He delivered for the sake of his name, to make his power known.

I will come to your house with burnt offerings. I will fulfill my vows to you

While standing in his appointed place, the king made a public covenant with the LORD to follow the LORD, to keep his commandments, his testimonies, and his statutes, and to do so with all of his heart and soul, and to carry out what was written in the covenant contained in the book.

You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking uprightly. Interlude

The voice of the LORD is powerful; the voice of the LORD is majestic.

In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise,

Some archers shot King Josiah, and the king told his servants, "Take me away, because I'm badly wounded."

The screen of the gate of the court was the work of an embroiderer of blue, purple, and scarlet material, and fine woven linen. The length was 20 cubits and it was five cubits high along its width, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

From the half-tribe of Manasseh the descendants of Gershom were allotted Golan in Bashan with its surrounding suburbs and Ashtaroth with its surrounding suburbs.

Hilen with its surrounding suburbs, Debir with its surrounding suburbs,

"You are to anoint the altar for burnt offerings and all its utensils. You are to consecrate the altar and the altar will be most holy.

who had been fathered by Mahli, who had been fathered by Mushi, who had been fathered by Merari, who had been fathered by Levi,

"Because they've abandoned the covenant of their LORD, the God of their ancestors that he had made with them when he brought them out of Egypt. They followed and worshipped other gods whom they had not known and whom he did not assign to them.

You are to apportion the towns that you will be giving the Israelis according to the relative size of the tribe. Take a larger portion from those larger in number and a lesser portion from those fewer in number. Each is to set aside towns for the descendants of Levi proportional to the size of their inheritance that they receive."

that he locked them up in the prison dungeon operated by the captain of the guard, the very place where Joseph was imprisoned.

All of a sudden, seven thin, withered ears of grain, scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them.

Then the officers in charge of thousands of soldiers, the captains of thousands, and the captains of hundreds approached Moses

including his sons, his grandsons, his daughters, and his granddaughters every one of his descendants accompanied him to Egypt.

"Therefore listen to what the LORD says, you shepherds:

"The batons on which you engrave your writing are to remain right in front of them in your hand.

After all, he heard the alarm sounding, but did not heed the warning, so his shed blood will remain his own responsibility. If he had heeded the warning, he would have saved himself.

""I'll silence the noise of your songs and the music of your harps won't be heard anymore.

I'm going to strengthen the military might of the king of Babylon, put my own sword in his hand, and break Pharaoh's strength. Then Pharaoh will groan like a dying man right in front of the king of Babylon.

"They'll die along with others who are killed violently. Egypt has been given over to violence, which will carry off both it and its hordes."

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Look out! I'm bringing violent death in your direction! I'm going to kill every person and animal,

They'll send you down to the Pit, and you'll die defiled in the depths of the sea.

I'm going to disperse you among the nations and scatter you to other lands. I'm going to put an end to your uncleanness.

On each pillar was a capital of bronze, and the height of each capital was five cubits. Latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar was like this, including the pomegranates.

Panic and pitfalls beset us, along with devastation and ruin.

"This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "I made a covenant with your ancestors on the day I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. I told them:

Indeed, at the ascent of Luhith people will go up with bitter weeping. At the descent of Horonaim the anguished cries over the destruction will be heard.

The prophets who came before us from ancient times prophesied war, famine, and plague against many lands and great kingdoms.

Give thanks to the God of gods, for his gracious love is everlasting.

"Indeed, you have said, "The LORD has raised up prophets for us in Babylon.'

Those who quarrel with you will be as nothing; those who fight you like nothing at all!"

Sing praises to the LORD with a lyre with a lyre and a melodious song!

"But you have enlarged the nation, LORD; you have enlarged the nation. You have gained honor; you have extended all the borders of the land.

May the LORD bless you from Zion, and may you observe the prosperity of Jerusalem every day that you live!

Pour out your wrath upon the nations that do not acknowledge you, and over the kingdoms that do not call on your name.

Your arrows are sharpened to penetrate the hearts of the king's enemies. People will fall under you.

Don't charge us for previous iniquity, but let your compassion come quickly to us, for we have been brought very low.

He built altars for all the armies of heaven in the two courtyards of the LORD's Temple.

May your awesome deeds be revealed to your servants, as well as your splendor to their children.

They reward my good with evil, opposing me because I seek to do good.

gold, silver, bronze, and iron. So begin the work, and may the LORD be with you."

And may what I've had to say to the LORD remain with the LORD our God both day and night, so that he may defend the cause of his servant and the cause of his people Israel, as the need of the day may require it,

Look how many enemies I have gained! They hate me with a vicious hatred.

who had been fathered by Jahath, who had been fathered by Gershom, and who had been fathered by Levi.

The God who keeps on avenging me, subjugating people beneath me,

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and cried until they had no more strength left to cry.

David lived in Philistine territory for a year and four months.

They continued, "Let's make sure that there's an inheritance for the survivors of the tribe of Benjamin, so that a tribe won't be blotted out from Israel.

If there are still many years left, he is to refund the cost of his redemption.

So Gaal went out in full view of the "lords" of Shechem and fought Abimelech.

if the contagion is greenish or reddish in the clothing, leather, woven material, knitted material, or with any article containing leather, it's a fungal infection and is to be shown to the priest.

and Ammihud's son Pedahel to be leader of the tribe of Naphtali."

"Our children, wives, flocks, and all our cattle will be settled in the cities of Gilead,

and one tenth of an ephah for each of the seven lambs.

The skillfully woven band that was on it was made like it, of one piece with it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet material and fine woven linen, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

Their sacrifice for a peace offering consisted of two bulls, five rams, five male goats, and five one year old lambs. These were the offerings presented by Ochran's son Pagiel.

and 40 silver sockets for them, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.

You are to bring in the table and properly arrange what goes on it. Then you are to bring in the lamp stand and set up its lamps.

Everyone who could give an offering of silver and bronze brought it as a contribution for the LORD. Also all who had acacia wood for any use in the work brought it.

You are to overlay it with pure gold, and put a gold molding around it.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers, who were with him in prison in his master's house, "Why are you so sad today?"

"Your servants are shepherds," they replied, "both we and our ancestors. We've come to live for a while in this region, since there is no pasture back in Canaan for your servants' flocks. May your servants please live in the Goshen territory?"

When Pharaoh calls for you and asks you "What's your occupation?'

Jacob would not send Joseph's brother Benjamin to accompany them, because he was saying, "I'm afraid that he'll come to some kind of harm."

"So when I go back to your servant, my father, and the young man isn't with us, since he's constantly living life focused on his son,

When they reached out to you for support, you tore their hands and dislocated all of their shoulders. When they tried to lean on you, they couldn't control their own bowels.'

You are also to do this on the seventh day of the month, to make atonement for any person who wanders away or who sins through ignorance in order to make atonement for the Temple.

Next, he brought me into the outer court, where chambers and a paved area had been constructed all around the courtyard, with 30 chambers facing the pavement.

I'll make many nations be appalled at you, and their kings will be terrified because of you when I brandish my sword right in their face. They will all tremble from fear for their own safety on the day that you fall!'

"Now the coastland inhabitants will tremble on the day that you fall. The coastland inhabitants, who make their living from the sea, will be terrified when you pass away!'

I'll smash the shepherd and his flock with you. I'll smash the farmer and his team of oxen with you. I'll smash governors and officials with you.

All the people who are determined to go into Egypt to settle there will die by the sword, by famine, and by the plague. No one will survive the disaster that I'll bring on them."

"But in the latter days I'll restore the fortunes of Elam," declares the LORD.

Then Isaiah told Hezekiah, "Listen to this message from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies:

he remembered his covenant with them, and so relented according to the greatness of his gracious love.

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

Remember his awesome deeds that he has done, his wonders and the judgments he declared.

Look, all the women who are left in the house of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon, and will say, "These friends of yours have mislead you and overcome you. Your feet have sunk down into the mire, but they have turned away.'

There is no one to plead your cause. There is no medicine for your sore; no healing for you.

At midnight I will get up to thank you for your righteous ordinances.

May the nomads bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust.

"Look, here is a young man who refused to make God his strength; instead, he trusted in his great wealth and made his wickedness his strength.

Mortal men ate the food of angels; he sent provision to them in abundance.

For the LORD listens to the needy and doesn't despise those in bondage.

Reveal your power before Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, then come to our rescue.

May he live long and be given gold from Sheba, and may prayer be offered for him continuously, and may he be blessed every day.

May their eyes be blinded and may their bodies tremble continuously.

Rebuke the wildlife that lives among the reeds, the nations that congregate like bulls and cows, humbling themselves with pieces of silver, for God scatters the nations that delight in battle.

He rules by his power forever, his eyes watching over the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Interlude

Then they slaughtered the Passover lamb on the fourteenth day of the second month.

Within her citadels God is known as a place of refuge.

May God truly bless us so that all the nations of the earth will fear him. To the Director of music: A Psalm. A song.

May he be enthroned before God forever; Appoint your gracious love and truth to guard him.

stood up, and blessed all of the assembly of Israel in a loud voice. He said:

Look how they're rewarding us! They're coming to drive us from your property that you gave us to be our inheritance.

for Levi there was Kemuel's son Hashabiah; for Aaron there was Zadok;

and the pots, shovels, and bowls all of these utensils that Hiram made for King Solomon for the LORD's Temple were made from polished bronze.

She brought it to Saul and to his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went out that night.

Saul refused, saying, "I won't eat!"

ram skins dyed red, dolphin skins, acacia wood,

Rachal, in the Jerahmeelite towns, in the Kenite towns,

You are to bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.

Also included were Ekron, with its towns and villages,

For the second side of the tent to the north he made 20 boards,

Let the food be kept in reserve to feed the land for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout Egypt, so the people don't die during the famine."

Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and his sons according to the LORD's instructions, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

onyx stones, and stones for setting in the ephod and the breast piece.

So ten of Joseph's brothers left to buy grain from Egypt.

It flourished and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, and its roots spread under him to become a vine that put out shoots and spread out its branches.

Then he went over to the gate that faced toward the east, ascended its steps, and measured its thresholds. One threshold measured one reed and the other one measured one reed.

And so Israel's sons did what he had instructed them to do:

Then he told me, "The north and south chamber, which are opposite the courtyard, are consecrated areas where the priests who approach the LORD will eat consecrated offerings and lay the consecrated grain offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings, because the area is holy.

Each guardhouse measured one reed long and one reed wide, and the distance between each guardhouse was five cubits. The threshold of the gate near the vestibule facing away from the Temple entrance measured one reed.

It is to be for use by priests from the descendants of Zadok, who have observed the things with which I charged them and who did not wander astray when the Israelis went astray, just as the descendants of Levi wandered astray.

"This is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city, to the pot whose rust remains in it, whose rust won't come off. Empty it one piece at a time. Don't let a lot fall on it.

It must be ground; one cannot keep threshing it forever. Even if he drives his cart and horses over it, he cannot crush it.

Then you'll know that I, the LORD, brought you to the land of Israel, to the land that I promised to give to your ancestors.

The captain of the guard took away the bowls, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the pans, and the bowls for libations, both those made of gold and those made of silver.

They dumped me alive into a pit, sealing me in with stone.

Say this to him: "This is what the LORD says: "Look! What I've built I'm about to tear down, and what I've planted I'm about to pull up and this will involve the entire land."

One runner runs to meet another runner, and one messenger to meet another messenger, to tell the king of Babylon that his city has been seized from one end to the other.

Do not hide your face from me when I am in trouble. Listen to me. When I call to out you, hurry to answer me!

But afterward they turned around and took back the male and female slaves that they had set free, and they forced them to become male and female slaves.

They spoke against God by asking, "Is God able to prepare a feast in the desert?

all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the various people who live in the desert;

You remove all the wicked of the earth like dross; therefore I love your decrees.

God heard and became furious, and he completely rejected Israel.

Confound them, Lord, and confuse their speech, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.

LORD, my Lord, my strong deliverer, you have protected my head in the time of battle.

God, how long will the adversary scorn while the enemy despises your name endlessly?

the tents of Edom, the Ishmaelites, Moab, the Hagrites,

Your people live there; you sustain the needy with your goodness, God.

Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Interlude

Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.

He is the God who executes vengeance on my behalf; who destroys nations under me;

As soon as he heard what the Law said, he tore his clothes.

and for cutting stones to set them, for carving wood, and for doing all kinds of craftsmanship.

Immer's descendants: 1,052

So his servants removed him from the chariot he was in and carried him away in a backup chariot that he had and took him back to Jerusalem, where he died and was buried in the tombs of his ancestors. All of Judah and Jerusalem went into mourning for Josiah.

except that he never humbled himself to the LORD like his father Manasseh had done. In fact, Amon multiplied his own guilt

He practiced what the LORD considered to be evil, just as his father Manasseh had done, sacrificing to and serving all the carved images that his father Manasseh had made,

Isn't Hezekiah lying to you so he can hand you over to die by famine and thirst? After all, he's telling you "The LORD our God will deliver us from the king of Assyria's control."

David also issued these orders to all of the leaders of Israel to assist his son Solomon:

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

Obed fathered Jehu, Jehu fathered Azariah,

You are to anoint the basin and its base and consecrate it.

Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa,

the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of dolphin skins, the curtain,

These cities were each surrounded by pasture lands, as was the case with all of these cities.

On the seventh day you are to hold another sacred assembly for your benefit, on which no servile work is to be done."

This was what was presented at the dedication of the altar from the leaders of Israel on the same day that it was anointed: twelve silver bowls, twelve silver basins, twelve gold ladles.

They brought to Moses the tent, all its furnishings, its clasps, its boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,

They tied the breast piece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord so it would rest on the skillfully woven band of the ephod and so the breast piece would not come loose from the ephod.

the table, its poles, all its furnishings, and the bread of the presence,

Also, your servant pledged his own life as a guarantee of the young man's safety. I told my father, "If I don't bring him back to you, you can blame me forever.'

"I'm right!" Joseph insisted. "Just as I said, you're spies!

There was all kinds of food in the basket that was on top, including baked food for Pharaoh. The birds were eating them from the basket on my head."

But if you don't send him, we're not going, because the man told us, "You'll never see my face unless your brother is with you.'"

"These men are at peace with us," they announced. "Therefore, let them live in the land and trade in it. Look! The land is large enough for them. Let's take their daughters as wives for ourselves and let's give our sons to them.

On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, during a seven day festival, the Regent Prince is to present these as daily sin offerings, burnt offerings, and grain offerings mixed with oil.'"

You are to present them in the LORD's presence, and the priests are to throw salt on them and then present them as a burnt offering to the LORD.

In the porch leading in front of the gate there were two tables on either side for slaughtering burnt offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings,

I'll fling you up onto the land; I'll haul you into the field, I'll make every carrion-eating bird come to dine on you, and I'll make all the scavenging animals gorge themselves on you.

"Tell them, "This is what the Lord GOD says, "Will it prosper? Won't he pull up its roots, and strip it bare so all its fresh foliage dries up? It won't be by great strength or by a great army that it will be uprooted.

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because of its towering height, with its summit reaching into the clouds, and because it was haughty in its position,

He'll execute your citizens who live on the mainland with swords. He'll build siege engines to attack you. Then he'll construct siege ramps against you and build huge shields to protect themselves against you.

Indeed, I'm going to gather you together and exhale the fire of my fury, and then you'll be melted from the inside out

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Just as the wood from a grape vine is removed from the forest and used for kindling fires, I'm giving the inhabitants of Jerusalem over

"The sound of fugitives and refugees will come from the land of Babylon to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his Temple.

The ones who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have come into the land of Egypt to settle will know whose message will stand, mine or theirs.

Of the remnant of Judah that came into the land of Egypt to settle there, no one will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah where they long to return and live. Indeed, they won't return, except for some refugees.'"

The sound of crying will come from Horonaim, devastation and great destruction.

So all the Judeans returned from all the countries where they had been scattered. They came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and they gathered wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

You who fear the LORD, trust in the LORD! He is their helper and shield.

Indeed, even if you defeated the entire Chaldean army that is fighting against you, and they had only wounded men left in their tents, they would get up and burn this city with fire.'"'"

Don't listen to the words of the prophets who say to you, "You won't serve the king of Babylon.' Indeed, they're prophesying a lie to you.

Bow your heavens, LORD, and descend; touch the mountains, and they will smolder.

May your priests be clothed with righteousness and may your godly ones shout for joy.

Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.

When the wicked rise to power, people hide themselves, but when the wicked perish, the righteous increase.

Indeed, they shrewdly planned together, forming an alliance against you

But I will not cut off my gracious love from him, and I will not stop being faithful.

Deliver us, LORD our God, gather us from among the nations so we may praise your holy name and rejoice in praising you.

Please return, LORD! When will it be? Comfort your servants.

The north and south you created them; Tabor and Hermon joyously praise your name.

You are awesome! who can stand in your presence when you're angry?

Take out the spear and the ax to confront the one who pursues me; say to me, "I am your deliverer!"

Gilead belongs to me, and Manasseh is mine. Ephraim is my helmet, and Judah my scepter.

As a result, Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together that day.

My God of Gracious Love will meet me; God will enable me to see what happens to my enemies.

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.

He will experience good things; his descendants will inherit the earth.

Appoint three towns this side of the Jordan River and three towns in the land of Canaan to serve as the towns of refuge,

They'll divide it seven ways. Judah will stay in its territory on the south and the house of Joseph will remain in its territory on the north.

I'm declaring to you today that you will surely be destroyed. You won't live long in the land that you are crossing the Jordan River to enter and possess.

They married into families of the descendants of Manasseh, that is, Joseph's descendants, so that their inheritance remained within the tribe of their ancestor's family.

oil for lighting, spices for the anointing oil and for aromatic incense,

along with three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, for each bull, two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, for the one ram,

On the hem of the robe, they placed pomegranates made of blue, purple, and scarlet material and woven linen.

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough and ran to the well to draw again until she had drawn enough water for all ten of the servant's camels.

Moses commanded the Israelis, "You are to inherit this land by lot, just as the LORD commanded to give it to the remaining nine and a half tribes.

One hundred talents of silver were used to cast the sockets for the sanctuary and the sockets for the curtain, 100 sockets for 100 talents, a talent per socket.

They are not to come in contact with a dead body, so they don't defile themselves, except in the case of their father, mother, son, daughter, brother, or for an unmarried sister, on whose behalf they may defile themselves.

You've set your national boundary in international waters. Your builders made you downright beautiful!"'"

"Then your servant, our father, told us, "You know my wife bore me two sons.

"Far be it from me to do this," Joseph responded. "The man in whose possession the cup was discovered will be my slave, but the rest of you may leave in peace to be with your father."

because their holdings were too vast to allow them to stay together, since the land where they had settled was not able to support all of their livestock.

"This has been a lamentation. They will chant it, and the citizens of the nations will chant it, too. They'll chant it about Egypt and about all of its hordes."

Don't listen to Hezekiah, because this is what the king of Assyria says: "Make your peace with me and come out to me. Then everyone will eat from his own vine and from his own fig tree, and everyone will drink water from his own cistern,

"You are to apportion this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel,

So now, bear your own shame as you mediate for your sisters. The sins that you've committed are more detestable than theirs. That makes them more righteous than you. Indeed, be ashamed and bear your reproach, because you've made your sisters to be more righteous than you."

So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the palace, underneath the storeroom. He took worn out rags and worn out clothes from there, and using ropes he lowered them down to Jeremiah in the cistern.

They'll roar together like young lions; they'll growl like lion cubs.

Indeed, you delivered my soul from death, my eyes from crying, and my feet from stumbling.

Take their tents and their flocks, their tent curtains and all their goods. Take their camels away from them. Cry out against them, "Terror is all around!'

He supplies snow like wool, scattering frost like ashes.

Sustain me, God, as you have promised, and I will live. Do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

Jeremiah left Jerusalem to go to the territory of Benjamin to take possession of his property there among the people.

"But this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David's throne, and about the people who live in this city your brothers who didn't go with you into exile:

Show me a sign of your goodness, so that those who hate me will see it and be ashamed. For you, LORD, will help and comfort me. A psalm by the descendants of Korah. A song.

They say to themselves, "We'll crush them completely;" They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.

The LORD listened to Hezekiah and healed the people.

Lift up your heads, gates! Be lifted up, ancient doors, so the King of Glory may come in.

God also poured out his grace throughout Judah, giving them a dedicated heart to do what the king and princes had decreed according to the message from the LORD.

Mahari from Netophah, a Zerahite, was tenth for the tenth month; 24,000 soldiers served in his division.

Now slaughter the Passover, consecrate yourselves, and prepare your relatives to obey the command from the LORD given by Moses."

She was riding on the donkey and as she went down a protected part of the mountain, David was there with his men, coming down to meet her, and she went toward them.

If he doesn't have a daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers.

across the Jordan from Jericho, that is, on the east side of the Jordan, from the tribe of Reuben were allotted Bezer in the steppe with its surrounding suburbs, Jahzah with its surrounding suburbs,

When the men of Israel who were across the valley and who were across the Jordan saw that the army of Israel had fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled, and the Philistines came and occupied them.

Shallum fathered Jekamiah, and Jekamiah fathered Elishama.

When Gaal saw the army, he observed to Zebul, "Look there! People are coming down from the top of the mountains." But Zebul replied to him, "You're looking at morning shadows cast by the mountains. They just look like men to you."

Like a hired servant, he is to remain with him year after year, but he is not to rule over him with what you see as severity.

To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

So they sent this message to Joseph:

They made the breast piece square when folded double: one span in length and one span in width when folded double.

All the first-born males according to the list of their names from a month old and above numbered 22,273.

I'll provide for you there, since there are still five years of famine left to go, and you, your households, and everything you own would have otherwise become impoverished.

But bring your youngest brother back to me so I can be sure that you're honest men, and not spies. Then I'll return your brother to you, and you'll be allowed to trade anywhere in the land.'"

seizing all of their flocks, herds, donkeys, and whatever else was in the city or had been left out in the field.

"Send the young man with me," Judah told his father Israel, "and we'll get up and go so we can survive and not die and that includes all of us, you and our families.

are to be the gates of the city. Named after the tribes of Israel, three gates are to serve the north site: one named the Reuben Gate, one named the Judah Gate, and one named the Levi Gate.

When the descendants of your people ask you, "Would you please explain to us what you mean by this?'

about which he said, "This is where the priests will be boiling the guilt and sin offerings and baking the grain offerings so they don't bring them through the outer courtyard, thus diminishing the people's holiness."

The building that faced the west side of the courtyard was 70 cubits wide, and the building's wall was five cubits thick all around. It was 90 cubits long.

Then I scattered them among the nations, dispersing them to other lands, just as their lifestyles and behavior deserved. That's how I judged them.

for it is better that it be told you, "Come up here," than for you to be placed lower in the presence of an official. What you've seen with your own eyes,

They'll sing this mourning song for you: "How lost you are, you inhabited city, that was built in the middle of the sea! How famous you were! How strong on the sea! She and her inhabitants inflicted terror to everyone who lived within her."

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says, "Because all of you have become dross, watch out! I'm going to gather all of you at the center of Jerusalem,

"I'm coming to attack Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and I'm going to break both of his arms, the strong one and the wounded one. That will make him drop his sword. I'm going to scatter Egypt throughout the surrounding nations and disperse them throughout the world.

Damascus will become weak. She will turn to flee, but panic will seize her. Distress and anguish will take hold of her like that of a woman giving birth.

Though my spirit grows faint within me, you are aware of my path. Wherever I go, they have hidden a trap for me.

I trampled people in my anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and I poured out their lifeblood on the ground."

And why have you provoked me to anger by the works of your hands, by offering sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt where you have come to settle so that you cut yourselves off and become an object of ridicule and scorn among all the nations of the earth?

Perhaps their pleas for help will come to the LORD's attention, and each of them will turn from his evil lifestyle in light of the great anger and wrath that the LORD has declared against this people."

You bring darkness and it becomes night; when every beast of the forest prowls.

"Now, this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "Why are you doing great harm to yourselves so as to cut off from Judah man and woman, child and infant from you, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved?

I truly love your commands more than gold, including fine gold.

Why should the nations say, "Where is their God?" Let vengeance for the blood of your servants be meted out before our eyes and among the nations.

May your gracious love comfort me in accordance with your promise to your servant.

Give us help against the enemy, because human help is useless.

along with storage facilities for grain, wine, oil, stalls for all sorts of cattle, and sheepfolds for his flocks.

So I will sing songs to your name forever; I will fulfill my promises day by day. To the Director: According to Jeduthun's style. A Davidic Psalm.

But as for those who seek to destroy me, they will go down to the depths of the earth;

He calmly ransomed my soul from the war waged against me, for there was a vast crowd who stood against me.

Then I will give you thanks in front of the great congregation; in the midst of the mighty throng I will praise you.

"Go ask the LORD for me and for those who survive in Israel and in Judah about the words that we've read in this book that we found, because the wrath of the LORD that we deserve to have poured out on us is very great, since our ancestors haven't obeyed the command from the LORD that required us to do everything that is written in this book."

The Singers: Asaph's descendants: 148

Descendants of Gazzam, Uzza, and Paseah.

Now David had said, "Surely it was for nothing that I protected everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness, and nothing was missing of all that belonged to him. But he has repaid me with evil for good!

Ramoth with its surrounding suburbs, and Anem with its surrounding suburbs.

From the tribe of Issachar were allotted Kedesh with its surrounding suburbs, Daberath with its surrounding suburbs,

A few of the families of Kohath's descendants had towns of their territory allotted from the tribe of Ephraim.

Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them to the king of Babylon at Riblah,

When the men of Israel noticed that Abimelech was dead, they each left for home.

Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to divide the inheritance of the Israelis in the land of Canaan.

They traveled from Terah, then rested in Mithkah.

So the prison warden entrusted into Joseph's care all the prisoners who were confined in prison. Whatever they did, Joseph was in charge of the work detail.

the altar of gold, anointing oil, aromatic incense, the screen for the doorway to the tent,

are to divide the booty between the warriors who went to war and the rest of the community.

On the lamp stand itself there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms each with their calyxes and flowers.

On the twelfth day, Enan's son Ahira, leader of the descendants of Naphtali, presented

The leaders brought onyx stones and stones to be set in the ephod and the breast piece,

But Esau replied, "I already have so much, my brother, so keep what belongs to you."

The sheep quota is to be one from each flock of 200 taken from the pastures of Israel. From all of these you are to present grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement for them," declares the Lord GOD.

Then he told me, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "These are the regulations for the altar, starting the day that it is constructed for presenting burnt offerings and sprinkling blood.

Then he went inside and measured the door jambs at two cubits wide and the doorway at six cubits high. The doorway was seven cubits wide.

They grab bow and spear. They're cruel and show no mercy. Their sound roars like the sea, as they ride on horses deployed like men ready for battle against you, daughter of Babylon.

Is that when you'll say, "I'm God' to the face of those who will be killing you? After all, you're a man, and have never been a god, especially when you're under the control of those who will defile you!

Even the mercenary troops in her ranks are like a fattened calf. They too will turn around, and will flee together. They won't stand, for the day of their disaster is coming on them, the time of their punishment.

Pay them back, LORD, according to their actions.

""Look, I'm watching over them to bring disaster rather than good. Every person of Judah in the land of Egypt will be brought to an end by the sword and by famine until they're completely gone.

Then Kareah's son Jonathan spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah: "Let me go kill Nethaniah's son Ishmael, and no one will know. Why should he take your life? Otherwise all the Judeans who have gathered around you will be scattered, and the remnant of Judah will perish."

So Jeremiah came into the cells in the dungeon and remained there for a long time.

But neither he nor his officials nor the people of the land listened to the words of the LORD that were spoken by Jeremiah the prophet.

Concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, "This is what the LORD says: "You burned this scroll, all the while saying, "Why did you write on it that the king of Babylon will definitely come, destroy this land, and eliminate both people and animals from it?'"

Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.

Israel, trust in the LORD! He is their helper and shield.

The wicked person sees this and flies into a rage; his teeth gnash and wear away. The desire of the wicked will amount to nothing.

For this is what the LORD God of Israel says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that were torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword,

So will they be to you those with whom you toiled and did business since your childhood they wander about, each in his own direction; there is not one who can save you.

He holds in his hand the lowest parts of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him.

Then the prophet Isaiah came to King Hezekiah and asked him, "What did these men have to say? And from where did they come to you?" Hezekiah replied, "From a distant land they came to me from Babylon."

Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

Let everyone who surrounds the LORD your God make a vow and fulfill it to the Awesome One.

They, in turn, paid the carpenters and builders to purchase quarried stone and timber for binders and beams for the buildings that previous kings of Judah had let deteriorate.

He calmed the roar of seas, the roaring of the waves, and the turmoil of the nations.

God, shatter their teeth in their mouths; LORD, break the fangs of the young lions!

God, I have taken vows before you; therefore I will offer thanksgiving sacrifices to you.

For you, God, have heard my promises; you have assigned to me the heritage of those who fear your name.

He asked life from you, and you gave it to him a long life for ever and ever.

Then God spoke in his holiness, "I will rejoice I will divide Shechem; I will portion out the Succoth Valley.

He also eliminated the foreign gods and idols from the LORD's Temple, along with all of the altars that he had built in Jerusalem and on the mountain where the LORD's Temple was located, and he discarded them outside the city.

Descendants of Bazlith, Mehida, and Harsha.

After this, the whole assembly agreed to celebrate for another seven days, and so they did and they were very happy to do so!

Descendants of Bakbuk, Hakupha, and Harhur.

But he replied, "Distribute it to the people so they can eat, because this is what the LORD says: "They will eat and have a surplus!'" So he served them, and they ate and had some left over, just as the LORD had indicated.

for use by the ranks of priests and descendants of Levi, for all the work of service responsibilities in the Temple of the LORD, and for all of the utensils used in the work of the Temple of the LORD.

plus the 400 pomegranates for the two lattices (that is, the two rows of pomegranates for each lattice to cover the two bowls of the capitals that stood on top of the pillars),

Shimri's son Jediael and his brother Joha the Tizite,

You'll cling to life, being fearful by both night and day, with no assurance of survival.

Later, Solomon found out that Shimei had left Jerusalem, gone to Gath, and had returned,

Shimei replied to the king, "What your majesty has decreed is acceptable to me. I'll do what you've said." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for quite some time.

Then the woman came to Saul and saw that he was very disturbed. She told him, "Look, your servant obeyed you. I put my life into your hands, and I listened to your words that you spoke to me.

From that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel, and it remains to this present day.

They responded, "We've come here to arrest you and transfer you to the custody of the Philistines." Samson told them, "Promise me that you won't kill me."

"On the fourth day, you are to present ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

David rescued everyone whom the Amalekites had captured, including his two wives.

You are to offer this burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one year old lambs,

Humtah, Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), and Zior, for a total of nine cities and villages.

He will inflict on you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they won't be curable.

If he consecrates his field in the year of jubilee, it is to be based on your valuation.

This is to be separate and apart from the burnt offering for the New Moon, with its corresponding grain offering, the regular burnt offering with its corresponding grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their respective ordinances, as a pleasing aroma, an incinerated offering made to the LORD.

But when in the baldness of his head or his forehead there develops a skin rash that's white or reddish, it's an infectious skin disease that has spread to his bald head or forehead.

"Your signet ring, cord, and the staff in your hand," she suggested. So he gave them to her, had sex with her, and she became pregnant by him. Then she got up and left. Later, she took off her shawl and put on her mourning clothes.

and for swelling of the skin, scabs, and bright spots,

The descendant of Aaron's sons who brings the blood and the fat from the peace offering is to keep the right thigh for his own portion,

He made curtains of goat hair for a tent over the tent; he made 11 curtains.

"You are to make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards on one side of the tent,

In addition, he is to present a grain offering with it every morning, consisting of a sixth of an ephah mixed with one third of a hin of oil. This grain offering is to be offered to the LORD as a permanent ordinance.

But they responded, "We can't do that until all the sheep have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the opening of the well. Only then can we water the flock."

Pharaoh told Joseph, "Be sure to tell your brothers, "Do this: load up your livestock, go back to the land of Canaan,

The nave and the sanctuary each were equipped with double doors.

Next, he brought me to the inner courtyard by way of the south-facing gate. He measured the south-facing gate as having measurements identical to the others.

the least significant of kingdoms. It will never again dominate other nations. I will make them so small that they will never again rule any nation.

In order to stir up my anger and in order to take vengeance, I set the blood on a bare rock so that it cannot be covered.'

in Nebuchadnezzar's eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;

Her cities will become an object of horror, a dry land and a desert, a land in which no one lives, and through which no human being passes.

At the shout that Babylon has been seized, the earth will be shaken, and the cry will be heard among the nations.

Then they told Jeremiah, "May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we don't do everything that the LORD your God tells us through you.

Indeed the descendants of Rechab's son Jonadab have carried out the command of their ancestor that he gave them, but this people has not obeyed me."

To test God was in their minds, when they demanded food to satisfy their cravings.

"Go back, take another scroll and write on it all the original words which were on the scroll that Jehoiakim, king of Judah, burned.

I myself have commanded my consecrated ones; I have also summoned my warriors, those who rejoice in my triumph, to carry out my angry judgments.

I will bless its provisions abundantly; I will satiate its poor with food.

He turns a desert into a pool of water, dry land into springs of water.

I lie awake, yet I am like a bird isolated on a rooftop.

What can I say, so I tell myself, since he has done this to me? I will walk slowly all my years because of my soul's anguish.

Pay attention to my cry, for I have been brought very low. Deliver me from my tormentors, for they are far too strong for me.

Lord, listen to my voice; let your ears pay attention to what I ask of you!

He caused the rocks to split in the wilderness, and gave them water as from an abundant sea.

Then they say, "How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?"

His dynasty will last forever and his throne will be like the sun before me.

If I say, "I will talk like this," I would betray a generation of your children.

Like the shattering of my bones are the taunts of my oppressors, saying to me all day long, "Where is your God?"

So I say: "It causes me pain that the right hand of the Most High has changed."

Let neither the floodwaters overwhelm me nor let the deep swallow me up, nor the mouth of the well close over me.

I know all the birds in the mountains; indeed, everything that moves in the field is mine.

Be exalted above the heavens, God! May your glory cover the earth! To the Director: A special Davidic psalm to the tune of "Do Not Destroy".

Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"

God surely strikes the heads of his enemies, even the hairy heads of those who continue in their guilt.

The nobles among the nations have joined the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; he is greatly exalted. A song: Lyrics by the Sons of Korah.

Now if the closely related avenger pursues him, then they are not to hand the killer over to him, because he killed his neighbor without premeditation and without hating him beforehand.

Preserve my life and deliver me; do not let me be ashamed, because I take refuge in you.

You go before him with wonderful blessings, and put a crown of fine gold on his head.

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So they turned tail and ran away from the army of Israel toward the wilderness, but they were overtaken in battle when soldiers came out from the cities to destroy them.

"On the fifth day, you are to present nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen one year old lambs, all without defects,

Ashan with its surrounding suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its surrounding suburbs.

As a result, the entire army and all of Israel understood that day that the king had nothing to do with the murder of Ner's son Abner.

blue, purple, and scarlet material; fine linen and goat hair;

Then Abimelech and the soldiers who were with him rushed forward and commandeered the entrance to the city gate while the other two companies ran out to kill everyone who was in the field.

but we won't return to our homes until every Israeli has taken possession of each of their inheritances,

He made 50 loops in the one curtain, and he made 50 loops along the edge of the curtain that is in the second set, with the loops opposite each other.

one gold pan weighing ten shekels, full of incense;

there will be no surplus in the land due to the coming famine, because it will be very severe.

After this, Joseph addressed the people. "Pay attention," he said. "I've bought you and your land for Pharaoh today, in exchange for seed for you. Now go sow the land.

The following year, they came to him and reminded him, "We won't hide from you, your Excellency, that we've spent all of our money, and that our livestock all belong to you. There's nothing left to trade with you, your Excellency, except our bodies and our territories.

Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money that we found at the top of our sacks. How, then, could we have stolen silver or gold from your master's palace?

After all, how can I go back to my father if the young man doesn't accompany me? I'm afraid of what might happen to my father."

Abraham bowed before the people of the land

"Please don't delay me," the servant answered them. "The LORD has made my journey successful. Send me off so I can return to my master."

When the people who live in the land come into the LORD's presence during the festivals, whoever enters through the northern gate is to leave through the southern gate, and whoever enters through the southern gate is to leave through the northern gate. No one is to leave by the same route that he enters, but instead is to go straight out.

"I'll lead my people, my nation of Israel, across you mountains, and they will take possession of you again, and you'll be their inheritance once more. Never again will you leave them robbed of children.

I'm going to make your gangs die using the weapons of valiant warriors, all of whom are ruthless people. "They will devastate the majesty of Egypt, destroying all of its hordes.

"Moreover, I solemnly swore to them in the wilderness that I wouldn't bring them to the land that I had given them a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands

I'll establish my covenant with you, and then you'll know that I am the LORD.

As a result, this message came to me from the LORD:

Her cry will be like that of a fleeing serpent when they come in strength. They're coming to her with axes like woodcutters.

I'm also going to punish Moab, and that's how they'll learn that I am the LORD.'"

"I'll kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it will devour the strongholds of Ben-hadad."

but it is you a man whom I treated as my equal my personal confidant, my close friend!

The LORD has told you, remnant of Judah, "Don't go to Egypt!' So be fully aware that I've warned you, today,

"LORD, deliver me from lips that lie and tongues that deceive."

Then Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet,

They are created now, and not long ago; you didn't hear them before today, so you cannot say, "Yes, I knew them.'

As a result, there will be nothing for Egypt that head or tail, palm branch or reed, can do.

People will speak about the might of your great deeds, and I will announce your greatness.

He struck every firstborn in Egypt, the first fruits of their manhood in the tents of Ham.

Nevertheless, my eyes are on you, Lord GOD, as I seek protection in you. Don't leave me defenseless!

Let my prayer come before you; listen to my cry.

When you see a thief, you befriend him, and you keep company with adulterers.

Therefore I am commanding you to reserve three cities."

Do not group me with sinners, nor include me with men who shed blood.

They roasted the Passover in fire, as required by the ordinances, and boiled the holy things in pots, kettles, and pans, and delivered them quickly to all the people.

Josiah also removed all the detestable things from the territories that belonged to the people of Israel, and made everyone who lived in Israel to serve the LORD their God. For the rest of his life, they didn't abandon their quest to follow the LORD God of their ancestors.

"Let me speak! I need relief! Let me open my lips and respond.

Descendants of Jaala, Darkon, and Giddel,

everyone who prepares his own heart to seek God, the LORD God of his ancestors, even though he does so inconsistent with the laws of consecration."

or if he struck him with his hand out of hatred so that he died, then the killer is certainly to be put to death for murder. The avenger of blood is to put him to death when he meets him."

Don't you know what my predecessors have done to all the other people in other lands? Were the gods of the people who lived in those lands able to deliver their countries out of my control?

without regard to genealogical enrollment, to every male 30 years old and older that is, to everyone who entered the LORD's Temple as their duty obligations required for their work and duties according to their divisions

so they will fear you every day and live on the surface of the land that you have given to our ancestors.

And you are to make 40 silver sockets under the 20 boards: two sockets under the one board for its two pegs and two sockets under the next board for its two pegs.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did what the LORD had commanded Moses.

and one tenth of an ephah for each lamb of the seven lambs,

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting after the slaughter had been restrained.

You are to put it under the ledge of the altar, so that the netting extends halfway up the altar.

The opening of the robe was in the middle, like the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding around the opening so it would not be torn.

On the vine were three branches that budded. Blossoms shot out, and clusters grew up that produced ripe grapes.

from 30 to 50 years old; that is, everyone who entered the service to perform work at the Tent of Meeting.

When Joseph came to see them in the morning, he noticed how downcast they looked! They were both very sad.

Instead, Joseph ran outside, leaving his outer garment still in her hand. When she realized that he had left his outer garment right there in her hand, she ran outside

Jacob's wife Rachel's sons were Joseph and Benjamin.

This stack is a witness, and so is this pillar, reminding me not to cross beyond this stack of stones, and reminding you not to pass by this stack in my direction, intending to cause harm.

Also take twice as much money with you so you can return the money that had been replaced in the mouth of your sacks. Maybe it was an accounting mistake on his part.

Later on, as they went about unloading their sacks, each man's bundle of money was found in each man's sack. When they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were greatly distressed.

But if he gives a gift to any of his servants, it is to belong to the servant until the Year of Release, at which time it is to be returned to the Regent Prince. His inheritance is to belong only to his sons.

Each day during the seven days of the festival, he is to provide a burnt offering to the LORD, consisting of seven bulls and seven rams without defect, offered each day throughout the seven days, along with a male goat offered each day as a sin offering.

From the base on the ground to its lower edge is to be two cubits, with its width to be one cubit. From the lesser ledge to the larger edge is to be four cubits. Its width is to be one cubit.

Not only that, you've arrogantly reviled me many times over, and I've heard every word!

That's when they'll learn that I, the LORD their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people,' declares the Lord GOD.

the whisperings of my opponents, their scheming against me all day long.

You heard my voice don't close your ear to my sighs and cries.

Terror, pit, and trap will be used against you who live in Moab," declares the LORD.

We have lived in tents. We have obeyed and have done everything that our ancestor Jonadab commanded us.

Moab will be destroyed; her little ones will cry out.

and you also say, "No, but we will go to the land of Egypt where we won't see war or hear the sound of the trumpet or hunger for bread, and there we will stay,"

And they lift it on their shoulders, carry it, set it up in its place, and there it stands. It cannot move from that spot. One may even call to it, but it cannot answer nor save him from his distress.

I'll punish him, his descendants, and his officials for their iniquity. I'll bring on them, on the residents of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the calamity about which I've warned them, but they would not listen."'"

Jeremiah instructed Baruch, "I'm confined and can't go to the LORD's Temple.

So the prophet Hananiah died in the seventh month of that year.

Let's go to his dwelling place and worship at his footstool.

the LORD watches over the innocent; I was brought low, and he delivered me.

With their hands they will lift you up so you will not trip over a stone.

The priests, the prophets, and all the people listened as Jeremiah spoke these words at the LORD's Temple.

Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.

For they rebelled against him, so that he spoke thoughtlessly with his lips.

They will not be like the rebellious generation of their ancestors, a rebellious generation, whose heart was not steadfast, and whose spirits were unfaithful to God.

Let all who hate Zion be turned away and be ashamed.

He sent his servant Moses, along with Aaron, whom he had chosen.

He led his people out with gladness, his chosen ones with shouts of joy.

But he chose the tribe of Judah, the mountain of Zion, which he loves.

He built his sanctuary, high as the heavens, like the earth that he established forever.

People from the other Nebo: 52

He chose our inheritance for us, even the pride of Jacob whom he loved. Interlude

Then the prophet quickly tore off his bandage, and the king of Israel recognized him as being one of the prophets.

Then the elders of the city are to summon him and speak with him. If he insists on saying, "I don't want to marry her,'

Heshbon with its surrounding suburbs, and Jazer with its surrounding suburbs.

who had been fathered by Amzi, who had been fathered by Bani, who had been fathered by Shemer,

Caleb's mistress Maacah bore Sheber, Tirhanah,

They traveled from Haradah, then rested in Makheloth.

They traveled from Mount Shepher, then rested in Haradah.

"Look!" Laban added, "Here is the stack of stones and here is the pillar that I've set up between you and me.

She bestowed her sexual favors on them all of them, the best of the Assyrians and with whomever she lusted for.

and told him, "Your servants took a count of the soldiers who were under our authority. We didn't miss a single man.

and properly arranged the bread on it in the LORD's presence, just as the LORD had commanded him.

He sent his father ten male donkeys loaded with the best of Egyptian goods and ten female donkeys loaded with grain, bread, and provisions for his father during the journey.

Then Jacob blessed Pharaoh and then left the throne room.

We have obeyed everything that our ancestor, Rechab's son Jonadab, commanded us. So we, our wives, our sons, and our daughters have drunk no wine all our lives,

"Now with respect to the priests' inheritances, I am to be their inheritance, and you are to give them no possession in Israel, since I am their possession.

"Your majesty, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to the prophet Jeremiah by throwing him into the cistern. He will die where he is because of the famine since there is no more bread in the city."

The earth will quake at the sound of their fall. A cry it's her voice is heard at the Reed Sea.

Their eyes bulge from obesity and the imaginations of their mind cross the border into sin.

Look, I'm bringing terror on you from all around you," declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies. "You will be driven out, fleeing recklessly, and there will be no one to gather the fugitives.