By so much is it a better agreement which we have through Jesus.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

Yes, I make my request to you, so that when I am with you I may not have to make use of the authority which may be needed against some to whom we seem to be walking after the flesh.

Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.

Or how may one go into a strong man's house and take his goods, if he does not first put cords round the strong man? and then he may take his goods.

O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

The son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of the one on whom your holy oil was put; wounding the head of the family of the evil-doer, uncovering the base even to the neck. Selah.

The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.

And on all the ships of Tarshish, and on all the fair boats.

Before ever the silver cord is cut, or the vessel of gold is broken, or the pot is broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the water-hole;

My vine-garden, which is mine, is before me: you, O Solomon, will have the thousand, and those who keep the fruit of them two hundred.

O my dove, you are in the holes of the mountain sides, in the cracks of the high hills; let me see your face, let your voice come to my ears; for sweet is your voice, and your face is fair.

By the wounds of the rod evil is taken away, and blows make clean the deepest parts of the body.

And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!

These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:

The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.

To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;

No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.

He made ten tables, and put them in the Temple, five on the right side and five on the left. And he made a hundred gold basins.

Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.

When you were still small in number, and strange in the land;

In his day, Pul, the king of Assyria, came up against the land; and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver so that he might let him keep the kingdom.

Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:

Now the rest of the acts which Amon did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

Now there was a long war between Saul's people and David's people; and David became stronger and stronger, but those on Saul's side became more and more feeble.

And they gave Solomon word of it, saying, See, Adonijah goes in such fear of King Solomon, that he has put his hands on the horns of the altar, saying, Let King Solomon first give me his oath that he will not put his servant to death with the sword.

The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.

And now Solomon is seated on the seat of the kingdom.

And the king said to Joab, See now, I will do this thing: go then and Come back with the young man Absalom.

Then the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines for some time, and had gone up with them to their tents, turning round were joined to those who were with Saul and Jonathan.

The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

Joshua, the son of Nun, your servant, he will go into the land: say to him that he is to be strong, for he will be Israel's guide into their heritage.

And every beast and bird and every living thing of every sort which goes on the earth, went out of the ark.

Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.

Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.

Give all the brothers a holy kiss.

The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings; while I was watching its wings were pulled off, and it was lifted up from the earth and placed on two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them,

And a great number put down their clothing in the way; and others put down branches which they had taken from the fields.

If a man came with a false spirit of deceit, saying, I will be a prophet to you of wine and strong drink: he would be the sort of prophet for this people.

And the he-goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn between his eyes is the first king.

But if we say, From men; we are in fear of the people, because all take John to be a prophet.

Crying out with a loud voice; and this is what he said: Let the tree be cut down and its branches broken off; let its leaves be taken off and its fruit sent in every direction: let the beasts get away from under it and the birds from its branches:

Then King Nebuchadnezzar, full of fear and wonder, got up quickly, and said to his wise men, Did we not put three men in cords into the fire? and they made answer and said to the king, True, O King.

For see, I will send against you a nation, O Israel, says the Lord, the God of armies, ruling you cruelly from the way into Hamath as far as the stream of the Arabah.

And from the time when they make an agreement with him, he will be working falsely: for he will take up arms suddenly with a small force,

He who has knowledge says little: and he who has a calm spirit is a man of good sense.

For this reason Daniel went to Arioch, to whom the king had given orders for the destruction of the wise men of Babylon, and said to him, Do not put to death the wise men of Babylon: take me in before the king and I will make clear to him the sense of the dream.

Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.

And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.

Increasing nations, and sending destruction on them; making wide the lands of peoples, and then giving them up.

And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

Do not be false to the married relation.

Who had been taken away from Jerusalem among those who had been made prisoner with Jeconiah, king of Judah, when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had taken him away.

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.

In the seventeenth year of Pekah, the son of Remaliah, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became king of Judah.

Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.

And Abner said to Joab, Let the young men give a test of their strength before us. And Joab said, Let them do so.

So the man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said, No, my brothers, do not this evil thing; this man has come into my house, and you are not to do him this wrong.

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.

So Edom made themselves free from the rule of Judah to this day. And at the same time, Libnah made itself free.

Then let Aaron come into the Tent of meeting and take off the linen clothing which he put on when he went into the holy place, and put them down there;

And the five lords of the Philistines, having seen it, went back to Ekron the same day.

So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

But the growth of his hair was starting again after it had been cut off.

And her mother-in-law said to her, Where did you take up the grain today, and where were you working? May a blessing be on him who gave such attention to you. And she gave her mother-in-law an account of where she had been working, and said, The name of the man with whom I was working today is Boaz.

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Then Paul and Barnabas without fear said, It was necessary for the word of God to be given to you first; but because you will have nothing to do with it, and have no desire for eternal life, it will now be offered to the Gentiles.

And he said to them, Where is your faith? And fear and wonder overcame them, and they said to one another, Who then is this, who gives orders even to the winds and the water and they do what he says?

Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war.

And straight away he took some armed men and went quickly down to them: and the Jews, seeing them, gave no more blows to Paul.

Who kept faith with God who gave him his place, even as Moses did in all his house.

Still, all men have not that knowledge: but some, being used till now to the image, are conscious that they are taking food which has been offered to the image; and because they are not strong in the faith, their minds are troubled.

And Aaron said to Moses, You have seen that today they have made their sin-offering and their burned offering before the Lord, and such things as these have come on me. If I had taken the sin-offering as food today, would it have been pleasing to the Lord?

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.

And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that you have come back so quickly today?

And the sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz and Riphath and Togarmah.

And they took him and put him to death, pushing his body out of the garden.

And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.

And Jesus went with them. And when he was not far from the house, the man sent friends to him, saying, Lord, do not give yourself trouble: for I am not important enough for you to come into my house:

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.

And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;

And when they had been there for some time, they were sent back in peace by the brothers to those who had sent them.

And he got into one of the boats, the property of Simon, and made a request to him to go a little way out from the land. And being seated he gave the people teaching from the boat.

Saying, Get up and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: because they who were attempting to take the young child's life are dead.

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

And I will do in you what I have not done and will not do again, because of all your disgusting ways.

He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.

So with joy will you get water out of the springs of salvation.

He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

And go now to those who have been taken away as prisoners, to the children of your people, and say to them, This is what the Lord has said; if they give ear or if they do not.

Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?

For the Lord of armies, by whom you were planted, has given his decision for evil against you, because of the evil which the people of Israel and the people of Judah have done, In moving me to wrath by offering perfumes to the Baal.

Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thorns.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.

Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

Then a spirit came forward and took his place before the Lord and said, I will get him to do it by a trick. And the Lord said to him, How?

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.

For the Lord will be your hope, and will keep your foot from being taken in the net.

Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

And in addition to what he got from traders of different sorts, all the kings of Arabia and the rulers of the country gave gold and silver to Solomon.

Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,

And the son of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir the son of Manasseh.

These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

And the king of Egypt did not come out of his land again, for the king of Babylon had taken all his country, from the stream of Egypt to the river Euphrates.

Now the rest of the things which Ahaz did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Joram, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?

Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.

Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.

But Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? go to the prophets of your father and your mother. And the king of Israel said, No; for the Lord has got these three kings together to give them up into the hands of Moab.

But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.

And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,

Ahinadab, the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.

Take your rest here tonight; and in the morning, if he will do for you what it is right for a relation to do, very well, let him do so: but if he will not, then by the living Lord I myself will do so.

Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan;

So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;

Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.

Let it be an order for ever, through all your generations, in all your houses, that you are not to take fat or blood for food.

And she came in quickly to the king, and said, My desire is that you give me straight away on a plate the head of John the Baptist.

And having said these words, God went up from Abraham.

For from the time when I came to Pharaoh to put your words before him, he has done evil to this people, and you have given them no help.

And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

What profit is the pictured image to its maker? and as for the metal image, the false teacher, why does its maker put his faith in it, making false gods without a voice?

And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?

And I will give him the morning star.

And righteousness will be the cord of his robe, and good faith the band round his breast.

And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

And with them, every sort of beast and cattle, and every sort of thing which goes on the earth, and every sort of bird.

And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.

Then the captain and some of the police went and took them, but not violently, for fear that they might be stoned by the people.

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.

And he said, See, I will make clear to you what is to come in the later time of the wrath: for it has to do with the fixed time of the end.

In that day it will be said to Jerusalem, Have no fear: O Zion, let not your hands be feeble.

And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

The tree which you saw, which became tall and strong, stretching up to heaven and seen from the ends of the earth;

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

You are in the right, O Lord, when I put my cause before you: still let me take up with you the question of your decisions: why does the evil-doer do well? why are the workers of deceit living in comfort?

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.

And I will make you a strong wall of brass to this people; they will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you to keep you safe, says the Lord.

And in that day the weight which he put on your back will be taken away, and his yoke broken from off your neck.

He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;

Acting wisely is the way of life, guiding a man away from the underworld.

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.

When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

Give answer to my cry, O God of my righteousness; make me free from my troubles; have mercy on me, and give ear to my prayer.

And the children of Ammon and Moab made an attack on the people of Mount Seir with a view to their complete destruction; and when they had put an end to the people of Seir, everyman's hand was turned against his neighbour for his destruction.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.

Then Samuel said to all Israel, If with all your hearts you would come back to the Lord, then put away all the strange gods and the Astartes from among you, and let your hearts be turned to the Lord, and be servants to him only: and he will make you safe from the hands of the Philistines.

And King David said to Ornan, No; I will certainly give you the full price for it, because I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or give a burned offering without payment.

Still, let your heart be turned to the prayer of your servant, O Lord God, and to his prayer for grace; give ear to the cry and the prayer which your servant sends up to you this day;

Now that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan, saying,

And the Aramaeans went in flight before Israel; and David put to the sword the men of seven hundred Aramaean war-carriages and forty thousand footmen, and Shobach, the captain of the army, was wounded, and came to his death there.

Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure.

The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah.

And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.

All the laws which the Lord has given you by the hand of Moses, from the day when the Lord gave them, and ever after from generation to generation;

And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.

So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

The Lord God of heaven, who took me from my father's house and from the land of my birth, and made an oath to me, saying, To your seed I will give this land: he will send his angel before you and give you a wife for my son in that land.

He is able to have feeling for those who have no knowledge and for those who are wandering from the true way, because he himself is feeble;

And at the head of the army of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai.

And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.

And he said, Who made you a ruler and a judge over us? are you going to put me to death as you did the Egyptian? And Moses was in fear, and said, It is clear that the thing has come to light.

Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.

All the brothers send their love to you. Give one another a holy kiss.

And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

And he took an oath, saying to her, Whatever is your desire I will give it to you, even half of my kingdom.

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?

But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.

But what did you go out to see? a prophet? Yes, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

The son of Symeon, the son of Judas, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.

Only be conscious of your sin, the evil you have done against the Lord your God; you have gone with strange men under every branching tree, giving no attention to my voice, says the Lord.

See, I am crushing you down, as one is crushed under a cart full of grain.

For that which is feared by the people is foolish: it is the work of the hands of the workman; for a tree is cut down by him out of the woods with his axe.

The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

And the king of the south will be moved with wrath, and will come out and make war on him, on this same king of the north: and he will get together a great army, but the army will be given into his hand.

And do you make prayers to your god, and I will make a prayer to the Lord: and it will be clear that the one who gives an answer by fire is God. And all the people in answer said, It is well said.

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

The work of the foolish will be a weariness to him, because he has no knowledge of the way to the town.

A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.

So at that time the children of Israel were overcome, and the children of Judah got the better of them, because they put their faith in the Lord, the God of their fathers.

The Lord did not give you his love or take you for himself because you were more in number than any other people; for you were the smallest of the nations:

And Samuel said to Saul, I will not go back with you: for you have put away from you the word of the Lord, and the Lord has put you from your place as king over Israel.

And Abner sent men to David at Hebron, saying, Make an agreement with me, and I will give you my support in getting all Israel on your side.

And Baasha, hearing of it, put a stop to the building of Ramah, and was living in Tirzah.

Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.

And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.

So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe.

So have love for the Lord your God, and give him worship, and keep his laws and his decisions and his orders at all times.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from Libnah to Lachish, and took up their position against it and made an attack on it,

For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.

A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.

See, I have taken the Levites out of the children of Israel to be mine in place of the first sons of the children of Israel;

For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

And straight away the king sent out one of his armed men, and gave him an order to come back with the head: and he went and took off John's head in prison,

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?

But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.

And Moses was happy to go on living with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

And all the years of Kenan's life were nine hundred and ten; and he came to his end.

Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.

And she gave birth to a son, to whom he gave the name Gershom: for he said, I have been living in a strange land.

And the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will be looking on their dead bodies three days and a half, and will not let their dead bodies be put in the earth.

And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

And he will be given cruel blows and put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.

That they will send you out from among men, to be with the beasts of the field; they will give you grass for your food like the oxen, and you will be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven times will go by you, till you are certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives it to any man at his pleasure.

And Ephraim is like a foolish dove, without wisdom; they send out their cry to Egypt, they go to Assyria.

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.

For you have kept the laws of Omri and all the works of the family of Ahab, and you have been guided by their designs: so that I might make you a cause of wonder and your people a cause of hisses; and the shame of my people will be on you.

Ephraim is joined to false gods; let him be.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Ephraim is troubled; he is crushed by his judges, because he took pleasure in walking after deceit.

This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, saw; and do you, O Belteshazzar, make clear the sense of it, for all the wise men of my kingdom are unable to make the sense of it clear to me; but you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you.

And came to him and put clean linen round his wounds, with oil and wine; and he put him on his beast and took him to a house and took care of him.

See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.

And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?

And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;

Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

He whose eyes are shut is a man of twisted purposes, and he who keeps his lips shut tight makes evil come about.

Ruling over Judah in Hebron for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem, over all Israel and Judah, for thirty-three years.

And of the sons of Pashhur, Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

And we will have wood cut from Lebanon, as much as you have need of, and will send it to you on flat boats by sea to Joppa, and from there you may take it up to Jerusalem.

And David did as the Lord had said; and he overcame the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon to near Gezer.

To the older women as to mothers, to the younger as to sisters, with a clean heart.

And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.

And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel.

And he said, You have made a hard request: still, if you see me when I am taken from you, you will get your desire; but if not, it will not be so.

Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.

Now when Solomon came to the end of building the house of the Lord and the king's house, and all Solomon's desires, which he had in mind were effected;

And while the words were on his lips, Jonathan, the son of Abiathar the priest, came; and Adonijah said, Come in; for you are a man of good faith and the news which you have for us will be good.

And now, is there not Boaz, our relation, with whose young women you were? See, tonight he is separating the grain from the waste in his grain-floor.

Then Joab, falling down on his face on the earth, gave the king honour and blessing; and Joab said, Today it is clear to your servant that I have grace in your eyes, my lord king, because the king has given effect to the request of his servant.

But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.

But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.

Now after Abimelech, Tola, the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, became the saviour of Israel; he was living in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.

Now Balak, hearing that Balaam had come, went to the chief town of Moab, on the edge of the Arnon, in the farthest part of the land, for the purpose of meeting him.

I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.

And he sent another; and they put him to death: and a number of others, whipping some, and putting some to death.

And the Lord said to Moses,

But if any other business is in question, let it be taken up in the regular meeting.

And the second;

He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain;

But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.

The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

And there came before them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.

See, at that time I will put an end to all who have been troubling you: I will give salvation to her whose steps are uncertain, and get together her who has been sent in flight; and I will make them a cause of praise and an honoured name in all the earth, when I let their fate be changed.

Then I was lifted up by the wind, and at my back the sound of a great rushing came to my ears when the glory of the Lord was lifted up from his place.

Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Like acid drink to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the hater of work to those who send him.

And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

I gave you your master's daughter and your master's wives for yourself, and I gave you the daughters of Israel and Judah; and if that had not been enough, I would have given you such and such things.

The Lord is ready to take up his cause against his people, and is about to come forward as their judge.

My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.

Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.

The children of Azgad, a thousand, two hundred and twenty-two.

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three.

Only two things do not do to me, then I will come before your face:

And David sent men to Saul's son Ish-bosheth, saying, Give me back Michal, my wife, whom I made mine for the price of the private parts of a hundred Philistines.

And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.

So, a year later, Ben-hadad got the Aramaeans together and went up to Aphek to make war on Israel.

And word of this was given to David: and he got all Israel together and went over Jordan and came to Helam. And the Aramaeans put their forces in position against David, and made an attack on him.

And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.

So on the day of the fight at Michmash, not a sword or a spear was to be seen in the hands of any of the people with Saul and Jonathan: only Saul and his son Jonathan had them.

And when they came to Marah, the water was no good for drinking, for the waters of Marah were bitter, which is why it was named Marah.

And the Lord was seen again in Shiloh; for the Lord gave to Samuel in Shiloh the revelation of his word.

Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship;

But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.

Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.

Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.

And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.

Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

And after the birth of Nahor, Serug went on living for two hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God.

But when Gallio was ruler of Achaia, all the Jews together made an attack on Paul, and took him to the judge's seat,

And the sons of Javan: Elishah and Tarshish, the Kittim and the Dodanim.

And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:

Because he had frequently been prisoned in chains and iron bands, and the chains had been parted and the bands broken by him: and no man was strong enough to make him quiet.

But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

Give thought to what I say; for the Lord will give you wisdom in all things.

He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.

And so I came without question, when I was sent for. What then is your purpose in sending for me?

Whom I will see on my side, and not as one strange to me. My heart is broken with desire.

But a small number of them I will keep from the sword, from the need of food, and from disease, so that they may make clear all their disgusting ways among the nations where they come; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

But Judah will be peopled for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the men of Anathoth who have made designs against your life, saying, You are not to be a prophet in the name of the Lord, or death will overtake you by our hands:

But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:

Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.

And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.

And David did as the Lord had said; and they overcame the army of the Philistines, attacking them from Gibeon as far as Gezer.

And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.

And more than this, there were those in the land who were used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods, doing the same disgusting crimes as the nations which the Lord had sent out before the children of Israel.

And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went out and took their places facing them a long way off, while the two of them were by the edge of Jordan.

The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.

Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place.

Because of your word and from your heart, you have done all this great work, and let your servant see it.

Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.

And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.

He went with Joram, the son of Ahab, to make war on Hazael, king of Aram, at Ramoth-gilead: and Joram was wounded by the Aramaeans.

And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.

And these are unclean to you among things which go low down on the earth; the weasel and the mouse and the great lizard, and animals of that sort;

Let it be made with oil on a flat plate; when it is well mixed and cooked, let it be broken and taken in as a meal offering, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.

At the head of the army of the children of Gad was Eliasaph, the son of Reuel.

But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.

If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning; when he goes out to the water, you will be waiting for him by the edge of the Nile, with the rod which was turned into a snake in your hand;

And Adah gave birth to Jabal: he was the father of such as are living in tents and keep cattle.

If anyone makes the house of God unclean, God will put an end to him; for the house of God is holy, and you are his house.

And at the death of Samlah, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place.

Then the people in answer said to him, The law says that the Christ will have life without end: how say you then that it is necessary for the Son of man to be lifted up? Who is this Son of man?

But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.

And I will send a fire on Moab, burning up the great houses of Kerioth: and death will come on Moab with noise and outcries and the sound of the horn:

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

Then a hand gave me a touch, awaking me, and putting me on my knees and my hands.

And when he came near the hole where Daniel was, he gave a loud cry of grief; the king made answer and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is your God, whose servant you are at all times, able to keep you safe from the lions?

May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?

And it will come about that the rest of the living in Zion, and of those who have been kept from destruction in Jerusalem, will be named holy, even everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem:

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?

But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God.

But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.

Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.

So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud; for the house of God was full of the glory of the Lord.

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

Then Esther sent Hathach to say to Mordecai:

And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?

If by chance there are five less than fifty upright men, will you give up all the town to destruction because of these five? And he said, I will not give it to destruction if there are forty-five.

And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of the Jews.

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them.

On the fourth day they all came together in the Valley of Blessing, and there they gave blessing to the Lord; for which cause that place has been named the Valley of Blessing to this day.

And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.

And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?

Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.

Then the Lord said to him, Truly, I will be with you, and you will overcome the Midianites as if they were one man.

There were three sons of Zeruiah there, Joab and Abishai and Asahel: and Asahel was as quick-footed as a roe of the fields.

But she said to him in answer, Yes, Lord: even the dogs under the table take the bits dropped by the children.

Now in those days the Philistines got their forces together to make war on Israel. And Achish said to David, Certainly you and your men are to go out with me to the fight.

If the death of a man-servant or of a woman-servant is caused by the ox, the owner is to give their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox is to be stoned.

Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.

For even when we had come into Macedonia our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; there were fightings outside and fears inside.

If a price is put on his life, let him make payment of whatever price is fixed.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.

And after the birth of Jared, Mahalalel went on living for eight hundred and thirty years, and had sons and daughters:

And Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when he became the father of Jared:

You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;

And if a son of peace is there, your peace will be with him: but if not, it will come back to you again.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

And if Satan is at war with himself, and there is division in him, he will not keep his place but will come to an end.

And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

He gives salvation and makes men free from danger, and does signs and wonders in heaven and earth, who has kept Daniel safe from the power of the lions.

As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.

Then I, Daniel, looking, saw two others, one at the edge of the river on this side and one at the edge of the river on that side.

As you have no knowledge of the way of the wind, or of the growth of the bones in the body of her who is with child, even so you have no knowledge of the works of God who has made all.

So the three, forcing a way through the Philistine army, got water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem, by the doorway into the town, and took it back to David; but David would not take it, but made an offering of it, draining it out to the Lord,

Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.

And his son will make war, and will get together an army of great forces, and he will make an attack on him, overflowing and going past: and he will again take the war even to his strong place.

Only his flesh still has pain, and his soul is sad.

Then, if the wrong is done in error, without the knowledge of the meeting of the people, let all the meeting give a young ox as a burned offering, a sweet smell to the Lord, with its meal offering and its drink offering, as is ordered in the law, together with a he-goat for a sin-offering.

So a horseman went out to them and said, The king says, Is it peace? And Jehu said, What have you to do with peace? come after me. And the watchman gave them word, saying, The horseman went up to them, but has not come back.

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,

When Gideon came there, a man was giving his friend an account of his dream, saying, See, I had a dream about a cake of barley bread which, falling into the tents of Midian, came on to the tent, overturning it so that it was stretched out flat on the earth.

Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.

And after bathing his body in water in a holy place, he is to put on his clothing and come out and give his burned offering and the burned offering of the people, to take away his sin and the sin of the people.

See, I will be waiting at the way across the river, in the waste land, till I get news from you.

And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

And a man of Benjamin went running from the fight and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothing out of order and earth on his head.

And the Lord had mercy on Hannah and she gave birth to three sons and two daughters. And the young Samuel became older before the Lord.

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.

But she said, Yes, Lord: but even the dogs take the bits from under their masters' table.

For all those who do any of these disgusting things will be cut off from among their people.

When she had news of the things which Jesus did, went among the people coming after him, and put her hand on his robe.

And make a store of every sort of food for yourself and them.

And to whom Abraham gave a tenth part of everything which he had, being first named King of righteousness, and then in addition, King of Salem, that is to say, King of peace;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

And Aaron said to them all the words the Lord had said to Moses, and did the signs before all the people.

And I saw a strong angel saying in a loud voice, Who is able to make the book open, and to undo its stamps?

And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

These are the heads of their fathers' families: the sons of Reuben the oldest son of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi: these are the families of Reuben.

And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.

Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

And while they were coming down from the mountain, he gave them orders not to give word to any man of the things they had seen, till the Son of man had come back from the dead.

And they went away and saw a young ass by the door outside in the open street; and they were getting him loose.

But as for me, I am looking to the Lord; I am waiting for the God of my salvation: the ears of my God will be open to me.

Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

We are sinners, acting wrongly and doing evil; we have gone against you, turning away from your orders and from your laws:

For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

You have put your spears through his head, his horsemen were sent in flight like dry stems; they had joy in driving away the poor, in making a meal of them secretly.

He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.

And I have had news of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and reason and special wisdom have been seen in you.

And as for the vision which the king saw of a watcher, a holy one, coming down from heaven, saying, Let the tree be cut down and given to destruction;

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.

In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.

The young lions have made an outcry against him with a loud voice: they have made his land waste; his towns are burned up, with no one living in them.

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

Then on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king's scribes were sent for, and they put in writing Haman's orders to all the king's captains and the rulers of every division of his kingdom and the chiefs of every people: for every division of the kingdom in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs; it was signed in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with the king's ring.

And Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, hearing of it, were greatly troubled because a man had come to the help of the children of Israel.

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.

He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, and Milcom, the disgusting god of the Ammonites.

And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.

Till the Lord put Israel away from before his face, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was taken away from their land to Assyria, to this day.

After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.

And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.

And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

Now one day, when the child was older, he went out to his father to where the grain was being cut.

And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.

And Samson said, Let death overtake me with the Philistines. And he put out all his strength, and the house came down on the chiefs and on all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he sent to destruction by his death were more than all those on whom he had sent destruction in his life.

And Solomon, in his love for the Lord, kept the laws of David his father; but he made offerings and let them go up in smoke on the high places.

Ahimaaz in Naphtali; he took Basemath, the daughter of Solomon, as his wife;

And he said to him, Your brother has come; and your father has had the young ox put to death because he has come back safely.

But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.

Asahel went running after Abner, not turning to the right or to the left.

And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;

And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.

Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz.

And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.

And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez;

And after the birth of Arpachshad, Shem went on living for five hundred years, and had sons and daughters:

And for three days he was not able to see, and he took no food or drink.

If his offering is a lamb, then let it be placed before the Lord:

It is my order that in all the kingdom of which I am ruler, men are to be shaking with fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, unchanging for ever, and his kingdom is one which will never come to destruction, his rule will go on to the end.

After this I saw another beast, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings like those of a bird; and the beast had four heads, and the power of a ruler was given to it.

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

And before their eyes he took a meal.

Let them be put to shame because they have done disgusting things. They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will be made low, says the Lord.

And I will send punishment for their blood, for which punishment has not been sent, for the Lord is living in Zion.

But keep its broken end and its roots still in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass; let him have the young grass of the field for food, and let him be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his part be with the beasts.

Are any of the false gods of the nations able to make rain come? are the heavens able to give showers? are you not he, O Lord our God? so we will go on waiting for you, for you have done all these things.

And his fears will overcome him and be the cause of his downfall, and his army will come to complete destruction, and a great number will be put to the sword.

The rest, even the rest of Jacob, will come back to the Strong God.

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;

Then Arioch quickly took Daniel in before the king, and said to him, Here is a man from among the prisoners of Judah, who will make clear to the king the sense of the dream.

When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them.

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.

A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

He is greatly in fear of the dark day, trouble and pain overcome him:

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, a fighting-man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death two young lions going into their secret place; and he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow.

Then the Rab-shakeh got up and said with a loud voice in the Jews' language, Give ear to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria;

There were six steps going up to it, and the top of it was round at the back, there were arms on the two sides of the seat, and two lions by the side of the arms;

By the king's orders great stones, stones of high price, were cut out, so that the base of the house might be made of squared stone.

Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

David was thirty years old when he became king, and he was king for forty years,

With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?

All these were the sons of David, in addition to the sons of his servant-wives; and Tamar was their sister.

But be good to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be guests at your table; for so they came to me when I went in flight from Absalom your brother.

Truly you are great, O Lord God: there is no one like you and no other God but you, as is clear from everything which has come to our ears.

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;

So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

And it was in my mind to give you the chance of taking it, with the approval of those seated here and of the responsible men of my people. If you are ready to do what it is right for a relation to do, then do it: but if you will not do it, say so to me now; for there is no one who has the right to do it but you, and after you myself. And he said, I will do it.

And Israel and Absalom put up their tents in the land of Gilead.

How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?

When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:

Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

And he said, It is well; I will make an agreement with you, but on one condition, which is, that when you come before me, Saul's daughter Michal is to come with you; till she comes you will not see my face.

While Israel was living in Heshbon and its daughter-towns and in Aroer and its daughter-towns and in all the towns which are by the side of the Arnon, for three hundred years, why did you not get them back at that time?

But do you, without waiting, go after their army, attacking them from the back; do not let them get into their towns, for the Lord your God has given them into your hands.

And the Lord said to Moses,

(By the Sidonians, Hermon is named Sirion, and by the Amorites Shenir;)

And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.

And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.

For she said, If I may only put my hand on his robe, I will be made well.

Then the flag of the children of Reuben went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Elizur, the son of Shedeur.

So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

And after hearing this, Moses was no longer angry.

My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he underwent circumcision.

And the sons of Aram: Uz and Hul and Gether and Mash.

But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.

And if any man would do them damage, fire comes out of their mouth and puts an end to those who are working against them: and if any man has a desire to do them damage, in this way will he be put to death.

I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

And with reason; for we have the right reward of our acts, but this man has done nothing wrong.

Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.

Now there was talk among the chief priests of putting Lazarus to death;

Tychicus I sent to Ephesus.

Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.

For it is the purpose of the Lord of armies, and who will make it of no effect? when his hand is stretched out, by whom may it be turned back?

But after I am come back from the dead, I will go before you into Galilee.

And I have had news of you, that you have the power of making things clear, and of answering hard questions: now if you are able to make out the writing and give me the sense of it, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain round your neck and be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.

My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

And every blow of the rod of his punishment, which the Lord will send on him, will be with the sound of music: and with the waving of his sword the Lord will make war against him.

So they will be life for your soul, and grace for your neck.

And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question.

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.

So when the order made by the king was publicly given out, and a number of girls had been placed in the care of Hegai in the king's house in Shushan, Esther was taken into the king's house and put in the care of Hegai, the keeper of the women.

And Huram said, Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, maker of heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, full of wisdom and good sense, to be the builder of a house for the Lord and a house for himself as king.

But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.

The children of Pahath-moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand, eight hundred and eighteen.

The man of wealth had great numbers of flocks and herds;

And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;

And when Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel had news of it; and, painting her eyes and dressing her hair with ornaments, she put her head out of the window.

And make his offering to the Lord; one he-lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a burned offering, and one female lamb of the first year, without a mark, for a sin-offering, and one male sheep, without a mark, for peace-offerings,

And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;

Then Solomon put up a high place for Chemosh, the disgusting god of Moab, in the mountain before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the disgusting god worshipped by the children of Ammon.

Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying,

Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

So they took two horsemen; and the king sent them after the army of the Aramaeans, saying, Go and see.

He got the hill Samaria from Shemer for the price of two talents of silver, and he made a town there, building it on the hill and naming it Samaria, after Shemer the owner of the hill.

But while they were seated at the table, the word of the Lord came to the prophet who had taken him back;

On him who has mercy you will have mercy; to the upright you will be upright;