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Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”

21004

All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

21005

The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

21006

and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

21008

Jesus answered and said to them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell Me:

21011

“Who has cleft a channel for the flood,
Or a way for the thunderbolt,

21012

And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus Himself alone.

21013

and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

21014

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,
Who seek Him with all their heart.

21015

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.

21017

He said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Then Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.”

21018

Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

21019

“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?

21020

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”

21021

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

21022

You gave Me no kiss; but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.

21023

David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from the Lord our God, let us send everywhere to our kinsmen who remain in all the land of Israel, also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, that they may meet with us;

21024

Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

21025

When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife.”

21026

Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

21027

But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

21028

Although he was grieved, the king commanded it to be given because of his oaths, and because of his dinner guests.

21029

Now after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

21030

“Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,

21031

But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, “Why this waste?

21032

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

21033

And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

21034

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

21035

“They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”

21036

Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

21037

You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

21038

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

21039

“And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,’ and say: ‘A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning—

21040

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

21041

Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;
And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

21042

Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

21043

The lips of the righteous bring forth what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverted.

21044

That which was torn of beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself. You required it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

21045

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

21046

Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity,
And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.

21047

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.

21048

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.”

21049

The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

21050

Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

21051

From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.

21053

And I placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,

21054

Now that you are broken by the seas
In the depths of the waters,
Your merchandise and all your company
Have fallen in the midst of you.

21055

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

21056

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

21057

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

21059

Now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the Lord which was in front of the porch of the Lord.

21060

for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!’ And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance,

21061

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

21062

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan of the porch of the temple, its buildings, its storehouses, its upper rooms, its inner rooms and the room for the mercy seat;

21063

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

21064

He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

21065

But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

21066

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

21067

So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

21068

So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, “Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to you and granted your request.”

21069

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

21070

Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

21072

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

21073

However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

21074

The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

21075

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!

21076

He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

21077

Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar on all sides.

21078

If you say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?
And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
And will He not render to man according to his work?

21079

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

21080

Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

21081

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

21083

Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born.”

21084

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,
He who rejects unjust gain
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;
He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed
And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

21085

And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayed for battle against them in the valley of Siddim,

21087

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

21088

Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

21089

No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

21090

O Lord, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth!

21091

“He puts his hand on the flint;
He overturns the mountains at the base.

21092

David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

21093

In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

21094

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

21095

you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.

21096

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

21097

“Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

21099

“Bear with me that I may speak;
Then after I have spoken, you may mock.

21100

It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

21101

The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.

21102

Now these are those whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark rested there.

21103

The Lord heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called Hormah.

21104

But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”

21105

“Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

21106

If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

21107

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

21108

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

21109

Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

21110

And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

21111

But you will not go out in haste,
Nor will you go as fugitives;
For the Lord will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

21112

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

21113

“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’

21115

then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

21116

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonders to the sons of men!

21117

A divine decision is in the lips of the king;
His mouth should not err in judgment.

21118

As for me, I shall call upon God,
And the Lord will save me.

21119

He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

21120

Many bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

21121

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

21122

And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”

21123

and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

21124

“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

21125

The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it.

21126

for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

21127

Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place.

21128

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

21129

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

21130

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

21132

“Issachar is a strong donkey,
Lying down between the sheepfolds.

21133

Festus *said, “King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.

21134

He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock,

21135

“Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
And makes his nest on high?

21136

Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the tender grass springs out of the earth,
Through sunshine after rain.’

21137

He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

21138

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

21139

Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.

21140

“Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

21141

“Even today my complaint is rebellion;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

21142

If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

21143

“You also open Your eyes on him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.

21144

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”

21145

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

21146

“If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

21147

Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

21148

Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

21149

The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

21150

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

21151

So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel.

21152

She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me another son.”

21154

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

21155

Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,

21156

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

21157

“He is the first of the ways of God;
Let his maker bring near his sword.

21158

You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name.

21159

“Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.

21160

“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of the crafty.

21161

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

21162

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I shall speak.”

21163

you shall devote to the Lord the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord.

21164

“However now, Job, please hear my speech,
And listen to all my words.

21165

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

21166

He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Child, arise!”

21167

and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

21168

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

21169

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am.

21172

Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.

21173

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

21174

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
But he who is careless of conduct will die.

21175

From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

21176

Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

21177

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.

21178

“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor;
He has seized a house which he has not built.

21179

Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’

21180

Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with Joshua the son of Nun.

21181

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And that which was set on your table was full of fatness.

21182

“Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a teacher like Him?

21183

Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

21184

May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

21186

The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”

21187

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

21188

But they did not understand the statement which He had made to them.

21189

Thus says the Lord God,
‘You will drink your sister’s cup,
Which is deep and wide.
You will be laughed at and held in derision;
It contains much.

21190

Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well.

21191

A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding
Than a hundred blows into a fool.

21192

He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

21193

You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

21194

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

21195

Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations
And set up My standard to the peoples;
And they will bring your sons in their bosom,
And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

21196

“You say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

21197

The Lord therefore be judge and decide between you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”

21198

Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

21199

Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

21200

Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

21201

Moreover, he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; also in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

21202

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

21203

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

21204

Then Pilate *said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?”

21205

Surely I have composed and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.

21206

Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

21207

So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.

21208

When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean.

21209

Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.

21210

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

21211

“Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,
Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,
Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

21212

He ties his foal to the vine,
And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
He washes his garments in wine,
And his robes in the blood of grapes.

21213

“If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

21214

All the skillful men among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman, Bezalel made them.

21215

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’?

21216

“Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

21217

But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

21218

For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria.”

21219

The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall.

21220

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

21222

But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

21223

cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble,

21224

and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

21225

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.

21226

Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

21227

“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.

21228

They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

21229

For thus says the Lord, ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

21230

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the Lord’s house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!

21231

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.

21233

He said, “In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

21234

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

21235

You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for such a one has made naked his blood relative; they will bear their guilt.

21236

Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

21237

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

21239

All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

21242

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?
And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

21243

Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

21244

As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight.

21245

Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord! I have carried out the command of the Lord.”

21246

The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

21247

“It is God who has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

21248

Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.

21249

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

21250

When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

21251

Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.

21252

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’

21253

For I, the Lord, love justice,
I hate robbery in the burnt offering;
And I will faithfully give them their recompense
And make an everlasting covenant with them.

21254

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,

21255

Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.

21256

And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

21257

When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

21259

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

21260

The light of the righteous rejoices,
But the lamp of the wicked goes out.

21261

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

21262

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

21263

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

21264

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.”

21265

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

21266

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

21267

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

21268

He took up his discourse and said,
The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,
And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened;

21269

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

21270

and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

21271

The priest shall then look, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

21272

And there was no one to deliver them, because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley which is near Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city and lived in it.

21273

You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

21274

But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

21275

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.

21276

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.

21277

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,
“Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling,
And away from the dew of heaven from above.

21278

But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

21279

You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”

21280

“Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father’s sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

21281

“Stand fast now in your spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.

21282

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

21283

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the Lord which He spoke.

21284

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

21285

My flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of Your judgments.

21286

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees.

21287

“All around terrors frighten him,
And harry him at every step.

21288

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

21289

Now it came about after this, that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued.

21290

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

21291

Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

21292

Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

21293

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

21294

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.

21295

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

21296

The commander took him by the hand and stepping aside, began to inquire of him privately, “What is it that you have to report to me?”

21297

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

21298

“Because he who is blessed in the earth
Will be blessed by the God of truth;
And he who swears in the earth
Will swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!

21299

The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.

21300

And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they implored Him to leave their region.

21301

For thus says the Lord,
“To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,

21302

A throne will even be established in lovingkindness,
And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David;
Moreover, he will seek justice
And be prompt in righteousness.

21303

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

21304

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

21305

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But He loves one who pursues righteousness.

21306

My beloved has gone down to his garden,
To the beds of balsam,
To pasture his flock in the gardens
And gather lilies.

21307

But the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire.

21308

A man of great anger will bear the penalty,
For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

21309

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

21310

Abaddon and Death say,
‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’

21311

So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.

21312

When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

21313

Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web [and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

21314

Then the one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body with water, then afterward he shall come into the camp.

21315

In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.

21316

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

21317

“Are the consolations of God too small for you,
Even the word spoken gently with you?

21318

and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

21319

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a maidservant would go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

21320

Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the sons of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,

21321

So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed;

21322

Now the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.

21323

But to the elders he said, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them.”

21324

Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”

21325

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

21326

Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;

21327

since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

21328

The Lord will go forth like a warrior,
He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies.

21329

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word:
“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name’s sake,
Have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy.’
But they will be put to shame.

21330

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

21331

So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

21332

Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she looks good to me.”

21333

When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

21334

He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.

21335

Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out as the Lord has spoken.”

21336

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”

21337

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

21338

The righteous will inherit the land
And dwell in it forever.

21339

Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

21341

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the Lord, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

21343

But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you,

21344

But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

21345

He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

21346

“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.

21348

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

21349

And lovingkindness is Yours, O Lord,
For You recompense a man according to his work.

21350

Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

21351

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

21352

Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

21353

then make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to the Lord, from the herd or from the flock.

21355

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

21356

“What a help you are to the weak!
How you have saved the arm without strength!

21357

“Do you know this from of old,
From the establishment of man on earth,

21358

When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.”

21359

And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.

21360

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have dealt well with me, while I have dealt wickedly with you.

21361

On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind.

21362

You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

21363

And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,

21364

They also took Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.

21365

He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war;
And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.

21366

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
Is not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.

21367

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

21368

But I said, “I have toiled in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My reward with My God.”

21369

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

21370

Like a madman who throws
Firebrands, arrows and death,

21371

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

21372

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

21373

Tsadhe.
Righteous are You, O Lord,
And upright are Your judgments.

21374

“My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.

21375

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

21376

You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

21377

So Hilkiah and those whom the king had told went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her regarding this.

21378

Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”

21379

Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” So the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”

21380

And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

21381

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

21382

Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

21383

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel with their idols.

21384

Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company be present before the Lord tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron.

21385

For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

21387

I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

21388

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

21389

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

21390

There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

21392

It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

21393

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?”

21394

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

21395

Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

21397

Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way;
He who hates reproof will die.

21398

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.

21399

Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.

21400

“Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.”’” So they brought back word to the king.

21401

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

21403

He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

21404

The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

21405

“His troops come together,
And build up their way against me
And camp around my tent.

21406

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and cut off his head.”

21407

At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

21408

Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni tutored the king’s sons.

21409

But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side,

21410

and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish.

21412

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”

21413

When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will not be inquired of by you.

21415

You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.”

21416

“Now when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

21417

Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

21418

I have not spoken in secret,
In some dark land;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
Seek Me in a waste place’;
I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
Declaring things that are upright.

21419

How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.

21421

My son, eat honey, for it is good,
Yes, the honey from the comb is sweet to your taste;

21422

“His sneezes flash forth light,
And his eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.

21423

“Can you put a rope in his nose
Or pierce his jaw with a hook?

21424

In the morning, however, they rose up early and went up to the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Here we are; we have indeed sinned, but we will go up to the place which the Lord has promised.”

21425

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

21426

Thus Shimei said when he cursed, “Get out, get out, you man of bloodshed, and worthless fellow!

21427

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

21428

Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

21429

So all the men of Israel withdrew from following David and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah remained steadfast to their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.

21430

If you make a sale, moreover, to your friend or buy from your friend’s hand, you shall not wrong one another.

21431

Now the sons of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, “Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?” Then the Lord said, “Judah shall go up first.”

21432

‘If then, you act with hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.

21433

So Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had ordered.

21434

the sons of Leah: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, then Simeon and Levi and Judah and Issachar and Zebulun;

21435

Each will be like a refuge from the wind
And a shelter from the storm,
Like streams of water in a dry country,
Like the shade of a huge rock in a parched land.

21436

But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

21437

I have put My words in your mouth and have covered you with the shadow of My hand, to establish the heavens, to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are My people.’”

21438

For thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘The bowl of flour shall not be exhausted, nor shall the jar of oil be empty, until the day that the Lord sends rain on the face of the earth.’”

21439

Even though Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah pleaded with the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

21440

Then David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the sons of Ammon to Hanun to console him.

21441

“He will sing to men and say,
‘I have sinned and perverted what is right,
And it is not proper for me.

21442

“His arrows surround me.
Without mercy He splits my kidneys open;
He pours out my gall on the ground.

21443

The covenant that I have made with you, you shall not forget, nor shall you fear other gods.

21444

Moses said, “This will happen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to the full in the morning; for the Lord hears your grumblings which you grumble against Him. And what are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the Lord.”

21445

“He delivers the afflicted in their affliction,
And opens their ear in time of oppression.

21446

“Therefore snares surround you,
And sudden dread terrifies you,

21447

and in the morning you will see the glory of the Lord, for He hears your grumblings against the Lord; and what are we, that you grumble against us?”

21448

Then he set the carved image of Asherah that he had made, in the house of which the Lord said to David and to his son Solomon, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.

21449

Then the Levites arose: Mahath, the son of Amasai and Joel the son of Azariah, from the sons of the Kohathites; and from the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and from the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah and Eden the son of Joah;

21450

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for they were the inhabitants of the land from ancient times, as you come to Shur even as far as the land of Egypt.

21452

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were hard-pressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, in thickets, in cliffs, in cellars, and in pits.

21455

Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, ‘No person among you may eat blood, nor may any alien who sojourns among you eat blood.’

21456

She said, “Here is my maid Bilhah, go in to her that she may bear on my knees, that through her I too may have children.”

21457

So they passed along and went their way, and the sun set on them near Gibeah which belongs to Benjamin.

21458

And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down tomorrow to the Council, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more thoroughly about him.

21459

Then the Philistines went up and camped in Judah, and spread out in Lehi.

21460

The Lord has sworn to David
A truth from which He will not turn back:
Of the fruit of your body I will set upon your throne.

21461

Thus will each of you say to his neighbor and to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or, ‘What has the Lord spoken?’

21462

Israel has been saved by the Lord
With an everlasting salvation;
You will not be put to shame or humiliated
To all eternity.

21464

Thus says the Lord,
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,’
So I will act on behalf of My servants
In order not to destroy all of them.

21465

And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.

21467

A Maskil of Asaph.
O God, why have You rejected us forever?
Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

21468

“Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.

21469

Now when Josiah turned, he saw the graves that were there on the mountain, and he sent and took the bones from the graves and burned them on the altar and defiled it according to the word of the Lord which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

21470

“His vigorous stride is shortened,
And his own scheme brings him down.

21471

to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths. All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy years were complete.

21472

For the entrance of the inner sanctuary he made doors of olive wood, the lintel and five-sided doorposts.

21473

“Lay down, now, a pledge for me with Yourself;
Who is there that will be my guarantor?

21474

“If I speak, my pain is not lessened,
And if I hold back, what has left me?

21475

That you should turn your spirit against God
And allow such words to go out of your mouth?

21476

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up in search of David; and David heard of it and went out against them.

21477

But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah faced each other at Beth-shemesh, which belongs to Judah.

21478

These are all the years of Abraham’s life that he lived, one hundred and seventy-five years.

21479

In Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its towns and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, the third is Napheth.

21480

especially because you are an expert in all customs and questions among the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.

21481

Like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross
Are burning lips and a wicked heart.

21482

and the donkeys were 30,500, from which the Lord’s levy was 61;

21483

It will come about on that day, when Gog comes against the land of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “that My fury will mount up in My anger.

21484

Then they said, “Come and let us devise plans against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the sage, nor the divine word to the prophet! Come on and let us strike at him with our tongue, and let us give no heed to any of his words.”

21485

And he drove them away from the judgment seat.

21486

“Judah mourns
And her gates languish;
They sit on the ground in mourning,
And the cry of Jerusalem has ascended.

21487

O people in Zion, inhabitant in Jerusalem, you will weep no longer. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

21488

“So I will incite Egyptians against Egyptians;
And they will each fight against his brother and each against his neighbor,
City against city and kingdom against kingdom.

21490

Surely I am more stupid than any man,
And I do not have the understanding of a man.

21491

An evildoer listens to wicked lips;
A liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.

21493

He has sent redemption to His people;
He has ordained His covenant forever;
Holy and awesome is His name.

21495

Aaron said to them, “Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.”

21496

But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in the house of God;
I trust in the lovingkindness of God forever and ever.

21497

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
Then all the people said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord.

21498

May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you.

21499

On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

21500

Where then does wisdom come from?
And where is the place of understanding?

21501

Then a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet saying, “Thus says the Lord God of your father David, ‘Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father and the ways of Asa king of Judah,

21502

You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess.

21503

Now the rest of the acts of Pekah and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

21504

When they saw him from a distance and before he came close to them, they plotted against him to put him to death.

21505

as a reminder to the sons of Israel that no layman who is not of the descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the Lord; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the Lord had spoken to him through Moses.

21506

To the families of the sons of Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and Kartah with its pasture lands.

21507

Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying,

21508

“My holy name I will make known in the midst of My people Israel; and I will not let My holy name be profaned anymore. And the nations will know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

21509

Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.

21510

and you shall slaughter the ram and shall take its blood and sprinkle it around on the altar.

21512

Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon; but I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

21513

“Then all your people will be righteous;
They will possess the land forever,
The branch of My planting,
The work of My hands,
That I may be glorified.

21514

Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all its villages will say to you, ‘Have you come to capture spoil? Have you assembled your company to seize plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to capture great spoil?’”’

21515

“Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name,

21517

that the daughters of Israel went yearly to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

21518

And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord.

21519

then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt.

21520

Come and hear, all who fear God,
And I will tell of what He has done for my soul.

21521

“I listened to the reproof which insults me,
And the spirit of my understanding makes me answer.

21522

“The deeps cover them;
They went down into the depths like a stone.

21523

However, he did not put their children to death, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, which the Lord commanded, saying, “Fathers shall not be put to death for sons, nor sons be put to death for fathers, but each shall be put to death for his own sin.”

21524

And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David; and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

21525

Now this shall be the priests’ due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, either an ox or a sheep, of which they shall give to the priest the shoulder and the two cheeks and the stomach.

21526

You shall make for them linen breeches to cover their bare flesh; they shall reach from the loins even to the thighs.

21527

Whether it be on the bed or on the thing on which she is sitting, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until evening.

21528

But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

21529

All the cities with their pasture lands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath were ten.

21530

and his army, even their numbered men, 46,500.

21531

Then the angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself to her authority.”

21532

And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

21533

There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy, and he put us aboard it.

21534

And her spirit returned, and she got up immediately; and He gave orders for something to be given her to eat.

21535

Good and upright is the Lord;
Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.

21536

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders which You have done,
And Your thoughts toward us;
There is none to compare with You.
If I would declare and speak of them,
They would be too numerous to count.

21537

So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

21538

And Jesus said to them, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest Me, as you would against a robber?

21539

You meet him who rejoices in doing righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
Behold, You were angry, for we sinned,
We continued in them a long time;
And shall we be saved?

21540

and whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, man or woman.

21541

“You have shriveled me up,
It has become a witness;
And my leanness rises up against me,
It testifies to my face.

21542

With pestilence and with blood I will enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him and on his troops, and on the many peoples who are with him, a torrential rain, with hailstones, fire and brimstone.

21543

They all ate and were satisfied,

21544

and I will bring back all the people to you. The return of everyone depends on the man you seek; then all the people will be at peace.”

21545

And he put a distance of three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.

21547

And Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped by it and fought against it.

21548

Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And defend the rights of the afflicted and needy.

21549

From the tribe of Reuben, they gave Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its pasture lands,

21550

Then comes the tribe of Benjamin, and the leader of the sons of Benjamin: Abidan the son of Gideoni,

21551

“But you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot because of your fame, and you poured out your harlotries on every passer-by who might be willing.

21552

“This is your lot, the portion measured to you
From Me,” declares the Lord,
“Because you have forgotten Me
And trusted in falsehood.

21553

Be delayed and wait,
Blind yourselves and be blind;
They become drunk, but not with wine,
They stagger, but not with strong drink.

21554

When I made a cloud its garment
And thick darkness its swaddling band,

21555

Do not slander a slave to his master,
Or he will curse you and you will be found guilty.

21556

Yet today he will halt at Nob;
He shakes his fist at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

21557

A man who wanders from the way of understanding
Will rest in the assembly of the dead.

21558

“My face is flushed from weeping,
And deep darkness is on my eyelids,

21559

“They have gaped at me with their mouth,
They have slapped me on the cheek with contempt;
They have massed themselves against me.

21560

“This is the portion of a wicked man from God,
And the inheritance which tyrants receive from the Almighty.

21561

But if he did not lie in wait for him, but God let him fall into his hand, then I will appoint you a place to which he may flee.

21563

But to his son I will give one tribe, that My servant David may have a lamp always before Me in Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My name.

21564

No man of the descendants of Aaron, who is a leper or who has a discharge, may eat of the holy gifts until he is clean. And if one touches anything made unclean by a corpse or if a man has a seminal emission,

21565

All these had married foreign wives, and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

21566

and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

21567

You blew with Your wind, the sea covered them;
They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

21568

But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and they became forced laborers.

21569

David said to Achish, “Very well, you shall know what your servant can do.” So Achish said to David, “Very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life.”

21570

Thus says the Lord God, “Woe to the foolish prophets who are following their own spirit and have seen nothing.

21571

From there we put out to sea and sailed under the shelter of Cyprus because the winds were contrary.

21572

Then he erected there an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

21573

by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”

21574

Let my tongue sing of Your word,
For all Your commandments are righteousness.

21575

had prepared a large room for him, where formerly they put the grain offerings, the frankincense, the utensils and the tithes of grain, wine and oil prescribed for the Levites, the singers and the gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.

21576

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

21577

saying, ‘These last men have worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the scorching heat of the day.’

21578

So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.

21579

The territory of the sons of Dan proceeded beyond them; for the sons of Dan went up and fought with Leshem and captured it. Then they struck it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and settled in it; and they called Leshem Dan after the name of Dan their father.

21580

Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and beat them down as far as Hormah.

21581

It turned toward the east to Beth-dagon and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; then it proceeded on north to Cabul,

21582

From there they journeyed and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

21583

and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

21584

They will therefore stumble over each other as if running from the sword, although no one is pursuing; and you will have no strength to stand up before your enemies.

21585

Likewise, whoever lies down in the house shall wash his clothes, and whoever eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

21586

And to the eyes of the sons of Israel the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a consuming fire on the mountain top.

21587

Now therefore, you and the Council notify the commander to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case by a more thorough investigation; and we for our part are ready to slay him before he comes near the place.”

21588

On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”

21589

Moses spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded, saying,

21590

They blessed Rebekah and said to her,
“May you, our sister,
Become thousands of ten thousands,
And may your descendants possess
The gate of those who hate them.”

21591

Therefore they will be like the morning cloud
And like dew which soon disappears,
Like chaff which is blown away from the threshing floor
And like smoke from a chimney.

21592

Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt: Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn.

21593

Some stood up and began to give false testimony against Him, saying,

21594

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for My holy name.

21596

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

21597

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory,
Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon
By the gate of Bath-rabbim;
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon,
Which faces toward Damascus.

21598

A Song, a Psalm of Asaph.
O God, do not remain quiet;
Do not be silent and, O God, do not be still.

21600

“Can you bind the wild ox in a furrow with ropes,
Or will he harrow the valleys after you?

21601

“Look on everyone who is proud, and humble him,
And tread down the wicked where they stand.

21602

That it might take hold of the ends of the earth,
And the wicked be shaken out of it?

21603

“And what is the portion of God from above
Or the heritage of the Almighty from on high?

21604

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa became diseased in his feet. His disease was severe, yet even in his disease he did not seek the Lord, but the physicians.

21605

“But now He has exhausted me;
You have laid waste all my company.

21606

then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and I will remember also My covenant with Isaac, and My covenant with Abraham as well, and I will remember the land.

21607

Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,

21608

It shall come about, the one who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu shall put to death, and the one who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha shall put to death.

21609

But the king said, “What have I to do with you, O sons of Zeruiah? If he curses, and if the Lord has told him, ‘Curse David,’ then who shall say, ‘Why have you done so?’”

21610

Then Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves.

21611

When Jobab died, Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place.

21612

In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.

21613

You shall have the fiftieth year as a jubilee; you shall not sow, nor reap its aftergrowth, nor gather in from its untrimmed vines.

21614

Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father.

21615

Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great, contrary to the command of the Lord my God.

21616

saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “A great eagle with great wings, long pinions and a full plumage of many colors came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.

21617

Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be established in your hand.

21618

and his army, even their numbered men, 45,650.

21619

When she becomes clean from her discharge, she shall count off for herself seven days; and afterward she will be clean.

21620

The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” So Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

21621

send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

21622

“You shall weave the tunic of checkered work of fine linen, and shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of a weaver.

21623

They are coming from a far country,
From the farthest horizons,
The Lord and His instruments of indignation,
To destroy the whole land.

21624

Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands bring presents;
The kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.

21625

A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
And a rod for the back of fools.

21626

The disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

21627

As soon as the order spread, the sons of Israel provided in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, oil, honey and of all the produce of the field; and they brought in abundantly the tithe of all.

21629

Next Jesse made Shammah pass by. And he said, “The Lord has not chosen this one either.”

21630

“He breaks through me with breach after breach;
He runs at me like a warrior.

21631

But one son of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped and fled after David.

21632

It went from Bethel to Luz, and continued to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.

21633

But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land; for the Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.

21634

Likewise, whoever touches them shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

21635

and Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah,

21636

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him as it was in my heart.

21637

Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon,

21638

As for the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land and who returned and made all the congregation grumble against him by bringing out a bad report concerning the land,

21639

For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the Lord was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.

21640

So when the people gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you? Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

21641

and said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

21642

Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.

21643

I have trodden the wine trough alone,
And from the peoples there was no man with Me.
I also trod them in My anger
And trampled them in My wrath;
And their lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,
And I stained all My raiment.

21644

But as for me, this mystery has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than in any other living man, but for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king, and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.

21646

Then he looked and behold, there was at his head a bread cake baked on hot stones, and a jar of water. So he ate and drank and lay down again.

21647

“Have I rejoiced at the extinction of my enemy,
Or exulted when evil befell him?

21648

“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

21651

David took from him 1,000 chariots and 7,000 horsemen and 20,000 foot soldiers, and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for 100 chariots.

21652

“He has stripped my honor from me
And removed the crown from my head.

21653

Then Job continued his discourse and said,

21654

Moreover, Shaphan the scribe told the king saying, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book.” And Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.

21655

Benjamin, Malluch and Shemariah;

21656

“The Mighty One, God, the Lord, the Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows, and may Israel itself know. If it was in rebellion, or if in an unfaithful act against the Lord do not save us this day!

21657

“This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul.

21658

So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which they had and the rings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

21659

But if you return to the city, and say to Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, O king; as I have been your father’s servant in time past, so I will now be your servant,’ then you can thwart the counsel of Ahithophel for me.

21660

David swore to Saul. And Saul went to his home, but David and his men went up to the stronghold.

21661

For the Lord your God will bless you as He has promised you, and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow; and you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.

21662

Then they said to him, “We have had a dream and there is no one to interpret it.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell it to me, please.”

21663

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
In the morning he devours the prey,
And in the evening he divides the spoil.”

21664

And he gave her his hand and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

21665

She is not afraid of the snow for her household,
For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

21666

But they went out and spread the news about Him throughout all that land.

21667

and you will come up against My people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. It shall come about in the last days that I will bring you against My land, so that the nations may know Me when I am sanctified through you before their eyes, O Gog.”

21669

“O generation, heed the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
Or a land of thick darkness?
Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;
We will no longer come to You’?

21670

Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses.
Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,

21673

thus says the Lord to me—“Make for yourself bonds and yokes and put them on your neck,

21674

For My sword is satiated in heaven,
Behold it shall descend for judgment upon Edom
And upon the people whom I have devoted to destruction.

21675

Woe to you, O destroyer,
While you were not destroyed;
And he who is treacherous, while others did not deal treacherously with him.
As soon as you finish destroying, you will be destroyed;
As soon as you cease to deal treacherously, others will deal treacherously with you.

21676

Your eyes will see the King in His beauty;
They will behold a far-distant land.

21677

Samekh.
I hate those who are double-minded,
But I love Your law.

21678

Therefore I will give thanks to You among the nations, O Lord,
And I will sing praises to Your name.

21679

“Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
And your mouth is lovely.
Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.

21680

“His ox mates without fail;
His cow calves and does not abort.

21681

So he entered and shut the door behind them both and prayed to the Lord.

21682

His armor bearer said to him, “Do all that is in your heart; turn yourself, and here I am with you according to your desire.”

21683

But You, O Lord, be not far off;
O You my help, hasten to my assistance.

21685

for the showbread, for the continual grain offering, for the continual burnt offering, the sabbaths, the new moon, for the appointed times, for the holy things and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God.

21686

He set the rods which he had peeled in front of the flocks in the gutters, even in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink; and they mated when they came to drink.

21687

So they came up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there; and David said, “God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore they named that place Baal-perazim.

21688

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

21689

Calling a bird of prey from the east,
The man of My purpose from a far country.
Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass.
I have planned it, surely I will do it.

21691

“I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners,

21692

But he will gain control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt; and Libyans and Ethiopians will follow at his heels.

21693

Now she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast and seat Naboth at the head of the people;

21694

Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved.

21695

According to their ability they gave to the treasury for the work 61,000 gold drachmas and 5,000 silver minas and 100 priestly garments.

21696

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry;
And wallow in ashes, you masters of the flock;
For the days of your slaughter and your dispersions have come,
And you will fall like a choice vessel.

21697

Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made horns of iron for himself and said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘With these you will gore the Arameans until they are consumed.’”

21698

Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.

21699

He named the first Jemimah, and the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch.

21700

Let the sea roar, and all it contains;
Let the field exult, and all that is in it.

21701

and they rose up before Moses, together with some of the sons of Israel, two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, chosen in the assembly, men of renown.

21702

Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me; if to the left, then I will go to the right; or if to the right, then I will go to the left.”

21703

Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, “The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel.” For the Lord had ordained to thwart the good counsel of Ahithophel, so that the Lord might bring calamity on Absalom.

21704

For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

21705

So Ephron’s field, which was in Machpelah, which faced Mamre, the field and cave which was in it, and all the trees which were in the field, that were within all the confines of its border, were deeded over

21706

and behold, the glory of the God of Israel was coming from the way of the east. And His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shone with His glory.

21707

So the plan pleased Absalom and all the elders of Israel.

21708

Any bed on which she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her like her bed at menstruation; and every thing on which she sits shall be unclean, like her uncleanness at that time.

21710

“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘This is what the Lord has commanded, saying,

21711

And He said to them, “What do you want Me to do for you?”

21712

No man can by any means redeem his brother
Or give to God a ransom for him—

21713

“Also they will make themselves bald for you
And gird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.

21714

A man with an evil eye hastens after wealth
And does not know that want will come upon him.

21715

So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.

21716

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth,
Is Mount Zion in the far north,
The city of the great King.

21718

When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

21720

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

21721

The second came, saying, ‘Your mina, master, has made five minas.’

21722

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

21723

“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may remain there as a witness against you.

21724

Then it proceeded southward to the ascent of Akrabbim and continued to Zin, then went up by the south of Kadesh-barnea and continued to Hezron, and went up to Addar and turned about to Karka.

21725

Then the people of the land took Joahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in place of his father in Jerusalem.

21726

So Moses came and called the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the Lord had commanded him.

21727

Then Esau ran to meet him and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept.

21728

It shall be eaten on the same day, you shall leave none of it until morning; I am the Lord.

21730

But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he did not let the people go.

21731

Now the sun rose upon him just as he crossed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.

21732

Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus the Lord of hosts has said,
Zion will be plowed as a field,
And Jerusalem will become ruins,
And the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.”’

21733

Lift up a signal in the land,
Blow a trumpet among the nations!
Consecrate the nations against her,
Summon against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni and Ashkenaz;
Appoint a marshal against her,
Bring up the horses like bristly locusts.

21734

“It is changed like clay under the seal;
And they stand forth like a garment.

21735

Praise the Lord!
Praise the name of the Lord;
Praise Him, O servants of the Lord,

21736

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

21737

She caught him by his garment, saying, “Lie with me!” And he left his garment in her hand and fled, and went outside.

21738

Immediately the one who had received the five talents went and traded with them, and gained five more talents.

21739

“Surely, God will not act wickedly,
And the Almighty will not pervert justice.

21740

Then Elihu continued and said,

21741

because they did not meet the sons of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them. However, our God turned the curse into a blessing.

21742

When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put out his hand to hold the ark, because the oxen nearly upset it.

21743

She said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Tell the man who sent you to me,

21744

Then Job responded,

21745

Now the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants and all Israel, lived in their cities.And when the seventh month came, the sons of Israel were in their cities.

21746

David said to Ahimelech, “Now is there not a spear or a sword on hand? For I brought neither my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s matter was urgent.”

21747

“Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

21748

Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, “Listen to me, Jeroboam and all Israel:

21749

And they took up Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb which was in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men went all night until the day dawned at Hebron.

21750

And the heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel,

21751

Reuben, Israel’s firstborn, the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;

21752

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the Lord will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a bare hill.

21753

And he looked at Amalek and took up his discourse and said,
“Amalek was the first of the nations,
But his end shall be destruction.”

21754

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

21755

There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.

21756

But since I could not see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me and came into Damascus.

21757

Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him by the hand, for I will make a great nation of him.”

21758

“Behold, God is mighty but does not despise any;
He is mighty in strength of understanding.

21759

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

21760

“And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.

21761

“Have you understood all these things?” They *said to Him, “Yes.”

21762

Who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth
And makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?’

21763

There dwells in his tent nothing of his;
Brimstone is scattered on his habitation.

21764

the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 725;

21765

Now when Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow shall be a feast to the Lord.”

21766

Then Saul sent messengers to David’s house to watch him, in order to put him to death in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, “If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be put to death.”

21767

and it shall be for him and his descendants after him, a covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God and made atonement for the sons of Israel.’”

21768

Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David’s brother, responded, “Do not let my lord suppose they have put to death all the young men, the king’s sons, for Amnon alone is dead; because by the intent of Absalom this has been determined since the day that he violated his sister Tamar.

21769

Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening meal offering and the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land and their meal offering and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. But the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.”

21770

For it is not an idle word for you; indeed it is your life. And by this word you will prolong your days in the land, which you are about to cross the Jordan to possess.”

21771

But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the chief jailer.

21772

And now you are saying, ‘Go, say to your master, “Behold, Elijah is here.”’

21773

But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

21774

But when the vine-growers saw him, they reasoned with one another, saying, ‘This is the heir; let us kill him so that the inheritance will be ours.’

21775

and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their villages.

21776

and he took six hundred select chariots, and all the other chariots of Egypt with officers over all of them.

21777

For we can do nothing against the truth, but only for the truth.

21778

So the commander let the young man go, instructing him, “Tell no one that you have notified me of these things.”

21779

And Jesus stopped and said, “Call him here.” So they *called the blind man, saying to him, “Take courage, stand up! He is calling for you.”

21780

The high priest stood up and said to Him, “Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?”

21781

“Then those who inhabit the cities of Israel will go out and make fires with the weapons and burn them, both shields and bucklers, bows and arrows, war clubs and spears, and for seven years they will make fires of them.

21782

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

21783

This will be written for the generation to come,
That a people yet to be created may praise the Lord.

21784

On account of the day that is coming
To destroy all the Philistines,
To cut off from Tyre and Sidon
Every ally that is left;
For the Lord is going to destroy the Philistines,
The remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.

21785

But you will be called the priests of the Lord;
You will be spoken of as ministers of our God.
You will eat the wealth of nations,
And in their riches you will boast.

21786

Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
And a two-edged sword in their hand,

21789

A Psalm of David, for a memorial.
O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath,
And chasten me not in Your burning anger.

21790

He sent from on high, He took me;
He drew me out of many waters.

21791

“Though its roots grow old in the ground
And its stump dies in the dry soil,

21792

David was then in the stronghold, while the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

21793

Then they took Jeremiah and cast him into the cistern of Malchijah the king’s son, which was in the court of the guardhouse; and they let Jeremiah down with ropes. Now in the cistern there was no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank into the mud.

21794

He struck them with a very great slaughter from Aroer to the entrance of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim. So the sons of Ammon were subdued before the sons of Israel.

21795

So they camped one over against the other seven days. And on the seventh day the battle was joined, and the sons of Israel killed of the Arameans 100,000 foot soldiers in one day.

21796

When they were bringing out the money which had been brought into the house of the Lord, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord given by Moses.

21797

‘Again, if a man consecrates to the Lord part of the fields of his own property, then your valuation shall be proportionate to the seed needed for it: a homer of barley seed at fifty shekels of silver.

21798

And Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his father David, and Jehoram his son became king in his place.

21799

Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel?” But He did not answer him on that day.

21800

and after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David when they defied the Philistines who were gathered there to battle and the men of Israel had withdrawn.

21801

The sons of Benjamin went out against the people and were drawn away from the city, and they began to strike and kill some of the people as at other times, on the highways, one of which goes up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah, and in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

21802

and let them be ready for the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

21803

The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your barns and in all that you put your hand to, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

21804

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before the sons of Israel; only allot it to Israel for an inheritance as I have commanded you.

21805

I have made the earth, the men and the beasts which are on the face of the earth by My great power and by My outstretched arm, and I will give it to the one who is pleasing in My sight.

21806

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because Edom has acted against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has incurred grievous guilt, and avenged themselves upon them,”

21807

Concerning Damascus.
Hamath and Arpad are put to shame,
For they have heard bad news;
They are disheartened.
There is anxiety by the sea,
It cannot be calmed.

21808

Who has aroused one from the east
Whom He calls in righteousness to His feet?
He delivers up nations before him
And subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
As the wind-driven chaff with his bow.

21810

Thus says the Lord, “Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and there speak this word

21813

A Song of Ascents.
To You I lift up my eyes,
O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

21814

The dead do not praise the Lord,
Nor do any who go down into silence;

21815

Once You spoke in vision to Your godly ones,
And said, “I have given help to one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.

21816

“The light in his tent is darkened,
And his lamp goes out above him.

21817

Let Him weigh me with accurate scales,
And let God know my integrity.

21818

I am unworthy of all the lovingkindness and of all the faithfulness which You have shown to Your servant; for with my staff only I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two companies.

21819

In you they have taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and profits, and you have injured your neighbors for gain by oppression, and you have forgotten Me,” declares the Lord God.

21820

“If indeed you vaunt yourselves against me
And prove my disgrace to me,

21821

He said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man but for the Lord who is with you when you render judgment.

21822

“When you cross the Jordan, these shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

21824

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father David had done.

21825

For You said, ‘I will surely prosper you and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which is too great to be numbered.’”

21826

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

21827

You shall not see your countryman’s donkey or his ox fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly help him to raise them up.

21828

Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who had come from service in the war.

21829

The Lord spoke to Moses that very same day, saying,

21830

He who hates disguises it with his lips,
But he lays up deceit in his heart.

21831

They said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare it?”

21832

But they were saying, “Not during the festival, otherwise a riot might occur among the people.”

21833

Now your older sister is Samaria, who lives north of you with her daughters; and your younger sister, who lives south of you, is Sodom with her daughters.

21834

Go through, go through the gates,
Clear the way for the people;
Build up, build up the highway,
Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.

21835

In the seventh month Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, along with ten men, came to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam. While they were eating bread together there in Mizpah,

21836

“His bones are tubes of bronze;
His limbs are like bars of iron.

21837

and you return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and soul according to all that I command you today, you and your sons,

21838

The earth is broken asunder,
The earth is split through,
The earth is shaken violently.

21839

“Behold, I cry, ‘Violence!’ but I get no answer;
I shout for help, but there is no justice.

21840

then David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the open square of Beth-shan, where the Philistines had hanged them on the day the Philistines struck down Saul in Gilboa.

21841

For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

21842

Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring;
The early rain also covers it with blessings.

21843

To show partiality to the wicked is not good,
Nor to thrust aside the righteous in judgment.

21844

But they said, “Stand aside.” Furthermore, they said, “This one came in as an alien, and already he is acting like a judge; now we will treat you worse than them.” So they pressed hard against Lot and came near to break the door.

21846

Then the people went out into the field against Israel, and the battle took place in the forest of Ephraim.

21847

The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to the sons of Issachar according to their families.

21848

“Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.

21849

Those were the waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel contended with the Lord, and He proved Himself holy among them.

21850

Moses alone, however, shall come near to the Lord, but they shall not come near, nor shall the people come up with him.”

21851

But Isaac replied to Esau, “Behold, I have made him your master, and all his relatives I have given to him as servants; and with grain and new wine I have sustained him. Now as for you then, what can I do, my son?”

21852

“As for you, son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘Speak to every kind of bird and to every beast of the field, “Assemble and come, gather from every side to My sacrifice which I am going to sacrifice for you, as a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.

21853

For if He causes grief,
Then He will have compassion
According to His abundant lovingkindness.

21854

in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—

21855

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

21856

But, “Ah, Lord God!” I said, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”

21857

Then my people will live in a peaceful habitation,
And in secure dwellings and in undisturbed resting places;

21858

So Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and ate no food.

21859

“For He pays a man according to his work,
And makes him find it according to his way.

21860

“Your navel is like a round goblet
Which never lacks mixed wine;
Your belly is like a heap of wheat
Fenced about with lilies.

21861

“For it would be fire that consumes to Abaddon,
And would uproot all my increase.

21862

If there is among you any man who is unclean because of a nocturnal emission, then he must go outside the camp; he may not reenter the camp.

21863

Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, then Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, with musical instruments, harps, lyres; also Asaph played loud-sounding cymbals,

21864

“Therefore my disquieting thoughts make me respond,
Even because of my inward agitation.

21865

The Levites: the sons of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the sons of Hodaviah, 74.

21866

When the lad was gone, David rose from the south side and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed three times. And they kissed each other and wept together, but David wept the more.

21867

Now the first lot came out for Jehoiarib, the second for Jedaiah,

21868

It came about the same night that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,

21869

However, his father and mother did not know that it was of the Lord, for He was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines were ruling over Israel.

21870

Now Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams are one and the same; God has told to Pharaoh what He is about to do.

21871

Being deeply grieved, they each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord?”

21872

and the priest shall look at him on the seventh day. If it spreads farther in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection of leprosy.

21873

and they played the harlot in Egypt. They played the harlot in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and there their virgin bosom was handled.

21874

The incense which you shall make, you shall not make in the same proportions for yourselves; it shall be holy to you for the Lord.

21875

I will send an angel before you and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

21876

therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

21877

“Behold, everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb concerning you, saying, ‘Like mother, like daughter.’

21879

who shows lovingkindness to thousands, but repays the iniquity of fathers into the bosom of their children after them, O great and mighty God. The Lord of hosts is His name;

21880

I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and in the distress with which their enemies and those who seek their life will distress them.”’

21882

A rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
And like a high wall in his own imagination.

21883

To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates River at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

21884

“So I Myself have also stripped your skirts off over your face,
That your shame may be seen.

21885

A Prayer of the Afflicted when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the Lord.
Hear my prayer, O Lord!
And let my cry for help come to You.

21886

“I also shall make him My firstborn,
The highest of the kings of the earth.

21887

“Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars,
Stretching his wings toward the south?

21888

Then David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.

21889

So the city was under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

21890

Then he *said to his slaves, ‘The wedding is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy.

21891

Who were snatched away before their time,
Whose foundations were washed away by a river?

21892

Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the responsibility over the things which were baked in pans.

21893

As a shepherd cares for his herd in the day when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will care for My sheep and will deliver them from all the places to which they were scattered on a cloudy and gloomy day.

21894

The Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.

21895

“I will put the cedar in the wilderness,
The acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree;
I will place the juniper in the desert
Together with the box tree and the cypress,

21896

Then Ishbi-benob, who was among the descendants of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of bronze in weight, was girded with a new sword, and he intended to kill David.

21897

But Laban said to him, “If now it pleases you, stay with me; I have divined that the Lord has blessed me on your account.”

21898

for the multitude of the people kept following them, shouting, “Away with him!”

21899

However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the Lord their God.

21900

Pay attention to Me, O My people,
And give ear to Me, O My nation;
For a law will go forth from Me,
And I will set My justice for a light of the peoples.

21901

“And I will send fire upon Magog and those who inhabit the coastlands in safety; and they will know that I am the Lord.

21902

Then they said, “What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth.”

21903

“Also on your skirts is found
The lifeblood of the innocent poor;
You did not find them breaking in.
But in spite of all these things,

21905

My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
And my tongue cleaves to my jaws;
And You lay me in the dust of death.

21906

“He hews out channels through the rocks,
And his eye sees anything precious.

21907

Remember this, and be assured;
Recall it to mind, you transgressors.

21908

He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
He who keeps understanding will find good.

21909

You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

21910

Everything, O king, Araunah gives to the king.” And Araunah said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”

21911

and you shall prepare wine for the drink offering, one-fourth of a hin, with the burnt offering or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.

21914

“Because he knew no quiet within him,
He does not retain anything he desires.

21915

Now behold, the Lord has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now behold, I am eighty-five years old today.

21916

“Look at me, and be astonished,
And put your hand over your mouth.

21917

“Now therefore, write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

21918

Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ declares the Lord,
‘And do not be dismayed, O Israel;
For behold, I will save you from afar
And your offspring from the land of their captivity.
And Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease,
And no one will make him afraid.

21919

But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

21920

A Song of Ascents.
In my trouble I cried to the Lord,
And He answered me.

21921

from the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori;

21922

who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

21923

So she said to him, “My father, you have given your word to the Lord; do to me as you have said, since the Lord has avenged you of your enemies, the sons of Ammon.”

21924

It will be on the seventh day that he shall shave off all his hair: he shall shave his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair. He shall then wash his clothes and bathe his body in water and be clean.

21925

Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs,
Rather than a fool in his folly.

21926

A servant who acts wisely will rule over a son who acts shamefully,
And will share in the inheritance among brothers.

21928

“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake

21929

But Barzillai said to the king, “How long have I yet to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?

21931

then hear in heaven and act and judge Your servants, condemning the wicked by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him according to his righteousness.

21932

He said, “O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.

21933

So Balaam said to Balak, “Behold, I have come now to you! Am I able to speak anything at all? The word that God puts in my mouth, that I shall speak.”

21934

Then he said to Him, “If Your presence does not go with us, do not lead us up from here.

21935

These are the statutes and ordinances and laws which the Lord established between Himself and the sons of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai.

21936

who brought you out from the land of Egypt, to be your God; I am the Lord.”

21937

It shall be on Aaron when he ministers; and its tinkling shall be heard when he enters and leaves the holy place before the Lord, so that he will not die.

21938

“Behold, I Myself have created the smith who blows the fire of coals
And brings out a weapon for its work;
And I have created the destroyer to ruin.

21939

Paul called one of the centurions to him and said, “Lead this young man to the commander, for he has something to report to him.”

21940

For Pharaoh will say of the sons of Israel, ‘They are wandering aimlessly in the land; the wilderness has shut them in.’

21941

So a division occurred in the crowd because of Him.

21942

Seek the Lord and His strength;
Seek His face continually.

21944

“The Almighty—we cannot find Him;
He is exalted in power
And He will not do violence to justice and abundant righteousness.

21945

O our God, will You not judge them? For we are powerless before this great multitude who are coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are on You.”

21946

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No death sentence for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

21947

For the wrath of man shall praise You;
With a remnant of wrath You will gird Yourself.

21948

They drink their fill of the abundance of Your house;
And You give them to drink of the river of Your delights.

21949

Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation;
O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man!

21950

Now a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and the congregation of the sons of Israel shall keep it as water to remove impurity; it is purification from sin.

21951

David took the crown of their king from his head, and he found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there was a precious stone in it; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

21952

Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven days.

21953

of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh and Shimei;

21954

‘Then at the beginning of each of your months you shall present a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;

21955

As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Is it well, Zimri, your master’s murderer?”

21956

But whenever Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he would take off the veil until he came out; and whenever he came out and spoke to the sons of Israel what he had been commanded,

21957

“And in the greatness of Your excellence You overthrow those who rise up against You;
You send forth Your burning anger, and it consumes them as chaff.

21958

Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

21959

But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I send him to Caesar.”

21960

And He *said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they *said, “Five, and two fish.”

21961

“The topaz of Ethiopia cannot equal it,
Nor can it be valued in pure gold.

21962

“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?

21963

“I will fill the soul of the priests with abundance,
And My people will be satisfied with My goodness,” declares the Lord.

21964

For the choir director; according to Jonath elem rehokim. A Mikhtam of David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.
Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled upon me;
Fighting all day long he oppresses me.

21965

“And the peaceful folds are made silent
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

21966

Therefore thus says the Lord in regard to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,
“They will not lament for him:
Alas, my brother!’ or, ‘Alas, sister!’
They will not lament for him:
‘Alas for the master!’ or, ‘Alas for his splendor!’

21967

Righteousness guards the one whose way is blameless,
But wickedness subverts the sinner.

21968

“Your head crowns you like Carmel,
And the flowing locks of your head are like purple threads;
The king is captivated by your tresses.

21969

“My breath is offensive to my wife,
And I am loathsome to my own brothers.

21970

“For he is thrown into the net by his own feet,
And he steps on the webbing.

21971

Know then that God has wronged me
And has closed His net around me.

21972

When your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up one of your descendants after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

21973

“Were you the first man to be born,
Or were you brought forth before the hills?

21974

The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the Lord, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel.”

21975

He took the calf which they had made and burned it with fire, and ground it to powder, and scattered it over the surface of the water and made the sons of Israel drink it.

21976

For the Lord humbled Judah because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had brought about a lack of restraint in Judah and was very unfaithful to the Lord.

21977

he said to them, “Take to your heart all the words with which I am warning you today, which you shall command your sons to observe carefully, even all the words of this law.

21978

All Israel who were around them fled at their outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us up!”

21979

After he had buried him, he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

21980

And Gideon the son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

21981

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me odious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and my men being few in number, they will gather together against me and attack me and I will be destroyed, I and my household.”

21982

to the place of the altar which he had made there formerly; and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

21983

and coming out of the tombs after His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many.

21984

Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the Lord.

21985

Shout for joy, O heavens, for the Lord has done it!
Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth;
Break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains,
O forest, and every tree in it;
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob
And in Israel He shows forth His glory.

21986

“How well you prepare your way
To seek love!
Therefore even the wicked women
You have taught your ways.

21987

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

21988

Ahab said to Elijah, “Have you found me, O my enemy?” And he answered, “I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the Lord.

21989

Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, broke the pillars in pieces, cut down the Asherim and pulled down the high places and the altars throughout all Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned to their cities, each to his possession.

21990

The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and the head of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; his shield-carrier also walked before him.

21991

“But come here, you sons of a sorceress,
Offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute.

21992

On that day men were also appointed over the chambers for the stores, the contributions, the first fruits and the tithes, to gather into them from the fields of the cities the portions required by the law for the priests and Levites; for Judah rejoiced over the priests and Levites who served.

21993

The cast lot puts an end to strife
And decides between the mighty ones.

21994

“In an outburst of anger
I hid My face from you for a moment,
But with everlasting lovingkindness I will have compassion on you,”
Says the Lord your Redeemer.

21995

Now because of all this
We are making an agreement in writing;
And on the sealed document are the names of our leaders, our Levites and our priests.”

21996

Then Aaron shall offer the bull for the sin offering which is for himself, that he may make atonement for himself and for his household.

21997

The priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet material and cast it into the midst of the burning heifer.

21998

David also defeated Hadadezer king of Zobah as far as Hamath, as he went to establish his rule to the Euphrates River.

21999

Now after him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. And the Philistines were gathered into a troop where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the people fled from the Philistines.

22000

That first slaughter which Jonathan and his armor bearer made was about twenty men within about half a furrow in an acre of land.

22001

So Israel set men in ambush around Gibeah.

22002

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of commanders and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves, and small and great.”