity. Let me not feast on their delicacies.
when its waters roar and rage, when the mountains tremble despite their pride. Interlude
There is no one to guide you out of all the children she bore, no one to take her by the hand out of all the children she brought up.
Then I can answer the one who insults me, for I place my trust in your word.
Just look at these wicked people! They're perpetually carefree as they increase their wealth.
I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning.
Remember your community, whom you purchased long ago, the tribe whom you redeemed for your possession. Remember Mount Zion, where you live.
Moab is my wash basin; over Edom I will throw my shoes; over Philistia I will celebrate my triumph."
Indeed, you have given him eternal blessings; you will make him glad with the joy of your presence.
Descendants of Keros, Sia, and Padon.
As a result, the Passover service was prepared, the priests took their assigned places, and the descendants of Levi stood in their divisions as the king had commanded.
Because they abandoned me and have burned incense to other gods, provoking me to become angry at everything they're doing, therefore my wrath is about to be poured out on this place, and it won't be quenched.'"'
for Dan, there was Jeroham's son Azarel. These were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.
Then he made a cover for the tent of ram skins dyed red and a covering of dolphin skins above that.
Moses and Eleazar took the gold from the captains of thousands and hundreds and brought it to the Tent of Meeting, to serve as a memorial to the Israelis in the LORD's presence.
Ten towns were allocated to the rest of the descendants of Kohath by lot out of the family of the tribe, that is, the half-tribe of Manasseh.
Everybody took note of this and was very pleased, just as everything else the king did pleased everyone.
All the pillars around the court are to be banded with silver. Their hooks are to be made of silver and their sockets made of bronze.
The towns are to be reserved for their dwelling places and the grazing lands are to be reserved for their cattle, livestock, and all their animals.
No one is to come up with you, nor is anyone to be seen anywhere on the mountain. Also, the sheep and cattle are not to graze in front of that mountain."
along with their corresponding grain offering of fine flour mixed with olive oil three tenths of an ephah for the young bull, two tenths of an ephah for the ram,
He kissed all of his brothers and wept with them, too, and then his brothers were able to talk with him.
So Joseph crafted a statute concerning Egypt that remains valid to this day that Pharaoh should own a fifth of the produce, excluding the land belonging to the priests, which remained outside of Pharaoh's control.
These were sons of Bilhah, whom Laban had given to his daughter Rachel. She bore these children for Jacob seven in all.
Your wisdom and understanding brought you phenomenal wealth. You've brought gold and silver into your treasuries.
"Why do that?" Jacob asked. "I've already found favor in your sight, sir." So Esau set out that very day back on his way to Seir,
Nevertheless, they are to serve in my sanctuary, overseeing the gates of the Temple, taking care of the Temple, slaughtering the burnt offerings and the sacrifices presented for the people, standing in the presence of the people, and ministering to them.
He measured the vestibule of the gate inside at eight cubits and the doorjambs at two cubits. (The vestibule at the gate faced away from the Temple.)
"They are to enter my sanctuary, approach my table to minister to me, and carry out my requirements.
After Jacob had obeyed his father and mother's instructions to set out for Paddan-aram,
"And yet you keep saying, "Living life the Lord's way isn't right,' But I will judge every one of you according to the way you live, you house of Israel!"
Your wealth, your products, your merchandise your sailors, your pilots, your tailors, your salesmen, all your mercenaries with you your entire company with you will fall into the midst of the sea on the day when you're overthrown!
Her grave will be set in the remotest part of the Pit, surrounded by those who accompanied her. All of them will have been killed, executed violently, who spread terror throughout the land of the living.
so that their hearts melt and the number of those who stumble increase. I've set in place a slaughtering sword at the entrance to all their gates. Oh, no! It's made like lightning. It's drawn to slaughter.
He raped the women, devastating their towns. The land was made desolate, and all the while the land was filled with the sound of his roaring.
The Chaldean army went after the king, overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his troops were scattered from him.
to the one who by wisdom made the heavens, for his gracious love is everlasting
But I'll strip Esau bare. I'll uncover his hiding places so he cannot conceal himself. His offspring, his relatives, and his neighbors will be destroyed, and he will no longer exist.
Raise a battle cry against her on every side. She has surrendered, her pillars have fallen, her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD. Take vengeance on her; as she has done, do to her.
For this is what the LORD says: "Look, those who don't deserve to drink the cup will surely drink it, and will you actually go unpunished? You won't go unpunished! You will certainly drink it!
Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
When they reached the middle of the city, Nethaniah's son Ishmael and the men who were with him slaughtered them and threw them into a cistern.
"Tell Hezekiah, king of Judah, "This is what the mighty king, the king of Assyria, has to say: What is this "guarantee" that makes you yourself rely on it? Do you really think that guarantees alone can withstand strategy and military strength? On whom are you now depending, that you're rebelling against me?
For people will be beating their breasts in mourning over the pleasant fields, over the fruitful vines,
He waters the mountains from his heavenly rooms; the earth is satisfied from the fruit of your work.
"They'll bring all your women and children out to the Chaldeans, and you won't escape from their hand. Indeed, you will be seized by the hand of the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned with fire."
For evil's scepter will not rest on the land that has been allotted to the righteous, and so the righteous will not direct themselves to do wrong.
You reject all who wander from your statutes, since their deceitfulness is vain.
Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,
The waters saw you, God; the waters saw you and writhed. Indeed, the depths of the sea quaked.
Remember this: The enemy scorns the LORD and a foolish people despises your name.
My eyes are looking at the faithful of the land, so they may live with me; The one who lives a life of integrity will serve me.
Surely God has heard, and he paid attention to my prayers.
The one who comes to visit me speaks lies; in his heart he thinks slanderous things about me and goes around spreading them.
Let the lying lips be made still, especially those who speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.
God, who is enthroned from long ago, will hear me and humble them. Interlude Because they do not repent, they do not fear God.
When Saul saw the Philistine camp, he was afraid, and his heart trembled greatly.
With a free will offering I will sacrifice to you; I will give thanks to your name, LORD, because it is good,
For your gracious love precedes me, and I continuously walk according to your truth.
Solomon never inventoried the weight of the bronze used, because there were too many utensils, so the weight of the bronze used was never ascertained.
The son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, was Shobal, who fathered Kiriath-jearim, Salma, who fathered Bethlehem, and Hareph, who fathered Beth-gader.
including the two pillars and the bowls for the capitals that stood on top of the two pillars, along with the two lattices that covered the two bowls of the capitals that stood on top of the pillars,
David told Abner, "Are you not a man, and who is like you in Israel? Why didn't you guard your lord, the king? Indeed, a soldier came to destroy the king, your lord.
David's men turned and went on their way. They came back and told David everything.
However, 600 soldiers ran into the wilderness in the direction of the rock of Rimmon, where they remained as fugitives for four months.
Saul camped by the road on the hill of Hachilah, across from Jeshimon, while David was staying in the wilderness. When he realized that Saul had come after him in the wilderness,
You are not to receive payment of a ransom for someone who had fled to a town of refuge but then left to live in his homeland before the death of the high priest.
So he took his army, divided it into three separate companies, and laid in ambush out in the field. When Abimelech noticed the people coming out from the city, his army attacked them and killed them.
Suddenly seven thin ears of grain that had been scorched by an east wind sprouted up right after them
They traveled from Libnah, then rested in Rissah.
They took all the booty and plunder, including both humans and animals.
All of those individuals numbered 23,000. No male from the age of a month and above was numbered among the Israelis because no inheritance was to be assigned to them among the Israelis.
You are to put them in one basket and bring them in the basket along with the bull and the two rams.
The next morning, Jacob realized that it was Leah! "What have you done to me?" he demanded of Laban. "Didn't I serve you for seven years in order to marry Rachel? Why did you deceive me?"
Then the priest is to examine it after the contagion has been washed. If the contagion hasn't changed in appearance, even though the contagion hasn't spread, it's unclean. Incinerate it. It's a fungal infection, especially if the infection is on its exposed side.
He made four pillars of acacia for it and overlaid them with gold, along with their gold hooks, and he cast four silver sockets for them.
apart from the burnt offering in the morning, which you are to continue offering.
The stones corresponded to the names of the sons of Israel, twelve stones corresponding to their names, with the engraving of a signet, each with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
They won't need to cut down trees from the fields nor gather firewood from the forests, because they will light fires with the weapons as they plunder the plunderers and loot the looters!" declares the Lord GOD.
These were the tribal leaders who descended from the Horites: tribal leaders Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
When I bring them back from the nations and gather them together from the lands that belong to their enemies, I will demonstrate my holiness through them right in front of the eyes of the world,
Is wood ever taken from it to make anything practical? Can it even be made into a peg to hang something on?
"because he spread terror throughout the land of the living. Therefore he'll be laid to rest among the uncircumcised, who have been killed violently; that is, Pharaoh and all of his hordes," declares the Lord GOD.
"Meshech and Tubal will be there, along with all of the hordes that surround her grave. Every one of them is uncircumcised, killed violently, because they spread terror throughout the land of the living.
Come now, all of you, make a bet with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can furnish riders for them!
I've given him the land of Egypt as a reward for attacking Tyre for me,' declares the Lord GOD.
Flee, save your lives, and you will be like a wild donkey in the desert.
Nethaniah's son Ishmael went out from Mizpah to meet them, crying as he went. As he met them he told them, "Come meet with Ahikam's son Gedaliah."
Then I spoke to the priests and all of the people: "This is what the LORD says: "Don't listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you: "The vessels from the Temple are about to be returned from Babylon very soon now." Indeed, they're prophesying a lie to you.
"because I will defend this city and deliver it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!'"
Leave me, you who practice evil, that I may observe the commands of my God.
No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.
When Moab appears, when he arrives upon the high place and comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail."
Remove false paths from me; and graciously give me your instruction.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me; those who seek to do me harm brag all day long about their wicked planning.
Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp.
Why should I be afraid when evil days come my way, when the wickedness of those who deceive me surrounds me
You rebuke the accursed ones, who wander from your commands.
Only observe it with your eyes, and you will see how the wicked are paid back.
Descendants of Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth-hazzebaim, and Ammon;
and one tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering for each lamb. This burnt offering will be a pleasing aroma, incinerated as an offering to the LORD.
All of these were men of Asher, leaders of ancestral households, choice valiant mighty warriors, and chiefs among princes. Their enrolled genealogies for battle conscription totaled 26,000 men.
and (from of the half-tribe of Manasseh), Aner with its surrounding suburbs, and Bileam with its surrounding suburbs for the rest of the Kohathite families.
You are to put the basin between the Tent of Meeting and the altar and put water in it.
the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. They are to make them in accordance with everything that I commanded you."
As we were coming back, I was amazed to see that there were many, many trees lining both banks of the river.
Then Joseph transported the people to cities from one end of Egypt to the other.
then washed his face and came out. Barely controlling himself, he ordered his staff to serve the meal.
"But your majesty," they pleaded, "your servants include twelve brothers, the sons of a common father back in the land of Canaan. Please! Our youngest brother remains with our father, and the other one is no longer alive."
Joseph asked them how they had been doing. "Is your father well, the older gentleman about whom you spoke?" he inquired. "Is he still alive?"
Then Esau asked, "What are all these livestock for?" "To solicit favor from you, sir," Jacob answered.
"The western perimeter is to be the Mediterranean Sea, from the southernmost border to a location opposite the entrance to Hamath. This is to be the western perimeter.
The people who live in the land are to worship at the doorway of the gate on the Sabbaths and New Moons in the LORD's presence.'"
The altar was made of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. He told me, "This table stands in the LORD's presence."
I heard someone speaking to me from the Temple, and a man appeared, standing beside me!
The desolate fields will be cultivated, replacing the former wasteland that everyone who passed by in times past had noticed.
therefore you'd better watch out! I'm raising a clenched fist in your direction! I'm about to feed you to the surrounding nations as war plunder. I'm going to eliminate you as a nation and kill off those of you who survive to live in other countries. I'm going to destroy you, and that's how you'll learn that I am the LORD.'"
I'm going to turn these cities over to men from the East, who will dominate you. You will become their property. As a result, Ammon will be forgotten as a nation.
The arrogant one will stumble and fall, and there will be no one to lift him up. I'll set fire to his cities, and it will devour everything around him."
Because of the anger of the LORD she won't be inhabited, but will be utterly devastated. Everyone who passes by Babylon will be horrified and will scoff because of all her wounds.
Come to her from afar. Open up her barns. Pile her up like heaps of grain, and completely destroy her. Don't leave any survivors.
They're prophesying a lie to you in order to remove you far away from your land. I'll drive you out and you will perish.
against Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, and Beth-meon,
Why have you prophesied in the name of the LORD that this house will be like Shiloh, and this city will be without an inhabitant?" Then all the people gathered around Jeremiah at the LORD's Temple.
They repeatedly stumble and fall. They say to each other, "Get up! Let's go back to our people and to the land of our birth, away from the oppressor's sword.'
Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.
"Many nations will pass by this city and say to one another, "Why did the LORD do this to this great city?'
"Look! You and your work are less than nothing; whoever finds you pleasing is disgusting."
They wandered in desolate wilderness; they found no road to a city where they could live.
He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has made kingdoms tremble. The LORD has issued orders concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.
And they will all be left for birds of prey that live on the mountains and for wild animals. Birds of prey will pass the summer feeding on them, and all the wild animals will pass the winter feeding on them.
It is better to take shelter in the LORD than to trust in princes.
Those who craft them will become like them, as will all those who trust in them.
For the LORD will vindicate his people, and he will show compassion on his servants.
You have led your people like a flock by the hands of Moses and Aaron. An instruction of Asaph
He will bless those who fear the LORD, both the important and the insignificant together.
the birds build their nests there, and the heron builds its nest among the evergreen.