So Mephibosheth lived in Jerusalem, for he ate at the king’s table regularly. Now he was lame in both feet.

and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live.

You are witnesses of these things.

and to those who were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were accustomed to go.”

Then Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the hill country of Judah and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.

for we have regard for what is honorable, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

But one whom you forgive anything, I forgive also; for indeed what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, I did it for your sakes in the presence of Christ,

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters; and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Jesus *said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

Immediately they left their nets and followed Him.

Your fathers went down to Egypt seventy persons in all, and now the Lord your God has made you as numerous as the stars of heaven.

Therefore I ask you not to lose heart at my tribulations on your behalf, for they are your glory.

Also My bread which I gave you, fine flour, oil and honey with which I fed you, you would offer before them for a soothing aroma; so it happened,” declares the Lord God.

“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Behold, I am against those who have prophesied false dreams,” declares the Lord, “and related them and led My people astray by their falsehoods and reckless boasting; yet I did not send them or command them, nor do they furnish this people the slightest benefit,” declares the Lord.

“Even when they made for themselves
A calf of molten metal
And said, ‘This is your God
Who brought you up from Egypt,’
And committed great blasphemies,

Now Nahash the Ammonite came up and besieged Jabesh-gilead; and all the men of Jabesh said to Nahash, “Make a covenant with us and we will serve you.”

Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

“What right has My beloved in My house
When she has done many vile deeds?
Can the sacrificial flesh take away from you your disaster,
So that you can rejoice?”

Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go to the field and glean among the ears of grain after one in whose sight I may find favor.” And she said to her, “Go, my daughter.”

Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others pass judgment.

On the very night when Herod was about to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards in front of the door were watching over the prison.

By Hushim he became the father of Abitub and Elpaal.

Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan below Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof,

Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it fall away.

But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people and camped in Jahaz and fought with Israel.

The Pharisees and their scribes began grumbling at His disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who were disobedient?

But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also.

and they said to him, “Thus says Jephthah, ‘Israel did not take away the land of Moab nor the land of the sons of Ammon.

The Lord said to Moses, “When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

Greet all of your leaders and all the saints. Those from Italy greet you.

He has remembered His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded to a thousand generations,

to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.

“You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have slain your people.
May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

“I will cut off your carved images
And your sacred pillars from among you,
So that you will no longer bow down
To the work of your hands.

the son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

Therefore, on account of you
Zion will be plowed as a field,
Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,
And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

The Lord gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He promised him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a covenant.

They took him, and beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

Then Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy where the ark of the Lord has entered.”

that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel.

And two blind men sitting by the road, hearing that Jesus was passing by, cried out, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!”

The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine, whom she bore, were Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan were Sheba and Dedan.

So David came to Baal-perazim and defeated them there; and he said, “The Lord has broken through my enemies before me like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore he named that place Baal-perazim.

in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they praised the Lord saying, “He indeed is good for His lovingkindness is everlasting,” then the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud,

Then David came to Mahanaim. And Absalom crossed the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

Heshbon, and all its cities which are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

Simon answered and said, “Master, we worked hard all night and caught nothing, but I will do as You say and let down the nets.”

For they covered the surface of the whole land, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Thus nothing green was left on tree or plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.

Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

And he went away and began to proclaim in Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

But all the animals and the spoil of the cities we took as our booty.

“But you made the Nazirites drink wine,
And you commanded the prophets saying, ‘You shall not prophesy!’

I approached one of those who were standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this. So he told me and made known to me the interpretation of these things:

Then they answered and spoke before the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the injunction which you signed, but keeps making his petition three times a day.”

“Now my days are swifter than a runner;
They flee away, they see no good.

Forasmuch as you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God which is in your hand,

Moreover, the Lord made it known to me and I knew it;
Then You showed me their deeds.

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

Boaz replied to her, “All that you have done for your mother-in-law after the death of your husband has been fully reported to me, and how you left your father and your mother and the land of your birth, and came to a people that you did not previously know.

Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was secretary.

And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them by the pool of Gibeon; and they sat down, one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool.

For it is attested of Him,
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”

For they could not bear the command, “If even a beast touches the mountain, it will be stoned.”

But I say to you, the rest who are in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who have not known the deep things of Satan, as they call them—I place no other burden on you.

and he *said, ‘Cornelius, your prayer has been heard and your alms have been remembered before God.

The leaders offered the dedication offering for the altar when it was anointed, so the leaders offered their offering before the altar.

They shall also keep all the furnishings of the tent of meeting, along with the duties of the sons of Israel, to do the service of the tabernacle.

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.’

Then you are not the Egyptian who some time ago stirred up a revolt and led the four thousand men of the Assassins out into the wilderness?”

He gave me instruction and talked with me and said, “O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding.

But God spoke to this effect, that his descendants would be aliens in a foreign land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated for four hundred years.

Then the king gave orders, and Daniel was brought in and cast into the lions’ den. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you constantly serve will Himself deliver you.”

They told Him, saying, “John the Baptist; and others say Elijah; but others, one of the prophets.”

“Were they ashamed because of the abomination they had done?
They certainly were not ashamed,
And they did not know how to blush;
Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
At the time of their punishment they shall be brought down,”
Says the Lord.

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I did obey the voice of the Lord, and went on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

On the twenty-first of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet saying,

For Topheth has long been ready,
Indeed, it has been prepared for the king.
He has made it deep and large,
A pyre of fire with plenty of wood;
The breath of the Lord, like a torrent of brimstone, sets it afire.

“However, I will leave a remnant, for you will have those who escaped the sword among the nations when you are scattered among the countries.

So all Israel went down to the Philistines, each to sharpen his plowshare, his mattock, his axe, and his hoe.

So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.

the beginning of his talking is folly and the end of it is wicked madness.

Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?”

It is good that you grasp one thing and also not let go of the other; for the one who fears God comes forth with both of them.

I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees;

Abijah and his people defeated them with a great slaughter, so that 500,000 chosen men of Israel fell slain.

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

Honor widows who are widows indeed;

Koz became the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

The neighbor women gave him a name, saying, “A son has been born to Naomi!” So they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.

Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

Thereafter Samuel called the people together to the Lord at Mizpah;

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he sat down by a well.

If sometimes the cloud remained a few days over the tabernacle, according to the command of the Lord they remained camped. Then according to the command of the Lord they set out.

Abraham said, “I swear it.”

For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him; but the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe him; and you, seeing this, did not even feel remorse afterward so as to believe him.

Therefore it was necessary for the copies of the things in the heavens to be cleansed with these, but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

Greet the brethren who are in Laodicea and also Nympha and the church that is in her house.

If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;

For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.

‘And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.’

But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Then after being warned by God in a dream, he left for the regions of Galilee,

Sun and moon stood in their places;
They went away at the light of Your arrows,
At the radiance of Your gleaming spear.

Do you put off the day of calamity,
And would you bring near the seat of violence?

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel,
“Seek Me that you may live.

When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one who looked like a man.

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“If you return, then I will restore you—
Before Me you will stand;
And if you extract the precious from the worthless,
You will become My spokesman.
They for their part may turn to you,
But as for you, you must not turn to them.

They made their hearts like flint so that they could not hear the law and the words which the Lord of hosts had sent by His Spirit through the former prophets; therefore great wrath came from the Lord of hosts.

“Hear and testify against the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord God, the God of hosts.

he said to Arioch, the king’s commander, “For what reason is the decree from the king so urgent?” Then Arioch informed Daniel about the matter.

Then Daniel went to his house and informed his friends, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, about the matter,

let them bring a royal robe which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed;

Thus you are to know in your heart that the Lord your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.

And I discovered more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

King Solomon also built a fleet of ships in Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.

After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him.

In that day I will carry out against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from beginning to end.

Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the Lord is with him.” So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, “Amen! Thus may the Lord, the God of my lord the king, say.

Samuel said to the people, “Do not fear. You have committed all this evil, yet do not turn aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart.

He proceeded there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to Naioth in Ramah.

Rise up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, “There are things under the ban in your midst, O Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you have removed the things under the ban from your midst.”

‘Now this is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings which shall be presented to the Lord.

His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all those who play the lyre and pipe.

So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go.

Now God has not only raised the Lord, but will also raise us up through His power.

And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being covered with the waves; but Jesus Himself was asleep.

When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he began asking to receive alms.

For by it the men of old gained approval.

Or is God the God of Jews only? Is He not the God of Gentiles also? Yes, of Gentiles also,

Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.

Also to Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, and the older brother of Japheth, children were born.

Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe and all kinds of music, to fall down and worship the image that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can deliver you out of my hands?”

The Lord God is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.
For the choir director, on my stringed instruments.

“Then I will give her her vineyards from there,
And the valley of Achor as a door of hope.
And she will sing there as in the days of her youth,
As in the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

This is the one about whom it is written,
‘Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way before You.’

Or you will learn his ways
And find a snare for yourself.

Jesus answered them, “Do you now believe?

It came about at noon, that Elijah mocked them and said, “Call out with a loud voice, for he is a god; either he is occupied or gone aside, or is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and needs to be awakened.”

It will come about that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you that you may become a blessing. Do not fear; let your hands be strong.’

‘In that day,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘every one of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”

“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed
And founds a town with violence!

A gray head is a crown of glory;
It is found in the way of righteousness.

“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity,” declares the Lord.

Then it happened as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David that Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

Behold, I have made your face as hard as their faces and your forehead as hard as their foreheads.

So the great court all around had three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams even as the inner court of the house of the Lord, and the porch of the house.

The sound of a report! Behold, it comes—
A great commotion out of the land of the north—
To make the cities of Judah
A desolation, a haunt of jackals.

Now it came about after two full years that Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king’s sons.

My heavenly Father will also do the same to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your heart.”

“Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
May you come with me from Lebanon.
Journey down from the summit of Amana,
From the summit of Senir and Hermon,
From the dens of lions,
From the mountains of leopards.

Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

He brought into the house of God the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils.

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Now the sons of Gad lived opposite them in the land of Bashan as far as Salecah.

I took your sinful thing, the calf which you had made, and burned it with fire and crushed it, grinding it very small until it was as fine as dust; and I threw its dust into the brook that came down from the mountain.

For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He?

Do you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? So whatever the Lord our God has driven out before us, we will possess it.

He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who has not forsaken His lovingkindness and His truth toward my master; as for me, the Lord has guided me in the way to the house of my master’s brothers.”

When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him,

When he saw the ring and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, “This is what the man said to me,” he went to the man; and behold, he was standing by the camels at the spring.

one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

You shall take in your hand this staff, with which you shall perform the signs.”

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you.

And they began to implore Him to leave their region.

As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commander, “May I say something to you?” And he *said, “Do you know Greek?

Then the Lord will appear over them,
And His arrow will go forth like lightning;
And the Lord God will blow the trumpet,
And will march in the storm winds of the south.

Are you better than No-amon,
Which was situated by the waters of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose rampart was the sea,
Whose wall consisted of the sea?

Gather yourselves together, yes, gather,
O nation without shame,

“I will root out your Asherim from among you
And destroy your cities.

The Lord called your name,
“A green olive tree, beautiful in fruit and form”;
With the noise of a great tumult
He has kindled fire on it,
And its branches are worthless.

Now in that day the remnant of Israel, and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

that on that day he who escapes will come to you with information for your ears?

Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,

Now Solomon had 70,000 transporters, and 80,000 hewers of stone in the mountains,

Now when David had come to Mahanaim, Shobi the son of Nahash from Rabbah of the sons of Ammon, Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental things of the world.

Ram became the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab became the father of Nahshon, leader of the sons of Judah;

Now the lords of the Philistines assembled to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice, for they said,
“Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hands.”

And she said, ‘Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves.’ Thus she came and has remained from the morning until now; she has been sitting in the house for a little while.”

And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.

And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River, and they came to Helam; and Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer led them.

And Levi gave a big reception for Him in his house; and there was a great crowd of tax collectors and other people who were reclining at the table with them.

Then Absalom said to Ahithophel, “Give your advice. What shall we do?”

Or the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

But if I cast out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.

Now when evening came David arose from his bed and walked around on the roof of the king’s house, and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful in appearance.

Over the table of the bread of the Presence they shall also spread a cloth of blue and put on it the dishes and the pans and the sacrificial bowls and the jars for the drink offering, and the continual bread shall be on it.

then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please let us pass through your land,” but the king of Edom would not listen. And they also sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them, that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

So death works in us, but life in you.

Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,

Be careful that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Daniel answered before the king and said, “As for the mystery about which the king has inquired, neither wise men, conjurers, magicians nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.

In all labor there is profit,
But mere talk leads only to poverty.

And He was saying to them, “Do you not yet understand?”

“But the Lord is in His holy temple.
Let all the earth be silent before Him.”

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question:

Now send me a skilled man to work in gold, silver, brass and iron, and in purple, crimson and violet fabrics, and who knows how to make engravings, to work with the skilled men whom I have in Judah and Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.

Then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven;

“The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially,
Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’
But there is no peace.

“Then I will give you shepherds after My own heart, who will feed you on knowledge and understanding.

Now therefore, O kings, show discernment;
Take warning, O judges of the earth.

But let all who take refuge in You be glad,
Let them ever sing for joy;
And may You shelter them,
That those who love Your name may exult in You.

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones; and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white garments, and golden crowns on their heads.

And it will be against all the cedars of Lebanon that are lofty and lifted up,
Against all the oaks of Bashan,

Now it came about after this, that Ben-hadad king of Aram gathered all his army and went up and besieged Samaria.

The cart came into the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite and stood there where there was a large stone; and they split the wood of the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Day to day pours forth speech,
And night to night reveals knowledge.

Take courage and be men, O Philistines, or you will become slaves to the Hebrews, as they have been slaves to you; therefore, be men and fight.”

But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today.

The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.

But passing through their midst, He went His way.

All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the Lord.

And answering they *said to Him, “Where, Lord?” And He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will be gathered.”

“I will sow her for Myself in the land.
I will also have compassion on her who had not obtained compassion,
And I will say to those who were not My people,
‘You are My people!’
And they will say, ‘You are my God!’”

They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them.

Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow them with oxen?
Yet you have turned justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Nebuchadnezzar responded and said to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the golden image that I have set up?

At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.

“And I will execute vengeance in anger and wrath
On the nations which have not obeyed.”

So the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they looked for Daniel and his friends to kill them.

“Now you, son of man, set your face against the daughters of your people who are prophesying from their own inspiration. Prophesy against them

The one belonging to Ahab, who dies in the city, the dogs will eat, and the one who dies in the field the birds of heaven will eat.”

Thus says the Lord,
“If the heavens above can be measured
And the foundations of the earth searched out below,
Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel
For all that they have done,” declares the Lord.

the sons of Bani, 642;

Then the people of the land killed all those who had conspired against King Amon, and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his place.

Nogah, Nepheg and Japhia,

Again what more can David say to You? For You know Your servant, O Lord God!

Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed give the sons of Ammon into my hand,

If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.

Now behold, Zadok also came, and all the Levites with him carrying the ark of the covenant of God. And they set down the ark of God, and Abiathar came up until all the people had finished passing from the city.

So David gathered all the people and went to Rabbah, fought against it and captured it.

It happened in the middle of the night that the man was startled and bent forward; and behold, a woman was lying at his feet.

And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests; and the king said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you want and I will give it to you.”

Then they went through the wilderness and around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came to the east side of the land of Moab, and they camped beyond the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates,

Thus Joshua took all that land: the hill country and all the Negev, all that land of Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its lowland

and *implored Him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death; please come and lay Your hands on her, so that she will get well and live.”

Therefore, you shall keep the commandments of the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to fear Him.

The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” And he said, “A staff.”

saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”

and His garments became radiant and exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth can whiten them.

The Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might perform them in the land where you are going over to possess it.

Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the sons of Israel would keep the Lord’s charge and not set out.

And they began to weep aloud and embraced Paul, and repeatedly kissed him,

“In that day I will also make a covenant for them
With the beasts of the field,
The birds of the sky
And the creeping things of the ground.
And I will abolish the bow, the sword and war from the land,
And will make them lie down in safety.

Israel is a luxuriant vine;
He produces fruit for himself.
The more his fruit,
The more altars he made;
The richer his land,
The better he made the sacred pillars.

“Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts,
The God of Israel,
“Surely Moab will be like Sodom
And the sons of Ammon like Gomorrah—
A place possessed by nettles and salt pits,
And a perpetual desolation.
The remnant of My people will plunder them
And the remainder of My nation will inherit them.”

And he was accompanied by Sopater of Berea, the son of Pyrrhus, and by Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia.

The Lord has rejected His altar,
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As in the day of an appointed feast.

“Now a traveler came to the rich man,
And he was unwilling to take from his own flock or his own herd,
To prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him;
Rather he took the poor man’s ewe lamb and prepared it for the man who had come to him.”

I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. Then I will bring him to Babylon and enter into judgment with him there regarding the unfaithful act which he has committed against Me.

For though your people, O Israel, may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

“Indeed, forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want;
Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.

Who knows that the breath of man ascends upward and the breath of the beast descends downward to the earth?

“By day they meet with darkness,
And grope at noon as in the night.

And your mouth like the best wine!”
“It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
Flowing gently through the lips of those who fall asleep.

Now the weight of gold which came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

Then the king of Israel said, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son;

Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day.

Moreover, they were speaking about his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. Then Tobiah sent letters to frighten me.

He said to him, “Say now to her, ‘Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what can I do for you? Would you be spoken for to the king or to the captain of the army?’” And she answered, “I live among my own people.”

When the priests came forth from the holy place (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, without regard to divisions),

the pelican, the carrion vulture, the cormorant,

The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey.

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his servants.

So the Lord delivered Israel that day, and the battle spread beyond Beth-aven.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

But as they were sailing along He fell asleep; and a fierce gale of wind descended on the lake, and they began to be swamped and to be in danger.

The Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.”

Do not lay hands upon anyone too hastily and thereby share responsibility for the sins of others; keep yourself free from sin.

But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.

For even if there are so-called gods whether in heaven or on earth, as indeed there are many gods and many lords,

From these the coastlands of the nations were separated into their lands, every one according to his language, according to their families, into their nations.

Now these are the records of the generations of Aaron and Moses at the time when the Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt.

But the other answered, and rebuking him said, “Do you not even fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?

“You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,
And your vileness will be in your midst.
You will try to remove for safekeeping,
But you will not preserve anything,
And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.

The wheels were called in my hearing, the whirling wheels.

There is nothing reliable in what they say;
Their inward part is destruction itself.
Their throat is an open grave;
They flatter with their tongue.

At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘The Throne of the Lord,’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Jerusalem, for the name of the Lord; nor will they walk anymore after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved;

He said, “O man of high esteem, do not be afraid. Peace be with you; take courage and be courageous!” Now as soon as he spoke to me, I received strength and said, “May my lord speak, for you have strengthened me.”

For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.

“As I live,” declares the Lord, “even though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah were a signet ring on My right hand, yet I would pull you off;

To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;

By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise;

That I may tell of all Your praises,
That in the gates of the daughter of Zion
I may rejoice in Your salvation.

All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.”

He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and to plead with him for her people.

The wing of the other cherub, of five cubits, touched the wall of the house; and its other wing of five cubits was attached to the wing of the first cherub.

and their relatives, heads of their fathers’ households, 1,760 very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

He said to him, “I also am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.

Mishma, Dumah, Massa, Hadad, Tema,

In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon and Abel-beth-maacah and Janoah and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria.

“But whatever happens,” he said, “I will run.” So he said to him, “Run.” Then Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and passed up the Cushite.

Then she said, “I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants.”

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle for the rear side to the west.

The Lord did according to the word of Moses, and the frogs died out of the houses, the courts, and the fields.

They journeyed from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.

Fire shall be kept burning continually on the altar; it is not to go out.

and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to pieces, as I also have received authority from My Father;

And they spoke the word of the Lord to him together with all who were in his house.

But Barnabas took hold of him and brought him to the apostles and described to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had talked to him, and how at Damascus he had spoken out boldly in the name of Jesus.

I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias, doing nothing in a spirit of partiality.

Other seed fell among the thorns; and the thorns grew up with it and choked it out.

But those vine-growers said to one another, ‘This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours!’

Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field.

“Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”

Brethren, pray for us.

When He arrived at the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace be to this house.’

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.

Those who recline on beds of ivory
And sprawl on their couches,
And eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall,

“To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?

Last of all, the woman died.

“Listen, you mountains, to the indictment of the Lord,
And you enduring foundations of the earth,
Because the Lord has a case against His people;
Even with Israel He will dispute.

The Lord enters into judgment with the elders and princes of His people,
“It is you who have devoured the vineyard;
The plunder of the poor is in your houses.

The ram which you saw with the two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia.

“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.

He who is slow to anger has great understanding,
But he who is quick-tempered exalts folly.

and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and kinsmen, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres, standing east of the altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets

If you walk in My ways, keeping My statutes and commandments, as your father David walked, then I will prolong your days.”

“In the first year of Darius the Mede, I arose to be an encouragement and a protection for him.

Now when the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people of the exile were building a temple to the Lord God of Israel,

“O that a man might plead with God
As a man with his neighbor!

the sons of Ater, of Hezekiah, 98;

But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my new wine, which cheers God and men, and go to wave over the trees?’

He said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and showing lovingkindness to Your servants who walk before You with all their heart;

Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.

Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Now Samuel was ministering before the Lord, as a boy wearing a linen ephod.

to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,

that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.

The people answered him in accord with this word, saying, “Thus it will be done for the man who kills him.”

Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents.

Then Saul approached Samuel in the gate and said, “Please tell me where the seer’s house is.”

If your offering is a grain offering made on the griddle, it shall be of fine flour, unleavened, mixed with oil;

The men of Shechem set men in ambush against him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all who might pass by them along the road; and it was told to Abimelech.

as he was sowing, some seed fell beside the road, and the birds came and ate it up.

and they all ate and were satisfied. They picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve full baskets.

“So I fell down before the Lord the forty days and nights, which I did because the Lord had said He would destroy you.

the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

Now when they set out from Kadesh, the sons of Israel, the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.

You shall thus give the Levites to Aaron and to his sons; they are wholly given to him from among the sons of Israel.

They said to them, “May the Lord look upon you and judge you, for you have made us odious in Pharaoh’s sight and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.”

and she was with child; and she *cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth.

So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.’

Then say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Behold, a man whose name is Branch, for He will branch out from where He is; and He will build the temple of the Lord.

You will give truth to Jacob
And unchanging love to Abraham,
Which You swore to our forefathers
From the days of old.

“The remnant of Israel will do no wrong
And tell no lies,
Nor will a deceitful tongue
Be found in their mouths;
For they will feed and lie down
With no one to make them tremble.”

How can I give you up, O Ephraim?
How can I surrender you, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart is turned over within Me,
All My compassions are kindled.

For this reason I have often been prevented from coming to you;

So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three days’ walk.

After the deportation to Babylon: Jeconiah became the father of Shealtiel, and Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel.

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
The tyrannical city!

Egypt will become a waste,
And Edom will become a desolate wilderness,
Because of the violence done to the sons of Judah,
In whose land they have shed innocent blood.

Like emery harder than flint I have made your forehead. Do not be afraid of them or be dismayed before them, though they are a rebellious house.”

Then, as soon as the king heard this statement, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel; and even until sunset he kept exerting himself to rescue him.

The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have never come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah, the king of Assyria.”

Will they not go astray who devise evil?
But kindness and truth will be to those who devise good.

“Also the men of Memphis and Tahpanhes
Have shaved the crown of your head.

This our bread was warm when we took it for our provisions out of our houses on the day that we left to come to you; but now behold, it is dry and has become crumbled.

When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Strike this people with blindness, I pray.” So He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken and as the Lord had sworn to them, so that they were severely distressed.

(for the Law made nothing perfect), and on the other hand there is a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will assuredly dispossess from before you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.

and being fully assured that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.

As for the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were assigned to outside duties for Israel, as officers and judges.

Joab sent messengers to David and said, “I have fought against Rabbah, I have even captured the city of waters.

Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped beside Ebenezer while the Philistines camped in Aphek.

Now therefore, please swear to me by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth,

Now Heber the Kenite had separated himself from the Kenites, from the sons of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.

Now the cities at the extremity of the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur,

who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life.

Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?”

So I said to you, ‘Let My son go that he may serve Me’; but you have refused to let him go. Behold, I will kill your son, your firstborn.”’”

Then let them take a bull with its grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil; and a second bull you shall take for a sin offering.

He said, “Leave; for the girl has not died, but is asleep.” And they began laughing at Him.

Or what king, when he sets out to meet another king in battle, will not first sit down and consider whether he is strong enough with ten thousand men to encounter the one coming against him with twenty thousand?

And He will delight in the fear of the Lord,
And He will not judge by what His eyes see,
Nor make a decision by what His ears hear;

As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker among you; as for our brethren, they are messengers of the churches, a glory to Christ.

But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, the first one must keep silent.

Every place on which the sole of your foot treads shall be yours; your border will be from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the river, the river Euphrates, as far as the western sea.

For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had seized him many times; and he was bound with chains and shackles and kept under guard, and yet he would break his bonds and be driven by the demon into the desert.

Therefore I have sent him all the more eagerly so that when you see him again you may rejoice and I may be less concerned about you.

“Arise and thresh, daughter of Zion,
For your horn I will make iron
And your hoofs I will make bronze,
That you may pulverize many peoples,
That you may devote to the Lord their unjust gain
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

So Paul went out of their midst.

The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

Then you will say on that day,
“I will give thanks to You, O Lord;
For although You were angry with me,
Your anger is turned away,
And You comfort me.

Who build Zion with bloodshed
And Jerusalem with violent injustice.

It is not good to eat much honey,
Nor is it glory to search out one’s own glory.

“What is my strength, that I should wait?
And what is my end, that I should endure?

‘You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, and you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field or his male servant or his female servant, his ox or his donkey or anything that belongs to your neighbor.’

And I issued a decree that any man who violates this edict, a timber shall be drawn from his house and he shall be impaled on it and his house shall be made a refuse heap on account of this.

He fashioned the two pillars of bronze; eighteen cubits was the height of one pillar, and a line of twelve cubits measured the circumference of both.

Complete darkness is held in reserve for his treasures,
And unfanned fire will devour him;
It will consume the survivor in his tent.

May he also be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him.”

“At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places,
There they shall recount the righteous deeds of the Lord,
The righteous deeds for His peasantry in Israel.
Then the people of the Lord went down to the gates.

Then David slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David.

of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

Then he said, “Take the arrows,” and he took them. And he said to the king of Israel, “Strike the ground,” and he struck it three times and stopped.

but the hill country shall be yours. For though it is a forest, you shall clear it, and to its farthest borders it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though they have chariots of iron and though they are strong.”

Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed.

Until the day was about to dawn, Paul was encouraging them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have been constantly watching and going without eating, having taken nothing.

He created them male and female, and He blessed them and named them Man in the day when they were created.

“Take away from Me the noise of your songs;
I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.

So the Lord shifted the wind to a very strong west wind which took up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Of the birds after their kind, and of the animals after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.