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And David said to all the congregation, "Bless the LORD your God." And all the congregation blessed the LORD God of their fathers, and stooped and bowed themselves unto the LORD and to the king.
and was therefore afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: Behold, thou hast thine own.'
And when they go out to battle against their enemies whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward the city which thou hast chosen and toward the house that I have built for thy name:
For he did put his life in his hand and slew the Philistine, and the LORD gave a great victory to all Israel. And thou sawest it, and thou rejoicedest. Wherefore then shouldest thou sin against innocent blood, and slay David for nought?"
when all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God, in the place which he hath chosen: see that thou read this law before all Israel in their ears.
And it was told Saul, that David was come to Keilah. Then said Saul, "God hath delivered him into mine hand. For he is shut in, that he is come into a town with gates and bars."
The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness, and according to the pureness of my hands he dealt with me.
And so Jonathan made a bond with the house of David, desiring that the LORD should seek, out of the hands of David's enemies, their wickedness.
Then Manoah said, "Now when thy saying is come to pass: what shall be the manner of the child, and what shall he do?"
came and stood before Moses and Eleazar the priest and before the lords and all the multitude in the door of the tabernacle of witness, saying,
go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not slain before your enemies.
And they came unto their brethren, to Zorah, and Eshtaol. And their brethren said unto them, "What tidings bring you?"
If there remain but few years unto the trumpet year, he shall so count with him, and according unto his years give him again for his redemption,
There they buried Abraham and Sara his wife, there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Lea:
then shall an oath of the LORD go between them, whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's good, and the owner of it shall take the oath, and the other shall not make it good.
When now all the land of Egypt began to hunger, then cried the people to Pharaoh for bread. And Pharaoh said unto all Egypt, "Go unto Joseph, and what he saith to you, that do."
Laban answered, "It is not the manner of this place, to marry the youngest before the eldest.
All thy tables have they made of Cypress trees of the mount Senir. From Lebanon have they taken Cedar trees, to make the masts:
And Esau took his wives, his sons and daughters and all the souls of his house; his goods and all his cattle and all his substance which he had got in the land of Canaan, and went into a country away from his brother Jacob.
Then said Laban to Jacob, "Why hast thou this done, unknowing to me, and hast carried away my daughters as though they had been taken captive with sword?
there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.
And Zilpah Lea's maid bare Jacob a son.
But she is happier if she so abide, in my judgement. And I think verily that I have the spirit of God.
No nor the Levites that are gone back from me, and have deceived the people of Israel with errors, going after their idols: therefore shall they bear their own wickedness.
And when Zedekiah the king of Judah with his soldiers saw them, they fled, and departed out of the city by night through the king's garden, and through the port that is between the two walls, and so they went toward the wilderness.
because thou hast looked thee out vanities, and prophesied lies, that it may come upon thy neck like as upon the other ungodly which be slain: whose day came, when their wickedness was full.
He brought them forth also with silver and gold; there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
Thou shalt make room enough under me for to go, that my footsteps shall not slide. {TYNDALE: And thou madest me space to walk in, that my feet should not stumble.}
Who dare lay a hand on him openly, and undertake to catch him? Or, who dare put a hook through his nose, and lay a snare for him?
But who is he among you, that pondereth this in his mind, that considereth it, and taketh it for a warning in time to come?
then shall Ariel be besieged, so that she shall be heavy and sorrowful, and shall be unto me even as an altar of slaughter.
Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.
He with punishing and nurturing of them, roundeth them in the ears, warneth them to leave off from their wickedness, and to amend.
And among these nations thou shalt be no small season, and yet shalt have no rest for the sole of thy foot. For the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and dazing eyes and sorrow of mind.
And the children of Israel took prisoners of their brethren two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters, and thereto carried away much spoil of them, and brought it to Samaria.
And the weight of gold for the tables of shewbread, table by table: and likewise silver for the tables of silver.
And the battle arose that day. Howbeit the king of Israel continued standing in his chariot against the Syrians until evening. And about the sun going down, he died.
and commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and to do according to the law and commandment.
Take heed now, for the LORD hath chosen thee, to build a house of thy sanctuary. Be strong and do it."
And the rulers over the tribes of Israel were these. Among the Reubenites, was Eliezer the son of Zichri. Among the Simeonites, was Shephatiah the son of Maacah.
Then said the king unto his footmen that stood about him, "Turn and slay the priests of the LORD, both because their hand is with David and because they knew when David fled and showed it not to me." But the servants of the king would not move their hands, to run upon the priests of the LORD.
And Hosah of the children of Merari, had sons: Shimri the chief, yet he was not the eldest, but his father made him the chiefest.
"'Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he hath opened his father's covering.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Then said David's men unto him, "See, we be afraid here in Judah. What shall we then be, when we come to Keilah, to the host of the Philistines?"
But and if the man will not take his sister-in-law, then let her go to the gate unto the elders and say, 'My brother-in-law refuseth to stir up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not marry me.'
get thee to the flock, and bring me thence two good kids, and I will make meat of them for thy father, such as he loveth.
And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." Then called he the well Esek, because they strove with him.
Then they said, "What are they of the tribes of Israel that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD?" And behold there came none of the inhabiters of Jabeshgilead unto the congregation.
And the man departed out of the city of Bethlehem Judah, to go dwell where he could find a place. And he came to mount Ephraim, and to the house of Micah as he journeyed.
These are the kindreds of Naphtali in their generations, in number forty five thousand and four hundred.
"Get you from this congregation, that I may consume them quickly." And they fell upon their faces.
And Laban overtook Jacob: and Jacob had pitched his tent in that mount. And Laban with his brethren pitched their tent also upon the mount Gilead.
Behold therefore, I will upon thee, and upon thy waters: I will make the land of Egypt waste and desolate, from the tower of Syene unto the borders of the Ethiopians' land:
Thus thou hast renewed the filthiness of thy youth, when thy lovers bruised thy paps, and marred thy breasts in Egypt.
"O thou son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt upon their own ground, they defiled themselves with their own ways and imaginations: so that in my sight their way was like the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.
All they that dwell in the Isles are abashed at thee, and all their kings are afraid; yea, their faces have changed colour.
They breed cockatrice eggs, and weave the spider's web. Whoso eateth of their eggs dieth. But if one treadeth upon them, there cometh up a serpent.
This is the sum of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar led away captive. In the seventh year of his reign, he carried away of the Jews, three thousand and three and twenty.
the wicked cities shall be broken down, all houses shall be shut that no man may come in.
Fearfulness, the pit, and the snare are upon thee, O thou that dwellest upon the earth.
Hear and consider all these things, whether it was ye that prophesied them: But as for me, I told thee before at the beginning, new and secret things that thou knewest not of.
Yea miserably shall the world be wasted and clean destroyed. For the LORD hath so determined in himself.
And the messengers went with letters of the hand of the king and of his lords throughout all Israel and Judah, at the commandment of the king; which said, "Children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, and so will he turn to the remnant of you that are escaped out of the hands of the king of Assyria.
Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder, and mine arm holes be broken from the joints.
Did I ever lift up my hand to hurt the fatherless; yea, in the gates where I saw myself to be in authority?
All these were at the hand of their father to sing in the house of the LORD with cymbals, psalteries and harps in the service of the house of God. And at the hand of the king was Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman:
And Amasa took no heed to the knife that was in Joab's hand, with which Joab smote him in the short ribs, and shed out his bowels to the ground and smote him but one stroke, and he died. And then Joab and Abishai his brother followed after Sheba the son of Bichri.
Insomuch that they have caused the voice of the poor to come unto him, and now he heareth the complaint of such as are in necessity.
Who ruleth the earth in his stead? Or whom hath he set to govern the whole world?
for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.
And there were brought seven oxen, seven rams, seven lambs and seven kids to be a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar of the LORD.
And in all the works that he began in the service of the house of God, to seek his God after the law and commandment, that did he with all his heart, and prospered.
a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young.
And Samson said unto her, "If men bound me with seven ropes of fresh sinews that were never dried, I should be weak and as another man."
And Gad came to David and said to him, "Thus sayeth the LORD:
And he served Baal and bowed himself to him and angered the LORD God of Israel, in all things, as did his father.
Have I this day begun first to ask counsel of God for him? God forbid that from me: let not the king put such a thing unto his servant and on all the house of my father. For thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, either less or more."
and said unto him, "Thus sayeth Benhadad, 'Thy silver and thy gold is mine, and the best of thy wives, and the best of thy children be mine.'"
And when the children of Israel heard say, "Behold the children of Reuben, the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan in the borders of Jordan on the side of the children of Israel":
and thou shalt have a sharp point at the end of thy weapon: and when thou wilt ease thyself, dig therewith and turn and cover that which is departed from thee.
let us go a good fellowship through thy country: we will not go through the fields nor through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will go by the highway and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left, until we be past thy country."
And out of the tribe of Gad, they gave the franchised city of the slayer, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs; Mahanaim with her suburbs;
And from a month unto five years, the male shall be set at five sicles of silver, and the female at three.
And thou shalt put it before the veil that hangeth before the ark of witness, and before the mercy seat that is before the witness, where I will meet thee.
And this is the heave offering which ye shall take of them: gold, silver and brass;
Yet men neither consider nor understand; because their eyes are stopped that they cannot see, and their hearts, that they can not perceive.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD, two bullocks, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old without spot,
But the flesh of the ox and his skin and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire, without the host. For it is a sin offering.
And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Iyeabarim in the borders of Moab.
And Moses told the children of Israel, according to all that the LORD commanded him.
a cubit long, and a cubit broad, even foursquare shall it be and two cubits, high: with horns proceeding out of it,
The LORD careth for the strangers; he defendeth the fatherless and widow. As for the way of the ungodly, he turneth it upside down.
"'If a man eat of the hallowed things unwittingly, he shall put the fifth part thereunto, and make good unto the priest the hallowed thing.
If he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free and pay no money.
They of Sidon and Arvad were thy mariners, and the wisest in Tyre were thy shipmasters.
And unto Sara he said, "See, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver, behold this thing shall be a covering to thine eyes unto all that are with thee and unto all men and an excuse."
If any discord arise, they shall discern it, and give sentence after my judgments. My solemn feasts, my laws and ordinances shall they keep, and hallow my Sabbaths.
Seeing thou rememberest not the days of thy youth, but hast provoked me to wrath in all these things? Behold therefore, I will bring thine own ways upon thine head, sayeth the LORD God: howbeit, I never did unto thee, according to thy wickedness and all thy abominations.
Should I make my wrath to be still, take my jealousy from thee, be content, and no more to be displeased?
For thus hath the LORD said unto me: "I will take my rest, and look upon the matter in my habitation, like a fair heat after the rain, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest."
Whereupon Hanun took David's servants and shaved them, and cut off their coats hard by their buttocks and sent them away.
Ye shall destroy also the covering of your silver images, and the decking of your golden idols. Even as filthiness shall ye put them away, and say, "Get you hence."
For this is the day of the LORD of Hosts, wherein he will plague, tread down, and weed out the valley of visions, and break down the walls, with such a crack, that it shall give a sound in the mountains.
Whereupon Asa was wroth with the seer and put him in the converting house, for he was displeased with him because of that. Moreover Asa oppressed certain of the people the same season.
The heavens are thine. The earth also is thine; thou hast laid the foundation of the round world and all that therein is.
And when she saw the king stand at his pillar in the entering, and the lords and trumpets about the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing with trumpets, and the singers with instruments of music teaching to praise. Then she rent her clothes and cried, "Treason! Treason!"
He abideth in the stony rocks, and upon the high tops of hard mountains, where no man can come.
And though they might be safe, yet they will not receive it, for their eyes look upon their own ways.
but shalt give him of thy sheep and of thy corn and of thy wine, and give him of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
And 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 named after their name.
I will be his father and he shall be my son, and I will not put my mercy away from him as I did from him that was before thee.
After that Sennacherib king of Assyria sent of his servants to Jerusalem - he himself lying before Lachish, and all his kingdom with him - unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying,
And king David dedicated them also unto the LORD with the silver and gold that he brought from all nations, from the Edomites, from the Moabites, from the children of Ammon, from the Philistines, from the Amalekites.
he ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and slew him and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
And she went from him, and shut the door to her and her sons. And they brought to her, and she poured out.
And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first fruits before the LORD, and with the two lambs. And they shall be holy unto the LORD, and be the priest's.
so that there was not one word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not - before all the congregation of Israel, with women and children and the strangers that were among them.
When the inhabiters of Jabesh in Gilead heard thereof what the Philistines had done to Saul,
And all the women that were wise hearted to work with their hands, span; and brought the spun work, both of jacinth, scarlet, purple and bysse.
If she had a husband when she vowed or pronounced ought out of her lips wherewith she bound her soul,
And this is that ye shall do: utterly destroy all the males and the women that have lain by men."
and the south and the region of the plain of Jericho the city of date trees, even unto Zoar.
"If the priest see that the plague hath fretten no further in the cloth: either in the warp or woof or in whatsoever thing of skin it be,
and take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is on the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is upon them: and burn them upon the altar.
"Not so, my lord, but hear me: The field give I thee, and the cave that therein is, give I thee also. And even in the presence of the sons of my people give I it thee to bury thy dead in."
Thou shalt bring forth the quern and grind meal, put down thy stomacher, make bare thy knees, and shalt wade through the water rivers.
The palaces also shall be broken, and the greatly occupied cities desolate. The towers and bulwarks shall be become dens forevermore, the pleasure of Mules shall be turned to pasture for sheep:
Then shall the Egyptians be like unto women, afraid and astounded, at the motion of the hands which the LORD of Hosts shall shake over them.
"Therefore, O Oholibah, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will raise up thy lovers, with whom thou hast satisfied thy lust, against thee; and gather them together round about thee.
O sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praises upon the harp unto our God,
The next day following, Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks again. Then said Jeremiah unto him, "The LORD shall call thee no more Pashhur, that is, excellent and increasing; but Magormissabib, that is, fearful and afraid everywhere.
Meet the thirsty with water, O ye citizens of Tema; meet those with bread that are fled.
For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.
In the turning of a hand he hideth the light, and at his commandment it cometh again.
Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou Most Mighty, according to thy worship and renown.
but seek their pasture about the mountains and follow the green grass.
Then reproved I the rulers, and said, "Why forsake we the house of God?" But I gathered them together, and set them in their place.
For he went to and built again the hill altars which Hezekiah his father had broken down. And he reared up altars unto Baals and made groves and bowed himself unto all the host of heaven and served them.
But Hezekiah the king and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz prayed concerning the thing and cried up to heaven.
"I will teach you in the name of God: and the thing that I have of the Almighty, will I not keep from you.
Nevertheless, the priests of the hill altars came not up at the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, save only they did eat of the sweet bread among their brethren.
The fourth to Izri with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
For through the wrath of the LORD it so chanced to Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out of his sight. And the said Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you: so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil until he have destroyed you from off this good land, which the LORD your God hath given you
The ninth to Jeshua. The tenth to Shecaniah.
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house, and served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep, and thou hast changed my reward ten times.
And he took up the body of the man of God and put it upon the ass and brought it again, and came to the city of the old prophet to lament him, and to bury him.
When David came to Ziklag, he sent of his prey unto the elders of Judah and to his friends, saying, "See there a blessing for you, of the spoil of the enemies of the LORD."
And a clean person shall take Hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and on the souls that were there, and upon him that touched a bone or a slain person or a dead body or a grave.
And I gave unto Isaac, Jacob and Esau. And I gave unto Esau mount Seir to possess it. But Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
And so your labour shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not give her increase, neither the trees of the land shall give their fruits.
And sanctify the breast of the wave offering and the shoulder of the heave offering which is waved and heaved up of the ram which is the full offering of Aaron and of his sons.
And the LORD gave the rest round about according to all that he sware unto their fathers. So that there stood not a man of all their enemies before them. But the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hands.
The Syrians occupied with thee, because of thy divers works, and increased thy merchandise, with Smaragdus, with scarlet, with needle work, with white linen cloth, with silk and with Crystal.
Foursquare it shall be and double, a hand breadth long and a hand breadth broad.
And she went and fetched goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau which she had in the house with her, and put them upon Jacob her youngest son,
Said not he unto me, that she was his sister? Yea, and said not she herself that he was her brother? With a pure heart and innocent hands have I done this!"
Gather you together and hear ye sons of Jacob, and hearken unto Israel your father.
And what sowest thou? Thou sowest not that body that shall be: but bare corn - I mean either of wheat, or of some other -
because I have now preached long against malicious Tyranny, and showed them of destruction. For the which cause they cast the word of the LORD in my teeth, and take me ever to the worst.
and carried away all his cattle and all his substance which he had gotten in Mesopotamia, for to go to Isaac his father, unto the land of Canaan.
They of Dedan were thy merchants: and many other Isles that occupied with thee, brought thee wethers, elephant bones and Peacocks for a present.
he counteth us even as strangers, for he hath sold us, and hath even eaten up the price of us.
My tears have been my meat day and night, while they daily say unto me, "Where is now thy God?"
O thou daughter of Egypt make ready thy gear to flit. For Memphis shall be void desolate, so that no man shall dwell therein.
Behold therefore, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the children of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.
but men shall be glad and evermore rejoice, for the things that I shall do. For why? Behold, I shall make a joyful Jerusalem;
Though a host of men were laid against me, yet shall not my heart be afraid; and though there rose up war against me, yet will I put my trust in him.
I will scatter thee abroad with the fan on every side of the land: I will waste my people and destroy them, for they have had no lust to turn from their own ways.
For by sea were there fruits brought unto thee, and all manner of corn by water. Thou wast the common market of all people.
When the ungodly come up, wickedness increaseth; but the righteous shall see their fall.
True are my words, and no lie: and the knowledge wherewithal I argue against thee, is perfect.
And he fought with the king of the children of Ammon, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year a hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand quarters of wheat and as much barley. So much also did the children of Ammon give him the second year and the third too.
And when Jotham was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in the city of David: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead.
And Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds spears and shields and bucklers that pertained to king David and were in the house of God.
And the king said, "Do even as he hath said: smite him and bury him, and take away the blood which Joab shed, causeless, from me and from the house of my father.
And there shall none come into the house of the LORD, save the priests and the Levites that minister. They shall go in, for they are holy: and all the people shall keep the watch of the LORD.
And he said unto her, "I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, 'Give me thy vineyard for silver, or else if thou wilt, I will give thee another vineyard for it.' And he said, 'I will not give thee my vineyard.'"
And Micaiah said, "As truly as the LORD liveth, even what my God sayeth, that will I speak."
And of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and of his brethren a hundred and twelve.
And the remnant of the stews of the males, which remained in the days of his father, he put clean out of the land.
'Let me go I pray thee, for our kindred hold an offering in the city, and my brother hath sent for me. Now therefore if I have found favour in thine eyes let me go and see my brother.' And therefore he cometh not unto the table of the king."
but upon his kin that is nigh unto him: as his mother, father, son, daughter and brother:
Then Achish gave him Ziklag the same day; for which cause Ziklag pertaineth unto the kings of Judah unto this day.
And let the priest look on the disease the seventh day: and if the breaking out be gone no further, neither be any golden hairs therein neither the scab be lower than the other skin,
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning nor taken away thereof unto any uncleanness, nor spent thereof about any dead corpse: but have hearkened unto the voice of the LORD my God, and have done after all that he commanded me.
And they shall be Aaron's and his sons, and they shall eat them in the holy place. For they are most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD, and shall be a duty forever."
"And the holy garments of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to anoint them therein, and to fill their hands therein.
so that all the cities of the children of Merari in their kindreds, which were the rest of the kindreds of the Levites, were by their lot, twelve cities.
and say unto Tyre, which is a port of the sea that occupieth with much people and many Isles, 'Thus speaketh the LORD God: O Tyre, thou hast said, 'What, I am a noble city.'
Upon the fourteenth day of the first month ye shall keep Easter. Seven days shall the feast continue, wherein there shall no sour nor leavened bread be eaten.
The smith taketh iron, and tempereth it with hot coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and maketh it with all the strength of his arms: yea, sometimes he is faint for very hunger, and so thirsty, that he hath no more power.
Mine hands shall come upon the prophets that look out vain things and preach lies: they shall not be in the council of my people, nor written in the book of the house of Israel, neither shall they come in the land of Israel: that ye may know how that I am the LORD God.
But he shall be fain to say, 'I am no Prophet: I am a husbandman, for so am I taught by Adam from my youth up.'
Then give them this answer, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will take the stock of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them to the stock of Judah, and make them one stock, and they shall be one in my hand.'
Be glad, O thou desolate Jerusalem, and rejoice together: for the LORD will comfort his people; he will deliver Jerusalem.
After this he brought me to the temple, and measured the posts: which were of both the sides six cubits thick, according to the wideness of the tabernacle.
"Speak to that froward household, 'Know ye not, what these things do signify?' Tell them, 'Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king and his princes, and led them to Babylon.
Should not they then lie also among the worthies, and uncircumcised Giants which with their weapons are gone down to hell? Whose swords are laid under their heads, whose wickedness is upon their bones, because that as worthies they have brought fear in to the land of the living.
Though the LORD hath sent his servants, all the prophets, unto you in season: Yet would ye not obey. Ye would not incline your ears to hear.
Then will I cast thee down unto them, that descend into the pit, unto a people that hath been long dead, and set thee in a land that is beneath, like the old wilderness, with them which go down to their graves, so that no man shall dwell more in thee. And I will make thee to be no more in honor, in the land of the living.
Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O LORD, there is not one that can do as thou doest.
and gave for the service of the house of God, five thousand talents of gold and ten thousand pieces of gold coins, and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of brass, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.
Therefore hath Job opened his mouth but in vain, and foolishly hath he made so many words."
and commanded them to cleanse the chest. And thither brought I again the vessels of the house of God, the meat offering and the incense.
And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.
and the priests, namely Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets,
And he set judges in the land, throughout all the strong cities of Judah, city by city,
And the children of the Levites bare the Ark of God upon their shoulders with staves thereon as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.
And of the children of Elizaphan: Shemaiah the chief and of his brethren two hundred.
Moreover, if he take a town then shall all the men of Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one stone found upon another."
Wherefore the king said to Abishai, "Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri be worse to us than Absalom. Take thou therefore thy lord's servants and follow after him: lest he get him walled cities and escape us."
Ye are my brethren, my bones and my flesh: wherefore then should ye be the last that should come to bring the king home again?'
'Cursed be he that maketh the blind go out of his way.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
"Our father died in the wilderness, and was not among the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the congregation of Korah: But died in his own sin, and had no sons.
We came a roving upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon them of Judah and on the south of Caleb. And we burnt Ziklag with fire."
And Saul hearkened unto the voice of Jonathan and sware, "As truly as the LORD liveth, he shall not die."
And when they were fast by Jebus, the day was sore spent and the young man said unto his master, "Come I pray thee and let us turn in, into this city of the Jebusites and lodge all night there."
Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cave of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, "Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? Wherefore then hast thou served us thus?" And he answered them, "As they served me, so have I served them."
And his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD made all that he did prosper in his hand.
For so shalt thou heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.
And Edom shall be his possession, and the possession of Seir shall be their enemies, and Israel shall do manfully.
But he shall not make himself unclean upon a ruler of his people to pollute himself withal.
And they departed. And the fear of God fell upon the cities that were round about them, that they durst not follow after the sons of Jacob.
Behold therefore, the time cometh, sayeth the LORD, that I will bring a noise of war into Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be laid on a desolate heap, and her cities burnt up: and the Israelites shall be lords over those that had them in possession afore, sayeth the LORD.
What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? May a man deliver his own soul from the hand of hell? Selah.
When righteous men are in prosperity, then doth honour flourish; but when the ungodly come up, the state of men changeth.
The memorial of thy abundant kindness shall be showed; and men shall sing of thy righteousness.
Darest thou lay hand upon him? It is better for thee to consider what harm might happen thee therethrough, and not to touch him.
They will go from strength to strength, and unto the God of Gods appeareth every one of them in Zion.
And his prayer and how he was heard, and all his sin and trespass, and the places where he made hill altars and set up groves and carved Images before he was meekened, are written among the deeds of the seers of visions.
And the East lot fell to Shelemiah. And for Zachariah his son, a wise counselor, they cast lots, and his lot came out toward the North.
And they went out at noon when Benhadad was a drinking strong drink in the pavilions with the thirty two kings that holp him.
And David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
And Jonathan the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him.
And these now afore written by name went in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and smote the tents of them and the habitations that were found there, and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and there dwelt in their rooms: because there was pasture there for their sheep.
And so David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines, and drave away their cattle and slew a great slaughter of them. And so David saved the inhabiters of Keilah.
And they went and pitched in Kiriathjearim in Judah. Wherefore the place is called Mahanahdan unto this day, which is on the back side of Kiriathjearim.
Unto the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses gave possession in Bashan: and unto the other half thereof gave Joshua with their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And also when Joshua sent them away unto their tents and blessed them,
And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD, and there he divided the land unto the children of Israel, to each their portion.
Thou shalt not open the privities of thy father's brother; that is, thou shalt not go in to his wife, for she is thine aunt.
and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah: even unto the utmost sea,
Without forth, the sword shall rob them of their children; and within in the chamber, fear: both young men and young women, and the sucklings with the men of gray heads.
This, therefore, doeth the LORD: 'Command the daughters of Zelophehad, saying: let them be wives to whom they themself think best, but in the kindred of the tribe of their fathers shall they marry,
And the LORD shall do unto them, as he did to Sihon and Og, kings of the Amorites, and unto their lands - which kings he destroyed.
The LORD your God, he will go over before thee and he will destroy these nations before thee, and thou shalt conquer them. And Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, so that ye may do no laborious work therein.
neither shall go out of the sanctuary, that he pollute not the holy place of his God, for the crown of the anointing oil of God, is upon him. I am the LORD.
on the other side Jordan in the valley beside Bethpeor in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites which dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they were come out of Egypt,
Say unto them, 'Whosoever he be of all your seed among your generation after you, that goeth unto the hallowed things which the children of Israel shall have hallowed unto the LORD, his uncleanness shall be upon him: and that soul shall perish from out of my sight. I am the LORD.
for the tribe of the children of Reuben have received, in the households of their fathers; and the tribe of the children of Gad in their fathers' households; and the half tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance -
And let all them that are wise hearted among you, come and make all that the LORD hath commanded:
and Israel said unto Joseph, "Do not thy brethren keep in Shechem? Come, that I may send thee to them." And he answered, "Here am I."
"My lord, hearken unto me. The land is worth four hundredth sicles of silver: But what is that betwixt thee and me? Bury thy dead."
And unto Hamor and Shechem his son hearkened all that went out at the gate of his city. And all the men children were circumcised, whatsoever went out at the gates of his city.
Now when the Babylonians came to her, they lay with her, and defiled her with their whoredom, and so was she polluted with them. And when her lust was abated from them,
the Ethiopians' land shall be afraid; yea, the Ethiopians' land, Libya and Lydia, all their common people, and Chub, and all that be confederate unto them, shall fall with them through the sword.
Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will deliver Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt into the hands of his enemies, that seek after his life: even as I gave Zedekiah the king of Judah into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, which sought after his life."
but commanded Jerahmeel the son of Amalek, and Seraiah the son of Azriel and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to lay hands on Baruch the Scribe, and upon Jeremiah the Prophet: but the LORD kept them out of sight.
But now the LORD sayeth thus: In three years, which shall be as the years of a hired servant, shall the glory of Moab be turned into confusion throughout all his multitude, which is very great. And as for the remnant of them, they shall be small and feeble.
Men, women, children, the king's daughters; all those that Nebuzaradan the chief captain had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; They carried away also the prophet Jeremiah, Baruch the son of Neriah,
"For thou, Jacob, wouldest not call upon me, but thou hadst an un-lust toward me, O Israel.
For what else doth this signify, that I see? Namely, that all strong men smite every man his hand upon his loins, as a woman in the pain of her travail. Who ever saw a man travail with child? Enquire thereafter, and see. Yea, all their faces are marvelous pale.
Moreover he called for a dearth upon the land, and destroyed all the provision of bread.
Blessed be the LORD God, even the God of Israel, which only doeth wondrous things.
"For every man seeth not the light, that he keepeth clear in the clouds, which he cleanseth when he maketh the wind to blow.
And Hezekiah the king rose early and gathered the lords of the city and went up to the house of the LORD.
And the congregation shall deliver the slayer out of the hand of the judge of blood, and shall restore him again unto the franchised city whither he was fled. And he shall bide there unto the death of the high priest which was anointed with holy oil.
Benaiah, Cheluhi, Bedeiah,
And he walked also in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for to do evil.
On the morrow when the Philistines were come to strip them that were slain, they found Saul and his sons lying in mount Gilboa.
And when the king came by, he cried unto him and said, "Thy servant went out in the midst of the battle. And see, there was one began to flee. And there came a man to me and said, 'Keep this man. And if he be missed thy life shall go for his, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver.'
And the Ammonites gave tribute to Uzziah, and his name spread abroad even to Egypt: for he played the man and exceeded.
And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half a hin of wine, that is an offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
The third to Harim. The fourth to Seorim.
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, how they have utterly destroyed them. And how then shouldest thou escape?
on the east part three gates, and on the north side three gates, and towards the south three gates, and from the west three gates.
and his heart lay unto Dina, the daughter of Jacob. And he loved the damsel and spake kindly unto her,
and so Zimri destroyed all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD which he spake to Baasha through Jehu the Prophet;
And the priest shall offer them: the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering: and make an atonement for him before the LORD, as concerning his issue.
for I will cast out the nations before thee and will enlarge thy coasts, so that no man shall desire thy land, while thou goest up to appear before the face of the LORD thy God, thrice in the year.
And they shall be upon Aaron and his sons, when they go into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister in holiness, that they bear no sin and so die. And it shall be a law for ever unto Aaron and his seed after him."
Now therefore, let Pharaoh provide for a man of understanding and wisdom, and set him over the land of Egypt.
And out of the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon with her suburbs; Geba with her suburbs;
And the fellow wondered at her. But held his peace, to wete whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not.
I will feed my sheep myself, and bring them to their rest, sayeth the LORD God.
Who saveth thy life from destruction, and crowneth thee with mercy, and loving-kindness?
therefore thus sayeth the LORD: I will reach out mine hand upon Edom, and take away man and beast out of it. From Teman unto Dedan will I make it desolate; they shall be slain with the sword.
Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah with all the proud persons, said unto Jeremiah, "Thou liest! The LORD our God hath not sent thee to speak unto us, that we should not go into Egypt, and dwell there:
For the destroyers shall come upon her, even upon Babylon, which shall take her worthies and brake their bows: for God is disposed to avenge himself upon them, and sufficiently to recompense them.
For in this place will I slay the Senators of Judah and Jerusalem, and kill them down with the sword in the sight of their enemies, and of them that seek their lives. And their dead carcasses will I give to be meat for the fowls of the air, and beasts of the field.
The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads.
And now shall he lift up mine head above mine enemies round about me. Therefore will I offer in his dwelling an oblation with great gladness; I will sing and speak praises unto the LORD.
Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah and all the captains of the Host, that were scattered on every side in the land, came to Gedaliah to Mizphah, and said unto him,
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon,
And therefore the LORD, even the defender of Abraham, sayeth thus unto the house of Jacob: "Now shall not Jacob be ashamed, nor his face confounded,
That they may give no force for the multitude of people in the cities, neither regard the crying of the driver,
Moreover, canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that they may pour down a great rain upon thee?
That I might know, what answer he would give me: and that I might understand, what he would say unto me.
In the time of Zerubbabel, and Nehemiah, did all Israel give portions unto the singers and porters, every day his portion, and they gave things hallowed unto the Levites, and the Levites gave things that were sanctified, unto the children of Aaron.
And I will ordain a place for my people Israel, and will make it fast, and they shall dwell under it and shall move no more. Neither shall the children of wickedness vex them any more as at the beginning,
to confirm these days of Purim, in their time appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had ordained concerning them: like as they upon their soul and upon their seed had confirmed the acts of the fasting and of her complaint.
and it grieved me sore, and I cast forth all the vessels of the house of Tobiah out of the chest,
"Thus say the whole congregation of the LORD: 'What transgression is this that ye have transgressed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from after the LORD and to build you an altar for to rebel this day against the LORD?
ye shall build cities which shall be privileged towns for you: that he which slayeth a man unawares, may fly thither.
The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the head thereon was brass and three cubits long with a wreath and pomegranates round about upon the head, all of brass. And of the same fashion was the second pillar with a wreath.
And their blood return upon the head of Joab and on the head of his seed forever. And prosperity be unto David, and unto his seed, and unto his house, and unto his seat, of the LORD forever."
Moreover, he made hill altars in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabiters of Jerusalem to commit adultery, and he thrust Judah out of the way.
Howbeit, the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that he had made with David, as he promised to give a light to him and to his sons forever.
then bring her home to thine house and let her shave her head and pare her nails
And Judah was put to the worse before Israel, and they fled every man to his tent.
See therefore and know all the lurking places where he lurketh, and come again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you. And then if he be in the land, I will hunt him out with all the thousands of Judah.
And God came unto Balaam, and Balaam said unto him, "I have prepared seven altars, and have offered upon every altar, an ox and a ram."
and from thence goeth along eastward toward the sun rising, to Gathhepher, Ethkazin, and goeth to Rimmon, Methoar, and Neah.
but found none: insomuch that when many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
Therefore see that ye keep mine ordinances, that ye commit none of these abominable customs which were committed before you: that ye defile not yourselves therewith, for I am the LORD your God.'"
And write Aaron's name upon the staff of Levi: for every headman over the houses of their fathers shall have a rod.
without the veil of testimony within the tabernacle of witness. And Aaron shall dress them both evening and morning before the LORD always. And if shall be a law forever among your children after you.
And Bilhah conceived and bare Jacob a son.
and say moreover. 'Behold thy servant Jacob cometh after us.'" For he said, "I will appease his wrath with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see him myself, so peradventure he will receive me to grace."
And Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "See, she is of a surety thy wife, and why saidest thou that she was thy sister?" And Isaac said unto him, "I thought that I might peradventure have died for her sake."
Forsomuch as thou bearest an old enemy against the children of Israel, and with a cruel hand hast made them afraid, what time as they were troubled and punished for their sin:
"Thou son of man, set thy face against Sidon. Prophesy upon it,
The wild Asses shall stand in the Moss, and draw in their wind like the Dragons, their eyes shall fail for want of grass."
I shall bring forth my righteousness. It is not far, and my health shall not tarry long away. I will lay health in Zion, and give Israel my glory.
"Go and speak unto Hezekiah: The LORD God of David thy father sendeth thee this word, 'I have heard thy prayer, and considered thy tears: behold, I will put fifteen years more unto thy life,
Is thy heart able to endure it, or may thy hands defend themselves, in the time that I shall bring upon thee? Even I the LORD that speak it, will bring it also to pass.
I will give you no answer.' Wilt thou not reprove them, thou son of man? Wilt thou not reprove them? Show them the abominations of their forefathers, and tell them: 'Thus sayeth the LORD God:
Therefore hath the curse consumed the earth; and they that dwell therein are fallen into trespass. Wherefore the inhabiters of the earth are perished with drought, and those that remain shall be very few.
Moreover, there be some whereof thou hast neither heard nor know, neither have they been open unto thine ears afore time. For I know that thou wouldest maliciously offend, therefore have I called thee a transgressor, even from thy mother's womb.
Again, thus sayeth the LORD: Go not unto them that come together for to mourn and weep: for I have taken my peace from this people, sayeth the LORD; yea, my favour and my mercy.
Let the righteous rather smite me friendly, and reprove me: so will I take it as though he had poured oil on my head; it shall not hurt my head. Yea, I will pray yet for their wickedness.
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, or seek after God.
They called upon thee, and were helped: they put their trust in thee, and were not confounded.
And he said, "From hence forth shalt thou make no more mirth, O thou daughter of Sidon: for thou shalt be put down. Stand up therefore, and get thee over unto Chittim, where nevertheless thou shalt have no rest.
Now know I that the LORD helpeth his anointed, and will hear him from his holy heaven, even with the wholesome strength of his righthand.
They gape upon me with their mouths, as it were a rampaging and a roaring lion.
At the brightness of his presence, his clouds removed hailstones and coals of fire. {TYNDALE: Of the brightness that was before him, coals were set on fire.}
Meekly and lowly came I in, yea and without any displeasure; I stood up in the congregation, and communed with them.
of such an ungodly person as thou, and of the son of man that is righteous - as thou pretendest to be?
When I agreed unto their way, I was the chief, and sat as a king among his servants; and when they were in heaviness, I was their comforter.
and made intercession to him: and he was entreated of him and heard his prayer and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. And then Manasseh knew how that the LORD was very God.
And Joash king of Israel sent again to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, "A thistle in Lebanon sent to a Cedar tree of Lebanon saying, 'Give thy daughter to my son to wife.' But there came the wild beasts of Lebanon and trod down the thistle.
they arose as many as were men of war and went all night and took the carcass of Saul and the carcasses of his sons from the walls of Bet-Shean and brought them to Jabesh and burnt them there,
And so Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, "The LORD see, and require a reckoning!"
And all the people plucked off the golden earrings that were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.
And he hath brought us into this place and hath given us this land that floweth with milk and honey.
And the Gibeonites said unto him, "We have no matter of silver or of gold with Saul or with his house: neither have we any man that we would kill in Israel." Then he said, "What say ye that I shall do for you?"
For I know thy stubbornness and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been disobedient unto the LORD: and how much more after my death.
When the servants of king Hezekiah were come to Isaiah,
so that Moses could not enter into the tabernacle of witness, because the cloud abode therein, and the glory of the LORD filled the habitation.
Thy sail was of white small needle work out of the land of Egypt, to hang upon thy mast: and thy hangings of yellow silk and purple, out of the Isles of Elishah.
and thereto all the wickedness of the men of Shechem, God did bring upon their heads: And upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal.
take five sicles of every piece, after the sicles of the holy place; twenty geras; the sicles.
And the children of Israel took all the women of Midian prisoners, and their children; and spoiled all their cattle, their substance and their goods.
And they said unto them, "We cannot do this thing, that we should give our sister to one that is uncircumcised, for that were a shame unto us.
So that the whole number, of all that pertained unto the host of Dan, was a hundred thousand fifty seven thousand and six hundred. And they shall be the last in the journey with their standards."
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: I will break out in my wrathful displeasure with a stormy wind, so that in mine anger there shall come a mighty shower of rain and hailstones in my wrath, to destroy withal.
that he defile not his seed upon his people. For I am the LORD which sanctify him.'"
They shall waste away thy riches, and spoil thy merchandise. Thy walls shall they break down, and destroy thy houses of pleasure. Thy stones, thy timber and foundations shall they cast in the water.
Then took Jeremiah another book, and gave it Baruch the Scribe, the son of Neriah, which wrote therein out of the mouth of Jeremiah all the sermons that were in the first book, which Jehoiakim the king of Judah did burn. And there were added unto them many more sermons than before."
And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.
Thou causest the wells to spring up among the valleys, and the waters to run among the hills,
And thou thoughtest thus, "I shall be lady forever." And beside all that, thou hast not regarded these things, neither cast, what should come after.
Again, these words spake the LORD, concerning Israel and Judah,
And the LORD answered me, "Lead not I thee then unto good? Come not I to thee, when thou art in trouble? And help thee, when thine enemy oppresseth thee?
My soul melteth away for very heaviness; comfort thou me according unto thy word.
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them. But thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shall delight in praising the holy one of Israel.
And therefore sayeth the LORD, "I will up; now will I get up, now will I arise.
And the watchman cried, "LORD, I have stood waiting all the whole day, and am appointed to keep my watch every night.
Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob was a stranger in the land of Ham.
For I have said, "Mercy shall be set up for ever; thy truth shalt thou establish in the heavens."
For thou hast been my helper, and under the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.
LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
And there arose certain, appointed thereto by name, and took the prisoners and clothed all that were naked among them, of the spoil, and arrayed them and shoed them and gave them to eat and to drink and anointed them, and carried all that were feeble of them upon asses and brought them to Jericho the city of Palm trees fast by their brethren: and then returned to Samaria again.
And the elders and nobles of his city, which dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letter which she had sent unto them.
O hearken thou unto me also, and let me speak: answer me unto the thing that I will ask thee.
And they offered unto the LORD that same time of the spoil which they had brought, seven hundred oxen and seven thousand sheep.
Upon my right hand they rose together against me; they have hurt my feet, made a way to destroy me,
and took a platter and poured them out before him. And Amnon would not eat, but commanded to have out all men from him. And they went all out from him.
"When thou speakest, then, should not he pardon thee, if thou open thyself before him, and put thy trust in him?
And the king of Babylon smote them and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. And so Judah was carried away out of all their land.
The seventh to Jesharelah with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
And with Absalom went two hundred men out of Jerusalem that were called. And they went with pure hearts and knew nothing of the matter.
Eliel and Obed and Jaasiel of Metsobajah.
And he brought in that which his father had dedicated, and the things dedicated unto the house of the LORD; silver, gold, and jewels.
And then said the king, "If any man say ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall no more trouble thee."
And Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood upon his finger, and sprinkle it straight toward the tabernacle of witness seven times.
And Joab answered and said, "God forbid! God forbid it me, that I should either devour or destroy it.
But and if her father forbid her the same day that he heareth it, none of her vows nor bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall be of value, and the LORD shall forgive her, because her father forbade her.
Then said Saul, "Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son." And Jonathan was caught.
And I am this day tender, though I be anointed king. And these men the sons of Zeruiah be too strong for me to rule. But the LORD reward the doer of evil, according to his wickedness."
but said, "I thought that thou hadst hated her, and therefore gave I her unto one of thy companions. Howbeit her younger sister is fairer than she. Take her instead of the other."
These are the kindreds of the children of Ephraim, in number thirty two thousand and five hundred. And these are the children of Joseph in their kindreds.
And thereto all the villages that lie round about these cities, even unto Baalathbeer and Ramah, southward. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon in their kindreds.
and that there came out of the river seven goodly cows and fat fleshed, and fed in a meadow.
Neverthelater, thou shalt be a burning to Kain, until Assyria take thee prisoner."
Notwithstanding, if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, but is returned unto her father's house again, she shall eat of her father's bread as well as she did in her youth. But there shall no stranger eat thereof.
Of a beast that dieth alone or is rent with wild beasts, he shall not eat, to defile himself therewith: I am the LORD.
that the trees in the wood may bring forth their fruits, and the ground her increase. They shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD: which have broken their yoke, and delivered them out of the hands of those that held them in subjection.
If the priest see that the scab be grown abroad in the skin, let him make him unclean: for it is surely a leprosy.
This is the service of the kindreds of the sons of Merari in all their service in the tabernacle of witness by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest."
Ask freely of me both the dowry and gifts, and I will give according as ye say unto me, and give me the damsel to wife."
then came the seven years of dearth, according as Joseph had said. And the dearth was in all lands: but in the land of Egypt was there yet food.
I caused him also to make me a writing, and to seal it, and called record thereby, and weighed him there the money upon the weights.
So was the heart of Pharaoh hardened, that he would not let the children of Israel go, as the LORD had said by Moses.
no Cedar tree might hide him. In the pleasant garden of God, there was no fir tree like his branches, the plain trees were not like the boughs of him. All the trees in the garden of God might not be compared unto him in his beauty:
Behold when ye fast, ye can find your own lusts, and can call cruelly on all your debtors. Ye fast to law and strive and to smite with fist wickedly. Fast not as ye now do, to make your voice to be heard upon high.
"Behold, thou son of man, I will brake the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt: and lo, it shall not be bound up to be healed, neither shall any plaster be laid upon it, for to ease it, or to make it so strong as to hold a sword.
For our offenses are many before thee, and our sins testify against us. Yea, we must confess that we offend, and acknowledge that we do amiss:
"'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as Moab and Seir do say, 'As for the house of Judah, it is but like as all other Gentiles be,'
Mine advocate speaketh for me, who will then go with me to law? Let us stand one against another: if there be any that will reason with me, let him come here forth to me.
LORD, when thine hand is lift up to strike, they see it not: but they shall see it, and be confounded, when thou shalt devour them with the wrath of the people, and with the fire of thine enemies.
Get you to horseback, roll forth the Chariots, come forth ye worthies: ye Ethiopians, ye Libyans with your bucklers, ye Libyans with your bows:
Wherethrough they have brought their land into an everlasting wilderness and scorn: So that whosoever traveleth thereby, shall be abashed, and wag their heads.
Art not thou he, that hast wounded that proud Egypt, and hewn the dragon in pieces? Art not thou even he, which hast dried up the deep of the sea, which hast made plain the sea ground, that the delivered might go through?
for he cometh to judge the earth: yea with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with his truth. {TYNDALE: For he cometh to judge the earth. Thank the LORD for he is good, and his mercy lasteth ever.}
All people in comparison of him are reckoned as nothing, yea vain vanity and emptiness.
Heshbon and Elealeh cried, that their voice was heard unto Jahaz. The worthies also of Moab bleared and cried for very sorrow of their minds.
Upon earth is there no power like unto his, for he is so made that he feareth not.
and yearly to bring the firstlings of our land, and the firstlings of our fruits of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:
I must needs be a liar, though my cause be right, and violently am I plagued whereas I made no fault.'
And certain of the ancient fathers gave unto the work. Hathirsatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams, fifty basens, five hundred and thirty priests' garments.
and made proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the LORD the taxation of Moses the servant of God, which he set upon Israel in the wilderness.
The other choir of thanksgiving went over against them, and I after them, and the half part of the people upon the wall, toward the Furnacegate upward, until the broad wall,
And with the said Heman and Jeduthun were trumpets and sounding cymbals, and instruments of the melody of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.
Remember his marvels which he did, and his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth:
Yea, and the woman that is so tender and delicate among you that she dare not venture to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for softness and tenderness, shall be grieved to look on the husband that lieth in her bosom and on her son and on her daughter -
And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud recorder,
And unto a ram thou shalt offer a meat offering of two tenth deals of flour, mingled with the third part of a hin of oil,
And the king, and all Israel with him, offered offerings before the LORD.
For who should hearken unto you in this matter? But as his part is that goeth and fighteth, so good shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part it alike."
But and if they will make no peace with thee, then make war against the city and besiege it.
This shall be thine of most holy sacrifices: All their gifts, throughout all their meat offerings, sin offerings and trespass offerings which they bring unto me. They shall be most holy unto thee and unto thy sons.
and Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs: Nine cities out of those two tribes.
And their coasts were Helkath, Hali, Beten and Achshaph;
The children of Judah: Er and Onan, which died in the land of Canaan.
Then said he, "Bring me and let me eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee." And he brought him, and he ate. And he brought him wine also, and he drank.
And this is the charge, that they must wait upon in all that they must serve in the tabernacle of witness: The boards of the dwelling, and the bars, pillars, and sockets thereof,
Vain visions have ye seen, and spoken false prophesies, when ye say, 'The LORD hath spoken it,' whereas I never said it.
And when the tidings was come unto Pharaoh's house that Joseph's brethren were come, it pleased Pharaoh well and all his servants.
And Adah bare unto Esau, Eliphaz: and Basemath bare Reuel:
For what is he that ever was like me, which am from everlasting? Let him show his name, and do wherethrough he may be likened unto me. Let him tell you forth, plainly, things that are past, and for to come:
The word of the LORD came moreover unto me, saying,
A captain also shall come of them, and a prince shall spring out from the midst of them: him will I challenge to myself, and he shall come unto me. For what is he, that giveth over his heart to come unto me, sayeth the LORD?
If thou canst not be content to dwell alone, then remain with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan: whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people, or remain wheresoever it pleaseth thee." So the chief Captain of the guard gave him his expenses with a reward, and let him go.
"Now when I had delivered the evidence unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I besought the LORD, saying,
And so Jeremiah came from Tophet, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and stood in the court of the house of the LORD, and spake to all the people:
Because thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee glorious for ever and ever; and joyful throughout all posterities.
And such of the house of Judah as are escaped, shall come together, and the remnant shall take root beneath, and bring forth fruit above.
Then Jehoiakim the king sent servants in to the land of Egypt; Namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
And so there came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, the president; Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the secretary.
And they burnt the house of God and brake down the walls of Jerusalem and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire with all the goodly stuff thereof, and marred it.
For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy works; and I will rejoice over the operation of thy hands.
Stand up LORD, thou that dwellest on high: Let Zion be filled with equity and righteousness.
Kings' daughters go in thy goodly array, and upon thy righthand standeth the queen in a vesture of the most fine gold.
Because the waters of Dimon were full of blood, I will add more unto Dimon: and lions upon the remnant of the land, and on them that are escaped.
Yet hast thou given a token, for such as fear thee, that they may triumph because of the truth. Selah.
Praised be God, which hath not cast out my prayer, nor turned his mercy from me.
With the river of water parteth he asunder the strange people, that knoweth no good neighborhead; such as are rude, unmannerly and boisterous.
But if they will not obey, they shall go through the sword, and perish before they be aware.
Then let the father of the damsel and the mother bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity, unto the elders of the city, even unto the gate.
And the LORD sent an angel and destroyed all the men of war and the lords and captains of the host of the king of Assyria, that he turned his face, with shame, towards his own land. And when he was come into the house of his god, he was there overthrown with the sword - even by them that issued out of his bowels.
"There is a confederation between me and thee, and so was between my father and thine, wherefore I have sent thee silver and gold, that thou go and break thine covenant with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me."
And he said, "Go." And so he sent her away two months. And she went with her companions and lamented her maidenhead upon the mountains.
The sons of Moses: Gershom and Eliezer.
Neverthelater, the king's words prevailed against Joab. And Joab took his way and went throughout all Israel, and came to Jerusalem
And the king said, "Go in peace." And so he arose and went to Hebron.
Wherefore David said unto them, "What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I content you that ye may bless the inheritance of the LORD?"
And if any man have planted a vineyard and have not made it common, let him go and return again unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another make it common.
And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their kindreds. And the coasts of their lot came out between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
And all the cities that the Levites had in the possession of the children of Israel were forty eight with their suburbs.
And die in the mount which thou goest upon, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was gathered unto his people.
And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her without the host and cause her to be slain before him.
And let the priest look on him again the seventh day. Then if the sore be waxed blackish, and is not grown abroad in the skin, let the priest make him clean, for it is but a scurf. And let him wash his clothes, and then he is clean.
The length of a curtain shall be twenty eight cubits, and the breadth four and they shall be all of one measure:
So I prophesied, as he had commanded me: then came the breath into them and they received life, and stood up upon their feet: a marvelous great sortie.
from Aroer upon the brink of the river of Arnon, and the city in the river, unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us. The LORD our God delivered all unto us:
The eldest and wisest at Gebal were they, that mended and stopped thy ships. All ships of the sea with their shipment occupied their merchandise in thee.
Abraham stood up and bowed himself before the people of the land the children of Heth.
he grieveth the poor and needy; he robbeth and spoileth; he giveth not the debtor his pledge again; he lifteth up his eyes unto Idols, and meddle with abominable things;
And tell that obstinate household of Israel, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O house of Israel: yea have now done enough with all your abominations,
Ye men are my flock; ye are the sheep of my pasture: and I am your God, sayeth the LORD God.'"
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast forgotten me, and cast me aside, so bear now thy own filthiness and whoredom."
"O thou son of man, set now face against Pharaoh the king of Egypt: Prophesy against him and against the whole land of Egypt.
O ye all that love virtue and righteousness, judge them! Punish them as adulterers and murderers ought to be judged and punished. For they are breakers of wedlock, and the blood is in their hands.
I will set my face against that man. And will make him to be an example for others; yea, and a common byword. And will root him out of my people, that he may know how that I am the LORD.
Then came the word of the LORD unto me on this manner,
Then said the LORD thus unto me,
Shake thee from the dust, arise and stand up, O Jerusalem. Pluck out thy neck from the bond, O thou captive daughter Zion.
For the LORD shall judge all flesh with the fire and with his sword, and there shall be a great number slain of the LORD.
when he seeth among his children - whom my hands have made - such as hallow my name among them: that they may sanctify the holy one of Jacob, and fear the God of Israel.
So when they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivered them out of their distress.
Thou shalt show us wonderful things in thy righteousness, O God of our salvation, thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad sea -
And in my prosperity I said, "I shall never be removed." And why? Thou, LORD, of thy goodness, hast made my hill so strong.
Who hath devised such things upon Tyre the crown of all cities, whose merchants and Captains were the highest and principal of the world?
O hide not thou thy face from me, nor cast thy servant away in displeasure. Thou hast been my succor; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God my Saviour.
Thou hast made mine enemies also to turn their backs upon me, and I shall destroy them that hate me. {TYNDALE: And thou madest mine enemies to turn their backs to me, and them that hated me, and I destroyed them.}
A roaring voice followeth him: for his glorious majesty giveth such a thunder clap, that, though a man hear it, yet may he not perceive it afterward. It giveth a horrible sound,
For no man shall be suffered to go into judgment with God.
and then shall I answer him without any fear. For as long as I am in such fearfulness, I can make no answer: And why?
And he did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.
They began the first day of the first month to purify, and came the eighth day to the porch of the LORD: so that they had purged the house of the LORD in eight days; in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
And he set all the people and every man his weapon in his hand, from the right corner of the house to the left corner of the house, along by the altar and the house round about the king.
Now David the son of Jesse was king over all Israel.
And Jehoiada waxed old and full of years and died. An hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
and lay shameful things unto her charge and bring up an evil name upon her and say, 'I took this wife, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid':
But the Levites and Benjamin he counted not among them. For the king's deed seemed abominable to Joab.
Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Elihoenai the seventh.
and since the time I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and will bring under all thine enemies - for I told thee that the LORD would build thee a house.
Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; that thou mayest prosper and build the house of the LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
And these are the names of his children, which he had born him at Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon;
Then came Isaiah the Prophet unto king Hezekiah and said to him, "What say these men and from whence come they to thee?" And Hezekiah said, "They be come from a far country, even from Babylon."
And the sons of Eshek his brother, were Ulam his eldest, and Jeush the second and Eliphelet the third.
And the battle went sore against Saul, insomuch that shooters with bows had found him, and he was sore wounded of the shooters.
And she said unto him, "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." And he awaked out of his sleep, and plucked and went away with the nail that was in the plaiting and with the hair lace.
Let them offer nothing that is deformed for they shall get no favour therewith.
And when it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah the concubine of Saul had done,
But and if they so say unto us, 'Come up unto us,' then we will go up, for the LORD hath delivered them into our hands. And this shall be a sign unto us."
And your father hath deceived me and changed my wages ten times: But God suffered him not to hurt me.
When Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him saying, "Ahithophel hath given such counsel: whether it be best we do after his saying, or not, tell thou."
And when the LORD saw it, he was angry because of the provoking of his sons and daughters.
And they that are left in thine house, shall come and crouch to him for a little piece of silver and a cake of bread, and shall say: put me, I pray thee, in one office or other among the priests, that I may eat a morsel of bread.'"
and take the garments, and put upon Aaron: the strait coat, and the tunicle of the ephod, and the ephod and the breastlap: and girth them to him with the broidered girdle of the ephod.
Lo, I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of this city will come out to draw water:
"Command the children of Israel and say unto them, 'When ye come into the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall unto your inheritance; the land of Canaan with all her coasts.
which the LORD commanded to be given them in the day when he anointed them, of the children of Israel, and to be a duty for ever among their generations.
and commanded to fill their sacks with corn, and to put every man's money in his sack, and to give them victuals to spend by the way. And so it was done to them.
The merchants of these things which were waxed rich, shall stand afar off from her, for fear of the punishment of her, weeping and wailing,
Thus are they scattered here and there without a shepherd: yea, all the beasts of the field devour them, and they go astray.
After that she bare a daughter, and called her Dina.
Let no man despise him: but convey him forth in peace, that he may come unto me. For I look for him with the brethren.
and divide it to be a heritage for you, and for the strangers that dwell among you, and begotten children. For ye shall take them among the children of Israel, like as though they were of your own household and country, and they shall have heritage with you among the children of Israel.
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake between themselves, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye, seeing he cometh not to the feast?"
She shall no more be a pricking thorn, and a hurting brier unto the house of Israel, nor unto them that lie round about her and hate her: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The Persians, Lydians and Libyans were in thine host, and helped thee to fight: these hanged up their shields and helmets with thee; these set forth thy beauty.
if the same people do evil before me, and hear not my voice: Immediately, I repent of the good, that I devised to do for them.
Behold, the stormy weather of the LORD - that is, his indignation - shall go forth, and shall fall down upon the head of the ungodly.
"Thou son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, speak against the Sanctuary, and prophesy against the land of Israel, say to the land of Israel,
Behold, on the other side shall the wrath of the LORD break out as a stormy water, as a mighty whirlwind: and shall fall upon the heads of the ungodly.
She remembereth not that they might be trodden with feet or broken with some wild beast.
At even, behold, there is trouble: yet in the morning it is gone with them. This is the portion of them that oppress us, and the heritage of them that rob us.
What helpeth then my long tarrying? Or, who will fulfill the thing that I look for?
The slothful body thrusteth his hand into his bosom, and it grieveth him to put it again to his mouth.
O let not them that are mine enemies triumph over me ungodly; neither let them wink with their eyes, that hate me without a cause.
Who is this King of glory? Even the LORD of Hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
Beside their servants and maidens, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and seven and thirty. And they had two hundred and seven and forty singing men and women,
Now have I in my heart to strike a covenant with the LORD God of Israel: that his wrath may cease.
Whereupon they conspired against him and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the king: even in the court of the house of the LORD.
And other ten thousand the children of Judah took alive, and carried them unto the top of a rock and cast them down from the top of the rock that they all to burst:
And the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and a stretched out arm and with great terribleness and with signs and wonders.
Moreover, the LORD God of Israel chose me of all the house of my father, to be king over Israel forever, for he chose Judah to be a captain: and in the house of Judah the house of my father, and of the sons of my father he had a lust to me, to make me king over all Israel.
And the LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from the land whither thou goest to enjoy it.
Amiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh and Peullathai the eighth - for God had blessed him.
The seventeenth to Hezir. The eighteenth to Happizzez.
the son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,
And if thy father say thus, 'It is well done,' then thy servant shall have peace. But and if he be angry, then be sure that wickedness is utterly concluded of him.
And Micah filled the hand of the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and continued in the house of Micah.
And thou shalt take the reconciling money of the children of Israel and shalt put it unto the use of the tabernacle of witness, and it shall be a memorial of the children of Israel before the LORD, to make atonement for their souls."
These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and so made an end of dividing the country.
And the land shall give her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill and dwell therein in safety.
Then Moses said, "Fill your hands unto the LORD this day, every man upon his son and upon his brother: to bring upon you a blessing this day."
Hearken therefore unto the voice of the LORD thy God and do his commandments and his ordinances which I command you this day."
And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph and said unto him, "In my dream me thought there stood a vine before me,
And from mount Hor, ye shall compass and go unto Hamath, and the end of the coast shall be at Zeded,
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream and no man can interpret it, but I have heard say of thee that as soon as thou hearest a dream, thou dost interpret it."
And he blessed them, saying, "At the example of these, the Israelites shall bless and say, 'God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh.'" Thus set he Ephraim before Manasseh.
Jacob answered, "O nay, but if I have found grace in thy sight, receive my present of my hand: for I have seen thy face as though I had seen the face of God: wherefore receive me to grace
and ran forth throughout all the region round about, and began to carry about in beds all that were sick, to place where they heard tell that he was there.
I will accept your sweet savour, when I bring you from the nations, and gather you together out of the lands, wherein ye be scattered: that I may be hallowed in you before the Heathen.
That thou mayest think upon it, be ashamed, and excuse thine own confusion no more: when I have forgiven thee all that thou hast done, sayeth the LORD God.'"
And Abimelech said, "Behold, the land lieth before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee best."
In the twelfth year, the first day of the twelfth Month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
For when they had slain their children for their idols, they came the same day into my Sanctuary to defile it. Lo, this have they done in my house.
And thus sayeth the LORD God: I will destroy the Idols, and bring the images of Noph to an end. There shall no more be a prince of Egypt, and a fearfulness will I send into the Egyptians' land.
that the house of Israel be led no more from me through error, and be no more defiled in their wickedness: but that they may be my people, and I their God, sayeth the LORD God.'"
"And the pitcher shalt thou break, in the sight of the men, that shall be with thee, and say unto them,
Israel is a scattered flock, the Lions have dispersed them. First the king of the Assyrians devoured them, last of all this Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon hath bruised all their bones.
Now when Jeremiah had ended all the words of the LORD God unto the people, for their sakes to whom God had sent him,
Then the prophet Jeremiah gave answer unto the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and before all the people that were present in the house of the LORD.
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel, 'Whereas thou hast made thy prayer unto me, as touching Sennacherib,
He is lame of his feet, yea drunken is he in vanity, that committeth any message to a fool.
LORD, what is man, that thou hast such respect unto him? Or the son of man, that thou so regardest him?
As for the images of the heathen, they are but silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right; for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Though he fall, he shall not be hurt, for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.
{Tav} Let my complaint come before thee, O LORD; give me understanding, according unto thy word.
In his time shall the righteous flourish, yea, and abundance of peace, so long as the moon endureth.
And give unto Solomon my son, a pure heart to keep thy commandments, thy testimonies and thine ordinances, and to do all, and to build the house which I intended."
For when I had waited till ye made an end of your talking, and heard your wisdom, what arguments you made in your communication;
Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.
And he sacrificed all the priests of the hill altars that were there, even upon the altars, and burnt men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem.
All these, being men of war able to order the array, came to Hebron with pure heart, to make David king upon all Israel. And thereto all the rest of Israel was of one accord to make David king.
and of the sons of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; and of the sons of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
the son of Tahath, the son of Assir, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah,
The son of Appaim was Ishi. The son of Ishi was Sheshan. And the son of Sheshan was Ahlai.
Then the king of Israel sent for the elders of the land and said, "Take heed I pray you and see, how this fellow goeth about mischief. For he sent unto me, for my wives and my children, and my silver and my gold: and I denied him nothing of it."
And Samson said unto them, "Should ye do so? For I will surely be avenged of you; and then I will cease."
that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God.
And he that eateth of any such dead carcass, shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until the evening. And he also that beareth the carcass of it, shall wash his clothes and be unclean until even.
And the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel were gone up to Mizphah. Then said the children of Israel, "Tell us how this wickedness happened."
And if they answer thee again peaceably, and open unto thee, then let all the people that is found therein be tributaries unto thee and serve thee.
And Edom answered him, "See thou come not by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword."
'This wise say unto Joseph: forgive, I pray thee, the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they rewarded thee evil.' Now therefore we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of thy father's God." And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
And the suburbs of the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward, a thousand cubits round about.
Ye shall send unto the war a thousand of every tribe throughout all the tribes of Israel."
And the stones shall be graven as signets be graven: with the names of the children of Israel, even with twelve names every one with his name according to the twelve tribes.
Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, "I do remember my fault this day.
and put the staves in the rings along by the sides of the ark, to bear it withal.
they make thy sons go a whoring after their gods also. Thou shalt make thee no gods of metal.
Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,
The children Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer and Shillem.
he walketh in my commandments, and keepeth my laws, and performeth them faithfully: This is a righteous man, he shall surly live, sayeth the LORD God.
So came Jacob to Luz in the land of Canaan, otherwise called Bethel, with all the people that was with him.
The south side is, from Tamar forth to the waters of strife unto Kadesh, the river, to the main sea: and that is the south part.
"Moreover thus sayeth the LORD: In this place, whereof ye say that it shall be a wilderness, wherein neither people nor cattle shall dwell: in like manner in the cities of Judah and without Jerusalem - which also shall be so void, that neither people nor cattle shall dwell there -
Thou coveredst it with the deep like as with a garment, so that the waters stand above the hills.
And this was done in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, when it was commanded that all the people of Jerusalem should fast before the LORD, and they also that were come from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
Praise him, all ye heavens, and ye waters that are above the heavens.
Behold, they say unto me, "Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come to pass!"
Then chattered I like a swallow, and like a crane, and mourned as a dove. I lift up mine eyes to the height: 'O LORD,' say I, 'violence is done unto me, be thou surety for me.'
And Micaiah answered, "Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD. I saw the LORD sit upon his seat, and all the company of heaven standing on his righthand and on his left.
Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for the unknown man's sake.
But thou shalt have a perfect and a just measure: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
"Now hast thou spoken in mine ears, and I have heard the voice of thy words:
But Amaziah rested not: for it came of God, even to deliver them into the hands of their enemies - and that because they had sought the gods of the Edomites.
And the first lot of Asaph fell to Joseph. The second to Gedaliah with his brethren and sons, twelve persons.
and said unto them, "Ye are the principal heads of the Levites - sanctify therefore yourselves and your brethren and bring the Ark of the LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
"Then put away," said he, "the strange gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the LORD God of Israel."
And the citizens of Gibeah rose against me, and set the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and caught my concubine and forced her, that she died.
the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
And the LORD did cast out before us all the nations with the Amorites which dwelt in the land, wherefore we will serve the LORD - for he is our God."
But I would not agree to hearken unto Balaam, and therefore he blessed you: And so I delivered you out of his hand.
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, and Juttah;
And he said, "Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah and bring him unto his people: let his hands fight for him: but be thou his help against his enemies."
"Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, 'When ye are come over Jordan into the land of Canaan,
He may not alter it nor change it: a good for a bad or a bad for good. If he change beast for beast, then both the same beast and it also wherewith it was changed shall be holy.
And the office of the sons of Merari was the boards of the dwelling and the bars, pillars with the sockets thereof, and all the instruments thereof and all that served thereto:
When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him. And he lift up his father's hand, to have removed it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head,
And then when the sun is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the hallowed things: for they are his food.
Then the sons of Jacob answered to Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, because he had defiled Dina their sister.
And after the death of Husham, Hadad the son of Bedad, which slew the Midianites in the field of the Moabites, reigned in his stead, and the name of his city was Avith.
duke Korah, duke Gatam and duke Amaleck: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom, and these were the sons of Adah.
The children of Ezer were these: Bilhan, Zaavan and Akan.
They shall burn up thy houses, and punish thee in the sight of many women. Thus will I make thy whoredom to cease, so that thou shalt give out no more rewards.
But I would not do it, for my name's sake: that it should not be unhallowed before the Heathen, among whom they dwelt, and among whom I showed myself unto them, that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt.
The hills stand about Jerusalem; even so standeth the LORD round about his people, from this time forth for evermore.
"For lo, I will make up a host of people from the northern land, and bring them upon Babylon: these shall lay siege to it, and win it. Their arrows shall not miss, like as a cunning archer shooteth not wrong.
Behind the doors and posts, hast thou set up thy remembrance: When thou hast uncovered thyself to another than me, when thou wentest down and made thy bed wider, when thou didst carve the certain of yonder Idols, and lovedest their couches, where thou sawest them.
So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them with all the diligence of his power.
For thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will make thee afraid, thee thyself and all that favour thee: which shall perish with the sword of their enemies, even before thy face. And I will give whole Judah under the power of the king of Babylon, which shall carry some unto Babylon, prisoners, and slay some with the sword.
For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same. As for the dregs thereof, all the ungodly of the earth shall drink them, and suck them out.
So Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians brake up, and dwelt at Nineveh.
For the love that I had unto them, they take now my contrary part; but I give myself unto prayer.
Whensoever I call upon thee, then shall mine enemies be put to flight; whereby I know that thou art my God.
The LORD shall refresh him, when he lieth sick upon his bed, yea thou makest his bed in all his sickness.
O remember not the sins and offenses of my youth; but according to thy mercy think upon me, O LORD, for thy goodness.
And all the host of the Chaldeans that were with the chief Marshal brake down the walls of Jerusalem round about.
So when Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, saw that these three men were not able to make Job answer, he was miscontent.
The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon;
And he took the captains of hundreds and the nobles, and the governors of the people and all the folk of the land, and brought the king down out of the house of the LORD, and they went through the high gate in the king's house, and set the king upon the seat of the kingdom.
but the LORD your God ye shall fear, and he shall deliver you out of the hands of all your enemies."
and of the sons of Heman, Jehuel and Shimei; and of the sons of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
And he did evil in the sight of the LORD, in all points like to Jehoiakim.
He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from them that hated me and were too strong for me.
And he stood between the dead, and them that were alive, and the plague ceased.
And when the people were viewed, behold, there were none of the inhabiters of Jabeshgilead there.
And Joshua smote them from Kadesh Barnea, unto Gaza, and all the coasts of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
These are the sums of the Levites in their kindreds: of Gershon, came the kindred of the Gershonites; and of Kohath came the kindred of the Kohathites; and of Merari came the kindred of the Merarites.
that your children after you may know how that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: for I am the LORD your God.'"
"Then shalt thou make loops of jacinth colour, along by the edge of the one curtain even in the selvedge of the coupling curtain. And likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the utmost curtain that is coupled therewith on the other side.
And he made the cense altar of sethim-wood of a cubit long and a cubit broad: even four square, and two cubits high with horns proceeding out of it.
"Behold, there shall come seven years of great plenteousness throughout all the land of Egypt.
And Joseph remembered his dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, "Ye are spies, and to see where the land is weak is your coming."
Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and wist not which way to turn himself, and divided the people that was with him and the sheep, oxen and camels, into two companies,
And as she was in pains of her labour, the midwife said unto her, "Fear not, for thou shalt have this son also."
And he sent word to Moses, "I, thy father-in-law Jethro, am come to thee; and thy wife also, and her two sons with her."
Howbeit, I knew that thou art obstinate, and that thy neck hath an iron vein, and thy brow is of brass.
and spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the country saying, "I pray thee hear me: I will give silver for the field, take it of me, and so will I bury my dead there."
For he treadeth not the fitches out with a waine, neither bringeth he the cart here and there over the cumin, but he thresheth the fitches out with a flail, and the cumin with a rod.
And when Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself unto the LORD, flat upon the earth.
In conclusion: it shall be even as when a hungry man dreameth that he is eating, and when he awaketh his soul is empty; or as when a thirsty man dreameth that he is drinking, and when he awaketh he yet is faint, and his soul hath appetite. So is the multitude of all people that muster themselves against the hill of Zion.
the LORD giveth sight to the blind. The LORD helpeth them up that are fallen; the LORD loveth the righteous.
namely Hamath, Berothai, Sibraim; from the borders of Damascus and Hamath unto Hazerhatticon, and that lieth upon the coasts of Hauran.
"Thus sayeth the LORD: Even so will I corrupt the pride of Judah, and the high mind of Jerusalem.
"Take the breech that thou hast prepared and put it about thee, and get thee up, and go unto Euphrates, and hide it in a hole of the rock."
'The LORD hath ordained thee to be priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, that thou shouldest be the chief in the house of the LORD above all prophets, and preachers, and that thou mightest put them in prison, or in the stocks.
The sin of the wicked is his own snare, but the righteous shall be glad and rejoice.
This, O my fellow threshers and fanners, have I heard of the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, to show it unto you.
Thy testimonies have I claimed as my heritage forever; and why? They are the very joy of my heart.
O learn me thy kindness, nurture and knowledge, for I believe thy commandments.
It goeth forth from the uttermost part of the heaven, and runneth about unto the end of it again; and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and fifty.
And he did that displeased the LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet at the mouth of the LORD.
When I laughed, they knew well it was not earnest; and this testimony of my countenance pleased them nothing at all.
And when Ahaz was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in the city of Jerusalem: but brought him not unto the sepulchers of the kings of Judah. And Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
Over the company of the second month Dodai an Ahohite, and in his host was Mikloth a ruler. And in his company were twenty four thousand.
he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to salute him and to bless him, because he had fought with Hadadezer and beaten him - for Thou had war with Hadadezer - and sent all manner of Jewels of gold, silver and brass with him.
But now hear me, and deliver the captives again which ye have taken of your brethren: for the great wrath of the LORD is upon you!"
So now my God let thine eyes be open and thine ears attent unto the prayers made in this place.
These are the singers - ancient heads among the Levites divided by chambers, for they had to do both day and night.
The twenty-first to Jachin. The twenty-second to Gamul.
And as soon as David heard of it, he sent Joab with all the host of strong men.
Hanan the son of Maacah and Joshaphat a Mithnite;
And also if they come for war, take them yet alive." And when those men of the sheriffs of the shires were come out of the city and the Host after them,
The rest of the acts of Jehu, and all he did, and all his power, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.
And Nob, the city of the priests, he smote with the edge of the sword: both man and woman, child and suckling, with ox, ass and sheep.
for as truly as the LORD liveth, which hath saved Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall die for it." But no man answered him of all the people.
Then said the king to Amasa, "Call me the men of Judah together within three days and present thyself here."
And when the Philistines went out to war, David behaved himself wiselier than all the servants of Saul: so that his name was much set by.
Thou shalt not uncover the privities of thy mother's sister, for she is thy mother's next kinswoman.
Then the Philistines asked who had done that. And it was told them that Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife and given her to one of his companions. And the Philistines came and burnt her and her father with fire.
And the whole congregation sent and spake with the children of Benjamin that were in the rock of pomegranates, and called peaceably unto them,
and they shall be upon thee as miracles and wonders and upon thy seed for ever.
But shalt in any wise let the dam go and take the young, that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy days.
And he said unto his lad, "Go forward, and we shall come to one place or other and shall lodge all night in Gibeah or in Ramah."
Then I sent Moses and Aaron. And I plagued Egypt, after the manner as I did among them, and after that I brought you out,
If he have no brethren, ye shall give his inheritance unto his father's brethren.
And their coasts were Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem;
And shall fetch a compass from Azmon unto the river of Egypt, and shall go out at the sea.
And Moses put the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness.
and twenty pillars thereof with their twenty sockets of brass: but the knops of the pillars and their hoops shall be silver.
they lurk among the graves, and lie in the dens all night. They eat swine flesh, and unclean broth is in their vessels.
And the whole sum of the Levites which Moses and Aaron numbered, at the commandment of the LORD - throughout their kindreds, even of all the males of a month old and above - was twenty two thousand.
Haste you and go to my father and tell him, 'This sayeth thy son Joseph: God hath made me lord over all Egypt. Come down unto me and tarry not.
And all the company of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.
And Moses beheld all the work, and see, they had done it even as the LORD commanded: and then Moses blessed them.
There be three things that are never satisfied, and the fourth sayeth never, "Hoo." The hell, a woman's womb, and the earth hath never water enough. As for fire, it sayeth never, "Hoo."
They shall dwell safely therein, build houses, and plant vineyards. Yea, safely shall they dwell therein, when I have punished all those that despise them round about: and then shall they know that I am the LORD their God.
Thus Ezekiel is your show token. For look, as he hath done, so, when this cometh, ye shall do also: that ye may learn to know that I am the LORD God.'"
Now the king sat in the winter house, for it was in the ninth Month, and there was a good fire before him.
And when Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah out of Bozrah, reigned in his stead.
for thou shalt be multiplied on the right side and on the left, and thy seed shall have the Gentiles in possession, and dwell in the desolate cities.
Sharon shall be a sheepfold, and the valley of Achor shall give the stalling for the cattle of my people, that fear me.
Lift up thine eyes, and look about thee: all these shall gather them together, and come to thee. As truly as I live, sayeth the LORD, thou shalt put them all upon thee as an apparel, and gird them to thee, as an bride doth her jewels.
Behold, for thine example: The Chaldeans were such a people, that no man was like them, Assyria builded them: he set up his castles and palaces, and broke them down again.
Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hands of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hands of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until he have mercy upon us.
The LORD preserveth all them that love him, but scattereth abroad all the ungodly.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and with thine ears consider my calling; hold not thy peace at my tears. For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
When I perceived that, I said, "Let me alone, and I will make lamentation. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people."
That I might show thee the truth and that thou with the verity mightest answer them that lay anything against thee?
{A song of the stairs} Many a time have they fought against me from my youth up, may Israel now say.
How long will ye give wrong judgment, and accept the persons of the ungodly? Selah.
But if a man call upon God, doth not he hear him? Doth not the Almighty accept his cry?
And Jehoshaphat bowed himself with his face to the city, and all Judah and the inhabiters of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, to bow themselves unto the LORD.
And the Philistines gathered together and came and pitched in Shunem. And Saul and all Israel gathered together and pitched in Gilboa.
For to make thee a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
And I have been with thee in all thou tookest in hand, and have weeded out all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a name like the name of the greatest men of the earth.
Behold, he lurketh now in some cave or in some other place. And thereto, though some of his men be overthrown at the first brunt, yet they that hear it will think the people that followeth Absalom be put to the worse.
Nogah, Nepheg and Japhia;
Wherefore David arose and went to the place where Saul had pitched, and beheld the place where Saul lay with Abner the son of Ner his chief captain. For Saul lay within a round bank and the people pitched round about him.
and to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, in name and honour: that thou mayest be a holy people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath said."
And then Saul departed from following the Philistines. And the Philistines went to their own place.
And ye shall offer the day when he waveth the sheaf, a lamb without blemish of a year old for a burnt offering unto the LORD:
Thou mayest mourn by thyself alone, but use no deadly lamentation. Hold on thy bonnet, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, cover not thy face, and eat no mourner's bread."
And they gave them the free city of the slayer: Shechem with her suburbs, in mount Ephraim; and Gezer with her suburbs;
And whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of that ye may not eat, for that is unclean unto you.
and the land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, which Tappuah lay in the borders between Manasseh and the children of Ephraim.
And put of thy praise upon him that all the company of the children of Israel may hear.
And I said unto them, 'Let them that have gold, take and bring it me': and I cast it into the fire, and thereof came out this calf."
but all the servants that are bought for money shall ye circumcise, and then let them eat thereof.
And Moses said unto the children of Gad and of Reuben, "Shall your brethren go to war and ye tarry here?
"Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of the women and of cattle: thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the ancient heads of the congregation.
Then spared I my holy name, which the house of Israel had dishonoured among the Gentiles, to whom they came. Therefore tell the house of Israel:
if peradventure they will hearken, and turn every man from his wicked way: that I may also repent of the plague, which I have determined to bring upon them, because of their wicked inventions.
They shall grow together, like as the grass, and as the Willows by the waterside.
But thou shalt go unto my father's house and to my kindred, and there take a wife unto my son.'
At the same time will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to grow forth, and open thy mouth again among them: that they may know how that I am the LORD."
Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, if they will not obey thee.
Make thee a street, that the sword may come toward Rabbah of the Ammonites, and to the strong city of Jerusalem.
Yea, thou shalt go thy way from them, and smite thine hands together upon thy head. Because the LORD shall bring that confidence and hope of thine to naught, and thou shalt not prosper withal."
And therefore make no mocks at it, that your captivity increase not. For I have heard the LORD God of Hosts say that there shall come a sudden destruction and plague upon the whole earth.
Hast thou also perceived how broad the earth is? Now if thou hast knowledge of all,
As for the judgment, let us seek it out among ourselves, that we may know what is right.
My bowels seeth within me, and take no rest, for the days of my trouble are come upon me.
If I had spoken, they would have it none other ways, my words were so well taken among them.
And the children of the captivity, which were come out of prison, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel: twelve bullocks for all Israel, six and ninety rams, seven and seventy lambs, twelve goats for a sin offering, all to the burnt offering of the LORD.
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began, and the trumpets with the instruments of David king of Israel.
He that is just shall enter disputation with him, and my judge shall deliver me forever.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua of Kadmiel, among the children of Hodevah, four and seventy.
and carried in the heave offerings and the tithes and the dedicated gifts; even of fidelity. Over which Conaniah the Levite had the rule with Shimei his brother next to him.
and turn again to thee, with all their hearts and all their souls, in the land of their captivity where they be kept in bondage, and so pray toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, and city which thou hast chosen, and to his house which I have built for thy name;
And though I leave a remnant of mine inheritance, yet I will deliver them into the hands of them that hate them, and they shall be robbed and spoiled of all their enemies:
And the lavers, shovels, dressing knives, ladles, and the ministering vessels of brass, they carried away.
"What should I set this before a hundred men?" And he said, "Set it before the people and let them eat. For thus sayeth the LORD, 'They shall eat and leave.'"
And the Edomites came yet again and slew of Judah and carried away some captives.
in that thou lovest thine enemies and hatest thy friends. Thou hast declared this day that thou carest neither for thy lords nor servants. For this day I do perceive, if Absalom had lived, and all we died this day, that then it had pleased thee well.
Then he said, "Bring meal." And he cast it into the pot and said, "Fill for the people that they may eat." And there was no harm in the pot.
The fourth day they arose early in the morning, and the man stood up to depart. But the damsel's father said unto his son-in-law, "Comfort thine heart with a morsel of bread and then go your way."
And the king returned and came to Jordan. And Judah came to Gilgal for to go against the king to convey him over Jordan.
if they say on this wise to us, 'Tarry until we come to you,' then we will stand still where we be and not go up unto them.
then let both the men which strive together stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days,
And I will go out and stand by my father in the field where thou art, and will commune with my father of thee, and if I can perceive ought I will tell thee."
And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin, and put themselves in array against them, to fight against Gibeah.
Eltolad, Bethul and Hormah;
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, "How long are ye so slack to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
The vow of a widow and of her that is divorced, and all that they have bound their souls withal, shall stand in effect with them.
of sweet calamite, two hundred and fifty. Of cassia, two hundred and fifty after the holy sicle, and of olive oil a hin.
And he shall reckon with him that bought him, from the year that he was sold in unto the trumpet year, and the price of his buying shall be according unto the number of years, and he shall be with him as a hired servant.
And thou shalt seethe and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen, and depart on the morrow and get thee unto thy tent.
Moreover, thou hast brought us unto no land that floweth with milk and honey, neither hast given us possessions of fields or of vines. Either wilt thou pull out the eyes of these men? We will not come."
And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them and Korah also, when the multitude died, what time the fire consumed two hundred and fifty men, and they became a sign:
And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and lodged at the graves of lust.
but and if any water be poured upon the seed and afterward the dead carcass of them fall thereon, then it shall be unclean unto you.
And the manner was to bring the flocks thither, and to roll the stone from the well's mouth and to water the sheep, and to put the stone again upon the well's mouth unto his place.
but according to the number of years after the trumpet year, thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of fruit year, he shall sell unto thee.
And thou shalt make fifty buttons of gold, and couple the curtain together with the buttons: that it may be a habitation.
And the staves shall abide in the rings of the ark, and shall not be taken away.
and until thy brother's wrath turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him. Then will I send and fetch thee away from thence. Why should I lose you both in one day?"
And they dreamed, either of them, in one night: both the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt which were bound in the prison house, either of them his dream, and each man's dream of a sundry interpretation.
So all the soldiers brake away, and fled out of the city by night through the way of the port between the two walls by the king's garden. Now the Chaldeans had compassed the city round about; yet went these men their way toward the wilderness.
Then said Isaac unto Jacob, "Come near and let me feel thee my son, whether thou be my son Esau or not."
Now when he had spoken out all the words that the LORD commanded him to preach unto all the people, then the priests, the prophets and all the people took hold upon him, and said, "Thou shalt die.
This is the border of the land upon the north side, from the main sea, as men go to Zeded:
The LORD hath sworn by his righthand and by his strong arm, that he will not give thy corn any more to be eaten of thine enemies: and that aliens shall not drink thy new wine wherefore thou hast laboured.
Moreover, Jeremiah spake unto all the people and to all the women, "Hear the word of the LORD all Judah, ye that be in the land of Egypt:
Sit still, hold thy tongue, and get thee into some dark corner, O daughter Chaldea, for thou shalt no more be called lady of kingdoms.
There shall not one visit another, to mourn with them for their dead, or to comfort them. One shall not offer another the cup of consolation, to forget their heaviness for father and mother.
Gather your counsel, come together in judgment; cover us with your shadow in the midday, as the night doth: hide the chased, and betray not them that are fled.
But I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah, one to take possession of my hill. My chosen shall possess these things, and my servants shall dwell there.
O LORD our God, other lords beside thee hath subdued us, but we will be mindful only of thee and of thy name.
And why? The wicked hath nothing to hope for, and the candle of the ungodly shall be put out.
When Israel came out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from among that strange people,
Let death come hastily upon them, and let them go down quick into hell; for wickedness is among them in their dwellings.
In the night season they search the houses, and hide themselves in the daytime, but will not know the light.
The tenth to Shimei with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
And they cast Lots indifferently how they should wait: the small as well as the great, the scholar as well as the schoolmaster.
Neither in any place wheresoever I have walked throughout all Israel, spake I ever one word to any of the judges of Israel which I commanded to feed my people, saying, 'Why build ye me not a house of Cedar tree?'
And the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and make thee governor of Israel, and to keep the law of the LORD thy God.
And Joab and the people that were with him drew nigh to the Syrians, to fight, and they fled before him.
These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur the eldest son of Ephrata: Shobal the father of Kiriathjearim;
And he said, "It is not the cry of them that have the mastery, nor of them that have the worse: but I do hear the noise of singing."
And Jonathan answered, "God keep that from thee: that I should know that wickedness were concluded of my father to come upon thee, and should not tell it thee."
If a man's hair fall off his head, then he is headbald and clean.
he shall there minister in the name of the LORD his God as all his brethren the Levites do which stand there before the LORD.
And it shall be eaten the same day ye offer it and on the morrow, but whatsoever is left on the third day shall be burnt in the fire.
Then said Laban, "This heap be witness between thee and me this day." Therefore is it called Gilead.
And Moses and Aaron and the princes of the multitude numbered the sons of the Kohathites in their kindreds and houses of their fathers,
Every man hath dealt shamefully with his neighbour's wife, and abominably defiled his daughter-in-law. In thee hath every man forced his own sister, even his father's daughter.
and in the eleventh year of Zedekiah in the fourth Month the ninth day of that Month, he brake in to the city -
The chief Captain also took Seraiah the high priest, and Zephaniah that was chief next him, and the three keepers of the treasury.
The pillars also of the temple of the Sun that is in Egypt shall he break in pieces, and burn the temples of the Egyptian's gods."
so that it shall not be quenched day nor night, but smoke evermore and so forth to lie waste. And no man shall go through thy land forever.
For my life is waxen old with heaviness, and my years with mourning. My strength faileth me, because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
For why? I have sworn by myself, sayeth the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a wilderness; an open shame; a laughingstock and cursing; and her cities shall be a continual desert.
Because they sinned shamefully in Israel. For they have not only defiled their neighbours' wives, but also preached lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them. This I testify, and assure, sayeth the LORD.
All thy herdsmen shall be driven with the wind, and thy darlings shall be carried away into captivity. Then shalt thou be brought to shame and confusion, because of all thy wickedness:
that he himself might be in rest, lie quietly upon his bed, and live after his own pleasure.
whose heart turned so, that they hated his people, and dealt untruly with his servants.
And the number of them that shall escape from the bows shall be minished by the mighty children of Cedar: For the LORD God of Israel hath spoken."
The LORD delivereth the souls of his servants, and all they that put their trust in him shall not be destitute.
"Go and tell David my servant, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: thou shalt not build me a house to dwell in.
Then said the woman, "Whom shall I fetch up unto thee?" And he said, "Bring me up Samuel."
Then the king said, "What meaneth yonder grave stone that I see?" And the men of the city told him, "It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah and openly denounced the selfsame things that thou hast done to the altar of Bethel."
"Hold thee still a little, and I shall show thee what I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
The rest of the acts of Manasseh and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers of visions that spake to him in the name of the LORD God of Israel, are written among the deeds of the Kings of Israel.
Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place,
And so Jonathan arose from the table in a great anger and did eat no meat the second day of the month, for he was sorry for David, because his father had done him shame.
And the rest of the people he delivered unto Abishai his brother, that they should put themselves in array against the children of Ammon,
And they said unto the king, "The man that consumed and imagined to bring us to nought, him we ought to destroy, that nought of him continue in any of the coasts of Israel.
duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar,
And now, lo: I have brought the first fruits of the land which the LORD hath given me.' And set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God,
And their north coasts were from Jordan and went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward, and they ended at the wilderness of Bethaven;
and went up to the sea and to Mareal, and touched at Dabbesheth, and met at the river that lieth before Jokneam;
because the daughters of Manasseh did inherit among his sons. And Manasseh's other sons had the land of Gilead.
I, the LORD, have said that I will do it unto all this evil congregation that are gathered together against me: even in this wilderness ye shall be consumed, and here ye shall die."
And they removed from Elim and lay fast by the reed sea.
These are the kindreds of Levi: the kindred of the Libnites, the kindred of the Hebronites, the kindred of the Mahlites, the kindred of the Mushites, the kindred of the Korahites. Kohath begat Amram,
When his master heard the words of his wife which she told him, saying, "after this manner did thy servant to me," he waxed wroth.
for I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the LORD God."
But if the priest buy any fowl with money he may eat of it, and he also that is born in his house may eat of his bread.
If it be stolen from him, then he shall make restitution unto the owner:
Then said his brethren unto him, "What, shalt thou be our king or shalt thou reign over us?" And they hated him yet the more, because of his dream and of his words.
As is the earthy, such are they that are earthy: And as is the heavenly, such are they that are heavenly.
And Israel said unto Joseph, "Behold, I die. And God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.
Nevertheless, he that purposeth surely in his heart, having none need: but hath power over his own will: and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doth well.
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God unto them: Behold, I will sever the fat sheep from the lean:
she loved the Assyrians, which also lay with her: namely, the princes and great lords, that were clothed with all manner of gorgeous apparel, all lusty horsemen and fair young persons.
'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: Even so will I destroy this people and city: as a Potter breaketh a vessel, that cannot be made whole again. In Tophet shall they be buried, for they shall have none other place.
Which, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because they found no cause of death in me.
Was it not enough for you, to eat up the good pasture, but ye must tread down the residue of your pastures with your feet also? Was it not enough for you to drink clear water, but ye must trouble the residue also with your feet?
I will give thee over into their power, that shall break down thy stews, and destroy thy brothel houses: they shall strip thee out of thy clothes, all thy fair and beautiful Jewels shall they take from thee, and so let thee sit naked and bare.
And Isaiah said, "Take a plaster of figs, and lay it upon the sore, so shall it be whole."
For the bed shall be so narrow that a man cannot lie upon it: And the covering too small, that a man may not wind himself therein.
Behold, the alien that was far from thee shall dwell with thee: and he that was sometime a stranger unto thee, shall be joined with thee.
But it is a mischevious and wicked people. Their young men belong all to the snare, and shall be shut into prison houses. They shall be carried away captive, and no man shall loose them. They shall be trodden under foot, and no man shall labour to bring them again.
and number the houses of Jerusalem, and break of some of them to make the wall strong.
Through discretion shall the chambers be filled with all costly and pleasant riches.
A small thing that the righteous hath, is better than the great riches of the ungodly.
I said, "LORD be merciful unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee!"
And the LORD our God be with us, as he was with our fathers, and forsake us not, neither leave us,
and said unto them, "Hear me ye Levites: purify yourselves and hallow the house of the LORD God of your fathers, and bring out the filthiness out of the holy place.
see that their increase shall be hewn down, and their posterity consumed with fire.
The sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had no other sons: But the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
For so was it charged me, through the word of God and said to me, 'Eat no bread nor drink water nor turn again by the same way thou wentest."
Thou shalt prepare the way and divide the coasts of thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts that whosoever committeth murder may flee thither.
Then said David, "Will the men of Keilah deliver me and my men into the hand of Saul?" And the LORD said, "They will deliver you."