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19003

So they said, “Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.”

19004

and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,

19006

Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you:

19007

If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.

19008

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

19009

Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

19010

“I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether the vine had budded
Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

19011

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

19013

The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

19015

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

19016

Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

19017

Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

19018

Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.

19019

And when he learned that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself also was in Jerusalem at that time.

19020

and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

19021

So the waters have been purified to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

19022

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

19023

You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any defect, for that is a detestable thing to the Lord your God.

19024

A wicked man displays a bold face,
But as for the upright, he makes his way sure.

19025

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

19026

and the priest shall look, and behold, if it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.

19027

His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

19028

And they will make their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will cast dust on their heads,
They will wallow in ashes.

19029

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

19030

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

19032

Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”

19033

And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

19034

Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said,
Rise up, O Lord!
And let Your enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate You flee before You.”

19035

All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

19037

Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush.

19038

Answering them, He *said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”

19039

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will dwell securely.

19040

Thus says the Lord,
“The people who survived the sword
Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when it went to find its rest.”

19041

Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”

19044

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

19045

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

19046

“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

19047

The people who were camped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

19048

Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

19050

You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

19051

When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

19052

Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

19053

“In those days they will not say again,
The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

19054

But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

19056

Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day?
Can a nation be brought forth all at once?
As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.

19057

In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

19058

Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely woven garments for ministering in the holy place as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

19059

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Or for rulers to desire strong drink,

19060

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

19061

The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,

19062

Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor.”

19064

“As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down.”

19065

Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

19066

His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

19071

And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.

19072

Strike a scoffer and the naive may become shrewd,
But reprove one who has understanding and he will gain knowledge.

19073

He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

19074

And they could make no reply to this.

19075

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;

19076

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

19077

He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?

19078

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

19079

Sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless.
“Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with continual burning?”

19080

But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

19081

And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes and the surrounding district asked Him to leave them, for they were gripped with great fear; and He got into a boat and returned.

19082

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

19084

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

19085

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

19086

Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

19087

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

19088

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me.

19089

Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!

19090

For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

19092

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

19093

Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

19094

And Abram said, “Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir.”

19095

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

19096

Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that your joy may be made full.

19097

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of hosts
In the day of His burning anger.

19098

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

19099

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

19100

And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:
The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while having visions,
They totter when rendering judgment.

19101

Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Lord’s Passover.

19103

to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

19104

Answering again, Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

19105

and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

19106

Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

19107

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.

19108

“His hands are rods of gold
Set with beryl;
His abdomen is carved ivory
Inlaid with sapphires.

19109

“Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

19110

How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

19111

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

19112

So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife.”

19113

“Those slain by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

19115

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David.
I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

19116

But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

19117

When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

19118

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

19119

After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

19120

and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel on the west and to Shihor-libnath.

19121

Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.

19123

So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people came out of Egypt; behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.

19124

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

19125

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding there on the mountain; and the demons implored Him to permit them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission.

19126

Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

19127

His servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

19128

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

19129

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

19130

In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

19131

The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

19132

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

19133

“Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;
I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

19134

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

19135

When they called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

19136

Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies—

19137

“I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies
And of the son of man who is made like grass,

19138

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

19139

Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

19140

But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

19141

Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

19142

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate Him flee before Him.

19143

“He quieted the sea with His power,
And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

19144

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

19145

“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously
With the pinion and plumage of love,

19146

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

19148

He said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.

19149

Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, Behold My mother and My brothers!

19150

And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he began to speak in praise of God.

19151

Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

19152

As they were eating, He said, Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”

19154

Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

19155

This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

19157

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

19158

Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.

19159

Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown in the mountain.

19162

On my bed night after night I sought him
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.

19163

Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

19164

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

19165

The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

19166

Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

19168

And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the children?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

19169

Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

19170

And he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death; therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

19171

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

19172

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

19173

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

19174

And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

19175

He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

19176

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life.”

19177

If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

19179

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

19180

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

19181

“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.

19182

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God to do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to do wrong.

19183

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.

19184

“You are wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

19185

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

19186

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.

19187

“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them.”

19189

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

19190

This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

19191

Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

19192

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19193

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

19194

“His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are lilies
Dripping with liquid myrrh.

19196

And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?

19198

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

19199

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

19200

You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

19201

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

19202

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned two years.

19203

“Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

19204

The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

19205

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and his son Asa became king in his place. The land was undisturbed for ten years during his days.

19207

Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.

19208

Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”

19209

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,
He has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.

19210

It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

19211

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

19213

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

19214

Nevertheless, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one male.”

19215

He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities.

19217

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”

19218

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

19219

They went away and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.

19220

Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

19221

and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

19222

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

19223

So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

19224

having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

19226

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

19227

And since he would not be persuaded, we fell silent, remarking, “The will of the Lord be done!”

19228

Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

19230

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

19231

Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.

19232

I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

19233

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

19234

It is your destruction, O Israel,
That you are against Me, against your help.

19235

For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated.

19236

‘Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’

19237

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

19238

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

19239

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

19240

And all who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

19241

Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

19242

He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

19243

Your eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things.

19244

His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

19245

Then the second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

19246

The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

19247

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very severe plague.

19248

What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

19249

Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

19250

Coastlands, listen to Me in silence,
And let the peoples gain new strength;
Let them come forward, then let them speak;
Let us come together for judgment.

19251

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

19252

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

19253

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

19254

The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

19255

As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

19256

On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

19257

and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

19258

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

19259

“But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

19260

That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

19261

And Job again took up his discourse and said,

19262

and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.’

19264

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.

19265

Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

19266

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

19267

“When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

19268

What, O my son?
And what, O son of my womb?
And what, O son of my vows?

19269

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

19270

For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us
And Israel does not recognize us.
You, O Lord, are our Father,
Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

19271

“As I see him from the top of the rocks,
And I look at him from the hills;
Behold, a people who dwells apart,
And will not be reckoned among the nations.

19272

Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

19273

So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

19274

and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

19275

And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.

19276

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

19278

Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,

19279

But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

19280

Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”

19281

“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;
Moreover, all men will follow after him,
While countless ones go before him.

19282

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.

19283

Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

19284

Jesus *came and *took the bread and *gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

19285

Thus they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord journeying in front of them for the three days, to seek out a resting place for them.

19286

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

19287

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

19288

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

19289

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

19290

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!
Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people
And will have compassion on His afflicted.

19291

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were in the high place at Gibeon at that time.

19292

You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the Lord.

19293

So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

19294

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

19295

Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of the sons of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,

19297

Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

19298

They answered and said to him, “If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you.”

19299

“This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.

19300

“Behold, the former things have come to pass,
Now I declare new things;
Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

19301

Alas, oh land of whirring wings
Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,

19302

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines.

19303

There were also many burnt offerings with the fat of the peace offerings and with the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was established again.

19304

‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

19305

Thus I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

19307

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

19308

You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

19309

Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.

19310

The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

19311

then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

19312

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary

19313

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

19314

“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

19315

So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

19316

They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

19317

Then he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

19318

They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

19319

Jesus *said to him, Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

19321

Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

19322

Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment.

19323

And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance
That I gave you;
And I will make you serve your enemies
In the land which you do not know;
For you have kindled a fire in My anger
Which will burn forever.

19324

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

19325

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

19326

Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’

19327

Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

19328

Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.

19329

and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

19330

The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.

19331

From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

19332

You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

19333

‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

19334

Speak kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
That her iniquity has been removed,
That she has received of the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

19335

But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”

19336

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

19337

Again he says,
Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

19338

The righteous cry, and the Lord hears
And delivers them out of all their troubles.

19339

Give her the product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

19340

Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

19341

When He saw them, He said to them, Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed.

19342

Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning on her beloved?”
Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;
There your mother was in labor with you,
There she was in labor and gave you birth.

19343

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

19344

Now as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them.

19345

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.

19346

Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing by the servants of Saul, said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

19347

Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

19348

The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

19350

Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

19351

The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
And may my name live on in them,
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

19352

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

19353

And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

19354

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

19355

Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

19356

Now Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. For Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught fast in the oak, so he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him kept going.

19357

When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surely require it of you.

19358

and Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.

19360

But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

19361

Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

19362

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

19364

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea
Or walked in the recesses of the deep?

19365

because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

19366

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

19367

He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.

19368

Therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.’

19369

The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

19370

“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,

19371

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

19372

The leech has two daughters,
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:

19373

You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

19374

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
I would bind it to myself like a crown.

19375

Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul’s hand.

19377

When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

19378

As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

19379

She looks for wool and flax
And works with her hands in delight.

19380

A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water,
But a man of understanding draws it out.

19382

He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

19383

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

19384

She said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household idols.

19385

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

19386

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]

19387

Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him.”

19388

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

19389

And he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”

19390

The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

19391

David found favor in God’s sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

19392

‘The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

19393

“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring My sons from afar
And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

19394

For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

19395

Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

19396

The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

19398

Tell of His glory among the nations,
His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

19399

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and the house of his armor and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

19400

You shall do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

19401

Lift up a standard on the bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

19402

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.

19403

For this reason in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for the Lord God who judges her is strong.

19404

Now do not be grieved or angry with yourselves, because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.

19405

or by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

19406

“Inasmuch as I exalted you from the dust and made you leader over My people Israel, and you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have made My people Israel sin, provoking Me to anger with their sins,

19407

Jeroboam said to his wife, “Arise now, and disguise yourself so that they will not know that you are the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; behold, Ahijah the prophet is there, who spoke concerning me that I would be king over this people.

19408

“Truly is not my house so with God?
For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Ordered in all things, and secured;
For all my salvation and all my desire,
Will He not indeed make it grow?

19409

“How long will you hunt for words?
Show understanding and then we can talk.

19410

I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul.

19412

And I said, ‘Thus far you shall come, but no farther;
And here shall your proud waves stop’?

19414

And his ears were opened, and the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.

19415

we acknowledge this in every way and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.

19416

There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

19417

“Before I was aware, my soul set me
Over the chariots of my noble people.”

19418

“They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.

19419

You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin; I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the land of Egypt.

19421

Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

19422

“Your lips, my bride, drip honey;
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
And the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

19423

Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me;
O Lord, be my helper.”

19424

Then Zimri went in and struck him and put him to death in the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and became king in his place.

19425

Now therefore, please pardon my sin and return with me, that I may worship the Lord.”

19426

Therefore the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness,
According to the cleanness of my hands in His eyes.

19427

The priests: the sons of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, 973;

19428

Then he said, “Let me go, for the dawn is breaking.” But he said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

19429

The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua the sons of Saul.

19430

Now Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.

19431

We will not conceal them from their children,
But tell to the generation to come the praises of the Lord,
And His strength and His wondrous works that He has done.

19432

For You do not delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it;
You are not pleased with burnt offering.

19433

“A certain Ananias, a man who was devout by the standard of the Law, and well spoken of by all the Jews who lived there,

19434

and the human beings were 16,000, from whom the Lord’s levy was 32 persons.

19435

They shall be My people, and I will be their God;

19437

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

19438

In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came from the Lord, saying,

19439

Where has your beloved gone,
O most beautiful among women?
Where has your beloved turned,
That we may seek him with you?”

19440

For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’

19442

At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram, and cleared the Judeans out of Elath entirely; and the Arameans came to Elath and have lived there to this day.

19443

Amalek is living in the land of the Negev and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill country, and the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan.”

19444

Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

19445

So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

19446

If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays.”

19447

and lay them at the apostles’ feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.

19448

Peter said to Him, “Explain the parable to us.”

19449

Samuel said to Saul, “You have acted foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, for now the Lord would have established your kingdom over Israel forever.

19450

In that day there will be no light; the luminaries will dwindle.

19451

Then David said to Gad, “I am in great distress. Let us now fall into the hand of the Lord for His mercies are great, but do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

19452

And a voice came from the throne, saying,Give praise to our God, all you His bond-servants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.”

19453

The Lord was pleased for His righteousness’ sake
To make the law great and glorious.

19454

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;
Lovingkindness and truth go before You.

19455

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who pastures his flock among the lilies.”

19456

at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.

19457

“Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself;
For emptiness will be his reward.

19459

Then David arose and fled that day from Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath.

19460

Your children, however, whom you said would become a prey—I will bring them in, and they will know the land which you have rejected.

19461

The king charged Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, “Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom.” And all the people heard when the king charged all the commanders concerning Absalom.

19462

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven altars for me here, and prepare seven bulls and seven rams for me here.”

19464

and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

19465

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to make his defense against the charges.

19466

and the third married her; and in the same way all seven died, leaving no children.

19467

Now the chief priests and the whole Council kept trying to obtain testimony against Jesus to put Him to death, and they were not finding any.

19468

Our help is in the name of the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

19469

“Indeed, the light of the wicked goes out,
And the flame of his fire gives no light.

19470

King Solomon answered and said to his mother, “And why are you asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him also the kingdom—for he is my older brother—even for him, for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah!”

19471

The sons of Israel shall camp, each man by his own camp, and each man by his own standard, according to their armies.

19472

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people set out for Hazeroth, and they remained at Hazeroth.

19473

a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all around on the hem of the robe.

19474

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

19475

Now there were seven brothers; and the first took a wife and died childless;

19476

Then Jacob became angry and contended with Laban; and Jacob said to Laban, “What is my transgression? What is my sin that you have hotly pursued me?

19477

And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

19478

“I have made a covenant with My chosen;
I have sworn to David My servant,

19479

Come, my people, enter into your rooms
And close your doors behind you;
Hide for a little while
Until indignation runs its course.

19481

and to offer all burnt offerings to the Lord, on the sabbaths, the new moons and the fixed festivals in the number set by the ordinance concerning them, continually before the Lord.

19482

The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple treasury, since it is the price of blood.”

19483

The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the Lord as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

19484

Therefore we said, ‘It shall also come about if they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, then we shall say, “See the copy of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it is a witness between us and you.”’

19485

“Oh that I were as in months gone by,
As in the days when God watched over me;

19486

Of Levi he said,
“Let Your Thummim and Your Urim belong to Your godly man,
Whom You proved at Massah,
With whom You contended at the waters of Meribah;

19487

What do you mean by using this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying,
The fathers eat the sour grapes,
But the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

19488

Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

19489

For My angel will go before you and bring you in to the land of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I will completely destroy them.

19490

Then Joseph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him and kissed him.

19491

And they made signs to his father, as to what he wanted him called.

19492

For handfuls of barley and fragments of bread, you have profaned Me to My people to put to death some who should not die and to keep others alive who should not live, by your lying to My people who listen to lies.”’”

19493

Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

19494

and wherever the sons of men dwell, or the beasts of the field, or the birds of the sky, He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them all. You are the head of gold.

19495

For He established a testimony in Jacob
And appointed a law in Israel,
Which He commanded our fathers
That they should teach them to their children,

19496

So do not listen to them, for more than forty of them are lying in wait for him who have bound themselves under a curse not to eat or drink until they slay him; and now they are ready and waiting for the promise from you.”

19497

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
O Lord, You showed favor to Your land;
You restored the captivity of Jacob.

19498

Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jerushah the daughter of Zadok.

19499

Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, “May God do so to me and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life.

19500

Then his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, facing Mamre,

19501

Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

19502

And again,
Praise the Lord all you Gentiles,
And let all the peoples praise Him.”

19505

and will hand Him over to the Gentiles to mock and scourge and crucify Him, and on the third day He will be raised up.”

19506

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur the son of Malchijah, and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, saying,

19508

if you obey the Lord your God to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.

19509

You shall become a horror, a proverb, and a taunt among all the people where the Lord drives you.

19510

So the king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them (now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel but of the remnant of the Amorites, and the sons of Israel made a covenant with them, but Saul had sought to kill them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah).

19511

You shall not eat leavened bread with it; seven days you shall eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), so that you may remember all the days of your life the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

19512

Now it came about after many days, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,

19514

‘Now if the means of a stranger or of a sojourner with you becomes sufficient, and a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to him as to sell himself to a stranger who is sojourning with you, or to the descendants of a stranger’s family,

19516

Yet the Lord warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, “Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets.”

19517

If anyone has an ear, let him hear.

19518

How precious is Your lovingkindness, O God!
And the children of men take refuge in the shadow of Your wings.

19519

“The pillars of heaven tremble
And are amazed at His rebuke.

19520

He who tills his land will have plenty of food,
But he who follows empty pursuits will have poverty in plenty.

19522

“Speak to the sons of Israel, and get from them a rod for each father’s household: twelve rods, from all their leaders according to their fathers’ households. You shall write each name on his rod,

19523

And it will be said in that day,
“Behold, this is our God for whom we have waited that He might save us.
This is the Lord for whom we have waited;
Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”

19524

I, in turn, will do this to you: I will appoint over you a sudden terror, consumption and fever that will waste away the eyes and cause the soul to pine away; also, you will sow your seed uselessly, for your enemies will eat it up.

19525

When I kept silent about my sin, my body wasted away
Through my groaning all day long.

19526

The governor said to them that they should not eat from the most holy things until a priest stood up with Urim and Thummim.

19527

And he said, “Now behold, my lords, please turn aside into your servant’s house, and spend the night, and wash your feet; then you may rise early and go on your way.” They said however, “No, but we shall spend the night in the square.”

19528

Then the border went up the valley of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain which is before the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of the valley of Rephaim toward the north.

19529

and he said, “The Lord has sworn; the Lord will have war against Amalek from generation to generation.”

19530

After coming, Judas immediately went to Him, saying, “Rabbi!” and kissed Him.

19531

These also cast lots just as their relatives the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, Zadok, Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ households of the priests and of the Levites—the head of fathers’ households as well as those of his younger brother.

19532

The sons of Dan said to him, “Do not let your voice be heard among us, or else fierce men will fall upon you and you will lose your life, with the lives of your household.”

19533

He makes the winds His messengers,
Flaming fire His ministers.

19534

Then the Lord spoke to Aaron, “Now behold, I Myself have given you charge of My offerings, even all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual allotment.

19535

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, Pharaoh’s officer, the captain of the bodyguard.

19536

For a fire is kindled in My anger,
And burns to the lowest part of Sheol,
And consumes the earth with its yield,
And sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

19537

You shall not move your neighbor’s boundary mark, which the ancestors have set, in your inheritance which you will inherit in the land that the Lord your God gives you to possess.

19540

Then the inhabitants of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, his youngest son, king in his place, for the band of men who came with the Arabs to the camp had slain all the older sons. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

19541

Solomon sought therefore to put Jeroboam to death; but Jeroboam arose and fled to Egypt to Shishak king of Egypt, and he was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

19542

The people went out to see what had happened; and they came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had gone out, sitting down at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind; and they became frightened.

19543

then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.

19545

Then the sons of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish, we are dying, we are all dying!

19546

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19547

The nations will see your righteousness,
And all kings your glory;
And you will be called by a new name
Which the mouth of the Lord will designate.

19548

Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates which were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on one’s left at the city gate.

19549

And when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and came to Mitylene.

19550

Present your case,” the Lord says.
“Bring forward your strong arguments,”
The King of Jacob says.

19551

Then he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord, saying,

19553

The king said to Ziba, “Why do you have these?” And Ziba said, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, and the bread and summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the wine, for whoever is faint in the wilderness to drink.”

19554

‘All its land is brimstone and salt, a burning waste, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’

19555

But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.”

19556

and who owned a tract of land, sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

19557

If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death at the evidence of witnesses, but no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness.

19558

“On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their armies, and the leader of the sons of Ephraim shall be Elishama the son of Ammihud,

19559

The sons of Israel departed from there at that time, every man to his tribe and family, and each one of them went out from there to his inheritance.

19560

But He answered them, “You give them something to eat!” And they *said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii on bread and give them something to eat?”

19562

and Esau went to Ishmael, and married, besides the wives that he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.

19563

Our fathers were unwilling to be obedient to him, but repudiated him and in their hearts turned back to Egypt,

19564

Fear came on all those living around them; and all these matters were being talked about in all the hill country of Judea.

19565

Kings will be your guardians,
And their princesses your nurses.
They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth
And lick the dust of your feet;
And you will know that I am the Lord;
Those who hopefully wait for Me will not be put to shame.

19567

Then the disciples *came and *said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?”

19568

and the sign or the wonder comes true, concerning which he spoke to you, saying, ‘Let us go after other gods (whom you have not known) and let us serve them,’

19569

He took curds and milk and the calf which he had prepared, and placed it before them; and he was standing by them under the tree as they ate.

19570

Now in the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was from Gibeon, spoke to me in the house of the Lord in the presence of the priests and all the people, saying,

19571

Thus says the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel and its Holy One,
To the despised One,
To the One abhorred by the nation,
To the Servant of rulers,
Kings will see and arise,
Princes will also bow down,
Because of the Lord who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel who has chosen You.”

19572

Ithai the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the sons of Benjamin, Benaiah the Pirathonite,

19573

Then Moses and the elders of Israel charged the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I command you today.

19574

For thus the Lord, the God of Israel, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

19575

And Jesus answered and said, “You unbelieving and perverted generation, how long shall I be with you and put up with you? Bring your son here.”

19576

and of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites; and of Hepher, the family of the Hepherites.

19577

But if any man thinks that he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin daughter, if she is past her youth, and if it must be so, let him do what he wishes, he does not sin; let her marry.

19578

Moreover, he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall inquire for him by the judgment of the Urim before the Lord. At his command they shall go out and at his command they shall come in, both he and the sons of Israel with him, even all the congregation.”

19579

But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Christ has been raised;

19580

“When I passed by you and saw you squirming in your blood, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’ Yes, I said to you while you were in your blood, ‘Live!’

19581

It came about after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi.

19582

And He commanded them all to sit down by groups on the green grass.

19583

Then they will comfort you when you see their conduct and actions, for you will know that I have not done in vain whatever I did to it,” declares the Lord God.

19585

But the anger of Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram burned; against Job his anger burned because he justified himself before God.

19586

Zayin.
Remember the word to Your servant,
In which You have made me hope.

19587

Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

19588

You turn things around!
Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay,
That what is made would say to its maker, “He did not make me”;
Or what is formed say to him who formed it, “He has no understanding”?

19591

For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them,

19592

So the next day they rose early and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

19593

You shall not give him your silver at interest, nor your food for gain.

19594

So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

19595

Now the news came to Joab, for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he had not followed Absalom. And Joab fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar.

19597

And Abijam slept with his fathers and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son became king in his place.

19598

Now these are the territories which the sons of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel apportioned to them for an inheritance,

19599

They said to one another, “Here comes this dreamer!

19600

The half, the portion of those who went out to war, was as follows: the number of sheep was 337,500,

19601

saying to Aaron, ‘Make for us gods who will go before us; for this Moses who led us out of the land of Egyptwe do not know what happened to him.’

19602

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets also; and You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste of death.’

19603

But bring with you also your brothers, the tribe of Levi, the tribe of your father, that they may be joined with you and serve you, while you and your sons with you are before the tent of the testimony.

19604

Which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples,

19607

They will also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewels.

19608

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will not escape.

19609

They have acted corruptly toward Him,
They are not His children, because of their defect;
But are a perverse and crooked generation.

19610

Ahab called Obadiah who was over the household. (Now Obadiah feared the Lord greatly;

19611

From the fruit of a man’s mouth he enjoys good,
But the desire of the treacherous is violence.

19612

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from heaven, saying, ‘King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is declared: sovereignty has been removed from you,

19613

When he returned later to take her, he turned aside to look at the carcass of the lion; and behold, a swarm of bees and honey were in the body of the lion.

19614

You fools and blind men! Which is more important, the gold or the temple that sanctified the gold?

19615

Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day when you enter an inner room to hide yourself.”

19616

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.

19617

Moreover, I will make My dwelling among you, and My soul will not reject you.

19618

God brings them out of Egypt,
He is for them like the horns of the wild ox.

19619

because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the Lord when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants that they should become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

19620

But the bystanders said, “Do you revile God’s high priest?”

19621

“Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel;
I will help you,” declares the Lord, “and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

19622

You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

19623

So Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are among you, and purify yourselves and change your garments;

19624

When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his mantle and went out and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

19625

It is good for me that I was afflicted,
That I may learn Your statutes.

19626

Praise the Lord!
I will give thanks to the Lord with all my heart,
In the company of the upright and in the assembly.

19627

May he also rule from sea to sea
And from the River to the ends of the earth.

19628

For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah.
O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days,
In the days of old.

19629

All the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!

19630

Beware that there is no base thought in your heart, saying, ‘The seventh year, the year of remission, is near,’ and your eye is hostile toward your poor brother, and you give him nothing; then he may cry to the Lord against you, and it will be a sin in you.

19631

Now the lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to their families reached the border of Edom, southward to the wilderness of Zin at the extreme south.

19632

Then Elihu continued and said,

19633

After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, saying, “Certainly this man also was with Him, for he is a Galilean too.”

19634

And hearing this, they were amazed, and leaving Him, they went away.

19635

Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek, while the Israelites were camping by the spring which is in Jezreel.

19636

And they were talking with each other about all these things which had taken place.

19637

Who say to the seers, “You must not see visions”;
And to the prophets, “You must not prophesy to us what is right,
Speak to us pleasant words,
Prophesy illusions.

19638

He causes the grass to grow for the cattle,
And vegetation for the labor of man,
So that he may bring forth food from the earth,

19639

Encourage the exhausted, and strengthen the feeble.

19640

May my prayer be counted as incense before You;
The lifting up of my hands as the evening offering.

19641

Why are times not stored up by the Almighty,
And why do those who know Him not see His days?

19642

“Water will flow from his buckets,
And his seed will be by many waters,
And his king shall be higher than Agag,
And his kingdom shall be exalted.

19643

Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things and said to Him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

19644

All the prosperous of the earth will eat and worship,
All those who go down to the dust will bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep his soul alive.

19645

Therefore through this Jacob’s iniquity will be forgiven;
And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sin:
When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones;
When Asherim and incense altars will not stand.

19646

They settled from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt as one goes toward Assyria; he settled in defiance of all his relatives.

19648

Now this is the enumeration of the sons of Israel, the heads of fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in all the affairs of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, each division numbering 24,000:

19649

of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other end),

19651

But striking a reef where two seas met, they ran the vessel aground; and the prow stuck fast and remained immovable, but the stern began to be broken up by the force of the waves.

19652

But You, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger and abundant in lovingkindness and truth.

19653

For you have made the Lord, my refuge,
Even the Most High, your dwelling place.

19654

A man’s gift makes room for him
And brings him before great men.

19655

So David said to Joab and to the princes of the people, “Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, and bring me word that I may know their number.”

19656

Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

19657

but they kept on calling out, saying, “Crucify, crucify Him!”

19658

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19660

The other was named Eliezer, for he said, “The God of my father was my help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh.”

19661

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

19662

“His legs are pillars of alabaster
Set on pedestals of pure gold;
His appearance is like Lebanon
Choice as the cedars.

19663

Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest and the leaders returned from the sons of Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the sons of Israel, and brought back word to them.

19664

you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.

19665

Then it came about in the morning that Balak took Balaam and brought him up to the high places of Baal, and he saw from there a portion of the people.

19666

It came about on the seventh day that some of the people went out to gather, but they found none.

19667

Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am tired of living because of the daughters of Heth; if Jacob takes a wife from the daughters of Heth, like these, from the daughters of the land, what good will my life be to me?”

19668

But I do not seek My glory; there is One who seeks and judges.

19670

When He had entered Jerusalem, all the city was stirred, saying, “Who is this?”

19671

When Pashhur the priest, the son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,

19672

Listen, my son, and be wise,
And direct your heart in the way.

19673

So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.

19674

And no resident will say, “I am sick”;
The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

19675

and say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this man in prison and feed him sparingly with bread and water until I return safely.”’”

19676

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is your father’s nakedness.

19677

Have I not written to you excellent things
Of counsels and knowledge,

19678

He who neglects discipline despises himself,
But he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.

19679

It is definitely because they have misled My people by saying, ‘Peace!’ when there is no peace. And when anyone builds a wall, behold, they plaster it over with whitewash;

19680

So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent letters to the elders and to the nobles who were living with Naboth in his city.

19681

Now after this it came about that David defeated the Philistines and subdued them and took Gath and its towns from the hand of the Philistines.

19683

So the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, Armoni and Mephibosheth whom she had borne to Saul, and the five sons of Merab the daughter of Saul, whom she had borne to Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite.

19684

When the layer of dew evaporated, behold, on the surface of the wilderness there was a fine flake-like thing, fine as the frost on the ground.

19685

and I saw Him saying to me, Make haste, and get out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not accept your testimony about Me.’

19686

The Lord gave Lachish into the hands of Israel; and he captured it on the second day, and struck it and every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

19687

For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.’

19689

and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord at Shiloh, was wearing an ephod. And the people did not know that Jonathan had gone.

19690

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother; and Jonadab was a very shrewd man.

19691

When Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

19692

‘Also on the day of the first fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the Lord in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.

19694

And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.

19696

The king has also said thus, ‘Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.’”

19698

Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron. And the people who were with him were about six hundred men,

19699

The Lord also spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

19700

They laid hands on Him and seized Him.

19701

For evildoers will be cut off,
But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.

19702

But the rest of them said, “Let us see whether Elijah will come to save Him.”

19704

Thus it came about on the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

19707

Now behold, a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Have you seen all this great multitude? Behold, I will deliver them into your hand today, and you shall know that I am the Lord.’”

19708

“Will you speak what is unjust for God,
And speak what is deceitful for Him?

19709

Then he made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide, square, and three cubits high.

19710

When He came to the house, He did not allow anyone to enter with Him, except Peter and John and James, and the girl’s father and mother.

19712

If a fellow countryman of yours becomes so poor he has to sell part of his property, then his nearest kinsman is to come and buy back what his relative has sold.

19713

Now the rest of the acts of Baasha and what he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

19714

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know, so that they will be put to shame.

19715

This is what everyone who is numbered shall give: half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel as a contribution to the Lord.

19717

But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their Asherim

19718

Then the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three officers of the temple.

19719

and did not find His body, they came, saying that they had also seen a vision of angels who said that He was alive.

19720

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

19721

But when Jesus heard this, He answered him, Do not be afraid any longer; only believe, and she will be made well.”

19722

Now he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out the way before him to Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

19723

On that day the deaf will hear words of a book,
And out of their gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.

19724

There are three things which are too wonderful for me,
Four which I do not understand:

19725

As for those of you who may be left, I will also bring weakness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. And the sound of a driven leaf will chase them, and even when no one is pursuing they will flee as though from the sword, and they will fall.

19726

He will also enter the Beautiful Land, and many countries will fall; but these will be rescued out of his hand: Edom, Moab and the foremost of the sons of Ammon.

19727

“Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lord your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed.

19728

The heart of King David longed to go out to Absalom; for he was comforted concerning Amnon, since he was dead.

19729

They sacrificed to demons who were not God,
To gods whom they have not known,
New gods who came lately,
Whom your fathers did not dread.

19731

saying, “This man persuades men to worship God contrary to the law.”

19732

for the twenty-third to Mahazioth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

19733

Therefore, keep up your courage, men, for I believe God that it will turn out exactly as I have been told.

19734

So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

19736

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.

19737

Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the way against me. Now then, if it is displeasing to you, I will turn back.”

19740

So they made war against Midian, just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they killed every male.

19741

On this day in the month of Abib, you are about to go forth.

19742

But Er, Judah’s firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, so the Lord took his life.

19743

He will come and destroy these vine-growers and will give the vineyard to others.” When they heard it, they said, “May it never be!”

19744

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.

19745

So from that day on they planned together to kill Him.

19746

Then the lame will leap like a deer,
And the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.
For waters will break forth in the wilderness
And streams in the Arabah.

19748

and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

19750

Two things I asked of You,
Do not refuse me before I die:

19751

Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord will destroy the city.” But he appeared to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

19753

Then on that day David first assigned Asaph and his relatives to give thanks to the Lord.

19754

Obil the Ishmaelite had charge of the camels; and Jehdeiah the Meronothite had charge of the donkeys.

19755

and his relatives, capable men, were 2,700 in number, heads of fathers’ households. And King David made them overseers of the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of the Manassites concerning all the affairs of God and of the king.

19757

but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s flock at Bethlehem.

19758

Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker:
Ask Me about the things to come concerning My sons,
And you shall commit to Me the work of My hands.

19759

from the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel the son of Sodi;

19760

Will it go down with me to Sheol?
Shall we together go down into the dust?”

19761

But Joseph said to them, “Do not be afraid, for am I in God’s place?

19762

“This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing. Now he shall be brought to the priest,

19764

and seat two worthless men before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king.’ Then take him out and stone him to death.”

19766

I will vindicate the holiness of My great name which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord,” declares the Lord God, “when I prove Myself holy among you in their sight.

19767

and because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, because of his provocation with which he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.

19768

Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

19770

He shall put on the holy linen tunic, and the linen undergarments shall be next to his body, and he shall be girded with the linen sash and attired with the linen turban (these are holy garments). Then he shall bathe his body in water and put them on.

19771

“Now after a long time the master of those slaves *came and *settled accounts with them.

19772

and said, “Sir, we remember that when He was still alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I am to rise again.’

19773

As I live,” declares the Lord God, “Sodom, your sister and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done.

19774

“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,
Gird yourselves with sackcloth and lament,
And rush back and forth inside the walls;
For Malcam will go into exile
Together with his priests and his princes.

19775

So the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and you; intercede with the Lord, that He may remove the serpents from us.” And Moses interceded for the people.

19776

Apply your heart to discipline
And your ears to words of knowledge.

19777

After whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog, a single flea?

19778

Then the woman came and told her husband, saying, “A man of God came to me and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. And I did not ask him where he came from, nor did he tell me his name.

19779

“This is the wicked man’s portion from God,
Even the heritage decreed to him by God.”

19781

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she rose and destroyed all the royal offspring of the house of Judah.

19782

So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.

19783

Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19784

So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come concerning my wages. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, will be considered stolen.”

19785

Then all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. And he said, “Surely I will go down to Sheol in mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

19786

Dimnah with its pasture lands, Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.

19787

therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and He will put an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

19788

He appointed some of the Levites as ministers before the ark of the Lord, even to celebrate and to thank and praise the Lord God of Israel:

19789

Then Saul clothed David with his garments and put a bronze helmet on his head, and he clothed him with armor.

19790

After he had greeted them, he began to relate one by one the things which God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

19791

Now it came about after this, that Nahash the king of the sons of Ammon died, and his son became king in his place.

19792

You shall walk in all the way which the Lord your God has commanded you, that you may live and that it may be well with you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which you will possess.

19793

“He will not be disheartened or crushed
Until He has established justice in the earth;
And the coastlands will wait expectantly for His law.”

19794

Shallum son of Jabesh became king in the thirty-ninth year of Uzziah king of Judah, and he reigned one month in Samaria.

19795

and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages.

19796

“Speak to Aaron, saying, ‘No man of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect shall approach to offer the food of his God.

19797

And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.

19798

“If you say in your heart,
Why have these things happened to me?’
Because of the magnitude of your iniquity
Your skirts have been removed
And your heels have been exposed.

19799

The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

19800

Now he waited seven days, according to the appointed time set by Samuel, but Samuel did not come to Gilgal; and the people were scattering from him.

19801

“His eyes are like doves
Beside streams of water,
Bathed in milk,
And reposed in their setting.

19802

They entered into the covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and soul;

19803

Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

19805

I was mute and silent,
I refrained even from good,
And my sorrow grew worse.

19806

“Since you are precious in My sight,
Since you are honored and I love you,
I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.

19807

So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go and attack these Philistines?” And the Lord said to David, “Go and attack the Philistines and deliver Keilah.”

19808

Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following the Lord this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”

19809

When he entered his house, he took a knife and laid hold of his concubine and cut her in twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout the territory of Israel.

19810

and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always, for their own good and for the good of their children after them.

19811

Now this was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. To Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, were allotted Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.

19812

Then he led me to the gate, the gate facing toward the east;

19814

And it will be in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

19815

Now these are the records of the generations of Esau (that is, Edom).

19816

you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams; for the Lord your God is testing you to find out if you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

19817

And he said, “Fill four pitchers with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time,” and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it a third time.

19820

When they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a large altar in appearance.

19821

Awake, O north wind,
And come, wind of the south;
Make my garden breathe out fragrance,
Let its spices be wafted abroad.
May my beloved come into his garden
And eat its choice fruits!”

19822

Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and braced himself against them, the one with his right hand and the other with his left.

19823

If a malicious witness rises up against a man to accuse him of wrongdoing,

19824

If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

19825

But the woman fearing and trembling, aware of what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth.

19826

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19827

“Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself?
Is it for bowing one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to the Lord?

19828

These are the commandments which the Lord commanded Moses for the sons of Israel at Mount Sinai.

19829

Then King Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel, and gave orders to present to him an offering and fragrant incense.

19830

These things He said in the synagogue as He taught in Capernaum.

19831

“Take the rod; and you and your brother Aaron assemble the congregation and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it may yield its water. You shall thus bring forth water for them out of the rock and let the congregation and their beasts drink.”

19832

She bore to him Zimran and Jokshan and Medan and Midian and Ishbak and Shuah.

19833

Then Pilate questioned Him again, saying, “Do You not answer? See how many charges they bring against You!”

19834

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam the son of Shaphan, Achbor the son of Micaiah, Shaphan the scribe, and Asaiah the king’s servant saying,

19836

“Do you know the time the mountain goats give birth?
Do you observe the calving of the deer?

19837

Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

19838

and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then in disgrace you proceed to occupy the last place.

19839

Then Moses spoke to the heads of the tribes of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the word which the Lord has commanded.

19840

Then you shall make its lamps seven in number; and they shall mount its lamps so as to shed light on the space in front of it.

19841

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Reuben: 151,450 by their armies. And they shall set out second.

19842

“Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?

19843

The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge,
And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

19844

And they left and found everything just as He had told them; and they prepared the Passover.

19845

The Lord is righteous in all His ways
And kind in all His deeds.

19846

“Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and in front of the mercy seat.

19848

So He kept on preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

19849

When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin which I had lost!’

19850

and he *said to him, ‘Friend, how did you come in here without wedding clothes?’ And the man was speechless.

19851

Then Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong. Withdraw from me; whatever you impose on me I will bear.” So the king of Assyria required of Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

19852

Now prior to this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being related to Tobiah,

19853

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done.

19854

But I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest who will do according to what is in My heart and in My soul; and I will build him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed always.

19855

Then it came about after the plague, that the Lord spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

19857

But when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a ghost, and cried out;

19858

Although Herod wanted to put him to death, he feared the crowd, because they regarded John as a prophet.

19860

Now it came about at the end of forty years that Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go and pay my vow which I have vowed to the Lord, in Hebron.

19861

All these came as allies to the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

19863

There is one who pretends to be rich, but has nothing;
Another pretends to be poor, but has great wealth.

19864

“They sing to the timbrel and harp
And rejoice at the sound of the flute.

19865

and they blindfolded Him and were asking Him, saying, “Prophesy, who is the one who hit You?”

19866

For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?

19867

And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

19868

A Psalm of David.
To You, O Lord, I call;
My rock, do not be deaf to me,
For if You are silent to me,
I will become like those who go down to the pit.

19869

“They will build houses and inhabit them;
They will also plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

19870

of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, Uel,

19871

As for the prophets:
My heart is broken within me,
All my bones tremble;
I have become like a drunken man,
Even like a man overcome with wine,
Because of the Lord
And because of His holy words.

19872

Arise, go to Paddan-aram, to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father; and from there take to yourself a wife from the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.

19874

The oracle concerning Moab.
Surely in a night Ar of Moab is devastated and ruined;
Surely in a night Kir of Moab is devastated and ruined.

19875

“He will not escape from darkness;
The flame will wither his shoots,
And by the breath of His mouth he will go away.

19876

Then Moses set apart three cities across the Jordan to the east,

19877

Let our lord now command your servants who are before you. Let them seek a man who is a skillful player on the harp; and it shall come about when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play the harp with his hand, and you will be well.”

19878

Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication;
And let them say continually, “The Lord be magnified,
Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”

19879

Clouds are a hiding place for Him, so that He cannot see;
And He walks on the vault of heaven.’

19880

Behold, these caused the sons of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, so the plague was among the congregation of the Lord.

19881

So he left everything he owned in Joseph’s charge; and with him there he did not concern himself with anything except the food which he ate.Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

19882

But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire.

19883

In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, Zimri reigned seven days at Tirzah. Now the people were camped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

19884

But if the priest looks at it, and behold, there are no white hairs in it and it is not lower than the skin and is faded, then the priest shall isolate him for seven days;

19885

So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel.

19886

“Return to your house and describe what great things God has done for you.” So he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him.

19887

When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

19889

And now they sin more and more,
And make for themselves molten images,
Idols skillfully made from their silver,
All of them the work of craftsmen.
They say of them, “Let the men who sacrifice kiss the calves!”

19890

And He gave them strict orders that no one should know about this, and He said that something should be given her to eat.

19891

Why are we also in danger every hour?

19892

Bel has bowed down, Nebo stoops over;
Their images are consigned to the beasts and the cattle.
The things that you carry are burdensome,
A load for the weary beast.

19893

Because he considered and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

19894

But the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not right.’ Are My ways not right, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are not right?

19895

The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

19896

When he saw that he had not prevailed against him, he touched the socket of his thigh; so the socket of Jacob’s thigh was dislocated while he wrestled with him.

19897

For you will no longer remember the oracle of the Lord, because every man’s own word will become the oracle, and you have perverted the words of the living God, the Lord of hosts, our God.

19899

“Though evil is sweet in his mouth
And he hides it under his tongue,

19900

You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

19902

But Moses said to the Lord, “Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought up this people from their midst,

19903

“I would lead you and bring you
Into the house of my mother, who used to instruct me;
I would give you spiced wine to drink from the juice of my pomegranates.

19904

Then the Egyptians chased after them with all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and they overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi-hahiroth, in front of Baal-zephon.

19905

Zebulun will dwell at the seashore;
And he shall be a haven for ships,
And his flank shall be toward Sidon.

19906

Lift up your eyes to the sky,
Then look to the earth beneath;
For the sky will vanish like smoke,
And the earth will wear out like a garment
And its inhabitants will die in like manner;
But My salvation will be forever,
And My righteousness will not wane.

19907

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “Please come closer to me.” And they came closer. And he said, “I am your brother Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.

19908

Sarah said, “God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

19909

But again he denied it. And after a little while the bystanders were again saying to Peter, “Surely you are one of them, for you are a Galilean too.”

19911

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon,

19912

As the host of heaven cannot be counted and the sand of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the descendants of David My servant and the Levites who minister to Me.’”

19913

In whose eyes a reprobate is despised,
But who honors those who fear the Lord;
He swears to his own hurt and does not change;

19914

For behold, I am beginning to work calamity in this city which is called by My name, and shall you be completely free from punishment? You will not be free from punishment; for I am summoning a sword against all the inhabitants of the earth,” declares the Lord of hosts.’

19915

O send out Your light and Your truth, let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.

19916

He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and ground it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

19917

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall observe a feast to the Lord for seven days.

19919

What shall I render to the Lord
For all His benefits toward me?

19921

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees, masons and carpenters, to build a house for him.

19922

Therefore, you shall keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.

19923

A Psalm of David.
Vindicate me, O Lord, for I have walked in my integrity,
And I have trusted in the Lord without wavering.

19924

This man led them out, performing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the wilderness for forty years.

19925

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

19926

Those who live in his shadow
Will again raise grain,
And they will blossom like the vine.
His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

19927

Then he commanded his house steward, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.

19928

When I saw, I reflected upon it;
I looked, and received instruction.

19929

Daleth.
My soul cleaves to the dust;
Revive me according to Your word.

19930

How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O prince’s daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.

19931

Now Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. And his mother’s name was Azubah the daughter of Shilhi.

19932

Did You not, O our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel and give it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

19933

Then Asa brought out silver and gold from the treasuries of the house of the Lord and the king’s house, and sent them to Ben-hadad king of Aram, who lived in Damascus, saying,

19934

To open blind eyes,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

19935

Then I said, “Behold, I come;
In the scroll of the book it is written of me.

19936

The king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the sight of the Lord, then He will bring me back again and show me both it and His habitation.

19937

Now when the Philistines were at war again with Israel, David went down and his servants with him; and as they fought against the Philistines, David became weary.

19938

Therefore when Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid;

19939

I will hear what God the Lord will say;
For He will speak peace to His people, to His godly ones;
But let them not turn back to folly.

19940

Praise the Lord!
Praise, O servants of the Lord,
Praise the name of the Lord.

19941

The terror of a king is like the growling of a lion;
He who provokes him to anger forfeits his own life.

19943

They love the place of honor at banquets and the chief seats in the synagogues,

19944

“I put on righteousness, and it clothed me;
My justice was like a robe and a turban.

19945

“You shall also have a place outside the camp and go out there,

19946

However, there will be no poor among you, since the Lord will surely bless you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance to possess,

19947

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name and cursed. So they brought him to Moses. (Now his mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

19948

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

19949

But he denied it, saying, “I neither know nor understand what you are talking about.” And he went out onto the porch.

19950

Now when Moses went into the tent of meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice speaking to him from above the mercy seat that was on the ark of the testimony, from between the two cherubim, so He spoke to him.

19951

And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.

19952

But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you bother the woman? For she has done a good deed to Me.

19953

Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “Lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; let not man prevail against You.”

19954

What is this statement that He said, You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

19955

and how the chief priests and our rulers delivered Him to the sentence of death, and crucified Him.

19956

I begged Your disciples to cast it out, and they could not.”

19957

As they remember their children,
So they remember their altars and their Asherim
By green trees on the high hills.

19958

In that day five cities in the land of Egypt will be speaking the language of Canaan and swearing allegiance to the Lord of hosts; one will be called the City of Destruction.

19959

In that day,
“A vineyard of wine, sing of it!

19960

But the goat on which the lot for the scapegoat fell shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make atonement upon it, to send it into the wilderness as the scapegoat.

19961

The words of a whisperer are like dainty morsels,
And they go down into the innermost parts of the body.

19962

When David had finished speaking these words to Saul, Saul said, “Is this your voice, my son David?” Then Saul lifted up his voice and wept.

19963

Then David said to his son Solomon, “Be strong and courageous, and act; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the Lord God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you until all the work for the service of the house of the Lord is finished.

19964

then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity, and have compassion on you, and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

19965

Then He got into the boat with them, and the wind stopped; and they were utterly astonished,

19966

But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your power; do to her what is good in your sight.” So Sarai treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

19968

He came to the sheepfolds on the way, where there was a cave; and Saul went in to relieve himself. Now David and his men were sitting in the inner recesses of the cave.

19969

The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”

19970

Now these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the sons of Israel.

19971

No, nor has Herod, for he sent Him back to us; and behold, nothing deserving death has been done by Him.

19972

“At this also my heart trembles,
And leaps from its place.

19973

Then Jesse said to David his son, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this roasted grain and these ten loaves and run to the camp to your brothers.

19974

Go quickly and tell His disciples that He has risen from the dead; and behold, He is going ahead of you into Galilee, there you will see Him; behold, I have told you.”

19975

Now when Jerusalem was captured in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came to Jerusalem and laid siege to it;

19976

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

19977

“For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your faithfulness.

19978

One generation shall praise Your works to another,
And shall declare Your mighty acts.

19979

He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that grows on the wall; he spoke also of animals and birds and creeping things and fish.

19981

“Where is the way to the dwelling of light?
And darkness, where is its place,

19983

So it was David, with the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the house of Obed-edom with joy.

19984

Now the first came forth red, all over like a hairy garment; and they named him Esau.

19985

But they were expecting that he was about to swell up or suddenly fall down dead. But after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.

19987

So Urijah the priest did according to all that King Ahaz commanded.

19988

“But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense is like the one who blesses an idol.
As they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,

19989

It came about the next day, the second day of the new moon, that David’s place was empty; so Saul said to Jonathan his son, “Why has the son of Jesse not come to the meal, either yesterday or today?”

19990

If, however, he survives a day or two, no vengeance shall be taken; for he is his property.

19992

So we captured all his cities at that time and utterly destroyed the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.

19993

There were many lamps in the upper room where we were gathered together.

19994

Lord, make me to know my end
And what is the extent of my days;
Let me know how transient I am.

19995

It is useless either for the soil or for the manure pile; it is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

19996

Again He went away and prayed, saying the same words.

19997

Jesus *said to them, “Bring some of the fish which you have now caught.”

19998

“But you who forsake the Lord,
Who forget My holy mountain,
Who set a table for Fortune,
And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

19999

Isaiah said, “This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that He has spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten steps or go back ten steps?”

20000

Then Samson said to them, “Let me now propound a riddle to you; if you will indeed tell it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen wraps and thirty changes of clothes.

20002

“And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am against you, O Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal;