Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, asking for a sign from heaven to test him.

"Also for your part lie on your left side and place the iniquity of the house of Israel on it. For the number of days you lie on your side you will bear their iniquity.

Do not rely on a friend; do not trust a companion! Don't even share secrets with the one who lies in your arms!

(Bet) The Lord destroyed mercilessly all the homes of Jacob's descendants. In his anger he tore down the fortified cities of Daughter Judah. He knocked to the ground and humiliated the kingdom and its rulers.

(Mem) But it happened due to the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who poured out in her midst the blood of the righteous.

However, if you warn the righteous person not to sin, and he does not sin, he will certainly live because he was warned, and you will have saved your own life."

As a matter of fact, even your own brothers and the members of your own family have betrayed you too. Even they have plotted to do away with you. So do not trust them even when they say kind things to you.

Then say, 'O Lord, you have announced that you will destroy this place so that no people or animals live in it any longer. Certainly it will lie desolate forever!'

(Tav) As if it were a feast day, you call enemies to terrify me on every side. On the day of the Lord's anger no one escaped or survived. My enemy has finished off those healthy infants whom I bore and raised.

Wild animals will rest there, the ruined houses will be full of hyenas. Ostriches will live there, wild goats will skip among the ruins.

Their arrows are sharpened, and all their bows are prepared. The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm.

"Something horrible and shocking is going on in the land of Judah:

"Why do you try to refute me? All of you have rebelled against me," says the Lord.

It is better for you not to vow than to vow and not pay it.

He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

If I lie down, I say, 'When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.

Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.

For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.

You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.

He who removes mountains suddenly, who overturns them in his anger;

"Does the wild donkey bray when it is near grass? Or does the ox low near its fodder?

So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.

After him Baruch son of Zabbai worked on another section, from the buttress to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

You may do whatever seems appropriate to you and your colleagues with the rest of the silver and the gold, in keeping with the will of your God.

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

Beth Zur, Soco, Adullam,

May the Lord your God be praised because he favored you by placing you on his throne as the one ruling on his behalf! Because of your God's love for Israel and his lasting commitment to them, he made you king over them so you could make just and right decisions."

and built up Baalath, all the storage cities that belonged to him, and all the cities where chariots and horses were kept. He built whatever he wanted in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout his entire kingdom.

When all your people Israel pray and ask for help, as they acknowledge their intense pain and spread out their hands toward this temple,

and the pots, shovels, and meat forks. All the items King Solomon assigned Huram Abi to make for the Lord's temple were made from polished bronze.

He built up Tadmor in the wilderness and all the storage cities he had built in Hamath.

All the men of Israel assembled before the king during the festival in the seventh month.

He hid out with his nurse in the Lord's temple for six years, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

Some time later, in the third year of the famine, the Lord told Elijah, "Go, make an appearance before Ahab, so I may send rain on the surface of the ground."

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon's extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

the twentieth to Eliathah and his sons and relatives -- twelve in all,

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died.

When they invaded with their cattle and tents, they were as thick as locusts. Neither they nor their camels could be counted. They came to devour the land.

Jerahmeel had another wife named Atarah; she was Onam's mother.

In the third year of the reign of Israel's King Hoshea son of Elah, Ahaz's son Hezekiah became king over Judah.

All of the entrances were rectangular in shape and they were arranged in sets of three.

Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the Lord! I will sing to the Lord God of Israel!

The stands were constructed with frames between the joints.

The Lord took him outside and said, "Gaze into the sky and count the stars -- if you are able to count them!" Then he said to him, "So will your descendants be."

When the men of Ai turned around, they saw the smoke from the city ascending into the sky and were so shocked they were unable to flee in any direction. In the meantime the men who were retreating to the desert turned against their pursuers.

Now Joab was the general in command of all the army of Israel. Benaiah the son of Jehoida was over the Kerethites and the Perethites.

When Ehud had left, Eglon's servants came and saw the locked doors of the upper room. They said, "He must be relieving himself in the well-ventilated inner room."

"'Then the priest must present all these before the Lord and offer his purification offering and his burnt offering.

The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning.

Now we ask you, brothers and sisters, to acknowledge those who labor among you and preside over you in the Lord and admonish you,

Then they traveled from Mount Hor by the road to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom, but the people became impatient along the way.

Now Barak was chasing Sisera. Jael went out to welcome him. She said to him, "Come here and I will show you the man you are searching for." He went with her into the tent, and there he saw Sisera sprawled out dead with the tent peg in his temple.

"This is the offering of Aaron and his sons which they must present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of choice wheat flour as a continual grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

Do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God will personally fight for you."

The priest will take the grain offering of suspicion from the woman's hand, wave the grain offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar.

Or when there is a person who touches anything ceremonially unclean, whether the carcass of an unclean wild animal, or the carcass of an unclean domesticated animal, or the carcass of an unclean creeping thing, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has become unclean and is guilty;

the king of Jerusalem (one), the king of Hebron (one),

The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, the way a person speaks to a friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his servant, Joshua son of Nun, a young man, did not leave the tent.

Now look, the hand of the Lord is against you, and you will be blind, unable to see the sun for a time!" Immediately mistiness and darkness came over him, and he went around seeking people to lead him by the hand.

You must fight until the Lord gives your countrymen victory as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you."

and said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They replied, "No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit."

You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and the needs of those who were with me.

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and after winning the crowds over, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, presuming him to be dead.

"If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

I tell you the solemn truth, the slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

During the night Jacob quickly took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

Now the first covenant, in fact, had regulations for worship and its earthly sanctuary.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in all Achaia.

For nation will rise up in arms against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and there will be famines. These are but the beginning of birth pains.

The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard from the outer court, like the sound of the sovereign God when he speaks.

Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus replied, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, but you will follow later."

The expert in the law said to him, "That is true, Teacher; you are right to say that he is one, and there is no one else besides him.

While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and brothers came and stood outside, asking to speak to him.

It came to the two-horned ram that I had seen standing beside the canal and rushed against it with raging strength.

The Lord said to the man dressed in linen, "Go between the wheelwork underneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city." He went as I watched.

The people I call my own attack me like birds of prey or like hyenas. But other birds of prey are all around them. Let all the nations gather together like wild beasts. Let them come and destroy these people I call my own.

You will be an object of scorn and taunting, a prime example of destruction among the nations around you when I execute judgments against you in anger and raging fury. I, the Lord, have spoken!

(Sin/Shin) Rejoice and be glad for now, O people of Edom, who reside in the land of Uz. But the cup of judgment will pass to you also; you will get drunk and take off your clothes.

(Resh) Our very life breath -- the Lord's anointed king -- was caught in their traps, of whom we thought, "Under his protection we will survive among the nations."

Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.

Your misdeeds have stopped these things from coming. Your sins have deprived you of my bounty.'

Tell him, 'Make sure you stay calm! Don't be afraid! Don't be intimidated by these two stubs of smoking logs, or by the raging anger of Rezin, Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

When they are scorched, they dry up, when it is hot, they vanish from their place.

Because of this the land will mourn and the sky above will grow black. For I have made my purpose known and I will not relent or turn back from carrying it out."

then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you.

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

So I considered those who are dead and gone more fortunate than those who are still alive.

the woman would go to the king in the following way: Whatever she asked for would be provided for her to take with her from the harem to the royal palace.

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, "You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

and the temple servants who were living on Ophel worked up to the area opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the protruding tower.

So I purified them of everything foreign, and I assigned specific duties to the priests and the Levites.

Malkijah son of Recab, head of the district of Beth Hakkerem, worked on the Dung Gate. He rebuilt it and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

the men of Ramah and Geba: 621;

She gave the king 120 talents of gold and a very large quantity of spices and precious gems. The quantity of spices the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon has never been matched.

the men of Kiriath Jearim, Kephirah and Beeroth: 743;

and Hashabiah, along with Jeshaiah from the descendants of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men,

When the queen of Sheba saw for herself Solomon's extensive wisdom, the palace he had built,

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

So he went with them. When they arrived at the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.

Images of bulls were under it all the way around, ten every eighteen inches all the way around. The bulls were in two rows and had been cast with "The Sea."

Go and close the door behind you and your sons. Pour the olive oil into all the containers; set aside each one when you have filled it."

just as Moses the Lord's servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace.

So the king told Hazael, "Take a gift and go visit the prophet. Request from him an oracle from the Lord. Ask him, 'Will I recover from this sickness?'"

Others will then answer, 'Because they abandoned the Lord their God, who led their ancestors out of Egypt. They embraced other gods whom they worshiped and served. That is why the Lord has brought all this disaster down on them.'"

Ben Hadad accepted King Asa's offer and ordered his army commanders to attack the cities of Israel. They conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel Beth Maacah, and all the territory of Naphtali, including the region of Kinnereth.

Then I will allow your dynasty to rule over Israel permanently, just as I promised your father David, 'You will not fail to have a successor on the throne of Israel.'

Whenever the king visited the Lord's temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

He told his sons, "Saddle my donkey," and they did so.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel) and instructed them, "Go up and spy on the land." So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Then Mephibosheth bowed and said, "Of what importance am I, your servant, that you show regard for a dead dog like me?"

And the priest must take the boiled shoulder of the ram, one cake made without yeast from the basket, and one wafer made without yeast, and put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his consecrated head;

David went to Ahimelech the priest in Nob. Ahimelech was shaking with fear when he met David, and said to him, "Why are you by yourself with no one accompanying you?"

And the one seated on the throne said: "Look! I am making all things new!" Then he said to me, "Write it down, because these words are reliable and true."

He ordered Jether his firstborn son, "Come on! Kill them!" But Jether was too afraid to draw his sword, because he was still young.

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed for all the Gentiles to hear. And so I was delivered from the lion's mouth!

The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.

You must offer up a cake of the first of your finely ground flour as a raised offering; as you offer the raised offering of the threshing floor, so you must offer it up.

The magicians did the same with their secret arts and brought up frogs on the land of Egypt too.

Then he put the tunic on Aaron, wrapped the sash around him, and clothed him with the robe. Next he put the ephod on him and placed on him the decorated band of the ephod, and fastened the ephod closely to him with the band.

and forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone who sins against us. And do not lead us into temptation."

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.

so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord."

"'This is the law for cases of jealousy, when a wife, while under her husband's authority, goes astray and defiles herself,

But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, "I raise my hand to the Lord, the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth, and vow

Counting every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600. They were responsible for the care of the sanctuary.

We must go on a three-day journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, just as he is telling us."

He opened the shaft of the abyss and smoke rose out of it like smoke from a giant furnace. The sun and the air were darkened with smoke from the shaft.

So then, my brothers and sisters, dear friends whom I long to see, my joy and crown, stand in the Lord in this way, my dear friends!

and for many days he appeared to those who had accompanied him from Galilee to Jerusalem. These are now his witnesses to the people.

But Peter sent them all outside, knelt down, and prayed. Turning to the body, he said, "Tabitha, get up." Then she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

The angel answered him, "I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest's slave, cutting off his right ear. (Now the slave's name was Malchus.)

The master commended the dishonest manager because he acted shrewdly. For the people of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their contemporaries than the people of light.

He told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow.

The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, "The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace."

When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

Then Jesus told them, "I tell you the solemn truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but my Father is giving you the true bread from heaven.

Then he will reply from inside, 'Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything.'

But wisdom is vindicated by all her children."

Now while Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the high priest's slave girls came by.

And he stood up and went home.

"But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort already.

Then Jesus went away with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him. And from Judea,

I saw it approaching the ram. It went into a fit of rage against the ram and struck it and broke off its two horns. The ram had no ability to resist it. The goat hurled the ram to the ground and trampled it. No one could deliver the ram from its power.

And I said, "Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth."

After getting into a boat he crossed to the other side and came to his own town.

From the time that the daily sacrifice is removed and the abomination that causes desolation is set in place, there are 1,290 days.

The sovereign Lord who commands armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the River Nile, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.

"Therefore, son of man, pack up your belongings as if for exile. During the day, while they are watching, pretend to go into exile. Go from where you live to another place. Perhaps they will understand, although they are a rebellious house.

Then my anger will be fully vented; I will exhaust my rage on them, and I will be appeased. Then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I have fully vented my rage against them.

He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your belly with this scroll I am giving to you." So I ate it, and it was sweet like honey in my mouth.

And the Lord said, "This is how the people of Israel will eat their unclean food among the nations where I will banish them."

(Tsade) Cry out from your heart to the Lord, O wall of Daughter Zion! Make your tears flow like a river all day and all night long! Do not rest; do not let your tears stop!

They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

The Lord said to me, "I have made you like a metal assayer to test my people like ore. You are to observe them and evaluate how they behave."

for before the child knows how to cry out, 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria."

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from a snare, and like a bird from the trap of the fowler.

I have examined all this by wisdom; I said, "I am determined to comprehend this" -- but it was beyond my grasp.

For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!

It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.

Whatever has happened was foreordained, and what happens to a person was also foreknown. It is useless for him to argue with God about his fate because God is more powerful than he is.

Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, gather there with us. Our God will fight for us!"

20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two exquisite vessels of gleaming bronze, as valuable as gold.

Adjacent to him Ezer son of Jeshua, head of Mizpah, worked on another section, opposite the ascent to the armory at the buttress.

If your children sinned against him, he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.

They observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with joy, for the Lord had given them joy and had changed the opinion of the king of Assyria toward them, so that he assisted them in the work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

the men of Bethel and Ai: 223;

the men of Micmash: 122;

the men of Anathoth: 128;

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

The Lord said, "Go out and stand on the mountain before the Lord. Look, the Lord is ready to pass by." A very powerful wind went before the Lord, digging into the mountain and causing landslides, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the windstorm there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, "My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!" Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

Their descendants remained in the land (the Israelites were unable to wipe them out). Solomon conscripted them for his work crews and they continue in that role to this very day.

The water flowed down all sides of the altar and filled the trench.

So Hanun seized David's servants and shaved off half of each one's beard. He cut the lower part of their robes off so that their buttocks were exposed, and then sent them away.

The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. The sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.

The two units who are off duty on the Sabbath will guard the Lord's temple and protect the king.

Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bezalel.

If we go into the city, we'll die of starvation, and if we stay here we'll die! So come on, let's defect to the Syrian camp! If they spare us, we'll live; if they kill us -- well, we were going to die anyway."

On the fifteenth day of the eighth month (a date he had arbitrarily chosen) Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had made in Bethel. He inaugurated a festival for the Israelites and went up to the altar to offer sacrifices.

Micaiah said, "If you really do safely return, then the Lord has not spoken through me." Then he added, "Take note, all you people."

He built high places for all his foreign wives so they could burn incense and make sacrifices to their gods.

Have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.

Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and four supports. Under the basin the supports were fashioned on each side with wreaths.

He plated the floor of the temple with gold, inside and out.

Messengers told David what had happened, so he summoned them, for the men were thoroughly humiliated. The king said, "Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown again; then you may come back."

Your servant Joab did this so as to change this situation. But my lord has wisdom like that of the angel of God, and knows everything that is happening in the land."

When the three hundred men blew their trumpets, the Lord caused the Midianites to attack one another with their swords throughout the camp. The army fled to Beth Shittah on the way to Zererah. They went to the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

If a fellow Israelite from one of your villages in the land that the Lord your God is giving you should be poor, you must not harden your heart or be insensitive to his impoverished condition.

He made framed windows for the temple.

So the king said to Barzillai, "Cross over with me, and I will take care of you while you are with me in Jerusalem."

The Lord said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men who lapped I will deliver the whole army and I will hand Midian over to you. The rest of the men should go home."

So King David had him brought from the house of Makir son of Ammiel in Lo Debar.

Then Joab left David and sent messengers after Abner. They brought him back from the well of Sirah. (But David was not aware of it.)

No doubt they are gathering and dividing the plunder -- a girl or two for each man to rape! Sisera is grabbing up colorful cloth, he is grabbing up colorful embroidered cloth, two pieces of colorful embroidered cloth, for the neck of the plunderer!'

Then the Lord rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah. It was sent down from the sky by the Lord.

Zebah and Zalmunna said to Gideon, "Come on, you strike us, for a man is judged by his strength." So Gideon killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and he took the crescent-shaped ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

When they came to the valley of Eshcol, they cut down from there a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a staff between two men, as well as some of the pomegranates and the figs.

And do this to them to purify them: Sprinkle water of purification on them; then have them shave all their body and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.

"The appointed responsibility of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest is for the oil for the light, and the spiced incense, and the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil; he also has the appointed responsibility over all the tabernacle with all that is in it, over the sanctuary and over all its furnishings."

and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

But if the woman has not defiled herself, and is clean, then she will be free of ill effects and will be able to bear children.

When the Israelites would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone, Moses would put the veil on his face again, until he went in to speak with the Lord.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from a furnace, and have Moses throw it into the air while Pharaoh is watching.

The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

So I looked and here came a pale green horse! The name of the one who rode it was Death, and Hades followed right behind. They were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill its population with the sword, famine, and disease, and by the wild animals of the earth.

The Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron:

Moses said, "I am going to go out from you and pray to the Lord, and the swarms of flies will go away from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only do not let Pharaoh deal falsely again by not releasing the people to sacrifice to the Lord."

After Lot had departed, the Lord said to Abram, "Look from the place where you stand to the north, south, east, and west.

Therefore you heavens rejoice, and all who reside in them! But woe to the earth and the sea because the devil has come down to you! He is filled with terrible anger, for he knows that he only has a little time!"

In those days people will seek death, but will not be able to find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, "Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments."

to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

So they stayed there for a considerable time, speaking out courageously for the Lord, who testified to the message of his grace, granting miraculous signs and wonders to be performed through their hands.

a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel."

Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head."

Greet Andronicus and Junia, my compatriots and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.

The smoke coming from the incense, along with the prayers of the saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand.

Wasn't it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and enter into his glory?"

For I long to see you, so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you,

We went on ahead to the ship and put out to sea for Assos, intending to take Paul aboard there, for he had arranged it this way. He himself was intending to go there by land.

Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.)

Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem?

and Joanna the wife of Cuza (Herod's household manager), Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their own resources.

Remember, I have told you ahead of time.

For here he is! He formed the mountains and created the wind. He reveals his plans to men. He turns the dawn into darkness and marches on the heights of the earth. The Lord, the God who commands armies, is his name!"

A young man was following him, wearing only a linen cloth. They tried to arrest him,

The boy answered, 'I will not.' But later he had a change of heart and went.

They enthroned kings without my consent! They appointed princes without my approval! They made idols out of their silver and gold, but they will be destroyed!

King Nebuchadnezzar had a golden statue made. It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. He erected it on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

After this the angelic messenger who had been speaking to me went out and said, "Look, see what is leaving."

"My people, how have I wronged you? How have I wearied you? Answer me!

This is because you have disheartened the righteous person with lies (although I have not grieved him), and because you have encouraged the wicked person not to turn from his evil conduct and preserve his life.

Then the glory of the Lord moved away from the threshold of the temple and stopped above the cherubim.

As for the form of their faces, they were the faces whose appearance I had seen at the Kebar River. Each one moved straight ahead.

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

Come, let's drink deeply of lovemaking until morning, let's delight ourselves with sexual intercourse.

Therefore say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: None of my words will be delayed any longer! The word I speak will come to pass, declares the sovereign Lord.'"

This city will not be a cooking pot for you, and you will not be meat within it; I will judge you at the border of Israel.

My heart is crushed because my dear people are being crushed. I go about crying and grieving. I am overwhelmed with dismay.

The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land.

but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

But when I speak with you, I will loosen your tongue and you must say to them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says.' Those who listen will listen, but the indifferent will refuse, for they are a rebellious house.

And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.

Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

"So then, Jeremiah, when your people ask, 'Why has the Lord our God done all this to us?' tell them, 'It is because you rejected me and served foreign gods in your own land. So you must serve foreigners in a land that does not belong to you.'

"How long must I see the enemy's battle flags and hear the military signals of their bugles?"

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your words.

What the sluggard desires will kill him, for his hands refuse to work.

So he read it before the plaza in front of the Water Gate from dawn till noon before the men and women and those children who could understand. All the people were eager to hear the book of the law.

Do not turn to the right or to the left; turn yourself away from evil.

Pay attention to my cry for help, my king and my God, for I am praying to you!

So we worked on, with half holding spears, from dawn till dusk.

"Oh, if only my grief could be weighed, and my misfortune laid on the scales too!

My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

The rest of the needs for the temple of your God that you may have to supply, you may do so from the royal treasury.

After him their relatives worked -- Binnui son of Henadad, head of a half-district of Keilah.

So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day, 'Hand over your son and we'll eat him.' But she hid her son!"

At that time Tattenai governor of Trans-Euphrates, Shethar-Bozenai, and their colleagues came to them and asked, "Who gave you authority to rebuild this temple and to complete this structure?"

the men of the family of Azmaveth: 42;

I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn't hear even half the story! Your wisdom and wealth surpass what was reported to me.

Then Aaron's sons, Nadab and Abihu, each took his fire pan and put fire in it, set incense on it, and presented strange fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them to do.

"Say this to King Rehoboam son of Solomon of Judah and to all the Israelites in Judah and Benjamin,

Ahab's entire family will die. I will cut off every last male belonging to Ahab in Israel, including even the weak and incapacitated.

The sons of Ram, Jerahmeel's firstborn, were Maaz, Jamin, and Eker.

The mother of the child said, "As certainly as the Lord lives and as you live, I will not leave you." So Elisha got up and followed her back.

"The Sea" stood on top of twelve bulls. Three faced northward, three westward, three southward, and three eastward. "The Sea" was placed on top of them, and they all faced outward.

Now, run to meet her and ask her, 'Are you well? Are your husband and the boy well?'" She told Gehazi, "Everything's fine."

The Lord told Joshua, "See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, along with its king and its warriors.

But Barzillai was very old -- eighty years old, in fact -- and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

They waited so long they were embarrassed, but he still did not open the doors of the upper room. Finally they took the key and opened the doors. Right before their eyes was their master, sprawled out dead on the floor!

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

So Joab went to the king and said, "What have you done? Abner has come to you! Why would you send him away? Now he's gone on his way!

then he died and was buried in Bethlehem.

Gideon fathered seventy sons through his many wives.

"Not a single person of this evil generation will see the good land that I promised to give to your ancestors!

Then the priest will put the woman under oath and say to the her, "If no other man has had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband's authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.

And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life."

For by one offering he has perfected for all time those who are made holy.

Children, obey your parents in everything, for this is pleasing in the Lord.

So Moses and Aaron and the entire community of the Israelites did this with the Levites. According to all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, this is what the Israelites did with them.

but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day.

On the second day Nethanel son of Zuar, leader of Issachar, presented an offering.

And you must not eat any blood of the birds or the domesticated land animals in any of the places where you live.

And whatever holy thing he violated he must restore and must add one fifth to it and give it to the priest. So the priest will make atonement on his behalf with the guilt offering ram and he will be forgiven."

and that priest must dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before the Lord toward the front of the veil-canopy.

By this love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment, because just as Jesus is, so also are we in this world.

For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.

For the law appoints as high priests men subject to weakness, but the word of solemn affirmation that came after the law appoints a son made perfect forever.

He must put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the Meeting Tent, and all the rest of the blood he must pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.

In it he went and preached to the spirits in prison,

And, "You founded the earth in the beginning, Lord, and the heavens are the works of your hands.

but those who did not take the word of the Lord seriously left their servants and their cattle in the field.

But Moses said, "That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the Lord our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.

But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

But now in his own time he has made his message evident through the preaching I was entrusted with according to the command of God our Savior.

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

You be on guard against him too, because he vehemently opposed our words.

From Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to further the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

for I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ.

(For the Spirit had not yet come upon any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

where he stayed for three months. Because the Jews had made a plot against him as he was intending to sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he assumed the prisoners had escaped.

After he spent some time there, Paul left and went through the region of Galatia and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

When they read it aloud, the people rejoiced at its encouragement.

Then they said to him, "John's disciples frequently fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours continue to eat and drink."

First the gospel must be preached to all nations.

John wore a garment made of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.

They brought him first to Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

His disciples said, "Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

Jesus replied, "You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

The cherubim spread their wings, and they rose up from the earth while I watched (when they went the wheels went alongside them). They stopped at the entrance to the east gate of the Lord's temple as the glory of the God of Israel hovered above them.

My body is clothed with worms and dirty scabs; my skin is broken and festering.

Look, your house is left to you desolate!

"But if a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and practices wrongdoing according to all the abominable practices the wicked carry out, will he live? All his righteous acts will not be remembered; because of the unfaithful acts he has done and the sin he has committed, he will die.

He stretched out the form of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue which provokes to jealousy was located.

Therefore you will no longer see false visions and practice divination. I will rescue my people from your power, and you will know that I am the Lord.'"

So I told the exiles everything the Lord had shown me.

Suddenly he went after her like an ox that goes to the slaughter, like a stag prancing into a trapper's snare

The boundary line will extend beyond that, straight west from there to the Hill of Gareb and then turn southward to Goah.

Yes, the Lord has this to say to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: "Like a farmer breaking up hard unplowed ground, you must break your rebellious will and make a new beginning; just as a farmer must clear away thorns lest the seed is wasted, you must get rid of the sin that is ruining your lives.

Ezra the scribe stood on a towering wooden platform constructed for this purpose. Standing near him on his right were Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Masseiah. On his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

The Lord said, "I appointed prophets as watchmen to warn you, saying: 'Pay attention to the warning sound of the trumpet!'" But they said, "We will not pay attention!"

Here is another misfortune that I have seen on earth, and it weighs heavily on people:

I considered all the living who walk on earth, as well as the successor who would arise in his place.

But because it is heavier than the sand of the sea, that is why my words have been wild.

Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and he clothed Mordecai. He led him about on the horse throughout the plaza of the city, calling before him, "So shall it be done to the man whom the king wishes to honor!"

Even the gold and silver vessels of the temple of God that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem and had brought to the palace of Babylon -- even those things King Cyrus brought from the palace of Babylon and presented to a man by the name of Sheshbazzar whom he had appointed as governor.

Then I set apart twelve of the leading priests, together with Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers,

"Now you, Ezra, in keeping with the wisdom of your God which you possess, appoint judges and court officials who can arbitrate cases on behalf of all the people who are in Trans-Euphrates who know the laws of your God. Those who do not know this law should be taught.

The Lord made an agreement with them and instructed them, "You must not worship other gods. Do not bow down to them, serve them, or offer sacrifices to them.

The leaders of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, "The Lord is just."

I did not believe these things until I came and saw them with my own eyes. Indeed, I didn't hear even half the story! Your wisdom surpasses what was reported to me.

She told her mistress, "If only my master were in the presence of the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his skin disease."

So when Rehoboam humbled himself, the Lord relented from his anger and did not annihilate him; Judah experienced some good things.

King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

All the days of his separation he must not eat anything that is produced by the grapevine, from seed to skin.

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab's house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!"

Finally the crown of righteousness is reserved for me. The Lord, the righteous Judge, will award it to me in that day -- and not to me only, but also to all who have set their affection on his appearing.

The priest gave to the officers of the units of hundreds King David's spears and the shields that were kept in the Lord's temple.

pick the best and most capable of your master's sons, place him on his father's throne, and defend your master's dynasty."

The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you;

Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, "What have I done to you that you have beaten me these three times?"

He said to them, "Go away for three days, then return to me." So the people went away.

Saul and all the army that was with him assembled and marched into battle, where they found the Philistines in total panic killing one another with their swords.

They cry out, but there is no one to help them; they cry out to the Lord, but he does not answer them.

That day they killed about ten thousand Moabites -- all strong, capable warriors; not one escaped.

They took it all from the middle of the tent, brought it to Joshua and all the Israelites, and placed it before the Lord.

So Joshua instructed the priests, "Come up from the Jordan!"

"Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

You must set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

So the Lord spoke to Moses:

and he slaughtered it. Moses then took some of its blood and put it on Aaron's right earlobe, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it. It is a perpetual allotted portion throughout your generations from the gifts of the Lord. Anyone who touches these gifts must be holy.'"

Make for yourself an ark of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it with pitch inside and out.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

"Speak to Aaron and tell him, 'When you set up the lamps, the seven lamps are to give light in front of the lampstand.'"

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

And the Lord sent a plague on the people because they had made the calf -- the one Aaron made.

in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

and he washed the entrails and the legs and offered them up in smoke on top of the burnt offering on the altar.

He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull -- it is the sin offering of the assembly.

Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.

The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

He made a hanging for the entrance of the tent of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer,

We are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners,

And the king said to him, 'Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you will have authority over ten cities.'

You are to set the Bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.

For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.

All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.

But as for the seed that landed on good soil, these are the ones who, after hearing the word, cling to it with an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with steadfast endurance.

So he was addressing the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles in the synagogue, and in the marketplace every day those who happened to be there.

You are to speak everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh that he must release the Israelites from his land.

We always give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,

From Jude, a slave of Jesus Christ and brother of James, to those who are called, wrapped in the love of God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.

So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah

But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?"

But Saul was trying to destroy the church; entering one house after another, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.

They have been informed about you -- that you teach all the Jews now living among the Gentiles to abandon Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

he said, "I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive too." Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod's palace.

Large numbers of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them up in the presence of everyone. When the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins.

and said, "I called out to the Lord from my distress, and he answered me; from the belly of Sheol I cried out for help, and you heard my prayer.

Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.

"I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

Then one of the synagogue rulers, named Jairus, came up, and when he saw Jesus, he fell at his feet.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

He answered them, "Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things?

The best of them is like a thorn; the most godly among them are more dangerous than a row of thorn bushes. The day you try to avoid by posting watchmen -- your appointed time of punishment -- is on the way, and then you will experience confusion.

The Lord decided not to do this. "It will not happen," the Lord said.

As I watched, I noticed four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; the wheels gleamed like jasper.

Although I trained and strengthened them, they plot evil against me!

But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the Lord's flock, will be carried into exile."

whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.

Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave.

"Take note, son of man, the house of Israel is saying, 'The vision that he sees is for distant days; he is prophesying about the far future.'

All the people were aware of it, the people of Ephraim and those living in Samaria. Yet with pride and an arrogant attitude, they said,

At that time they will growl over their prey, it will sound like sea waves crashing against rocks. One will look out over the land and see the darkness of disaster, clouds will turn the light into darkness.

He lies in ambush in a hidden place, like a lion in a thicket; he lies in ambush, waiting to catch the oppressed; he catches the oppressed by pulling in his net.

He says to himself, "I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity."

He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies.

But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.

Their roar is like a lion's; they roar like young lions. They growl and seize their prey; they drag it away and no one can come to the rescue.

For you know in your own heart that you also have cursed others many times.

"Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

In the first year of his reign, King Cyrus gave orders concerning the temple of God in Jerusalem: 'Let the temple be rebuilt as a place where sacrifices are offered. Let its foundations be set in place. Its height is to be ninety feet and its width ninety feet,

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

For he adds transgression to his sin; in our midst he claps his hands, and multiplies his words against God."

He said to him, "Take these vessels and go deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem, and let the house of God be rebuilt in its proper location."

After him Hananiah son of Shelemiah, and Hanun, the sixth son of Zalaph, worked on another section. After them Meshullam son of Berechiah worked opposite his quarters.

Take the container of olive oil, pour it over his head, and say, 'This is what the Lord says, "I have designated you as king over Israel."' Then open the door and run away quickly!"

Whenever the king visited the Lord's temple, the royal guards carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.

"Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them, 'You must be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

The next day, when the Philistines came to strip loot from the corpses, they discovered Saul and his sons lying dead on Mount Gilboa.

Jehoiada the priest took a chest and drilled a hole in its lid. He placed it on the right side of the altar near the entrance of the Lord's temple. The priests who guarded the entrance would put into it all the silver brought to the Lord's temple.

He said to them, "Watch me and do as I do. Watch closely! I am going to the edge of the camp. Do as I do!

Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy!

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

I will get revenge and pay them back at the time their foot slips; for the day of their disaster is near, and the impending judgment is rushing upon them!"

There was no king in Edom at this time; a governor ruled.

So David said to Ittai, "Come along then." So Ittai the Gittite went along, accompanied by all his men and all the dependents who were with him.

Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

When Moses extended his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire fell to the earth; so the Lord caused hail to rain down on the land of Egypt.

They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also came through a man.

"Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan."

The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron's two sons when they approached the presence of the Lord and died,

To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

Then Jesus said to them, "Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." And they were utterly amazed at him.

So I have taken the Levites instead of all the firstborn sons among the Israelites.

So Aaron extended his hand over the waters of Egypt, and frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

and he made no distinction between them and us, cleansing their hearts by faith.

but worldly cares, the seductiveness of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it produces nothing.

just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us."

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name, in having served and continuing to serve the saints.

So you must keep my statutes and my regulations; anyone who does so will live by keeping them. I am the Lord.

Then I saw three unclean spirits that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the Lord -- it is a sin offering.

The Lord spoke to Moses, "Tell Aaron, 'Extend your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the ponds, and bring the frogs up over the land of Egypt.'"

Seven full days passed after the Lord struck the Nile.

Methuselah lived 782 years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

The sons of Gershon, by their families, were Libni and Shimei.

because a friend of mine has stopped here while on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him.'

and she fled into the wilderness where a place had been prepared for her by God, so she could be taken care of for 1,260 days.

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, but no one accepts his testimony.

So let us acknowledge him! Let us seek to acknowledge the Lord! He will come to our rescue as certainly as the appearance of the dawn, as certainly as the winter rain comes, as certainly as the spring rain that waters the land."

I will bring them back from Egypt and gather them from Assyria. I will bring them to the lands of Gilead and Lebanon, for there will not be enough room for them in their own land.

You were different from other prostitutes because no one solicited you. When you gave payment and no payment was given to you, you became the opposite!

Each had four faces; each had four wings and the form of human hands under the wings.

The crown will then be turned over to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

So I opened my mouth and he fed me the scroll.

(Alef)Alas! Gold has lost its luster; pure gold loses value. Jewels are scattered on every street corner.

"This is what the Lord says: 'Beware! An army is coming from a land in the north. A mighty nation is stirring into action in faraway parts of the earth.

I am absolutely terrified, and you, Lord -- how long will this continue?

But why should you be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, and embrace the bosom of a different woman?

Let all the people of the earth acknowledge the Lord and turn to him! Let all the nations worship you!

So, this is what the Lord says: 'I will assuredly make these people stumble to their doom. Parents and children will stumble and fall to their destruction. Friends and neighbors will die.'

A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools abhor turning away from evil.

"Proclaim this message among the descendants of Jacob. Make it known throughout Judah.

A laborer's appetite works on his behalf, for his hunger urges him to work.

Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented." It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.

"It is all one! That is why I say, 'He destroys the blameless and the guilty.'

up to 100 talents of silver, 100 cors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of olive oil, and unlimited salt.

Then this Sheshbazzar went and laid the foundations of the temple of God in Jerusalem. From that time to the present moment it has been in the process of being rebuilt, although it is not yet finished.'

But he went no further than the king's gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.

Their colleagues were as follows: Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

The Lord announced, "I will also spurn Judah, just as I spurned Israel. I will reject this city that I chose -- both Jerusalem and the temple, about which I said, "I will live there."

Exercise appropriate caution so that there is no negligence in this matter. Why should danger increase to the point that kings sustain damage?"

He captured the fortified cities of Judah and marched against Jerusalem.

She said to the king, "The report I heard in my own country about your wise sayings and insight was true!

Then he told Jeroboam, "Take ten pieces, for this is what the Lord God of Israel says: 'Look, I am about to tear the kingdom from Solomon's hand and I will give ten tribes to you.

So I said to him, "My lord, you know the answer." Then he said to me, "These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!

and the life was revealed, and we have seen and testify and announce to you the eternal life that was with the Father and was revealed to us).

Now give orders that these men cease their work and that this city not be rebuilt until such time as I so instruct.

He ordered them, "This is what you must do. One third of the unit that is on duty during the Sabbath will guard the royal palace.

He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.

I recall your sincere faith that was alive first in your grandmother Lois and in your mother Eunice, and I am sure is in you.

Please forgive the sin of your servant, for the Lord will certainly establish the house of my lord, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord. May no evil be found in you all your days!

When David heard the news, he sent Joab and the entire army to meet them.

When Joab saw that the battle would be fought on two fronts, he chose some of Israel's best men and deployed them against the Arameans.

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did just as the Lord had told him. He was too afraid of his father's family and the men of the city to do it in broad daylight, so he waited until nighttime.

Then they must place on it all its implements with which they serve there -- the trays, the meat forks, the shovels, the basins, and all the utensils of the altar -- and they must spread on it a covering of fine leather, and then insert its poles.

But you, as a person dedicated to God, keep away from all that. Instead pursue righteousness, godliness, faithfulness, love, endurance, and gentleness.

I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.

When a person touches anything unclean (whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the Lord, that person will be cut off from his people.'"

So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

Commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see."

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

or when a person swears an oath, speaking thoughtlessly with his lips, whether to do evil or to do good, with regard to anything which the individual might speak thoughtlessly in an oath, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty with regard to one of these oaths --

Then the high priest must bring some of the blood of the bull to the Meeting Tent,

But what if God, willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath prepared for destruction?

Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake.

Then as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell on them just as he did on us at the beginning.

but God raised him up on the third day and caused him to be seen,

And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.

For he did not put the world to come, about which we are speaking, under the control of angels.

Now Simon, when he saw that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles' hands, offered them money,

Those on the rock are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in a time of testing fall away.

Now when Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul became wholly absorbed with proclaiming the word, testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to you saying, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this."

When they heard this, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many thousands of Jews there are who have believed, and they are all ardent observers of the law.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don't come into this place of torment.'

Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas, John, Alexander, and others who were members of the high priest's family.

For this reason also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'

Jesus said to him, "You have said it yourself. But I tell you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Power and coming on the clouds of heaven."

Now when he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,

The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, 'Look at him, a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

For many are called, but few are chosen."

Then the disciples came to him and said, "Why do you speak to them in parables?"

So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.

You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared.

They appeared in glorious splendor and spoke about his departure that he was about to carry out at Jerusalem.

Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the stomach of the fish

"At the time of the end the king of the south will attack him. Then the king of the north will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and a large armada of ships. He will invade lands, passing through them like an overflowing river.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.'"

When you built your chamber at the head of every street and put up your pavilion in every public square, you were not like a prostitute, because you scoffed at payment.

You must be truthful, honest and upright when you take an oath saying, 'As surely as the Lord lives!' If you do, the nations will pray to be as blessed by him as you are and will make him the object of their boasting."

You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.

The word of the Lord came to me:

Surely oppression can turn a wise person into a fool; likewise, a bribe corrupts the heart.

I will thank the Lord for his justice; I will sing praises to the sovereign Lord!

Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go into the wasteland and perish.

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

After him Malkijah, one of the goldsmiths, worked as far as the house of the temple servants and the traders, opposite the Inspection Gate, and up to the room above the corner.

I am presently eighty years old. Am I able to discern good and bad? Can I taste what I eat and drink? Am I still able to hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should I continue to be a burden to my lord the king?