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Blessed shalt thou be, both when thou goest out, and blessed when thou comest in.
And the people chode with Moses and spake, saying, "Would God that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD.
Behold, I have appointed these nations that remain to be the inheritance of your tribes: even from Jordan, and all the nations that I have destroyed, even unto the great sea.
and let them bring her unto a valley where is neither earing nor sowing, and strike off her head there in the valley.
But his master said unto him, "We will not turn in to a strange city that are not of the children of Israel: we will go forth to Gibeah."
And Moses took the staff from before the LORD, as he commanded him.
And the eighth day let him take two turtle doves or two young pigeons, and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and give them unto the priest.
And they pitched upon Jordan, from Bethjeshimoth unto the plain of Shittim in the fields of Moab.
The children of Zebulun in their kindreds were: Sered, of whom cometh the kindred of the Seredites; and Elon, of whom cometh the kindred of the Elonites; and of Jahleel, cometh the kindred of the Jahleelites.
and do fire therein and put cense thereto before the LORD tomorrow: And then whomsoever the LORD doeth chose, the same is holy. Ye make enough to do, ye children of Levi."
To a people that is ever defying me to my face. They make their oblations in gardens, and their smoke upon altars of brick;
And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen and be by me: both thou and thy children, and thy children's children: and thy sheep, and beasts and all that thou hast.
as they were this day. Even so the LORD hath commanded to do, to reconcile you with all.
Namely, the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans: Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, with all the Assyrians: all young and fair lovers, princes and lords, knights and gentlemen, which be all good horsemen.
Now when Hezekiah had received the letter of the messengers, and read it; he went up into the house of the LORD, and opened the letter before the LORD.
Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: If cause be, that thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon's princes, thou shalt save thy life, and this city shall not be burnt, yea both thou and thy household shall escape with your lives.
For I will bring four plagues upon them, sayeth the LORD. The sword shall strangle them, the dogs shall devour them, the fowls of the air, and beasts of the earth shall eat them up, and destroy them.
My hope and my castle, my defense and my deliverer, my shield in whom I trust, which subdueth the people that is under me.
He shall go for fear to his strongholds, and his princes shall flee from his badge. This hath the LORD spoken, whose light burneth in Zion, and his fire in Jerusalem.
Deliver us, O LORD, and we will sing praises in thy house, all the days of our life."
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being fast bound in misery and iron,
For my wickednesses are gone over my head, and are like a sore burden, too heavy for me to bear.
The eyes of the seeing shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear, shall take diligent heed.
Let my persecuted people dwell among you; Moab; be thou their refuge against the destroyer: for the adversary is brought to naught, the robber is undone, the tyrant is wasted in the land.
Turn us again, O God: show the light of thy countenance, and we shall be whole.
So that when the showers in the mountains have rained upon them, and they be all wet, they have none other succour, but to embrace the rock for want of a covering.
I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart, because I am learned in the judgments of thy righteousness.
For the LORD will not fail his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
"Come," say they, "let us root them out, that they be no more a people, and that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance."
when the mighty kept still their voice, and when their tongues cleaved to the roof of their mouths;
Now therefore set your hearts and your souls to seek the LORD your God. And up, and build ye the temple of the LORD God, to bring the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD, and the holy vessels of God into the house so built for the name of the LORD."
The priests: The children of Jedaiah of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and three and seventy;
And the king of Israel gathered together of the Prophets four hundred men, and said unto them, "Shall we go to Ramoth in Gilead to fight, or shall I cease?" And they said, "Go: God shall deliver it into the king's hand."
And this is the order in the houses of their fathers, of the captains over thousands in Judah: Adnah the captain, and with him of fighting men three hundred thousand.
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger was come unto him. And he said, "Behold, this evil is of the LORD! What more shall we look for of the LORD?"
Then said the king of Israel to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell thee, that he would prophesy no good unto me, but evil?"
But the man of God answered the king, "If thou wouldest give me half thine house, I would not go with thee - neither would I eat meat or drink water in this place.
Then David said unto his men, "Gird every man his sword about him." And they girded every man his sword on, and David thereto girded on his sword. And there followed David upon a four hundred men, and two hundred abode by the stuff.
And Azel had six sons whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
he said unto them, "Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, gold, brass, iron, and with raiment above measure, and divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren."
and put her raiment that she was taken in from her, and let her remain in thine house and beweep her father and her mother a month long and after that go in unto her and marry her and let her be thy wife.
And the west borders are the great sea and the coasts that lie thereon. And these are the coasts of the children of Judah round about in their kindreds.
And whithersoever he turned himself, there he won, and played the man and slew the Amalekites, and rid Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled them.
And the children of Ephraim took their coasts by kindreds. And the coasts of their inheritance eastward were, Atarothaddar, even unto Bethhoron the upper,
Then Joshua returned and all Israel with him to Debir, and they fought against it,
"Then bring Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of witness, and wash them with water.
"'And all setting shall be according to the holy sicle. One sicle maketh twenty geras.
Cursed be their wrath for it was strong, and their fierceness for it was cruel. I will therefore divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.
And the number of them - when all the males from a month old and above was told - drew unto six thousand and two hundred.
When the inhabiters of the land the Canaanites saw the mourning in the field of Atad, they said, "This is a great mourning which the Egyptians make." Wherefore the name of the place is called Abelmizraim, which place lieth beyond Jordan.
she called unto the men of the house, and told them, saying, "See, he hath brought in an Hebrew unto us to do us shame: for he came in to me, for to have slept with me. But I cried with a loud voice.
I will bring them out from all people, and gather them together out of all lands, I will bring them into their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the places of the country.
and slew also Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dina their sister out of Shechem's house, and went their way.
And as a ballad that hath a sweet tune, and is pleasant to sing, so shalt thou be unto them: thy words shall they hear, but they will not do thereafter.
These are the generations of Esau, father of the Edomites, in mount Seir,
When these days are expired, then upon the eighth day and so forth, the priests shall offer their burnt offerings and health offerings upon the altar, so will I be merciful unto you, sayeth the LORD God."
thy windows of Crystal, thy gates of fine clear stone, and thy borders of pleasant stones.
For even thus shall the king of the Assyrians drive both young and old, as prisoners, naked and barefoot, out of Egypt and Ethiopia. And shall discover the shame of Egypt.
Yet do I remember the times past; I muse upon all thy works. Yea, I exercise myself in the works of thy hands.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Thy bruisings are perilous, and thy wounds ready to cast thee into sickness.
And if ye keep these things faithfully, then shall there come in at the door of this house, kings, to sit upon David's seat: they shall be carried in Chariots and ride upon horses, both they and their servants, and their people.
But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, carried away all the remnant in Judah, that were come together again from the Heathen among whom they had been scattered, to dwell in the land of Judah:
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Ask among the Heathen, if any man hath heard such horrible things, as the Daughter of Zion hath done.
There is sprung up a light for the righteous, and a joyful gladness for such as are true hearted.
Now hearken to, ye that are far off, how I do with them; and consider my glory, ye that be at hand.
I will open unto thee yet more of mine understanding, and prove my maker righteous.
Nevertheless, seeing he hath not spoken unto me, therefore will not I answer him as ye have done."
And these went up also, Telmelah, Telharsha, Cherub, Addon, and Immer: but they could not show their father's house, nor their seed, whether they were of Israel.
And Jehiel, Azariah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath and Benaiah were overseers ordained by Conaniah and Shimei his brother, at the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.
And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught the people.
But I will set him in mine house and in my kingdom forever, and his seat shall be sure forever.'"
And of his brethren the sons of Eliezer, was Rehabiah, whose son was Jeshaiah, and his son was Joram, and his son Zichri, and his son was Shelomoth,
And the men of Israel and of Judah arose and shouted and followed after the Philistines, until they came to the valley and unto the gates of Ekron. And the Philistines fell down dead by the way, even unto Gath and Ekron.
And they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards.
and then shall he depart from thee: both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own kindred again and unto the possessions of his fathers;
and took it, and the king thereof and all the towns that pertained thereto. And smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein, and let nought remain. And as he did to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and the king thereof, and as he did to Libnah and her king.
And the south coast goeth from the edge of Kiriathjearim westward, and goeth out to the water well of Nephtoah;
"All vows and oaths that bind to humble the soul, may her husband establish or break.
And make his ashpans, shovels, basins, fleshhooks, firepans and all the apparel thereof, of brass;
Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after that ye were come out of Egypt.
The children of Reuben: Hanoch, Phallu, Hezron and Carmi.
"Thou son of man, Take up a lamentation upon the people of Egypt, and cast them down, yea and the mighty people of the Heathen also, even with them that dwell beneath: and with them that go down into the grave.
The Chaldeans also brake the brazen pillars that were in the house of the LORD; yea, the seat and the brazen laver that was in the house of the LORD; and carried all the metal of them unto Babylon.
The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
They say unto them, that despise me: The LORD hath spoken it, 'Tush, ye shall prosper right well.' And unto all them that walk after the lusts of their own heart, they say, 'Tush, there shall no misfortune happen you.'
But if ye will not be obedient unto these commandments, I swear by mine own self, sayeth the LORD, this house shall be waste.
Therefore shall wild beasts, Apes, and Ostriches dwell therein: for there shall never man dwell there, neither shall any man have his habitation there for evermore.
The fishers shall mourn, all such as cast angles in the water shall complain, and they that spread their nets in the water shall be faint hearted.
O how was Sheshach won? O, how was the glory of the whole land taken? How happeneth it that Babylon is so wondered at among the Heathen?
For why? It is he, that bringeth low the high minded citizens, and casteth down the proud cities. He casteth them to the ground, yea even in to the mire,
These are the words, that the LORD spake to the prophet Jeremiah concerning Elam, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.
Thy chief valley also was full of chariots, and the horsemen set their faces directly toward the gate.
He sent out his arrows and scattered them, he cast forth lightnings, and destroyed them. {TYNDALE: And he shot arrows and scattered them, and hurled lightning and turmoiled them.}
And he bade the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the part of the priests and Levites, that they might be maintained in the law of the LORD.
And when the time came that the chest should be brought in by the hands of the Levites at the appointment of the king, when they saw that there was much money: then came the king's scribe and one appointed by the high priest, and poured out that was in the coffer, and then took it and carried it to his place again, and thus they did day by day, and gathered much money.
From the wickedness and sin of the people, he maketh a hypocrite to reign over them.
And under him were Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shecaniah, in the cities of the priests of their fidelity, to give to their brethren their portions, as well to the small as to the great.
And it came to pass. And he rose up early on the morrow, and he thrust the fleece together and wrung the dew thereout and filled a bowl of water.
The rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his Abominations, and that was laid to his charge, are written in the book of the kings of Israel: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.
For see, our fathers were overthrown with the sword and our sons, our daughters and our wives were carried away captive for the same cause.
And the weight of the golden candlesticks and of their lamps of gold, the weight for every candlestick and for their lamps. And for the candlesticks of silver by weight, both for the candlestick and also for her lamps according to the office of every candlestick.
And the LORD sent pestilence upon all Israel, so that there were overthrown of Israel seventy thousand men.
And all the congregation made a bond with the king in the house of God. And Jehoiada said to them, "Behold, the king's son must reign over the children of David, as the LORD hath said.
For there was no passover held like that from the days of the judges that judged Israel, and throughout all the days of the kings of Israel and of Judah.
even because they have done wickedly and have angered me, since the time their fathers came out of Egypt unto this day."
And they also dwelt with their brethren at Jerusalem, even hard by them.
The rest of the deeds of Elah and all he did, are written in the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
And the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada: which went out and smote him that he died. And so was the kingdom settled in the hand of Solomon.
and the people went stealing into the city, as people confounded steal away when they flee in battle.
And Jonathan the son of Shimei, the brother of David, slew him.
And behold, ye have there with you their two sons: Ahimaaz Zadok's son, and Jonathan Abiathar's son, by which ye shall send me all that ye can hear."
And then, when much mischief and tribulation is come upon them, this song shall answer before them, and be a witness. It shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about even now before I have brought them into the land which I sware."
And ye shall offer a burnt offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: thirteen bullocks two rams and fourteen lambs which are yearlings and pure,
He sent to them of Bethel; to them of south Ramah; to them of Jattir;
and then goeth along toward the side of the plain, northward; and goeth down into the plain;
And when the free year cometh unto the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe where they are in, and so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers."
But if her husband hold his peace from one day unto another, then he establisheth all her vows and bonds which she had upon her, because he held his peace the same day that he heard them.
So now he that killeth a beast shall pay for it: but he that killeth a man, shall die for it.
Every couch whereon he lieth and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.
Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.
And he shall dress the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD perpetually.
'Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt and covereth the face of the earth: come now therefore and curse me them, that so peradventure I may be able to overcome them in battle, and to drive them out.'"
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the sheep of the peace offerings was taken away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar for the LORD's sacrifice, and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin, and it shall be forgiven him."'
and the ministering vestments to serve in the holy place, and the holy vestments of Aaron the priest and his sons' raiments to minister in.
"I will help you out of all your uncleannesses. I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and will let you have no hunger.
duke Dishon, duke Ezer, duke Dishan. These be the dukes that came of Hori in their dukedoms in the land of Seir.
Moreover, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Sing unto the LORD, and praise him, for he hath delivered the soul of the oppressed, from the hand of the violent.
They also which have been of an erroneous spirit shall come to understanding, and they that have been scornful shall learn doctrine."
and array him with thy coat, and gird him with thy girdle, and I will give thy power into his hand. He shall be a father of the citizens of Jerusalem, and of the kindred of Judah.
As for me, I will be talking of thy worship, thy glory, thy praise, and wondrous works;
He shall keep the simple folk by their right, defend the children of the poor, and punish the wrongdoer.
Elam bare the quiver in a chariot of footmen and of horsemen, and the city of Kir showed the shield open.
And he said to the Levites that taught throughout all Israel and were sanctified unto the LORD, "Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; ye need not to bear it upon your shoulders. Wherefore now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.
The LORD shall preserve him, and keep him alive: he shall make him to prosper upon earth, and shall not deliver him into the will of his enemies.
The LORD liveth: and blessed be my strong helper, and praised be the God of my salvation, {TYNDALE: The LORD live, and blessed be he that is my strength: and exalted be God the strength that saveth me.}
But let all those that seek thee, be joyful and glad in thee; and let such as love thy salvation, say always, "The LORD be praised!"
And of this manner did Hezekiah, throughout all Judah; and did that was good, right and truth, before the LORD his God.
The sixth captain in the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh a Tekoite: and in his host were twenty four thousand.
And all the people went to the house of Baal and destroyed it, and brake his altars and his images, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.
And Zichri a mighty man in mount Ephraim slew Maaseiah the king's son and Azrikam the lord steward of household, and Elkanah that was next to the king.
And the messenger that went to call Micaiah, spake to him saying, "Behold, the words of the Prophets are pleasant to the king with one assent, let thy words, I pray thee, be like one of theirs, and speak that which is pleasant."
All these were of the children of Obededom, which, with their brethren and their children, active men of strength to do service, were forty two of Obededom.
And he called Gehazi and said, "Call for this Shunammite." And he called her. And when she was come to him, he said, "Take thy son."
Lest the executer of blood follow after the slayer while his heart is hot and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him, and yet there is no cause worthy of death in him, inasmuch as he hated not his neighbour in time past.
The fifth to Malcijah. The sixth to Mijamin.
For thou didst separate them to be thine inheritance, above all the nations of the earth, as thou saidest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord Jehovah."
And the other answered him, "We come from Bethlehem Judah toward the side of mount Ephraim: from thence am I, and went to Bethlehem Judah and go now to the house of the LORD. But there is no man that receiveth me to house:
And then all the people departed, every man to his house: and David returned to salute his household.
And ye shall offer a burnt offering of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one young bullock and one ram and seven lambs of a year old apiece that are pure.
when they go into the tabernacle of witness, or when they go unto the altar to minister and to burn the LORD's offering, lest they die.
And there was sore war with the Philistines, all the days of Saul. For wheresoever Saul saw a strong man, and an active, he took him unto him.
Eltekeh, Gibbethon and Baalath;
and took it the same day, and smote it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were therein: and utterly destroyed them the same day, according to all that he did to Lachish.
then will I also walk contrary unto you and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
And as she travailed, the one put out his hand and the midwife took and bound a red thread about it, saying, "This will come out first."
For Moses had given inheritance unto two tribes and a half on the other side Jordan. But unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the lords of the congregation went out of the host against them.
But he denied, and said to her, "Behold, my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me, but hath committed all that he hath to my hand.
And he made the holy anointing oil and the sweet pure cense after the apothecary's craft.
even in the day that I lift up mine hand over them, to bring them out of the land of Egypt, into a land that I have provided for them, which floweth with milk and honey, and it is a pleasant land among all others:
And thou shalt yet make two rings of gold, and put them in the two edges of the breastlap even in the borders thereof toward the inside of the ephod that is over against it.
Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, sayeth the LORD, for I am with thee: and will destroy all nations, among whom I have scattered thee. Nevertheless I will not consume thee, but chasten thee and correct thee: yea and that with discretion: neither will I spare thee as one that were faultless."
And I will persecute them with the sword, with hunger and death. I will deliver them up to be vexed of all kingdoms, to be cursed, abhorred, laughed to scorn, and put to confusion of all the people, among whom I have scattered them:
that our sons may grow up as the young plants, and that our daughters may be as the polished corners of the temple;
She that hath born seven children, shall have none; her heart shall be full of sorrow. The Sun shall fail her in the clear day, when she shall be confounded and faint for very heaviness. As for those that remain, I will deliver them unto the sword of their enemies, sayeth the LORD."
He that setteth a fool in high dignity, that is even as if a man would bind a stone in a sling.
Which taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire,
And when they came to Hilkiah the high priest, men delivered them the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites that kept the entries had gathered of the hands of Manasseh and Ephraim and of all that yet remained in Israel and of all Judah and Benjamin and of the inhabiters of Jerusalem.
so that they brake down the altars of Baals even in his presence, and the Idols that were upon them he caused to be destroyed. And the groves, carved Images, and Images of metal he brake and made dust of them, and strawed it upon the graves of them that had offered to them.
Then useth he no violence in his wrath, neither hath he pleasure in curious and deep inquisitions.
These are the divisions of the porters among the sons of Kore and the sons of Merari.
But the man that shall touch them must be armed with iron on a long helve. And then shall they be burned with fire to sit thereby."
The fifth to Nethaniah with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
And in the eighteenth year of king Josiah was this passover holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.
These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and to the strangers that Sojourned among them that whosoever killed any person ignorantly, the same might flee thither and should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
and separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according unto all the curses of the covenant that is written in the book of this law.
And David asked the LORD, saying, "Shall I follow after this company? And shall I overtake them?" And he said to him, "Follow, for thou shalt overtake them and recover the prey."
And the fifteenth day of the same month shall be a feast, in which seven days men must eat unleavened bread.
And it fortuned about the same season, that Joseph entered into the house, to do his business: and there was none of the household by, in the house.
which the children of Aaron, being of the kindreds of the Kohathites, and of the children of Levi, obtained - for theirs was the first lot.
the same soul that hath touched any such thing, shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the hallowed things until he have washed his flesh with water.
And they departed from Iyeabarim and pitched in Dibongad.
When the cloud was taken up from off the habitation, the children of Israel took their journeys, as oft as they journeyed.
And the LORD said unto Moses, "Number all the firstborn that are males among the children of Israel, from a month old and above, and take the number of their names.
And he said unto him, "Go and see whether it be well with thy brethren and the sheep, and bring me word again." And sent him out of the vale of Hebron, for to go to Shechem.
and spread abroad the tent over the habitation and put the covering of the tent on high above it: as the LORD commanded Moses.
They shall ask the way to Zion; thither shall they turn their faces, and come and hang upon thee, in a covenant that never shall be broken.
I will call for a sword upon them in all my mountains, sayeth the LORD God: so that every man's sword shall be upon another.
He took of the king's seed, and made a covenant with him, and took an oath of him: The princes of the land toke he with him also,
Go now then, sayeth the LORD God: ye house of Israel, cast away, and destroy every man his Idols. Then shall ye hear me, and no more blaspheme my holy name with your offerings and Idols.
For worms shall eat them as a garment, and moths shall devour them as it were wool. But my righteousness shall continue ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
And Aholibamah bare Jeush, Jalam and Korah. These are the sons of Esau which were born him in the land of Canaan.
"Thou son of man: What cometh of the vine among all other trees? And of the vine stock among all other timber of the grove?
Moab can boast no more of Heshbon, for they have devised against it. 'Come,' shall they say, 'let us root them out, that they may be no more among the number of the Gentiles; yea, that they may no more be thought upon.' Thus the sword shall persecute thee:
But it shall be said, 'The LORD liveth, that brought the children of Israel from the North, and from all lands where I had scattered them.' For I will bring them again into the land that I gave unto their fathers.
For that day of vengeance that I have taken in hand, and the year of my deliverance, is come.
With this, the reins of my back were full of pain: Pangs came upon me, as upon a woman in her travail. It made me stoop when I heard it, and it vexed me when I saw it.
"Knowest thou not that Baalis king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, to slay thee?" But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
Which sermon Jeremiah the prophet made unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabiters of Jerusalem, on this manner.
The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations of the round world were discovered at thy chiding, O LORD, at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasures. {TYNDALE: And the bottom of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were seen, by the reason of the rebuking of the LORD, and through the blasting of the breath of his nostrils.}
With him is an arm of flesh: But with us is the LORD our God for to help us and to fight our battles!" And the people were well couraged with the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
For it shall go forth early in the morning, and continue only that day and that night. And the very fear only shall teach you, when ye hear it.
to sile the walls of the house with gold where it becometh, and with silver where silver is meet, and for all manner of work by the hands of Artificers. And let me see who is willing also, to fill his hand for the LORD this day."
The land of Judah also shall make the Egyptians afraid, whoso doth but speak upon it, shall put them in fear: And that because of the counsel which the LORD of Hosts hath devised against them.
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not denied him the request of his lips. Selah.
he may well prepare it: but the godly shall put it upon him, and the innocent shall deal out the money.
Yet they of mine own household say, 'Who shall let us to have our belly full of his flesh?'
The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Akkub;
- so that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, that thou love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever - then thou shalt add three cities more unto those three,
And all the Prophets prophesied even so, saying, "Go up to Ramoth in Gilead and prosper, for the LORD shall deliver it into the hand of the king."
And as Jehu was executing justice upon the house of Ahab. He found the lords of Judah and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah that waited on Ahaziah, and he slew them.
because thou obeyedest not the voice of the LORD, nor executedest his fierce wrath upon the Amalekites. Therefore hath the LORD done this unto thee this day.
And they sat down and did eat and drink both of them together. Then said the damsel's father unto the man, "Go to, I pray thee, and tarry all night and let thine heart be merry."
The nineteenth to Pethahiah. The twentieth to Jehezkel.
Then Joab blew a trumpet, and the people returned from following Israel: for Joab spared the people.
And I took my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the lands of the inheritance of Israel. For they have committed abomination and folly in Israel.
Then cried a wise woman out of the city, "Hear! Hear! Bid, I pray you, Joab that he come hither, that I may speak with him."
No man that is deformed of the seed of Aaron the priest, shall come nigh to offer the sacrifices of the LORD. If he have a deformity, he shall not preace to offer the bread of his God.
Libnah, Ether, and Ashan;
And let Pharaoh make officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years
In like manner shalt thou do with his ass, with his raiment and with all lost things of thy brother which he hath lost and thou hast found, and thou mayest not withdraw thyself.
And let the priest look on the breaking out the seventh day again: If the breaking out be gone no further in the skin nor more lower than the other skin, then let the priest judge him clean, and let him wash his clothes and then he is clean.
and until the land be subdued before the LORD, then ye shall return and be without sin against the LORD and against Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
and take my blessing that I have brought thee, for God hath given it me freely. And I have enough of all things." And so he compelled him to take it.
And he turned from them and wept, and then turned to them again and communed with them, and took out Simeon from among them and bound him before their eyes,
And even the self same day did the LORD bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies.
And he said unto them, "Know ye Laban, the son of Nahor?" And they said, "We know him."
Thus the Heathen also shall know, that I the LORD am the holy maker of Israel: when my Sanctuary shall be among them for evermore.'"
for I am able to do you evil. But the God of your father spake unto me yesterday, saying, 'take heed that thou speak not to Jacob ought save good.'
These shall break the walls of Tyre, and cast down her towers. I will scrape the ground from her, and make her a bare stone.
and tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: O thou city, that sheddest blood in the midst of thee, that thy time may come also: and makest thee Idols to defile thee withal.
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.
Thou art even thy mother's own daughter, that hath cast off her husband and her children. Yea, thou art the sister of thy sisters, which forsook their husbands and their children. Your mother is a Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
"Come," say they, "I will fetch wine, so shall we fill ourselves, that we may be drunken. And do tomorrow, like as today; yea, and much more."
He said, 'Turn again every man from his evil way, and from your wicked imaginations, and so shall ye dwell forever in the land that the LORD promised you and your forefathers:
"Thou son of man, make thee two streets, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come. Both these streets shall go out of one land. He shall set him up a place; at the head of the street shall he choose him out a corner.
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying,
O thou that dwellest by the great waters, O thou that hast so great treasure and riches, thine end is come: and the reckoning of thy winnings.
Thou with thy servants hast blasphemed the LORD and thus holdest thou of thyself, I cover the high mountains, and sides of Lebanon with my horsemen. And there will I cut down the high Cedar trees and the fairest Fir trees. I will up into the height of it, and into the chiefest of his timber woods.
Then shall the furious people cease, and the mockers shall be put away, and all they that do wrong shall be plucked out,
The sword upon their waters: so that they shall be dried up. For the land worshippeth images, and delighteth in strange wonderful things.
"But as for Shemaiah the Nehelamite thou shalt speak unto him:
And ye, with your shameful blasphemies, have exceeded the wickedness of your fathers. For every one of you followeth the froward and evil imagination of his own heart, and is not obedient unto me.
In their streets were they girded about with sackcloth. In all the tops of their houses and streets was there nothing, but mourning and weeping.
'What hast thou here to do? And whom hast thou here? That thou shouldest here hew thee out a sepulchre, as it were one that causeth a costly tomb of stone to be made for himself, or that graveth a habitation out of a rock?
I will say unto God my strength, "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?"
and they said unto him, "Thus sayeth Hezekiah, 'This is the day of trouble, of plague, and of wrath: like as when a child cometh to the birth, but the woman hath no power to bring it forth.
O give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea I shall keep it with my whole heart.
Yea the morsels that thou hast eaten shalt thou parbreak and loose those sweet words.
Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me.
O blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from henceforth and forevermore. Amen. Amen.
but walkedst in the ways of Asa king of Israel and hast made Judah and the dwellers of Jerusalem go a-whoring, like to the whoring of the house of Ahab, and hast thereto slain thy brethren that were thy father's house, which were better than thou:
The rest of the deeds of Hezekiah and his goodness are written in the vision of Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
Ibhar, Elishua and Eliphelet;
Joel the brother of Nathan: Mibhar the son of Hagri;
Kadesh, Edrei, and Enhazor;
But and if he wash them not, nor wash his flesh, he shall bear his sin.'"
"'If he bring a sheep, and offer it for a sin offering, he shall bring a ewe without blemish,
For this is the second year of dearth in the land, and five more are behind in which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.
"If the plague of leprosy be in a man, let him be brought unto the priest,
And they made the breastlap of cunning work, after the work of the ephod: even of gold, jacinth, scarlet, purple and twined bysse.
And he said unto him, "My lord knoweth that I have tender children, ewes and cows with young, under mine hand, which if men should overdrive but even one day, the whole flock would die.
Then take the breast of the ram that is Aaron's full offering and wave it, a wave offering before the LORD, and let that be thy part.
Set up tokens upon the walls of Babylon, make your watch strong, set your watchmen in array, yea hold privy watches: and yet for all that shall the LORD go forth with the device, which he hath taken upon them that dwell in Babylon.
The Hind shall forsake the young fawn that she bringeth forth in the field because there shall be no grass.
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for he spoke the word, and they were made; he commanded, and they were created.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Of all the strangers that dwell among the children of Israel, no stranger, whose heart and flesh is not circumcised, shall come within my Sanctuary:
Climb up the hill of Lebanon, O thou daughter Zion! Lift up thy voice upon Bashan, cry from all parts: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
For as touching the city and the temple, I hear the voice of the LORD, that will reward, and recompense his enemies:
And blessed be the name of his majesty forever; and all the lands be fulfilled with his glory. Amen, Amen.
I go astray, like a sheep that is lost; O seek thy servant, for I do not forget thy commandments.
For the cry went over the whole land of Moab: from Eglaim unto Beerelim, was there nothing but mourning.
Thou hast forgiven the offense of thy people, and covered all their sins. Selah.
He starteth not away for him that bendeth the bow: and as for sling stones, he careth as much for stubble as for them.
For then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and oblations; then shall they lay bullocks upon thine altar.
O come hither, and behold the works of the LORD, what destructions he hath brought upon the earth.
then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.
Wherefore at the king's commandment, they made a coffer, and set it at the gate of the house of the LORD:
And the Prophet went forth and waited for the king by the way and altered his face with ashes.
lest ye should praise yourselves, to have found out wisdom: because it is God that hath cast him out, and no man.
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pocherethhazzebaim, the children of Ami.
And he set porters unto the gates of the house of the LORD, that none that was unclean in any point should enter in.
Up, and get thee to thine house, and as soon as thy foot enterest the city, the lad shall die.
And Jehoiada the priest went out with the captains of hundreds that were appointed to govern the host and said to them, "Have her out without the arrays and whosoever followeth her, let him be slain with the sword." For the priest said, "Slay her not in the house of the LORD."
And when they had buried Abner in Hebron, the king lifted up his voice and wept over the sepulchre of Abner, and so did all the people.
And Sheshan had a servant that was an Egyptian named Jarha to whom he gave his daughter to wife, and she bare him Attai.
And thereto the tenth part of an Ephah of flour for a meat offering mingled with beaten oil, the fourth part of a hin:
Then Achish called David and said unto him, "As sure as the LORD liveth thou art honest, and it pleaseth me well that thou shouldest accompany me in the host, for I have found none evil with thee since thou camest to me unto this day. Nevertheless, the lords of the Philistines favour thee not:
Now hear therefore, my lord king, the words of thy servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, he shall smell the savour of sacrifice. But and if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD. For they have cast me out from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Hence and go serve other gods.'
They shall call the people unto the hill, and there they shall offer offerings of righteousness. For they shall suck of the abundance of the sea and of treasure hid in the sand."
And the Lord gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said, "Be bold and strong, for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them, and I will be with thee."
and her husband heard it and held his peace and forbade her not: then all her vows and bonds wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand.
from twenty years and above, as the LORD commanded Moses. And the children of Israel that came of Egypt were:
The children of Naphtali in their kindreds were: Jahzeel, of whom came the kindred of the Jahzeelites; and Guni, of whom came the kindred of the Gunites;
And he shall purify himself with the ashes the third day and then he shall be clean the seventh day. And if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day, he shall not be clean.
Moreover, he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up, shall be unclean until night.
and let us arise and go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there, unto God which heard me in the day of my tribulation and was with me in the way which I went."
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
And Pharaoh was angry with them and put them in ward in his chief marshal's house:
take your father and your households and come unto me, and I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.'"
And the messengers came again to Jacob, saying, "We came unto thy brother Esau, and he cometh against thee; and four hundred men with him."
And she said, "Drink, my lord." And she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her arm and gave him drink.
And these are the sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah: these were the sons of Basemath Esau's wife.
The firstlings of all the first fruits, and all free will offerings shall be the priest's. Ye shall give unto the priest also the firstlings of your dough, that God may prosper the residue.
Behold, I have smitten my hands upon thy covetousness, that thou hast used, and upon the blood which hath been shed in thee.
for the blood is yet in it. Upon a plain dry stone hath she poured it, and not upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust.
But their avenger and redeemer is mighty, whose name is the LORD of Hosts: he shall maintain their cause, he shall make the land shake, and judge them that dwell therein, one with another.
"Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and call them out, and bring them to the house of the LORD, into some commodious place, and give them wine to drink."
Lest they being drunken forget the law, and regard not the cause of the poor, and of all such as be in adversity.
I am wroth with him for his covetousness and lust, I smite him, I hide me, and am angry, when he turneth himself, and followeth the byway of his own heart.
Like as Sodom, Gomorrah, and the cities that lay thereabout, were turned up side down, sayeth the LORD, so shall nobody dwell in Idumaea, and no man shall have his habitation there.
And therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured, and all thine enemies shall be led into captivity. All they that make thee waste, shall be wasted themselves: and all those that rob thee, will I make also to be robbed.
For they got not the land in possession through their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them - But thy righthand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
Tread out of the way, go out of the path, turn the holy one of Israel from us."
I the LORD keep it, and water it in due season. I watch day and night, that no man break into it.
Now when Rabshakeh returned, he found the king of Assyria laying siege to Libnah; for he had understood that he was departed from Lachish.
The mountains also shall bring peace, and the little hills righteousness unto the people.
The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.
And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour. And he gathered him treasure of silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields and of all manner pleasant Jewels;
The righteous abhorreth the ungodly; but as for those that be in the right way, the wicked hate them.
for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep it in thine heart, and practice it in thy mouth -
O spread forth thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness unto them that are true of heart.
And the space he reigned over Israel was forty years: seven years in Hebron and thirty three years in Jerusalem.
And he hired thereto a hundred thousand fighting men out of Israel, for a hundred talents of silver.
And Jehoahaz was twenty three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.
The fifth captain in the fifth month was: Shamhuth the Izrahite: and in his host were twenty four thousand.
and said, "The LORD forbid that I should do so! Should I drink the blood of men that were in jeopardy of their lives?" And so he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men.
And he said to David, "Come to me and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field."
Now take heed and see what thou hast to do, for it is concluded to do mischief unto our master and to all his household. And he is ungracious to speak to."
And Jehoiada made a bond between him and all the people and the king, to be the LORD's people.
And Hiram made pots, shovels and basins, and so furnished all the work that he made king Solomon for the house of the LORD:
Then said Saul to him, "Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, insomuch that thou hast given him victuals and a sword, and hast asked counsel of God for him that he should arise against me and lie await as it is come to pass this day?"
And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse of Israel, they sent messengers and fetched out the Syrians that are beyond the river with Shophach the Captain of the host of Hadadezer before them.
For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage, and which did those miracles in our sight, and preserved us in all the way we went and among all the nations which we came through.
So shall the LORD cast out before you great nations and mighty, as ye see how no man hath stand before you hitherto.
to them of Hormah; to them of Borashan; to them of Athach;
And Moses brought their cause before the LORD.
And if he touch a vessel of earth, it shall be broken: and all vessels of wood shall be rinsed in the water.
Shaalabbin, Aijalon and Ithlah;
Let him dwell with thee, even among you in what place he himself liketh best, in one of thy cities where it is good for him, and vex him not.
And Moses said unto them, "If ye will do this thing, that ye will go all harnessed before the LORD to war,
And let them wait upon thee and upon all the tabernacle: only let them not come nigh the holy vessels and the altar, that both they and ye also die not.
and spake unto Moses saying, "The people bring too much, and above that is enough to serve for the work which the LORD hath commanded to make."
And he made the court with hangings of twined bysse of a hundred cubits long upon the south side,
and set the one cherub on the one end and the other on the other end of the mercy seat: so see that thou make them on the two ends thereof.
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him.
in the sight of the children of Heth and of all that went in at the gates of the city.
Then Hamor and Shechem went unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,
The children of Dan: Hushim.
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and sat them up upon the camels and went their way after the man. And the servant took Rebekah and went his way.
And out of them shall go thanksgiving, and the voice of joy. I will multiply them, and they shall not diminish: I shall endue them with honour, and no man shall subdue them.
And Abimelech said moreover unto Abraham, "What sawest thou that moved thee to do this thing?"
The same shalt thou drink, and sup it out even to the dregs. Yea, thou shalt eat up the broken pieces of it, and so tear thine own breasts: for even I have spoken it, sayeth the LORD God.
Therefore amend your ways, and your advisements, and be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God: so shall the LORD repent of the plague, that he had devised against you.
He bringeth forth the clouds from the ends of the world, and sendeth forth lightnings with the rain, bringing the winds out of their treasuries.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: Thou art he, of whom I have spoken afore time by my servants the prophets of Israel; which prophesied, in those days and years, that I should bring thee upon them.
But thou Sennacherib, whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and exalted thy proud looks? Even against the holy one of Israel.
"Thou son of man, prophesy and speak, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: speak, the sword is sharpened and well scoured.
Moreover, that people and kingdom which will not serve Nebuchadnezzar, and that will not put their necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, the same people will I visit with the sword, with hunger, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them in his hands, sayeth the LORD.
All these things told I Zedekiah the king of Judah, and said, "Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, that ye may live.
Sure I am, that the LORD will avenge the poor, and maintain the cause of the helpless.
Thy rebuke breaketh my heart, and maketh me heavy. I look for some to have pity upon me, but there is no man; and for some to comfort me, but I find none.
Help us, O God our saviour, for the glory of thy name; O deliver us, and forgive us our sins for thy name's sake.
Thou knowest my reproof, and my shame and my dishonor: mine adversaries are all in thy sight.
O let the nations rejoice and be glad; for thou shalt judge the folk righteously, and govern the nations upon earth.
But Azariah the priest went in after him with four score priests of the LORD that were bold men.
and my path have they clean marred. It was so easy for them to do me harm, that they needed no man to help them.
Then let the elders of his city send and fetch him thence and deliver him into the hands of the justice of blood, and he shall die.
For they be thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out of Egypt, from the furnace of iron.
until he have washed himself with water before the evening: and then when the sun is down, let him come into the host again.
But the king said to him, "How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but truth to me, in the name of the LORD?"
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai;
And he hath put in his heart the grace to teach: both him and Oholiab the son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan
And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time, out of the cities: twenty six thousand men that drew swords, beside the inhabiters of Gibeah which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
And the drink offering of the same: the fourth part of a hin unto one lamb, and pour the drink offering in the holy place, to be good drink unto the LORD.
And in the mountains, they had Shamir, Jattir, and Socoh;
And all the people shall hear and shall fear, and shall do no more presumptuously.
"But on the forefront of the habitation and before the tabernacle of witness eastward, shall Moses and Aaron and his sons pitch and wait on the sanctuary in the stead of the children of Israel. And the stranger that cometh nigh shall die for it."
for whosoever cometh nigh the dwelling of the LORD, dieth. Shall we utterly consume away?"
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' duty forever, of the children of Israel, for it is a heave offering. And the heave offering shall be the LORD's duty of the children of Israel: even of the sacrifice of their peace offerings which they heave unto the LORD.
after the fashion of a net, and put upon the net four rings: even in the four corners of it,
The fifth day, Shelumiel, the son of Zurishaddai, chief lord among the children of Simeon, offered,
And when she had given him drink, she said, "I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have drunk enough."
And when the seven years of plenteousness that was in the land of Egypt were ended,
And the keeper of the prison looked unto nothing that was under his hand, because the LORD was with him, and because that whatsoever he did, the LORD made it come luckily to pass.
These be the children of Lea which she bare unto Jacob in Mesopotamia with his daughter Dina. All these souls of his sons and daughters make thirty and six.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I myself will upon the shepherds, and require my sheep from their hands, and make them cease from feeding of my sheep: Yea the shepherds shall feed themselves no more: For I will deliver my sheep out of their mouths, so that they shall not devour them after this.
The chambers and the pillars within, round about unto the door, had side windows: So had the fore entries also, whose windows went round about within. And upon the pillars there stood date trees.
I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David shall be their prince: Even I the LORD have spoken it.
Thou hast made thyself guilty in the blood that thou hast shed, and defiled thee in the Idols, which thou hast made. Thou hast caused thy days to draw nigh, and made the time of thy years to come. Therefore will I make thee to be confounded among the heathen, and to be despised in all the lands.
In those days and at the same time, sayeth the LORD, if the offense of Israel be sought for, there shall none be found. If men inquire for the sin of Judah, there shall be none: for I will be merciful unto them, whom I suffer to remain over.
Yet shall ye flee from Babylon, and depart out of the land of the Chaldeans, and ye shall be as the rams that go before the flock.
And ye shall make a pit betwixt the twain walls of the water of the old pool, and nothing regard him that took it in hand, and made it long ago.
which aforetime were heard from Heshbon to Elealeh, and Jahaz, which lifted up their voice from Zoar unto Horonaim, that bullock of three years old. The waters also of Nimrim shall be dried up.
Yea, and part of thy sons, that shall come of thee, and whom thou shalt get, shall be carried hence, and become gelded chamberlains in the king of Babylon's court."
Moab hath ever been rich and careless from her youth up, she hath sitten and taken her ease with her treasure. She was never yet put out of one vessel into another, that is, she never went away into captivity, therefore her taste remaineth, and her savour is not yet changed.
For he shall stretch out his hand in the midst of them, like as a swimmer doth to swim. And with the strength of his hands shall he bring down their pride.
and Isaiah gave them this answer, "Say thus unto your lord, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the king of the Assyrians' servants have blasphemed me.
Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
lest when men hear thereof, it turn to thy dishonour, and lest thine evil name do not cease.
That were a wickedness worth to be punished, for then should I have denied the God that is above.
Take away ungodliness from the king, and his seat shall be established with righteousness.
Let thy hand be upon the man of thy righthand, and upon the son of man, whom thou madest so strong for thine own self.
He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon also, and Sirion, like a young unicorn.
The children of Bazluth, the children of Mehida, the children of Harsha;
And the slayer shall flee unto one of those Cities and shall stand in the entering of the gate of the city and shall show his cause in the ears of the elders of the said city. And they shall take him into the city unto them, and shall give him a place that he may dwell among them.
When Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she went among the people into the house of the LORD.
Wherefore the LORD was wroth with Amaziah and sent to him a prophet, and said to him, "Why seekest thou the gods of the people which were not able to deliver their own people out of thine hands?"
Then he made ten lavers of brass containing forty baths apiece, and they were of four cubits apiece, for every one of the bottoms a laver.
and two doors of fir tree, and either door with two folding leaves
And then Amaziah severed that army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again. Wherefore they were exceeding wroth with Judah, and returned to their own home in great anger.
the son of Zuph, the son of Elkanah, the son of Mahath, the son of Amasai,
And they went as far as Gedor, even unto the east side of the valley, to seek pasture for their cattle.
The rest of the deeds of Zechariah are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.
Now therefore up and come out, and speak kindly unto thy servants, I swear by the LORD, except thou come out, there will not tarry one man with thee this night. And that will be worse unto thee, than all the evil that fell on thee from thine youth unto this hour."
Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy land be and the fruit of thine oxen and the flocks of thy sheep.
Bring of every tribe three men that I may send them. And that they may rise and walk through the land and distribute it by their inheritances and come again to me.
and went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, and met at Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
And if he afterward break them, he shall bear her sin himself."
and took their land and gave it a heritance unto the Reubenites and Gadites and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
Thus thou shalt do unto all the cities which are a great way off from thee and not of the cities of these nations.
behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among children of Israel, to be yours, as gifts given unto the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of witness.
and let him look on the plague the seventh day. If it be increased in the cloth: whether it be in the warp or woof or in a skin or in anything that is made of skin, then the plague is a fretting leprosy, and it is unclean:
and shall take away all his fat as the fat of the peace offerings is taken away. And the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD, and the priest shall make an atonement for him and it shall be forgiven him.
then it is an old leprosy in the skin of his flesh. And the priest shall make him unclean, and shall not shut him up for he is unclean.
But he said unto him, "Thou knowest what service I have done thee, and in what taking thy cattle have been under me:
I will provide you with much people and cattle, which shall increase and bring fruit. I will restore you also to your old estate, and show you more kindness than ever ye had before: whereby ye shall know, that I am the LORD.
Then Abimelech charged all his people saying, "He that toucheth this man or his wife, shall surely die for it."
Therefore prepare thee; set thyself in array with all thy people that are come unto thee by heaps, and be thou their defense.
Then was there great cheer with her: and the men that were sent from far countries over the desert, unto these they gave bracelets upon their hands, and set glorious crowns upon their heads.
and I myself will fight against you, with an outstretched hand, and with a mighty arm, in great displeasure and terrible wrath:
"Thou son of man, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to all his people, 'Whom art thou like in thy greatness?
"Preach throughout the land of Egypt, and cause it be proclaimed at Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpenes, and say: Stand still, make thee ready, for the sword shall consume thee round about.
And in Tahpenes the word of the LORD happened unto Jeremiah, saying,
"Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: Go, and speak to Zedekiah the king of Judah, and tell him, 'The LORD sendeth thee this word: Behold, I will deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon. He shall burn it,
But as for thee, O Pashhur, thou shalt be carried unto Babylon with all thine household, and to Babylon shalt thou come, where thou shalt die, and be buried: thou and all thy favorers, to whom thou hast preached lies."
Their seed also and their generation shall be known among the Gentiles, and among the people. All they that see them, shall know that they are the blessed seed of the LORD.
Behold, they shall be like straw, which if it be kindled with fire, no man may rid it for the vehemence of the flame: And yet it giveth no cinders to warm a man by, nor clear fire to sit by.
I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke.
Reed and rush shall fail, the grass by the waterside or upon the river bank, yea and whatsoever is sown by the waters, shall be withered, destroyed, and brought to naught.
Then the child whom the barren shall bring forth unto thee, shall say in thine ear, "This place is too narrow, sit nigh together, that I may have room."
How he sent upon them the furiousness of his wrath, anger, displeasure, and trouble, and sent evil angels among them;
I will deliver Egypt also into the hands of grievous rulers, and a cruel king shall have the rule of them.
This is the generation of them that seek him, even of them that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah
For all thy Captains gat them to their horses from the ordinance, yea they are all together ridden away, and fled far off.
And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.
And he took all the gold and silver and all the Jewels that were found in the house of God, with Obededom and the treasure of the king's house and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
And they that had precious stones gave them for the treasure of the house of the LORD, unto the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
The deeds of Asa both first, and last, are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.
And in their tribulation they shall turn unto the LORD God of Israel and shall seek him, and he shall be found of them.
And there were more mighty heads found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar. And they divided them into sixteen heads of ancient households of the sons of Eleazar, and eight of the sons of Ithamar.
And Aaron said, "Let not the wrath of my lord wax fierce, thou knowest the people that they are even set on mischief.
And the west coast draweth and compasseth southward, even from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron, and goeth out at Kiriathbaal which is Kiriathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: and this is the west quarter.
These are the kindreds of the Simeonites, in number twenty two thousand and two hundred.
Ziklag, Bethmarcaboth and Hazarsusah;
And Moses told the children of Israel, that they should bring him that had cursed, out of the host, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses.
let the priest see him. If it be grown abroad indeed in the skin, let the priest seek no further for any golden hairs, for he is unclean.
When either man or woman hath a breaking out upon the head or the beard, let the priest see it.
And he went before them and fell on the ground seven times, until he came unto his brother.
Thou with all thine heap, and all the people that is with thee, must fall upon the mountains of Israel. Then will I give thee unto the fouls and wild beasts of the field, to be devoured.
the sword cometh upon Egypt. When the wounded men fall down in Egypt, when her people are taken away, and when her foundations are destroyed,
Damascus also used merchandises with thee, in the best wine and white wool: because thy occupying was so great, and thy wares so many.
And he said, "Be of good cheer, fear not: Your God and the God of your fathers hath put you that treasure in your sacks, for I had your money." And he brought Simeon out to them,
And Rebekah lift up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel,
My heart panted, I trembled for fear. The night of my voluptuousness hath he turned against me into fear.
The best men of On and Bubaste shall be slain with the sword, and carried away captive.
immediately, as soon as she saw them, she burnt in love upon them, and sent messengers for them into the land of the Chaldeans.
Yea, even thy posterity shall have consolation in this, sayeth the LORD, that thy children shall come again into their own land.
Thou hast suffered men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, and thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Who suffered Jacob to be trodden under foot, and Israel to be spoiled? Did not the LORD? Now have we sinned against him, and have had no delight to walk in his ways, neither been obedient unto his law.
And therefore let them convert, and be ashamed earnestly, that hope in Idols and say to fashioned images, "Ye are our gods."
Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour, seeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them.
The LORD hath declared his salvation, and his righteousness hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.
Or when they lie down, when they cast their young ones, and when they are delivered of their travail and pain?
This is the Benaiah mighty among thirty and above thirty. And in his part was Ammizabad his son.
Then said Saul, "I have sinned. Come again, my son David, for I will do thee no more harm; because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day. Behold, I have played the fool and have erred exceeding much."
Mattaniah, Mattenai, Jaasu,
The chief captain of the third host in the third month, was Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the priest. And in his host twenty four thousand.
But and if he pushed him by chance and not of hate, or cast at him with any manner of thing and not of laying of wait,
And when her friends saw him, they brought thirty companions to bear fellowship.
And next to him, Jehohanan a captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand.
then hear from heaven their supplication and prayer, and help them in their right.
and write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art come over: that thou mayest come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee: a land that floweth with milk and honey, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
And ye shall measure without the city, and make the utmost border of the east side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the south side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the west side: two thousand cubits. And the utmost border of the north side: two thousand cubits also. And the city shall be in the midst. And these shall be the suburbs of their cities.
only, unto the land of the children of Ammon ye came not, nor unto all the coast of the river Jabbok nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.
And this shall be your north quarter: ye shall compass from the great sea unto mount Hor.
And they did all eat, and were sufficed. And they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
Zerah of whom cometh the kindred of the Zerahites; Shaul of whom cometh the kindred of the Shaulites.
And he said unto them, "Tarry here all night and I will bring you word, even as the LORD shall say unto me." And the lords of Moab abode with Balaam.
and said unto me, "Behold, I will make thee grow and will multiply thee, and will make a great number of people of thee, and will give this land unto thee, and unto thy seed after thee, unto an everlasting possession.
And the LORD met Balaam and put words in his mouth, and said, "Go again unto Balak and thus say."
But Isaac said unto his son, "How cometh it that thou hast found it so quickly my son?" He answered, "The LORD thy God brought it to my hand."
This is the anointing of Aaron and of the sacrifices of the LORD, in the day when they were offered to be priests unto the LORD,
For because thou hast trusted in thy strongholds and treasure, thou shalt be taken. Chemosh with his priests and princes shall go away into captivity.
Is that not the cup of which my lord drinketh, and doth he not prophesy therein? Ye have evil done that ye have done.'"
Then thought I, 'No doubt, these will use their harlotry also with yonder old whore.'
But the face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth.
I will prepare a destroyer with his weapons for thee, to hew down thy special Cedar trees, and to cast them in the fire.
"Thus sayeth the LORD: Whoso remaineth in this city shall perish, either with the sword, with hunger or with pestilence: But whoso falleth unto the Chaldeans, shall escape, winning his soul for a prey, and shall live.
Lo, wicked are they and vain, with the things also that they take in hand: yea, their images are but wind and emptiness.
yea, thine oxen and Mules that till the ground, shall eat good fodder which is purged with the fan.
So the LORD awakened as one out of sleep, and like a giant refreshed with wine.
Reckonest thou the months after they engender, that thou knowest the time of their bearing?
When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;
Wherefore, be not stiff-necked like unto your fathers, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and come to his holy place which he hath sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his wrath may turn from you.
As for the ungodly, he preserveth them not, but helpeth the poor to their right.
for in the time of David and Asaph, were the chief singers founded, and the songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
Nevertheless, yet divers of Asher, Manasseh and of Zebulun meekened themselves and came to Jerusalem.
"Therefore mine enemy shall be found as the ungodly; and he that taketh part against me, as the unrighteous.
Amon was twenty two years old, when he began to reign, and reigned two years in Jerusalem.
And when Manasseh was laid to rest with his fathers, they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his room.
and another third part shall be in the king's house; and another third part shall be in the gate of the foundation, and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the LORD.
Behold the priests and Levites divided in companies, for to do all manner of service that pertaineth to the house of God; and beside that, thou hast with thee for all manner of workmanship, all that are willing and wise for any manner of service. And the lords and all the people are at thy commandment in all things."
Is the wicked deed of Peor too little for us, whereof we are not cleansed unto this day, and there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD?
Wherefore he did that displeased the LORD like to the house of Ahab, for they were his counselors after the death of his father, to his destruction.
And as for Moses the man of God, his children were named with the tribe of Levi.
and his son Bukki, and the son of him Uzzi, and his son Zerahiah,
Then said Micah, "Now I am sure that the LORD will be good unto me, seeing I have a Levite to my priest."
and I brought your fathers out of Egypt. And ye came unto the sea: and the Egyptians followed after your fathers with chariots and horsemen, unto the reed sea.
And when all the people saw the clouden pillar stand in the tabernacle door, they rose up and worshipped: every man in his tent door.
All that breaketh up the matrix shall be mine, and all that breaketh the matrix among thy cattle, if it be male: whether it be ox or sheep.
Dilean, Mizpeh, and Joktheel;
And be ready against the morning that thou mayest come up early unto the mount of Sinai and stand me there upon the top of the mount.
And of the residue he maketh him a god, and an Idol for himself. He kneeleth before it, he worshippeth it, he prayeth unto it, and sayeth, "Deliver me, for thou art my god!"
and all the fields on the other side Jordan eastward: even unto the sea in the field under the springs of Pisgah.
Then came the sons of Jacob upon the deed, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister:
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Succoth.
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, "Bring these men home, and slay and make ready: for they shall dine with me at noon."
And this shall get me a name, and praise and honour, among all people of the earth, which shall hear all the good, that I will show unto them: Yea, they shall be afraid and astonished at all the good deeds and benefits that I will do for them.
They shall have fair linen bonnets upon their heads, and linen breeches upon their loins, which in their labour they shall not put about them.
her whoredom and shame was discovered and seen: then my heart forsook her, like as my heart was gone from her sister also.
great in counsel, and infinite in thought. Thine eyes look upon all the ways of men's children, to reward every one after his way, and according to the fruits of his inventions.
As for his father, because he oppressed and spoiled his brother, and did wickedly among his people: Lo, he is dead in his own sin.
'Call up all the archers against Babylon! Pitch your tents round about her, that none escape!' Recompense her, as she hath deserved: and according as she hath done, so deal with her again. For she hath set up herself against the LORD, against the holy one of Israel.
Behold, the enemy shall come and flee up hither, like as it were an Eagle and spread his wings upon Bozrah. Then shall the hearts of the worthies in Edom be as the heart of a woman travailing of child."
There go the ships over, and there is that Leviathan, whom thou hast made, to take his pastime therein.
Our fathers regarded not thy wonders in Egypt, neither kept they thy great goodness in remembrance, but were disobedient at the sea, even at the reed sea.
Whoso abideth in this city shall perish: either with the sword, with hunger, or with pestilence. But whoso goeth out to hold on the Chaldeans part that besiege it, he shall save his life, and shall win his soul for a prey.
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For I will lay siege to thee round about, and keep thee in with towers, and grave up dikes against thee.
A parable in a fools mouth is like a thorn that pricketh a drunken man in the hand.
Ever since the world began hath thy seat been prepared; thou art from everlasting.
I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.
Thy righteousness, O God, is very high, and great things are they that thou hast done; O God, who is like unto thee?
Let thy merciful kindness, O LORD, be upon us, like as we do put our trust in thee.
Notwithstanding yet God sent Prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD. And they testified unto them. But they would not hear.
With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.
Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
when ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you: and have gone and served strange gods, and bowed yourselves to them. Then shall the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you, and ye shall perish quickly, from off the good land which he hath given you."
The twenty-third to Delaiah. The twenty-fourth to Maaziah.
And they said unto him, "Ask of God, I pray thee, that we may know whether the way which we go, shall be prosperous or no."
The eleventh to Eliashib. The twelfth to Jakim.
And the Levite, the woman's husband that was slain, answered and said, "I came into Gibeah that is in Benjamin with my concubine to lodge all night.
he gat him to mount Zalmon, both he and all that were with him, and took axes with him and cut down an arm of a tree, and took it up, and put it on his shoulder, and said unto the folk that were with him, "Whatsoever ye see me do: speed yourselves and do likewise."
- then say before the LORD thy God, 'I have brought thee hallowed things out of mine house: and have given them unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow according to all the commandments which thou commandest me: I have not overskipped thy commandments, nor forgotten them.
And he said, "O let not my LORD be angry, that I speak. What if there be found thirty there?" And he said, "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritances, at the bidding of the LORD, these cities following with their suburbs.
Nevertheless, as soon as the children of Israel were waxed strong, they put the Cananites to tribute, but expelled them not.
Hazarshual, Balah, and Ezem,
And unto Gad he said, "Blessed is the room-maker Gad. He dwelleth as a lion that catcheth the arm with the of the head.
And all that are numbered of them that are twenty years old and above shall give a heave offering unto the LORD.
All the gold that was occupied upon all the work of the holy place - which was the gold of the wave offering - was twenty nine hundred weight and seven hundred and thirty sicles, according to the holy sicle.
And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said unto the lords of Balak, "Get you unto your land, for the LORD will not suffer me to go with you."
and made thereto a hoop of a hand breadth round about, and made unto the hoop a crown of gold round about,
And when the people heard this evil tidings, they sorrowed: and no man did put on his best raiment.
And Joseph made ready his chariot and went to meet Israel his father unto Goshen, and presented himself unto him, and fell on his neck and wept upon his neck a good while.
Then the servant ran unto her and said, "Let me sip a little water of thy pitcher."
Then said Judah, "What shall we say unto my lord? What shall we speak, or what excuse can we make? God hath found out the wickedness of thy servants. Behold, both we and he with whom the cup is found, are thy servants."
and she say again to me, 'drink thou, and I will also draw water for thy camels,' that same is the wife, whom the LORD hath prepared for my master's son.'
He took also a branch of the land, and planted it in a fruitful ground, he brought it unto great waters, and set it as a willow tree thereby.
Dishon, Ezer and Dishan. These are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir in the land of Edom.
And the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham and sware to him as concerning that matter.
Then said the LORD unto me, "This door shall be still shut, and not opened for any man to go through it, but only for the LORD God of Israel: Yea he shall go through it, else shall it be shut still.
and will bring the prisoners of Egypt again into the land of Pathros their own native country, that they may be there a lowly small kingdom:
'We would have made Babylon whole,' say they, 'but she is not recovered. Therefore will we let her alone, and go every man into his own country. For her judgment is come in to heaven, and is gone up to the clouds.'
Yea, and I will have thee in possession in the sight of the Heathen, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.'"
So will I mourn for thee also O Jazer, and for thee, O thou vineyard of Sibmah. Thy wine branches shall come over the sea, and the branches of Jazer but unto the sea. The destroyer shall break into thy harvest and grape gathering:
how he had led Moses by the righthand with his glorious arm; how he had divided the water before them, whereby he gat himself an everlasting name;
And they shall be called a people of holiness, redeemed of the LORD. And thou shalt be called a haunted city and not forsaken.
Then came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
Yea, the darkness is no darkness with thee, but the night is as clear as the day; the darkness and light are both alike.
We grope like the blind upon the wall, we grope even as one that hath none eyes. We stumble at the noonday, as though it were toward night; in the falling places, like men that are half dead.
Nevertheless, I have waked up one from the North, and he shall come. And another from the East, which shall call upon my name, and shall come to the princes, as the Potter to his clay, and as the Potter treadeth down the mire.
As for Zedekiah the king of Judah, he shall not be able to escape the Chaldeans, but surely he shall come into the hands of the king of Babylon: which shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and one of them shall look another in the face.
Then Zedekiah the king sent and caused Jeremiah the prophet be called unto him, into the third entry, that was by the house of the LORD. And the king said unto Jeremiah, "I will ask thee somewhat, but hide nothing from me."
For before the harvest, when the branch is grown, there shall come ripe fruit out of the flower: and he shall cut down the increase with the scythes, and the branches shall he take away with hooks.
before the LORD; for he is come to judge the earth. With righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.
O how happy shall ye be, when ye shall safely sow your seed beside all waters, and drive thither the feet of your oxen and asses.
O LORD God of hosts, who is like unto thee in power? Thy truth, most mighty LORD, is on every side.
But Hezekiah did not according to the courtesy showed him, for his heart arose: and therefore came there wrath upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.
And Ornan turned about and saw the Angel, and his four sons with him, and hid themselves: for Oman was threshing wheat.
Shelemiah, Nathan, Adaiah,
and put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: And the Syrians became David's servants and brought him tribute. For the LORD helped David in all that he went to.
The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim and all he did, are written in the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah.
And the king of Israel answered, and said, "My lord king, according to thy saying, I am thine with all I have."
And he did that displeased the LORD as his father Manasseh did.
And he shall cause the cow to be burnt in his sight: both skin, flesh and blood, with the dung also.
Whereupon he said unto the messengers of Benhadad, "Tell my lord the king, all that he sent for the first time, that I will do: but this request I may not do." And the messengers departed and brought him word.
while the other went to Micah's house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, the graven image and the image of metal. Then said the priest unto them, "What do ye?"
and to a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of a hin of wine, to be a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Nevertheless the lords of the Philistines were wroth with him and said unto him, "Make this fellow return, and let him go again to his place which thou hast appointed him. For he shall not go with us to do battle, lest he be an adversary to us in the battle. For wherewith could he better obtain the favour of his master, than upon the heads of our men?
And they found among the inhabiters of Jabeshgilead four hundred damsels; virgins that had known no man by lying with any male. And they brought them unto the host to Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan.
And the kindreds of the children of Kohath that were Levities - that is to say the other children of Kohath - had the cities of their lot, out of the tribe of Ephraim.
and now get thee quickly unto thy place. I thought that I would promote thee unto honour, but the LORD hath kept thee back from worship."
And for the redeeming of the two hundred and seventy three which are more than the Levites in the firstborn of the children of Israel,
And Moses and Aaron went before the tabernacle of witness.
If it be torn with wild beasts, then let him bring record of the tearing: and he shall not make it good.
These discovered her shame, took her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword: An evil name gat she of all people, and they punished her.
And yet the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Moreover, shall the image maker, that the poor man which is disposed may have something to set up also, seek out and choose a tree, that is not rotten, and carve thereout an image, that moveth not?
But he fell from him, and sent his Ambassadors into Egypt that he might have horses and much people. Should that prosper? Should he be kept safe, that doth such things? Or should he escape, that breaketh his covenant?
and say, "Wherefore lay thy mother, that lioness, among the lions, and nourished her young ones among the lion's whelps?
and said, "Remember, O LORD, that I have walked before thee in truth and a steadfast heart, and have done the thing that is pleasant to thee." And Hezekiah wept sore.
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like a herb. Thus shall the hand of the LORD be known among his servants, and his indignation among his enemies.
Yea, I will bring again Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim the king of Judah himself, with all the prisoners of Judah that are carried unto Babylon even into this place, sayeth the LORD, for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon."
Then make thou them this answer: Because your fathers have forsaken me, sayeth the LORD, and have cleaved unto strange gods, whom they have honored and worshiped: but me have they forsaken, and have not kept my law.
And as for the fading flower, the glory of his pomp, which is upon the top of the plenteous valley: it shall happen unto him, as to an untimely fruit before the harvest come. Which as soon as it is seen, is by and by devoured, before it come well in a man's hand.
Make me to understand the way of thy commandments, and so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.
We have been with child, and suffered pain as though we had brought forth wind. For there is no salvation in the earth, neither do the inhabiters of the world submit them selves.
My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire that it hath always unto thy judgments.
If thou canst, then give me answer: prepare thyself to stand before me face to face.
And the chiefest of all the captains in the host of the first month was of the children of Perez.
Then said the king of Israel to Jehoshaphat, "Did I not tell thee, that he would not prophesy good unto me, but evil?"
In the fourth year of his reign was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid, even in the month Ziv,
Then said Delilah to Samson, "See: thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Now yet tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound."
stood in the midst of the said ground, and defended it and slew the Philistines. And the LORD gave him a great victory.
and Elioenai, Jaakobah, Jeshohaiah, Asaiah, Adiel, Jesimiel and Benaiah;
And the sons of Jada the brother of Shammai were Jether and Jonathan. But Jether died without children.
And unto Naphtali he said, "Naphtali, he shall have abundance of pleasure and shall be filled with the blessing of the LORD and shall have his possessions in the southwest."
and Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
which came before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the lords, saying, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren." And he gave them at the mouth of the LORD, an inheritance among the brethren of their fathers.
and her husband heard it and held his peace thereat the same day he heard it: Then her vows and her bonds wherewith she bound her soul, shall stand in effect.
And then all nations also say, "Wherefore hath the LORD done of this fashion unto this land? O how fierce is this great wrath?'
And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Zin, and set up their tents in Dophkah.
And if he will buy it again, let him give the fifth part more to that it was set at.
and conquered his land and the land of Og king of Bashan two kings of the Amorites on the other side Jordan toward the sun rising:
The three branches are three days: for within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thine office again, and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the old manner, even as thou didst when thou wast his butler.
The eighth day, offered Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur, the chief lord of the children of Manasseh.
But and if that brightness abide still in one place and go no further in the skin and be blackish, then it is but a rising in the place of the burning, and the priest shall make him clean: for it is but the print of the burning only.
and put all upon the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons: and wave them in and out, a wave offering unto the LORD.
And he made the table of sethim-wood two cubits long and a cubit broad, and a cubit and a half high,
And Moses did according to all that the LORD commanded him.
So sent he his brethren away, and they departed. And he said unto them, "See that ye fall not out by the way."
At Tehaphnehes the day shall be dark, when I break there the scepter of the land of Egypt, and when the pomp of her power shall have an end. A cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall be led away into captivity.
'Tell the house of Israel, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will suspend my sanctuary: even the glory of your power, that pleasure of your eyes, and the thing that ye love: your sons and daughters whom ye have left, shall fall through the sword.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: The first day of the first month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the Sanctuary.
I will make an end of thee, and thou shalt be gone. Though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou not be found for evermore, sayeth the LORD God."
Murderers are there in thee, that shed blood, and eat upon the hills, and in thee they use unhappiness.
Behold, the LORD God standeth by me: what is he that can condemn me? Lo, they shall be all like as an old cloth, which the moths shall eat up.
and upon Elam I will bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them against the same four winds. And there shall be no people, but some of Elam shall flee unto them.
Therefore will I reward the city of Babylon and all her citizens the Chaldeans, with all the evil which they have done unto Zion. Yea, that ye yourselves shall see it, sayeth the LORD.
When thou wroughtest wondrous strange works, we looked not for them: thou camest down and the hills melted at thy presence.
Moreover, sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold I will visit that restless people of Alexandria, Pharaoh and Egypt; yea, both their gods and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that put their trust in him.
Behold, sayeth the LORD, I will come upon you that dwell in the valleys, rocks and fields, and say: Tush, who will make us afraid? Or, who will come into our houses?
For it shall happen unto all lands and to all people, like as when a man smiteth down the olives, that are left upon the tree: or seeketh after grapes, when the wine gathering is out.
But Ahikam the son of Shaphan helped Jeremiah, that he came not into the hands of the people to be slain.
Thus sayeth thy LORD, thy LORD and God, the defender of his people: Behold, I will take the slumbering cup out of thy hand, even the cup with the dregs of my wrath, that from henceforth thou shalt never drink it more.
In the day when thou didst plant it, it was great, and gave soon the fruit of thy seed: But in the day of harvest, thou shalt reap a heap of sorrows and miseries.
Therefore I either suspended, or slew the chiefest princes: I did curse Jacob, and gave Israel into reproof."
Many there be that seek the prince's favour, but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Glory and worship are before him; power and honour are in his Sanctuary. {TYNDALE: Praise and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place.}
If a wise man go to law with a fool - whether he deal with him friendly or roughly - he getteth no rest.
The robberies of the ungodly shall be their own destruction; for they would not do the thing that was right.
Or else if thou needs wilt, then go and do it, and make thyself strong to battle: and thou shalt see, that God shall make thee fall before thine enemies. For God hath power to help or to cast down."
And they laid hands on her, and when she was come out to the entering of the horse gate in the king's house, they slew her there.
And Nebuchadnezzar came to the city as his servants were yet a besieging of it.
yet if their hearts come to them again in the land where they be in captivity, and turn and pray unto thee in the land where they be in captivity, saying, 'We have sinned and have done evil and wickedly,'
Then Saul sent the messengers to see David saying, "Bring him to me, bed and all, that he may be slain."
neither shalt thou have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
For when I have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that runneth with milk and honey, then they will eat and fill themselves and wax fat and turn unto strange gods and serve them and rail on me and break my covenant.
And sanctify them that they may be most holy: so that no man touch them but they that be hallowed.
And then the king said to Shimei, "Thou rememberest all the wickedness which thine heart knoweth that thou didst to David my father. The LORD therefore render again thy wickedness upon thine own head:
And Gaal answered again and said, "See, there come folk down by the middle of the land and another company come along by the charmer's oak."
Describe ye the land therefore into seven parts, and bring the description to me hither, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God.
Then Joshua departed up from Eglon and all Israel with him, unto Hebron. And they fought against it,
And of Hezron, cometh the kindred of the Hezronites; and of Carmi, cometh the kindred of the Carmites.
and bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of witness to offer unto the LORD, that fellow shall perish from among his people.
And take of his blood and put it upon the tip of the right ear of Aaron and of his sons, and upon the thumb of their right hands, and upon the great toe of their right feet and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.
And they shall know that I am the LORD their God that brought them out of the land of Egypt for to dwell among them: even I the LORD their God."
The seventh day, Elishama, the son of Ammihud, the chief lord of the children of Ephraim, offered.
and a mitre of bysse, and goodly bonnets of bysse, and linen breeches of twined bysse,
Now when the man that had the measuring rod in his hand went unto the east door, he measured a thousand cubits, and then he brought me through the water, even to the ankles:
And make the altar hollow with boards: even as it was showed thee in the mount, so let them make it.
And we answered my lord, 'We have a father that is old, and a young lad which he begat in his age: and the brother of the said lad is dead, and he is all that is left of that mother. And his father loveth him.'
As for the remnant of the people that were in the city, and such as were come to help them, whatsoever was left of the common sort, Nebuzaradan the chief captain carried them to Babylon.
Thy filthiness is abominable, for I would have cleansed thee, but thou wouldest not be cleansed. Thou canst not be purged from thine uncleanness, till I have poured my wrathful indignation upon thee.
Moreover, set the pot empty upon the coals, that it may be warm and the metal hot: that the filth and rustiness may be consumed.
And she conceived the third time and bare a son, whom she called Shelah: and he was at Chezib when she bare him.
And the children of Lotan were Hori and Heman. And Lotan's sister was called Timna.
"Thus hath the LORD God spoken concerning Tyre: The isles shall be moved at the noise of thy fall, and at the cry of the slain that shall be murdered in thee.
In the twenty seventh year, the first day of the first Month, came the word of the LORD unto me, saying,
And Hezekiah was glad thereof, and showed them the commodities of his treasure, of silver, of gold, of spices and roots, of precious oils, and all that was in his cupboards and treasure houses. There was not one thing in Hezekiah's house, and so throughout all his kingdom, but he let them see it.
I stretch forth my hands unto thee; my soul gaspeth unto thee as a thirsty land. Selah.
which Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon took not, when he carried away Jechoniah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the power of Judah and Jerusalem, from Jerusalem unto Babylon, captive.
For ye shall suck comfort out of her breasts, and be satisfied. Ye shall taste, and have delight in the plenteousness of her power.
For I have set my face against this city, sayeth the LORD, to plague it, and to do it no good. It must be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and be burnt with fire.'
Then spake Jeremiah, "Give Zedekiah this answer,
Every man recompenseth with the measure that he receiveth: He museth upon his sore wind, as upon the days of extreme heat.
But he was so merciful, that he forgave their misdeeds, and destroyed them not. Yea, many a time turned he his wrath away, and would not suffer his whole displeasure to arise.
Let Israel rejoice in him that made him, and let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
Yet, for all this they tempted and displeased the most high God, and kept not his covenant:
Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.
But beware that thou turn not aside to wickedness and sin, which hitherto thou hast chosen more than meekness.
The children of Hagab, the children of Shamlai, the children of Hanan;
Thereto the king Nebuchadnezzar carried off the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon and put them in his temple at Babylon.
And whatsoever come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, law, commandment, ordinances and customs: see that ye warn them, that they trespass not against the LORD; lest wrath come upon you and on your brethren. Thus do and ye shall not offend.
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then come over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, where the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and be possessed among us. But rebel not against the LORD nor against us, to build you any other altar save the altar of the LORD our God.
When thou beatest down thine olive trees thou shalt not make clean riddance after thee: but it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless and the widow.
For then thou shalt prosper: If thou shalt be diligent to do the ordinances and laws which the LORD charged Moses with, to deliver to Israel. Pluck up thine heart and be strong, dread not, nor be discouraged.
And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there yet here never a Prophet more of the LORD's, that we might ask of him?"
And therefore David gathered all Israel to Jerusalem, to fetch the Ark of the LORD unto the place which he had ordained for it.
The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first and Isshiah the second.
And David went at the saying of Gad which spake in the name of the LORD.
And of the sons of Izhar: Shelomith, the chief.
Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.
And he went, and the six hundred men that were with him, and they came to the river Besor, where a part of them abode.
the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered them together to Shiloh, to go upon them with battle.
And remember that thou was a servant in Egypt, that thou observe and do these ordinances.
And Aaron took as Moses commanded him, and ran unto the congregation: and behold, the plague was begun among the people, and he put on cense, and made an atonement for the people.
These are the ordinances which the LORD commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, and between the father and his daughter, being a damsel in her father's house.
and they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
And the children of Perez were Hezron, of whom cometh the kindred of the Hezronites: and of Hamul cometh the kindred of the Hamulites.
If it be any manner of unclean beast of which men may not offer unto the LORD, let him bring the beast before the priest
And he shall let the living bird flee out of the town into the wild fields, and so make an atonement for the house, and it shall be clean.
Thus took they the present and twice so much more money with them, and Benjamin. And rose up, went down to Egypt, and presented themself to Joseph.
and said unto them, "I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as in times past. Moreover the God of my father hath been with me.
All they that have been acquainted with thee among the Heathen, shall be abashed at thee: seeing thou art so clean brought to naught, and comest no more up.'"
Bela the son of Beor reigned in Idumaea, and the name of his city was Dinhabah.
your bonnets shall ye have upon your heads, and shoes upon your feet. Ye shall neither mourn nor weep, but in your sins ye shall be sorrowful, and one repent with another.
Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, causing him to be beaten, and to be laid in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For he was the ruler of the prison.
"Thou son of man, because that Tyre hath spoken upon Jerusalem, 'Aha, now I trow the ports of the people be broken, and she turned unto me, for I have destroyed my belly full.'
that the house of Israel may be snared in their own hearts, because they be clean gone from me, for their Idols' sakes.'
All this do I, that they altogether may see a mark, perceive with their hearts and consider, that the hand of the LORD maketh these things, and that the holy one of Israel bringeth them to pass.
and will fulfill all my words upon that land which I have devised against it - yea, all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied of all people -
and deliver thee and the city also, from the hand of the king of Assyria, for I will defend the city.
There shall ye see the rifts in the walls of the city of David, whereof there shall be many. Ye shall gather together the waters of the lower pool,
They shall be also at their wits end, and ashamed one of another: the Egyptians of the Ethiopians, and the Ethiopians of the Egyptians, considering what glory they were in afore.
O LORD, men may live beyond their years, and I will declare to all men that even in those years, it was thou that causedest me to sleep, and again thou hast given me life.
Thou rulest the pride of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.
As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the LORD.
At the same time shall their strong cities be desolate, like as were once the forsaken plows and corn, which they forsook, for fear of the children of Israel.
But the multitude of them were with their brethren that were cunning in the song of the LORD. And the number of all that taught, were two hundred and fourscore and eight.
For thou sayest, 'What advantage will it be unto thee, and what profit shall thou have of my sin?'
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel, and on God and on his house.
And the workmen wrought and the work mended through their hands: and they made the house of God as it ought to be, and strengthened it.
And David was so afraid of God that day, that he said, "How shall I bring the Ark of God home to me?"
And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal. And Meribbaal begat Micah,
And she arose and bowed herself on her face to the earth, and said, "Behold thy handmaid, to be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord."
And Ahaz begat Jehoaddah. And Jehoaddah begat Alemoth, Azmaveth and Zimri. And Zimri begat Moza.
The sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Meshah his eldest son, which was the father of Ziph, and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.
And their father said unto them, "What way went he?" For his sons had seen what way the man of God went which came from Judah.
And she said, "It hath been a common saying in the old time: 'Men must ask of Abel, and then go and finish the work.'
And the appointment of the men of Israel with the layers in wait to run upon Benjamin with the sword, was when they should make the smoke rise up out of the city.
And Delilah took new ropes and bound him therewith, and said unto him, "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson." And there were layers of wait in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms, as they had been but a thread.
And the king answered, "Chimham shall go with me. And I will do to him that thou shalt be content with. And thereto whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that same will I do for thee."
where the people of Israel were put to the worse before the servants of David, and there was a great slaughter that day, even of twenty thousand men.
And lodge without the host seven days, all that have killed any person and all that have touched any dead body, and purify both yourselves and your prisoners; the third day and the seventh.
howbeit, we may not give them wives of our daughters." For the children of Israel had made an adjuration saying, 'Accursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.'
And now this is it that we shall do to Gibeah, and cast lots against it.
And the priest said unto them, "Go in peace, for the way which ye go is before the LORD."
Now when any of the sons of the tribes of Israel take them to wives, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put unto the inheritance of the tribe in which they are and shall be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched among the children of Jaakan.
And Moses did as the LORD commanded him, and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation,
But they were blinded to go up into the hilltop: Neverthelater, the ark of the covenant of the LORD and Moses departed not out of the host.
The first day shall be a holy feast, so that ye shall do no manner of laborious work therein.
And all the kindreds of the Shuhamites were in number sixty four thousand and four hundred.
These are the children of Dan in their kindreds: Shuham, of whom cometh the kindred of the Shuhamites. These are the kindreds of Dan in their generations.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest told them in the fields of Moab by Jordan, fast by Jericho,
and with him Oholiab son of Ahisamach of the tribe of Dan, a cunning graver and a worker of needle work in jacinth, scarlet, purple and bysse.
And thou shalt appoint the Levites to me, the LORD, for all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites for the firstborn of the children of Israel."
Wherefore, I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, even the Assyrians, whom she so loved.
Sharpened is it for the slaughter, and scoured that it may be bright. O, the destroying staff of my son shall bring down all wood.
All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.
which wood serveth for men to burn. Of this he taketh and warmeth himself withal: he maketh a fire of it to bake bread. And afterward maketh a god thereof, to honour it: and an Idol to kneel before it.
The sons of Zilpah, Lea's maid: Gad and Asher. These are the sons which were born him in Mesopotamia.
And after this, sayeth the LORD, I shall deliver Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his servants, his people - and such as are escaped in the city, from the pestilence, sword, and hunger - into the power of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon: yea into the hands of their enemies; into the hands of those that follow upon their lives, which shall smite them with the sword. They shall not pity them, they shall not spare them, they shall have no mercy upon them.'
Thou shalt leave thy fatherless children behind thee, and I will keep them, and thy widows shall take their comfort in me.
Hazor also shall be a dwelling for Dragons, and an everlasting wilderness: so that nobody shall dwell there, and no man shall have there his habitation."
Wherefore came I forth of my mother's womb? To have experience of labour and sorrow? And to lead my life with shame?
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God, and sing praises unto thee upon a ten-stringed lute.
If ye will dwell in this land, I shall build you up, and not break you down. I shall plant you, and not root you out. For I am pacified, as concerning the trouble that I have done to you.
sayeth our redeemer, which is called the LORD of Hosts, the holy one of Israel.
praise the name of the LORD! For his name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth.
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Wilt thou have anything to do with the stool of wickedness, which imagineth mischief as a law?
Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.
He maketh the deep to seethe and boil like a pot, and stirreth the sea together like an ointment.
Now therefore, my sons, be not negligent: for the LORD had chosen you to stand before him, and for to minister and burn offerings to him."
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;
Hath God ordained then, that the glorious life of thee, and all such mighty men should not be put down?
And he brought thence the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and they fetched away the bones of them that were hanged,
so that it shall grieve the man that is tender, and exceeding delicate among you, to look on his brother and upon his wife that lieth in his bosom and on the remnant of his children, which he hath yet left -
And Moza begat Bineah, whose son was Raphah, and his son was Eleasah, and his son Azel.
Or else I will send my servants unto thee by tomorrow this time: and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants, which shall take all that is glorious in thine eyes, and bring it away with them.'"
The sons of Jonathan were Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.
save that they put not the hill altars away: for the people offered and burned fat still in the hill altars.
And he rose up early the fifth day to depart. Then said the damsel's father, "Comfort thine heart": and so made him tarry until after midday. And they did eat both of them together.
And then the men of Israel turned back again unto the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword in the cities, both man and beast and all that came to hand, and moreover set all the cities they could come by on fire.
and had taken the women that were therein prisoners, both small and great: but slew not a man, save carried them with them and went their ways.
Then all the people arose, as it had been one man, saying, "There shall not a man of us go to his tent, neither turn into his house.
Why have ye brought the congregation of the LORD unto this wilderness, that both we and our cattle should die here?
Yiron, Migdalel, Horem, Bethanath and Bethshemesh: Nineteen cities with their villages.
And it shall be an ordinance forever unto him and his seed among your children after you."
And they removed from Alush, and lay at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
they came and spake unto Moses and Eleazar the priest and unto the lords of the congregation, saying,
And the right shoulder they shall give unto the priest, to be a heave offering, of their peace offerings.
in the double cave that is in the field before Mamre in the land of Canaan. Which field Abraham bought of Ephron the Hittite for a possession to bury in.
And take a portion unto the LORD of the men of war which went out to battle, one of five hundred of the women and of the oxen and of the asses and of the sheep;
And he reared up the court round about the habitation and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate: and so Moses finished the work.
And they told him all the words of Joseph which he had said unto them. But when he saw the chariots which Joseph had sent to carry him, then his spirits revived.
But think on me with thee, when thou art in good case, and show mercy unto me. And make mention of me to Pharaoh, and help to bring me out of this house:
And when they brought her forth, she sent to her father-in-law saying, "By the man unto whom these things pertain, am I with child." And said also, "Look whose are this seal, necklace, and staff."
So a wind took me up, and brought me into the innermore court: and behold, the house was full of the glory of the LORD.
These are the children of Dishon: Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
Wherefore my heart mourneth for Moab, like a crowd playing a heavy song: and for the men's sake of the brick wall my heart mourneth also, even as a pipe that pipeth a doleful song. For they shall be very few, and destroyed.
give me my wives and my children for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest what service I have done thee."
Thou sattest upon a goodly bed, and a table spread before thee: whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.
Then took I the cup from the LORD's hand, and made all the people drink thereof, unto whom the LORD had sent me.
Thou shalt plant vines again upon the hills of Samaria, and the grape gathers shall plant and sing.
Alexandria will I punish and pour my wrathful indignation upon Sin which is the strength of Egypt. All the substance of Alexandria will I destroy,
Thou hast inclined thyself unto me, when I called upon thee, and haste said, "Fear not."
With an East wind will I scatter them, before their enemies. And when their destruction cometh, I will turn my back upon them, but not my face."
I looked about me, and there was no man to show me any help. I fell down, and no man held me up. Then I held me by mine own arm, and my ferventness sustained me:
Gather you all together, and hearken: Which of yonder gods hath declared this? The LORD God hath a love unto him, and he shall perform his will against Babel and declare his power against the Chaldeans.
"Take thy lute," say men to her, "and go about the city, thou unknown wench: make pastime with sweet melody, whereby thou mayest be had in remembrance."
Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD, concerning the king of the Assyrians, 'He shall not come into the city, and shall shoot no arrow into it, there shall no shield hurt it, neither shall they grave about it.
But he had sent a man before them, even Joseph which was sold to be a bond servant,
For his salvation is nigh them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land.
But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine annointed, and art displeased at him.
Art thou of counsel with God, when he doth these things? When he causeth the light to come forth of his clouds?
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to workmen that wrought upon the house of the LORD, and hired Masons and carpenters to redress the house of the LORD, and so did they artificers in iron and brass, to repair the house of the LORD.
And he charged them, saying, "Do even so in the fear of the LORD with truth and pure heart.
For else the men of understanding and wisdom, that have heard me, might say: 'What canst thou speak?'
The children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda, the children of Gazzam;
Yea, when I had diligently pondered what ye said, I found not one of you that made any good argument against Job, or that directly could make answer unto his words,
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and therewith were made vessels for the house of the LORD: even vessels to minister withal and to serve for burnt offerings as ladies and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
In the East kept six Levites: in the North four a day, and in the South four a day, and in every counsel house, two,
Then the king of Israel called one of his chamberlains and said, "Fetch hither quickly Micaiah the son of Imlah."
The LORD reward every man's righteousness and faith: for the LORD delivered thee into my hand this day, but I would not lay my hand upon the LORD's anointed.
Of the sons of Rehabiah, the first, Isshiah.
These are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar, whose son was Phinehas, and his son Abishua,
And the cities shall be to flee from the executer of blood, that he which killed die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
Wherefore all the men of Israel came to the king and said unto him, "Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and have brought the king and his household and all David's men with him over Jordan?"
these tribulations are come upon us.' But I will hide my face that same time for all the evil's sake which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto strange gods.
And when they were come unto the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite, and turned in thither, and said unto him, "Who brought thee hither? And what makest thou in this place? And what hast thou here?"
And Saul said to him, "Whose son art thou, thou lad?" And David answered, "The son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite."
The Levites have no part among you, for the priestship of the LORD is their inheritance. And Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond Jordan Eastward, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them."
If her father hear her vow and bond which she hath made upon her soul, and hold his peace thereto: then all her vows and bonds which she hath made upon her soul shall stand in effect.
"But the firstborn of oxen, sheep and goats shall not be redeemed. For they are holy, and thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat to be a sacrifice of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
And the coasts descended unto the river Kanah on whose south side Ephraim hath cities among the cities of Manasseh. For the coasts of Manasseh were on the north side of the river and the ends of them was the sea:
And in the wilderness they had Betharabah, Middin and Secacah;
and said, "The LORD commanded my lord to give the land to inherit by lot to the children of Israel. And then my lord commanded in the name of the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother unto his daughters.
And Eleazar the priest said unto all the men of war which went out to battle, "This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD commanded Moses:
And the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
let the priest command them to take away the stones in which the plague is, and let them cast them in a foul place without the city,
These are the numbers of the children of Israel which Moses and Eleazar the priest numbered in the fields of Moab, fast by Jordan nigh to Jericho.
And on every branch were three cups like unto almonds, with knops and flowers throughout the six branches that proceeded out of the candlestick.
And as one of them opened his sack, for to give his ass provender in the Inn, he spied his money in his sack's mouth.
The same man, when he seeth the sword come upon the land, shall blow the trumpet, and warn the people.
her stalks were so strong that men might have made staves thereof for officers, she grew so high in her stalks. So when men saw that she exceeded the height and multitude of her branches,
Then carried he me out into the fore court toward the north, and brought me into the chamber that stood over against the back building northward, which had the length of a hundred cubits whose door turned toward the north.
To whom shalt thou be likened, that art so glorious and great, among the trees of Eden? Yet art thou cast down under the earth, among the trees of Eden, where thou must lie among the uncircumcised, with them that be slain with the sword. Even thus is it with Pharaoh and all his people, sayeth the LORD God.'"
he vexeth no man; he keepeth no man's pledge, he neither spoileth, nor robbeth any man; he dealeth his meat with the hungry; he clotheth the naked;
In their heat I shall set drink before them, and they shall be drunken for joy: Then shall they sleep an everlasting sleep, and never wake, sayeth the LORD.
And before the sons of the kindred of the Rechabites, I set pots full of wine, and cups, and said unto them, "Drink wine."
For why? The LORD hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his own possession.
Like as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, with the cities that lay there about, sayeth the LORD: So shall no man dwell there also, neither shall any man have there his habitation.
Yea all the Jews also that dwelt in Moab, under the Ammonites, in Idumaea and in all the countries, when they heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan governor upon them that were left in Judah:
The strong cities shall be desolate, and the fair cities shall be left like a wilderness. The cattle shall feed and lie there, and the sheep shall eat it up.
Now when Micaiah the son of Gemariah the son of Shaphan had heard all the words of the LORD out of the book,
God is the LORD, and hath showed us light; O garnish the solemn feast with green branches, even unto the horns of the altar.