And see and make [all] according to their pattern, which you were shown in the mountain.

And they did not prevail, nor was a place found for them [any] longer in heaven.

And Nicodemus--the one who had come to him formerly at night--also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes [weighing] about a hundred pounds.

our livestock must also go with us. Not a hoof can be left because we must take from them to serve Yahweh our God. And we will not know [with] what we are to serve Yahweh until we come there."

May God make space for Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be a slave for him."

{And Abram kept moving on}, toward the Negev.

So Saul got up from the ground, but [although] his eyes were open he could see nothing. And leading him by the hand, they brought [him] into Damascus.

And [after he] had gone through those regions and encouraged them {at length}, he came to Greece

The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!

For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also the Son of Man will be to this generation.

(Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, also knew about the place, because Jesus often gathered there with his disciples.)

And behold, [some] are last who will be first, and [some] are first who will be last."

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'The fast of the fourth [month], the fifth [month], the seventh [month], and the tenth [month] will be for the house of Judah jubilation and joy and merry festivals; therefore love truth and peace.'

I had not eaten [any] choice food, and meat and wine did not enter my mouth, and {I did not use any ointment} {until the end of three whole weeks}.

To you, O God of my ancestors, I give thanks and I give praises, for the wisdom and the power you gave to me, and now you have made known to me what we have asked from you, for you have made known to us the matter of the king."

So those who were sent went [and] found [it] just as he had told them.

Yahweh [will be] awesome against them, for he will destroy all the gods of the earth and all the lands of the nations; each in its place will bow down to him.

They clap hands over you, all who pass along the way; they hiss and they shake their head, at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city of which it is said, "A perfection of beauty, a joy for all the earth?"

Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable [to you] and your sin remove with righteousness and your iniquity with having mercy on [the] oppressed, {in case there might be a prolongation of your prosperity}.'"

The one who breaks out before them goes up; they break through and pass the gate, going out through it. Their king passes before them, Yahweh at their head.

perversion in his heart, he devises evil; at all times he will send out discord.

You also, O Cushites, they shall be killed by my sword.

And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule [with] great dominion, and he will do {as he pleases}.

Ah! Those who drag iniquity along with the cords of falsehood and sin as with rope of the cart,

Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.

And it will pass through it distressed and hungry, and this shall happen: when it is hungry, it will be enraged, and it will curse its king and its gods, and it will face upwar

By the blessing of the upright, a city will be exalted, but by the mouth of the wicked, it will be overthrown.

For the Lord Yahweh of hosts [is] about to make a complete destruction and a determined end in the midst of all the earth.

Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, {he will depart} just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.

The righteous one is forever; he will not be removed. But the wicked will not remain in the land.

Yahweh, how many are my enemies; many [are] rising against me.

And he himself wastes away like something rotten, like a garment that [the] moth has eaten.

Now David and all the house of Israel [were] dancing before Yahweh, with all kinds of [musical instruments made from] ash trees, and with zithers, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

But I warned them and said to them, "Why are you spending the night opposite the wall? If you do [it again], I will lay hands against you." From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

And Haman went out on that day rejoicing and {feeling good}. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the gate of the king, and he did not rise or tremble before him, Haman was filled {with rage toward} Mordecai.

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom as I promised to David your father, saying, 'A man shall not be cut off for you [from] ruling over Israel.'

But Gehazi the servant of Elisha, the man of God, thought, "Look, my master has refrained from taking what this Aramean Naaman brought from his hand. {As Yahweh lives}, I will certainly run after him, and I will accept something from him."

from the nations which Yahweh had said to the {Israelites}, "You shall not {marry them}, and they shall not {marry you}. They will certainly turn your heart after other gods." But Solomon clung to them to love.

And listen to the pleas of your servant and your people Israel when they pray toward this place, that you yourself might hear from the place of your dwelling, from the heavens, that you might hear and forgive.

Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag while he was still shut up because {of Saul}, the son of Kish. And they [were] the mighty warriors helping [with] the war.

And the king said to Nathan the prophet, "Look, please, I [am] living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God [is] staying in the middle of the tent."

So they said to the king of Assyria, "The nations whom you deported and settled in the cities of Samaria do not know the customs of the God of the land, so he sent lions among them, and now they are killing them because they do not know the customs of the God of the land."

The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

and Yahweh your God will give them {over to you} and you defeat them, you must {utterly destroy them}; you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy [to them].

And Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

He restored the boundary of Israel from Lebo-Hamath up to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh which he spoke by the hand of his servant Jonah the son of Amittai the prophet, who was from Gath-Hepher.

You have kept for your servant David my father what you promised to him, and you have spoken with your mouth, and with your hand you have fulfilled [it] this very day.

So Ahaz slept with his ancestors and was buried with his ancestors in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.

However, Jonathan had not heard about the oath of his father with the army, so he extended the end of the staff which was in his hand, and he dipped it into the honeycomb. Then he put his hand to his mouth and his eyes gleamed.

However, some {worthless men} said, "How can this [man] deliver us?" So they despised him and brought no gift to him, but he kept silent.

And he said, "Call for her," so he called for her and she stood in the doorway.

So they cried out to Yahweh and said, 'We have sinned, because we have forsaken Yahweh and have served the Baals and the Ashtoreths. But now deliver us from the hand of our enemies and we will serve you!'

If a man sins against a man, then God can intercede for him. But if a man sins against Yahweh, who can intercede for him?" But they did not {obey} their father, because Yahweh wanted to kill them.

And the men said to her, "{Our lives for yours}. If you do not report this business of ours, {we will show you loyalty and faithfulness} when Yahweh gives us the land."

because on this day he shall make atonement for you to cleanse you; you must be clean from all your sins {before} Yahweh.

And the one seated [was] similar in appearance to jasper and carnelian stone, and a rainbow [was] around the throne similar in appearance to emerald.

who will not receive many times more in this time and in the age to come, eternal life."

"And it will happen [that] when Yahweh your God has brought you to {the land that you are going to}, to take possession of it, then you shall pronounce the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

When the dew came down on the camp [at] night, the manna came down [with] it.

Then the people cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire died down.

and a man sleeps with her and ejaculates and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is concealed, although she is defiled, and there is no witness against her and she was not caught,

and the gecko and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand lizard and the chameleon.

Everything in whose nostrils [was] {the breath of life}, among all that [was] on dry land, died.

Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its environs.

which [was] a symbol for the present time, in which both the gifts and sacrifices which were offered were not able to perfect the worshiper with respect to the conscience,

The Kohathites, the bearers of the sanctuary, set out, and they set up the tabernacle before they arrived.

But God, who comforts the humble, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

So Noah went out, with his sons and his wife, and the wives of his sons with him.

And Moses said, "Even [if] you yourself put into our hand sacrifices and burnt offerings and we offer [them] to Yahweh our God,

So we urged Titus that, just as he had previously begun [it], thus he would also complete for you this [act of] grace.

So the military tribune came [and] said to him, "Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?" And he said, "Yes."

I am not saying these [things] according to a human perspective. Or does the law not also say these [things]?

But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our report?"

Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again."

For a son treats a father with contempt; a daughter rises up against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; [the] enemies of a man [are] the men of his own house.

And [as] he was going along, they were spreading out their cloaks on the road.

And his disciples answered him, "Where is anyone able to feed these [people] with bread here in the desert?"

Now a long way from them a large herd of pigs was feeding.

(For he did not know what he should answer, because they were terrified.)

Take [the] silver and gold and make a crown, and set [it] on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

{O king}, the Most High God gave the kingdom and the greatness and the glory and the majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your {predecessor}.

Yahweh has annulled your judgments; he has turned away your enemies. The king of Israel, Yahweh, [is] in your midst; you shall no longer fear misfortune.

And I have said, "My glory is ruined, my expectation from Yahweh."

And he said to me, "Still {you will see again} greater detestable things that they [are] doing."

To their mothers they say, "Where is the bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in [the] public squares of a city, as their life is being poured out onto the bosom of their mothers.

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

The prophet who [has] with him a dream, let him tell [the] dream. But [the prophet] who [has] my word with him, let him speak my word faithfully. {What is straw compared to wheat}?" {declares} Yahweh.

{Why} do you crush my people and grind [the] face of [the] poor?" {declares} the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

With a mouth, the godless shall destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.

"From Dan is heard the snorting of their horses, from the sound of the neighing of their stallions all the land quakes, for they come and devour the land, and that which fills [the] city, and [those who] live in it.

The good obtains favor from Yahweh, but anyone who schemes, he condemns.

The hope of the righteous [is] gladness, but the expectation of the wicked comes to nothing.

those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in ways of darkness,

Save, O Yahweh, for [the] pious have ceased [to be]; for [the] faithful have vanished from [among the] children of humankind.

From you [is] my praise. In [the] great assembly, I will pay my vows before those who revere him.

The king was upset, and he went up to the upper room of the gate and wept. He said as he went, "My son, Absalom, my son, my son, Absalom. {If only} I had died instead of you, Absalom, my son, my son."

From [the] scourge of [the] tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.

Then Mordecai told [them] to reply to Esther: "Do not think that your life will be saved [in] the palace of the king more than all the Jews.

And Jeroboam did not regain strength again in the days of Abijah. And Yahweh plagued him and he died.

But they urged him until embarrassing [him], so he said, "Send them." So they sent fifty men, and they looked for three days, but they could not find him.

When David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David. She said, "How the king of Israel honored himself today {by uncovering himself} before the eyes of the maids of his servants, {as the total exposure of a worthless one}."

The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

But Saul said to David, "You will not be able to go against this Philistine to fight with him, because you are [only] a boy, whereas [he has] been a man of war since his childhood!"

And Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

Elisha came [to] Damascus. Now Ben-Hadad king of Aram [was] ill, and he was told, "The man of God has come up here."

He proclaimed to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, "Thus says Yahweh: 'Because you have disobeyed the word of Yahweh and have not kept the command which Yahweh your God commanded you,

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this [condition] {I will make a treaty} with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel."

He said, "Please speak to King Solomon, for he will not refuse you, so that he will give to me Abishag the Shunnamite as wife."

So he said to his servants, "Look at the tract of land of Joab {next to mine}, for he has barley plants there. Go, set it ablaze with fire." So the servants of Absalom set the tract of land ablaze with fire.

After they left, they came up from the well and went and told King David. They said to David, "Set out and cross over the water quickly, for thus Ahithophel has advised against you."

Yesterday when you came and {today}, I have caused you to wander by going with us. Now I [am] going to where I [am] going; return and let your brothers return. [May] loyal love and faithfulness [be] with you."

Then the men of Beth Shemesh asked, "Who [is] able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? And to whom shall it go up from us?"

For the fact is [that] the land {that you are about to go into} to take possession of it [is] not like the land of Egypt, [from] which you have {come out of}, where you sow your seed and you give water by [your] foot, {as in a vegetable garden}.

But now {our strength is dried up}; there is nothing whatsoever except {for the manna before us}."

When Saul {realized} that Yahweh [was] with David and {his own daughter Michal} loved him,

" 'It will be an eternal decree for them. The one who spatters the waters of impurity will wash his garments, and the one who touches the waters of impurity will be unclean until the evening.

So she stayed close with the maidservants [of] Boaz to glean until the end of the barley harvest and wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Anyone who rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on [the testimony of] two or three witnesses.

And he had thirty sons who would ride on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty towns that [are] in the land of Gilead that they called Havvoth Jair until this day.

And the Levites will lay their hands on the head of the one bull and offer [it] as a sin offering and the other one as a burnt offering to Yahweh, to make atonement for the Levites.

And he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and he shall bring out the fatty ashes {outside the camp} to a ceremonially clean place,

And another horse came out, fiery red, and it was granted to the one seated on it to take peace from the earth, and that they would slaughter one another, and a large sword was given to him.

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur [was] over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh.

And the priest shall examine the {raw flesh}, and he shall pronounce him unclean--the {raw flesh} [is] unclean; it [is] an infectious skin disease.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Reach out your hand and grasp [it] by its tail"--" (And he reached out his hand and grabbed it, and it became a staff in his palm.)--

And the priest shall take away from the grain [offering] its token portion, and he shall turn [it] into smoke on the altar [as] an offering made [by] fire, [as] an appeasing fragrance for Yahweh.

Then Isaac {trembled violently}. Then he said, "Who then [was] he that hunted wild game and brought [it] to me, and I ate [it] all before you came, and I blessed him? Moreover, he will be blessed!"

and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.

And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue, but [when] Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

And the waters prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth. And the ark went upon the surface of the waters.

And Isaac his father said to him, "Who [are] you?" And he said, "I [am] your son, your firstborn, Esau."

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech [will be avenged] seventy and seven [times].

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

But I said, 'Certainly not, Lord! For nothing common or unclean has ever entered into my mouth!'

[Alas for those] who sing to the tune of the harp; like David they improvise on instruments of music.

Do we not have the right to eat and drink?

Yet I will rejoice in Yahweh; I will exult in the God of my salvation.

And some of the bystanders, [when they] heard [it], said, "Behold, he is summoning Elijah!"

Therefore he will give them up until the time of she who is with child has given birth. And the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.

and Solomon became the father of Rehoboam, and Rehoboam became the father of Abijah, and Abijah became the father of Asa,

And I {looked up} and I saw, and look, a man, and in his hand [was] a measuring rope!

{And then} on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations coming against Jerusalem.

So the administrators and the satraps conspired {with respect to} the king and so they said to him, "Darius, O king, live {forever}!

Ah! [Those who are] wise in their own eyes and have understanding {in their view}!

For every boot {that marches and shakes the earth} and garment rolled in blood {will} be for burning--fire fuel.

And Yahweh will be a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of distress.

And at [the] end of [some] years they will make an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the south will come to the king of the north to make a peace treaty, but {she will not retain her position of power}, and his offspring will not endure, and she will be given up, she and her attendants and her child supporting her, in those times.

But {as he rises in power}, his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion [by] which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and [be given] {to others besides them}.

Yahweh tests [the] righteous, but [the] wicked and [the] lover of violence his soul hates.

{The king then asked} and said to Daniel, whose name [was] Belteshazzar, "Are you able to make known to me the dream that I have seen and its explanation?"

The time has come, the day has arrived; let not the buyer rejoice, and let the seller not mourn, for anger [is] on all their multitude.

or look to [the] earth. But look! Distress and darkness, [the] gloom of affliction! And [it will be] thrust [into] darkness!

{The wise man can see where he is walking}, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that both of them suffer the same fate.

Do not quarrel with anyone without cause, when he did not do you harm.

Flee, my beloved! {Be like a gazelle} or {a young stag} upon {the perfumed mountains}!

Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good, [nor] to flog nobles for uprightness.

honey, curds, sheep, cheese, and cattle for David and for the people who [were] with him to eat. For they had thought, "The troops [are] hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness."

{When his stomach fills up}, [God] will send {his burning anger} upon him, and he will let [it] rain down upon him as his food.

So now look, my witness [is] in the heavens, and he [who] vouches for me [is] in the heights.

{he will dwell} [in] desolate cities, in houses that they should not inhabit, which are destined for rubble.

Now these [were] the measurements of Solomon for building the house of God: the length in cubits by the former measurement [was] sixty cubits, and the width [was] twenty cubits.

He set up the pillars for the porch of the main hall; he erected the pillar on the right and called its name Jakin, and he set up the pillar on the left and called its name Boaz.

As far as this matter, may Yahweh pardon your servant when my master goes [into] the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he [is] leaning himself on my arm, that I also bow down [in] the house of Rimmon: when I bow down [in] the house of Rimmon, may Yahweh please pardon your servant in this matter."

"And if your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against you and they repent and confess your name and pray and plead before you in this house,

After this, you will come to the Gibeah of God, where there are sentries of [the] Philistines. {Just as you enter} the town there, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place, with harp, tambourine, flute, and zither before them, and they will be prophesying.

The sons of Shemida were Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

and did evil in the eyes of Yahweh, yet not as his father or his mother, as he removed the stone pillars of Baal that his father had made.

So Joab went to the king and he told him. Then he summoned Absalom, and he came to the king, and he bowed down to him with his face to the ground before the king. Then the king kissed Absalom.

(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he would say: "Come, let us go up to the seer." For the prophet of today was formerly called a seer.)

They said to him, "Look, you are old and your sons do not follow in your ways. So then appoint a king for us to judge us, like all the nations.

So Abner said to Asahel {once again}, "{For your own sake}, turn aside {from following me}. Why should I strike you down to the ground? How could I {show my face} to Joab your brother?"

Abner said to him, "Turn aside to your right or to your left; seize for yourself one of the young men, and take his belongings for yourself." But Asahel [was] not willing to turn aside from him.

Then the slave threw himself to the ground [and] began to do obeisance to him, saying, 'Be patient with me, and I will pay back everything to you!'

{And then} one day when Eli was lying in his place (now his eyes had begun [to grow] weak so that he was not able to see)

Please, do not depart from here until I come [back] to you and bring out my gift and set it out before you." And he said, "I will stay until you return."

And on the eighth day his foreskin's flesh shall be circumcised.

Samuel {did not see Saul again} until the day of his death, but Samuel mourned over Saul, and Yahweh regretted that he made Saul king over Israel.

And you shall eat there {before} Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice {in all your endeavors}, you and your family [in] which Yahweh your God has blessed you.

containing the golden incense altar and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which [were] a golden jar containing the manna and the rod of Aaron that budded and the tablets of the covenant.

And after this Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging on the trees until the evening.

No, my sons, the report [is] not good that I am hearing the people of Yahweh spreading.

And she said, "Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out, for the man will not rest but will settle the matter today."

For [indeed] I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise {as I live forever},

But you, brothers, are children of the promise, just as Isaac.

But he said to him, "A certain man was giving a large banquet and invited many.

They were reckoned also [as] Rephaim as the Anakites [were]; but the Moabites called them Emim.

These [are] the names of the descendants of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

Anyone devoted who is devoted from {human beings} cannot be ransomed--he shall surely be put to death.

So they all were encouraged and partook of food themselves.

" 'When a person sins in that he hears [the] utterance of a curse and he [is] a witness or he sees or he knows, if he does not make [it] known, then he shall bear his guilt.

But the voice replied from heaven for the second time, '[The things] which God has made clean, you must not consider unclean!'

There will be two [women] grinding at the same [place]; one will be taken and the other will be left."

And [when] his disciples heard [this], they came and took away his corpse and placed it in a tomb.

So [after he] had taken the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

And [when he] had said this, he showed them [his] hands and [his] feet.

For thus says my Lord Yahweh, "The city that marches out [with] a thousand will [only] have a hundred left. And the one that marches out [with] a hundred will [only] have ten left for the house of Israel."

Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, {All their loins shake} and all their faces {turn} pale.

And I defiled them through their gifts in sacrificing all of [the] first offspring of [the] womb, in order that I will cause them to be stunned, so that they will know that I [am] Yahweh.

"I, Nebuchadnezzar, was content in my house and prospering in my palace.

And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, {he will preserve his life}.

Yahweh has a quarrel with Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

He has broken my teeth on grit, he has trampled me down in ash.

However, as a wife departs treacherously from her lover, so you have dealt treacherously with me, house of Israel," {declares} Yahweh.

And the word of Yahweh {came} to me, {saying},

With the death of a wicked person, hope will die, and the expectation of the godless perishes.

And he said to me, "Son of man, stand on your feet, so that I can speak with you."

"And the prophet, and the priest, and the people who say, 'The burden of Yahweh,' I will punish that man and his house.

On that day humanity will throw away its idols of silver and its idols of gold, which they made for it to worship, to the rodents and to the bats--

and I will scatter them among the nations that they have not known, they and their ancestors, and I will send the sword after them until I bring them to an end."

And you will say on that day, "Give thanks to Yahweh; call on his name. Make his deeds known among the peoples; bring to remembrance that his name [is] exalted.

In Yahweh I have taken refuge; how can you say to my soul, "Flee to your mountain [like] a bird"?

And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, with the sound of a shofar, and with trumpets and cymbals, making loud music with musical instruments and stringed instruments.

O you who dwell in the garden, [my] companions are listening to your voice. Let me hear [it]!

"He will shake off his unripe fruit like the vine, and he will cast off his blossom like the olive tree;

All my enemies shall be ashamed and shall be very terrified. They shall turn back; they shall suddenly be ashamed.

{The young woman pleased him} and she won favor in his presence, and he quickly provided for her beauty treatment and her portion of food, with seven chosen maids to give to her from the {king's palace}, and he advanced her and her maids to the best part of the {harem}.

Should your loose talk put people to silence? {And when you mock, shall no one put you to shame}?

Now be it known to the king that if this city is built and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute and toll, and the royal revenue will be reduced.

Then Solomon counted all the resident alien men who [were] in the land of Israel after the census that David his father had taken of them. And there were found one hundred and fifty-three thousand.

The priests brought the ark of the covenant of Yahweh to its place in the inner sanctuary of the house, to the {most holy place}, under the wings of the cherubim,

For the Hebronites: Jeriah the chief of the Hebronites for the genealogy for the {families}. (In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were examined, and there was found among them mighty warriors of strength at Jazer in Gilead.)

A network of latticework [and] wreaths of chainwork with small chains [were] for the capitals which [were] on top of the pillars; seven for the first capital and seven for the second capital.

This God, his way [is] blameless; the promise of Yahweh [is] flawless. He [is] a shield to all who take refuge in him.

Thus says the king, 'Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to rescue you from my hand.

And he said to the redeemer, "Naomi, who returned from the countryside [of] Moab, is selling the tract of land which [was] for our brother Elimelech.

The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh [had] {valiant} men [who] carried a shield and a sword, and archers, and [who were] expert in war, forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty [for] going out [as] an army.

In his days, Pharaoh Neco, king of Egypt, went up against the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to meet him, and he killed him at Megiddo as soon as he saw him.

Joram [was] his son, Ahaziah [was] his son, Joash [was] his son,

So for Michal the daughter of Saul, she had no child until the day of her death.

And each stood {in his place} all around the camp, and all the camp ran, and they cried out as they fled.

Baanah the son of Hushai [was] in Asher and Bealoth.

And Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang on that day:

Saul {was threatened by David still more}, so Saul {became a perpetual enemy of David}.

and they said, "Has Yahweh spoken only through Moses? Has not Yahweh also spoken through us?" And Yahweh heard it.

And [after they] had driven [him] out of the city, they began to stone [him], and the witnesses laid aside their cloaks at the feet of a young man named Saul.

"And on the day of your joy and in your appointed times, at the beginning of your months, you will blow on the trumpets in addition to your burnt offerings and in addition to the sacrifices of your fellowship offerings. And they will be as a memorial for you {before} your God; I [am] Yahweh your God."

Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

"Command the {Israelites}: they must send everyone from the camp who is afflicted with a rash, everyone with a fluid discharge, and everyone unclean through [contact with] a corpse.

the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

You must not [be in dread] from the presence of them, because Yahweh your God, [who is] in your midst, [is] a great and awesome God.

And [so] we took possession of this land at that time, from Aroer, which [is] on the [edge of the] wadi of Arnon, and [also] half of the hill country of Gilead and its towns I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

I testify that [they gave] according to [their] ability, and beyond [their] ability, by their own choice,

" 'Every grain [offering] you bring to Yahweh must not be made of yeasted food, because you must not turn into smoke any yeast or any honey from an offering made by fire for Yahweh.

saying, "It is necessary [for] the Son of Man to suffer many [things] and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day.

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

the two kidneys and the fat that [is] on them, and the liver's lobe [that] he must remove in addition to the kidneys--

Then Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

And by as much as [this was] not without an oath (for these on the one hand {have become priests} without an oath,

But if there is no interpreter, he must be silent in the church, but let him speak to himself and to God.

But see how great this man [was], to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth from the spoils!

I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for [I am] in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.

And now go, work, but straw will not be given to you, and you must give the full quota of bricks."

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

He who gathers in the summer [is] a child who is prudent; he who sleeps at the harvest [is] a child who brings shame.

(Now he said this to indicate by what sort of death he was going to die.)

And the disciples said to him, "Where in [this] desolate place {can we get} so much bread that such a great crowd could be satisfied?"

{for the Lord will execute his sentence thoroughly and decisively} upon the earth."

{when he established} the heavens, there I [was], {when he drew} a circle upon the face of the deep,

And you know the way where I am going."

They have opened their mouths against you, all your enemies. They hiss and gnash a tooth, and they say, "We have destroyed [her]! Surely this [is] the day we have hoped for; we have found [it], we have seen [it]!"

"Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I [am] going to shake the heavens and the earth,

Be disturbed but do not sin. Commune in your heart on your bed and be silent. Selah

Happier were [the] victims of [the] sword than the victims of famine; they have pined away, very hungry for the crops of my field.

--it is you, O king, who have grown [great] and you have grown strong, and [so] your greatness has increased and it has reached to heaven and your sovereignty to the end of the earth.

those who are happy to do evil, [for] they delight in [the] deviousness of evil,

Who among all of these does not know that Yahweh's hand has done this?

"Should an abundance of words go unanswered, or {a man full of talk} be vindicated?

I will say to God, 'You should not condemn me; let me know why you contend [against] me.

I would give him an account of my steps; I would approach him like a noble.

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

I am not at ease, and I am not at peace, and I do not have rest, thus turmoil has come."

Thus Job {spoke up} and said,

And then I told two Levites that they must purify themselves and come to guard the gates in order to consecrate the day of the Sabbath. Remember this also, my God, and take pity on me according to the greatness of your loyal love.

So she got up in the middle of the night, and she took my son from beside me while your servant was asleep, and she put him in her lap, and she put her dead son in my lap.

But the boy Samuel {continued to grow in stature and in favor} with Yahweh and with the people.

And she bore to him sons: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them, and they cut off their hands and their feet, and they hung [them] at the pool at Hebron, but the head of Ish-Bosheth they took and buried in the grave of Abner at Hebron.

And he took ten men from the elders of the city and said, "Sit here." And they sat.

And now, O Yahweh, God of Israel, let your word that you have spoken to your servant David be confirmed.

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar was the leader over them {in time past}; Yahweh [was] with him.

When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too heavy for him, he took with him seven hundred men who drew the sword to break through to the king of Edom, but they were not able.

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab, king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Joram became king of Judah.

And the cloud departed from on the tent, and behold, Miriam [was] infected with {a skin disease} white like snow; when Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, [she was] afflicted with a skin disease.

The king said to the Cushite, "[Is] it peace for the young man Absalom?" Then the Cushite answered, "May the enemies of my lord the king and all who rise up against you {to harm you} be like the young man!"

But the people [were] sacrificing on the high places, for the house for the name of Yahweh had not [yet] been built in those days.

And look, Shimei the son of Gera the son of the Benjaminite from Bahurim is with you. Now he {cursed me severely} when I went to Mahanaim, but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, so I swore to him by Yahweh, 'I surely will not kill you with the sword.'

Then Samuel said to all the people, "Do you see him whom Yahweh has chosen? For there is no one like him among all the people!" And all the people shouted and said, "Long live the king!"

Then she lowered them with a rope through the window, as her house [was] on the outer side of the wall, and she [was] residing in the wall.

and the curse, if you [do] not listen to the commandments of Yahweh your God, but [rather] you turn from the way that I [am] commanding you {today} to go after other gods that you have not known.

Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his finger and put it on the finger of Joseph. And he clothed him with garments of fine linen, and he put a chain of gold around his neck.

he became very afraid because Gibeon [was] a very large city, {like one of the royal cities}, and because it [was] larger than Ai, and all its men [were] mighty warriors.

If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice he shall present ring-shaped unleavened bread mixed with oil and unleavened bread wafers smeared with oil and well-mixed ring-shaped bread cakes of finely milled flour mixed with oil.

a replica of any animal that [is] upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air,

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood on the altar of Yahweh your God, and the blood of your sacrifices you shall pour out on the altar of Yahweh your God, but the meat you may eat.

However, these you may not eat from those that chew the cud and from those that have a divided hoof: the camel, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;

{And then} {when you heard} the voice from the midst of the darkness, and [as] the mountain [was] burning with fire, and [and] all the heads of your tribes and your elders approached me,

But [he] brought us out from there in order to bring us [here] to give us the land that he swore to our ancestors.

As Yahweh had commanded Moses, so Aaron left it before the testimony for safekeeping.

And Pharaoh will not listen to you, and I will put my hand into Egypt and bring out my divisions, my people, the {Israelites}, from the land of Egypt with great punishments.

And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write, and I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up [the things] which the seven thunders spoke, and do not write them!"

Abidan son of Gideoni [was] over the division of the tribe of the descendants of Benjamin.

So then, let no one boast in people. For all [things] are yours,

But God raised him from the dead,

{Compassion and forgiveness belong to the Lord, our God}, for we have rebelled against him,

And behold, some of the scribes said to themselves, "This man is blaspheming!"

And behold, two men were talking with him, who were Moses and Elijah,

Demetrius has been testified to by all, even by the truth itself. And we also testify [to him], and you know that our testimony is true.

And they led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes came together.

And [when] the brothers found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Then he placed his hands on his eyes again, and he opened his eyes and was cured, and could see everything clearly.

{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.

And his disciples came [and] took away the corpse and buried it, and went [and] told Jesus.

Woe is me! For I have become like the gatherings of summer, like the gleanings of the grape harvest, [when] there is no cluster of grapes to eat [or] early ripened fruit [that] my soul desires.

And he warned them that they should tell no one about him.

They will go after Yahweh; he roars like a lion. When he roars, his children will come trembling from [the] sea.

On account of this, will not the land tremble and will not every living [thing] in it mourn? And all of it will rise like the Nile and it will be tossed about and subside like the Nile of Egypt.

Then the court will sit, and his dominion will be removed, to be eradicated and to be destroyed {totally}.

And the satraps, the prefects, the governors and the advisors of the king [were] assembling, [and] they saw these men, that the fire had no power over their bodies, and the hair of their heads was not singed, and their garments were not harmed, and the smell of fire did not come from them.

{In the end}, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.

the headdresses and the armlets and the sashes, and the {perfume boxes} and the amulets,

And four tables [were] for the burnt offering, [and made of] dressed stones, one cubit and a half long and one cubit and a half wide and one cubit high {was their measurements}, and they placed the objects [with] which they slaughtered the burnt offering on them and the sacrifice.

she who forsakes the partner of her youth and has forgotten the covenant of her God,

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets and the headbands and the crescent necklaces,

and [if] Noah, Daniel, and Job [were] in the midst of her, {as surely as I live}," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "surely not son, surely not daughter will they save by their righteousness; they would save {themselves}."

In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself, and if you have devised evil, [put your] hand to [your] mouth.

[The] small and [the] great [are] there, and [the] slave [is] free from his masters.

he {stubbornly} runs against him {with his thick-bossed shield}.

Now the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, and she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with hard questions, with much wealth and camels, bearing spices and much gold and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and told him all that [was] {on her mind}.

the descendants of Ater, [particularly] of Hezekiah, ninety-eight;

Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

And this is the answer they returned to us: 'We are servants of the God of heaven and earth, and we are building the house that was built formerly many years ago, [which] a great king of Israel had built and finished.

It happened that when he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the royal guard and to the officers, "Come and kill them; let no man go free!" So {they put them to the sword}, and the royal guard and the officers threw them out, then they went up to the citadel of the temple of Baal.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, "Please watch. At the moment the heart of Amnon [is] {tipsy} with wine, then I shall say to you, 'Strike Amnon down,' and you shall kill him! Don't be afraid. [Is] it not I myself who has commanded you? Be courageous and be {valiant!}

And Solomon consecrated the middle of the courtyard that [was] before the house of Yahweh, for there he had made the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings, for the bronze altar that Solomon had made was not able to hold the burnt offerings, cereal offerings, and the fat.

that your eyes may be open day and night to this house, to the place that you have promised to place your name there, that you may hear the prayer that your servant has prayed to this place.

For the four mighty gatekeepers, they who [were] Levites, {were entrusted} and [were] over the chambers and over the storerooms of the house of God.

So they carried him and brought him to his mother; he sat on her lap until noon and then died.

Now the house that King Solomon built for Yahweh [was] sixty cubits [in] its length and twenty cubits [in] its width and thirty cubits [in] its height.

So all Israel was enrolled in genealogy. And behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel. And Judah was taken away to Babylon on account of their sin.

[If] a man sins against his neighbor and he pronounces an oath against him to curse him, and the curse comes before your altar in this house,

The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

Then the Spirit of God rushed upon Saul when he heard these words, and {he became very angry}.

When all the kings, the servants of Hadadezer, saw that he had been defeated before Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them, and Aram [was] afraid to help the {Ammonites} any longer.

And the chiefs in Issachar [were] with Deborah; and Issachar likewise [was with] Barak; into the valley {he was sent to get him from behind}. Among the clans of Reuben [were] great {decisions of the heart}.

And Joshua swore at that time, saying, "Cursed [is] anyone before Yahweh who gets up and builds Jericho, this city. At the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates."

And he asked them, "Why are you doing all these things that I am hearing, [namely], your evil dealings with all these people?

And you shall break down their altars, and you shall smash their stone pillars, and their Asherah poles you must burn with fire, and the images of their gods you shall hew down, and you shall blot out their names from that place.

And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many.

And the name of the man [was] Elimelech, and the name of his wife [was] Naomi, and the name of his two sons [were] Mahlon and Kilion. [They were] Ephraimites from Bethlehem [in] Judah. And they went [to] the countryside of Moab and remained there.

And Deborah said to Barak, "Get up! This [is] the day that Yahweh has given Sisera into your hand. Has Yahweh not gone out before you?" So Barak went out from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, {tribe by tribe}, and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot.

And the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firmly on the dry land in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation finished crossing the Jordan.

When they reported to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

a replica of any creeping thing on the ground, a replica of any fish that [is] in the water {below} the earth.

After all the nation finished crossing the Jordan, Yahweh said to Joshua,

so that you will tell in the ears of your child and {your grandchild} that I dealt harshly with [the] Egyptians and [so that you will tell about] my signs that I have done among them, and so you will know that I [am] Yahweh."

And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob,

"Make yourself two silver trumpets; make them [of] hammered-work. {You will use them} for calling the community and for breaking the camp.

So finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.'

Then the standard of the camp of the descendants of Dan, who formed a rear guard for all the camps, set out according to their divisions; Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai [was] over its division.

But some itinerant Jewish exorcists also attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, "I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches!"

And he called the name of that place Taberah because the fire of Yahweh burned among them.

And Moses said, "Thus says Yahweh, 'About the middle of the night I [will] go out through the midst of Egypt,

Now the plan of the soldiers was that they would kill the prisoners lest any escape [by] swimming away,

And [although he] was deeply grieved, the king, because of his oaths and {dinner guests}, did not want to refuse her.

And the magicians did so with their secret arts to bring out the gnats, but they were not able, and the gnats were on the humans and on the animals.

And his disciples said to him, "You see the crowd pressing upon you, and you say 'Who touched me?'"

But [when] the crowds saw [this], they were afraid and glorified God who had given such authority to men.

The greeting [is] by my hand, Paul's. Remember my {imprisonment}. Grace [be] with you.

"Get up! Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to it the message that I [am] telling you."

For the statement of the promise [is] this: "At this time I will return and {Sarah will have} a son."

{When he tasted the wine}, Belshazzar commanded [that they] bring [the] vessels of gold and silver that Nebuchadnezzar his {predecessor} had taken from the temple that [was] in Jerusalem, so that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines may drink from them.

But I only commanded them this word, {saying}, 'Obey my voice, and I will be to you God, and you will be to me people, and you must walk in all of the way that I command you, so that it goes well with you.'

But you, you must return to your God; keep love and justice, and wait continually for your God.

And I asked the angel who was talking to me, "Where [are] they taking the basket?"

Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Consider closely, and call for the wailing women, so that they come, and for the skillful women, so that they come.

Then Darius the king wrote to all the people, the nations, and the languages living in the whole earth, "May your prosperity become great!

[in order] to incline your ear toward wisdom, [then] you shall apply your heart to understanding.

"How can you say, 'I have not defiled myself, I have not gone after the Baals?' Look at your way in the valley, know what you have done. [You are] a young she-camel, interweaving her ways.

Why [are] we sitting? Gather, and let us go into the fortified cities, and let us perish there, for Yahweh our God has caused us to perish, and has provided drink for us, water of poison, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

There was a great famine in Samaria, and behold, a siege [was] against it, until the head of a donkey [went] for eighty shekels of silver, and one fourth of the measure of the dung of doves [went] for five shekels of silver.

In the heart of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but [even] in the midst of fools it becomes known.

And they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the {families}, and they said to them, "Let us build with you. Like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing [to him] from the days of Esarhaddon the king of Assyria who brought us up here.

a son of a woman from the daughters of Dan, and his father [was] a man of Tyre, knowledgeable for working with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, and with purple, blue, and crimson fabric, and with fine linen, for engraving any engraving and devising any plan that is given to him, with your skilled men and the skilled men of my lord David your father.

Let us rise early [to go] to the vineyards; let us see whether the vine has budded, [whether] the grape blossom has opened, and [whether] the pomegranates {are in bloom}; there I will give my love to you.

Will you terrify a blown leaf? And will you pursue dry stubble?

And the king said to Haman, "The money [is] given to you and to the people to do with it {as you see fit}.

Now the commanders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the remainder of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in the holy city of Jerusalem, the [other] nine's place [was in] the [other] cities.

Now since we eat the salt of the palace and the dishonor of the king is not proper for us to see, we send and make [this] known to the king,

And he made an altar of bronze, twenty cubits [was] its length, and twenty cubits [was] its width, and ten cubits [was] its height.

And he made two sculpted wood cherubim in {the most holy place}, and he overlaid them with gold.

Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son, Assir his son,

And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan, and in {its towns}, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

The king of Aram commanded his thirty-two chariot commanders, saying, "You shall not fight with small or great, but only against the king of Israel, him alone!"

And Eshton fathered Beth-Rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah, the father of the city of Nahash. These [are] the men of Recah.

And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and the sister of Lotan [was] Timna.

So Yahweh said to Solomon, "Because this was with you, and you did not keep my covenant and my ordinances which I have commanded you, I will certainly tear the kingdom from you, and I will give it to your servant.

The main hall of the temple was forty cubits {in front of the inner sanctuary},

As Samuel turned around to go, he caught hold of the hem of his robe, and it tore.

Then the troops took the plunder: they took sheep and cattle and {calves} and slaughtered [them] on the ground and the troops ate [them all] with the blood.

And Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

He sent Zadok the priest with the king, and Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Kerethites, and the Pelethites; they made him ride on the king's mule.

He had a son whose name was Saul, a young and handsome man. There was not a man from the {Israelites} more handsome than he [was]; from his shoulders up, he was taller than all the people.

Then Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim and crossed with the king over the Jordan to escort him through the Jordan.

Then Samuel told the people the custom of the kingship, and he wrote [the rules] down on a scroll and laid [it] before Yahweh. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his own house.

She called the boy Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel," referring to the capture of the ark of God and concerning her father-in-law and husband.

they said to him, "Please say Shibboleth," and [if] he said, "Sibboleth"--because he could not {pronounce it} correctly--they grabbed him and executed him at the fords of Jordan. At that time forty-two thousand from Ephraim fell.

And she picked [it] up and went [to] the town. Her mother-in-law saw how much she had gleaned. And she took [it] out and gave to her what she had left over {after being satisfied}.

And Yahweh threw them into panic before Israel, who struck them [with] a great blow at Gibeon and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who [are] with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

And if {she cannot afford} a sheep, then she shall take two turtledoves or two {young doves}--one as a burnt offering and one as a sin offering--and the priest shall make atonement for her, so that she shall be clean.'"

And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and he said, "May Yahweh give you an offspring from this woman in place of the petitioned [one] that she requested from Yahweh." Then they went to their home.

And at the fulfilling of the days of her cleansing, [whether] for a son or for a daughter, she must bring to the priest at the tent of assembly's entrance a {yearling} male lamb as a burnt offering and {young dove} or a turtledove as a sin offering.

and Hezron fathered Ram, and Ram fathered Amminadab,

and the coney, because it [is] a chewer of cud but it does not have a hoof that is divided--it [is] unclean for you;

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "You must not let your hair hang loosely, and you must not tear your garments, so that you will not die and he will be angry with all the community. But your brothers, all the house of Israel, may weep [because of] {the burning that Yahweh caused},

And he brought forward the clans of Judah and selected the clan of the Zerahites by lot. Then he brought forward the clan of the Zerahites, one by one, and Zabdi was selected by lot.

It will not be poured on human flesh, and with its measurements you will not make [any] like it; it is holy; it will be holy to you.

And the fish that [are] in the Nile will die, and the Nile will stink, and [the] Egyptians will be unable to drink water from the Nile." '"

But his wife looked {back}, and she became a pillar of salt.

And also on the male slaves and on the female slaves, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.

And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Were you not able to stay awake one hour?

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And [there] was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Start early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh. Look, [he is] going out to the water, and you must say to him, 'Thus says Yahweh, "Release my people so that they may serve me."

And the military tribune replied, "I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money." And Paul said, "But I indeed was born [a citizen].

And when it was decided [that] we would sail away to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion {named} Julius of the Augustan Cohort.

And [when he] arrived in Jerusalem, he was attempting to associate with the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, [because they] did not believe that he was a disciple.

Do not devise evil in your hearts [against] your neighbor, and do not love {a false oath}, because all these [are] things I hate," {declares} Yahweh.

Because they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind. [The] standing grain does not have heads; it will not yield flour. [And] if it would yield, strangers would devour it.

And [the] one who takes hold of the bow will not stand and [the one who is] swift on his feet will not save himself, nor will [the] one who rides the horse save his life.

And it was broken on that day. Then the afflicted of the flock, the [ones who were] watching me, knew that it [was] the word of Yahweh.

And the earth will answer the grain, the wine, and the oil, and they will answer Jezreel.

And your fugitives will remember me among the nations [to] which they were taken captive, that I was shattered by {their adulterous heart} which departed from me, and by {their adulterous eyes} which [went] after their idols, and they will feel loathing {for themselves}, for the evil that they did, for all of their detestable things.