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And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the witness which I will give thee.
Upon this complaint, I thought thus by myself: Is not Ephraim my dear son? Is he not the child, with whom I have had all mirth and pastime? For since the time that I first communed with him, I have him ever in remembrance: therefore my very heart driveth me unto him; gladly and lovingly will I have mercy upon him, sayeth the LORD.
And of Asher he said, "Asher shall be blessed with children: he shall be acceptable unto his brethren and shall dip his foot in oil.
And if it appear lower than the other skin, and there be therein golden hairs and thin, let the priest judge him unclean, for it is a breaking out of leprosy upon the head or beard.
He loveth righteousness and judgment; the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
Then Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as ye hear the voice of the trumpet blow, say, 'Absalom reigneth king in Hebron.'"
For if he submit himself unto God, he is gracious, and showeth him his countenance joyfully, and rewardeth man for his righteousness.
And when they had been there a good season, Festus rehearsed Paul's cause unto the king saying, "There is a certain man left in prison of Felix,
And anon as he went on his way, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Thy child liveth."
"Let them therefore," said he, "which among you are able to do it come down with us and accuse him, if there be any fault in the man."
She cannot be gotten for the most fine gold, neither may the price of her be bought with any money.
Notwithstanding, that I be not tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy courtesy a few words.
Happy art thou Israel: who is like unto thee? A people that art saved by the LORD; thy shield, and helper, and sword of thy glory. And thine enemies shall hide themselves from thee, and thou shalt walk upon their high hills."
even as the broad valleys and as gardens by the river's side, as the tents which the LORD hath pitched and as cypress trees upon the water.
But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand and will give unto thee ten tribes of it:
for we must destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before the LORD. Wherefore he hath sent us to destroy it."
Swear therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou shalt not destroy my seed after me, and that thou shalt not destroy my name out of my father's house."
And he said unto the people, "Be ready against the third day, and see that ye come not at your wives."
For Ephron dwelled among the children of Heth. Then Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of his city, saying,
She shall flourish pleasantly, and be joyful, and ever be giving thanks more and more. For the glory of Lebanon, the beauty of Carmel and Sharon shall be given her. These shall know the honour of the LORD, and the majesty of our God.
He couched himself and lay down as a lion and as a lioness; who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee."
My hand is the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spanneth over the heavens. As soon as I called them they were there.
But the Levites shall pitch round about the habitation of witness, that there fall no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel, and the Levites shall wait upon the habitation of witness."
Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: And the herd took their course, and ran headlong into the lake, and were choked.
In that day shall the LORD of Hosts be a joyful crown, and a glorious garland unto the remnant of his people.
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel against Moab, "Woe be to the city of Nebo, for it shall be laid waste, brought to confusion and taken. Yea the strong city of Kiriathaim shall be brought to shame, and afraid.
For promotion cometh neither from the East, nor from the West, nor yet from the wilderness.
Well, I gave thee a king in my wrath, and in my displeasure will I take him from thee again.
When his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him and could not speak one kind word unto him.
The LORD bringeth the counsel of the Heathen to naught, and maketh the devices of the people to be of none effect, and casteth out the counsels of princes.
and that we should bring the firstlings of our dough, and our heave offerings, and the fruits of all manner of trees, of wine also and of oil, unto the priests to the chests the house of our God. And the tithes of our land unto the Levites, that the Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our ministration.
They that forsake the law, praise the ungodly; but such as keep the law, abhor them.
He teacheth my hands to fight, and mine arms shall bend even a bow of steel. {TYNDALE: And teacheth my hands to fight, that a bow of brass is too weak for mine arms.}
And Jacob said unto Laban, "Give me my wife, that I may lie with her. For the time appointed me is come."
And the king of Israel answered and said, "Tell him, 'Let not him that putteth on his harness boast himself, as he putteth it off.'"
And he said unto me, "Prophesy thou upon these bones, and speak unto them, 'Ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.
Hath he such pleasure and delight in the Almighty, that he dare always call upon God?
And they passed over Jordan and pitched in Aroer on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the valley of Gad and so forth to Jazer.
For who shall find his enemy, and let him depart a good way? Wherefore the LORD reward thee with good, for that thou hast done unto me this day.
And thou shalt make for Aaron's sons also coats, girdles and bonnets; honorable and glorious,
Behold, even as the wild asses in the desert go they forth to their work, and rise betimes to spoil: Yea, the very wilderness ministereth food for them and their children. by times, as their manner is, to spoil: Yea the very wilderness ministereth food for their children.
But now sayeth the LORD, "Leave off from weeping, and crying, withhold thine eyes from tears, for thy labour shall be rewarded, sayeth the LORD. And they shall come again out of the land of their enemies:
And behold, they shall come from far: lo, some from the north and west, some from the south.
The watchmen that go about the city found me, to whom I said: Saw ye not him whom my soul loveth?
But they that run after another god shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips.
When even was come, the Lord of the vineyard said unto his steward, 'Call the laborers, and give them their hire, beginning at the last, till thou come to the first.'
And of the children of the priests: The children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife, and was counted among the same names:
Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of the Syrians: which beat him and carried away a great multitude of his captive into Damascus. And thereto he was delivered into the hand of the king of Israel which slew of his a mighty slaughter.
Will ye accept the person of God, or will ye contend with him?
And he wrote there, upon the stones, the second law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
Wherefore God sent me before you to make provision, that ye might continue in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
And when Benhadad heard that tidings, as he and the kings were drinking in the pavilions, he said unto his servants, "Put ye in array." And they put themselves in array against the city.
and that for Jacob my servant's sake, and for Israel my chosen. For I called thee by name, and ordained thee before thou knewest me.
Benaiah the Pirathonite; Hiddai of the river of Gaash;
And see that no man oppress his neighbour, but fear thy God. For I am the LORD your God.
Thou shalt suck the milk of the Gentiles, and kings' breasts shall feed thee. And thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and defender, the mighty one of Jacob.
And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel-Bethmaacah and all Berim. And the people gathered unto him and went also after him.
Nevertheless, when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
He will not be afraid of any evil tidings, for his heart standeth fast, and believeth in the LORD.
I will get up, thought I, and go about the city, in the ways and in all the streets will I seek him whom my soul loveth: but when I sought him, I found him not.
My son, be wise, and thou shalt make me a glad heart; so that I shall make answer unto my rebukers.
I will exercise myself in thy commandments, and have respect unto thy footpaths.
for they are my servants which I brought out of the land of Egypt, and shall not be sold as bondmen.
He hath made me as it were a byword of the common people. I am his jesting stock among them.
And therefore he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities and compass them with walls and towers, gates and bars, while we have the land quiet. For we have sought the LORD our God: and because we have sought him, he hath given us rest on every side." And so they built and prospered.
Thou hast withholden their hearts from understanding, therefore shall they not be set up on high.
Thou art righteous in all that thou hast brought upon us: for thou hast done right.
and commanded them, saying, "At the end of seven years, in the time of the free year, in the feast of the tabernacles,
My people hath been a lost flock. My shepherds have deceived them, and have made them go astray upon the hills. They have gone from the mountains to the little hill, and forgotten their fold.
And Samuel rose early, to meet Saul in the morning. And it was told Samuel that Saul was come to Carmel, and had set him up a pillar of triumph, and was turned and departed and gone to Gilgal.
The twenty-second to Giddalti with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
Then Elijah said, "As truly as the LORD of Hosts liveth, before whom I stand: I will show myself unto him this day."
And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host, and put Zadok the priest in the room of Abiathar.
Wherefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew that shrank under the thigh, unto this day: because that he smote Jacob under the thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Because the land is full of adulterers, wherethrough it is destroyed and mourneth, and the pleasant pastures of the desert are dried up. Yea the way that men take is wicked, and their governance is nothing like the holy word of the LORD.
But the ungodly, though he have received grace, yet learneth he not righteousness: but in that place where he is punished, he offendeth, and feareth not the glory of the LORD.
which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly.
And the seventh time he said, "Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like the palm of a man's hand." Then he said, "Go and say to Ahab, 'Put the horses in the chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.'"
The bread that he did eat is turned to the poison of serpents, within his body.
yet he perisheth at the last, like dung. Insomuch that they which have seen him, say, 'Where is he?'
And he brought out the people that were in it and tamed them with saws and harrows of iron and with brakes, and so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And then David and all the people came again to Jerusalem.
And David ordered them on this manner: Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar to be in office by course.
And behold, the whole kindred arose against thy handmaid and said, 'Deliver us him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the soul of his brother whom he slew: for he will destroy the heir also.' And so they shall quench my sparkle which is left that he shall stir up neither name or issue upon the earth unto my husband."
And Obededom had sons: Shemaiah the eldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sachar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
and ruled in Jerusalem forty one years. And his mother's name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.
And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem upon all Israel, was forty years.
And Joab said unto the king, "I beseech that the LORD thy God make the people as many more as they be: yea and a hundred times so many more, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see them. But how is it that my lord the king hath a lust in this thing?"
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, "Oh pray unto the LORD thy God and make intercession for me, that my hand may be restored me again." And the man of God besought the LORD, and his hand came to him again as well as before.
One of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God he fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: Even in one day they shall die, both of them.
And this is the manner of the free year: whosoever lendeth ought with his hand unto his neighbour, may not ask again that which he hath lent, of his neighbour or of his brother: because it is called the LORD's free year,
And Saul heard of it: for David was known, and also the men that were with him. And as Saul sat in Gibeah under a grove upon a high bank with his spear in his hand and all his men about him,
lest, if thou make any covenant with the inhabiters of the land, when they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods, they call thee and thou eat of their sacrifice;
Therefore thou shalt eat sweet bread seven days, and see that there be no leavened bread seen nor yet leaven among you in all your quarters.
And they set them up the carved image which Micah made, all the while that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Then said the deputy, "What evil hath he done?" And they cried the more saying, "Let him be crucified."
He hath made wars to cease in all the world: he hath broken the bow, he hath knapped the spear in sunder, and burnt the chariots in the fire.
When he was come, the Jews which were come from Jerusalem came about him and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul: which they could not prove
Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian and said, "Take from hence thirty men whom thou wilt, and draw up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die."
namely, that they have broken their wedlock, and stained their hands with blood: yea even with their idols have they committed adultery, and offered them their own children to be devoured, whom they have born unto me.
For the Egyptian's help shall be but vain and lost. Therefore I told you also that your pride should have an end.
The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy dwelling of the most highest.
And as soon as Joseph was come unto his brethren, they stripped him out of his gay coat that was upon him,
And they carried the Ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab. And Uzzah and his brother drove the cart.
Thine hand shall be first upon him to kill him; and then the hands of all the people.
And David put those words into his heart and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.
Yea, all that live and move, whereunto this river cometh, shall recover. And where this water cometh, there shall be many fish; For all that cometh to this water, shall be lusty and whole.
Then said Hushai unto Zadok and Abiathar the priests, "Of this and that manner did Ahithophel and the elders of Israel counsel Absalom. And thus and thus have I counseled.
And Absalom and all the people of the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.
If any man hunger, let him eat at home, that ye come not together unto condemnation. Other things will I set in order when I come.
Come now a fellowship, and curse me this people. For they are too mighty for me, so peradventure I might be able to smite them and to drive them out of the land. For I know that whom thou blessest shall be blessed, and whom thou cursest shall be cursed."
And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, was captain over all the captains of the Levites, and had the oversight of them that waited upon the holy things.
My righteousness is nigh, and my salvation shall go out, and mine arms shall judge nations, and islands shall look for me and shall tarry after mine arm.
Moreover, I give unto thee a portion of land above thy brethren which I gat out of the hands of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow."
Nevertheless, for my name's sake, I have withdrawn my wrath, and for mine honour's sake I have overseen thee, so that I have not rooted thee out.
So shalt thou, O Damascus, be desolate: because thou hast forgotten God thy Saviour, and hast not called to remembrance the rock of thy strength. Wherefore thou hast also set a fair plant, and grafted a strange branch.
Then certain of the Pharisees answered and said, "Master, thou hast well said."
either of peace, upon many nations and great kingdoms - were proved by this, if God had sent them in very deed: when the thing came to pass, which that prophet told before."
He rode upon the Cherub, and did fly: he came flying upon the wings of the wind. {TYNDALE: And he rode upon Cherub and flew: and appeared upon the wings of the wind.}
This thou doest, while I hold my tongue: and thinkest wickedly that I am even such a one as thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set before thee the things that thou hast done.
And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and ran before Ahab, till they came to Jezreel.
And Joshua did as Moses bade him, and fought with the Amalekites. And Moses, Aaron and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
And these went up also: Telmelah, Telharsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer; but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
If the owner thereof be by, he shall not make it good, namely if it be a hired thing and came for hire.
And the people answered, "Nay, for if we flee, our adversaries will not care for us: neither, though half of us were slain, shall they regard us. But thou were worth ten thousand of us. And therefore it is better that thou be ready to succor us out of the city."
But whatsoever goeth out of our own mouth, that will we do: We will do sacrifice, and offer oblations unto the Queen of heaven: like as we and our forefathers, our kings and our heads have done in the cities of Judah, and in the streets and fields of Jerusalem. For then had we plenteousness of victuals, then were we in prosperity, and no misfortune came upon us.
And Joab returned from after Abner and gathered all the people together. And there lacked, of David's servants, nineteen persons and Asahel.
And the highest priest stood up amongst them all, and asked Jesus saying, "Answerest thou nothing? How is it that these bear witness against thee?"
In the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.
And if they say unto thee, 'Whither shall we go?' Then tell them, 'The LORD giveth you this answer: Some unto death, some to the sword, some to hunger, some into captivity.'
Thy stature is like a date tree, and thy breasts like the grapes.
O what great troubles and adversities hast thou showed me! And yet didst thou turn and refresh me; yea, and broughtest me from the deep of the earth again.
As for their substance, the enemies have carried them to the brook of willows.
Then spake David unto the LORD when he saw the Angel that smote the people, and said, "Lo, it is I that have sinned, and I that have done wickedly. But these sheep what have they done? Let I pray thee thine hand be on me and on my father's house."
I gave thee change of raiments; I made thee shoes of Taxus leather; I girded thee about with white silk; I clothed thee with kerchiefs;
Whoso delighteth to be of a clean heart and of gracious lips, the king shall be his friend.
His body is covered with scales as it were with shields, locked in, kept, and well compact together.
Canst thou thunder also that they may go their way, and be obedient unto thee, saying, 'Lo here are we'?
{Vav} Let thy loving mercies come unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according unto thy word;
And he offered and burnt the fat in the hill altars and on the hills and under every green tree.
And the messengers came again to Ahab and said, "Thus sayeth Benhadad, 'I have therefore sent unto thee, saying: deliver me then thy silver and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children.
"And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, there shall be six cities of franchise which ye shall give to that intent that he which committeth a slaughter, may fly thither. And to them ye shall add forty two cities more:
And he walked in all the sins of his father which he did before him, and his heart was not whole with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
And Saul told it the people, and numbered them in Telaim two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
Javan, Tubal and Meshech were thy merchants, which brought the men, and ornaments of metal for thy occupying.
For though they fast, I will not hear their prayers. And though they offer burnt offerings and sacrifices, yet will not I accept them. For I will destroy them with the sword, hunger, and pestilence."
For the other half, with the Reubenites and the Gadites, have received their inheritance already which Moses gave them beyond Jordan eastward: even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them:
There escaped nothing of all the good things which the LORD had said unto the house of Israel. But all came to pass.
There is a noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people, a rushing as though the kingdoms of all nations had come together. And the LORD of Hosts mustereth his army to battle.
Unto them will I give in my household and within my walls, a better heritage and name than if they had been called sons and daughters. I will give them an everlasting name that shall not perish.
and her two sons, of which the one was called Gershom - for he said, "I have been an alien in a strange land" -
Our God shall come, and not keep silence: there shall go before him a consuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him.
And when ye be come over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, set up great stones and plaster them with plaster,
And when the time was come, he sent a servant to his tenants, that they should give him of the fruits of the vineyard. And the tenants did beat him: and sent him away empty.
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge, for then he taketh a man's life to pledge.
And speak unto the children of Israel, saying, 'Whosoever curseth his God, shall bear his sin:
And God said unto Israel in a vision by night, and called unto him, "Jacob, Jacob." And he answered, "Here am I."
and sent young men of the children of Israel to sacrifice burnt offerings and to offer peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.
And as soon as the kingdom was settled in his hand, he slew his servants that killed the king his father.
For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations which we passed by.
And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they went out of the tents.
which sendeth her message over the sea in ships of reeds upon the water. Get ye hence, ye speedy messengers, to a nation that is scattered abroad and robbed of that they had: a fearful nation from their beginning hitherto; a nation trodden down by little and little, whose land the floods have spoiled.
Be not hasty to go to the law, lest thou knowest not what to do when thy neighbor hath confounded thee.
It is the LORD that commandeth the waters: It is the glorious God that maketh the thunder. It is the LORD that ruleth the sea.
Moreover, it happened in the eleventh year, the first day of the third Month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Zedekiah was twenty one years old, when he was made king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal, Jeremiah's daughter of Libnah.
I was naked, and ye clothed me not. I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me not.'
Woe is my heart for Moab's sake. They fled unto the city of Zoar, which is like a fair young bullock of three years old; they went up to Luhith, weeping. The way toward Horonaim was full of lamentation for the hurt.
My righteous dealing will I keep fast, and not forsake it; for my conscience reproveth me not in all my conversation.
And I made treasurers over the treasure, even Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah, and under their hand Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
And Samson went out and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and fastened tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.
Lo, ten times have ye reproved me: are ye not ashamed, for to laugh me to scorn?
And there was yet battle in Gath, where was a man of a size and had on every hand six fingers and on every foot six toes - twenty four in all - and was also of the kindred of the Giants, and defied Israel.
And Abraham ran unto his beasts and fetched a calf that was tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, which made it ready at once.
And he walked in the way of Asa his father and bowed not therefrom, to do that was pleasant in the sight of the LORD.
And they delivered the king's commission unto the king's officers, and to the captains on this side the water. And they promoted the people and the house of God.
And there was there, the same day, a certain man of the servants of Saul abiding before the LORD named Doeg; an Edomite, the chiefest of Saul's herdsmen.
And the LORD said unto Moses, "Bring Aaron's rod again before the witness to be kept for a token unto the children of rebellion, that their murmurings may cease from me, that they die not."
For none that hath any blemish shall come near: whether he be blind, lame, snoutnosed, or that hath any monstrous member,
for how shall it be known now that both I and thy people have found favour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with us: that both I and thy people have a preeminence before all the people that are upon the face of the earth."
And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering: and so make an atonement for her before the LORD, as concerning her unclean issue.
In the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.
if he rise again and walk without upon his staff, then shall he that smote him go quit: save only he shall bear his charges while he lay in bed and pay for his healing.
And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
For why would no man receive me, when I came? And when I called, no man gave me answer. Was my hand clean smitten off, that it might not help? Or had I not power to deliver? Lo, at a word I drink up the sea, and of water floods I make dry land: so that for want of water, the fish corrupt and die of thirst.
The pains of hell came about me; the snares of death overtook me. {TYNDALE: The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.}
No wedges of gold of Ophir, no precious Onyx stones, no Sapphire may be compared unto her.
After that, he built a wall without the city of David on the west side of Gihon in the brook and so forth to the fish gate and round about Ophel, and brought it up of a very great height, and put captains of war in all the strong cities of Judah.
And a certain man drew his bow ignorantly and smote the king of Israel between the Joints of his habergeon. And he said to the chariot man, turn thine hand and carry me out of the host, for I am hurt.
If they shall sin against thee - as there is no man, but that he shall sin - and thou be angry with them and deliver them to their enemies, and they lead them away captive unto a country far or nigh;
But there was a prophet of the LORD's named Obed which went out to the host which came to Samaria and said to them, "See, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he delivered them into your hands. And ye have slain them with cruelness that reacheth up to heaven.
And he did that pleased the LORD in all points as did his father Uzziah: save, that he came not to the temple of the LORD, and that the people did yet corrupt themselves.
And it chanced, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, and had brought the gods of the children of Seir, he set them up to be his gods, and bowed himself before them and burned cense unto them.
Then said the LORD unto Abraham, "Wherefore doth Sara laugh saying, 'shall I of a surety bear a child, now when I am old?'
And I will fetch a morsel of bread, to comfort your hearts withal. And then go your ways, for even therefore are ye come to your servant." And they answered, "Do even so as thou hast said."
For thy servant vowed a vow when I was in Geshur in the land of Syria, saying, "If the LORD shall bring me again to Jerusalem, I will serve the LORD."
And take with thee ten loaves and cracknels and a cruse of honey, and go to him: for he will tell thee what shall come of the lad."
and with them, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tobadonijah, Levites: and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.
from Jordan Eastward: even all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer upon the river of Arnon, with Gilead and Bashan.
except the su be up when he is found, then there shall be blood shed for him. A thief shall make restitution: If he have not wherewith, he shall be sold for his theft.
And Abraham called his son's name that was born unto him, which Sara bare him, Isaac:
And he looked on the Kenites, and took his parable, and said, "Strong is thy dwelling place, and put thy nest upon a rock.
and blasphemed the God of heaven for sorrow, and pain of their sores, and repented not of their deeds.
And when he had so said, there arose a debate between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the multitude was divided.
and forgettest the LORD that made thee, that spread out the heavens and laid the foundation of the earth? But thou art ever afraid for the sight of thine oppressor, which is ready to do harm: Where is the wrath of the oppressor?
They shall forsake their folds like as a lion: for their lands shall be waste, because of the wrath of the destroyer, and because of his fearful indignation.
LORD, bow thine ears and hear; Open LORD thine eyes and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to rail on the living God.
- unto whom came the lords of the Philistines, and said unto her, "Flatter with him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may have power over him, that we may bind him, to bring him under, and we will give every man eleven hundred silverlings."
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering and drink offering in the morning, to be an odour of a sweet savour of the sacrifice of the LORD.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger; and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
I will send a sword upon you, that shall avenge my covenant with you. And when ye are fled unto your cities, I will send the pestilence among you: ye shall be delivered into the hands of your enemies.
In the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.
My soul hath a desire and longing to enter into the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God.
Behold, thou thinkest thyself wiser than Daniel, that there is no secrets hid from thee.
then hear thou up to heaven, and be merciful unto the sin of thy servants and of thy people Israel, that thou show them a good way to walk in, and give rain upon thy land that thou hast given unto thy people to inherit.
A false witness shall not remain unpunished; and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
His young ones are fed with blood, and where any dead body lieth, there is he immediately."
Over the first company in the first month, was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel. And in his number twenty four thousand.
And as soon as he was king and sat his seat, he slew all the house of Baasha and left not a pisser against a wall. And thereto he slew all his kin and friends,
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son which came out of mine own bowels seeketh my life. How much more may this son of Benjamin do it? Suffer him therefore to curse, for the LORD hath bidden him.
And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of witness in the holiest place.
And so he restored the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother again. And his mother said, "I vowed the silver unto the LORD of mine hand for my son: to make a graven image and an image of metal. Now therefore I give it thee again."
And the LORD spake unto Moses in the fields of Moab by Jordan over against Jericho, saying,
Thus the highest chambers were always narrower than the lowest and middle most of the building:
Behold, the glory of the LORD shall come from far, his face shall burn, that no man shall be able to abide it, his lips shall wag for very indignation, and his tongue shall be as a consuming fire.
Behold, I shall give him for a witness among the folk, for a Prince and Captain unto the people.
whom I led from the ends of the earth by the hand: For I called thee from far, and said unto thee 'Thou shalt be my servant,' I have chosen thee, and will not cast thee away.
But for thy great mercies' sake thou hast not utterly consumed them, neither forsaken them: for thou art a gracious and merciful God.
I gave them my commandments, and showed them my laws: which whoso keepeth shall live in them.
In the thirty seventh year after that Jehoiachin the king of Judah was carried away in the twenty fifth day of the twelfth Month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, the same year that he reigned, gave Jehoiachin the king of Judah his pardon, and let him out of prison,
Righteousness will I set up again in the balance, and judgment in the weights. The tempest of hail shall take away your refuge, that ye have to deceive withal: and the overflowing waters shall break down your strongholds of dissimulation."
The north wind driveth away the rain, even so doth an earnest sober countenance a backbiter's tongue.
I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou hast set my heart at liberty.
Let all the earth fear the LORD; stand in awe of him, all ye that dwell in the world.
If a man will consider all high things, this same is a king over all the children of pride."
When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.
And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, and so to Kiriathjearim that is in Judah, to fetch thence the Ark of the God and LORD that sitteth on the Cherubs, where his name is called on.
and said, "Nay. For God's sake, brethren, do not so wickedly.
and sat him before the LORD and said, "What am I, O LORD God, and what is mine household, that thou hast promoted me thus far?
Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet.
And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there never a Prophet of the LORD's here, more, that we might enquire of him?"
her first man which sent her away may not take her again to be his wife, inasmuch as she is defiled. For that is abomination in the sight of the LORD: that thou defile not the land with sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit.
And Moses and Aaron went from the congregation unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and fell upon their faces. And the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.
When the morning came, his spirit was troubled. And he sent and called for all the soothsayers of Egypt and all the wise men thereof, and told them his dream: but there was none of them that could interpret it unto Pharaoh.
Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah; Bani the Gadite;
For he was nobler man than the three and was their captain. Howbeit he attained not unto those three in acts.
And the third day, when it was painful to them, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took either of them his sword and went into the city boldly, and slew all that was male;
And David saw that Saul was come out, to seek his life, while David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a thicket.
And the prophet Gad said unto David, "Abide not in castles, but depart and go to the land of Judah." Then David departed and came into the forest of Hereth.
and sent messengers unto Abimelech privily saying, "Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem: and behold they set the city against thee.
And made his camels to lie down without the city by a well's side of water, at even: about the time that women come out to draw water.
and his head was brought in a platter, and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.
"'Cursed be he that hindereth the right of the stranger, fatherless and widow.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
And that they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, either raising up the people, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.
God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
The name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail: and she was a woman of good wisdom and beautiful. But the man was churlish and of shrewd conditions and was a Calebite.
"Thou son of man, take up a lamentation upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and say unto him, 'Thou art reputed as a Lion of the Heathen, and as a whalefish in the sea. Thou castest thy waters about thee, thou troublest the waters with thy feet, and stampest in their floods.
Then did Jeremiah call Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote in the book at the mouth of Jeremiah, all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him.
Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.
and saying, 'Alas alas, that great city, that was clothed in raynes, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stone, and pearls:
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "Welcome be the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken: so that peace and truth be kept in my days."
"The whole city crieth unto the LORD with sighing, the souls of the slain make their complaint: But God destroyeth them not for all this,
If she please not her master, so that he hath given her to no man to wife, then shall he let her go free: to sell her unto a strange nation shall he have no power, because he despised her.
And the men that were at the door of the house, they smote with blindness - both small and great, so that they could not find the door.
All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia, when thou comest out of thine ivory palaces in thy beautiful glory.
And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, smite all the males thereof with the edge of the sword,
Beside all this, thou hast sent thy messengers for men out of far countries: and when they came, thou hast bathed, trimmed and set forth thyself of the best fashion.
And it chanced when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah that he brought an ephod in his hand.
For the LORD is high, and to be feared; he is the great King upon all the earth.
Let their table be made a snare to take themselves withal; and let the things that should have been for their wealth be unto them an occasion of falling.
Moreover, it belongeth not to you for to fight this quarrel: but step forth and stand and behold the help of the LORD which is with you: fear not, nor let your heart fail you, O ye of Judah and of Jerusalem. Tomorrow go out to them: for the LORD is with you."
Then all the men which knew that their wives had offered unto strange gods, and a great sort of wives that stood there, yea and all the people that dwelt there in Egypt in the city of Pathros, answered Jeremiah, and said,
Arise now, LORD God in thy resting place - both thou and the Ark of thy strength - and let thy priests put on victory and thy saints rejoice in goodness.
Now therefore thus say unto my servant David, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: I took thee out of the pasture from after sheep, that thou shouldest be captain over my people Israel.
And they served Idols, whereof the LORD had said to them, "Ye shall not do so."
And Saul said, "Because I saw that the people scattered from me, and yet thou camest not within the days appointed - and that the Philistines gathered themselves together to Michmash -
Pass out this week, and then shall this also be given thee for the service which thou shalt serve me yet seven years more.
But it chanced the seventh month after, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah the son of Elishama of the king's blood came, and ten men with him and smote Gedaliah that he died: and so did he to the Jews and the Chaldeans that were with him at Mizphah.
But all the women-children that have not lain with men, keep alive for yourselves.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram and seven yearling lambs without spot.
And the apples that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee. And all things which were dainty, and had in price, are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more.
But they would not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
And after God caused me to wander out of my father's house, I said unto her, 'This kindness shalt thou show unto me in all places where we come, that thou say of me, how that I am thy brother.'"
Then Jacob went unto Isaac his father to Mamre, a principal city, otherwise called Hebron: where Abraham and Isaac sojourned as strangers.
Even so, likewise, when ye speak with tongues, except ye speak words that have signification, how shall it be understood what is spoken? For ye shall but speak in the air.
If it happen that he find him, verily I say unto you, He rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine, which went not astray.
Thus sayeth the LORD God unto these bones: Behold, I will put breath into you, that ye may live.
except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them of the resurrection from death am I judged of you this day."
Hear now therefore, thou willful, that sittest so careless, and speakest thus in thine heart, "I am alone, and without me is there none; I shall never be widow, nor desolate again."
Thou deckest thyself with light, as it were with a garment, and spreadest out the heaven like a curtain -
I will set shepherds also over them, which shall feed them. They shall no more fear and dread, for there shall none of them be lost, sayeth the LORD.
The Emmets are but a weak people, yet gather they their meat together in the harvest.
There was a prophet also, that preached stiffly in the name of the LORD, called Uriah the son of Shemaiah of Kiriathjearim: this man preached also against this city and against this land, according to all as Jeremiah sayeth.
Up, ye rich and idle women, hearken unto my voice. Ye careless cities, mark my words.
For the LORD is angry with all people, and his displeasure is kindled against all the multitude of them, to curse them and to slay them:
Like as a roaring lion and a hungry bear, even so is an ungodly prince over the poor people.
And the priest, the son of Aaron, shall with the Levites have also of the tithes of the Levites, so that the Levites shall bring up the tithes of their tithes unto the house of our God to the chest in the treasure house.
And make of them holy anointing oil even an oil compound after the craft of the apothecary.
The riches that he devoured, shall he vomit out again; for God shall draw them out of his belly.
And as she lay upon him with her words continually vexing of him, his soul was encumbered even unto the death.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
Save me from the lion's mouth, and hear me from among the horns of the unicorns.
He rewardeth me into my bosom, and many other things more doth he, as he may by his power.
and the man whose eye is open hath said; he hath said, which heareth the words of God and seeth the visions of the almighty, which falleth down and his eyes are opened:
Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the Captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh in a hold and bound him with chains and carried him to Babylon.
And the priest shall take the living bird and the cypress wood and the purple and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water,
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and smote him and slew him and buried him in his own house in the wilderness.
And Shimei the son of Gera the son of Benjamin which was of Bahurim, hasted and came with the men of Judah against king David,
partly while all men wondered and gazed at you for the shame and tribulation that was done unto you, and partly while ye became companions of them which so passed their time.
and half Gilead and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which pertain unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, and that unto half the children of Machir by their kindreds.
According to the law which they teach thee and manner of judgment which they tell thee, see that thou do and that thou bow not from that which they show thee, neither to the righthand nor to the left.
"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'If any man will give a singular vow unto the LORD according to the value of his soul,
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God which liveth for evermore.
Yea, the truth is laid in prison, and he that refraineth himself from evil must be spoiled. When the LORD saw this, it displeased him sore that there was nowhere any equity.
Then answered Rachel and Lea and said unto him, "We have no part nor inheritance in our father's house:
Yea, and this have they done unto me also: they have defiled my Sanctuary in that same day, and have unhallowed my Sabbath.
A king that sitteth in judgment, and looketh well about him, driveth away all evil.
So all the rulers, and Johanan the son of Kareah, Azariah the son of Hoshaiah came with all the people, from the least unto the most,
Whoso may deceive, said the voice, let him deceive: Who so may destroy, let him destroy. Up Elam, besiege it O Media, for I will still all their groanings.
The houses of the ungodly shall be overthrown; but the tabernacles of the righteous shall flourish.
A thousand shall fall beside thee, and ten thousand at thy righthand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Were not the black Moors and they of Libya a great host with exceeding many chariots and horsemen? And yet because thou trustedest in the LORD, he delivered them into thine hands.
{To the Chanter, Destroy Not, Michtam of David, when Saul sent to watch the house, to the intent to kill him} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, and defend me from them that rise up against me.
He holdeth back his stool, that it can not be seen, and spreadeth his clouds before it.
and go unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and ask, and they shall show thee how to judge.
And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed over an earthen vessel of running water.
And when David had made an end of offering of burnt offerings and of peace offerings, he blessed the people with the name of the LORD.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, "Ask counsel, I pray thee, of the LORD today."
And Samson took his rest till midnight, and arose at midnight took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two side posts, and rent them off, bars and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of a hill that lieth before Hebron.
and bringeth them not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the dwelling place of the LORD, blood shall be imputed unto that man, as though he had shed blood, and that man shall perish from among his people.
The ships shall come out of the coast of Kittim and subdue Assyria and subdue Eber, and he himself shall perish at the last."
And take the anointing oil and anoint the habitation and all that is therein, and hallow it and all that belong thereto: that it may be holy.
"Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterward be gathered unto thy people."
Howbeit, that is not first which is spiritual: but that which is natural, and then that which is spiritual.
Yet many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.
And thou shalt put the table without the veil, and candlestick over against the table, upon the south side of the habitation. And put the table on the north side.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and thunder were ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart: both he and his servants.
To use two manner of weights, or two manner of measures, both these are abominable unto the LORD.
Then said he unto me, "Thou son of man: thinkest thou these bones may live again?" And I answered, "O LORD God, thou knowest."
duke Magdiel, duke Iram. These be the dukes of Idumaea in their habitations, in the land of their possessions. This Esau is the father of the Edomites.
The vessel that the Potter made of clay, brake among his hands: So he began anew, and made another vessel, according to his mind.
Lo, thou shalt call an unknown people: and a people that had no knowledge of thee, shall run unto thee, because of the LORD thy God, the holy one of Israel which glorifieth thee.
I will make a man dearer than fine gold, and a man to be more worth than a golden wedge of Ophir.
His heart is as hard as stone, and as fast as the stythie that the hammer man smiteth upon.
He turneth not his eyes away from the righteous; he setteth up kings in their throne, and confirmeth them, so that they alway sit therein.
Your remembrance shall be like unto the dust, and your pride shall be turned to clay.
And they divided the land between them to walk through it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another by himself.
In those days the LORD began to send against Judah: Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
The feast of sweet bread shalt thou keep, and seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed in the month of Abib: for in the month of Abib thou camest out of Egypt.
And he did that which displeased the LORD, for he walked in the way of Jeroboam and in his sin wherewith he made Israel sin.
And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign upon all that thy soul desireth and shalt be king over Israel.
Thrice in a year shall all your men children appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel:
And Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, came with his two sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness: where he had pitched his tent by the mount of God.
And the temple was full of the smoke of the glory of God and of his power, and no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled.
And Balak did as Balaam said. And Balak and Balaam offered on every altar an ox and a ram.
and this toward the North, is the priests' that wait upon the altar: these are the sons of Zadok, which of the sons of Levi come near to the LORD, to minister unto him."
If I take the wings of the morning, and remain in the uttermost part of the sea,
Therefore, O thou son of man, show thou the household of Israel a temple, that they may be ashamed of their wickedness, and measure themselves an example thereat.
When I call upon thee, thou hearest me, and endowest my soul with much strength.
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and doeth the thing that is wicked, he shall die therefore.
For your great reproof and shame, shall they have joy, that ye may have part with them. For they shall have double possession in their land and everlasting joy shall be with them.
Nevertheless Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the Priest to the Prophet Jeremiah, saying, "O pray thou unto the LORD our God for us."
For this shall every saint make his prayer unto thee in due season; but in the great water-floods they shall not come nigh him.
Tell nothing into the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Be glad, O ye righteous, and rejoice in the LORD; and be joyful, all ye that are true of heart.
Let them be wiped out of the book of the living, and not be written among the righteous.
If he deliver and grant pardon, who will judge or condemn? But if he hide away his countenance, who will turn it about again, whether it be to the people or to any man?
But of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed nations and their lands,
Then said the king to Doeg, "Turn thou and smite the priests." And Doeg the Edomite turned and ran upon the priests, and slew that same day four score and five persons that did wear each man a linen ephod.
And Ahimelech answered the king, and said, "Who is so faithful among all thy servants as David and thereto the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is had in honour in thine house?
And five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight, and your enemies shall fall before you upon the sword.
and to offer the wood at times appointed, and the firstfruits. Think thou upon me, O my God, for the best!
And then he gathered together all the lords of Israel with the priests and the Levites.
And then he departed thence, and digged another well for the which they strove not: therefore called he it Rehoboth, saying, "The LORD hath now made us room, and we are increased upon the earth."
Reuben shall live and shall not die: but his people shall be few in number. This is the blessing of Judah."
Then Abimelech rose up betimes in the morning and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears, and the men were sore afraid.
And I sent hornets before you and ye cast out before you: even the two kings of the Amorites: but not with your own sword or with your own bow.
"Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain until the morning.
And, 'Whosoever sweareth by the altar it is nothing: but whosoever sweareth by the offering that lieth on the altar offendeth.'
So Jeremiah stuck fast in the mire. Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, being a chamberlain in the king's court, understood that they had cast Jeremiah in to the dungeon:
about whom when I came to Jerusalem the high priests, and elders of the Jews informed me, and desired to have judgment against him.
And he stretched forth his hand over his disciples, and said, "Behold my mother and my brethren.
Behold, I will bring them again from out of the north land, and gather them from the ends of the world, with the blind and lame that are among them, with the women that be great with child, and such as be also delivered: and the company of them that come again, shall be great.
For thy sake also we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
As for such as be fained hypocrites, they heap up wrath for themselves: for they call not upon him, though they be his prisoners.
And Amnon lay down and made himself sick. And when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto him, "Let Tamar my sister come and make me a couple of fritters in my sight, that I may eat of her hand."
{A Psalm and song of the sons of Korah} Her foundations are upon the holy hills;
and to wait every morning to thank and praise the LORD, and likewise at evening.
Then said Amnon unto Tamar, "Bring the meat into the chamber that I may eat it of thine hand." And Tamar took the fritters which she had made, and brought them into the chamber to Amnon her brother,
Behold, before God am I, even as thou, for I am fashioned and made even of the same mould.
And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it.
Thereto, all the rulers of the priests with the people trespassed apace after all manner of abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
And the ninth day of the fourth month of that year, there was so great hunger in the city, that there was no sustenance for the people of the land.
that all nations of the earth may know that the LORD, he is God and there is none other.
If a man will offer a peace offering unto the LORD and separate a vow or a freewill offering of the oxen or the flock, it must be without deformity, that it may be accepted. There may be no blemish therein:
And he went to battle against the Philistines and brake down the walls of Gath, and the walls of Jabneh and the walls of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines.
And the priest answered David and said, "There is no common bread under mine hand - but there is hallowed bread, if the young men have abstained only from women."
and Zadok the son of Ahitub and Abimelech the son of Abiathar were the priests, and Shavsha was scribe,
And he said, "My lord king, my servant deceived me. For thy servant said: that I would have mine ass saddled to ride thereon, for to go to the king, because thy servant is lame.
And so were the kindred of the writers that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites and Sucathites which are the Kenites, that came of Hammath the father of Beth Rechab.
And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and the other half he sprinkled on the altar.
And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons begotten of Anak.
Thy high stomach and the pride of thy heart have deceived thee; Because thou wilt dwell in the holes of stony rocks, and have the high mountains in possession. Nevertheless, though thy nest were as high as the Eagles, yet will I cast thee down, sayeth the LORD.
The same time said Jesus to the multitude, "Ye be come out as it were unto a thief, with swords and staves for to take me: daily I sat among you teaching in the temple, and ye took me not.
In those days, and at that time, sayeth the LORD, the children of Israel shall come; they and the children of Judah, weeping and making haste, and shall seek the LORD their God.
But and if, when thou comest unto my kindred, they will not give thee one; then shalt thou bear no peril of mine oath.'
And if that Prophet be deceived, when he telleth him a word: then I the LORD myself have deceived that Prophet, and will stretch forth mine hand upon him, to root him out of my people of Israel:
and say, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O Gog thou chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: behold, I will upon thee,
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
Consider, and hear me, O LORD my God. Lighten mine eyes, that I sleep not in death,
One poor man oppressing another by violence, is like a continual rain that destroyeth the fruit.
For thus sayeth the LORD, as touching Shallum the son of Josiah king of Judah, which reigned after his father, and is carried out of this place, "He shall never come hither again,
The just delighteth in doing the thing that is right, but the workers of wickedness abhor the same.
"Therefore, I thought verily that I should have died in my nest: and that my days should have been as many as the sands of the sea.
but make the fool an answer to his foolishness, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
And they slew plenteously throughout all Israel, and did eat and drink before the LORD the same day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king of Israel the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD, to be ruler, and Zadok to be the priest.
For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?
And the Angel commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go and rear up an altar unto the LORD, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
Forty stripes he shall give him and not pass: lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes.
The rest of the acts of Uzziah, both first and last, did Isaiah the prophet the son of Amos write.
For when the captains of the chariots perceived that it was not the king of Israel, they turned back again from him.
And when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, they thought, "It is the king of Israel!" - And therefore compassed about him, to fight. But Jehoshaphat cried out, and the LORD helped him, and God tysed them away from him.
For the LORD thy God goeth with you to fight for you against your enemies and to save you.'
and came up and told his father and his mother, and said, "I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines. And now give her me to wife."
And David according to the saying of Gad went up as the LORD commanded.
The wild beasts shall worship me: the dragon, and the Ostrich. For I shall give water in the wilderness, and streams in the desert: that I may give drink to my people, whom I choose.
Now when I came to the Potter's house, I found him making his work upon a wheel.
For he shall deliver thee from the snare of the hunter, and from the noisome pestilence.
{To the Chanter, a Psalm of David} Deliver me, o LORD, from the evil men, and preserve me from the wicked men,
If a Levite come out of any of thy cities or any place of Israel, where he is a sojourner, and come with all the lust of his heart unto the place which the LORD hath chosen:
And the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, and so they pitched with their standards, and so they journeyed: every man in his kindred, and in the household of his father.
Then Jacob rose up and set his sons and wives up upon camels,
Whoso beareth false witness against his neighbour, he is a very spear, a sword, and a sharp arrow.
All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O LORD, and shall glorify thy name.
O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt; thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
Confounded be all they that worship images, and delight in their idols; worship him all ye gods.
In all the land were none found so fair, as the daughters of Job, and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.
so that when he heareth the words of this curse, he bless himself in his heart saying, 'I shall have peace; I will therefore work after the lust of mine own heart, that the drunken may perish with the thirsty.'
And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment; and therewith stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
"Behold, unto these unreasonable words of thine will I make answer. Should God be reproved of man?
God hath given me over to the ungodly, and delivered me into the hands of the wicked.
Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem over the corner gate, and over the valley gate, and over other corners, and made them strong.
And we will come upon him in one place or other, where we shalt find him, and we will pitch a field against him, even as thick as the dew falleth on the ground. And there shall not one of them be left, neither he nor any of all that are with him.
The children of Benjamin of Geba, dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, Bethel, and in their villages.
And then she took an image and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow stuffed with goat's hair under the head of it, and covered it with a cloth.
Lack I madmen, that ye have brought this fellow to play the madman in my presence? He shall not come into my house."
They are shameless dogs, that be never satisfied. The shepherds also in like manner have no understanding, but every man turneth his own way, everyone after his own covetousness, with all his power.
And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, unto the end of them.
The toes of the feet that were part of iron and part of clay, signifieth: that it shall be a kingdom partly strong and partly broken.
And in this year of horns blowing ye shall return, every man unto his possession again.
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And that because they have forsaken me, and unhallowed this place, and have offered in it unto strange gods: whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known. They have filled this place also with the blood of innocents,
The children of Judah: Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez and Sarah - but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan. The children of Perez, Hezron, and Hamul.
Then was Jacob wroth with Rachel saying, "Am I in God's stead which keepeth from thee the fruit of thy womb?"
Now Daniel intreated the king for Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, so that he made them rulers over all the offices in the land of Babylon: But Daniel himself remained still in the court by the king.
In the one mound were very good figs, even like as those that be first ripe. In the other mound were very naughty figs, which might not be eaten they were so evil.
There shall Zion be seen, the head city of our solemn feasts. There shall thine eyes see Jerusalem, that glorious habitation; the tabernacle that never shall remove, whose nails shall never be taken out; world without end, whose cords everyone shall never corrupt.
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy father's sister, for she is thy father's next kin.
Insomuch that the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a lad, he began to seek after the God of David his father. And in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of hill altars, groves, carved Images, and Images of metal:
Four thousand were porters and four thousand praised the LORD with such instruments as David had made to praise withal.
Thy two breasts are like two twins of young roes.
Yea, he hath delivered my soul from destruction, and my life, that it seeth the light.'
And speak unto the children of Israel saying, 'If a man die and have no son, ye shall turn his inheritance unto his daughter.
Then went Jacob to Isaac his father, and he felt him and said the voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.
And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, and out of the kindreds of Judah: which young man was a Levite and sojourned there.
And Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the congregation of the multitude of the children of Israel.
For the LORD had closed to all the matrices of the house of Abimelech, because of Sara, Abraham's wife.
"Babylon hath been in the LORD's hand a golden cup, that maketh all lands drunken. Of her wine have all people drunken, therefore are they out of their wits.
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
For all that do such things are abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth cast them out before thee.
But my people hath so forgotten me, that they have made sacrifice unto vain gods. And while they followed their own ways they are come out of the high street, and gone into a foot way not used to be trodden.
Whoso singeth a song to a heavy heart, clotheth him with rags in the cold, and poureth vinegar upon chalk.
Thus the covenant that ye have made with death shall be done away: and the condition that ye made with hell, shall not stand. Yea, when the sore plague goeth forth, ye shall be trodden down under it.
who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry. The LORD looseth men out of prison;
When all they that heard me, called me happy, and when all they that saw me, wished me good.
And the people rejoiced that they were so willing: for with a pure heart they were willing unto the LORD. And thereto David the king rejoiced with great gladness.
Be, therefore, exceeding strong that ye take heed to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye bow not aside therefrom, to the righthand or to the left:
In my tribulation I called to the LORD, and cried to my God. And he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry entered into his ears.
Then said Judah to his brethren, "What availeth it that we slay our brother, and keep his blood secret?
And the said season Hezekiah rent off the doors of the temple of the LORD and the pillars, which the said Hezekiah king of Judah covered over, and gave them to the king of Assyria.
Then the highest priest rent his clothes and said, "What need we any further of witness?
according to the number and weight of every one. And the weight was all written up at the same time.
The rest of the acts of Manasseh and all he did and his sin that he sinned, are written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
And he said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, whence comest thou and whither wilt thou go?" And she answered, "I flee from my mistress Sarai."
And king David sent to Zadok and Abiathar the priests, saying, "Speak unto the elders of Judah and say, 'Why should ye be the last that should bring again the king to his house, seeing that such tidings is come from all Israel unto the king, even to his house?
and said, "This fellow said, I can destroy the temple of God, and build the it again in three days."
Great plagues remain for the ungodly; but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD, mercy embraceth him on every side.
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: At the same time shall many things come into thy mind, so that thou shalt imagine mischief,
{To the chanter, upon the rose of witness, Michtam of David, for to teach: when he fought against Mesopotamia, and Syria of Zoba: and when Joab turned back, and slew twelve thousand Edomites in the valley of Salt} O God, thou hast cast us out and scattered us abroad; thou that hast been so sore displeased at us, comfort us again.
All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Though it were put up again into the sheath, yet will I punish thee, in the land where thou wast nourished and born,
Happy are the people that be in such a case; yea, blessed are the people, which have the LORD for their God.
From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.
And it chanced, as Obadiah went in the way, that Elijah met him. And Obadiah knew him and fell on his face and said, "Art not thou my lord Elijah?"
And when Araunah looked and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out: and bowed himself to the king flat on his face to the ground,
Shall not thy vain words come yet to an end? Or, hast thou yet any more to say?
Isaiah said to them, "So shall you say to your master: 'Thus sayeth the LORD: be not afraid of the words thou heardest, with which the young men of the king of Assyria have railed on me.
And say unto them, "This is the offering which ye shall offer unto the LORD: two lambs of a year old without spot, day by day, to be a burnt offering perpetually.
And then went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal that lieth before the going up to Adummim, which is of the south side of the River. And then went along to the water of Enshemesh, and ended at the well of Rogel.
And there stood folk out of all quarters of all the tribes of Israel, in the congregation of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew swords.
even all the kingdom of Og in Bashan which reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei which same remained yet of the rest of the Rephaim. But Moses smote them and destroyed them.
And your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, so that your south quarter shall be from the side of the salt sea eastward,
But Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons save daughters. And these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah;
And the children of Levi did as Moses had said. And there were slain of the people the same day, about three thousand men.
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel and said, "God will not fail but visit you: see therefore that ye carry my bones hence."
The blessings of thy father were strong: even as the blessings of my elders, after the desire of the highest in the world. And these blessings shall fall on the head of Joseph, and on the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
Behold, I will return the shadow of Ahaz's dial, that now is laid out with the Sun, and bring it ten degrees backward.'" So the Sun turned ten degrees backward, the which he was desended afore.
For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will let peace into her, like a water flood, and the might of the Heathen like a flowing stream. Then shall ye suck, ye shall be born upon her sides, and be joyful upon her knees.
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt which came out of his loins - beside his son's wives - were all together sixty and six souls.
Then Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley Gerar and dwelt there.
into the valley of the children of Hinnom, which lieth before the port that is made of brick, and show them there the words, that I shall tell thee,
And the LORD's sword shall be full of blood, and be rusty with the fatness and blood of lambs and goats, with the fatness of the kidneys of wethers. For the LORD shall kill a great offering in Bozrah. and a great slaughter in the land of Idumaea.
To speak of brother Apollos: I greatly desired him to come unto you with the brethren, but his mind was not at all to come at this time. Howbeit, he will come when he shall have convenient time.
I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live; I will praise my God while I have my being.
Therefore will I remember the works of the LORD, and call to mind thy wonders of old time.
But the wise answered, saying, 'Not so, lest there be not enough for us and you, but go rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.'
The multitude hangeth upon great men; and every man favoureth him that giveth rewards.
Liberality is a precious stone unto him that hath it; for wheresoever he becometh, he prospereth.
And even so did these nations fear the LORD and serve their images thereto: and so did their children, and their children's children too. Even as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.
And this is the cause of the slayer that shall flee thither and be saved: If he smite his neighbour ignorantly and hated him not in time past;
But when the ambassadors of the lords of Babylon were sent to him to enquire of the wonder that chanced in the land, God left him: to tempt him, that all that was in his heart might be known.
And as Elisha sat in his house and the elders with him, the king sent one from him. But yer the messenger came at him, he said to the elders, "See you not how the son of this murderer hath sent, to take off mine head? Be circumspect therefore when the messenger cometh, and shut the door, and thrust him back therewith: for the sound of his master's feet followeth him."
Elihu spake moreover, and said,
And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit that was in the wood, and cast a mighty great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.
And David arose, and he and the six hundred men that were with him went unto Achish, the son of Maoch, king of Gath.
"Moreover, all these curses shall come upon thee and shall follow thee and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed: because thou hearkenedest not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and ordinances which he commanded thee;
The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship,
And Micah said unto him, "Dwell with me, and be unto me a father and a priest. And I will give thee ten silverlings by year and raiment of all sorts, and thy meat and drink."
Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath;
But in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to make his name dwell in, there thou shalt offer Passover at evening about the going down of the sun, even in the season that thou camest out of Egypt.
And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
And their meat and drink offerings unto the bullocks, rams and lambs, according to their number and to the manner.
And Eleazar the priest took the brazen censers which they that were burnt had offered, and beat them and fastened them upon the altar,
for I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
Woe be unto them that seek so deep, to hide their imagination before the LORD, which rehearse their counsels in the darkness, and say, "Who seeth us, or who knoweth us?"
"Speak now therefore unto whole Judah, and to them that dwell at Jerusalem. Thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I am devising a plague for you, and am taking a thing in hand against you. Therefore let every man turn from his evil way, take upon you the thing that is good, and do right.
At the same time will I give unto Gog a place to be buried in, in Israel: even the valley, wherethrough men go from the east to the seaward: Those that travel thereby, shall abhor it. There shall Gog and all his people be buried: and it shall be called the valley of the people of Gog.
Silver is tried in the mould, and gold in the furnace, and so is a man, when he is openly praised to his face.
The princes shall come out of Egypt; the Ethiopians land shall stretch out her hands unto God.
Wherefore, I will make all your substance and treasure be spoiled, for the great sin that ye have done upon your high places throughout all the coasts of your land.
And when he was in tribulation he besought the LORD his God, and humbled himself exceedingly before the God of his fathers,
Behold, I am as the new wine, which hath no vent, and bursteth the new vessels in sunder.
These sought the register of their birth, and found none, therefore were they put from the priesthood.
The children of the doorkeepers: The children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, and the children of Shobai, all together a hundred and nine and thirty.
And the LORD was angry with Israel, and made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD were consumed.
And they gathered their brethren and purified themselves, and then went at the commandment of the king by the word of the LORD, for to cleanse the house of the LORD.
And when Jehoram was up upon the kingdom of his father and settled, he slew all his other brethren with the sword, and divers of the lords of Israel thereto.
And the Levites and the children of the Kohathites and of the Korahites stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.
And the people answered Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve and his voice we will obey."
whether it be blind, broken, wounded or have a wen, or be mangy or scabbed; see that ye offer no such unto the LORD, nor put an offering of any such upon the altar unto the LORD.
And of all my sons - for the LORD hath given me many sons - he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit on the seat of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
And the LORD said unto Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh, to question with thee about her son which is sick. This wise and this wise answer her." And when she came, she feigned herself to be another woman.
And if there be a stranger with you or be among you in your generations, and will offer an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: even as ye do, so he shall do.
And Abigail hasted and arose and gat her up upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that went at her feet, and went after the messengers of David and was his wife.
And when he was come to Jerusalem toward the king, the king said unto him, "Wherefore went not thou with me Mephibosheth?"
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt:
Then we cried unto the LORD and he heard our voices, and sent an angel and hath fetched us out of Egypt. And behold, we are in Kadesh, a city hard by the borders of thy country:
came unto me, and stood and said unto me, 'Brother Saul, look up.' And that same hour I received my sight and saw him.
And fast by him shall the tribe of Asher pitch; and the captain over the sons of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran:
And after I came from Mesopotamia, Rachel died upon my hand in the land of Canaan, by the way: when I had but a field's breadth to go unto Ephrata. And I buried her there in the way to Ephrata which is now called Bethlehem."
For they stand not in the gaps, neither made they a hedge for the house of Israel, that men might abide the peril in the day of the LORD.
They that go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters,
And Peter followed him afar off, unto the high priest's place: and went in, and sat with the servants to see the end.
There shall men dwell, and there shall be no more cursing: but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
And Uzziah the king continued a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a house at liberty: howbeit, he was cast out of the house of the LORD. And Jotham his son had the governance of the king's house and judged the people of the land.
Then thou shalt see, and shalt have plenty: thine heart shall wonder and break out in joy, when the multitude of the sea are turned to thee, and the armies of the heathen are come unto thee.
Then said the princes unto the king, "Sir, we beseech you let this man be put to death; For thus he discourageth the hands of the soldiers that be in this city, and the hands of all the people, when he speaketh such words unto them. This man verily laboureth not for peace of the people, but mischief."
Yea, the dead bodies of this people shall be eaten up of the fowls of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
O Israel, trust in the LORD; for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider; incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people, and thy father's house.
And the Angel of the LORD came again the second time and touched him, and said, "Up and eat, for thou hast a long Journey to go."
And he built towers in the wilderness and digged many wells. For he had much cattle, both in the valley and also in the plain; and plowmen and vinedressers in the mountains and in Carmel, for he loved husbandry.
Moreover, see: God is with us in the forward; and his priests, and the roaring trumpets to cry alarm against you. Ye children of Israel, fight not with the LORD God of your fathers: for it will not prosper with you."
But the LORD's delight is in them that fear him, and put their trust in his mercy.
And Micaiah said, "If thou come again in peace, then hath not the LORD spoken in me." And Micaiah said moreover, "Hearken to, ye people, every one of you."
And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king's mother, and the king's wives, and his chamberlains, and the mighty of the land carried he away from Jerusalem to Babylon.
And of the Levites, Ahijah had the oversight of the treasure of the house of God, and of the treasure of the dedicated things.
And David said to Salomon, "My son, I had in mine heart to build a house unto the name of the LORD my God.
But the under-captain, willing to save Paul, kept them from their purpose, and commanded that they that could swim should cast themselves first into the sea, and escape to land.
And Saul said, "They have brought them from the Amalekites. For the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God. And the remnant we have destroyed."
And all the multitude brought him without the host and stoned him with stones, and he died as the LORD commanded Moses.
For the land shall be left of them and shall have pleasure in her Sabbaths, while she lieth waste without them, and they shall make an atonement for their misdeeds, because they despised my laws and their souls refused mine ordinances.
Vain things they see, and tell lies to maintain their preachings withal. 'The LORD,' say they, 'hath spoken it' - when in very deed the LORD hath not sent them.
Wherefore do after mine ordinances and keep my laws and do them, that ye may dwell in the land in safety.
and said unto them, "Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
Unto the godly there ariseth up light in the darkness: he is merciful, loving and righteous.
And he carried away them that had escaped the sword to Babylon, where they were servants to him and his children, until the kingdom of Persia began to rule;
{To the Chanter, Michtam of David} If your minds be upon righteousness in deed, then judge the thing that is right, O ye sons of men.
My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
There is no darkness, nor thick shadow, that can hide the wicked doers from him.
"As for you, turn you, and get you hence, I pray you - seeing I cannot see one wise man among you.
And the servants of Achish said of him, "Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing unto this fellow in dances saying, 'Saul hath slain his thousand, and David his ten thousand'?"
I wasted them and so clouted them, that they could not arise: but fell under my feet.
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy son's daughter or thy daughter's daughter, for that is thine own privity.
And when the year was out, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and fetched him to Babylon with the goodly vessels of the house of the LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Hezro the Carmelite and Naarai the son of Ezbai;
Then Abishai the brother of Joab, the son of Zeruiah: he was a captain over the three, and he lifted up his spear against three hundred and slew them, and was named with the three.
"And the LORD will smite thee with the botches of Egypt and the hemorrhoids, scall and manginess, that thou shalt not be healed thereof.
then thou shalt bring unto an ox, a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half a hin of oil.
And when ye see that the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in a row, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man a wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and get you unto the land of Benjamin."
The weak have ye not holden up, the sick have ye not healed: the broken have ye not bound together, the outcasts have ye not brought again. The lost have ye not sought, but churlishly and cruelly have ye ruled them.
And they made a bond both of them together before the LORD. And David tarried still in the thicket, and Jonathan went to his house.
And he called Gideon "Jerubbaal" the same time, saying "Let Baal strive with him because he hath broken down his altar."
And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the strongest of them, and commanded them saying, "Go and smite the inhabiters of Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, both women and children.
and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab in the top of Pisgah which boweth toward the wilderness.
But and if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time's past, then because his master hath not kept him, he shall pay ox for ox, and the dead shall be his own."
"When the skin of any man's flesh is burnt with fire that it be raw and there appear, in the burning, a glistering white that is somewhat reddish or altogether white,
Good fortune and prosperity will I give them, and unto all that be round about my hill. A prosperous shower and rain will I send them in due season,
And Jesus said unto him, "Thou hast seen him, and he it is that talketh with thee."
and I gave the evidence unto Baruch the son of Neriah, the son of Maaseiah, in the sight of Hananel my cousin, and in the presence of the witnesses that be named in the evidence, and before all the Jews that were thereby in the court of the prison.
Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir, which Esau is called Edom.
The eldest of them was called Oholah and her youngest sister Oholibah. These two were mine, and bare sons and daughters. Their names were, Samaria, and that was Oholah: and Jerusalem, that was Oholibah.
And when Jacob saw them, he said, "This is God's host," and called the name of that same place Mahanaim.
For thou hast comforted thyself in thy deceitfulness, and hast said, "No man seeth me." Thine own wisdom and cunning hath deceived thee, in that thou hast said, "I am alone, and without me there is none."
"Thou son of man, when the land sinneth against me and goeth forth in wickedness: I will stretch out mine hand upon it, and destroy all the provision of their bread, and send dearth upon them, to destroy man and beast in the land.
after the time that king Jechoniah, and his Queen, his chamberlains the princes of Judah and Jerusalem the workmasters of Jerusalem were departed thither.
For like as the ground bringeth forth fruit, and as the garden shooteth forth seed; So shall the LORD God cause righteousness and the fear of God to flourish forth before all the Heathen.
For me they seek day by day; and will know my ways, as a people that doth righteousness, and hath not forsaken the equity of their God.
The LORD God hath opened mine ear; therefore can I not say nay, nor withdraw myself.
O turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Bow down thine ear to me; make haste to deliver me. And be thou my strong rock, and a house of defense, that thou mayest save me.
All the cattle of Cedar shall be gathered unto thee, the rams Nebaioth shall serve thee, to be offered upon mine altar, which I have chosen, and in the house of my glory which I have garnished.
And the LORD stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines and the Arabians that border on the black Moors.
And see here, Amariah the priest which is head over you in all matters of the LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, a ruler in the house of Judah, he is over all causes concerning the king, with officers of the Levites before you. Take courage to you and go upon it, and the LORD shall be with the good."
and took away the altars of strangers and the hill altars, and brake the Images and cut down the groves,
What knowest thou, that we know not? What understandest thou, but we can the same?
And Asa, and the people that was with him, followed after them as far as Gerar. And the black Moors were overthrown, that there bode none alive of them, but were destroyed of the LORD and of his Host. And they carried away a mighty great prey.
And he beat the Moabites, and the Moabites became David's servants and paid him tribute.
and a thousand men of Benjamin with him, and Ziba the servant of the house of Saul and his fifteen sons and twenty servants with him. And they whipt over Jordan before the king.
The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. The sons of Mahli: Eleazar and Kish.
And when David was come to his house to Jerusalem, he took the ten wives his concubines that he had left behind him to keep the house, and put them in ward and ministered all things unto them: but lay no more with them. And so they were enclosed unto the day of the death of them, and lived a widow's life.
And moreover, the LORD will deliver Israel with thee into the hands of the Philistines. And tomorrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me, and the LORD shall give the host of Israel into the hands of the Philistines."
He beat the Philistines even unto Gaza and the coasts thereof, both in castles of garrisons and strong cities too.
and upon the nobles of the children of Israel he set not his hand. And when they had seen God they ate and drank.
And he went up thence, to the inhabiters of Debir, whose name in the old time was Kiriathsepher.
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, in the fruit of thy cattle and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
"Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel to possess.
She maketh cloth of silk and selleth it, and delivereth a girdle unto the merchant.
But they mocked the messengers of God and despised their words and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD so arose against his people that it was past remedy.
In the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.
When Lea saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
For the LORD hath made Egypt drunken with the spirit of error, and they shall use it in all matters: even like as a drunken man goeth spewing about.
The words that the LORD spake unto the prophet Jeremiah, concerning Babylon, and the land of the Chaldeans:
Therefore shall sorrows come upon him, as upon a woman that travaileth. An indiscreet son is he: for he considereth not, that he should not have been able to have endured in the time of his birth,
The youngest and least shall grow into a thousand, and the simplest into a strong people. I the LORD shall shortly bring this thing to pass in his time.
Clouds and darkness are round about him; righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his seat.
{The Instruction of David, a prayer when he was in the cave} I cry unto the LORD with my voice; yea, even unto the LORD do I make my supplication.
{Shin} The princes persecute me without cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
Thus do I look for thee in thy Sanctuary, that I might behold thy power and glory.
And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank in the nose of David, Hanun, and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire the chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia and out of Arammaacah and out of Zobah.
Then came he that had received five talents, and brought other five talents saying, 'Master, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: Behold, I have gained with them five talents more.'
He that should have been lost, gave me a good word, and the widow's heart praised me.
And he built altars in the very house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put my name."
And Isaiah was scarce gone out into the middle of the city, but that the word of the LORD came to him, saying,
For I have dwelt in no house since I brought out the children of Israel unto this day: But have gone from tent to tent and from one tabernacle to another.
And when his father was come unto the woman, Samson made there a feast, for so used the young men to do.
For it was thrust into Ahaziah of God to go to Joram, and that when he was come, he should go out with Joram against Jehu the son of Nimshi whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Then said Joab, "I may not stand tarrying with thee. And therewith he took three spears in his hand and thrust them into the heart of Absalom, while he was yet alive on the body of the tree.
"Speak unto Aaron and his sons and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, 'Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel or stranger in Israel that will offer his offering: whatsoever vow or freewill offering it be which they will offer unto the LORD for a burnt offering to reconcile them selves,
And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasure of the king's house, and hostages thereto: and then returned to Samaria again.
Then David asked the LORD again. And the LORD answered him and said, "Up, and go to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hands."
For as long as the son of Jesse lieth upon the earth, thou shalt not be established, nor yet thy kingdom; wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he is the child of death."
If he came alone, he shall go out alone: If he came married, his wife shall go out with him.
let the priest look upon it. If the hair in that brightness be changed to white and it also appear lower than the other skin, then it is a leprosy that is broken out in the place of the burning. And the priest shall judge him unclean, for it is a leprosy.
And they went - as many as their hearts couraged them and as many as their spirits made them willing - and brought heave offerings unto the LORD, to the making of the tabernacle of witness and for all his uses and for the holy vestments.
I bring forth floods in the hills, and wells in the plain fields. I turn the wilderness to rivers, and the dry land to conduits of water.
Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea;
Twelve years were they subject to king Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year rebelled.
And Uzziah was wroth and had cense in his hand to offer, and in his indignation against the priest, the leprosy sprang in his forehead before the priests in the house of the LORD, even beside the incense altar.
The generation that think themselves clean, shall not be cleansed from their filthiness.
So is this great and wide sea also, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: What time as I shall cleanse you from all your offenses, then will I make the cities to be occupied again, and will repair the places that be decayed.
This shall he do, seeking help and succor at the mighty Idols and strange gods. Such as receive him, and take him for God, he shall give them great worship and power: yea and make them lords of the multitude, and give them the land with rewards.
For the LORD loveth the thing that is right; he forsaketh not his saints, but they are preserved forever. The unrighteous shall be punished; as for the seed of the ungodly, it shall be rooted out.
Hope thou in the LORD, and keep his way. And he shall promote thee, that thou shalt possess the land; when the ungodly shall perish, thou shalt see it.
For who is he among the clouds, that may be compared unto the LORD? Yea what is he among the gods, that shall be like unto the LORD?
Hearken unto my voice, O LORD, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear me.
And they walked in the ordinance of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel, and in the things which the kings of Israel had made.
When the grass is withered, the flower falleth away. Even so is the people as grass, when the breath of the LORD bloweth upon them.
A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place.
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye will fall upon the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD, and therefore the LORD will not be with you."
Then said the king of Israel to Jehoshaphat, "Change thee and get thee to battle, but see thou have thine own apparel upon thee." And the king of Israel changed himself, and they went to battle.
Then began to arise out of the city, a pillar of smoke. And the Benjamites looked back: and behold, the wasting of the whole city began to ascend up to heaven.
When thou goest out with the host against thine enemies, keep thee from all wickedness; for the Lord is among you.
And see that thou do according to that which they of that place which the LORD hath chosen show thee, and see that thou observe to do according to all that they inform thee.
Look unto Abraham your father and unto Sarah that bare you: how I called him only, and blessed him and multiplied him.
Let them be gathered and come together, let them draw nigh hither, that are escaped of the people: Have they any understanding, that set up the stocks of their Idols, and praise unto a god, that cannot help them?
Then they said one to another, "We have verily sinned against our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul when he besought us, and would not hear him: therefore is this trouble come upon us."
and went and sat her out of sight a great way; as it were a bowshot off. For she said, "I will not see the lad die." And she sat down out of sight, and lift up her voice and wept.
With the clean thou shalt be clean, and with the froward thou shalt be froward. {TYNDALE: With the pure thou shalt be pure, and with the froward thou shalt be froward also.}
{A Psalm of David} My song shall be of mercy and judgment, yea unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
The sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Hashabiah and Mattithiah-Shimei, six, at the hands of their fathers Jeduthun, with harps: which Jeduthun prophesied for to thank and praise the LORD.
because they would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD their God. But transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would neither hear nor do.
And the Philistines invaded the cities in the low country and the south of Judah: and took Bethshemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth and Socoh with the towns longing thereto, and Timnah with the towns of the same, and Gimzo with her towns, and dwelt therein.
But he put not down the hill altars. Nevertheless, Asa's heart was whole with the LORD all his days.
and yet I have straw and provender for our asses, and bread and wine for me and thy handmaid, and thy lad that are with thy servant, and lack nothing."
And as Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem, he went to again and went among the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them again unto the LORD God of their fathers.
when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.
And he did that was evil-favored in the sight of the LORD, like in all things as did his fathers.
And thus as David and his men went by the way, Shimei went along on the hill's side over against him, and cursed as he went, and threw stones at him and cast dust.
and the meat offering thereof, two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil to be a sacrifice unto the LORD of a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereto, the fourth deal of a hin of wine.
And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him. And he perceived it not; neither when she lay down, neither when she rose up.
And the king said, "It needeth thee not to speak any more, for I have said that thou and Ziba shall divide the lands between you."
And Joash said unto all that stood by him, "Will ye fight for Baal, or will ye be his defenders? He that striveth for him shall die this morning. If he be a god, let him strive with him that cast down his altar!"
If thou lend thy brother any manner succour, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch a pledge:
These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: All that have fins and scales.
And the eighth day let her take two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest unto the door of the tabernacle of witness.
that drive away the ass of the fatherless; that take the widow's ox for a pledge;
The children of Asher in their kindreds were: Imnah, of whom cometh the kindred of the Imnites; and Ishvi, of whom cometh the kindred of the Ishvites; and of Beriah cometh the kindred of Beriites.
And after a while, came unto him they that stood by, and said unto Peter, "Surely thou art even one of them, for thy speech betrayeth thee."
Like as the winter cool in the harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him, and refresheth his master's mind.
And the LORD said unto Jacob, "Turn again into the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee."
"Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, 'Because ye have not hearkened unto my word;
If any man draw out a sword at him, it shall not hurt him: there may neither spear, javelin, nor breast plate abide him.
And they came again and told him. And he said, "It is the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 'In the field of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel,
And thy handmaid had two sons which fought together in the fields where was no man to go between them, and the one slew the other.
And the LORD shall plague thee before thine enemies: Thou shalt come out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them, and shalt be scattered among all the kingdoms of the earth.
Whosoever toucheth any person that dieth and sprinkleth not himself, defileth the dwelling of the LORD: and therefore that soul shall be rooted out of Israel, because he hath not sprinkled the sprinkling water upon him, he shall be unclean, and his uncleanness shall remain upon him.
Thou doest unwisely and also this people that is with thee: because the thing is too grievous for thee, and thou art not able to do it thyself alone.
And Zadok the priest with his brethren the priests set he before the tabernacle of the LORD at the hill altar of Gibeon,
And the people came to Bethel and abode there till evening, before God, and lifted up their voices and wept sore,
So now it was not ye that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me father unto Pharaoh and lord over all his house, and ruler in all the land of Egypt.
And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the market place,
And when they came to the field of Atad beyond Jordan, there they made great and exceeding sore lamentation. And he mourned for his father seven days.
But there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes which had not their inheritance divided out.
Thou shalt see the land before thee, but shall not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel."
and said, "If I have found grace in thy sight O Lord, then let my Lord go with us - for it is a stubborn people. And have mercy upon our wickedness and our sin, and let us be thine inheritance."
My dwelling shall be with them, yea I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother, he went and rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep of Laban, his mother's brother.
I beseech you that ye be obedient unto such, and to all that help and labour.
And whosoever sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.
And he shall be as one that gathereth up corn in the harvest, which cutteth his handful with the sickle, and when one gathereth the sheaves together in the valley, of Rephaim.
yea, I myself will rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with my people. And the voice of weeping and wailing shall not be heard in her from thence forth.
There shall neither hunger nor thirst, heat nor Sun hurt them. For he that favoureth them shall lead them, and give them drink of the spring wells.
As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD God, ye shall use this byword no more in Israel.
In the multitude of the sorrows that I had in my heart, thy comforts have refreshed my soul.
A piteous cry shall be heard from Babylon, and a great misery from the land of the Chaldeans:
Ephraim shall no more be strong, and Damascus shall no more be a kingdom. And as for the glory of the remnant of the Syrians, it shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
And all this congregation shall know that the LORD saveth not with the sword and spear. For the battle is the LORD's, and he shall give you into our hands."
And why? There dare none be so bold as to raise him up. Who is able to stand before me?
but as soon as he heareth the shawmes blow, 'Tush,' sayeth he; for he smelleth the battle afar off, the noise, the Captains and the shouting.
But if they be laid in prison and chains, or bound with the bonds of poverty:
And in the gate of the court shall be a veil of twenty cubits: of jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse wrought with needle work, and four pillars with their four sockets.
Why dost thou then strive against him? Because he giveth thee no accounts of all his doings?
And they turned and fled to the wilderness ward and unto the rock of pomegranates. And the other slew by the way of the rest of them, five thousand men, and sticked unto them until they came to Gidom, and slew two thousand more of them.
For the children of Benjamin thought that the other had been beaten before them, as at the first time. But the children of Israel said, "Let us flee and pluck them away from the city, unto the highways."
"'These are the feasts of the LORD which ye shall proclaim holy feasts, for to offer sacrifice unto the LORD, burnt offerings, meat offerings, and drink offerings every day:
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow at thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown." For he feared lest he should have died also, as his brethren did. Thus went Tamar and dwelt in her father's house.
saying, "What wilt thou, that I do unto thee?" And he said, "Lord, that I may receive my sight."
And because I doubted of such manner questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
seeing thou goest from me and turnest backward? Sayeth the LORD: Therefore I will stretch out mine hand against thee, to destroy thee, and I will not be entreated.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael: a hundred and thirty seven years, and then he fell sick and died, and was laid unto his people.
These are the names of the tribes that lie upon the north side, by the way of Hethlon, till thou comest unto Hamath and Hazarenan, the borders of Damascus toward the north beside Hamath: Dan shall have his portion from the east quarter unto the west.
The high priests and Pharisees had given a commandment that if any man knew where he were, he should show it that they might take him.
Thy watchmen shall lift up their voice; with loud voice shall they preach of him. For they shall see him present, when the LORD shall come again to Zion.
Mourn not over the dead, and be not woe for them, but be sorry for him that departeth away: for he cometh not again, and seeth his native country no more.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that are mine enemies, and would destroy me guiltless, are mighty. I paid them the things that I never took.
"When he commandeth the snow, it falleth upon the earth: As soon as he giveth the rain a charge, immediately the showers have their strength, and fall down.
Delicate ease becometh not a fool; much more unseemly is it, a bond man to have the rule of princes.
Deliver me not over into the will of mine adversaries; for there are false witnesses risen up against me, and such as imagine mischief.
He governeth everything under the heaven, and his light reacheth unto the end of the world.
Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.
And he said unto the king, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Because thou hast let go a man that ought to have died, thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his."
yet when the stock getteth the scent of water, it will bud, and bring forth bows, like as when it was first planted.
And within a little while, heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel.
"Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.
And in the eighteenth year of his reign when he had purged the land and the temple, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to repair the house of the LORD his God.
And Zedekiah was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.
which called the people unto the sacrifice of their gods. And the people ate, and worshipped their gods,
And as thy servant had here and there to do, he was gone." And the king of Israel said unto him, "Even so shall thy judgment be, as thou hast defined it thyself."
Then said his servants unto him, "Behold, an evil spirit sent of God vexeth thee.
Then Jesse called Abinadab and made him come before Samuel. And he said, "Neither hath the LORD chosen this."
Wherefore Saul said, "Bring burnt sacrifice to me and peace offerings." And he offered burnt sacrifice.
Neverthelater those trees which thou knowest that men eat not of them, thou mayest destroy and cut them down and make bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be overthrown.
he said unto his servants that stood about him, "Hear I pray you, you sons of Benjamin: will the son of Jesse also give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains over thousands and over hundreds,
and cried, when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, "What city is like unto this great city?'
and goeth out on the side of Ekron northward; And then draweth to Shikkeron and goeth along to mount Baalah, and goeth out at Jabneel; and the end of the coasts is the sea.
But and if, when the priest looketh on it, he see that there is no white hair in the brightness, and that it is no lower than the other skin, and that it is also blackish, then let the priest shut him up seven days.
and thou shalt put them upon Aaron thy brother and on his sons with him and shalt anoint them and fill their hands and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me.
In the tabernacle of witness without the veil which is before the witness, shall Aaron and his sons dress it both even and morning before the LORD: And it shall be a duty for ever unto your generations after you: to be given of the children of Israel."
And Moses spake unto the folk, saying, "Harness some of you unto war, and let them go upon the Midianites and avenge the LORD of the Midianites.
And God came to Balaam by night and said unto him, "If the men come to fetch thee, rise up and go with them: but what I say unto thee, that only thou shalt do."
The forsakers also and the transgressors will I take from among you, and bring them out of the land of your habitations: As for the land of Israel, they shall not come in it: that they may know how that I am the LORD.
"He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him."
Then let all the men of that city stone him with stones unto death. And so thou shalt put evil away from thee, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life, shall be safe; but he that goeth froward ways, shall once have a fall.
In the house of the righteous are great riches; but the increase of the ungodly are nigh destruction.
For thou art my stronghold and my castle: be thou also my guide, and lead me for thy name's sake.
And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.
And the messenger that was gone to call Micaiah, said unto him, "See, the words of the Prophets speak good unto the king with one voice: let thy words, I pray thee, be like the words of one of them, and speak that is good."
Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: and your clothes are not waxed old upon you, nor are thy shoes waxed old upon thy feet.
And Aaron shall bring the ox of his sin offering, and reconcile for himself and for his household, and kill him.
And call Jesse to the offering, and I will show thee what thou shalt do: And thou shalt anoint him whom I say unto thee."
And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him, shall be unclean unto the evening. And he that beareth any such things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water and be unclean unto the even,
And Tiglathpileser king of Assyria came upon him and besieged him, but prevailed not against him.
"And as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you: even so he will rejoice over you, to destroy you and to bring you to nought. And ye shall be wasted from off the land whither thou goest to enjoy it.
that thou shalt not vex my daughters neither shalt take other wives unto them. Here is no man with us: behold, God is witness betwixt thee and me."
from Aroer that lieth on the brim of the river Arnon, with the city in the midst of the river. And all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
And again he ceased not thereby but sent yet another servant. And they did beat him, and foul entreated him also, and sent him away empty.
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go a whoring after their gods,
Moreover, he sent the third, too: And him they wounded, and cast him out.
that ye should observe all mine ordinances and judgments and that ye should keep them: I am the LORD.'"
And he said unto his brethren, "I am Joseph: doth my father yet live?" But his brethren could not answer him, for they were abashed at his presence.
While they garnished the table, the watchman looked: and while he was eating and drinking it was said, "Up, ye Captains, take you to your shield."
that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us?
lo, how strong he is in his loins, and what power he hath in the navel of his body.
For thus sayeth the LORD: Ye are sold for naught, therefore shall ye be redeemed also without any money.
So Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went their way, and did according as the LORD commanded them. The LORD also accepted the person of Job,
For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,
or if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your souls refuse my laws, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but shall break mine covenant:
When his light shined upon my head; when I went after the same light and shining, even through the darkness.
And thereto all the houses of the hill altars of the cities of Samaria which the kings of Israel had made, to anger withal, Josiah put out of the way and did to them in all points as he did in Bethel.
For the LORD thy God walketh in thine host, to rid thee and to set thine enemies before thee. Let thine host be pure that he see no unclean thing among you and turn from you.
And they went about in Judah and gathered the Levites out of all the cities of Judah and the ancient heads of Israel: and they came to Jerusalem.
These are they that waited with their children of the sons of Kohath: Heman a singer, which was the son of Joel, the son of Samuel,
Then said the king, "What seemeth you best, that will I do." And the king stood up by the Gate's side, and all the people came out by hundreds and by thousands.
"'All that are of yourselves shall do these things after this manner, when he offereth an offering of sweet savour unto the LORD.
I will therefore remember unto them the first covenant made when I brought them out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen to be their God: for I am the LORD.'"
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor for to curse you.
When I am come, whosoever ye shall allow by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
And they gave them Kiriatharba of the father of Anak, which is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs of the same round about it.
"And thou shalt say unto them, 'Whatsoever man it be of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among you that offereth a burnt offering or any other offering,
Arabia and all the princes of Cedar have occupied with thee, in sheep, wethers, and goats.
And God came to Laban the Sirian in a dream by night, and said unto him, "Take heed to thyself, that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good."
The children of Levi: Gershon, Kohath and Merari.
Shall the voice of gladness be heard again; the voice of the Bridegroom and of the bride; the voice of them that shall sing, 'Praise the LORD of Hosts, for he is loving and his mercy endureth forever,' and the voice of them that shall offer up gifts in the house of the LORD. For I will restore the captivity of this land, as it was afore, sayeth the LORD.
Wherefore, tell the house of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Be converted, forsake your idols, and turn your faces from all your abominations.
For thou, O LORD God, art the thing that I long for; thou art my hope even from my youth.
Thus Isaac sent forth Jacob, to go to Mesopotamia unto Laban, son of Bethuel the Syrian, and brother to Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.
So shall this day be unto the LORD God of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his enemies. The sword shall devour, it shall be satisfied and bathed in their blood: For the LORD God of Hosts shall have a slain offering toward the North, by the water of Euphrates.
The thought of the foolish is sin, and the scornful is an abomination unto men.
The slothful sayeth, "There is a leopard in the way, and a lion in the midst of the streets."
The things that I showed you ever since the beginning: Have I not brought them to pass, immediately as they came out of my mouth, and declared them? And they are come?
And thou shalt be brought low, and speak out of the earth, and thy words shall go humbly out of the ground. Thy voice shall come out of the earth, like the voice of a witch, and thy talking shall groan out of the mire.
And the ancient lords and the lords of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and hundreds and the lords over the substance of the king, were willing
And Hezekiah set the priests and the Levites in their order to wait by course, every man according to his office whether priest or Levite, for the burnt offerings and peace offerings, and to minister and to thank and to pray in the gates of the lodge of the LORD.
All these were of the sons of Heman the king's seer of visions with the word of God, to lift up the horn. God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
and to the port of Ephraim, and to the Oldgate, and to the Fishgate, and to the tower of Hananel, and to the tower of Meah, until the Sheepgate. And in the prison gate they stood still,
Ye stand here this day every one of you before the LORD your God: both the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officers and all the men of Israel;
Is it any advantage to the Almighty that thou art righteous? Or what doth it profit him, that thy ways are perfect?
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of the wife and her daughter also; neither shalt thou take her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter to uncover their privities: they are her next kin, it were therefore wickedness.
And in like manner, if evil to thee ward please my father, I will show thee and send thee away, that thou mayest go in peace. And the LORD be with thee as he hath been with my father.
And when all the men of the town of Shechem heard that, they entered into a stronghold of the house of their god Baalberith.
Then Lot chose all the coasts of Jordan and took his journey from the east. And so departed the one brother from the other.
And the LORD put a saying in Balaam's mouth, and said, "Go again to Balak and say on this wise."
And if ye will not be learned yet for all this, but shall walk contrary unto me,
And thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest the franchised cities of the slayer, Hebron with her suburbs, and Libnah with her suburbs;
And Judah knew them, saying, "She is more righteous than I, because I gave her not to Shelah my son." But he lay with her no more.
"Hear us, lord, thou art a prince of God among us. In the chiefest of our sepulchers bury thy dead: None of us shall forbid thee his sepulchre, that thou shouldest not bury thy dead therein."
This speak I for your profit, not to tangle you in a snare: but for that which is honest and comely unto you; And that ye may quietly cleave unto the Lord without separation.
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, in their towns and castles; twelve princes of nations.
Which field Abraham bought of the sons of Heth: There was Abraham buried, and Sara his wife.
For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.
Thou son of man, tell the children of thy people, 'The righteousness of the righteous shall not save him, whensoever he turneth away unfaithfully. Again, the wickedness of the wicked shall not hurt him, whensoever he converteth from his ungodliness. And the righteousness of the righteous, shall not save his life, whensoever he sinneth.
what time as the king of Babylon's Host laid siege unto Jerusalem. But Jeremiah the prophet lay bound in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house:
For thou art the comfort and help of Israel in the time of trouble. Why wilt thou be as a stranger in the Land, and as one that goeth over the field, and cometh in only to remain for a night?
The LORD upholdeth all such as should fall, and lifteth up all those that be down.
They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed.