then you shall bring out {both of them} to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they shall die, the young woman because she did not cry out in the town, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife; and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.

And which of you [by] being anxious is able to add an hour to his life span?

For a will [is] in force concerning those who are dead, since [it is] never in force when the one who made the will is alive.

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

A spring does not pour forth from the same opening fresh and bitter [water, does it]?

But if anyone has caused sorrow, he has not caused me sorrow, but {to some degree}--{in order not to say too much}--[to] all [of] you.

Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up [with] the elders of Israel before the people of Ai.

Then {at last} Daniel came before me {whose name was} Belteshazzar, {according to} the name of my god, [and] {in whom was the spirit of the holy gods}, {and I related the dream to him}.

Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, "[As for] the remaining [parts], take the remainder [of] the grain offering from Yahweh's offerings made by fire and eat it, [the] unleavened bread, beside the altar, because it [is] {a most holy thing}.

Then he also went in to Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he served with him yet another seven years.

Yahweh judges the nations. O Yahweh, vindicate me according to my innocence and according to my integrity within me.

Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, "I have heard what you have sent to me; I will do all of your desire concerning the timber of cedars and concerning the timber of cypresses.

So {they grabbed her} as she went [by] the entranceway of the horses to the palace of the king, and she was killed there.

Jesus replied to him, "If I have spoken wrongly, testify about what [is] wrong! But if [I have spoken] correctly, why do you strike me?"

Then he called to Yahweh and said, "O Yahweh my God, are you also causing evil to come upon the widow with whom I [am] dwelling as an alien by causing her son to die?"

Not that we lord it over your faith, but we are fellow workers for your joy, because by faith you stand firm.

Your hand will be lifted high over your enemies, and all your foes will be cut off.

So they sent and gathered all the rulers of [the] Philistines to them, and they asked, "What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?" And they said, "Let the ark of the God of Israel be brought around toward Gath." So they moved the ark of the God of Israel [to Gath].

The copy of the letter that Tattenai, the governor of [the province] Beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and his associates the envoys who were in [the province] Beyond the River sent to Darius the king.

"And {if a man commits a sin punishable by death}, and [so] he is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

Then the woman said to Elijah, "Now this I know, that you [are] a man of God and the word of Yahweh in your mouth [is] truth."

but our presentable [parts] do not have need [of this]. Yet God composed the body by giving more abundant honor to the part which lacked [it],

in order that there not be a division in the body, but the members would have the same concern for one another.

And when the spies saw a man leaving the city, they said to him, "Please show us the entrance of the city, and we will deal kindly with you."

for building for ourselves an altar to turn away from Yahweh, or if [it was] to offer burnt offerings, grain offerings, or fellowship offerings on it, may Yahweh himself take vengeance.

Ziba said to the king, "According to all that my master the king commands his servant, so your servant will do." So Mephibosheth [was] eating at his table as one of the sons of the king.

They answered them and said, "There is. Look, [he is] just in front of you! Hurry now, because he has come to the town today, because there [is] a sacrifice for the people today at the high place.

Serug, Nahor, Terah;

And now we [are] calling [the] arrogant blessed! Not only do those who do wickedness prosper; they also test God and they escape!'"

The portion of Jacob [is] not like these, for he [is] the creator of everything, and Israel [is] the tribe of his inheritance, Yahweh of hosts [is] his name.

But stretch out your hand and touch his bones and his flesh, [and see] {whether} he will {curse} you to your face."

but you yourself will not build the house, but your son who will proceed from your loins; he himself will build the house for my name.'

Look! For to Yahweh your God {belong} heaven and the {highest heavens}, the earth and all that [is] in it.

[He] is doing great and {unsearchable} things, marvelous things {without number}--

Then Amnon hated her {very deeply}, for the hatred with which he hated her [was] greater than [the] love with which he had loved her. So Amnon said to her, "Get up [and] go."

From the descendants of Simeon, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, those who were counted according to [the] number of their names, every individual male from {twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

All the contributions of holiness that the {Israelites} offer to Yahweh I have given to you and your sons and your daughters with you as an eternal decree; it [is] an eternal covenant of salt {before} Yahweh to you and your offspring with you."

I have certainly built a lofty house for you, a place for you to live forever."

And then [if] it will happen [that] he says to you, '{I do not want to go out} from you,' because he loves you and your family, because it is good for him [to be] with you;

The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

And the {Israelites} set out for their journey from the desert of Sinai, and the cloud dwelled in the desert of Paran.

And the armed [men] went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they were blowing the trumpets.

And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and then sent him and his wife and all that [was] with him away.

Consider the lilies, how they grow: they do not toil or spin, but I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was dressed like one of these.

And the lookouts of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin saw {that} the multitude {surged back and forth}.

When Shelah had lived thirty years, he fathered Eber.

And in the house again the disciples began to ask him about this.

For [it is] better to suffer for doing good, {if God wills it}, than for doing evil.

And again he said, "To what shall I compare the kingdom of God?

Anyone who is clever will act with intelligence, but the fool will display folly.

But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be dark. Therefore if the light in you is darkness, how great [is] the darkness!

And he said to them, "Do you not understand this parable? And how will you understand all the parables?

"I have cut off nations; their strongholds are deserted. I have laid waste their streets, so that none pass through. Their cities have been destroyed [and are] without a man, without an inhabitant.

But if the man does not have a redeemer to make restitution to him for the reparation, the reparation is to be given to Yahweh for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement by which atonement is made for him.

if you seek her like silver and search her out {like treasure},

He brings up all of them with a fishhook; he drags them up with a fishnet; he gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore, he rejoices and exults.

And Paul [replied], "I pray to God, whether in a short time or in a long time, not only you but also all those who are listening to me today may become such [people] as I also am, except for these bonds!"

In darkness he has let me dwell like [the] dead of long ago.

And you will know that I [am] Yahweh, whose rules you did not follow, and whose regulations you did not do, but according to the regulations of the nations that [are] around you, you acted." '

That day [will be] a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of disaster and ruination, a day of darkness and deep gloom, a day of clouds and thick clouds,

And the secretaries of the king were summoned at that time, in the third month, which [is] in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third [day], and [an edict] was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cush--one hundred and twenty-seven provinces--each province according to its own script and to every people in their own {language}, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

Then Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam on the third day as the king had spoken, saying, "Return to me on the third day."

but repaying those who hate him {in their own person} to destroy them; he is not slow with those who hate him {in their own person}; he repays them.

The wise man [wins] favor by the words of his mouth, but the fool is devoured by his own lips.

And as the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the {Israelites}, the people {wept bitterly}.

And [after they] had inflicted many blows on them, they threw [them] into prison, giving orders to the jailer to guard them securely.

You [are] witnesses, and [so is] God, how devoutly and righteously and blamelessly we became to you who believe,

But Hadad himself had fled, and some Edomite men from the servants of his father with him, to go to Egypt, when Hadad [was] a young boy.

Better a lowly spirit with the poor than dividing the spoil with the proud.

But you were not willing to go up, and you rebelled against the {command} of Yahweh your God.

You yourself will sow, but you will not reap; you will tread olives, but you will not anoint yourself with oil; [you will tread] grapes, but you will not drink wine.

And the inscription of the charge against him was written, "The king of the Jews."

By me rulers rule, and nobles--all judges of righteousness.

The donkey saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the road with his sword drawn in his hand, and the donkey turned aside from the road and went into the field. And Balaam struck the donkey to turn her back [to] the road.

Jerusalem sinned grievously, thus she became an objection of derision; all those who honored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.

And Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment [is] greater than [I can] bear.

Although he may flourish among reeds, [the] east wind will come, a wind of Yahweh rising from [the] desert; his fountain will dry up, his spring will be parched. It will plunder his treasury, every object of desire.

Then I will remember my covenant that [is] between me and you, and between every living creature, with all flesh. And the waters of a flood will never again {cause the destruction} of all flesh.

or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good.

He will take the best of your fields and your vineyards and your olive trees and will give [them] to his servants.

Those who are wise lay up knowledge, but [to] the mouth of the fool, ruin draws near.

I opened myself to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone; my heart sank when he turned away. I sought him, but I did not find him; I called him, but he did not answer me.

They gave Hebron to Caleb just as Moses said, and he drove out the three sons of Anak from there.

for Yahweh your God [is] a jealous god in your midst, {so that the anger of Yahweh your God would be kindled}, and he would destroy you from the face of the earth.

All [the] kings of [the] nations, all of them, lie in glory, each one in his house.

then I will go against you in hostile anger, and also I myself will discipline you seven times for your sins.

at twilight, at [the] day's evening, in [the] midst of night and the darkness.

David pleaded [with] God on behalf of the boy and David fasted. He went to spend the night and lay upon the ground.

The name of the first [is] the Pishon. It went around all the land of Havilah, where [there is] gold.

Baasha king of Israel went up against Judah, and he built Ramah {to hinder the coming and going of anyone to Asa} king of Judah.

These [are] their names: Ben-Hur [was] in the hill country of Ephraim.

And {I will become angry}, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will be widows and your children orphans.

"Then all of you approached me, and [you] said, 'Let us send men {before us}, and let them explore the land for us, and let them bring back {a report} to us [concerning] the way that {we should take} [and concerning] the cities that we shall come to.'

lest [when] you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live [in them],

The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly.

For indeed you are giving thanks well, but the other person is not edified.

But [when] you are fasting, {put olive oil on your head} and wash your face

And it will be as a sign on your hand and as symbolic ornaments between your eyes that with strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt."

Now there were seven brothers with us. And the first died [after] getting married, and [because he] did not have descendants, he left his wife to his brother.

From the descendants of Judah, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names, from {those twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

And I will cause wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

nor thieves, nor greedy persons, not drunkards, not abusive persons, not swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

But now {I will not deal with the remnant of this people as in the former days},' {declares} Yahweh of hosts.

{So} the king, Darius, signed the writing and the interdict.

Moreover, the mediums and the spiritists, the household gods and the idols, and all of the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, Josiah removed in order to establish the words of the law written on the scroll that Hilkiah the priest had found [in] the temple of Yahweh.

and save others [by] snatching [them] from the fire, and have mercy on others with fear, hating even the tunic stained by the flesh.

A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? My Lord Yahweh has spoken, who will not prophesy?

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward, but if [I do so] unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship.

By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, in order that the one who destroyed the firstborn would not touch them.

I [am] black but beautiful, {O maidens of Jerusalem}, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

If it was from my lord the king that this thing has happened, [then all is well,] but if not, you must let your servants know who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him."

And Yahweh hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken to Moses.

He who digs a pit, in it he will fall, and he who rolls a stone, on him it will come back.

whom I wanted to keep with me, in order that he might serve me on behalf of you during my imprisonment for the gospel.

He said to them, "You will indeed drink my cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, but [is] for those for whom it has been prepared by my Father."

And as a further result, those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

"And I also withheld the rain from you when [there were] still three months to the harvest. And I would send rain on one city and send no rain on another city. One tract of land will be rained on, and [the] tract of land {on which it does not rain} will dry up.

You shall become engaged to a woman, but another man shall sleep with her; you shall build a house, but you shall not live in it; a vineyard you shall plant, but you shall not enjoy it.

because whomever Yahweh will love, he will rebuke, as a father delights in his son.

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.

saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish!'

A day for building your walls; [on] that day he will extend [your] boundary.

And the house of Joseph spied out Bethel (the former name of the city was Luz).

And Jacob went down to Egypt and died, he and our fathers.

The shields of his warriors [are] dyed red; The powerful men [are] dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots [shines] like fire {on the day of battle}, and [their] spears quiver.

Look! I [am] rousing them from the place where you have sold them, and I will return what you deserve on your head!

Then these men came as a group and they found Daniel praying and pleading for mercy before his God.

"Pity me, pity me, you my friends, for God's hand has touched me.

So each of them took his censer, and they put fire on them, and they placed incense on them; they stood [at the] doorway of the tent of the assembly of Moses and Aaron.

and [after] taking food, he regained his strength. And he was with the disciples in Damascus several days.

And the exiles of this army of the people of Israel [will possess] Canaan up to Zarephath, and the exiles of Jerusalem who [are] in Sepharad will take possession of the cities of the Negev.

Then Jehoiada {made} a covenant between Yahweh and the king and the people, that the people should be as a people for Yahweh, and [also a covenant] between the king and the people.

Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am [he].

And he permitted them. And the unclean spirits came out [and] entered into the pigs, and the herd--about two thousand--rushed headlong down the steep slope into the sea and were drowned in the sea.

He says in his heart, "God has forgotten. He has hidden his face. He never sees."

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!

Now, look! You {rely} on the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt, which [when] a man leans on it, it goes into his hand and pierces it! So [is] Pharaoh the king of Egypt for all who are trusting on him!

Therefore, because you trample on [the] poor and you take a grain tax from them, you built houses of dressed stone, but you will not live in them. You built vineyards of delightfulness, but you will not drink their wine.

And the men turned from there and went toward Sodom. And Abraham [was] still standing before Yahweh.

Like bandits lying in wait, [so is] a band of priests; they murder [on the] road to Shechem; indeed, they commit a monstrous crime.

because he has not despised nor abhorred [the] affliction of [the] afflicted, and has not hid his face from him; but he listened to him when he cried for help.

Whatever may be needed--{young bulls}, young rams, sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil for the priests in Jerusalem--let it be given to them day by day with no negligence,

{And} when your children say to you, 'What [is] this {religious custom} for you?'

And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, "So, were you not able to stay awake with me one hour?

Then Balak said to Balaam, "Do not curse them at all, nor bless them at all!"

But what was sown on the good soil--this is the one who hears the word and understands [it], who indeed bears fruit and produces, this one a hundred [times as much], and this one sixty, and this one thirty."

But, if you do not listen to the voice of Yahweh, and you rebel against {what Yahweh says}, then the hand of Yahweh will be against you [as it was] against your ancestors.

For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!'"

And the dead man sat up and began to speak, and he gave him to his mother.

[Then] the king turned his face around, and he blessed all of the assembly of Israel. (Now all the assembly of Israel was standing).

So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

And they were brought back to Shechem and buried in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance; {it benefits the living}.

They went out from the town and were coming to him.

For in the first place, [when you] come together as a church, I hear there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it.

Once he [was] useless to you, but now [he is] useful to you and to me,

Then their wealth shall be as plunder, and their homes as desolation. And they shall build their houses and not inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and not drink their wine."

And Yahweh said to me, 'Come [now], go down quickly from this mountain because your people behave corruptly whom you brought out from Egypt, [for] they turned quickly from the way that I commanded them [to follow]; they have made for themselves a cast image.'

And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, were falling down before him and crying out, saying, "You are the Son of God!"

Then the king swore and said, "{As Yahweh lives}, who has saved my life from all trouble,

And in his name the Gentiles will hope.

And Yahweh said to me, "Throw it to the potter," {this noble price} [at] which I was valued by them!" So I took the thirty silver [shekels] and I threw them to the potter [in] the house of Yahweh.

So the master of that slave, [because he] had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan.

instead I appeal to [you] because of love, [since I] am such a one as Paul, now an old man and also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.

And I also {have made you sick by striking you down}, making [you] desolate because of your sins.

The descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

So Israel rebelled against the house of David until this day.

"When you come into the vineyard of your neighbor, then you may eat grapes {as you please} and {until you are full}, but you shall not put [any] into your container.

And Peter took him aside [and] began to rebuke him, saying, {God forbid}, Lord! This will never happen to you!"

"You must not call conspiracy everything that this people calls conspiracy, and you must not {share its fear}, and you must not be in dread.

For you remember, brothers, our labor and hardship: working by night and day in order not to be a burden to any of you, we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

From the battles and from the spoil they had dedicated [these things] to strengthen the house of Yahweh.

When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you,

And the dove came to him {in the evening}, and behold, a freshly-picked olive tree leaf [was] in her mouth. And Noah knew that the waters had subsided from upon the earth.

Which is easier to say to the paralytic, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say 'Get up and pick up your stretcher and walk'?

And a man from there responded and said, "And who [is] their father?" Therefore it became a proverb: "[Is] Saul also among the prophets?"

Then Yahweh said to Aaron, "You will not receive an inheritance in their land, and there will not be a plot of ground for you in the midst of the {Israelites}.

He may eat his God's food, from {the most holy things} and from the holy things.

And he warned them strictly that they should not make him known.

"And all the nations will call you blessed, because you will be {a land in which one takes joy}," says Yahweh of hosts.

For what thanks can we repay to God concerning you, because of all the joy [with] which we rejoice because of you before our God,

You are not able to drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You are not able to share the table of the Lord and the table of demons.

and those who make use of the world as [if they] do not make full use of [it]. For the present form of this world is passing away.

Timothy, my fellow worker, greets you, and Lucius and Jason and Sosipater, my compatriots.

Elders and {the respectable} [are] the head, and prophets who teach lies [are] the tail.

But no one puts a patch of unshrunken cloth on an old garment, for its patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear becomes worse.

"And in these times many will rise [up] against the king of the south, and {the violent ones of your people} will lift themselves {to fulfill} [the] vision, but they will fall.

Thus says Yahweh concerning all of the evil neighbors who touch the inheritance that I gave as an inheritance [to] my people Israel: "Look, I [am] about to drive them out from their land, and the house of Judah I will drive out from among them.

'[Is] not this stored up with me, sealed in my treasuries?'

to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous, sharing freely,

Then the men of Israel went out from Mizpah and pursued [the] Philistines and they struck them down as far as below Beth Car.

You will bring the Levites {before} the tent of assembly, and you will summon the entire community of the {Israelites}.

He who guards his mouth and his tongue, he guards his life from danger.

And they did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh, the one who brought us up from the land of Egypt, the one who led us in the desert, in a land of desert plains and gorges, in a land of dryness and deep darkness, in a land {that no one passes through}, and no human lives there?'

And under the expanse their wings [were stretched out] straight {one toward the other}; each had two [wings] covering them, and each had two [wings] covering their bodies.

Then Yahweh became jealous for his land and took pity on his people.

And the gift [is] not as through the one who sinned, for on the one hand, judgment from the one [sin] [led] to condemnation, but the gift, from many trespasses, [led] to justification.

For he had healed many, so that all those who {were suffering from diseases} pressed about him in order that they could touch him.

The wage of the righteous [leads] to life; the gain of the wicked to sin.

And they went hurrying and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby who was lying in the manger.

" 'If {he cannot afford a sheep}, he shall bring [as] his guilt offering [for] what he sinned two turtledoves or two {young doves} for Yahweh, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.

So they were wanting to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat came to the land to which they were going.

And I will make the one who limps a remnant, and the one driven far away a strong nation, and Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from now to forever.

A crushed reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not extinguish, until he brings justice to victory.

whereas angels, who are greater in strength and power, do not bring against them a demeaning judgment.

Ahimaaz fathered Azariah; Azariah fathered Johanan;

All her people groan, they are searching for bread. They give their treasures for food, to bring back life. See, O Yahweh, and look, [how] I am despised.

And Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers, and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did likewise with their secret arts.

Gather your bundle from [the] ground, you who live under the siege.'"

And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who saw all the great work Yahweh had done for Israel.

And I will break down the wall that you covered [with] whitewash, and I will knock it to the ground, and its foundation will be revealed, and it will fall, and you will come to an end in the midst of it, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh!

[But] with whomever you find your gods, he shall not live. In the presence of your kinsmen [now] identify what [is] with me [that is] yours and take it." Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Now Zebah and Zalmunna [were] in Karkor, and their armies with them, about fifteen thousand men remained from the entire army of the people of [the] east; those that fell [in battle were] one hundred and twenty thousand {swordsmen}.

{But as for me}, through the abundance of your steadfast love I will enter your house. I will bow down toward {your holy temple} in awe [of] you.

So he showed them the entrance of the city, and they struck the city with {the edge of the sword}, but they let go the man and all his family.

When all of Israel saw that the king would not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying, "{What share do we have in David}? [There is] no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, Israel! Now look to your house, David!" Then Israel went to their tents.

The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

Jesus answered and said to them, "I performed one work, and you are all astonished.

and the stars of heaven fell to the earth like a fig tree throws down its unripe figs [when] shaken by a great wind.

These are the things that defile a person. But eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person!"

So the Levites silenced all of the people, saying, "Silence, for this day is holy. Do not be grieved."

Zaccur, Shereiah, Shebanaih,

a tenth for each of the male lambs;

For if someone enters into your assembly in fine clothing with a gold ring on his finger, and a poor person in filthy clothing also enters,

For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man [who seeks] to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'

And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to the one who is seated on the throne, the one who lives {forever and ever},

Then Solomon said, "You have shown great loyal love with your servant David my father, as he walked before you in faithfulness and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with you. You have shown for him this great loyal love, and you have given a son to him who is sitting on his throne as [it is] this day.

And I especially urge [you] to do this, so that I may be restored to you more quickly.

Has this house, which is called {by my name}, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen [it]," {declares} Yahweh.

Now [may] our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you,

"Artaxerxes, the king of kings, to Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of the heavens. Peace. And now

Those of the Negev will take possession of the mountain of Esau, and those of the Shephelah [will possess the land of] the Philistines, and they shall take possession of the territory of Ephraim and the territory of Samaria, and Benjamin [will take possession of] Gilead.

And look! The man clothed in linen [and] {with a writing case at his side} [was] bringing back a word, {saying}, "I have done all that you commanded me."

She looked, and there was the king standing by the pillar according to the custom. The commanders and the trumpeters [were] by the king, and all of the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing on the trumpets. Athaliah tore her clothes and she called, "Treason, treason!"

These [were] the sons of Gad, leaders of the army. The smallest one [was] as a hundred, and the greatest as a thousand.

I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law [I became] as under the law ([although I] myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law.

Moreover, this [is] salvation to me, that [the] godless would not come {before him}.

And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and [you must] bring my people, the {Israelites}, out from Egypt."

Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

Then Zedekiah son of Kenaanah came near and slapped Micaiah on the cheek and said, "When did the Spirit of Yahweh pass from me to speak with you?"

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

"I have said these [things] to you in figurative sayings. An hour is coming when I will speak to you in figurative sayings no longer, but I will tell you plainly about the Father.

so that Yahweh may establish his word which he spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons take heed of their way, to walk before me in faithfulness, with all their heart and with all their soul, no man of yours will be cut off from the throne of Israel.'"

gather [the] people, consecrate [the] assembly; assemble [the] elders, gather [the] children, even those [who are] breast-feeding; let [the] bridegroom come out from his private room, and [the] bride from her canopy.

Now Mephibosheth had a young son whose name [was] Micah, and all of the dwelling of the household of Ziba [became] servants for Mephibosheth.

Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

And he said to me, "Come and see the detestable things, the evil that they are doing here.

I thought over this in my heart, and then I quarreled with the nobles and the prefects. I said to them, "You yourselves are taking interest from your own brother!" So I called the great assembly against them,

Elijah said to him, "Elisha, please stay here because Yahweh has sent me to Jericho." And he said, "{As Yahweh lives} and {as your soul lives}, I will certainly not leave you!" So they came to Jericho.

Solomon had twelve governors over all Israel, and they sustained the king and his palace, {each one was to sustain for each month of the year}.

Each one in the calling in which he was called--in this he should remain.

On the first [day], on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

Likewise, the house of Joseph went up [against] Bethel, and Yahweh [was] with them.

The plan was good {in my opinion}, and [so] I took from [among] you twelve men, {one from each tribe}.

And they were not able to catch [him] in a statement in the sight of the people, and astonished at his answer, they became silent.

by driving out all [of] your enemies {before you}, [just] as Yahweh {has promised}.

And I said to you, 'I [am] Yahweh your God; do not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you [are] living.' But you have not listened to my voice."

Thus the war-booty that remained of the plunder that the people of the battle plundered was six hundred and seventy-five thousand flocks [of sheep],

On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod [is] for the back of one who lacks {sense}.

Rehum the royal officer and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes as follows

(Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia.

Lord, according to all your righteousness, please let your anger and your rage turn away from your city Jerusalem, {your holy mountain}, because through our sins and through the iniquities of our ancestors Jerusalem and your people have become an object of mockery among all of our neighbors.

And Solomon the son of David strengthened himself concerning his kingdom, and Yahweh his God [was] with him and made him exceedingly great.

Then the woman took and spread a covering over the opening of the well; then she spread out dried grain on it, so nothing was discovered.

Then he said, "Seize them alive!" So they seized them alive but then slaughtered them at the cistern of Beth-Eked, forty-two men. He did not allow any of them to survive.

But he said to them, "[It is] one of the twelve--the one who is dipping [bread] into the bowl with me.

Now the sons of Noah who came out of the ark [were] Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham [was] the father of Canaan.)

Return to [the] fortress, O prisoners of hope; today [I am] declaring [that] I will repay you double.

And one powerful angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw [it] into the sea, saying, "In this way Babylon the great city will be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again!

of Melichu, Jonathan; of Shebaniah, Joseph;

Her uncleanness [was] in her skirts; she did not remember her future, she has descended beyond understanding, there is no comforter for her. See, O Yahweh, my persecution! [My] enemy has been made great!

Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men, and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows, for everyone [was] godless and an evildoer, and every mouth [was] speaking folly. In all of this his anger did not turn away, and still his hand [is] stretched out.

and {the ostrich} and the short-eared owl and the seagull and the hawk according to its kind,

And you must say to them, 'Hear the word of Yahweh, kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem who enter through these gates.

saying that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of men [who are] sinners, and be crucified, and on the third day rise?"

And [when] two years had passed, Felix received as successor Porcius Festus. And [because he] wanted to do a favor for the Jews, Felix left Paul behind {as a prisoner}.

And he cried out to me and said to me, "See those going out to [the] north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country."

Rise up, O Yahweh; O God, lift up your hand. Do not forget [the] afflicted.

But {whenever} {raw flesh} appears on him, he shall become unclean.

And he answered them [and] said, "O unbelieving generation! {How long} will I be with you? {How long} must I put up with you? Bring him to me!"

and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel, who lived in Aroer, as far as Nebo and Baal-Meon.

Or are we attempting to provoke the Lord to jealousy? We are not stronger than he [is, are we]?

Then Herod secretly summoned the wise men [and] determined precisely from them the time [when] the star appeared.

It had happened that when David was at Edom, Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, and he killed every male in Edom.

But I will spend and be expended most gladly for your lives. If I love you much more, am I to be loved less?

And the people of the towns around Jerusalem also came together, bringing the sick and those tormented by unclean spirits, who were all being healed.

those who were counted from the tribe of Simeon were fifty-nine thousand three hundred.

And {whoever} does not fall down and worship will be thrown {immediately} into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire."

And they answered [and] said, "John the Baptist, but others, Elijah, and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen."

So Yahweh said to Satan, "{All right}, he [is] in your {power}. Only spare his life."

{Soon} I will pour out my rage on you, and I will fully vent my anger on you, and I will judge you according to your ways, and I will bring on you all of your detestable things.

I will come down and speak with you there; I will take away from the spirit that [is] on you, and I will place [it] on them; and they will bear the burdens of the people with you; you will not bear it alone.

And getting into a boat, they began to go to the other side of the sea, to Capernaum. And it had already become dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them.

Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it first, for you [are] the majority, and call on the name of your god, but don't set fire [under it]."

For thus says Yahweh, "Look, I [am] about to sling out the inhabitants of the land at this time, and I will bring distress to them, so that they may feel it."

But into whatever town you enter and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets [and] say,

And Eber lived four hundred and thirty years after he fathered Peleg, and he fathered [other] sons and daughters.

And [because they] saw the man who had been healed standing there with them, they had nothing to say in return.

And it was their children [whom] he raised in their place that Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised {on the journey}.

Indeed, Assyria will be shattered by the voice of Yahweh; he strikes with the rod.

As for an ox or sheep that is deformed or that is stunted, you may present it [as] a freewill offering, but for a vow it will not be accepted.

And his mercy [is] for generation after generation to those who fear him.

[for] forty years. Therefore I was angry with this generation, and I said, 'They always go astray in their heart, and they do not know my ways.'

And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to wash at the Nile, [while] her maidservants were walking alongside the Nile, and she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and she sent her slave woman [for it] and took it

The iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom; it was overthrown in a moment and no hands were laid on her.

And [as they] looked intently at him, all those who were sitting in the Sanhedrin saw his face [was] like the face of an angel.

And the two disciples heard him speaking, and they followed Jesus.

And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he became invisible to them.

And he began to teach in their synagogues, [and] was praised by all.

And I will bring distress to all humankind, and they shall walk about like the blind, for they sinned against Yahweh; their blood shall be poured out like dust and their entrails like dung.

so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace would reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

For [when you] eat [it], each one of you goes ahead to take his own supper, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

Now the remainder of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the scroll of the events of the days of the kings of Judah?

Then Bathsheba knelt with her face to the ground and did obeisance to the king, and she said, "May my lord, King David, live forever."

And Yahweh God appointed a plant, and he made it grow up over Jonah to be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. And Jonah {was very glad} about the plant.

And we have sent at the same time with him the brother whose praise in the gospel [has become known] throughout all the churches.

Yahweh will reign as king forever and ever."

Saul and Jonathan his son and the army that remained with them [were] staying in Geba [of] Benjamin, and [the] Philistines encamped at Micmash.

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.

Is it nothing to you, {all who pass by}? Look and see if there is sorrow like my sorrow, which was dealt to me, which Yahweh inflicted on the {day of his wrath}.

Make haste to come to me quickly.

And Jesus took notice of him [and] said, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!

And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people away to their tents rejoicing and festive of heart on account of the goodness that Yahweh had done for David, Solomon, and Israel his people.

My rebellion was bound [as] a yoke, with his hand it was fastened together; it was put on my neck [and] caused my strength to fail. The Lord gave me into the hands [of those whom] I cannot withstand.

And Jesus answered [and] said to him, "It is said, 'You are not to put to the test the Lord your God.'"

[By] leaving the straight path, they have gone astray, [because they] followed the way of Balaam the [son of] Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

surely then you will lift up your face without blemish, and you will be firmly established and will not fear.

There has not been a day like this before it or after, that Yahweh listened to the voice of man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.

And he said to the disciples, "Days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see [it].

And fear seized [them] all, and they began to glorify God, saying, "A great prophet has appeared among us!" and "God has visited to help his people!"

Now the remainder of the words of Amaziah, [from] the first [to] the last, behold, are they not written in the scroll of the kings of Judah and Israel?

in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

'From the day that I brought out my people Israel from Egypt I have not chosen a city from all the tribes of Israel to build a house where my name might be, but I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.'

For if [there was] glory in the ministry of condemnation, by much more will the ministry of righteousness overflow with glory.

Listen attentively to me, Yahweh, and listen to [the] voice of my opponents.

Therefore, I consider this to be good because of the impending distress, that [it is] good for a man to be thus.

But when a stronger man attacks him [and] conquers him, he takes away his full armor in which he trusted and distributes his plunder.

Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,

But let [it] be. I have not been a burden to you, but [because I] was crafty, I took you by cunning.

As for a fool, {on that very day} he makes his anger known, but he who ignores an insult [is] prudent.

For someone {named} Demetrius, a silversmith who made silver replicas of the temple of Artemis, was bringing no little business to the craftsmen.

They found written in the law, which Yahweh had commanded by the hand of Moses, that the {Israelites} should live in booths during the festival of the seventh month,

By this we know that we are of the truth and will convince our heart before him,

but just as it is written, "[Those] to whom [it was] not announced concerning him will see, and [those] who have not heard will understand."

From the descendants of this man, according to [his] promise, God brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Therefore, Look! I [am] going to hedge her path {with thorns}, and I will build a stone wall, a stone wall [against] her, and she will not find her paths.

Have I now come up against this place without Yahweh to destroy it? Yahweh has said to me, 'Go up against this land and destroy it!'" '"

And I said, "Let them put a clean headband on his head." And they put a clean headband on his head, and they clothed him [with] garments. And the angel of Yahweh [was] standing [by].

"And you will speak to the {Israelites}, saying, 'This will be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.

having eyes full of [desire for] an adulteress and unceasing from sin, enticing unstable persons, [and] having hearts trained for greediness. Accursed children!

He does not return again to his house, and his place does not recognize him again.

Afterward the children of Israel will return and seek Yahweh their God and David their king. They will come in fear to Yahweh and to his goodness at the end of days.

and his brothers, heads of the {families}, two hundred and forty-two. And Amashai son of Azarel, son of Ahzai, son of Meshillemoth, son of Immer,

When it was the fourth day, they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband and tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us to rob us?"

But he said to them, "[It] is I! Do not be afraid!"

[On] the path to life is he who guards instruction, but he who rejects rebuke goes astray.

because he was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

And the name of the star was called Wormwood, and a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the waters because they were made bitter.

the descendants of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two;

And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.

I lay down and slept; I woke up because Yahweh sustains me.

"Therefore, wait for me"--a declaration of Yahweh-- "for the day of my rising as a witness. For my decision [is] to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out my wrath upon them, all my burning anger. For by the fire of my anger all the land shall be consumed.

in order that your charitable giving may be in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

if iniquity [is] in your hand, put it far away, and you must not let wickedness reside in your tents--

the two kidneys, and the fat that [is] on them, which [is] on the loins, and he must remove the lobe on the liver in addition to the kidneys.

The one who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. The one who conquers will never be harmed by the second death.'

Let all their evil come before you; and deal with them just as you have dealt with me because of all my crimes; for my groaning is much and my heart [is] faint.

He will take your daughters as [his] perfume makers and as cooks and as bakers.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Judge [with] trustworthy justice, and show steadfast love and compassion {to one another}.

"And if [it is] not [so], then who can prove me a liar and reduce my word to nothing?"

Now in the fifth year of Joram son of Ahab, king of Israel, and Jehoshaphat king of Judah, Joram son of Jehoshaphat became the king of Judah.

But to the descendants of Kohath he did not give [anything] because the work of the sanctuary they carried upon them on their shoulders.

For Gaza will be abandoned, and Ashkelon as a desolation. [As for] Ashdod, at noon they will drive her away, and Ekron shall be uprooted.

Where [can] we go up? Our brothers have {made our hearts melt}, {saying}, "The people are greater and taller than we are, [and there are] great fortified cities [reaching] up to heaven, and we saw the sons of the Anakites [living] there." '

saying, "This [is] the blood of the covenant that God has commanded for you."

Meanwhile, I saw the wicked being [honorably] buried, but those who came and went from the holy place were forgotten in the city, even though they had done so. This also [is] vanity!

And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

I sat not in the assembly of jokers, [nor did] I exult. Because of the {presence} of your hand I sat alone, for you filled me [with] indignation.

But the word of God kept on increasing and multiplying.

Jesus answered and said to him, "Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater [things] than these!"

not that we do not have the right, but so that we may give ourselves [as] an example to you, so that [you] may imitate us.

Then Hazael said, "But how could your servant, who [is] like a dog, do this great thing?" Elisha said, "Yahweh has shown me [that] you [are to be] king over Aram."

Through Silvanus, the faithful brother (as I consider [him]), I have written to you {briefly} to encourage [you] and to attest that this is the true grace of God. Stand firm in it.

But others were saying, "He is Elijah," and others were saying, "[He is] a prophet like one of the prophets."

And a large crowd was following him because they were observing the signs that he was doing on those who were sick.

Shall not all of these take up a taunt against him, with ridicule and riddles against him, saying, 'Woe to him who heaps up what is not his'? [For] how long? And, '[Woe to him] who makes himself heavy with pledges'?

But if what I do not want [to do], this I do, I agree with the law that [it is] good.

And to each one of them a white robe was given, and it was said to them that they should rest yet a short time, until [the number of] their fellow slaves and their brothers who were about to be killed as they [had been] were completed also.

Abram, that is, Abraham.

Keep your paths far from her, and do not go near to the door of her house,

In that hour he healed many [people] of diseases and suffering and evil spirits, and he granted sight to many blind [people].

He raises up the poor from [the] dust. From [the] ash heap he lifts up the needy, to cause them to sit with noble people and to cause them to inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth belong to Yahweh and he has set the inhabited world on them.

It happened that when Zimri saw that the city was taken, he went to the citadel fortress of the house of the king, and he burnt the house of the king over him with fire so that he died.

So Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down there with his disciples.

And he sent them to Bethlehem [and] said, "Go, inquire carefully concerning the child, and when you have found [him], report to me so that I also may come [and] worship him."

Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet and makes offerings to his dragnet, for by them {he makes a good living} and his food [is] rich.

saying, 'We played the flute for you and you did not dance; we sang a lament and you did not mourn.'

[Although you] have eyes, do you not see? And [although you] have ears, do you not hear? And do you not remember?

For if what was transitory [came] with glory, by much more what remains [is] with glory.

And Jesus and his disciples got up [and] followed him.

Therefore, [when] you come together in the same [place], it is not to eat the Lord's supper.

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of money that Haman has promised to pay to the treasury of the king for the destruction of the Jews.

but showing loyal love to thousands of [those who] love me and of [those who] keep my commandments.

for she said to herself, "If only I touch his cloak I will be healed."

who made [the] world like the desert and destroyed its cities, [who] would not let his prisoners go home?'

Foreigners devour his strength, and he does not know [it]; {mold} is also sprinkled upon him, and he does not know [it].

I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they will sell them to [the] Sabeans and to a nation far [away], for Yahweh has spoken.

Yahweh is righteous; I have rebelled [against] {his word}. Please hear, all [the] nations, And see my pain; My young women and young men went into captivity.

[After] they listened to the king, they went out, and behold, the star which they had seen at its rising led them until it came [and] stood above [the place] where the child was.

The warriors ceased; they failed to appear in Israel, until I, Deborah, arose; I arose [as] a mother in Israel.

He who will speak truth will reveal righteousness, but the witness of falsehood, deceit.

And the leaders of this people were misleading [them], and those who were led [were] confused.

Indeed, a man will seize his brother [in] the house of his father: "{You have a cloak}; you shall be a leader for us, and this heap of ruins [shall be] under your hand!"

Because of this also the crowd went to meet him, for they had heard [that] he had performed this sign.

And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their colleagues wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia. The letter was written in Aramaic and translated from Aramaic.

But he warned [and] commanded them to tell this to no one,

Then they said {to one another}, "We [are] not doing right. This day is a day of good news! If we [are] silent and wait until the light of morning, they will find us and {we will be punished}. So then, come, let us go and tell the house of the king."

A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands for rest--

Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the restoration of the walls of Jerusalem were going forward and the gaps were being closed, they were very angry.

But the people began to call out loudly, "The voice of a god and not of a man!"

And Korah summoned them, the entire community, by the doorway of the tent of assembly, and the glory of Yahweh appeared to all the community.

and to the noise of a trumpet, and to the sound of words which those who heard begged [that] not [another] word be spoken to them.

And that night Yahweh said to him, "Get up; go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.

Then the heart of the king of Aram was stormy because of this matter, so he called his servants and said to them, "Can you not tell me {who among us sides with the king of Israel}?"

So King Joram went out on that day from Samaria, and he mustered all of Israel.

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

Depart from me, all workers of evil, for Yahweh has heard the sound of my weeping.

Then look, there was {one in the form of a human}; he touched my lips and I opened my mouth and I spoke and I said to the [one] standing {before me}, "My lord, because of the vision my anxieties fell upon me and I [have] not retained [my] strength.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ [be] with your spirit.

Now a large herd of pigs was there at the hill feeding,

He has built a wall around me, I cannot go out; he has made my bronze fetters heavy.

Many are saying, "Who will show us [something] good?" Lift up over us the light of your face, O Yahweh.

Then he speaks to them in his wrath, and in his fury he terrifies them:

And the trees said to the vine, 'You, come rule over us.'

And [because they] were afraid lest somewhere we run aground against rough places, they threw down four anchors from the stern [and] prayed for day to come.

And he said to him, "See to it that you say nothing to anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and bring for your cleansing [the things] which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.

Then the word of Yahweh came to Solomon, saying,

So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.)

who, becoming callous, gave themselves over to licentiousness, for the pursuit of all uncleanness in greediness.

And Joshua sent the people away, and the {Israelites} went each to their own inheritance to take possession of the land.

And afterward the people set out from Hazeroth, and they encamped in the desert of Paran.

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his [own] clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify [him].

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have [an occasion] to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with [his] finger on the ground, taking no notice.

Then Yahweh appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice.

from Aram and from Moab and from the {Ammonites} and from [the] Philistines and from Amalek and from the plunder of Hadadezer the son of Rehob, the king of Zobah.

But you know that because of an illness of the flesh I proclaimed the gospel to you the first time.

Ephraim has caused bitter provocation, and his Lord will {hold him responsible for his crimes} and pay back to him his insults.

She said to him, "No, because this evil in sending me away [is] greater than the other you have done to me." But he [was] not willing to listen to her.

(Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.)

Be strong, and let us strengthen ourselves for the sake of the people and for the sake of the cities of our God. May Yahweh do [what is] good in his eyes.

He leads counselors away stripped, and he makes fools of judges.

King David dedicated them also to Yahweh [along] with the silver and the gold that he had dedicated from all of the nations which he had subdued;

All of these [were] of precious stones, according to the measurement of dressed stone, sawn with a saw {on all sides}; from [the] foundation up to the eaves and from [the] outside up to the great courtyard.

David rose early in the morning and left the sheep with a keeper, and he took [the provisions] and went as Jesse had commanded him. He came to the encampment while the troops [were] going to the battle line, and they raised the war cry.

So the redeemer said to Boaz, "Acquire [it] for yourself," and he removed his sandal.

So also you, when you see these [things] happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.

And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed [the letters] with the king's signet ring and sent them by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses {bred by} racing mares.

Everyone who is found will be pierced through, and everyone who is carried away will fall by the sword.

the twenty-four elders fall down before the one who is seated on the throne and worship the one who lives {forever and ever}, and put down their crowns before the throne, saying,

Now if anyone builds upon the foundation [with] gold, silver, precious stones, wood, grass, straw,

Therefore you will have no one casting a line by lot in the assembly of Yahweh.

And he said to him, "Run, say to that young man, 'Jerusalem shall be inhabited {like villages without walls} because of the multitude of people and animals in its midst.

'according to {the promise} that {I covenanted} with you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit {is with you}; do not be afraid.'

Look, I am building a house for the name of Yahweh my God to dedicate to him, to offer sweet spices of incense before him, and [for] the regular rows [of bread], and burnt offerings for mornings, evenings, Sabbaths, and new moon festivals, and for appointed feasts of Yahweh our God which [are] everlasting for Israel.

"Send to all the exiles, {saying}, 'Thus says Yahweh concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: "Because Shemaiah prophesied to you, though I have not sent him, and he has made you trust in a lie,"

Why do you pursue me like God? And are not satisfied with my flesh?

This [is] the account of the forced labor that King Solomon conscripted to build the house of Yahweh and his house, the Millo, the walls of Jerusalem, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

I am no longer worthy to be called your son! Make me like one of your hired workers.'

Jeuz, Sakia, and Mirmah. These [were] his sons, heads of the {families}.

And I said, "I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey." '

The Lord has rejected all my mighty ones in my midst. He called an assembly against me, to crush my young men; [like in] a wine press, the Lord has trodden [on] the virgin daughter of Judah.

I say [this] to [my] shame, namely, that we have been weak. But in whatever anyone dares to [boast]--I am speaking in foolishness--I also dare to [boast].

But the one who enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

And bring the fattened calf--kill [it] and let us eat [and] celebrate,

{Advice and sound judgment} are mine; I am understanding, {strength is mine}.

The cherubim were spreading [their] wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim were covering the ark and over its poles [from] above.

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

surely as I swore to you by Yahweh the God of Israel, saying, 'Solomon your son shall surely be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place,' surely I shall do so this [very] day."

Elisha said to him, "Take a bow and arrows," so he took him a bow and arrows.

It happened on the seventh day that the child died, and the servants of David [were] afraid to tell him that the child [was] dead, for they said, "Look, when the child [was] alive, we spoke to him, but he would not listen to our voice. How can we tell him, 'The child [is] dead'? He may do [something] evil."

And the scribes of the Pharisees, [when they] saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, began to say to his disciples, "Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

Now may Yahweh show loyal love and faithfulness with you. I will also show the good with you that you have done in this matter.

Please let our leaders stand for the whole assembly, and let all that are in our cities who have married foreign women come at set times, and with them the elders of and judges of each city, until the fierce wrath of our God because of this matter is averted from us."

For we have heard him saying that this Nazarene Jesus will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses handed down to us."

You must not do {any regular work}, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh.'"

So she came and told the man of God, and he said, "Go, sell the olive oil and repay your debt. You and your sons can live on what is left over."

Now there [was] a long-sleeved robe on her, for so they clothed the daughters of the king who [were] virgins, in robes. His servant put her outside, and he bolted the door behind her.

So he departed from Elisha and came to his master. He asked him, "What did Elisha say to you." So he said, "He said to me that you will certainly recover."

The border passes [on] to the slope of Beth-hoglah to the north and {ends} at the north bay of the Salt Sea at the south end of the Jordan. This is the southern border.

From heaven he sent fire, into my bones he let it descend. He spread out a net for my feet; he turned me back, he gave me devastation, fainting all day.

Am I [the] sea, or a sea monster, that you set a guard over me?

When Yahweh sent you on your way, he said to you: 'Go! You must utterly destroy the sinners, [the] Amalekites, and you must fight against them until you have destroyed them.'

But while John was completing [his] mission, he said, 'What do you suppose me to be? I am not [he]! But behold, one is coming after me of whom I am not worthy to untie the sandals of [his] feet!'

For this [reason] my heart was glad and my tongue rejoiced greatly, furthermore also my flesh will live in hope,

Then Naaman came with his horses and his chariots, and he stopped [at] the doorway of the house of Elisha.

and they have not known the way of peace.

to [the] nineteenth, to Mallothi, his sons and his brothers, twelve;

They will leave none of it until morning, and they will not break a bone in it; they will observe it according to every decree of the Passover.

For nothing is secret that will not become evident, and nothing hidden that will never be known and come to light.

Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.

and your barns shall be full of plenty, and your vats shall burst [with] new wine.

Barak said to her, "If you go with me, I will go; but if you do not go with me, I will not go."

But [after they] had ordered them to go outside the Sanhedrin, they began to confer with one another,

who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases, and those who were troubled by unclean spirits were cured.

Delilah realized that {he had confided in her}, so she sent and called the rulers of [the] Philistines, saying, "Come up one more time, for {he has confided in me}." And the rulers of [the] Philistines came up, and they brought the money {with them}.

But the report about him spread even more, and large crowds were gathering to hear [him] and to be healed of their illnesses.

For we hear [that] some among you are living irresponsibly, working [at] nothing, but being busybodies.

But John tried to prevent him, saying, "{I need} to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"

From where was the baptism of John--from heaven or from men?" And they began to discuss [this] among themselves, saying, "If we say 'From heaven,' he will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe him?'

Because of the words of the king and his lords, the queen came into {the banqueting hall} and the queen {spoke up} and said, "O king, live {forever}, and let not your thoughts terrify you and [do] not let your facial expressions {grow pale}.

Elisha sent a messenger to him, saying, "Go, you must wash seven times in the Jordan, then your flesh shall return to you, and you shall be clean."

All of a man's toil [is] for his mouth-- yet his appetite is never satisfied.

then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and the knowledge of God you will find.

But the high places were not removed from Israel. Nevertheless, the heart of Asa was fully devoted all his days.

men who have risked their lives on behalf of the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And he despised [the] oath to break covenant. And, look, he gave his hand [in pledge], and [yet] he did all of these [things]. He will not escape.'

These [are] the names of the ones born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon;

And Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,

And I saw that {for this very reason, that} on account of apostate Israel committing adultery I divorced her and gave the letter of divorce to her. Yet her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid and she went and prostituted [herself] also.

"Strength and sound wisdom [are] with him; [the] deceived and [the] deceiver [are] his.

And also if anyone competes he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

These [are] their generations: the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebaioth, and Kedar, Abdeel, Mibsam,

From the descendants of Issachar, their genealogies according to their clans, according to {their families}, according to [the] number of names, from {those twenty years old} and above, everyone who [is able] to go to war:

He who is short of {temper} will act foolishly, and the man who schemes will be hated.

Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised [your] voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

So {how am I, a servant of my lord} to speak with {you, my lord}, and I {just now} {have no strength in me}?"

Yahweh will shatter his adversaries; he will thunder against them in the heavens. Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to his king and will exalt the might of his anointed one.

Then Jehoiada the priest commanded the commanders of the hundreds, the appointed of the army, and he said to them, "Bring her out to the house of the ranks! The one coming after her [should] kill her with the sword," for the priest had said, "Let her not be killed in the temple of Yahweh."

And he asked his father how long it was since this had been happening to him. And he said, "From childhood.

So also the second and the third, up to the seventh.

And you will know that I, Yahweh your God, [am] dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. And Jerusalem will be [a place of] holiness, and strangers will pass through [it] no longer.

And after Enosh fathered Kenan he lived eight hundred and fifteen years, and fathered sons and daughters.

And Yahweh called Samuel again, so Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, because you called me." And he said, "I did not call you, my son. Go back [and] lie down."

so that, just as it is written, "The one who boasts, let him boast in the Lord."

And Jesus answered [and] said to them, "I also will ask you one question. If you tell [the answer] to me, I also will tell you by what authority I am doing these [things].

Then it goes and brings along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and [they] go in [and] live there. And the last [state] of that person becomes worse than the first!"

saying, "To you I will give the land of Canaan, the portion of your inheritance."

And [then] you shall gather all of its booty into the middle of its public square, and you shall burn the town and all [of] its war-booty totally for Yahweh your God, and it shall be {a pile of rubble forever}; it shall not be built again.

And Aaron will bear the names of the {Israelites} in the breast piece of judgment on his heart, when he comes to the sanctuary, for a remembrance before Yahweh continually.

Lord, listen! Lord, forgive! Lord, pay heed and act! You must not delay {for your sake}, my God; because {your city and your people are called by your name}."

And the rain came down and the rivers came and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it did not collapse, because its foundation was laid on the rock.

And the man went [to] the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this [is] its name to this day.

When Enosh lived ninety years, he fathered Kenan.

So now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive the blood of your brother from your hand.

For he says, "I have done [it] by the strength of my hand and by my wisdom, for I have understanding, and I have removed [the] boundaries of peoples, and I have plundered their stores, and like a bull I have brought down {the inhabitants}.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

Its land is filled [with] idols; they bow down to the work of their hands, to what they made [with] their fingers.

and the red kite and the black kite according to its kind,

Then the king said to me, "What is your request?" So I prayed to the God of the heavens.

because he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And a large number were added to the Lord.

exhorting and consoling you and insisting that you live in a manner worthy of God, who calls you to his own kingdom and glory.

of Jehoiarib, Mattenai; of Jedaiah, Uzzi;

Moses gave [an inheritance] to the tribe of the descendants of Reuben according to their families.

And the fat and the kidneys and the lobe {from the sin offering's liver} he turned into smoke on the altar, [just] as Yahweh had commanded Moses,