And he said to me, Son of man, go now to the children of Israel, and say my words to them.

So they took the vessels of the people, and their horns from their hands, and he sent them away, every man to his tent, keeping only the three hundred; and the tents of Midian were lower down in the valley.

And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.

And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

But you make it unholy by saying, The Lord's table has become unclean, and his food is of no value.

No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.

From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.

And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,

And the altar of brass which Bezalel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the Tent of the Lord; and Solomon and all the people went to give worship there.

How have the great ones been made low, and the arms of war broken!

Now, then, give me your oath, in the name of God, that you will not be false to me or to my sons after me, but that as I have been good to you, so you will be to me and to this land where you have been living.

Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.

And they gave them drink in gold vessels, every vessel being different, and wine of the kingdom, freely given by the king.

And now it is clear to you what is keeping back his revelation till the time comes for him to be seen.

But when the time came to give Merab, Saul's daughter, to David, she was given to Adriel of Meholath.

And when the living beings went on, the wheels went by their side; and when the living beings were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.

And all the people saw him walking and praising God:

I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.

Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;

And let it be broken open at the wings, but not cut in two; and let it be burned on the altar by the priest on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burned offering; an offering made by fire for a sweet smell to the Lord.

Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.

And the Satan said in answer to the Lord, Skin for skin, all a man has he will give for his life.

At that time we took all his towns; there was not one town of the sixty towns, all the country of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which we did not take.

Now the day on which the earth was mixed by Jesus and the man's eyes were made open was the Sabbath.

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But you, my loved ones, keep in memory the words which were said before by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

So that no one may be able to say that you had baptism in my name.

And when the ark of the Lord's agreement came into the tent-circle, all Israel gave a great cry, so that the earth was sounding with it.

So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

Now the people who were with him when his voice came to Lazarus in the place of the dead, and gave him life again, had been talking about it.

And it will be that, like a roe in flight, and like wandering sheep, they will go every man to his people and to his land.

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.

And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.

And Daniel went on till the first year of King Cyrus.

Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king's unsexed servants whom he had given her for waiting on her, and she gave him orders to go to Mordecai and see what this was and why it was.

And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.

Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.

Still, to go on in the flesh is more necessary because of you.

So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.

But Peter went on giving blows on the door: and when it was open and they saw him, they were full of wonder.

And now, see, Adonijah has made himself king without my lord's knowledge;

And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.

I give praise to God at all times and make prayer for you,

And as for you, because of the blood of your agreement, I have sent out your prisoners from the deep hole in which there is no water.

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second like an ox, and the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like an eagle in flight.

You will say, Branches were broken off so that I might be put in.

Teaching rules of living which it is not right for us to have or to keep, being Romans.

And Hezekiah went to rest with his fathers; and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.

And Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour. And he said, What is your desire?

I will undergo the wrath of the Lord, because of my sin against him; till he takes up my cause and does what is right for me: when he makes me come out into the light, I will see his righteousness;

Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.

In his burning wrath every horn of Israel has been cut off; his right hand has been turned back before the attacker: he has put a fire in Jacob, causing destruction round about.

The chief captain gave orders for him to be taken into the army building, saying that he would put him to the test by whipping, so that he might have knowledge of the reason why they were crying out so violently against him.

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

Better is a simple meal where love is, than a fat ox and hate with it.

Then Jehu came out again to the servants of his lord, and one said to him, Is all well? why did this man, who is off his head, come to you? And he said to them, You have knowledge of the man and of his talk.

Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

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

Now as for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and made them expert in all book-learning and wisdom: and Daniel was wise in all visions and dreams.

And they went back and came to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the waste land of Maon, in the dry land south of the waste land.

But like water overflowing he will take them away; he will put an end to those who come up against him, driving his haters into the dark.

And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, Let not the ark of the God of Israel be with us, for his hand is hard on us and on Dagon our god.

The second Trouble is past: see, the third Trouble comes quickly.

And they said to her, You are off your head. But still she said, with decision, that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Send out the men who have come to you and are in your house; for they have come with the purpose of searching out all the land.

Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!

And I will make your family like the family of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, and like the family of Baasha, the son of Ahijah, because you have made me angry, and have made Israel do evil.

Now, O Lord God, let your word to David my father come true; for you have made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in number.

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;

And he went on living after the birth of Enosh for eight hundred and seven years, and had sons and daughters:

For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

And after that, the regular burned offering and the offerings for the new moons and all the fixed feasts of the Lord which had been made holy, and the offering of everyone who freely gave his offering to the Lord.

So the Lord has been watching over this evil and has made it come on us: for the Lord our God is upright in all his acts which he has done, and we have not given ear to his voice.

For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.

And when the Lord saw her, he had pity on her and said to her, Be not sad.

And on the eighth day they had a holy meeting; the offerings for making the altar holy went on for seven days, and the feast for seven days.

Because if the priests are changed, it is necessary to make a change in the law.

Such are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have given up to Satan, so that they may say no more evil words against God.

(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):

Asahel, the brother of Joab, was one of the thirty; and Elhanan, the son of Dodai, of Beth-lehem,

And because of you I am glad I was not there, so that you may have faith; but let us go to him.

Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

And I will keep myself from talking of anything but those things which Christ has done by me to put the Gentiles under his rule in word and in act,

For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.

Now while I was looking at the four living beings, I saw one wheel on the earth, by the side of the living beings, for the four of them.

And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.

He took me to the house of wine, and his flag over me was love.

And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.

But when the servants gave her the king's order, Vashti the queen said she would not come: then the king was very angry, and his heart was burning with wrath.

Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.

And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.

For all his decisions were before me, and I did not put away his laws from me.

For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.

And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.

And Asa would not let Maacah, his mother, be queen, because she had made a disgusting image for Asherah; and Asa had her image cut down and broken up and burned by the stream Kidron.

For this I will be full of sorrow and give cries of grief; I will go uncovered and unclothed: I will give cries of grief like the jackals and will be in sorrow like the ostriches.

But when he was in Rome, he went in search of me everywhere, and came to me

And the angel who was talking to me went out, and another angel went out, and, meeting him,

Have no fear, daughter of Zion: see your King is coming, seated on a young ass.

For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

The king, crying out with a loud voice, said that the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs, were to be sent for. The king made answer and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whoever is able to make out this writing, and make clear to me the sense of it, will be clothed in purple and have a chain of gold round his neck, and will be a ruler of high authority in the kingdom.

And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally certain that we will get our requests.

Looking for and truly desiring the coming of the day of God, when the heavens will come to an end through fire, and the substance of the earth will be changed by the great heat?

And by way of Corinth to go into Macedonia, and from there to come back again to you, so that you might send me on my way to Judaea.

The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.

For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;

And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

If Pharaoh says to you, Let me see a wonder: then say to Aaron, Take your rod and put it down on the earth before Pharaoh so that it may become a snake.

This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

And between the living beings it was like burning coals of fire, as if flames were going one after the other between the living beings; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went thunder-flames.

But at least you have the credit of hating the works of the Nicolaitans, as I do.

The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.

From Benjamin, Abidan, the son of Gideoni;

Then one of the servants in answer said, I have seen a son of Jesse, the Beth-lehemite, who is expert at playing, and a strong man and a man of war; and he is wise in his words, and pleasing in looks, and the Lord is with him.

And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,

And there will be no need for every man to be teaching his brother, or his neighbour, saying, This is the knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, great and small.

To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.

But from those who seemed to be important (whatever they were has no weight with me: God does not take man's person into account): those who seemed to be important gave nothing new to me;

But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

And the Lord said to the children of Israel, Were not the Egyptians and the Amorites and the children of Ammon and the Philistines

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.

But praise be to God, who puts the same care for you into the heart of Titus.

And if they were all one part, where would the body be?

You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;

If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

And the chief priest is to take some of its blood and take it to the Tent of meeting;

Now there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.

And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.

Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.

The traveller did not take his night's rest in the street, and my doors were open to anyone on a journey;

That Vashti the queen was to come before him, crowned with her crown, and let the people and the captains see her: for she was very beautiful.

And he said to him, This is the word of the Lord: Because you sent men to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, for this reason you will never again get down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.

These are the men who make trouble, ever desiring change, going after evil pleasures, using high-sounding words, respecting men's position in the hope of reward.

And the men of Judah came there, and with the holy oil made David king over the people of Judah. And word came to David that it was the men of Jabesh-gilead who put Saul's body in its last resting-place.

They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.

Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.

The Lord your God has given you increase, and now you are like the stars of heaven in number.

Now the planter and the waterer are working for the same end: but they will have their separate rewards in the measure of their work.

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

He who has ears, let him give ear.

But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.

Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:

And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:

And the Lord said to Moses, Go down and give the people orders to keep back, for fear that a great number of them, forcing their way through to see the Lord, may come to destruction.

Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;

So he gave ear to them in this thing and put them to the test for ten days.

Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.

And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

And Saul sent men to take David; and when they saw the band of prophets at work, with Samuel in his place at their head, the spirit of God came on Saul's men, and they became like prophets.

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, do your best to come to me at Nicopolis: for it is my purpose to be there for the winter.

That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

And those who are turned back from going after the Lord, and those who have not made prayer to the Lord or got directions from him.

And Solomon went up there to the brass altar before the Lord at the Tent of meeting, offering on it a thousand burned offerings.

By faith Isaac, blessing Jacob and Esau, gave news of things to come.

Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

I will go down now, and see if their acts are as bad as they seem from the outcry which has come to me; and if they are not, I will see.

And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;

And the rest of Jacob will be among the nations, in the middle of the mass of peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the woods, like a young lion among the flocks of sheep: if he goes through, they will be crushed under foot and pulled to bits, and there will be no saviour.

And after discussion with the people, he put in their places those who were to make melody to the Lord, praising him in holy robes, while they went at the head of the army, and saying, May the Lord be praised, for his mercy is unchanging for ever.

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

And the wonder-workers were not able to take their places before Moses, because of the disease; for the disease was on the wonder-workers and on all the Egyptians.

What are you designing against the Lord? he will put an end to it: his haters will not come up again a second time.

(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.

Every one of them went straight forward; wherever the spirit was to go they went; they went on without turning.

I give you orders before God, the giver of life, and Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate gave witness to the faith,

But Jesus made answer and said, You have no idea what you are requesting. Are you able to take of the cup which I am about to take?

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

And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).

And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:

And opening all his heart to her, he said to her, My head has never been touched by a blade, for I have been separate to God from the day of my birth: if my hair is cut off, then my strength will go from me and I will become feeble, and will be like any other man.

The door to the lowest side rooms was in the right side of the house; and they went up by twisting steps into the middle rooms, and from the middle into the third.

For they gave comfort to my spirit and to yours: for which cause give respect to such people.

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!

Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.

Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Turning away from the Lord, the God of his fathers, and not walking in his ways.

All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

From Dan, Ahiezer, the son of Ammi-shaddai;

And said to the king, May the king be living for ever: is it not natural for my face to be sad, when the town, the place where the bodies of my fathers are at rest, has been made waste and its doorways burned with fire?

He who has hate for me has hate for my Father.

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.

And the four and twenty rulers, who are seated before God on their high seats, went down on their faces and gave worship to God, saying,

For he of whom these things are said comes of another tribe, of which no man has ever made offerings at the altar.

And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat.

After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands.

But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

And there were flames and voices and thunders; and there was a great earth-shock so that never, from the time when men were on the earth, had there been so great an earth-shock, so full of power.

And the Lord gave an answer in good and comforting words to the angel who was talking to me.

And went after the man of God, and came up with him while he was seated under an oak-tree. And he said to him, Are you the man of God who came from Judah? And he said, I am.

He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:

The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.

Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?

And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.

Not so; but let your males go and give worship to the Lord, as your desire is. This he said, driving them out from before him.

How they said to you, In the last days there will be men who, guided by their evil desires, will make sport of holy things.

For if we are foolish, it is to God; or if we are serious, it is for you.

Put up a flag for a sign to Zion: go in flight so that you may be safe, waiting no longer: for I will send evil from the north, and a great destruction.

And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.

But having no root in himself, he goes on for a time; and when trouble comes or pain, because of the word, he quickly becomes full of doubts.

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

And, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day.

And they did so, and made them all be seated.

And if his offering to the Lord is a burned offering of birds, then he is to make his offering of doves or of young pigeons.

He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.

Ephraim is mixed with the peoples; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.

Then the Evil One went away from him, and angels came and took care of him.

And the king of Israel went out and took the horses and the war-carriages, and made great destruction among the Aramaeans.

And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,

When your fathers put me to the test, and saw my works for forty years.

Then take a look at our faces and the faces of the young men who have food from the king's table; and, having seen them, do to your servants as it seems right to you.

Take away, then, his talent and give it to him who has the ten talents.

From this time forward, I give you knowledge of things before they come about, so that when they come about you may have belief that I am he.

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

And kept safe Lot, the upright man, who was deeply troubled by the unclean life of the evil-doers

For if the operation of the law, giving death, recorded in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the eyes of the children of Israel had to be turned away from the face of Moses because of its glory, a glory which was only for a time:

Then will the upright make answer to him, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food, and give it to you? or in need of drink, and give it to you?

But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.

And David gave orders to the chief of the Levites to put their brothers the music-makers in position, with instruments of music, corded instruments and brass, with glad voices making sounds of joy.

And I will have no mercy on her children, for they are the children of her loose ways.

Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.

And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?

And the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem you have given for a price to the sons of the Greeks, to send them far away from their land:

For your servant is conscious of his sin: and so, as you see, I have come today, the first of all the sons of Joseph, for the purpose of meeting my lord the king.

And when Pharaoh made his heart hard and would not let us go, the Lord sent death on all the first sons in Egypt, of man and of beast: and so every first male who comes to birth is offered to the Lord; but for all the first of my sons I give a price.

Having no fear of those who are against you; which is a clear sign of their destruction, but of your salvation, and that from God;

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.

For this cause the Lord has said, See, against this family I am purposing an evil from which you will not be able to take your necks away, and you will be weighted down by it; for it is an evil time.

What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

And I will make a fire in the wall of Rabbah, burning up its great houses, with loud cries in the days of war, with a storm in the day of the great wind:

For her wounds may not be made well: for it has come even to Judah, stretching up to the doorway of my people, even to Jerusalem.

And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

Keeping faith, and being conscious of well-doing; for some, by not doing these things, have gone wrong in relation to the faith:

I said to my heart, See, I have become great and am increased in wisdom more than any who were before me in Jerusalem--yes, my heart has seen much wisdom and knowledge.

And Solomon said to God, Great was your mercy to David my father, and you have made me king in his place.

For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

And they said to one another, We have no bread.

And looking at Jesus while he was walking he said, See, there is the Lamb of God!

And Egypt was the father of the Ludim and the Anamim and the Lehabim and the Naphtuhim

But now God has put every one of the parts in the body as it was pleasing to him.

Then he got up and came to Samaria. And he was at the meeting-place of the keepers of sheep, by the way,

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

For you have knowledge that even long after, when he was desiring the blessing for his heritage, he was turned away, though he made his request frequently and with weeping; because the past might not be changed.

In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.

So death came to him, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah. And Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of the rule of Jehoram, son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah; because he had no son.

But see to it, when he goes to rest, that you take note of the place where he is sleeping, and go in there, and, uncovering his feet, take your place by him; and he will say what you are to do.

After they had gone three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near to the boat; and they had great fear.

My ears have been open to what the prophets have said, who say false words in my name, saying, I have had a dream, I have had a dream, I have had a dream,

And take to the Lord the offering for the wrong which he has done, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat, for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away his sin.

And straight away all the people, when they saw him, were full of wonder, and running to him, gave him worship.

And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:

And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:

They are greatly to be feared: their right comes from themselves.

And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

He had six sons in Hebron; he was ruling there for seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem for thirty-three years.

And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;

And sent letters to all the divisions of the kingdom, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in the language which was theirs, saying that every man was to be the ruler in his house, and that this order was to be given out in the language of his people.

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

And the word of the Lord came to Zechariah, saying,

And, truly, you are lovers of all the brothers in Macedonia; but it is our desire that your love may be increased still more;

And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then you are to come to my help; but if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.

So that your pride in me may be increased in Christ Jesus through my being present with you again.

But Simon Peter was still there warming himself by the fire. They said to him, Are you not one of his disciples? He said, No, I am not.

Now, O King, put the order in force, signing the writing so that it may not be changed, like the law of the Medes and Persians which may not come to an end.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

And the servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, in addition to gold from Ophir, came back with sandal-wood and jewels.

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

Now in the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud was taken up from over the Tent of witness.

And Samuel took a young lamb, offering all of it as a burned offering to the Lord; and Samuel made prayers to the Lord for Israel and the Lord gave him an answer.

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.

One has gone out from you who is designing evil against the Lord, whose purposes are of no value.

You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

Then Omri went up from Gibbethon, with all the army of Israel, and they made an attack on Tirzah, shutting in the town on every side.

(But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.

Then the angel of the Lord said to Elijah, Go down with him; have no fear of him. So he got up and went down with him to the king.

If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.

How is it possible for me by myself to be responsible for you, and undertake the weight of all your troubles and your arguments?

And now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, waiting for you to say who is to take the place of my lord the king after him.

You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.

Is not food cut off before our eyes? joy and delight from the house of our God?

If, then, Satan is at war with himself, how will he keep his kingdom? because you say that I send evil spirits out of men by the help of Beelzebul.

Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

Hearing of the love and the faith which you have to the Lord Jesus and to all the saints;

But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

Give the offerings of righteousness, and put your faith in the Lord.

And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.

And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.

And they saw that it was the man who made requests for money at the door of the Temple, and they were full of wonder and surprise at what had taken place.

And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin

And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.

Then Pharaoh sent for Abram, and said, What have you done to me? why did you not say that she was your wife?

And I will give you judges again as at the first, and wise guides as in the past; then you will be named, The Town of Righteousness, the true town.

For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

And has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the sons of the king, and Abiathar the priest, and Joab, the captain of the army; but he has not sent for Solomon your servant.

Unnoted, but still kept fully in mind; as near to death, but still living; as undergoing punishment, but not put to death;

And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

Let there be no sound before the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is near: for the Lord has made ready an offering, he has made his guests holy.

Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.

And even with these words, it was hard for them to keep the people from making an offering to them.

And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.

And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

Of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.

For this reason, if food is a cause of trouble to my brother, I will give up taking meat for ever, so that I may not be a cause of trouble to my brother.

For as things are, it will come about, when my lord the king is sleeping with his fathers, that I and Solomon my son will be made outlaws.

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And if anyone says to you, Why are you taking him? say, The Lord has need of him.

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has given us good news of your faith and love, and that you have happy memories of us, desiring greatly to see us, even as we do to see you;

So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,

He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.

And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

Then the wonder-workers, the users of secret arts, the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs came in to me: and I put the dream before them but they did not make clear the sense of it to me.

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.

And if witness is given of her good works; if she has had the care of children, if she has been kind to travellers, washing the feet of the saints, helping those who are in trouble, giving herself to good works.

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.

Then his purpose will be changed, over-stepping the limit; he will make his strength his god.

And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

And I will send a fire on Teman, burning up the great houses of Bozrah.

Make for me an altar of earth, offering on it your burned offerings and your peace-offerings, your sheep and your oxen: in every place where I have put the memory of my name, I will come to you and give you my blessing.

But now they are all different parts, but one body.

For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

And the sixth, Ithream, whose mother was David's wife Eglah. These were the sons of David, whose birth took place in Hebron.

Be uncovered and go away, you who are living in Shaphir: the one living in Zaanan has not come out of her town; Beth-ezel is taken away from its base, even from its resting-place.

Teaching the children of Israel all the laws which the Lord has given them by the hand of Moses.

Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar:

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.

You put all things under his feet. For in making man the ruler over all things, God did not put anything outside his authority; though we do not see everything under him now.

Let the war-carriage be yoked to the quick-running horse, you who are living in Lachish: she was the first cause of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the wrongdoings of Israel were seen in you.

And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

Wisdom and knowledge are given to you; and I will give you wealth and honour, such as no king has had before you or ever will have after you.

And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.

And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.

For, starting his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first month, he came to Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, by the good help of his God.

Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.

For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;

But let your chief care be for his kingdom, and these other things will be given to you in addition.

And it will come about in the day of the Lord's offering, that I will send punishment on the rulers and the king's sons and all who are clothed in robes from strange lands.

And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.

And put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the gold images which you are sending as a sin-offering in a chest by its side; and send it away so that it may go.

Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,

And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

Every man is to give as he is able, in the measure of the blessing which the Lord your God has given you.

The king made answer and said to the Chaldaeans, This is my decision: if you do not make clear to me the dream and the sense of it, you will be cut in bits and your houses made waste.

Even so did the Lord give orders that the preachers of the good news might get their living from the good news.

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.

And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

And they took him to him: and when he saw him, the spirit in him straight away became violent; and he went down on the earth, rolling about and streaming at the lips.

And the living beings went out and came back as quickly as a thunder-flame.

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

Making ready for themselves a safe place for the time to come, so that the true life may be theirs.

But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy.

And the Pathrusim and the Casluhim and the Caphtorim (from whom came the Philistines).

And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

For the one living in Maroth is waiting for good: for evil has come down from the Lord to the doorways of Jerusalem.

And the strong will be as food for the fire, and his work as a flame; and they will be burned together, with no one to put out the fire.

For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.

Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no more offering for sin.

And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do?

I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.

For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day.

That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

And at the sounding of the third angel, there went down from heaven a great star, burning like a flame, and it came on a third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of water.

Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;

And let these first be put to the test; then let them become Deacons if there is nothing against them.

Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.

Then every man becomes like a beast without knowledge; every gold-worker is put to shame by the image he has made: for his metal image is deceit, and there is no breath in them.

See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace.

Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)

So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.

And I will keep no more memory of their sins and of their evil-doings.

As it says in the Writings, He who had taken up much had nothing over and he who had little had enough.

But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.

And Cush was the father of Nimrod: he was the first to be a great man in the earth.

And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.

And every evening he went out of the town.

And Jesus was walking in the Temple, in Solomon's covered way.

And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him.

For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.

This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

And lifting up my eyes I saw four horns.

Give thought to the ravens; they do not put seeds into the earth, or get together grain; they have no store-houses or buildings; and God gives them their food: of how much greater value are you than the birds!

The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.

And at the end of ten days their faces seemed fairer and they were fatter in flesh than all the young men who had their food from the king's table.

And because he was not able to make payment, his lord gave orders for him, and his wife, and his sons and daughters, and all he had, to be given for money, and payment to be made.

And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.

And those who have been kept safe will come up from Mount Zion to be judges of the mountain of Esau; and the kingdom will be the Lord's.

You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.

Because today he has gone down and has put to death oxen and fat beasts and sheep in great numbers, and has sent for all the king's sons to come to him, with the captains of the army and Abiathar the priest; and they are feasting before him and crying, Long life to King Adonijah!

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.

Not taking credit to ourselves for what is not our business, that is, for the work of others; but having hope that, with the growth of your faith, we may get the credit for an increase which is the effect of our work,

And your men of war, O Teman, will be overcome with fear, so that every one of them may be cut off from the mountain of Esau.

And all her glory has gone from the daughter of Zion: her rulers have become like harts with no place for food, and they have gone in flight without strength before the attacker.

Be glad over her, heaven, and you saints, and Apostles, and prophets; because she has been judged by God on your account.

Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

This comes from the Lord of armies, purposing wonders, and wise in all his acts.

You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.

Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:

If then I had such a purpose, did I seem to be changing suddenly? or am I guided in my purposes by the flesh, saying, Yes, today, and, No, tomorrow?

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.

All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.

His coming will not be with fighting or loud cries; and his voice will not be lifted up in the streets.

Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

Though good grain was planted, they have got in thorns: they have given themselves pain without profit: they will be shamed on account of their produce, because of the burning wrath of the Lord.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

Then Nathan went back to his house. And the hand of the Lord was on David's son, the child of Uriah's wife, and it became very ill.

And they got together all the people on the first day of the second month; and everyone made clear his family and his father's house, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and over.

Then it will come about that if there are still ten men in a house, death will overtake them.

As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.

And when the news came to Jabesh-gilead of what the Philistines had done to Saul,

But so that things may be equal; that from those things of which you have more than enough at the present time their need may be helped, and that if you are in any need they may be a help to you in the same way, making things equal.

And Resen between Nineveh and Calah, which is a very great town.

But they kept him back, saying, Do not go, for evening is near, the day is almost gone. And he went in with them.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.

And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?

And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.

Because where there is a testament, there has to be the death of the man who made it.

The four of them went straight forward without turning to one side.

For you, O Lord, have given up your people, the family of Jacob, because they are full of the evil ways of the east, and make use of secret arts like the Philistines, and are friends with the children of strange countries.

As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.

So that your faith might be based not on man's wisdom but on the power of God.

And the second took her, and at his death there were no offspring; and the third the same:

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.

But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

He makes little of kings, rulers are a sport to him; all the strong places are to be laughed at; for he makes earthworks and takes them.

Is it right for us to make payment of taxes to Caesar or not?

And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;

O Lord, my cry goes up to you: for fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste, and all the trees of the field are burned with its flame.

Then at the end of forty days and forty nights the Lord gave me those stones, the stones of the agreement.

And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there will be much shame and wrath.

For this cause give a parting offering to Moresheth-gath: the daughter of Achzib will be a deceit to the king of Israel.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

Which is seen in his eternal purpose in Christ Jesus our Lord:

And of the sons of Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah; and with him a hundred and sixty males.

So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

Will not the operation of the Spirit have a much greater glory?

When these went on, the others went; and when these came to rest, the others came to rest; and when these were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

And after these things he gave them judges, till the time of Samuel the prophet.

From Gad, Eliasaph, the son of Reuel;

And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;

And in every town he put stores of body-covers and spears, and made them very strong. And Judah and Benjamin were his.

Now at the end of the time fixed by the king for them to go in, the captain of the unsexed servants took them in to Nebuchadnezzar.

For it seems to me that God has put us the Apostles last of all, as men whose fate is death: for we are put on view to the world, and to angels, and to men.

And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

Because you were the cause of violent death and because of your cruel behaviour to your brother Jacob, you will be covered with shame and will be cut off for ever.

He will take your men-servants and your servant-girls, and the best of your oxen and your asses and put them to his work.

The sons of Shem: Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.

And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus;

Further, I give orders as to what you are to do for the responsible men of the Jews in connection with the building of this house of God: that from the king's wealth, that is, from the taxes got together in the land over the river, the money needed is to be given to these men readily, so that their work may not be stopped.

If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

To see if Simon, named Peter, was living there.

For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.

Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

All the time he is separate he is holy to the Lord.

But when Ahab was dead, the king of Moab got free from the authority of the king of Israel.

And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.

And I said to you, You have come to the hill-country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.

And if he has no one to get it back for him, and later he himself gets wealth and has enough money to get it back;

One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!

By their side Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was making good the walls. Then Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel; and by him, Zadok, the son of Baana.

As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.

These are the men named out of all the people, chiefs of their fathers' houses, heads of the tribes of Israel.

I, a ruler in the church, send word to the well loved Gaius, for whom I have true love.

A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

If any man who is a Christian has had circumcision, let him keep so; and if any man who is a Christian has not had circumcision, let him make no change.

And the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite,

And Nathan said, O my lord king, have you said, Adonijah is to be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom?

Then Amaziah, the priest of Beth-el, sent to Jeroboam, king of Israel, saying, Amos has made designs against you among the people of Israel: the land is troubled by his words.

He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

In judging, do not let a man's position have any weight with you; give hearing equally to small and great; have no fear of any man, for it is God who is judge: and any cause in which you are not able to give a decision, you are to put before me and I will give it a hearing.

But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?

For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

Let them say openly what they have done; and make payment for the wrong done, with the addition of a fifth part, and give it to him to whom the wrong was done.

But Solomon did not make use of the children of Israel as servants for his work; they were men of war, his chiefs and his captains, and captains of his war-carriages and his horsemen.

Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.

And they were recorded by their generations, heads of their families, great men of war, twenty thousand, two hundred.

Did I make a profit out of you by any of those whom I sent to you?

It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.

Now Athaliah, hearing the noise made by the people, came to the people in the house of the Lord;

Those who were full are offering themselves as servants for bread; those who were in need are at rest; truly, she who had no children has become the mother of seven; and she who had a family is wasted with sorrow.

Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

Tychicus will give you news of all my business: he is a dear brother and true servant and helper in the word;

And Canaan was the father of Zidon, his oldest son, and Heth,

And I will make Jerusalem a mass of broken stones, the living-place of jackals; and I will make the towns of Judah a waste, with no man living there.

And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.

And he said to them, Whoever has ears, let him give ear.

For I was not put to shame in anything in which I may have made clear to him my pride in you; but as we said nothing to you but what was true, so the good things which I said to Titus about you were seen by him to be true.

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the evening, they are to keep it, taking it with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants;

And he went away from them, and again got into the boat and went across to the other side.

But if you make clear the dream and the sense of it, you will have from me offerings and rewards and great honour: so make clear to me the dream and the sense of it.

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

Make songs of praise to the Lord, whose house is in Zion: make his doings clear to the people.

But the Lord said to David my father, You did well to have in your heart the desire to make a house for my name:

Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew

Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

(Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);

And that which went on the stones, this is he who, hearing the word, straight away takes it with joy;

And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?

And now, give ear, O our God, to the prayer of your servant and to his request for grace, and let your face be shining on your holy place which is made waste, because of your servants, O Lord.

Even now will the taker of your heritage come to you, you who are living in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will come to destruction for ever.

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

And while she was still talking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

And let the priests who come near to the Lord make themselves holy, for fear that the Lord may come on them suddenly.

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.

So the keeper regularly took away their meat and the wine which was to have been their drink, and gave them grain.