You, O God, sent abroad plentiful rain;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched and weary.

So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces and all the people disobeyed the voice of the Lord [which told them] to stay in the land of Judah.

“I spoke to you in your [times of] prosperity,
But you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your attitude and practice from your youth;
You have not obeyed My voice.

And they went and stayed in Geruth [the lodging place of] Chimham, which is near Bethlehem, intending to go to Egypt

And [the people of] Judah and all its cities will live there together—the farmer and they who wander about with flocks.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor (acquaintance, friend)
And then says, “Was I not joking?”

He sends His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.

You drove out the [pagan] nations with Your own hand;
Then you planted and established them (Israel);
[It was by Your power that] You uprooted the [pagan] peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
But the Lord was my support.

the sons of Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel,

The Levites shall surround the [young] king, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes into the temple [breaking through the ranks of the guard to get near Joash] is to be killed. You are to be with the king when he comes in [from the temple chamber where he is hiding] and when he goes out.”

These were their offices and positions for their service in the house of the Lord according to the ordinance given to them by their father (ancestor) Aaron, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

But if at any time the one guilty of manslaughter comes outside the border of his city of refuge to which he fled,

Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed.

Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad.

So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and told Joab, “This is what the king commands, ‘Come out of there.’” But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.” Then Benaiah brought word to the king again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

and Elon and Timnah and Ekron,

Every open container [in the tent], which has no covering tied down on it, is unclean.

Then Bezalel made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

The Lord will hand them over to you, and you shall do to them in accordance with all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Or if a man consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not part of the field of his [ancestral] property,

Afterward all the Israelites approached him, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had said to him on Mount Sinai.

When Balaam returned to Balak, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

They shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it will be above the skillfully woven sash of the ephod, so that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.

“As I live,” says the Lord God, “certainly because My flock has become prey, My flock has even become food for every predator of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you [in favor], and you shall be cultivated and sown.

And when the money was exhausted in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes? For our money is gone.”

‘Thus says the Lord God, “If the prince gives a gift to any of his sons from his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons [permanently]; it is their possession by inheritance.

He said, ‘Look up and see, all the rams which are mating [with the flock] are streaked, speckled, and spotted; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

Every man has become stupid and brutelike, without knowledge [of God];
Every goldsmith is shamed by the cast images he has made;
For his molten idols are a lie,
And there is no breath [of life] or spirit in them.

“Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of the war-horses [of the Babylonian king],
The rattling of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not looked and turned back for their children,
So weak are their hands [with terror]

For this sword has been tested [on others]; and what if it views with contempt the scepter [of Judah]? The scepter shall be no more [but shall be swept away],” says the Lord God.

My eyes [see things that] bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

My eyes overflow with streams of tears
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people (Jerusalem).

And [through him] I will set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them (Egyptian idols) captive. He will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will go away from there safely.

and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’

“Go and tell Hananiah, ‘The Lord says this, “You have broken yokes of wood, but you have made in their place bars of iron.”

But, O Lord of hosts, You who examine the righteous,
Who see the heart and the mind,
Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For to You I have committed my cause.

Now the cistern into which Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men whom he had killed along with Gedaliah was the one which King Asa [of Judah] had made [about three hundred years earlier] on account of King Baasha of Israel [believing that Baasha would lay siege to Mizpah]. Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with [the bodies of] those who were killed.

Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were [at the banquet] with Gedaliah at Mizpah, in addition to the Chaldean soldiers who were there.

My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

“Because your raging against Me
And your arrogance has come up to My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your mouth,
And I will turn you back by the way you came.

Where then are your wise men?
Please let them tell you,
And let them understand what the Lord of hosts
Has purposed against Egypt [if they can].

“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have [openly and shamelessly] made your [idolatrous and adulterous] bed;
Even there you went up to offer sacrifice [to idols, in spiritual unfaithfulness to Me].

And let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And speak of His deeds with shouts of joy!

“He considers iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.

But You, O God, the Lord, show kindness to me, for Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness (faithfulness, compassion) is good, O rescue me;

The woman had a fattened calf in the house; she quickly killed it, and took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread.

For Your lovingkindness is great and higher than the heavens;
Your truth reaches to the skies.

Then he set up the altar of the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

So they decided to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people were to come to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it was prescribed [for a long time].

Then Hezekiah told them to prepare rooms [for storage] in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

You say, ‘See, I have struck down and defeated Edom.’ Your heart lifts you up to boast [about your victory]. Now stay at home; why should you meddle and court disaster so that you, even you, will fall and Judah with you?”

of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;

Is this not David, of whom they used to sing in dances,‘Saul killed his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”

the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin [for cleansing] and its base.

‘These things shall be a statute for you throughout your generations wherever you may be.

He answered, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” And she said, “Will you give me a pledge [as a deposit] until you send it?”

‘Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the Lord, any such that one gives to the Lord shall be holy.

To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and scarlet string and hyssop;

from the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli;

They moved out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

When the field reverts in the Jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field set apart (devoted); the priest shall possess it as his property.

They moved out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

Make fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

Laban also gave Bilhah his maid to his daughter Rachel as a maid.

He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy [the temple proper] and that which was common [the outer area].

And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean (Syrian) by not telling him that he intended to leave and he slipped away secretly.

“I will set fire to Egypt;
Pelusium will writhe in [great] anguish,
Thebes shall be torn open
And Memphis shall be in daily distress.

Concerning the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits (twenty-seven feet), and a line [an ornamental molding] of twelve cubits (eighteen feet) went around its circumference; it was four fingers thick, and [the pillar was] hollow.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from here, because you are far too powerful for us.”

And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. In this manner they shall cleanse the land.”’

The sword [of Babylon] is ready to be polished so that it may be handled and put to use; the sword is sharpened and polished to be put in the hand of the slayer (Nebuchadnezzar).

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it shall be the wages for his army.

Your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state; and you and your daughters will return to your former state.

Moreover, he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

I will make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be amazed and will hiss [in scorn] because of all its plagues and disasters.

My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.

they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah [a prominent citizen], the son of Ahikam [who had once saved Jeremiah’s life], the son of Shaphan, to take him home [with him to Mizpah]. So Jeremiah [was released and] lived among the people.

And there will be enough goats’ milk for your food,
For the food of your household,
And for the maintenance of your maids.

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘This is what you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has come out to help you, will return to Egypt, to their own land.

“Among the smooth stones of the ravine
Is your portion, they (the idols) are your lot;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I be quiet concerning these things [leaving them unpunished—bearing them with patience]?

Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “There will be peace and faithfulness [to God’s promises to us] in my days.”

“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.”

“Bring my soul out of prison (adversity),
So that I may give thanks and praise Your name;
The righteous will surround me [in triumph],
For You will look after me.”

They do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.

He has made His wonderful acts to be remembered;
The Lord is gracious and merciful and full of loving compassion.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

That though the wicked sprout up like grass
And all evildoers flourish,
They will be destroyed forever.

In the daytime He led them with a cloud
And all the night with a light of fire.

For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory and brilliance;

Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

We have sinned like our fathers;
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

For he sees that even wise men die;
The fool and the stupid alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

I will also praise You with the harp,
Your truth and faithfulness, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

The Lord is great in Zion,
And He is exalted and magnified above all the peoples.

These men searched for their ancestral registration among those recorded in the genealogies, but it was not located; so they were excluded from the priesthood as [ceremonially] unclean.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father (forefather) and did not turn aside either to the right or to the left.

and it will eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who will leave you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the offspring of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

With the precious fruits of the sun,
And with the precious produce of the months.

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus, which had defeated him, and he said, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram (Syria) helped them, I will sacrifice to them so that they may help me.” But they became the ruin and downfall of him and all of Israel.

He had large supplies in the cities of Judah, and soldiers, courageous men, in Jerusalem.

They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your Name, saying,

This Shelomoth and his relatives were in charge of all the treasuries of the dedicated gifts which King David, the heads of the fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

So Amasa went to summon [the fighting men of] Judah, but he delayed longer than the time which David had set for him.

these are the testimonies (legal provisions) and the statutes and the judgments which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

So you shall give to the Levites forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasture lands.

According to the number that you prepare, so shall you do to everyone according to their number.

He shall have the entire inside area of the house scraped, and the plaster that is scraped off shall be dumped in an unclean place outside the city.

They moved out from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai [where they remained for about a year].

The son of Pallu: Eliab.

“One from [the descendants of] Jacob shall have dominion
And will destroy the remnant from the city.”

Then Joseph hurried out [of the room] because his heart was deeply touched over his brother, and he sought privacy to weep; so he entered his chamber and wept there.

The priests shall not profane the holy things the Israelites offer to the Lord,

“Then you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

So the flocks mated and conceived by the branches, and the flocks gave birth to streaked, speckled, and spotted offspring.

one male goat as a sin offering;

He caused me to pass all around them, and behold, there were very many [human bones] in the open valley; and lo, they were very dry.

Now, therefore, please let your servant (Judah) remain here instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his brothers.

Zilpah, Leah’s maid, gave birth to a second son for Jacob.

The altar hearth shall be four cubits high, and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns [one from each corner, each one cubit high].

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “You eat meat with the blood in it and raise your eyes to your idols and shed blood. Should you take possession of the land?

‘All the birds of the sky made their nests in its twigs,
And under its branches all the animals of the field gave birth [to their young],
And all of the great nations lived under its shadow.

O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause [You have guided my way and protected me];
You have rescued and redeemed my life.

Praise Him with resounding cymbals;
Praise Him with loud cymbals.

And his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion [according to his needs] until the day of his death, all the days of his life.

“A sword against the Chaldeans,” says the Lord,
“And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her princes (officials, civic rulers) and against her wise men (astrologers, religious rulers)!

They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

For thus says the Lord:

“Behold, one (Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon) will fly swiftly like an eagle
And spread out his wings against Moab.

“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant and magnified himself against the Lord [by denying Reuben’s occupation of the land the Lord had assigned him]. Moab also will wallow in his vomit, and he too shall become a laughingstock.

Go up to Gilead and obtain [healing] balm,
O Virgin Daughter of Egypt!
In vain you use many medicines;
For you there is no healing or remedy.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

“But as for you, do not fear, O My servant Jacob,
Nor be dismayed, O Israel!
For behold, I will save you from [your captivity in] a distant land,
And your descendants from the land of their exile;
And Jacob will return and be quiet and secure,
And no one will make him afraid.

There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine;
All jubilation is darkened,
The joy of the earth is banished.

“Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to bring My words [of judgment] against this city through disaster and not for good; and they will take place before you on that day.

Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave
Or Your faithfulness in Abaddon (the underworld)?

His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

I will give thanks to You, for You have heard and answered me;
And You have become my salvation [my Rescuer, my Savior].

There they were, in great terror and dread, where there had been no terror or dread;
For God scattered the bones of him who besieged you;
You have put them to shame, because God has rejected them.

In God we have boasted all the day long,
And we will praise and give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from Your eyes.”
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications (specific requests)
When I cried to You [for help].

Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.

Then Ahaz collected the utensils of the house of God and he cut them in pieces; and he shut the doors of the house of the Lord and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

So many people came together, and they stopped up all the springs and the brook which flowed [underground] through the region, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find an abundance of water?”

Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty [heroes] with him,

But David pursued [the Amalekites], he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor stayed behind.

Also the Lord will bring on you every sickness and every plague which is not written in this book of this law, until you are destroyed.

David came to the two hundred men who were so exhausted that they could not follow him and had been left at the brook Besor [with the provisions]. They went out to meet David and the people with him, and when he approached the people, he greeted them.

then the priest shall come and look again, and if the mark has spread in the house, it is a malignant leprosy in the house; it is [ceremonially] unclean.

Then they shall take new stones and replace the [contaminated] stones, and he shall take plaster and replaster the house.

‘If one of the animals that you may eat dies [of natural causes], whoever touches its carcass becomes unclean until the evening.

Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die!”

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

We took only the cattle as plunder for ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

and his army as numbered totaled 53,400.

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

He made its seven lamps with its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

And all the skilled men who were doing all the work on the sanctuary came, each one from the work which he was doing,

The curtains for one side [of the gate] shall be fifteen cubits with three pillars and three sockets.

You shall make for the breastpiece chains of pure gold twisted like cords.

These are the sons of Zilpah, [the maid] whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter [when she married Jacob]; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons [two sons and fourteen grandchildren].

And they said, “We will call the girl and ask her what she prefers.”

I will be security (a guarantee) for him; you may hold me [personally] responsible for him. If I do not bring him [back] to you and place him [safely] before you, then let me bear the blame before you forever.

Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you; you will be a desolate waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord.”’

“Cut off the sower from Babylon
And the one who handles the sickle at the time of harvest.
For fear of the sword of the oppressor
Everyone will return to his own people
And everyone will flee to his own land.

therefore, I will rescue My flock, and they shall no longer be prey; and I will judge between one sheep [ungodly] and another [godly].

for they prophesy falsely to you in My Name. I have not sent them,’ says the Lord.

The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

Therefore hear the word of the Lord, all [you people of] Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, ‘Behold, I have sworn [an oath] by My great Name,’ says the Lord, ‘that My Name shall never again be invoked by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recording historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn [in grief], and told him the words of the Rabshakeh [the Assyrian commander].

The heart (mind) of those who act impulsively will discern the truth,
And the tongue of the stammerers will hurry to speak clearly.

Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of a fool [who cannot learn from its wisdom].

Wealth and riches are in his house,
And his righteousness endures forever.

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.

and behold, he has made baseless charges against her, saying, “I did not find in your daughter the evidence of her virginity.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.

Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.

As for transgressors, they will be completely destroyed;
The future of the wicked will be cut off.

The Lord laughs at him [the wicked one—the one who oppresses the righteous],
For He sees that his day [of defeat] is coming.

The troubles of my heart are multiplied;
Bring me out of my distresses.

For the king [confidently] trusts in the Lord,
And through the lovingkindness (faithfulness, goodness) of the Most High he will never be shaken.

“With the best things of the ancient mountains,
And with the precious things of the everlasting hills,

thus says the Lord: “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

The total number of the heads of the fathers’ households, of valiant men, was 2,600.

And he said to them, “Micah has done this and that for me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest.”

Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,

but we will be armed and ready to go to war before the [other tribes of the] Israelites, until we have brought them to their place, while our children live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

If the one who consecrates his house should wish to redeem it, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

They moved out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

Now why are you discouraging the hearts of the Israelites from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given them?

They put him in custody until the will and command of the Lord might be made clear to them.

Joseph recognized his brothers, but they did not recognize him.

The prince shall enter by the porch (portico) of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. The priests shall prepare and provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until evening.

when he sees that the young man is not with us, he will die; and your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in [great] sorrow.

and the young man did not hesitate to do the [required] thing, for he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected and honored than all [others] in the household of his father.

The children of Anah are these: Dishon and Oholibamah [Esau’s wife], the daughter of Anah.

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple (house), its layout, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it down in their sight, so that they may keep its whole design and all its statutes and do them.

This is the law of the temple: Its entire area all around on the top of the mountain (Mount Moriah) shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the temple.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The children of Israel are oppressed,
And the children of Judah as well;
And all who took them captive have held them tightly,
They have refused to let them go.

‘Thus says the Lord God,

“I will also make the great people of Egypt cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

So I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites,

Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews [my former subjects] who have deserted to join the Chaldeans, for the enemy may put me into their hand and they will mock me and abuse me.”

In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the South (the Negev), in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hand of the one who counts them,’ says the Lord.

Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the articles of the Lord’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

Then the priests and the [false] prophets said to the princes and to all the people, “This man is deserving of death, for he has prophesied against this city as you have heard with your own ears.”

“I clothe the heavens with the blackness [of storm clouds]
And make sackcloth [of mourning] their clothing.”

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous:
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

“I was first to say to Zion, ‘Listen carefully, here they are [the Jews who will be restored to their own land].’
And to Jerusalem, ‘I will provide a messenger (Isaiah) to bring the good news [that Cyrus will be stirred up and put into action to save them].’

A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment [administering the law],
A strength to those who drive back the battle at the gate.

And you [Jeremiah] shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

But they mingled with the [idolatrous] nations
And learned their ways,

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonderful acts and devoutly praise them.

The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples see His glory and brilliance.

Your name, O Lord, endures forever,
Your fame and remembrance, O Lord, [endures] throughout all generations.

Make Your face shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Evil will cause the death of the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be held guilty and will be condemned.

Hear, O Lord, my prayer;
And listen attentively to the voice of my supplications (specific requests)!

‘Should I lift my head up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your marvelous power against me.

“Its abundant produce is for the kings
Whom You have set over us because of our sins;
They also rule over our bodies
And over our cattle as they please,
So we are in great distress.

They found an Egyptian [who had collapsed] in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they gave him water to drink,

“I will answer you,
And your companions with you.

the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

And the Egyptians treated us badly and oppressed us, and imposed hard labor on us.

Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum.

For on the day you leave and cross over the Brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.”

When David and his men came to the town, it was burned, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

And you shall write very clearly on the stones all the words of this law.”

and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib,

from the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud;

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

They moved out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

and one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.

then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘I have seen something that looks like a mark of leprosy in my house.’

The length of the court shall be a hundred cubits, and the width fifty [cubits] throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze.

that our fathers (ancestors) went down to Egypt, and we lived there for a long time, and the Egyptians treated [both] us and our fathers badly.

Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would rise and stand, each at his tent door, and look at Moses until he entered the tent.

‘My father made me swear [an oath], saying, “Hear me, I am about to die; bury me in my tomb which I prepared for myself in the land of Canaan.” So now let me go up [to Canaan], please, and bury my father; then I will return.’”

In whatever tribe the foreigner resides, there shall you give him his inheritance,” says the Lord God.

‘The waters nourished it, the deep [underground waters] made it grow tall.
Its rivers ran all around the place where it was planted,
Sending out its streams to all the trees (other nations) of the field.

He also took out of the city one official who was overseer of the soldiers, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men who were still in the city.

Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there!

So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation [plundered and ruined] among desolated lands; and her cities, among cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years. I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and [I will] disperse them through the lands.”

So the boundary will extend from the [Mediterranean] Sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north, northward, is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

“A sword against the oracle priests (the babbling liars), and they will become fools!
A sword against her mighty warriors, and they will be shattered and destroyed!

“May the violence done to me and to my flesh and blood be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem will say.

“You inhabitants of Moab,
Leave the cities and live among the rocks,
And be like the dove that makes her nest
In the walls of the yawning ravine.

“Set yourselves in battle formation against Babylon on every side,
All you archers.
Shoot at her! Do not spare the arrows,
For she has sinned against the Lord.

“O you sword of the Lord,
How long will it be before you are quiet?
Put yourself into your sheath;
Rest and be still.

that every man should let his Hebrew slaves, male and female, go free, so that no one should make a slave of a Jew, his brother.

Therefore He poured out on Israel the heat of His anger
And the fierceness of battle;
And engulfed him in fire,
Yet he did not recognize [the lesson of repentance which the Assyrian conquest was intended to teach];
It burned him, but he did not take it to heart.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll containing the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah:

“I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not benefit you.

O you offspring of Abraham, His servant,
O you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

“Your builders hurry;
Your destroyers and devastators
Will go away from you.

“And I will make all My mountains a roadway,
And My highways will be raised.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel (Jerusalem),
Even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Though his hatred covers itself with guile and deceit,
His malevolence will be revealed openly before the assembly.

More than the sounds of many waters,
More than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
Sing praises to His name, for it is gracious and lovely.

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy [which cannot endure a divided allegiance] burn like fire?

In the day of my trouble I [desperately] sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out [in prayer] without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

O God, You are awesome and profoundly majestic from Your sanctuary;
The God of Israel gives strength and power to His people.
Blessed be God!

From His dwelling place He looks closely
Upon all the inhabitants of the earth—

But Neco sent messengers to Josiah, saying, “What business do we have with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.”

Go down against them tomorrow. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the river valley, in front of the Wilderness of Jeruel.

Also he made for the entrance of the [outer] sanctuary (the Holy Place) four-sided doorposts (frames) of olive wood

I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord God [and in His strength];
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

They shouted it loudly in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, so that they might take the city [without a long siege].

When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed with a loud voice; and she said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”

“So shall it be told Him that I wish to speak?
Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up [and destroyed by God]?

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, Pispa, and Ara.

Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem became the father of Shammai.

Now then, get up during the night, you and the people who are with you, and set up an ambush in the field.

Then people will say, ‘It is because they abandoned (broke) the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

So he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or woof, in wool or linen, or on anything made of leather in which the mark occurs; for it is a malignant leprosy; it shall be burned in the fire.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for every Egyptian sold his field because the famine was severe upon them. So the land became Pharaoh’s.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur [from the tribe of Reuben].

The seven thin and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years; and also the seven thin ears, dried up and scorched by the east wind, they are seven years of famine and hunger.

He made all the utensils and vessels of the altar [of burnt offering], the pots, shovels, basins [to catch the blood of the sacrificed animal], meat hooks and the firepans [to store live coals]. He made all its utensils of bronze.

which the Lord commanded Moses at Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the Lord, in the Wilderness of Sinai.

You are to make two gold rings and attach them to the lower part of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod in front, close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven sash of the ephod.

And Israel (Jacob) said, “It is enough! Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

And why did you not allow me to kiss my grandchildren and my daughters [goodbye]? Now you have done a foolish thing [in behaving like this].

And Pharaoh asked Jacob, “How old are you?”

and he said, “If Esau comes to the one camp and attacks it, then the other camp which is left will escape.”

The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended, there were [two] columns beside the side pillars, one on each side [of the entrance].

For thus says the Lord God, “Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the contempt, and malice, and spite of your soul against the land of Israel,

Then God ascended from Jacob in the place where He had spoken with him.

and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God,

“Behold, Mount Seir, I am against you,
And I will stretch out My hand against you
And make you completely desolate.

Without cause my enemies
Hunted me down like a bird;

We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.

They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;

“Therefore I will wail over Moab,
And I will cry out for all Moab.
I will sigh and mourn over the men of Kir-heres (Kir-hareseth).

And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh [his worthless, disgusting god], as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their [misplaced] confidence.

Thus says the Lord:

“Behold, waters are going to rise out of the north (Babylonia)
And become an overflowing stream
And overflow the land and all that is in it,
The city and those who live in it.
Then the people will cry out,
And all the inhabitants of the land [of Philistia] will wail.

But now, listen carefully, [because of your innocence] I am freeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come, and I will look after you [carefully]; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, then do not do so. Look, all the land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right (convenient) for you to go.”

‘While they (the besieged Jews) are coming to fight against the Chaldeans and to fill the houses with the dead bodies of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, for I have hidden My face [in disgust] from this city because of all their wickedness.

Moreover, I will hand over all the riches of this city, all the result of its labor, all its precious things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will hand over to their enemies, and they will plunder them, and take them away and carry them to Babylon.

“Of whom do you make fun?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion (sin),
Offspring of deceit,

Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

Yet, O Lord God, You said to me, “Buy the field with money and get witnesses,” even though the city is given into the hands of the Chaldeans.’”

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood [for I considered] their end.

They concoct crafty schemes against Your people,
And conspire together against Your hidden and precious ones.

It is time for the Lord to act;
They have broken Your law.

“You were wearied by the length of your road,
Yet you did not say, ‘It is no use.’
You found renewed strength,
Therefore you did not grow weak.

The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];
God, our God, blesses us.

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered and were moved;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.

O [God] my strength, I will watch for You;
For God is my stronghold [my refuge, my protector, my high tower].

Listen to me and answer me;
I am restless and distraught in my complaint and distracted

The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of sacred gifts which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and placed them in heaps.

You are my King, O God;
Command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).

Then the priests and Levites stood and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came up to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

the sons of Senaah, 3,930.

the sons of Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,

For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves [that is, become ceremonially clean and free from all sin]; so the Levites had to slaughter the Passover lambs for everyone who was not clean, in order to make them holy for the Lord.

The twelfth, for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite of Othniel; and in his division were 24,000.

Under their command was an army of 307,500, who could wage war with great power, to help the king against the enemy.

When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans fled, they also fled before Abishai, Joab’s brother, and entered the city [Medeba]. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

Of the tribe of Asher, 40,000 men in military service, able to draw up in battle formation.

The Ammonites came out and lined up in battle formation at the entrance of the city [Medeba], while the kings who had come were by themselves in the open country.

The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal, and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their pleading, and maintain their right and defend their cause.

The sons (descendants) of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

Then Saul said, “Come here, all you who are leaders of the people, and let us find out how this sin [causing God’s silence] happened today.

Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. So why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense? Or has anything been taken for us?”

Then Saul said to David, “May you be blessed, my son David; you will both accomplish much and certainly prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

So he shall cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and the cedar wood and the hyssop and the scarlet string.

from the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi;

even your domestic animals and the [wild] animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

You shall make two gold rings under its molding, make them on the two side walls—on opposite sides—they shall be holders for the poles with which to carry it.

Then you shall kill the bull before the Lord by the doorway of the Tent of Meeting.

You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them.

And they made tunics of finely woven linen for Aaron and his sons,

And when Jacob (Israel) was told, “Look now, your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed.

So I took the deeds of the purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions, and the unsealed copy;

Joseph wept aloud, and the Egyptians [who had just left him] heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.

And beside the border of Gad, at the south side, southward, the border shall extend from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the Brook [of Egypt], to the Great [Mediterranean] Sea.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong one and the broken, and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

Therefore thus says the Lord,

“Behold, I will plead your case
And take full vengeance for you;
I will dry up her sea and great reservoir
And make her fountain dry.

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens that for which they cry.

“Flee, turn back, dwell in the depths [of the desert to escape the judgment of Edom],
O inhabitants of Dedan,
For I will bring the destruction of Esau (Edom) upon him
When I inspect and punish him.

The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

who set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day [continues to do so] both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam (Persia), and all the kings of Media;

He has given food to those who fear Him [with awe-inspired reverence];
He will remember His covenant forever.

We all groan and growl like bears,
And coo sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

Listen carefully, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Who made heaven and earth,
The sea, and all that is in them,
Who keeps truth and is faithful forever,

Your mind will meditate on the terror [asking]:
“Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs [the tribute]?
Where is he who counts the towers?”

And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I wait for Your ordinances.

With trumpets and the sound of the horn
Shout with joy before the King, the Lord.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called on His name;
They called upon the Lord and He answered them.

O give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness endures forever.

So they cut off Saul’s head and stripped off his weapons and armor and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to bring the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.

Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation];
Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

“O look away from me, that I may smile and again know joy
Before I depart and am no more.”

And the king of Babylon brought as exiles to Babylon all the brave men, seven thousand [of them], and the craftsmen and the smiths, a thousand [of them], all strong and fit for war.

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.

When the Almighty was still with me
And my boys were around me,

the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 721;

Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah.

This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, you surely deserve to die, because you have not guarded your lord, the Lord’s anointed. And now, see where the king’s spear is, and the jug of water that was by his head.”

Arab and Dumah and Eshan,

the land which the Lord conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land [suitable] for livestock, and your servants have [very large herds of] livestock.”

These are the families (clans) of Judah according to those who were numbered, 76,500.

whether in woven or knitted material or in the warp (lengthwise strands) or woof (crosswise strands) of linen or of wool, or in a skin or on anything made of leather,

They moved out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

The first ripe fruits of all that is in the land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours; everyone in your household who is [ceremonially] clean may eat it.

You shall eat it as the most holy thing; every male [of your family] shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

but when I lie down with my fathers [in death], you will carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place [at Hebron in the cave of Machpelah].” And Joseph said, “I will do as you have directed.”

They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates around the hem of the robe;

You shall place the ark of the Testimony there, and you shall screen off the ark [from the Holy Place of God’s Presence] with the veil (partition curtain).

I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

So they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to Jacob their father,

So when we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.

Then Reuben spoke to his father, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring Benjamin back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you.”

It shall be that when they enter the gates of the inner courtyard, they shall be clothed in linen garments; no wool shall be on them while they minister at the gates of the inner courtyard and within the temple (house).

Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned as his successor.

But Rebekah’s brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days—at least ten; then she may go.”

The sons of Dishan are these: Uz and Aran.

No man’s foot will pass through it, no animal’s foot will pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”