The flood was forty days on the earth. The waters increased, and lifted up the ship, and it was lifted up above the earth.

(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

But two men remained in the camp. The name of one was Eldad, and the name of the other Medad: and the Spirit rested on them; and they were of those who were written, but had not gone out to the Tent; and they prophesied in the camp.

By so much, Jesus has become the guarantor of a better covenant.

Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to the LORD.

But I implore you that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence with which I intend on showing against some, who consider us to be walking according to the flesh.

Now Paul and his company set sail from Paphos, and came to Perga in Pamphylia, and John departed from them and returned to Jerusalem.

Or how can one enter into the house of the strong man, and carry off his possessions, unless he first bind the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

LORD, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, LORD. Renew your work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

You went forth for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the land of wickedness. You stripped them head to foot. Selah.

The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.

For all the ships of Tarshish, and for all pleasant imagery.

before the silver cord is severed, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is broken at the spring, or the wheel broken at the cistern,

My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon; two hundred for those who tend its fruit.

My dove in the clefts of the rock, In the hiding places of the mountainside, Let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. They blew the trumpet; and all the people said, "Long live king Solomon."

All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;

who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

The desire of the righteous is only good. The expectation of the wicked is wrath.

To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

"No doubt, but you are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.

Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, "Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land."

when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

There came against the land Pul the king of Assyria; and Menahem gave Pul one thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand.

We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David: and David grew stronger and stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

It was told Solomon, saying, "Behold, Adonijah fears king Solomon; for, behold, he has laid hold on the horns of the altar, saying, 'Let king Solomon swear to me first that he will not kill his servant with the sword.'"

the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, did not depart from before the people.

Also, Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.

The king said to Joab, "Behold now, I have done this thing. Go therefore, bring the young man Absalom back."

Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and who went up with them into the camp, from all around, even they also turned to be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there: encourage you him; for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, whatever moves on the earth, after their families, went out of the ship.

Now when I came to Troas for the Good News of Christ, and when a door was opened to me in the Lord,

'I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?' God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."

Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against Midian, and capture the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and seized the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.

Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.

The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings. I saw until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made to stand on two feet as a man; and a man's mind was given to it.

But Peter began, and explained to them in order, saying,

Many spread their garments on the way, and others cut down branches from the trees.

If a man walking in a spirit of falsehood lies: "I will prophesy to you of wine and of strong drink;" he would be the prophet of this people.

The male goat is the king of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.

But if we say, 'From man,' we fear the crowd, for all hold John as a prophet."

He cried aloud, and said this, "Cut down the tree, and cut off its branches, shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit. Let the animals get away from under it, and the fowls from its branches.

Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up quickly. He spoke and said to his ministers, "Did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?" They answered the king, "True, O king."

For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, house of Israel," says the LORD, the God of Hosts; "and they will afflict you from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of the Arabah."

And after an alliance is made with him he shall work deceitfully; for he shall become strong with a small force.

He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.

Therefore Daniel went in to Arioch, whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon; he went and said this to him: "Do not destroy the wise men of Babylon; bring me in before the king, and I will show to the king the interpretation."

Moreover he said to me, "Son of man, all my words that I shall speak to you receive in your heart, and hear with your ears.

Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.

The horse is prepared for the day of battle; but victory is with the LORD.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

"And you shall not commit adultery.

who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the male goats, and for the calves which he had made.

It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.

Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Abner said to Joab, "Please let the young men arise and play before us." Joab said, "Let them arise."

The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, "No, my brothers, please do not act so wickedly; since this man has come into my house. Do not do this folly.

Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

So Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.

"Aaron shall come into the Tent of Meeting, and shall take off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and shall leave them there.

When the five lords of the Philistines had seen it, they returned to Ekron the same day.

Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved.

Her mother-in-law said to her, "Where have you gleaned today? And where have you worked? Blessed be he who noticed you." She showed her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, "The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz."

At that time the LORD said to me, "Cut two tablets of stone like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, "It was necessary that God's word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.

He said to them, "Where is your faith?" Being afraid they marveled, saying one to another, "Who is this, then, that he commands even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"

There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took all in battle.

Immediately he took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. They, when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, stopped beating Paul.

who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

However, that knowledge is not in all men. But some, being so accustomed to idols until now, eat as of a thing sacrificed to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Aaron spoke to Moses, "Behold, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things as these have happened to me: and if I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been pleasing in the sight of the LORD?"

She conceived again, and bore a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.

When they came to Reuel, their father, he said, "How is it that you have returned so early today?"

The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.

They took him, killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

And a voice came out of the sky, "You are my beloved Son, with you I am well pleased."

Jesus went with them. When he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to him, saying to him, "Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy for you to come under my roof.

And always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.

Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, "We have seen remarkable things today."

When he had spoken these things, he knelt down and prayed with them all.

Having screamed, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delayed,'

After they had spent some time there, they were sent back with greetings from the brothers to those that had sent them forth.

He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon's, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the crowds from the boat.

"Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child's life are dead."

Behold, isn't it of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

I will do in you that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all your abominations.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice flesh and eat it; But the LORD doesn't accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.

And go to the exiles, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD'; whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear.

"Haven't you brought this on yourself, in that you have forsaken the LORD your God, when he led you by the way?

For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have worked for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal."

People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Do not enter into the path of the wicked. Do not walk in the way of evil men.

For it happened, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.

Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

A spirit came out, stood before the LORD, and said, 'I will entice him.' "The LORD said to him, 'How?'

Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

for the LORD will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being taken.

withdraw your hand far from me; and do not let your terror make me afraid.

For now have I chosen and made this house holy, that my name may be there forever; and my eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

besides that which the traders and merchants brought: and all the kings of Arabia and the governors of the country brought gold and silver to Solomon.

to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

The sons of Ulam: Bedan. These were the sons of Gilead the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh.

These were the sons of Abihail, the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there shall not be any among the kings like you, all your days.

The king of Egypt did not come again out of his land any more; for the king of Babylon had taken, from the brook of Egypt to the river Euphrates, all that pertained to the king of Egypt.

Now the rest of the acts of Ahaz which he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

The rest of the acts of Joram, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Naaman said, "If not, then, please let two mules' burden of earth be given to your servant; for your servant will from now on offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice to other gods, but to the LORD.

The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" He said to them, "If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, you wouldn't have found out my riddle."

Elisha said to the king of Israel, "What have I to do with you? Go to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother." The king of Israel said to him, "No; for the LORD has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab."

"'But if he can't afford two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he shall bring his offering for that in which he has sinned, the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering. He shall put no oil on it, neither shall he put any frankincense on it, for it is a sin offering.

The word of the LORD came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

Ahinadab the son of Iddo, in Mahanaim;

but you have this day rejected your God, who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses; and you have said, 'No. Set a king over us.' Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes, and by your thousands."

Stay this night, and it shall be in the morning, that if he will perform for you the part of a redeemer, well; let him do the redeemer's part. But if he will not do the part of a redeemer for you, then I will do the part of a redeemer for you, as the LORD lives. Lie down until the morning."

Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;

It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."

"'It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings, that you shall eat neither fat nor blood.'"

And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter."

When he finished talking with him, God went up from Abraham.

For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has brought trouble on this people; neither have you delivered your people at all."

"If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

And he said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?

and I will give him the morning star.

Righteousness will be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his waist.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

they, and every animal after its kind, all the livestock after their kind, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after its kind, every bird of every sort.

I know that, when I come to you, I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have cast up dust on their heads; they have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

He said, "Behold, I will make you know what shall be in the latter time of wrath, for it belongs to the appointed time of the end.

In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, "Do not be afraid, Zion. Do not let your hands be weak."

It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.

The tree that you saw, which grew, and was strong, whose height reached to the sky, and its sight to all the earth;

The LORD has determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. He has made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish together.

You are righteous, LORD, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, Belteshazzar, "Do not let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you." Belteshazzar answered, "My lord, the dream concerns those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall; and they shall fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you; for I am with you to save you and to deliver you," says the LORD.

It will happen in that day, that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

The slothful man doesn't roast his game, but the possessions of diligent men are prized.

You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

He will consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard bearer faints.

The way of the LORD is a stronghold to the upright, but it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to kill and destroy them: and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another.

David said to Saul, "Let no man's heart fail because of him. Your servant will go and fight with this Philistine."

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you do return to the LORD with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to the LORD, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines."

King David said to Ornan, "No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for the LORD, nor offer a burnt offering without cost."

Yet have respect for the prayer of your servant, and for his supplication, LORD my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which your servant prays before you this day;

It happened the same night, that the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,

The Syrians fled before Israel; and David killed of the Syrians seven hundred charioteers, and forty thousand horsemen, and struck Shobach the captain of their army, so that he died there.

Neither be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

The sons of Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.

The Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

even all that the LORD has commanded you by Moses, from the day that the LORD gave commandment, and onward throughout your generations;

When she had risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, "Let her glean even among the sheaves, and do not reproach her.

Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my birth, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, 'I will give this land to your seed.' He will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.

The high priest can deal gently with those who are ignorant and going astray, because he himself is also surrounded with weakness.

Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai was over the army of the tribe of the children of Simeon.

"'If his offering for a sacrifice of peace offerings to the LORD is from the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

No straw is given to your servants, and they tell us, 'Make brick.' and behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people."

He said, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you plan to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?" Moses was afraid, and said, "Surely this thing is known."

Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day."

All the brothers greet you. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Behold, immediately three men stood before the house where I was, having been sent from Caesarea to me.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

And he swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

Woe to the bloody city. It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.

As Isaiah has said before, "Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah."

For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?"

But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;

He answered them, "I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not also want to become his disciples, do you?"

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and much more than a prophet.

the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

Then he said to me, "Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his rooms of imagery? For they say, 'The LORD doesn't see us. The LORD has forsaken the land.'"

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the LORD your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,'" says the LORD.

Behold, I will crush you in your place, as a cart crushes that is full of grain.

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the axe.

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

The king of the south shall be moved with rage and shall come forth and fight against him, even with the king of the north; and he shall raise a great multitude, and the multitude shall be given into his hand.

You call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD, and the god who answers by fire, he is God." All the people answered, "It is well said."

He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

"Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came."

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn't know how to go to the city.

A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes the life glad; and money is the answer for all things.

My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.

Thus the children of Israel were brought under at that time, and the children of Judah prevailed, because they relied on the LORD, the God of their fathers.

The LORD did not set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:

Samuel said to Saul, "I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel."

Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, "Whose is the land?" and saying, "Make your alliance with me, and behold, my hand shall be with you, to bring all Israel around to you."

It happened, when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and lived in Tirzah.

'Awake, awake, Deborah. Awake, awake, utter a song. Arise, Barak, and lead away your captives, you son of Abinoam.'

And the Spirit of the LORD began to direct him in Mahaneh Dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

They possessed all the territory of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.

Ehud made him a sword which had two edges, a cubit in length; and he girded it under his clothing on his right thigh.

Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his instructions, and his statutes, and his ordinances, and his commandments, always.

Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.

Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

A man shall not take his father's wife, and shall not uncover his father's skirt.

"Behold, I have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of all the firstborn who open the womb among the children of Israel; and the Levites shall be mine:

For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who do not bear. Break forth and shout, you that do not travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

So immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

But food will not commend us to God. For neither, if we do not eat, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

And again, "The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless."

The LORD said to Moses in Midian, "Go, return into Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead."

Moses was content to dwell with the man. He gave Moses Zipporah, his daughter.

and all the days of Kenan were nine hundred ten years, then he died.

Jesus answered, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight ? If a man walks in the day, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, "I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land."

From among the peoples, tribes, languages, and nations people will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not allow their dead bodies to be placed in a tomb.

Neither, because they are Abraham's seed, are they all children. But, "In Isaac will your seed be called."

They will scourge and kill him. On the third day, he will rise again."

that you shall be driven from men, and your dwelling shall be with the animals of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass as oxen, and shall be wet with the dew of the sky, and seven times shall pass over you; until you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will.

"Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

"but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they made the pleasant land desolate."

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people."

Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone.

Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.

Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; Because he is intent in his pursuit of idols.

This dream I, king Nebuchadnezzar, have seen; and you, Belteshazzar, declare the interpretation, because all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation. But you are able, for the spirit of the holy gods is in you."

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

'Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, where I have driven them in my anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again to this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely:

Now what have you to do in the way to Egypt, to drink the waters of the Shihor? Or what have you to do in the way to Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

Therefore do not pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

Dead flies cause the oil of the perfumer to send forth an evil odor; so does a little folly outweigh wisdom and honor.

I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem;

One who winks his eyes to plot perversities, one who compresses his lips, is bent on evil.

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

Of the sons of Pashhur: Elioenai, Maaseiah, Ishmael, Nethanel, Jozabad, and Elasah.

and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as you shall need; and we will bring it to you in floats by sea to Joppa; and you shall carry it up to Jerusalem."

David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

He said, "You have asked a hard thing. If you see me when I am taken from you, it shall be so for you; but if not, it shall not be so."

Now she who is a widow indeed, and desolate, has her hope set on God, and continues in petitions and prayers night and day.

It happened, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,

While he yet spoke, behold, Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came: and Adonijah said, "Come in; for you are a worthy man, and bring good news."

Now isn't Boaz our kinsman, with whose maidens you were? Behold, he winnows barley tonight at the threshing floor.

Joab fell to the ground on his face, showed respect, and blessed the king. Joab said, "Today your servant knows that I have found favor in your sight, my lord, king, in that the king has performed the request of his servant."

But if you shall still do wickedly, you shall be consumed, both you and your king."

Moses said to Aaron, "Take a pot, and put an omer-full of manna in it, and lay it up before the LORD, to be kept throughout your generations."

But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.

After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.

When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him to the City of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

I will send the hornet before you, which will drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before you.

And he sent another; and they killed him; and many others, beating some, and killing some.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

The second and

He lived in the tombs. And no one could bind him any more, not even with chains,

But I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.

the son of Amminadab, the son of Ram, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

the son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

Elijah and Moses appeared to them, and they were talking with Jesus.

When I tell the wicked, 'You shall surely die'; and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you, and I will save those who are lame, and gather those who were driven away. I will give them praise and honor, whose shame has been in all the earth.

Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, "Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place."

"Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow. My heart is faint within me.

He spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child could write their number.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

I gave you your master's house, and your master's wives into your bosom, and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that would have been too little, I would have added to you many more such things.

The LORD stands up to contend, and stands to judge the peoples.

My dove, my perfect one, is unique. She is her mother's only daughter. She is the favorite one of her who bore her. The daughters saw her, and called her blessed; the queens and the concubines, and they praised her.

Turn to me, and have mercy on me, for I am desolate and afflicted.

Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and struck the waters, and they were divided here and there, so that they two went over on dry ground.

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

The children of Azgad, one thousand two hundred twenty-two.

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three; for he lifted up his spear against three hundred and killed them, and had a name among the three.

"Only do not do two things to me; then I will not hide myself from your face:

David sent messengers to Ishbosheth, Saul's son, saying, "Deliver me my wife Michal, whom I pledged to be married to me for one hundred foreskins of the Philistines."

The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had adjured the people, saying, "Cursed is the man who eats any food until it is evening, and I am avenged of my enemies." So none of the people tasted food.

It happened at the return of the year, that Ben Hadad mustered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

It was told David; and he gathered all Israel together, and passed over the Jordan, and came to Helam. The Syrians set themselves in array against David, and fought with him.

Likewise all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed closely after them in the battle.

The battle was very severe that day: and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.

When they came to Marah, they couldn't drink from the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore its name was called Marah.

The LORD appeared again in Shiloh; for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

As the sailors were trying to flee out of the ship, and had lowered the boat into the sea, pretending that they would lay out anchors from the bow,

But the Levites shall do the service of the Tent of Meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

Then Eli called Samuel, and said, "Samuel, my son." He said, "Here I am."

Observe and hear all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you forever, when you do that which is good and right in the eyes of the LORD your God.

Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and fathered sons and daughters.

Now Isaac loved Esau, because he ate his venison. Rebekah loved Jacob.

The LORD said to me, "Do not bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession."

Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

Serug lived two hundred years after he became the father of Nahor, and fathered sons and daughters.

and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment seat,

The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Rodanim.

Jared lived one hundred sixty-two years, and became the father of Enoch.

because he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been torn apart by him, and the fetters broken in pieces. No one had the strength to tame him.

But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts forth the sickle, because the harvest has come."

Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in all things.

He who has received his witness has set his seal to this, that God is true.

Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep. Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."

Therefore also I came without complaint when I was sent for. I ask therefore, why did you send for me?"

Whom I, even I, shall see on my side. My eyes shall see, and not as a stranger. "My heart is consumed within me.

But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD."

But Judah will be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.

I said to the nobles, and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and large, and we are separated on the wall, one far from another.

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the men of Anathoth, who seek your life, saying, "You shall not prophesy in the name of the LORD, that you not die by our hand;"

"But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven can't contain you; how much less this house which I have built.

and said, "My God forbid it me, that I should do this. Shall I drink the blood of these men who have put their lives in jeopardy?" For they risked their lives to bring it. Therefore he would not drink it. The three mighty men did these things.

He set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.

He ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

Micaiah said, "Behold, you will see on that day, when you go into an inner room to hide yourself."

and there were also male shrine prostitutes in the land: they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD drove out before the children of Israel.

Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.

The sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

'Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons,' says the LORD; 'and I will repay you in this plot of ground,' says the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him onto the plot of ground, according to the word of the LORD."

It happened after this, that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his place.

For your word's sake, and according to your own heart, you have worked all this greatness, to make your servant know it.

It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

I heard something like a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, "A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius. Do not damage the oil and the wine."

He went with Joram the son of Ahab to war against Hazael king of Syria at Ramoth Gilead: and the Syrians wounded Joram.

Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, "Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle."

then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.

"'These are they which are unclean to you among the creeping things that creep on the earth: the weasel, the rat, any kind of great lizard,

It shall be made with oil in a griddle. When it is soaked, you shall bring it in. You shall offer the meal offering in baked pieces for a pleasant aroma to the LORD.

When the LORD your God shall cut off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land;

They did not see one another, neither did anyone rise from his place for three days; but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

Eliasaph the son of Deuel was over the army of the tribe of the children of Gad.

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.

Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

Adah gave birth to Jabal, who was the father of those who dwell in tents and have livestock.

If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth-ha-Nahar, reigned in his place.

The crowd answered him, "We have heard out of the law that the Messiah remains forever. Then how can you say, 'The Son of Man must be lifted up?' Who is this Son of Man?"

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop. Stop." they cry, but no one looks back.

but I will send a fire on Moab, and it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; and Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.

Behold, a hand touched me, which set me on my knees and on the palms of my hands.

When he came near to the den to Daniel, he cried with a lamentable voice. The king spoke and said to Daniel, "Daniel, servant of the living God. Is your God, whom you serve continually, able to deliver you from the lions?"

Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

It will happen, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone who is written among the living in Jerusalem;

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one keep warm alone?

But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is acceptable in the sight of God.

But you, son of man, hear what I tell you; do not be rebellious like that rebellious house: open your mouth, and eat that which I give you."

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

The LORD said to Samuel, "Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD filled God's house.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

Absalom came to the king, and said, "See now, your servant has sheepshearers. Please let the king and his servants go with your servant."

What if there will lack five of the fifty righteous? Will you destroy all the city for lack of five?" He said, "I will not destroy it, if I find forty-five there."

The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

The anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of marauders who plundered them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

On the fourth day they assembled themselves in the valley of Beracah; for there they blessed the LORD: therefore the name of that place was called The valley of Beracah to this day.

However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but, because he defiled his father's couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

Adonijah and all the guests who were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. When Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, "Why is this noise of the city being in an uproar?"

who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in the cloud by day.

The LORD said to him, "Surely I will be with you, and you shall strike the Midianites as one man."

The three sons of Zeruiah were there, Joab, and Abishai, and Asahel: and Asahel was as light of foot as a wild gazelle.

But she answered him, "Yes, Sir. Yet even the dogs under the table eat the children's crumbs."

It happened in those days, that the Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. Achish said to David, "Know assuredly that you shall go out with me in the army, you and your men."

If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.

For even when we had come into Macedonia, our flesh had no relief, but we were afflicted on every side. Fightings were outside. Fear was inside.

If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

The sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred thirty-three years.

Mahalalel lived after he became the father of Jared eight hundred thirty years, and fathered sons and daughters.

Mahalalel lived sixty-five years, and became the father of Jared.

You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men;

If a peaceful person is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

And if Satan has risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but has an end.

The LORD will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of the LORD.

He delivers and rescues, and he works signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions."

I have seen Ephraim, like Tyre, planted in a pleasant place; but Ephraim will bring out his children to the murderer.

Then I, Daniel, looked, and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of the river, and one on the other bank of the river.

As you do not know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you do not know the work of God who does all.

The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,

Elisha said, "Hear the word of the LORD. Thus says the LORD, 'Tomorrow about this time a measure of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.'"

And his sons shall wage war, and shall assemble a multitude of great forces, which shall advance and overflow and pass through, and they shall return and wage war, as far as his fortress.

But his flesh on him has pain, and his soul within him mourns."

then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a pleasant aroma to the LORD, with the meal offering of it, and the drink offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin offering.

So there went one on horseback to meet him, and said, "Thus says the king, 'Is it peace?'" Jehu said, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me." The watchman said, "The messenger came to them, but he isn't coming back."

Then Zophar, the Naamathite, answered,

When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his friend; and he said, "Behold, I had a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent collapsed."

It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

Then he shall bathe himself in water in a holy place, and put on his garments, and come out and offer his burnt offering and the burnt offering of the people, and make atonement for himself and for the people.

Behold, I will stay at the fords of the wilderness, until word comes from you to inform me."

Now the Philistines had come and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.

There ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn, and with earth on his head.

The LORD visited Hannah, and she conceived, and bore three sons and two daughters. The child Samuel grew before the LORD.

At that time, the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."

Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which were about to die, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

But she said, "Yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat the crumbs which fall from their masters' table."

"'For whoever shall do any of these abominations, even the souls that do them shall be cut off from among their people.

having heard the things concerning Jesus, came up behind him in the crowd, and touched his clothes.

Take with you of all food that is eaten, and gather it to yourself; and it will be for food for you, and for them."

to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace;

That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as a seed.

Aaron spoke all the words which the LORD had spoken to Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll, and to break its seals?"

"It will be that in the place where it was said to them, 'You are not my people,' There they will be called 'children of the living God.'"

These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben.

When they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the Jewish synagogues. They had also John as their attendant.

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we do not know where he comes from."

They departed, and went throughout the villages, proclaiming the Good News, and healing everywhere.

Ask of the LORD rain in the spring time, The LORD who makes lightnings, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field.

As they were coming down from the mountain, he commanded them that they should tell no one what things they had seen, until after the Son of Man had risen from the dead.

They went away, and found a colt tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.

But as for me, I will look to the LORD. I will wait for the God of my salvation. My God will hear me.

Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.

We have sinned, and have done what is wrong and wicked, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your commandments and from your ordinances.

For the violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of the animals, which made them afraid; because of men's blood, and for the violence done to the land, to every city and to those who dwell in them.

There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

You pierced the heads of his warriors with their own spears. They came as a whirlwind to scatter me, gloating as if to devour the wretched in secret.

He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and extraordinary wisdom are found in you.

Whereas the king saw a watcher and a holy one coming down from the sky, and saying, 'Cut down the tree, and destroy it; nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field, and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals of the field, until seven times pass over him.

Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

The young lions have roared at him, and yelled. They have made his land waste. His cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.

Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the officials of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king's ring.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Do not listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, "The LORD will deliver us."

He will even deliver him who is not innocent. Yes, he shall be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.'"

For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

He made the most holy house: its length, according to the breadth of the house, was twenty cubits, and its breadth twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he spoke by all his servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria to this day.

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom; and she bore him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

When the child was grown, it happened one day that he went out to his father to the reapers.

When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." And I saw, and behold, a black horse, and he who sat on it had a balance in his hand.

Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.

Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he also took Basemath the daughter of Solomon as wife);

He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and healthy.'

But the people refused to listen to the voice of Samuel; and they said, "No; but we will have a king over us,

to which I was appointed a proclaimer and an apostle (I am telling the truth, I am not lying), a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth.

Asahel pursued after Abner; and in going he did not turn to the right hand nor to the left from following Abner.

He arose and went; and behold, there was a man from Ethiopia, a eunuch of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over all her treasure, who had come to Jerusalem to worship.

When the words were heard which David spoke, they rehearsed them before Saul; and he sent for him.

The land had rest forty years. Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.

Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez.

Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and fathered sons and daughters.

He was without sight for three days, and neither ate nor drank.

If he offers a lamb for his offering, then he shall offer it before the LORD;

I make a decree, that in all the dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel; for he is the living God, and steadfast forever. His kingdom shall not be destroyed; and his dominion shall be to the end.

After this I saw, and behold, another one, like a leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird. The animal also had four heads; and dominion was given to it.

It has come to pass that, as he called, and they refused to listen, so they will call, and I will not listen," said the LORD of hosts;

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.

He took it and ate in front of them.

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down," says the LORD.

And I will pardon their bloodguilt, which I have not pardoned, for the LORD dwells in Zion."

Nevertheless leave the stump of its roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of the sky: and let his portion be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the sky give showers? Aren't you he, LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for you; for you have made all these things."

Yes, those who eat of his royal food shall seek to destroy him, and his army shall be swept away; and many shall fall slain.

A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God.

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said this to him, "I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation."

When you lie down, you will not be afraid. Yes, you will lie down, and your sleep will be sweet.

Please restore to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive groves, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that you are charging them."

Therefore the Lord, the LORD of hosts, says "My people who dwell in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrian, though he strike you with the rod, and lift up his staff against you, as Egypt did.

A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.

I loathe my life. I do not want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds. He killed the two ariels of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spoke, saying, "Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

There were six steps to the throne, and the top of the throne was round behind; and there were stays on either side by the place of the seat, and two lions standing beside the stays.

The king commanded, and they cut out great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

Bunni, Azgad, Bebai,

David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

With him I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see the LORD's form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?"

All these were the sons of David, besides the sons of the concubines; and Tamar was their sister.

But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be of those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

Therefore you are great, LORD God. For there is none like you, neither is there any God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

These are the children of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

He said, "What then is to be done for her?" Gehazi answered, "Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old."

I thought to disclose it to you, saying, 'Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people.' If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know. For there is no one to redeem it besides you; and I am after you." He said, "I will redeem it."

Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

when someone told me, 'Behold, Saul is dead,' thinking to have brought good news, I took hold of him, and killed him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news.

that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

He said, "Good; I will make a treaty with you; but one thing I require of you. That is, you shall not see my face, unless you first bring Michal, Saul's daughter, when you come to see my face."

While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why did you not recover them within that time?

but do not stay. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Do not allow them to enter into their cities; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand."

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)

All flesh died that moved on the earth, including birds, livestock, animals, every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, and every man.

As many as do not receive you, when you depart from that city, shake off even the dust from your feet for a testimony against them."

For she said, "If I just touch his clothes, I will be made well."

The standard of the camp of Reuben went forward according to their armies. Elizur the son of Shedeur was over his army.

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

When Moses heard that, it was pleasing in his sight.

Great is my boldness of speech toward you. Great is my boasting on your behalf. I am filled with comfort. I overflow with joy in all our affliction.

Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.

But if anyone loves God, the same is known by him.

If anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out of their mouth and devours their enemies. If anyone desires to harm them, he must be killed in this way.

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward for our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong."

Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

But the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus also,

But I sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

Then this Daniel was distinguished above the administrators and the satraps, because an extraordinary spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.

For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

But after I am raised up, I will go before you into Galilee."

But I have heard of you, that you can give interpretations, and solve problems. Now if you can read the writing, and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple, and have a chain of gold about your neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.

Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean."

You have removed my soul far away from peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.

so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered Ezra, "We have trespassed against our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing.

An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you answer me.

So it happened, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

Huram continued, "Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, that made heaven and earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endowed with discretion and understanding, that should build a house for the LORD, and a house for his kingdom.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

The children of Pahathmoab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred eighteen.

The rich man had very many flocks and herds,

Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

When Jehu had come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her eyes, and attired her head, and looked out at the window.

and he shall offer his offering to the LORD, one male lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering, and one ewe lamb a year old without blemish for a sin offering, and one ram without blemish for peace offerings,

and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,

Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up the sons of Ahab, saying,

Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeatherai his son.

They took therefore two chariots with horses; and the king sent after the army of the Syrians, saying, "Go and see."