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Thou, O God sendest a gracious rain upon thine inheritance, and refreshest it when it is dry.
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the host, and all the people, followed not the commandment of the LORD: Namely, to dwell in the land of Judah.
I gave thee warning, while thou wast yet in prosperity. But thou saidst, 'I will not hear.' And this manner hast thou used from thy youth, that thou wouldest never hear my voice.
And went from thence, and sat them down at Geruth Chimham, which lieth beside Bethlehem, that they might go into Egypt for fear of the Chaldeans:
How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in; how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
They prevented me in the day of my trouble, but the LORD was my upholder. {TYNDALE: When they had compassed me in the day of my tribulation, the LORD stayed me up.}
The children of Jaalah, the children of Darkon, the children of Giddel;
And the Levites shall compass the king round about, and every man his weapon in his hand: and whatsoever other man come into the house of the Lord, he shall die for it, and they shall be with the king, as he cometh in and as he goeth out."
This is the order of them in their offices, to come into the house of the LORD according to their manner under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
"'But and if he came without the borders of his privileged city whither he was fled,
And Zabad begat Ephlal. Ephlal begat Obed.
And Attai begat Nathan; And Nathan begat Zabad.
And when Benaiah was come to the tabernacle of the LORD he said unto him, "Thus sayeth the king: 'Come out.'" And he said, "Nay: But I will die even here." And Benaiah brought the king word, saying, "Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me."
And Moses wrote this song the same season, and taught it the children of Israel.
Elon, Timnah and Ekron;
And all the vessels that be open which have no lid nor covering upon them, are unclean.
And he made the tunicle unto the ephod of woven work and all together of jacinth,
And when the LORD hath delivered them to thee, see that ye do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.
"'If a man sanctify unto the LORD a field, which he hath bought and is not of his inheritance,
And at the last all the children of Israel came unto him, and he commanded them all that the LORD had said unto him in mount Sinai.
And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his sacrifice: and the lords of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, "What sayeth the LORD?"
And they shall bind the breastlap by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of jacinth, that it may lie close unto the broidered girdle of the ephod, that the breastlap be not loosed from the ephod.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, forsomuch as my sheep are robbed, and devoured of all the wild beasts of the field, having no shepherd: and seeing that my shepherds take no regard of my sheep, but feed themselves only, and not my sheep:
Behold, I come unto you, and unto you will I turn me, that ye may be tilled and sown.
When money failed in the land of Egypt and of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said, "Give us sustenance: wherefore sufferest thou us to die before thee? For our money is spent."
"Moreover, thus sayeth the LORD God: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, then shall it be his sons' heritage perpetual, that he may possess it.
And he said, 'Lift up thine eyes and see how all the rams that leap upon the sheep are streaked, spotted and party: for I have seen all that Laban doth unto thee.
By the reason of wisdom, all men are become fools. Confounded be all the casters of images: for the thing that they make is but deceit, and hath no breath.
shall mourn at the noise and stamping of their strong barbed horses, at the shaking of their chariots and at the rumbling of the wheels. The fathers shall not look to their children, so feeble and weary shall their hands be:
And what a trial shall this be, when even my scepter shall be reproved? That shall not be, sayeth the LORD God.
He shall set fire upon the temples of the Egyptian gods, and burn them up, and take themselves prisoners. Moreover, he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, like as a shepherd putteth on his coat, and shall depart his way from thence in peace.
And go not after strange gods, serve them not, worship them not, and anger me not with the works of your hands. Then will not I punish you.'
"Go, and tell Hananiah these words, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: Thou hast broken the chain of wood, but instead of wood thou shalt make chains of iron.
And now, O LORD of Hosts, thou righteous searcher which knowest the reins and the very hearts: let me see them punished, for unto thee I commit my cause.
Now the pit wherein Ishmael did cast the dead bodies of the men whom he slew because of Gedaliah, had king Asa caused to be made, for fear of Baasha the king of Israel, and the same pit did Ishmael fill with slain men.
Ishmael also slew all the Jews that were with Gedaliah at Mizphah, and all the Chaldeans that he found there waiting upon him.
Therefore thy furiousness against me, and thy pride is come before me. I will put a ring in thy nose, and a bridle bit in the jaws of thee, and turn thee about, even the same way thou camest.
I am come of the old regal Progeny"? Where are they? Where are now thy wise men? Let them tell thee, if they can, what the LORD of Hosts hath taken in hand against Egypt.
Thou hast made thy bed upon high mountains; thou wentest up thither, and there hast thou slain sacrifices.
- That they would offer unto him the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and tell out his works with gladness!
He setteth as much by a straw as by iron, and as much by a rotten stock as by metal.
But deal thou with me, O LORD God, according unto thy name; for sweet is thy mercy.
The woman had a fat calf in the house, and that she hasted and killed it, and took flour and kneaded it and did bake him sweet cakes,
For thy mercy is greater than the heavens, and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.
And he made an altar unto the LORD and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and charged Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
And they decreed that it should be proclaimed throughout all Israel from Beersheba to Dan, that they should come and hold the feast of the Passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not often done it, as it is written how they should.
And Hezekiah bade dress up the store houses about the house of the LORD. And so they did,
Thou thinkest, 'See, I have beaten the Edomites,' therefore thine heart ariseth to glorify thyself. Now bide at home: what needeth thee to provoke to evil, that thou perish and Judah with thee?"
In Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah. In Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel.
Is not this David to whom they sang in dances, 'Saul slew his thousand, but David his ten thousand?'"
The sixth to Bukkiah with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
and the altar of burnt sacrifice and all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.
And this shall be an ordinance and a law unto you, among your children after you in all your habitations.
Then said he, "I will send thee a kid from the flock." She answered, "Then give me a pledge till thou send it."
"'If it be of the beasts of which men bring an offering unto the LORD: all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD, shall be holy.
And let him take to cleanse the house withal: two birds, cypress wood, and purple cloth and hyssop.
and in the tribe of the children of Dan, the lord Bukki the son of Jogli;
And they removed from the children of Jaakan, and lay at Horhaggidgad.
But when the field goeth out in the trumpet year, it shall be holy unto the LORD: even as a thing dedicated, and it shall be the priest's possession.
And they departed from the sepulchres of lust, and lay at Hazeroth.
And thou shalt make fifty loops in the edge of the utmost curtain on the one side: even in the coupling curtain, and as many in the edge of the coupling curtain on the other side.
So he measured all the four sides where there went a wall round about five hundred measuring rods long, and as broad also which separated the holy from the unholy.
And Jacob went away unknowing to Laban the Syrian, and told him not that he fled.
and kindle a fire in Egypt. Sin shall be in great heaviness, Alexandria shall be rooted out, and Noph shall have daily sorrow.
For every pillar was eighteen cubits high, and the rope that went about it, was twelve cubits, and four fingers thick and round.
Then said Abimelech unto Isaac, "Get thee from me, for thou art mightier than we a great deal."
And the name of the city shall be called, Hamonah. Thus shall they make the land clean.'
He hath put his sword to the dighting, that good hold may be taken of it. This sword is sharpened and dight, that it may be given into the hand of the manslayer.'
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, that he may take away all her substance, rob her robberies, and spoil her spoils, to pay his host their wages withal.
Thus thy sisters, namely Sodom and her daughters, Samaria and her daughters, with thyself and thy daughters, shall be brought again to your old estate.
And made Zedekiah's eyes to be put out, and bound him with chains, and sent him to Babylon.
And I will make this city so desolate, and despised: that whoso goeth thereby, shall be abashed and jest upon her, because of all her plagues.
My soul fleeth unto the LORD before the morning watch, I say, before the morning watch.
and caused him be let out of the fore entry of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan: that he should carry him home, and so he dwelt among the people.
Thou shalt have goats' milk enough to feed thee, to uphold thy household, and to sustain thy maidens.
"Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: This answer shall ye give to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me for counsel, 'Behold, Pharaoh's host which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into his own land:
Thy part shall be with the stony rocks by the river: Yea, even these shall be thy part. For there thou hast poured meat and drink offerings unto them. Should I delight in that?
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, "Good is the word of God which thou hast told me." He said moreover, "For there shall be peace and faithfulness in my time."
"Say thus to Hezekiah king of Judah: Let not thy God deceive thee, in whom thou hopest, and which sayest, 'Jerusalem shall not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.'
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks unto thy name - which thing if thou wilt grant me, then shall the righteous resort unto my company.
The merciful and gracious LORD hath so done his marvelous works, that they ought to be had in remembrance.
Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting, and world without end. And let all people say, "Amen, Amen." Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
that the ungodly are green as grass, and that all the works of wickedness do flourish, to be destroyed forever.
In the daytime he led them with a cloud, and all the night through with a light of fire.
for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the sickness that destroyeth in the noonday.
For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.
Therefore will I praise thee, and thy faithfulness, O God, playing on the lute; unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel.
The LORD is great in Zion, and high above all people.
These sought the register of their generation, and when they found it not, they were put from the priesthood.
And he did that pleased the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, bowing neither to the righthand nor to the left.
And he shall eat the fruit of thy land and the fruit of thy cattle until he have destroyed thee: so that he shall leave thee neither corn, wine, nor oil, neither the increase of thine oxen nor the flocks of thy sheep: until he have brought thee to nought.
For he offered unto the gods of them of Damascus which beat him, and said, "Because the gods of the Syrians help them, therefore will I offer to them, that they may help me also." But they were his destruction and the destruction of all Israel.
And he had great substance in the cities of Judah, and fighting men and men of might in Jerusalem.
And they dwelt therein and have built thee a temple therein unto thy name, and said,
which Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated gifts which David the king, and the ancient heads, of the captains over thousands and hundreds,
Uzziah an Ashterathite; Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hoham an Aroerite;
And Amasa went to gather the men of Judah together: but tarried longer than the time which was appointed him.
and these are the witness, ordinances and statutes which Moses told the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt,
so that all the cities which ye shall give the Levites shall be forty eight, with their suburbs.
And according to the number of such offerings, thou shalt increase the meat offerings and the drink offerings.
and scrape the house within round about, and pour out the dust without the city in a foul place.
And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.
And the sons of Pallu were Eliab.
And Joseph made haste - for his heart did melt upon his brother - and sought for to weep, and entered into his chamber, for to weep there.
And let the priests see, that they defile not the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have offered unto the LORD,
And take the other ram and let Aaron and his sons put their hands upon his head and let him then be killed.
And the sheep conceived before the staves, and brought forth streaked, spotted and party.
And he led me round about by them, and behold, the bones that lay upon the field were very many, and marvelous dry also.
Now therefore let me thy servant bide here for the lad, and be my lord's bondman: and let the lad go home with his brethren.
And Zilpah, Lea's maid, bare Jacob another son.
And therefore tell them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: In the blood have ye eaten, your eyes have ye lift up to Idols, and have shed blood: shall ye then have the land in possession?
All fowls of the air made their nests in his branches, under his boughs gendered all these beasts of the field, and under his shadow dwelt all people.
{Res} Thou, O LORD, hast maintained the cause of my soul, and hast redeemed my life.
And he had a continual living given him of the king of Babylon; every day a certain thing allowed him all the days of his life, until he died.
The sword shall come upon the Chaldeans, sayeth the LORD; upon them that dwell in Babylon; upon their princes; and upon their wise men.
that when they have drunken thereof, they may be mad, and out of their wits, when the sword cometh that I will send among them.'
For thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, the enemy shall come flying as an Eagle, and spread his wings upon Moab.
Make her drunken, for she magnified herself above the LORD, that men may clap their hands at her vomit, and that she also may be laughed into scorn.
Go up, O Gilead, and bring treacle unto the daughter of Egypt: But in vain shalt thou go to surgery, for thy wound shalt not be stopped.
But be not thou afraid, O my servant Jacob; fear not thou, O Israel. For lo, I will help thee from far, and thy seed from the land of thy captivity. Jacob also shall come again, and be in rest: he shall be rich, and no man shall do him harm.
In the streets shall there be lift up a cry because of wine, all men's cheer shall vanish away, and all joy of the earth shall pass.
Go and tell Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Behold, the cruel and sharp plague that I have devised for this city, will I bring upon them, that thou shalt see it:
May thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in destruction?
His seed shall be mighty upon earth; the generation of the faithful shall be blessed.
They are afraid where no fear is; for God breaketh the bones of them that besiege thee. Thou hast put them to confusion, because God hath despised them.
We make our boast of God all day long, and will praise thy Name forever. Selah.
And when I made haste, I said, "I am cast out of the sight of thine eyes." Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer, when I cried unto thee.
And thy carcass shall be meat unto all manner fowls of the air and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.
The children of Delaiah, the children of Tobiah, the children of Nekoda, six hundred and two and forty.
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God and brake them, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and made him altars in all corners of Jerusalem.
And so there gathered much people together and stopped all the wells, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land; intending that the kings of Assyria should not find much water when they came.
Adina the son of Shiza, a Reubenite and a head among the Reubenites and thirty about him;
But David and four hundred men followed: But two hundred abode, behind being too weary to go over the river Besor.
Thereto, all manner sicknesses and all manner plagues which are not written in the book of this law, will the LORD bring upon thee until thou be come to nought.
And then David came to the two hundred men that were too weary for to follow David which they made to abide at the river Besor. And they came to meet David and the people that were with him. And when David came to the people, he saluted them.
let the priest come and see it. And if then he perceive that the plague hath eaten further in the house, then it is a fretting leprosy that is in the house, and it is unclean.
And let them take other stones and put them in the places of those stones, and other mortar, and plaster the house withal.
If any beast of which ye eat die, he that toucheth the dead carcass shall be unclean until the evening.
Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what thou hast done." And Jonathan told him and said, "I tasted a little honey upon the end of my staff that was in mine hand, and see, I must die."
And the children of Beriah were Heber, of whom cometh the kindred of the Heberites; and of Malchiel came the kindred of the Malchielites.
save the cattle only we caught unto ourselves and the spoil of the cities which we took:
And he made seven lamps thereto, and the snuffers thereof, and firepans of pure gold.
And all the wise men that wrought all the holy work, came every man from his work which they made,
Hangings of fifteen cubits in the one side of it with three pillars, and three sockets:
And thou shalt make upon the breastlap two fastening chains of pure gold and wreathen work.
These are the children of Zilpah whom Laban gave to Lea his daughter. And these she bare unto Jacob in number sixteen souls.
I will be surety for him, and of my hands require him. If I bring him not to thee and set him before thine eyes, then let me bear the blame forever.
And like as thou, O mount Seir, wast glad because the heritage of the house of Israel was destroyed: even so will I do unto thee also, that thou and whole Edom shall be destroyed - and know that I am the LORD.'"
They shall root out the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in Harvest. For fear of the sword of the enemy, every man shall get him to his own people, and every man shall flee to his own land.
I will help my sheep, so that they shall no more be spoiled: yea, I will discern one sheep from another.
For why? They preach you lies in my name, and I have not sent them, sayeth the LORD.
The word of the LORD came yet unto me again saying,
And therefore, hear the word of the LORD, all Judah, ye that dwell in the land of Egypt. Behold, I have sworn by my great name, sayeth the LORD, that my name shall not be rehearsed through any man's mouth of Judah, in all the land of Egypt to say, 'The LORD God liveth,'
So came Eliakim, Hilkiah's son the President, Shebna the Scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son the Secretary, unto Hezekiah with rent clothes, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
The heart of the unwise shall attain to knowledge, and the imperfect tongue shall speak plainly and distinctly.
Like as in a lame man his legs are not equal, even so is a parable in the fool's mouth.
Riches and plenteousness shall be in his house, and his righteousness endureth forever.
I lie with my soul among the cruel lions; even among the children of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
and lo, he layeth shameful things unto her charge saying: I found not thy daughter a maid. And yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity.' And let them spread the vesture before the elders of the city.
For thou, LORD, art higher than all that are in the earth; thou art exalted far above all gods.
As for the transgressors, they shall perish together; and the ungodly shall be rooted out at the last.
And why? Because the king putteth his trust in the LORD; and in the mercy of the most highest he shall not miscarry.
and with the tops of mountains that were from the beginning and with the dainties of hills that last ever,
even thus sayeth the LORD: See, I will bring evil upon this place and upon the inhabiters thereof, even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah,
And the whole number of the ancient heads of the men of might were two thousand and six hundred,
And he said unto them, "Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me and hath hired me to be his priest."
Lachish, Bozkath, and Eglon;
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place. And our children shall dwell in the fenced cities, because of the inhabiters of the land.
If he that sanctified it will redeem his house, let him give the fifth part of the money that it was judged at thereto, and it shall be his.
And they departed from Dophkah, and lay in Alush.
Wherefore discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel for to go over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
And they put him inward, that Moses should declare unto them what the LORD said thereto.
Then shall the prince come under the door porch, and stand still without by the door check. So the priests shall offer up his burnt and health offerings. And he shall worship at the door post, and go his way forth again: but the door shall no more be shut till the evening.
then as soon as he seeth that the lad is not come, he will die. So shall we thy servants bring the gray head of thy servant our father with sorrow unto the grave.
And the young man deferred not for to do the thing, because he had a lust to Jacob's daughter: he was also most set by of all that were in his father's house.
The children of Anah were these: Dishon and Aholibamah the daughter of Anah.
And when they be ashamed of all their works, then show them the form and fashion of the temple: the coming in, the going out, all the manner and description thereof, yea all the uses and ordinances of it, that they may keep and fulfill all the fashions and customs thereof."
This is the description of the house: Above upon the mount round about all the corners, it shall be the holiest of all. Behold, that is the description and fashion of the house.
"Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: The children of Israel and Judah suffer violence together. All they that have them in captivity, keep them fast and will not let them go.
Thus sayeth the LORD God: I will make an end of the people of Egypt through the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon:
Then took I Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren and all his sons, and the whole household of the Rechabites:
And Zedekiah said unto Jeremiah, "I am afraid for the Jews, that are fled unto the Chaldeans, lest I come in their hands, and so they to have me in derision."
in the cities upon the mountains; and in the cities that lie upon the plain and in the desert. In the land of Benjamin, in the fields of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah shall the sheep be numbered again, under the hand of him that telleth them, sayeth the LORD.
and after two years will I bring again into this place all the ornaments of the LORD's house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon carried away from this place unto Babylon.
Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the rulers and to all the people, these words, "This man is worthy to die, for he hath preached against this city, as ye yourselves have heard with your ears."
The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous, for the righthand of the LORD bringeth mighty things to pass.
The first is he that shall say unto Zion, "Behold, behold, they are present!" And to Israel itself will I give an Evangelist.
Unto the lowly, he shall be a spirit of judgment; and unto them that drive away the enemies from the gates, he shall be a spirit of strength.
Thou shalt not go into their feast house to sit down, much less to eat or drink with them.
O let your songs be of him; praise him, and let your talking be of all his wondrous works.
Thy name, O LORD, endureth forever; so doth thy memorial, O LORD, from one generation to another.
Show thy servant the light of thy countenance, and save me for thy mercy's sake.
But misfortune shall slay the ungodly; and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Thou huntest me out, being in heaviness, as it were a lion, and troublest me out of measure.
And great is the increase of it unto the kings, whom thou hast set over us because of our sins, and they have dominion over our bodies, and cattle, and we are in great trouble.
Then they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David and gave him bread to eat and water to drink,
The fifteenth to Jerimoth with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
And the Egyptians vexed us and troubled us, and laded us with cruel bondage.
Eleasah begat Sismai. Sismai begat Shallum.
For be thou sure of it: the day thou goest out and passest over the river of Kidron, thou shalt die for it, and thy blood shall be on thine own head."
When David and his men came to the city: behold, it was burnt with fire, and their wives, their sons and their daughters were taken prisoners.
And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law, manifestly and well."
Iphtah, Ashnah, and Nezib;
and in the tribe of the children of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud;
And the LORD spake to Moses, saying,
And they went from Kehelatha, and pitched in mount Shepher.
let him that owneth the house go and tell the priest, saying, 'Me think that there is as it were a leprosy in the house.'
The length of the court, shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty, and the height five, and the hangings shall be of twined bysse and the sockets of brass.
how our fathers went down into Egypt, and how we have dwelt in Egypt a long time, and, how the Egyptians vexed both us and our fathers.
And when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, all the people rose up and stood every man in his tent door and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the tabernacle.
my father made me swear and said, 'Lo, I die, see that thou bury me in my grave which I have made me in the land of Canaan.' Now therefore let me go and bury my father, and then will I come again."
Look in what tribe the stranger dwelleth: in the same tribe shall ye give him his heritage, sayeth the LORD God."
The waters made him great, and the deep set him up on high. Round about the roots of him ran there floods of water; he sent out his little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
He took out of the city a chamberlain which was a captain of the soldiers, and seven men that were the king's servants, which were found in the city; and Sepher, a captain that used to muster the men of war; with sixty men of the country that were taken in the city.
And Abraham said unto him, "Beware of that, that thou bring not my son thither.
I will make the land of Egypt to be desolate among other waste countries, and her cities to lie void forty years, among other void cities: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the Heathen and nations.
Thus the borders from the sea forth, shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus the North, and the borders of Hamath. That is the north part.
The sword upon their soothsayers: as for those, they shall become fools. The sword upon their worthies: so that they shall stand in fear.
He hath taken my substance away and the thing that was left me hath he carried unto Babylon,' sayeth the daughter that dwelleth in Zion. 'Yea, and my blood also, unto the Chaldeans,' sayeth Jerusalem.
Ye Moabites shall leave the cities, and dwell in rocks of stone, and become like doves that make their nests in holes.
Go forth in your array against Babylon round about, all ye that can handle bows: shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she hath sinned against the LORD.
so that every man should let his servant and handmaid go free, Hebrew and Hebrewess, and no Jew to hold his brother as a bond man.
Therefore hath he poured upon us his wrathful displeasure, and strong battle, which maketh us have to do on every side, yet will we not understand. He burneth us up, yet sinketh it not into our hearts.
Now, after that the king had burnt the book, and the sermons which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah: The word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying,
Yea, verily, I will declare thy goodness and thy works, but they shall not profit thee.
They that have broken thee down, shall make haste to build thee up again: and they that made thee waste, shall dwell in thee.
And the multitude of all nations that fight against Ariel shall be as a dream seen by night; even so shall all they be that make war against it, and strongholds to overcome it.
Whoso keepeth evil will secretly, to do hurt, his malice shall be showed before the whole congregation.
The waves of the sea are mighty, and rage horribly; but yet the LORD that dwelleth on high is mightier.
O praise the LORD, for the LORD is gracious; O sing praises unto his name, for it is lovely.
So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah,
In the time of my trouble I sought the LORD, I held up mine hands to him in the night season, for my soul refused all other comfort.
O God, wonderful art thou in thy holy places, even the God of Israel; he will give strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.
from the habitation of his dwelling, he considereth all them that dwell on the earth.
And the other sent messengers to him, saying, "What have I to do with thee, thou king of Judah? I came not against thee now at this time, but against a house with whom I have war, and God bade me haste. Leave off therefore and meddle not with God, which is with me, lest he destroy thee."
"And tomorrow ye shall go down to them: see, they come up at Ziz, and ye shall meet them in the flags of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel.
And in like manner, unto the door of the temple, he made posts of olive tree four square,
I will go forth in the strength of the LORD God, and will make mention of thy righteousness only.
And they cried with a loud voice in the Jewish language, unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the walls, to fear them and to dismay them, that they might have taken the city.
When the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice and spake to Saul, saying, "Why hast thou mocked me? For thou art Saul."
Shall it be told him what I say? Should a man speak, or should he keep it back?
The sons of Jether, Jephunneh, Pispah, and Ara.
Shema begat Raham, the father of Jorkeam. And Rekem begat Shammai.
Now, therefore, up by night, both thou and all the people that is with thee, and lie in wait in the fields.
And men shall say, 'Because they left the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
And that cloth shall be burnt, either warp or woof, whether it be woolen or linen or anything that is made of skin wherein the plague is, for it is a fretting leprosy, and shall be burnt in the fire.
And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians sold every man his land because the dearth was sore upon them: and so the land became Pharaoh's.
and for peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats and five lambs of one year old. And this was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.
Likewise, the seven thin and evil favored cows that came out after them, are seven years: and the seven empty and blasted ears shall be seven years of hunger.
And he made all the vessels of the altar: the cauldrons, shovels, basins, fleshhooks and coalpans all of brass.
which the LORD commanded Moses in the mount of Sinai, in the day when he commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings unto the LORD in the wilderness of Sinai.
And yet two other rings of gold thou shalt make, and put them on the two sides of the ephod, beneath over against the breastlap, below where the sides are joined together upon the broidered girdle of the ephod.
And Israel said, "I have enough, if Joseph my son be yet alive: I will go and see him, yer that I die."
and hast not suffered me to kiss my children and my daughters? Thou wast a fool to do it,
And Pharaoh asked Jacob, "How old art thou?"
and said, "If Esau come to the one part and smite it, the other may save itself."
The length of the porch was twenty cubits, the breadth eleven cubits, and upon steps went men up to it: by the walls also were pillars, on either side one.
For thus sayeth the LORD God: Insomuch as thou hast clapped with thine hands, and stamped with thy feet; yea, rejoiced in thine heart over the land of Israel with despite;
and say unto it, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, O thou mount Seir, I will upon thee; I will reach out mine hand over thee. Yea, waste and desolate will I make thee.
{Tsadi} Mine enemies hunted me out sharply, like a bird; yea, and that without a cause.
We have been dissemblers, and have offended; will thou therefore not be intreated?
Therefore shall their mourning be made for Moab, and every man shall cry for Moab's sake: a lamentation shall be made to the men that stand upon the wall.
And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, like as Israel was ashamed of Bethel, wherein she put her trust.
"Thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, there shall waters arise out of the North: And shall grow to a great flood, running over and covering the land, the cities, and them that dwell therein. And the men shall cry, and all they that dwell in the land
Behold, I loose the binds from thy hands this day: if thou wilt now go with me unto Babylon, up then. For I will see to thee, and provide for thee: But if thou wilt not go with me to Babylon, then remain here. Behold, all the land is at thy will, look where thou thinkest convenient and good for thee to abide, there dwell.
when the Chaldeans come to besiege them: and they shall be filled with the dead carcasses of men, whom I will slay in my wrath and displeasure: when I turn my face from this city, because of all her wickedness.
Moreover, all the substance of this land, all their precious and gorgeous works, all costliness, and all the treasure of the kings of Judah, will I give into the hands of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and carry them unto Babylon.
Wherein take ye your pleasure? Upon whom gape ye with your mouth, and blear out your tongue? Are ye not children of adultery, and a seed of dissimulation?
Therefore thus said the LORD, 'Behold, I shall deliver this city into the power of the Chaldeans, and into the power of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon: they shall take it in.
Yet sayest thou unto me, O LORD God, and commandest me that I shall loose a piece of land unto myself, and take witness thereto: and yet in the mean season the city is delivered into the power of the Chaldeans.'
until I went into the Sanctuary of God. Then understood I the end of these men.
They imagine craftily against thy people, and take counsel against thy secret ones.
It is time for thee, O LORD, to lay to thine hand; for they have destroyed thy law.
Thou hast had trouble for the multitude of thine own ways, yet saidest thou never, "I will leave off." Thou thinkest to have life of thyself, and therefore thou believest not that thou art sick.
Then shall the earth bring forth her increase; and God, even our own God, shall give us his blessing.
The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved; but God hath showed his voice, and the earth shall melt away.
And the children of Israel and Judah that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithes of oxen and sheep, and tithes of dedicated things which were dedicated to the LORD their God, and put them on heaps.
And the priests and the Levites arose and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer went up unto his holy dwelling place heaven.
The children of Bakbuk, the children of Hakupha, the children of Harhur;
And because there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: and therefore did the Levites slay Passover for all that were not clean to sanctify them to the LORD.
The twelfth Captain in the twelfth month, was Heldai the Netophathite of Othniel, and in his host twenty four thousand.
and under the hands of them was the army of the host, three hundred and seven thousand, and five hundred that made war with might and strength, to help the king against his enemies.
And when the children of Ammon saw that the Syrians were fled, they ran away likewise, from Abishai his brother and gat them into the city. And Joab came to Jerusalem.
And the children of Ammon came out and put them in array to battle before the gate of the city. And the kings that were come kept them by themselves in the field.
The sons of Japhlet: Pasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.
hear thou their prayers and supplications, up to heaven, and judge their cause.
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem and Netophathi, that were the glory of the house of Joab, and half the Manathites and of the Zorites.
Then said Saul, "Let the people come hither out of all quarters, and know and see, in whom this sin is chanced this day:
And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, "For the king is near of kin to us: wherefore be ye angry for that matter? Think ye that we eat of the king's cost, or that the king giveth us any gifts?"
And Saul said to David, "Blessed art thou, my son David: for thou shalt be a doer and prevail." And so David went his way, and Saul turned to his place again.
And one he-goat for a sin offering, beside the sin offering of atonement and the daily burnt offering, and the meat and drink offerings that long to the same.
And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine unto one bullock, and the third part of a hin of wine unto a ram and the fourth part of a hin unto a lamb. This is the burnt offering of every month throughout all the months of the year:
And they went up even unto the river of Eshcol and saw the land, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the kindreds of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher, out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the other half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
and cleanse the house with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cypress wood, and the hyssop, and the purple cloth.
and in the tribe of the sons of Asher, the lord Ahihud the son of Shelomi;
and for thy cattle and for the beasts that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat.
and two golden rings on either side, even under the crown, to put staves therein for to bear it withal.
And bring his sons and put albes upon them,
And they made coats of bysse of woven work for Aaron and his sons,
Then was it said unto Jacob, "Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee." And Israel took his strength unto him, and sat up on the bed,
So I took the evidence with the copy, when it was orderly sealed and read over,
Upon the borders of Gad southward, the coasts shall reach from Tamar forth unto the waters of strife to Kadesh, and to the flood, even to the main sea.
Therefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, I will upon Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and bruise his strong arm - yet is it but a broken one - and will smite the sword out of his hand.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD: Behold, I will defend thy cause, and avenge thee: I will drink up her sea, and dry up her water springs.
which giveth fodder unto the cattle, and feedeth the young ravens that call upon him.
Get you hence, turn your backs, creep down into the deep, O ye citizens of Dedan. For I will bring destruction upon Esau; yea, and the day of his visitation.
Then are the hills seen aloft, and the valleys beneath - in their place which thou hast appointed for them.
Thou hast done great tokens and wonders in the land of Egypt, as we see this day upon the people of Israel and upon those men: to make thy name great as it is come to pass this day.
all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, all the kings of the Medes;
We roar all like Bears, and mourn still like doves. We look for equity, but there is none; for health, but it is far from us.
Behold, I will raise up a wind against him, and he shall hear a rumor; and as soon as he heareth it, he shall go again into his country. There will I destroy him with the sword.'"
who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; who keepeth his promise forever;
and his heart shall delight in the fear of God. What shall then become of the scribe? Of the receiver of our money? What of him that taxed our fair houses?
O take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth, for my hope is in thy judgments.
With trumpets also and shophars: O show yourselves joyful before the LORD the King.
Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among such as call upon his name: these called upon the LORD, and he heard them.
O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth forever.
And they cut off his head and stripped him out of his harness, and sent unto the land of the Philistines everywhere, to publish in the houses of their gods and to the people.
Thy God hath committed strength unto thee; establish the thing, O God, that thou hast wrought in us,
O spare me a little that I may recover my strength, before I go hence, and be no more seen."
And all the men of activity to the number of seven thousand, and craftsmen and joiners a thousand, all strong and apt for war, did the king of Babylon bring to Babylon to dwell.
Azariah begat Helez. Helez begat Eleasah.
It is not good that thou hast done. As truly as the LORD liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have no better kept the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the cruse of water that were at his head."
Arab, Dumah, and Eshan;
which country the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle: and we thy servants have cattle.
These are the kindreds of Judah, in number seventy six thousand and five hundred.
yea and whether it be in the warp or woof of the linen or of the woolen: either in a skin or any thing made of skin,
And they departed from Rimmonperez, and pitched in Libnah.
The first fruits of all that is in their lands which they bring unto the LORD, shall be thine: and all that are clean in thine house, shall eat of it.
And ye shall eat it in the most holy place: all that are males shall eat of it, for it shall be holy unto thee.
but let me lie by my fathers, and carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their burial." And he answered, "I will do as thou hast said."
And they made little bells of pure gold, and put them among the pomegranates round about upon the edge of the tunicle, a bell and a pomegranate,
I will feed them in right good pastures, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their folds be. There shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed: even upon the mountains of Israel.
And they departed from Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father, and told him, saying,
And when we came unto thy servant our father, we showed him what my lord had said.
Reuben answered his father, saying, "Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee again. Deliver him therefore to my hand, and I will bring him to thee again."
"Now when they go in at the doors of the innermore court: they shall put on linen clothes, so that no woolen come upon them, while they do service under the doors of the innermore court, and within.
But her brother and her mother said, "Let the damsel abide with us a while, and it be but even ten days, and then go thy ways."
The children of Dishan were: Uz and Aran.
so that in forty years there shall no foot of man walk there, neither foot of cattle go there, neither shall it be inhabited.
But since we left off to offer and to do sacrifice unto the Queen of heaven, we have had scarceness of all things, and perish with the sword and hunger.
Or, what hath this city been else, but a provoking of my wrath, ever since the day that I builded it, unto this hour? Wherein I cast it out of my sight,
As for your riches and treasure, I will give them out into a prey; not for any money, but because of all your sins, that ye have done in all your coasts.
And we are become even as we were from the beginning: but thou art not their LORD, for they have not called upon thy name.
There are the cords so laid abroad, that they cannot be better; The mast set up of such a fashion, that no banner nor sail hangeth thereon; but there is dealt great spoil: yea, lame men run after the prey;
Be ashamed, thou Sidon, for the sea - even the strength of the sea - hath spoken, saying: "I have not traveled, nor brought forth children, nor nourished up young men, or brought up virgins."
So that they which go by, say not so much as, "the LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD."
The LORD is mindful of us, and blesseth us - he blesseth the house of Israel; he blesseth the house of Aaron;
Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it, let all the trees of the wood leap for joy before the LORD, {TYNDALE: And let the fields rejoice and all that is therein. Moreover, let the trees of the wood ring at the presence of the LORD:}
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust, and let them follow their own imaginations.
Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."
Thou shalt be feared as long as the sun and moon endureth, from one generation to another.
Take me out of the mire, that I sink not; Oh let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
He gathereth the waters of the sea together, as it were upon a heap, and layeth up the deep, as in a treasure-house.
O pluck me not away, neither destroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers, which speak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.
And we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, and the LORD heard our voice and looked on our adversity, labour and oppression.
And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entering of the gate of the city. And Abimelech rose up and the folk that were with him, from lying await.
And the LORD your God shall expel and cast them out before you, and ye shall conquer their lands, as the LORD your God hath said unto you.
Anab, Eshtemoh, and Anim;
For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave the people in the wilderness: so shall ye destroy all this folk."
And from Ekron out to the sea, all that lieth about Ashdod with their villages.
And thou shalt make fifty buttons of brass and put them on the loops, and couple the tent together withal: that there may be one tabernacle.
These are the numbers of the children of Israel: six hundred thousand, and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
And his brethren came and fell before him and said, "Behold we be thy servants."
And he set the laver between the tabernacle of witness and the altar, and poured water therein to wash with all.
They of Arvad were with thine host round about thy walls, and were thy watchmen upon thy towers, these hanged up their shields round about thy walls, and made thee marvelous goodly.
So shall the wall come down. Shall it not then be said unto you, 'Where is now the mortar, that ye daubed it withal?'
and set my face against them: they shall go out from the fire, and yet the fire shall consume them. Then shall ye know that I am the LORD: when I set my face against them,
As for Rabbah, I will make of it a stall for camels, and of Ammon a sheepfold: and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
For their inhabiters shall be like lame men, brought in fear and confounded. They shall be like the grass and green herbs in the field, like the hay upon housetops, that withereth afore it be grown up.
I will smite my hands together also and satisfy my wrathful indignation: Even I the LORD have said it."
then will I also cast away the seed of David my servant: so that I will take no prince out of his seed, to rule the posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But yet I will turn again their captivity, and be merciful unto them."
For I am perfectly informed of the LORD, that he hath sent a message already unto the Heathen. Gather you together, and go forth against them: make you ready to the battle,
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Ye and your wives have spoken with your own mouth, the thing that ye have fulfilled in deed. Yea, thus have ye said, 'We will not fail, but do the thing that pleaseth us: we will do sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the Queen of heaven.' Purposely have ye set up your own good meanings, and hastily have ye fulfilled your own intent.
But when I consider, there is not one among them that prophesieth; neither, when I ask him, that answereth one word.
So when they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, he delivereth them out of their distress.
There shall I make the horn of David to flourish; I have ordained a lantern for mine anointed.
Thou art my God, and I will thank thee; thou art my God, and I will praise thee.
Let not them that trust in thee, O LORD God of hosts, be ashamed for my cause; let not those that seek thee, be confounded through me, O LORD God of Israel.
For the greatness of thy mercy reacheth unto the heavens, and thy faithfulness unto the clouds.
They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.
I will remember thy name from one generation to another; therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end.
And David said furthermore, "As sure as the LORD liveth, the LORD shall smite him, or his day shall come to die, or he shall descend into battle and there perish:
for fear of giving unto any of them of the flesh of his children, which he eateth, because he hath nought left him in that straitness and siege wherewith thine enemy shall besiege thee in all thy cities.
Arise, LORD, disappoint him, and cast him down; deliver my soul with thy sword from the ungodly -
The thirteenth to Shubael with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the towns that pertained to it, and all the souls that were therein, so that they left nought remaining: but in all things as they did to Eglon, so they destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.
and said, "O LORD God of Israel, why is this chanced in Israel, that there should be this day one tribe lacking in Israel?"
And thou shalt make likewise upon the breastlap two rings of gold and put them on the edges of the breastlap,
And all the vessels of the habitation to all manner service and the pins thereof; yea and the pins also of the court; shall be brass.
Now when the prince bringeth a burnt offering or a health offering with a free will unto the LORD, the East door shall be opened unto him, that he may do with his burnt and health offerings, as he doth upon the Sabbath, and when he goeth forth, the door shall be shut after him again.
And he commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau my brother meeteth thee and asketh thee, saying, 'whose servant art thou and whither goest thou, and whose are these that go before thee?'
His sight to look upon was like the first, that I saw, when I went in, what time as the city should have been destroyed: and like the vision that I saw by the water of Chebar. Then fell I upon my face,
And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, "What is your occupation?" And they said unto Pharaoh, "Feeders of sheep are thy servants, both we and also our fathers."
I will cast thee out upon the dry land with the fish of thy waters, so that thou shalt lie upon the field. Thou shalt not be gathered nor taken up: but shall be meat for the beasts of the field, and for the fowls of the air:
behold, I will bring enemies upon thee, even the tyrants of the Heathen. These shall draw out their swords upon thy beauty and wisdom, and shall defile thy glory.
For thus sayeth the LORD God: when I make thee a desolate city, as other cities be, that no man dwell in, and when I bring the deep upon thee, that great waters may cover thee:
The heathen heard of him, and took him in their nets, and brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.
And misery shall come upon the plain land: Namely, upon Holon, and Jahzah, upon Mephaath
Then said the LORD unto me, "What seest thou Jeremiah?" I said, "Figs, whereof some be very good, and some so evil that no man may eat them."
of whom they were afraid, because that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah Ahikam's son, whom the king of Babylon had made governor in the land.
Why makest thou moan for thy harm? I myself have pity of thy sorrow; but for the multitude of thy misdeeds and sins I have done this unto thee.
For of the children that are born in this place, of their mothers that have borne them, and of their fathers that have begotten them in this land, thus sayeth the LORD:
I spake within myself, 'I shall never visit the LORD God in this life: I shall never see man among the dwellers of the world.
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?'"
Through thee will we overthrow our enemies, and in thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,
And now behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, by which thou wouldest not let Israel go, when they came out of Egypt: but they departed from them and destroyed them not.
the son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,
Then David said unto him, "To whom belongest thou and whence art thou?" And the lad answered, "I am an Egyptian and servant to an Amalekite: and my master left me behind, because it is three days a gone that I fell sick.
and king Solomon be blessed, and the fear of the LORD be established before the LORD forever."
And the king sent and called Shimei and said unto him, "Did I not adjure thee by the LORD, and testified unto thee saying, 'Be sure whensoever thou goest out and walkest abroad any whither, thou shalt die for it?' And thou answeredst me, 'It is good tidings that I have heard.'
Then answered all the wicked and the unthrifty of the men that went with David, and said, "Because they went not with us, therefore shall none of the prey that we have recovered be given unto them, save to every man his wife and his children: which let them carry away and be walking."
Then Saul knew David's voice and said, "Is this thy voice, my son David?" And David said, "It is my voice, my lord king."
ask thy lads, and they will show thee. Wherefore let these young men find favour in thine eyes - for we come in a good season - and give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants and to thine son David."
if the blood avenger find him without the borders of his free town, he shall slay the murderer and be guiltless,
So that all that were slain that same day of Benjamin were twenty five thousand men that drew swords, and all men of might.
and Benjamin came again at that time, and they gave them the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead. But they so sufficed them not.
When ye be come, ye shall come unto a people that casteth no perils, and unto a large country: for God hath given into your hands a place wherein is no lack of anything that is in the world."
which is a daily offering ordained in the mount Sinai unto a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the LORD.
I will send my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years:
and in the tribe of the sons of Zebulon, the lord Elizaphan the son of Parnach;
and they departed from Tahath and pitched at Tarah.
and thou shalt overlay it with fine gold both the roof and the walls round about, and his horns also, and shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about,
Say thou these words unto them, 'Thus sayeth the LORD God: As truly as I live, all ye that dwell in this wilderness, shall be slain with the sword. Whatsoever is upon the field, will I give unto the beasts to be devoured: those that be in strongholds and dens, shall die of the pestilence.
And he put the golden altar in the tabernacle of witness before the veil,
And he put the table in the tabernacle of witness in the north side of the habitation without the veil,
When Joseph came home, they brought the present into the house to him, which they had in their hands, and fell flat on the ground before him.
Prophesy therefore upon the land of Israel, speak unto the mountains and hills, to valleys and dales; thus sayeth the LORD God: Behold, this have I devised in my jealousy and terrible wrath. Forsomuch as ye have suffered reproof of the Heathen,
"The lord of the land spake roughly to us, and took us for spies to search the country.
Like as the silver is melted in the fire, so shall ye also be melted therein: that ye may know, how that I the LORD have poured my wrath upon you."
Jacob answered, and said to Laban, "Because I was afraid, and thought that thou wouldest have taken away thy daughters from me.
I will put a hook in thy jaws, and hang all the fish in thy waters upon thy scales; after that I will draw thee out of thy waters, yea, and all the fish of the waters that hang upon thy scales.
As soon as he letteth his voice be heard, the waters in the air wax fierce: He draweth up the clouds from the ends of the earth. He turneth the lightnings to rain, he bringeth the winds out of their secret places.
The LORD of Hosts hath sworn by himself that he will overwhelm thee with men, like grasshoppers in number, which with courage shall cry 'Alarum, Alarum' against thee.
As for Israel and Judah, they shall not be forsaken of their God, of the LORD of Hosts, of the holy one of Israel: no, though they have filled all their land full of sin.
Moreover Idumaea shall be a wilderness: whoso goeth by it, shall be abashed, and wonder at all her miserable plagues.
Flee, get you soon away, creep into caves, that ye may dwell there, O ye inhabiters of Hazor, sayeth the LORD. For Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath holden a counsel concerning you, and concluded his device against you.
The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats, and so are the stony rocks for the conies.
'The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, commandeth thee to take this sealed evidence with the copy, and to lay it in an earthen vessel, that it may long continue.
so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.
When he slew them, they sought him, and turned them early, and inquired after God.
Behold, I dwell at Mizphah to be an officer on the Chaldeans' behalf, and to satisfy such as come to us. Therefore gather you wine, corn and oil, and keep them in your warehouses, and dwell in your cities that ye have in keeping."
It cometh on fast, it maketh haste to appear: It shall not perish, that it should not be able to destroy, neither shall it fail for fault of nourishing.
O consider this, ye that forget God, lest I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.
Thou heardest them, O LORD our God; thou forgavest them, O God, and punished their own inventions.
And David smote the land and left neither man nor woman alive, and took the sheep, the oxen, the asses, camels, and clothes, and removed and came to Achish.
Ira the Ithrite and Gareb an Ithrite;
Zelek an Ammonite and Naharai a Beerothite, the bearer of the Harness of Joab the son of Zeruiah;
Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah and Mikloth. And Mikloth begat Shimeam.
Dannah, and Kiriathsannah, which is Debir;
If he be not bought free in the meantime, then he shall go out in the trumpet year and his children with him;
Cabbon, Lahmam, and Chitlish;
"'If he that sanctified the field will redeem it again, let him put the fifth part of the price that it was set at thereunto,
And they removed from Makheloth, and lay at Tahath,
Wherefore," said they, "if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants to possess, and bring us not over Jordan."
And on the west side, were hangings of fifty cubits long, and ten pillars with their ten sockets, and the knops and the hoops of the pillars were silver.
and the brazen altar, and the gridiron of brass longing thereunto with his bars and all his vessels, and the laver with his foot,
And Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
And Judah sent the kid by his neighbour of Adullam, for to fetch out his pledge again from the woman. But he found her not.
and made the vessels that were on the table of pure gold; the dishes, spoons, flat pieces and pots to pour withal.
And when they were out of the city and not yet far away, Joseph said unto the ruler of his house, "Up, and follow after the men and overtake them, and say unto them, 'Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?
And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears. And I have told it unto the soothsayers, but no man can tell me what it meaneth."
And as he declared them unto us, even so it came to pass. I was restored to mine office again, and he was hanged."
and occupied with thee: In costly raiment of yellow silk and needle work - very precious, and therefore packed and bound together with ropes - Yea and in Cedar wood, at the time of thy markets.
Only in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that all the men children among you be circumcised,
And Shechem said unto her father and her brethren, "Let me find grace in your eyes, and whatsoever ye appoint me, that will I give.
And then they ate and drank, both he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night and rose up in the morning. And he said, "Let me depart unto my master."
Thus wide shall the city reach: upon the north part, five hundred and four thousand measures.
The chief Captain took also the two pillars, the laver, and the twelve brazen bullocks that stood under the seat, which king Solomon made in the house of the LORD: and all the vessel contained so much metal, that it might not be weighed.
and take the blood of him and sprinkle his four horns withal and the four corners of the altar covering, with the ledge that goeth round about: herewith shalt thou cleanse it, and reconcile it.
Behold, there shall come a people from the North, with a great bound of men, and many kings shall stand up from the ends of the earth.
Behold, I speak unto thee, O thou proud, sayeth the LORD God of Hosts: for thy day shall come, even the time of thy visitation.
but shalt die in peace. Like as thy forefathers the kings, thy progenitors, were burnt: so shalt thou be burnt also, and in the mourning they shall say, 'Oh, lord.' For thus have I determined, sayeth the LORD.'"
The chief Captain called for Jeremiah, and said unto him, "The LORD thy God spake mightily before of the misery upon this place:
So Jeremiah abode still in the fore entry of the prison, until the day that Jerusalem was won.
Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts: It shall come yet thereto, that in this land, which is void from men and cattle, and in all the cities of the land, there shall be set up shepherd's cottages:
And ye that stir up the remembrance of the Lord, see that ye pause not, neither let him have rest until he have prepared and made Jerusalem glorious in the earth.
For seeing the children of Israel, and the children of Judah have wrought wickedness before me ever from their youth up, what have they else done, but provoked me with the works of their own hands, sayeth the LORD?
Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.
and with that said Hananiah, that all the people might hear, "Thus hath the LORD spoken: Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, from the neck of all nations; yea, and that within this two years." And so the prophet Jeremiah went his way.
I thought I would have lived unto the morrow, but he bruised my bones like a lion, and made an end of me in one day.
Like as the children of Ephraim, which being harnessed and carrying bows, turned themselves back in the time of battle:
and hast shut me up into the hand of the enemy; but hast set my feet in a large room.
that they stood and waited upon the office of their God, and the office of the purification. And the singers and porters stood after the commandment of David and of Solomon his son:
"Go and tell David saying, 'Thus sayeth the LORD: I give thee the choice of three things: choose thee one of them, that I may do unto thee.'"
Aijalon with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs.
The sons of Nadab: Seled and Appaim. But Seled died without children.
Achish answered and said to David, "I know well thou pleasest me, as it were an angel of God. Notwithstanding, the lords of the Philistines have said that thou shalt not go with them to battle.
And the people had compassion on Benjamin, because that God had made a gap in the tribes of Israel.
and will go all of you in harness over Jordan before the LORD, until he have cast out his enemies before him,
And Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient heads of the tribes of the children of Israel,
the ministering garments to minister within holiness, and the holy vestments of Aaron the priest and the vestments of his sons to minister in."
and the altar of burnt offerings with all his vessels, and the laver with his foot,
And he put the candlestick in the tabernacle of witness over against the table in the south side of the habitation,
And Israel said unto Joseph, "I had not thought to have seen thy face, and yet lo, God hath showed it me and also thy seed."
Wherefore lettest thou us die before thine eyes, and the land to go to nought? Buy us and our lands for bread: and let both us and our lands be bond to Pharaoh. Give us seed, that we may live and not die, and that the land go not to waste."
And he lift up his eyes and beheld his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, "Is this your youngest brother of whom ye said unto me?" And said, "God be merciful unto thee my son."
And he said unto his brethren, "My money is restored me again, and is even in my sack's mouth." Then their hearts failed them, and were astonished and said one to another, "How cometh it that God dealeth thus with us?"
When they were brought to Joseph's house, they were afraid, and said, "Because of the money that came in our sacks' mouths at the first time, are we brought, to pick a quarrel with us and to lay something to our charge: to bring us in bondage and our asses also."
And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had happened them, saying,
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among other that came, for there was dearth also in the land of Canaan.
And there was with us a young man, an Hebrew-born servant unto the chief marshal. And we told him, and he declared our dreams to us according to either of our dreams.
But in the latter bucking time, he put them not there: so the last brood was Laban's and the first Jacob's.
and went again unto his brethren, saying, "The lad is not yonder, and whither shall I go?"
Wherefore I poured my wrathful displeasure upon them, because of the blood that they had shed in the land, and because of their Idols, wherewith they had defiled themselves.
So fair and goodly had I made him with the multitude of his branches: Insomuch that all the trees in the pleasant garden of God, had envy at him.
'When seven years are out, every man shall let his bought servant, a Hebrew go free, if he have served him six years.' But your fathers obeyed me not and hearkened not unto me.
The other five thousand after the breadth that lieth by the twenty five thousand shall be common: it shall belong to the city and to the suburbs for habitations, and the city shall stand in the midst thereof.
The land also shall shake and be afraid, when the device of the LORD shall come forth against Babylon: to make the land of Babylon so waste that no man shall dwell any more therein.
But how can it cease, when the LORD himself hath given him a charge against Ashkelon, and raised it up against the cities of the sea coast?"
As for you, ye were now turned, and did right before me, in that ye proclaimed, every man to let his neighbour go free, and in that ye made a covenant before me, in the temple that beareth my name.
The terrible displeasure of the LORD shall not leave off, until he have done and performed the intent of his heart, which in the latter days ye shall understand.
and that because they have not been obedient unto my commandments, sayeth the LORD; which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets. I stood up early, and sent unto them, but they would not hear, sayeth the LORD.
Be not too sore displeased, O LORD, and keep not our offenses too long in thy remembrance: but consider that we all are thy people.
and cast their gods in the fire. Notwithstanding, those were no gods; but the works of men's hands, of wood or stone, therefore have they destroyed them.
the Edomites, the Moabites, and the Ammonites;
Hear therefore the word of the LORD, all ye prisoners, whom I sent from Jerusalem unto Babylon.
Lebanon is not sufficient to minister fire for his offering, and all the beasts thereof are not enough to one sacrifice.
that they also might put their trust in God, and not to forget what he had done, but to keep his commandments.
They that sit in the gate speak against me, and the drunkards make songs upon me.
They were all ashamed of the people that could do them no good, and that might not help them, nor show them any profit - but were their confusion and rebuke."
Behold, the LORD shall carry thee away into captivity, and shall surely cover thee with confusion.
Therefore do I cry unto thee, O LORD, and say, "Thou art my hope and my portion in the land of the living!"
The righteous shall rejoice in the LORD, and put his trust in him; and all they that are true of heart, shall be glad.
Thou hast showed thy people heavy things; thou hast given us a drink of deadly wine.
My heart panteth, my strength hath failed me, and the light of mine eyes is gone from me.
And as for my tongue, it shall be talking of thy righteousness and of thy praise, all the day long.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD: of which the LORD hath said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
In the morning thou shalt say, 'Would God it were night.' And at night thou shalt say, 'Would God it were morning' - for fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
And Ner begat Kish, and Kish, Saul. And Saul begat Jonathan, Malchishua, Abinadab and Eshbaal.
And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kadesh in Galilee with her suburbs, Hammon with her suburbs, and Kiriathjearim with her suburbs.
But there was a strong tower in the midst of the city, and thither ran all the men and women and all the citizens of the city and shut it to them, and got them up upon the top of the tower.
And unto the sons of Merari were given by lot among their kindreds and out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
And David's young men came and told Nabal all those words in the name of David and then stopped.
And they found fat pasture and good and a wide land both quiet and fruitful: for they of Ham dwelt there before.
And Meshobab, Jamlech, Joshah the son of Amaziah,
And then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the host to Gilgal.
And the children of Gad and Ruben answered, saying, "That which the LORD hath said unto thy servants we will do.
And one he-goat unto a sin offering, beside the daily burnt offering with his meat and drink offerings.
the tabernacle of witness, and the ark of witness, and the mercy seat that is there upon, all the ornaments of the tabernacle,
And restored the chief butler unto his butlership again, and he reached the cup into Pharaoh's hand,
And Jacob went and fetched them and brought them to his mother. And his mother made meat of them, according as his father loved.
And they took their cattle and the goods which they had gotten in the land of Canaan, and came into Egypt: both Jacob and all his seed with him;
"'Thy mariners were ever bringing unto thee out of many waters. But the east wind shall overbear thee into the midst of the sea:
And so commanded he the second, and even so the third, and likewise all that followed the droves, saying, "Of this manner see that ye speak unto Esau when ye meet him,
For I will send pestilence and blood shedding into her streets, so that those which be slain with the sword shall lie round about in the midst of her: and they shall know, that I am the LORD.
Ye harness your horses, and set yourselves upon them. Ye set your helmets fast on, ye bring forth your spears. Ye scour your swords, and put on your breastplates.
When this cometh to pass - for lo, it cometh indeed - then shall they know that there hath been a prophet among them."
I will send also into Babylon fanners, to fan her out, and to destroy her land: for in the day of her trouble they shall be about her on every side.
So the king sent Jehudi to fetch him the book, which he brought out of Elishama the Scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it, that the king and all the princes, which were about him might hear.
If there be no water, I will grave and drink. And as for waters of defense, I shall dry them up with the feet of mine Host.
For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: Like as my wrath and indignation is come upon the inhabiters of Jerusalem, so shall my displeasure go forth upon you also, if ye go into Egypt: For there ye shall be reviled, abhorred, brought to shame and confusion: and as for this place, ye shall never see it more.
But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah fled from Johanan with eight of his sworn companions, and went to the Ammonites.
Which bringeth forth the chariots and horses, the host and the power, that they may fall asleep and never rise, and be extinct, like as towe is quenched:
Incline thine ear LORD, and consider, open thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and ponder all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent his embassage to blaspheme the living God.
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not fail, but have one out of his stock, to stand always before me."
no, though thou wouldest offer him great gifts to make amends, he will not receive them.
So he said he would have destroyed them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in that gap; to turn away his wrathful indignation, lest he should destroy them.
that they may show how true the LORD my strength is, and that there is no unrighteousness in him.
For he considered that they were but flesh; even a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,
And all the vessels of the house of God both great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king and his lords he carried to Babylon, every whit.
the earth shook, and the heavens dropped at the presence of God, even as Sinai also was moved at the presence of God, who is the God of Israel.
For lo, thine enemies make a murmuring; and they that hate thee, lift up their head.
I will dwell in thy tabernacle forever and my trust shall be under the covering of thy wings. Selah.
The children of Lebanah, the children of Hagabah, the children of Shalmai,
Eliel a Mahavite, and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam and Ithmah a Moabite;
And she bare also Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, and Sheva the father of Machbenah and the father of Gibea. And Caleb had a daughter called Achsah.
And the king said unto his servants, "Know ye not, how that there is a lord, and that a great, fallen this day in Israel?
And David said unto Achish, "If I have found grace in thine eyes, let me have a place in some town in the fields, that I may dwell there. For what should thy servant dwell in the head city of the kingdom with thee?"
and of Arod cometh the kindred of the Arodites: and of Areli cometh the kindred of the Arelites.
and every man with whom was found jacinth, scarlet, purple, bysse or goats' hair or red skins of rams or taxus' skins, brought it.
and let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up corn under the power of Pharaoh: that there may be food in the cities,
And all the people cut down also every man a bough, and followed Abimelech, and put them into the hold, and set the hold a fire upon them: so that all the men of the tower of Shechem were slain, upon a thousand persons what of men and women together.
These are the kindreds of the Reubenites, which were in number forty three thousand seven hundred and thirty.
And Balaam said unto Balak, "Told I not thy messengers which thou sentest unto me, saying,
The fourth row: a Turquoise, an Onyx and a Jasper - closed in ouches of gold in their enclosures.
The eleventh day, Pagiel, the son of Ochran, the chief lord among the children of Asher offered.
And the number of them in their kindreds, and in the houses of their fathers, was two thousand, six hundred and thirty.
"Then take one of the rams, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands upon the head of the ram,
five curtains shall be coupled together one to another: and the other five likewise shall be coupled together one to another.
And the two ends of the two chains thou shalt fasten in the two rings, and put them upon the shoulders of the ephod: on the foreside of it.
And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dina, his daughter, but his sons were with the cattle in the field: and therefore he held his peace, until they were come.
And she told him according to these words, saying, "This Hebrews' servant which thou hast brought unto us came in to me to do me shame.
And all their goods, all their children and their wives took they captive, and made havoc of all that was in the houses.
Behold Rebekah before thy face: take her and go, and let her be thy master's son's wife, even as the LORD hath said."
Then he took his brethren with him and followed after him seven days' journey, and overtook him at the mount Gilead.
"'Behold, it cometh, and shall be fulfilled indeed, sayeth the LORD God: This is the day whereof I have spoken.
Nevertheless it was planted upon a good ground beside great waters: so that by reason it should have brought out branches and fruit, and have been a goodly vine.'
For thus sayeth the LORD God: The king of Babylon's sword shall come upon thee;
I will dry up their floods of water, and sell the land into the hands of wicked people. The land and all that is therein, will I destroy through the enemies. Even I the LORD have said it.
At that time shall their messengers go forth from me in ships, to make the careless Ethiopians afraid, and sorrow shall come upon them in the day of Egypt for doubtless it shall come.
Thy flesh will I cast upon the hills, and fill the valleys with thy highness.
Yea, the land of Egypt shall be desolate and waste, and they shall know that I am the LORD: Because he said, 'The water is mine, I myself have made it.'
Seeing then, that it was mete for no work, being whole: much less may there anything be made of it, when the fire hath consumed and burnt it.
Then said I, "O LORD, they will say of me, 'Tush, they are but fables that he telleth.'"
Among these eighty men there were ten, that said unto Ishmael, "Oh slay us not, for we have yet a great treasure in the field, of wheat, barley, oil and honey." So he spared them, and slew them not with their brethren.
and Dibon, upon Nebo, and the house of Diblathaim,
Zedekiah the king answered and said, "Lo, he is in your hands, for the king may deny you nothing."
For thus hath the LORD of Hosts spoken concerning the pillars, the laver, the seat and the residue of the ornaments that yet remain in this city,
Behold, there are bulwarks made now against the city, to take it: and it shall be won of the Chaldeans that besiege it with sword, with hunger and death. And look, what thou hast spoken, that same shall come upon them. For lo, all things are present unto thee:
And will put it in their hand that trouble thee: which have spoken to thy soul, "Stoop down, that we may go over thee: make thy body even with the ground, and as the street to go upon."
there shall no more wine be drunk with mirth, the beer shall be bitter to them that drink it;
Then said the LORD unto me:
Confounded be ye, and put to dishonour: go hence together with shame, all ye that be workmasters of error: that is, worshipers of Idols.
Moreover, they that dwell in the Isles shall say even the same day, 'Behold, thus are we regarded! Whither shall we fly for help, that we might be delivered from the king of the Assyrians? How will we escape?'"
For he looketh down from his sanctuary; out of the heaven doth the LORD behold the earth,
that they may be trodden under the feet of the simple, and with the steps of the poor.
The hills melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the LORD of the whole earth.
Though ye have lain among the sheep-folds, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove that is covered with silver wings, and her feathers like gold.
O God, according to thy name, so is thy praise unto the world's end: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,
But be thou merciful unto me, O LORD; raise thou me up, and I shall reward them.
The eighteenth to Hanani with his sons and brethren, twelve persons.
And Esther commanded to establish these acts of this Purim, and to write them in a book.
Jokmeam with her suburbs, Bethhoron with her suburbs,
And Shobal the father of Kiriathjearim had sons, even the half kindred of Menuhoth.
and cried to the people and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, "Answerest thou not Abner?" And Abner answered, and said, "What art thou that criest to the king?"
And David took all the sheep, and the oxen. And they drave the cattle before, and said, "This is David's prey."
but gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to come out in battle against the children of Israel.
And Moses gave that sum which was the LORD's heave offering unto Eleazar the priest: as the LORD commanded Moses.
and ye shall take it of their half and give it unto Eleazar the priest, a heave offering unto the LORD.
If it be an unclean beast, then let him redeem it as it is set at, and give the fifth part more thereto. If it be not redeemed, then let it be sold as it is rated.
Six branches proceeding out of the sides thereof, three out of the one side and three out of the other.
And Joseph made provision for his father, his brethren, and all his father's household, as young children are fed with bread.
And Abimelech called Abraham and said unto him, "What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou shouldest bring on me and on my kingdom so great a sin? Thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done."
As for the poor people and such folk as yet was left in the city, which also were fallen to the king of Babylon, yea, and what people as yet remained: Nebuzaradan the chief Captain carried them away prisoners.
and delivered them unto his servants, every drove by themselves, and said unto them, "Go forth before me, and put a space betwixt every drove."
Moreover, he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, caused him to be bound with chains, to be carried unto Babylon, and let him live in prison till he died.
Fill you at my table, with horses and strong horsemen: with captains and all men of war, sayeth the LORD God.'
that the house of Israel may know how that I am the LORD their God, from that day forth.
Now those that go through the land where they see a man's bone, they shall set up a token by it, till the dead buriers have buried it also, in the valley of the people of Gog.
Thus will I make the mount Seir desolate and waste, and bring to pass that there shall no man go thither, nor come from thence.
But now that Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon came up into the land, we said, 'Come, let us go to Jerusalem, that we may escape the host of the Chaldeans and the Assyrians: and so we dwell now at Jerusalem.'"
Jeremiah also spake unto the household of the Rechabites, "Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Forsomuch as ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath bidden you:
Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
For thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel: I will put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all this people, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, yea and so shall they do. And I will give him the beasts in the field.'"
And when all the people were gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, the princes of Judah heard of this rumor, and they came soon out of the king's Palace into the house of the LORD, and sat them down before the new door of the LORD.
And the prophet Jeremiah said, "Amen, the LORD do that, and grant the thing which thou hast prophesied: that he may bring again all the ornaments of the LORD's house, and restore all the prisoners from Babylon into this place.
and bid them say unto their masters, 'Thus sayeth the LORD of Hosts the God of Israel, speak thus unto your masters:
Our soul is escaped, even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler; the snare is broken and we are delivered.
And it happened, long after this, that the LORD spake unto me, "Up, and get thee to Euphrates, and fetch the breech from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there."
Thou waterest her furrows, thou breakest the hard clots thereof, thou makest it soft with the drops of rain, and blessest the increase of it.
Both these things are happened unto thee, but who is sorry for it? Yea, destruction, wasting, hunger and sword: but who hath comforted thee?
So then, this is the saying that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time.
when he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor destitute, and despiseth not their desire.
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
There shall no deceitful person dwell in my house; he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
Wherefore now let not Hezekiah deceive you, either persuade you of this fashion, nor yet believe him. For as no god among so many nations and kingdoms, was able to rid his people out of mine hand and the hands of my fathers: even so much less shall your God keep you out of mine hand!"
and that their children which know nothing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it."
Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.
four hundred and five and thirty camels, and six thousand, seven hundred and twenty asses.
The seventh captain in the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the children of Ephraim: and in his host twenty four thousand.
And certain of the Levites that had portions in Judah, dwelt in Benjamin.
But Aaron and his sons burnt upon the altar of burnt offerings and on the altar of cense, and were appointed unto all that was to do in the place most holy, and to make an atonement for Israel in all points according as Moses the servant of God had commanded.
The kindreds of Kiriathjearim were the Ithrites, the Puthites, the Shumathites, and the Mishrites. And of them came the Zorathites and the Eshtaolites.
And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a cloudy pillar, and the same cloudy pillar stood in the door of the tabernacle.
But thou shalt make the altar of the LORD thy God of rough stones and offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God.
And thus all the wickedness of Abimelech which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren,
Kiriathbaal, which is Kiriathjearim, and Harabbah: Two cities with their villages.
But remember that thou wast a servant in Egypt, and how the LORD thy God delivered thee thence. Wherefore I command thee to do this thing.
And so there shall be eight boards in all, and sixteen sockets of silver: two sockets under every board.
And they went from Horhaggidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
And Moses brought out all the staves from before the LORD, unto all the children of Israel, and they looked upon them, and took every man his staff.
And the brass of the wave offering was seventy hundred weight and two thousand, and four hundred sicles.
a cubit on the one side and a cubit on the other side, of that, that remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tabernacle, which shall remain of either side of the habitation to cover it withal.
and brought the ark into the habitation and hanged up the veil and covered the ark of witness, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the thousand seven hundred and seventy five sicles, made knops to the pillars and overlaid the heads and hooped them.
appoint what thy reward shall be, and I will give it thee."
These are the children of Esau, and these are the dukes of them: which Esau is called Edom.
And then take both these together in thine hand, so shall there be one stick thereof.
Part it indifferently unto one as unto another: of the which land I swore unto your fathers, that it should fall to your inheritance.
The prince also shall take none of the people's inheritance, nor put them from their possession: but to his own sons shall he give his possession, that my people be not scattered abroad, but that every man may have his own."
and said unto me, 'Mark well with thine eyes, hearken to with thine ears, and fasten it in thine heart, whatsoever I shall show thee - for, to the intent that they might be showed thee, therefore art thou brought hither. And whatsoever thou seest, thou shalt certify the house of Israel thereof.'
then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which suffered them to be led into captivity among the Heathen, but now have brought them again into their own land, and not left one of them yonder.
yea, ye shall have no vineyards: but for all your time ye shall dwell in tents, that ye may live long in the land, wherein ye be strangers.'
therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: I have sworn, that the Gentiles which lie about you shall bear your confusion themselves.
and gave Seraiah this charge, "When thou comest unto Babylon, see that thou read all these words,
Therefore, hear the word of the LORD God, O ye mountains of Israel. Thus sayeth the LORD God unto the mountains, and hills; valleys and dales; to the void wilderness and desolate cities, which are spoiled and had in derision on every side among the residue of the Heathen.
And in the fourth Month, the ninth day of the Month, there was so great hunger in the city that there were no more victuals for the people of the land.
"Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the brick wall, under the door of Pharaoh's house in Tahpenes, that all the men of Judah may see,
For thy hand is heavy upon me both day and night, and my moisture is like the drought in Summer. Selah.
And the Chaldeans shall be spoiled; and all they that spoil them, shall be satisfied, sayeth the LORD.
Let it happen unto that man, as to the cities which the LORD turned upside down, when he had long heard the wicked rumor of them;
For ye sent me unto the LORD your God and said, 'O pray thou the LORD our God for us: and look what answer the LORD our God giveth thee, that bring us again, and we shall do thereafter.'
And therefore thus sayeth the LORD: behold, I will send thee out of the land, and within a year thou shalt die because thou hast falsely spoken against the LORD."
And Rabshakeh stood stiff, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' tongue, and said, "Now take heed, how the great king of the Assyrians giveth you warning!
and I said, "Then have I cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency?
neither have I sent them, sayeth the LORD: howbeit they are bold, falsely for to prophesy in my name: that I might the sooner drive you out, and that ye might perish with your preachers.'"
He exalteth the horn of his people, all his saints shall praise him: the children of Israel, even the people that serveth him. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!
I am become like a pelican in the wilderness, and like an owl in a broken wall.
The stronghold also, and defense of thy walls hath he overthrown and cast down: and brought them to the ground, even into the dust.
Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous: and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness.
And of Zion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the most high shall establish her.
Arise, O God, and judge thou the earth, for thou shalt take all heathen to thine inheritance.
Say unto God, "O how wonderful are thy works? Through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies be found liars unto thee.
Slay them not, lest my people forget it: but scatter them abroad with thy power, and put them down, O LORD our defense.
And they arose and put away the altars that were in Jerusalem. And thereto all the incense they did away and cast them into the brook Kidron.
All thine enemies shall feel thine hand; thy righthand shall find out them that hate thee.
Notwithstanding, Hezekiah meekened himself for the arising of his heart, both he and the inhabiters of Jerusalem. Wherefore the wrath of the LORD fell not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD," and gave the book to Shaphan.
And David took the spear and the cruse of water that were at Saul's head, and they gat them away, and no man saw or wist it or awoke. For they were all asleep, because the LORD had sent a slumber upon them.
These are such as came by name, heads of these kindreds. And the ancient households of them spread in multitude.
Halhul Bethzur, and Gedor;
Nevertheless tarry ye here all night: that I may know what the LORD will say unto me once more."
and set the cense altar of gold before the ark of witness, and put the hanging of the door unto the habitation.
and said unto his father, "Not so my father, for this is the eldest. Put thy righthand upon his head."
The ninth day, Abidan the son of Gedeoni the chief lord among the children of Benjamin offered.
And set up the hanging in the door of the habitation,
the candlestick of light with his apparel and his lamps and the oil for the lights;
The length of a curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth four, and they shall be all eleven of one measure.
And he slept again and dreamed the second time, that seven ears of corn grew upon one stalk, rank and goodly.
And him thought that seven other cows came up after them out of the river; evil favored and lean fleshed and stood by the other upon the brink of the river.
And there went with him also Chariots and horsemen: so that they were an exceeding great company.
and there came out of the river seven fat fleshed and well favored cows, and fed in the meadow.
And he knew him not, because his hands were rough as his brother Esau's hands and so he blessed him.
And he said unto me, "Hast thou seen this, O thou son of man?" And with that, he brought me to the river bank again.
and burnt up the house of the LORD. He burnt up also the king's palace, all the houses, and all the gorgeous buildings in Jerusalem.
And when they had eaten up that corn which they brought out of the land of Egypt, their father said unto them, "Go again and buy us a little food."
Therefore thus sayeth the LORD God: Forsomuch as thou hast lift up thine heart, as though thou were God:
and say, 'Even thus shall Babylon sink, and be thrust down with the burden of trouble that I will bring upon her: so that she shall never come up again.'" Thus far are the preachings of Jeremiah.
One piece he burneth in the fire; with another he roasteth flesh, that he may eat roast his belly full; with the third he warmeth himself, and sayeth, "Aha, I am well warmed, I have been at the fire."
Wherefore, thus sayeth the LORD God: O woe be unto that bloodthirsty city, for whom I will prepare a heap of wood.
Let not Hezekiah deceive you, when he sayeth unto you, 'The LORD shall deliver us.' Might the gods of the Gentiles keep every man's land, from the power of the king of the Assyrians?
But this shall ye know: if ye put me to death, ye shall make yourselves, this city and all the inhabiters thereof, guilty of innocent blood. For this is of a truth: that the LORD hath sent me unto you, to speak all these words in your ears."
Woe be unto thee, O Moab, for thou people of Chemosh shall perish. Yea, thy sons and daughters shall be led away captive.
Now when they came therein, and possessed it, they followed not thy voice, and walked not in thy law: but all that thou commandedst them to do, that have they not done. And therefore come all these plagues upon them.
For ye have said, "No, but we will escape through horses!" Therefore shall ye flee. And, "We will get us up upon swift beasts!" Therefore shall your persecutors be swifter.
Now when Jehoiakim the king with all the estate and princes had heard his words, the king went about to slay him. When Uriah perceived that, he was afraid, and fled, and departed into Egypt.
O let not mine heart be inclined to any evil thing, to be minded as the ungodly or wicked men; lest I eat of such things as please them.
Though the waters thereof rage and swell, and though the mountains shake at the tempest of the same. Selah.
For among all the sons whom thou hast begotten, there is not one that may hold thee up: and not one to lead thee by the hand, of all the sons that thou hast nourished.
how he had wrought his miracles in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:
For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.
Yea, the LORD shall show loving-kindness, and our land shall give her increase.
Lo, these are the ungodly, these prosper in the world, these have riches in possession;
I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long.
O think upon thy congregation, whom thou hast purchased, and redeemed of old; the staff of thine inheritance, whom thou hast redeemed, even this hill of Zion wherein thou dwellest.
Moab is my washpot; over Edom will I stretch out my shoe; Philistia shall be glad of me.
The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth gently; therefore shall his seed be blessed.
For thou shalt give him everlasting felicity, and make him glad with the joy of thy countenance.
The children of Ceros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
And so the service went forward: and the priests stood in their places, and the Levites in their companies at the king's commandment.
because they have forsaken me and have offered unto other gods to anger me with all manner works of their hands, therefore is my wrath set on fire against this place and shall not be quenched.
In Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These are the lords in the tribes of Israel.
And they made a covering unto the tent of rams' skins red, and yet another of taxus' skins above all.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains over the thousands and over the hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of witness: to be a memorial unto the children of Israel, before the LORD.
And unto the sons of Kohath the remnant of the kin of the tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
And the people wist it, and it pleased them, as well as all other good things which the king did in the sight of the people.
All the pillars round about the court shall be hooped with silver, and their knops of silver, and their sockets of brass.
The cities shall be for them to dwell in, and the suburbs for their cattle, possession and all manner beasts of theirs.
But let no man come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount, neither let sheep nor oxen feed before the hill."
And their meat offerings of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals unto the bullock, and two unto the ram,
Moreover, he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them. And after that, his brethren talked with him.
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day: that men must give Pharaoh the fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which was not bond unto Pharaoh.
These are the sons of Bilhah which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob, altogether seven souls.
And Esau said, "Let me yet leave some of my folk with thee." And he said, "What needeth it? Let me find grace in the sight of my lord."
With thy wisdom and thy understanding, thou hast gotten thee great wealthiness, and gathered treasure of silver and gold.
Should they be set and ordained to minister under the doors of the house of my Sanctuary? And to do service in the house: to slay burnt offerings and sacrifices for the people; to stand before them, and to serve them;
Then measured he the entry of the door, that contained eight cubits, and his pillars two cubits: and this entry stood inward.
They shall go into my Sanctuary, and tread before my table, to do me service, and to wait upon mine ordinances.
and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother, and was gone unto Mesopotamia:
Yet ye say, 'The way of the LORD is not equal.' O ye house of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways!'"
so that thy wares, thy merchandise, thy riches, thy mariners, thy shipmasters, thy helpers, thy occupiers that brought the things necessary, the men of war that are in thee: Yea, and all thy commons shall perish in the midst of the sea, in the day of thy fall.
whose graves lie beside him in the low pit. His commons are buried round about his grave: all together wounded and slain with the sword, which men afore time brought fear in to the land of the living.
to make them abashed and faint at the hearts, and in all gates to make some of them fall. O how bright and sharp is it, how well dight and mete for the slaughter.
he destroyed their palaces, and made their cities waste. Insomuch that the whole land and every thing therein were utterly desolate through the very voice of his roaring.
And so the Chaldeans followed upon them, and took Zedekiah the king in the field of Jericho, when his host was run from him.
But I will make Esau bare, and discover his secrets, so that he shall not be able to hide them. His seed shall be wasted away; yea his brethren and his neighbours, and he himself shall not be left behind.
Cry out: upon her, upon her, against her round about: she shall yield herself, her foundations shall fall, and her walls shall come down, for it shall be the vengeance of the LORD. Yea vengeance shall be taken of her, and as she hath done, so shall she be dealt withal.
For thus hath the LORD spoken: Behold, they that men thought were unmete to drink of the cup, have drunken with the first: and thinkest thou then to be free? No, no: thou shalt neither be quit nor free, but thou must drink also.
So they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress.
And when they came in the midst of the city, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, with them that were sworn unto him, slew them: even at the midst of the pit.
Thou thinkest, peradventure, that thou hast counsel and power enough to maintain this war: or else whereto trustest thou, that thou castest thyself off from me?
It is true, O LORD, that the kings of Assyria have conquered all kingdoms and lands,
For as the infants weep when their mothers' teats are dried, so shall you weep for your fair fields and fruitful vineyards.
Thou waterest the hills from above; the earth is filled with the fruits of thy works.
Therefore all thy wives with their children shall flee unto the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but shalt be the king of Babylon's prisoner, and this city shall be burnt."
For the rod of the ungodly cometh not into the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous put their hand unto wickedness.
Thou treadest down all them that depart from thy statutes, for they imagine but deceit.
They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ears,
The waters saw thee, O God; the waters saw thee, and were afraid, the depths were moved.
Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy rebuketh, and how the foolish people blaspheme thy name.
Mine eyes shall look for such as be faithful in the land, that they may dwell with me. Whoso leadeth a godly life, he shall be my servant.
Preserve thou my soul, for I am holy; my God, help thy servant that putteth his trust in thee.
Sing unto God, O ye kingdoms of the earth: O sing praises unto the LORD, Selah,
And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity, and his heart conceiveth falsehood within himself; and when he cometh forth, he telleth it.
Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.
Yea, even God, that endureth forever, shall hear me, and bring them down; Selah. For they will not turn, nor fear God.
And when Saul saw the host of the Philistines, he was afraid, and his heart was sore astonished.
An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy name, O LORD, because it is so comfortable.
For thy loving-kindness is ever before mine eyes; and I will walk in thy truth.
And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, for the exceeding abundance of brass that was in them.
and Salma the father of Bethlehem; and Hareph the father of Bethgader.
that is to say, two pillars and two scalps of the heads that were on the tops of the two pillars,
And David said to Abner, "Art not thou a man? And who is like thee in Israel? But wherefore hast thou not kept thy lord the king? For there came one of the folk to destroy the king thy lord.
And David's servants turned their way and went again, and came and told him according to all those sayings.
Only, six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness, unto the rock of pomegranates and abode there four months.
And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah which lieth before the wilderness, by the wayside. But David dwelt in the wilderness. And when he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness,
Also ye shall take none atonement for him that is fled to a free city, that he should come again and dwell in the land before the death of the high priest.
And he took his people and divided them into three companies and lay await in the fields. And when he saw that the people were come out of the city, he ran upon them and laid upon them.
And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
And they took all the spoil and all they could catch, both of men and beasts.
And the number of them was twenty three thousand, of all the males from a month old and above. For they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
and put them in a maund and bring them in the maund with the oil and the two rams.
And when the morning was come, behold, it was Lea. Then said he to Laban, "Wherefore hast thou played thus with me? Did not I serve thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?"
And let the priest look on it again after that the plague is washed. If the plague have not changed his fashion though it be spread no further abroad, it is yet unclean. And see that ye burn it in the fire, for it is fretten inward: whether in part or in all together.
And made thereunto four pillars of sethim-wood and overlaid them with gold. Their knops were also of gold, and they cast for them four sockets of silver.
And ye shall offer these, beside the burnt offering in the morning that is always offered.
And the twelve stones were graven as signets with the names of the children of Israel: every stone with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
seven years shall they be burning thereof, so that they shall else bring no sticks from the field, neither have need to hew down any out of the wood: For they shall have weapons now to burn. They shall rob those that robbed them, and spoil those that spoiled them, sayeth the LORD God.
These are the dukes that came of Hori: duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke Anah,
And when I have brought them again from among the people, when I have gathered them together out of their enemies' lands, and am praised in them before many Heathen:
Do men take wood of it, to make any work withal? Or may there a nail be made of it, to hang anything upon?
For I have given my fear in the land of the living. But Pharaoh and all his people shall lie among the uncircumcised, and among them that be slain with the sword, sayeth the LORD God."
There is Meshech also and Tubal, and their people, and their graves round about. These all are among the uncircumcised, and them that be slain with the sword, because afore time they made the land of the living afraid.
Now therefore deliver hostages that thou rebel no more against my lord the king of the Assyrians, and I will give thee two thousand horses if thou be able to set men upon them.
For the work which he wrought about it, I have given him the land of Egypt, because they wrought for me, sayeth the LORD God.
And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth of Mizphah weeping, to meet them. Now when he met them, he said, "Go your way to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam."
I spake to the Priests also, and to all the people, "Thus sayeth the LORD: Hear not the words of those Prophets, that preach unto you, and say, 'Behold, the vessels of the LORD's house shall shortly be brought hither again from Babylon.' For they prophesy lies unto you.
And I will keep and save the city, sayeth he: for mine own, and for my servant David's sake.'"
There shalt thou not see a people of a strange tongue to have so diffused a language, that it may not be understood: neither so strange a speech but it shall be perceived.
And it shall come to pass, that when it is seen that Moab shall be made weary of his hill-chapels, he shall come to his temple to pray - but he shall not be made able.
They also that sought after my life laid snares for me; and they that went about to do me evil talked of wickedness, and imagined deceit all the day long.
Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, and when wickedness at my heels compasseth me round about?
Thou rebukest the proud; and cursed are they that depart from thy commandments.
The children of Shephatiah, the children of Hattil, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the children of Amon.
And evermore, a tenth deal of flour mingled with oil, for a meat offering unto one lamb. That is a burnt offering of a sweet savour in the sacrifice of the LORD.
And these were the children of Asher and heads of ancient houses and pure fellows and men of might and the head lords. And when they were numbered in array to battle, they were in number twenty six thousand men.
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs among the kindreds of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
and set the laver between the tabernacle of witness, and the altar, and put water therein,
and the anointing oil and the sweet cense for the sanctuary: according to all as I have commanded thee shall they do."
Now when I came there, there stood many trees upon either side of the riverbank.
And he appointed the people unto the cities, from one side of Egypt unto the other:
And he washed his face and came out and refrained himself, and bade set bread on the table.
And they said, "We thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is yet with our father, and one no man knoweth where he is."
And he welcomed them courteously saying, "Is your father, that old man which ye told me of, in good health? And is he yet alive?"
And he said, "What meanest thou with all the droves which I met?" And he answered, "To find grace in the sight of my lord."
The west part: namely the great sea from the borders thereof, till a man come unto Hamath: this is the west part.
On the same manner shall the people of the land also do their worship before the LORD, without this door upon the Sabbaths and new Moons.
The table was of wood, three cubits high and two cubits long: his corners, the length and the walls were of wood. And he said unto me, "This is the table that shall stand before the LORD."
The desolate land shall be builded again, which afore time lay waste in the sight of all them that went by.
behold, I will stretch out mine hand over thee also, and deliver thee to be spoiled of the Heathen, and root thee out from among the people, and cause thee to be destroyed out of all lands. Yea, I will make thee be laid waste, that thou mayest know that I am the LORD.
These will I open unto them of the east, that they may fall upon the Ammonites: and will give it them in possession: so that the Ammonites shall no more be had in remembrance among the Heathen.
And the proud shall stumble and fall, and no man shall help him up. I will burn up his cities with fire, and it shall consume all that is round about him.
No man shall be able to dwell there, for the fear of the LORD, but she shall be whole desolate. All they that go by Babylon, shall stand still, and be abashed, and shall wonder at all her plagues.
These things shall come upon her at the last: they shall break into her privy chambers, they shall leave her as bare as stones that be laid together upon heaps. They shall so destroy her that nothing shall be left.
For they preach you lies, to bring you far from your land, and that I might cast you out, and destroy you.
upon Kiriathaim and Bethgamul, upon Bethmeon,
How darest thou be so bold, as to say in the name of the LORD, 'It shall happen to this house as it did unto Shiloh? And this city shall be so waste, that no man shall dwell therein?'"
The slaughter was great, for one fell ever still upon another. One cried upon another, 'Up, let us go again to our own people, and to our own natural country, from the sword of our enemy.'
Our holy house which is our beauty, where our fathers praised thee, is burnt up: yea, all our commodities and pleasures are wasted away.
But what is he, this that swelleth up as it were a flood, roaring and raging like the streams of water?
And all the people that go by this city, shall speak one to another: Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this noble city?
Behold, ye gods are of naught, and your making is of naught; yea, abominable is the man that hath chosen you.
They went astray in the wilderness in an untrodden way, and found no city to dwell in.
He that smote the kingdoms together holdeth out his hand over the sea: even the LORD himself hat given a commandment against that mighty Canaan, to root it out.
Thus shall they be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: for in summer the birds shall remain upon it, and every beast of the land shall winter there.
They that make them, are like unto them; and so are all such as put their trust in them.