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For he spoke, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood firm.
He said to him, "Why, son of the king, are you so sad from day to day? Won't you tell me?" Amnon said to him, "I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister."
Only do not rebel against the LORD, neither fear the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is removed from over them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from the LORD. The plague has begun."
Abraham listened to Ephron. Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver which he had named in the audience of the children of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, according to the current merchants' standard.
You gave me no kiss, but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.
David said to all the assembly of Israel, "If it seems good to you, and if it is of the LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere to our brothers who are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves to us;
He brought them before the king of Moab; and they lived with him all the while that David was in the stronghold.
When the servants of David had come to Abigail to Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, "David has sent us to you, to take you to him as wife."
You shall eat neither bread, nor roasted grain, nor fresh grain, until this same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. This is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
But Peter said, "Man, I do not know what you are talking about." Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
And the king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
After many days, Shua's daughter, the wife of Judah, died. Judah was comforted, and went up to his sheepshearers to Timnah, he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite.
The generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner who shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses with which the LORD has made it sick;
So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jewish people, and continues until this day.
I have said beforehand, and I do say beforehand, as when I was present the second time, so now, being absent, to those who have sinned before now, and to all the rest, that, if I come again, I will not spare;
"They hit me, and I was not hurt. They beat me, and I do not feel it. When will I wake up? I can do it again. I can find another."
Then he brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looks toward the east; and it was shut.
You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be remembered no more: for I, the LORD, have spoken it."'"
At that time, Merodach Baladan the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah; for he heard that he had been sick, and had recovered.
"You, son of man, prophesy, and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD concerning the children of Ammon, and concerning their reproach; and say, "A sword, a sword is drawn, for the slaughter it is furbished, to cause it to devour, that it may be as lightning;
"Go inquire of the LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that which is written concerning us."
He has cast Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea. His chosen captains are sunk in the Sea of Suf.
It happened that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh's army,
The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked is perverse.
That which was torn of animals, I did not bring to you. I bore its loss. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, 'You shall not serve the king of Babylon':
"Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods because of the thing in which they dealt arrogantly against them."
All countries came into Egypt, to Joseph, to buy grain, because the famine was severe in all the earth.
She will be visited by the LORD of hosts with thunder, with earthquake, with great noise, with whirlwind and storm, and with the flame of a devouring fire.
Blessed is the man who is always reverent; but the one who hardens his heart will fall into evil.
In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company fell in your midst.
Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;
He who blesses his neighbor with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be taken as a curse by him.
My days are past, my plans are broken off, as are the thoughts of my heart.
When Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominations out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD.
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
The LORD was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and did not seek the Baals,
Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porch of the temple, and of its houses, and of its treasuries, and of the upper rooms of it, and of the inner rooms of it, and of the place of the mercy seat;
and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;
He shall take the two goats, and set them before the LORD at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
The man of yours, whom I shall not cut off from my altar, shall consume your eyes, and grieve your heart; and all the increase of your house shall die in the flower of their age.
Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh; but he taxed the land to give the money according to the commandment of Pharaoh: he exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, of everyone according to his taxation, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.
So David received of her hand that which she had brought him: and he said to her, "Go up in peace to your house. Behold, I have listened to your voice, and have granted your request."
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and had no children: therefore Eleazar and Ithamar executed the priest's office.
Everything that opens the womb, of all flesh which they offer to the LORD, both of man and animal shall be yours: nevertheless you shall surely redeem the firstborn of man, and you shall redeem the firstborn of unclean animals.
Correct your son, and he will give you peace; yes, he will bring delight to your soul.
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,
My heart is steadfast, God, my heart is steadfast. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises.
As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with you; he shall serve with you until the Year of Jubilee:
"He shall go out to the altar that is before the LORD and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the bull's blood, and some of the goat's blood, and put it around on the horns of the altar.
If you say, "Behold, we did not know this;" doesn't he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn't he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
It was so, when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in at the door, that he said, "Come in, you wife of Jeroboam. Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
Behold, there came an old man from his work out in the field at evening. Now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he was residing in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.
"I will go before you, and make the mountains level. I will break the doors of brass in pieces, and cut apart the bars of iron.
You who hear prayer, to you all men will come.
Then Manoah pleaded with the LORD, and said, "Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born."
He who walks righteously, and speaks blamelessly; He who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of blood, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil?
The king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out; and they set the battle in array against them in the valley of Siddim;
The wicked borrow, and do not pay back, but the righteous give generously.
My God, my soul is in despair within me. Therefore I remember you from the land of the Jordan, the heights of Hermon, from the hill Mizar.
LORD, you God to whom vengeance belongs, you God to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth.
He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.
David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
In days to come, Jacob will take root. Israel will blossom and bud. They will fill the surface of the world with fruit.
Thorns and snares are in the path of the wicked: whoever guards his soul stays from them.
you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
"Also when a woman vows a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,
Then you shall take the anointing oil, and pour it on his head, and anoint him.
and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
The Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side: and there was a valley between them.
These are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the LORD, after that the ark had rest.
The LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days."
Tarshish was your merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded for your wares.
"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
He said to me, "Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel forever. The house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their prostitution, and by the dead bodies of their kings in their high places;
Thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because your filthiness was poured out, and your nakedness uncovered through your prostitution with your lovers; and because of all the idols of your abominations, and for the blood of your children, that you gave to them;
It will happen that, when anyone still prophesies, then his father and his mother who bore him will tell him, 'You must die, because you speak lies in the name of the LORD;' and his father and his mother who bore him will stab him when he prophesies.
For you shall not depart in haste, nor shall you leave in flight; for the LORD will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.
The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
Therefore you shall speak to them this word: 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every bottle shall be filled with wine:"' and they shall tell you, 'Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?'
The wise will inherit glory, but shame will be the promotion of fools.
then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.
Let them praise the LORD for his loving kindness, for his wonderful works to the children of men.
He set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was of the LORD by his prophets.
that you shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that the LORD your God gives you; and you shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil: you shall make them of fine wheat flour.
'Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, "Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
The officers shall speak to the people, saying, "What man is there who has built a new house, and has not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.
For they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. They deserve this."
Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him, and reigned in his place.
Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk."
You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:
The LORD has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, a morning without clouds, when the tender grass springs out of the earth, through clear shining after rain.'
He took them, and sent them over the stream, and sent over that which he had.
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.
Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
"Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
"Even today my complaint is rebellious. His hand is heavy in spite of my groaning.
"'If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman, and the animal: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
He said to his mother, "The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it." His mother said, "Blessed be my son of the LORD."
Did a people ever hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and live?
"If a man causes a field or vineyard to be eaten, and lets his animal loose, and it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from his own field according to his produce; and if he shall have grazed over the whole field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field, and from the best of his own vineyard.
He made the basin of brass, and its base of brass, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre (that is, Hebron), in the land of Canaan.
Israel joined himself to Baal Peor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel.
I sent not these prophets, yet they ran: I did not speak to them, yet they prophesied.
Listen to my prayer, God. Do not hide yourself from my supplication.
Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke to all the people, saying,
Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,
You shall sacrifice the Passover to the LORD your God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.
Turn away your eyes from me, for they have overcome me. Your hair is like a flock of goats, that lie along the side of Gilead.
For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
either three years of famine; or three months to be consumed before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or else three days the sword of the LORD, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the LORD destroying throughout all the borders of Israel. Now therefore consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.'"
Micaiah said, "As the LORD lives, what the LORD says to me, that I will speak."
that you shall set apart to the LORD all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be the LORD's.
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without fear, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?
He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.
From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, nor the nakedness of your mother: she is your mother. You shall not uncover her nakedness.
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up.
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.'
Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.
Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.
Now David fled, and escaped, and came to Samuel to Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. He and Samuel went and lived in Naioth.
"Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,
He said, "See now, I am old. I do not know the day of my death.
One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'You will drink of your sister's cup, which is deep and large; you will be ridiculed and held in derision; it contains much.
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
He shall sprinkle on him who is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird go into the open field.
You shall dress them with belts, Aaron and his sons, and bind headbands on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and you shall consecrate Aaron and his sons.
God said to him in the dream, "Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not allow you to touch her.
Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
You say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?
May the LORD therefore be judge, and give sentence between me and you, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of your hand."
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
He shall take some of the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
But if we say, 'From man,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet."
Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many things they testify against you?"
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
They went in to the king into the court; but they had put the scroll in the room of Elishama the scribe; and they told all the words in the ears of the king.
"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.
It happened in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, that this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, do not let all the travail seem little before you, that has come on us, on our kings, on our leaders, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria to this day.
Binding his foal to the vine, his donkey's colt to the choice vine; he has washed his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.
Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;
All the wise-hearted men among those who did the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twined linen, blue, purple, and scarlet, with cherubim, the work of the skillful workman, they made them.
David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'
Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,
Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.
For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen."
He who spoke with me had for a measure, a golden reed, to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
So you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
"But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius?
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, purple, silk, scarlet, all expensive wood, every vessel of ivory, every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."
You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.
"Does our Law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"
Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
For thus says the LORD: "David shall never want a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;
"Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the LORD's house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD's house, all the words that I command you to speak to them; do not diminish a word.
Josiah kept a Passover to the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.
If it is true that I have erred, my error remains with myself.
He said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: 'Do not let your prophets who are in the midst of you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother's sister, nor of your father's sister; for he has made naked his close relative: they shall bear their iniquity.
You shall bring Aaron and his sons to the door of the Tent of Meeting, and shall wash them with water.
Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, "Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? Now therefore consider what you have to do."
It is an abomination for kings to do wrong, for the throne is established by righteousness.
As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it did not have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
"Do not touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm."
The LORD will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.
"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,
Though men may rise up to pursue you, and to seek your soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD your God. He will sling out the souls of your enemies, as from the hollow of a sling.
Then at daybreak the woman arrived and fell down at the door of the man's house where her lord was, until daylight.
And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, "You are blessed by the LORD. I have performed the commandment of the LORD."
The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
Jehoahaz begged the LORD, and the LORD listened to him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, "I have no son to keep my name in memory." He called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, to this day.
When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'
"For I, the LORD, love justice, and I hate robbery with iniquity; and I will give them their recompense in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
Timna was concubine to Eliphaz, Esau's son; and she bore to Eliphaz Amalek. These are the sons of Adah, Esau's wife.
When the voice came, Jesus was found alone. They were silent, and told no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.
When we heard these things, both we and they of that place begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
The LORD sat enthroned at the Flood. Yes, the LORD sits as King forever.
Abigail came to Nabal; and behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Therefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.
The light of the righteous shines brightly, but the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out.
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away. As wax melts before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
But let the righteous be glad. Let them rejoice before God. Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.
then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
It happened, when he saw her, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter. You have brought me very low, and you are one of those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the LORD, and I can't break it."
After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, to four generations.
but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son. And now drink no wine nor strong drink, and do not eat any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.'"
"If my heart has been enticed to a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
He took up his parable, and said, "Balaam the son of Beor says, the man whose eye was closed says;
So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers; and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his place.
and he spoke to Korah and to all his company, saying, "In the morning the LORD will show who are his, and who is holy, and will cause him to come near to him: even him whom he shall choose he will cause to come near to him.
and the priest shall examine him. Behold, if there is a white rising in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is raw flesh in the rising,
There was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley that lies by Beth Rehob. They built the city, and lived there.
You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
But if you indeed listen to his voice, and do all that I speak, then I will be an enemy to your enemies, and an adversary to your adversaries.
The seven angels came out of the temple who had the seven plagues, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their chests.
'Behold, I will bring it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them abundance of peace and truth.
Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
You shall ascend, you shall come like a storm, you shall be like a cloud to cover the land, you, and all your hordes, and many peoples with you."
"Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father's sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;
"Stand now with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth; if so be you shall be able to profit, if so be you may prevail.
I said, "In the middle of my life I go into the gates of Sheol. I am deprived of the residue of my years."
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood where the prostitutes washed themselves; according to the word of the LORD which he spoke.
Naboth said to Ahab, "May the LORD forbid me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you."
So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down toward the ground, and put his face between his knees.
Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."
It happened after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
He walked in all the way of Asa his father; He did not turn aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: however the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.
Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water was poured on them from the sky. She allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day, nor the animals of the field by night.
then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."
The commanding officer took him by the hand, and going aside, asked him privately, "What is it that you have to tell me?"
I am the LORD your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves; and I have broken the bars of your yoke, and made you go upright.
so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.
And suddenly all the city came out to meet Jesus. When they saw him, they begged that he would depart from their borders.
For thus says the LORD, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
A throne will be established in loving kindness. One will sit on it in truth, in the tent of David, judging, seeking justice, and swift to do righteousness.
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
The dead shall not live, and the departed spirits shall not rise. Therefore have you visited and destroyed them, and caused all memory of them to perish.
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but he loves him who follows after righteousness.
My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.
The bull for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the Holy Place, shall be carried forth outside the camp; and they shall burn their skins, their flesh, and their dung with fire.
A hot-tempered man must pay the penalty, for if you rescue him, you must do it again.
Destruction and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.'
Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
Delilah said to Samson, "Until now, you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me with what you might be bound." He said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web."
He who burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.
In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all its parts, and according to all its fashion. So was he seven years in building it.
Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?
When the ship was caught, and could not face the wind, we gave way to it, and were driven along.
Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En Rogel; and a female servant used to go and tell them; and they went and told king David. For they might not be seen to come into the city.
"Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the prince of the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the LORD has blessed.
The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
He said to the elders, "Wait here for us, until we come again to you. Behold, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever is involved in a dispute can go to them."
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go."
therefore, behold, I will surely lift you up and I will cast you off, and the city that I gave to you and to your fathers, away from my presence:
It will happen in that day, that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision, when he prophesies; neither will they wear a hairy mantle to deceive:
seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
The LORD will go out like a mighty man. He will stir up zeal like a man of war. He will raise a war cry. Yes, he will shout aloud. He will triumph over his enemies.
Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at his word: "Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, 'Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy;' but it is those who shall be disappointed.
So he went and did according to the word of the LORD; for he went and lived by the Wadi Cherith, that is near the Jordan.
Then his father and his mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" And Samson said to his father, "Get her for me, for she is the right one for me."
It was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread forth toward heaven.
He had a helmet of brass on his head, and he was clad with a coat of mail; and the weight of the coat was five thousand shekels of brass.
Now therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD spoke."
No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether it is animal or man, he shall not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come up to the mountain."
God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Simon answered, "He, I suppose, to whom he forgave the most." He said to him, "You have judged correctly."
Then he began to curse and to swear, "I do not know the man." Immediately the rooster crowed.
They shall be holy to their God, and not profane the name of their God; for they offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the bread of their God; therefore they shall be holy.
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; as the LORD your God has commanded you;
But if the bright spot stays in its place, and hasn't spread, it is the scar from the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
He went on his journeys from the Negev even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
but these two things shall come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; in their full measure shall they come on you, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
Fraudulent food is sweet to a man, but afterwards his mouth is filled with gravel.
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
It happened in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
If they listen and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
and will make an offering by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice, to accomplish a vow, or as a freewill offering, or in your set feasts, to make a pleasant aroma to the LORD, of the herd, or of the flock;
And when the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke. And the crowds marveled, saying, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel."
but I would strengthen you with my mouth. The solace of my lips would relieve you.
"How have you helped him who is without power. How have you saved the arm that has no strength.
The Gazites were told, "Samson is here." They surrounded him, and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city, and were quiet all night, saying, "Wait until morning light, then we will kill him."
Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah; and Elah his son reigned in his place.
He said to David, "You are more righteous than I; for you have done good to me, whereas I have done evil to you.
You may make them an inheritance for your children after you, to hold for a possession; of them may you take your slaves forever: but over your brothers the children of Israel you shall not rule, one over another, with harshness.
The LORD said, "As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
They took Lot, Abram's brother's son, who lived in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
"You are my battle axe and weapons of war: and with you will I break in pieces the nations; and with you will I destroy kingdoms;
He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn't this to know me?' says the LORD.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
But I said, "I have labored in vain, I have spent my strength for nothing and vanity; yet surely the justice due to me is with the LORD, and my reward with my God."
Oh that you had listened to my commandments. Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
The LORD will strike you with consumption, and with fever, and with inflammation, and with fiery heat, and with the sword, and with blight, and with mildew; and they shall pursue you until you perish.
My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God. For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.
You shall have olive trees throughout all your borders, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
So Hilkiah, and they whom the king had commanded, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she lived in Jerusalem in the second quarter;) and they spoke to her to that effect.
Then he said, "God do so to me, and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stay on him this day."
Saul said, "Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them." They said, "Do whatever seems good to you." Then the priest said, "Let us draw near here to God."
Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
The priest said, "The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod. If you will take that, take it; for there is no other except that here." David said, "There is none like that. Give it to me."
For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and in his sins with which he made Israel to sin, to provoke the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger with their vanities.
Moses said to Korah, "You and all your company go before the LORD, you, and they, and Aaron, tomorrow:
For these nations, that you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice sorcery, and to diviners; but as for you, the LORD your God has not allowed you so to do.
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your roads will become desolate.
Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you will revive me. You will stretch forth your hand against the wrath of my enemies. Your right hand will save me.
When the disciples saw it, they marveled, saying, "How did the fig tree immediately wither away?"
He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.
The cords of death surrounded me. The floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.
"Thus speaks the LORD, the God of Israel, saying, 'Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
I know also, my God, that you try the heart, and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things. Now have I seen with joy your people, that are present here, offer willingly to you.
'Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, neither shall your eyes see all the disaster which I will bring on this place.'"'" They brought back this message to the king.
Isaiah said, "Take a cake of figs." They took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.
She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
The LORD will establish you for a holy people to himself, as he has sworn to you; if you shall keep the commandments of the LORD your God, and walk in his ways.
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, "Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Please let me go over and take off his head."
At the end of three years they took it: in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
Also Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe: and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni was with the king's sons:
Jesus, knowing the reasoning of their hearts, took a little child, and set him by his side,
"'He shall take a wife in her virginity.
Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
And when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? And shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you;
Yes, since the day was I am he; and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I will work, and who can hinder it?"
"It shall be, when the LORD shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it to you,
I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I did not say to the seed of Jacob, 'Seek me in vain.' I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
Blessed is the one you choose and bring near, that he may dwell in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for he will receive me. Selah.
My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:
His sneezing flashes out light. His eyes are like the eyelids of the morning.
They rose up early in the morning, and went up to the top of the mountain, saying, "Behold, we are here, and will go up to the place which the LORD has promised: for we have sinned."
Shimei said when he cursed, "Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, and base fellow.
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
He brought him all of these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not divide the birds.
So all the men of Israel went up from following David, and followed Sheba the son of Bichri; but the men of Judah joined with their king, from the Jordan even to Jerusalem.
"'If you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.
The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, "Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?" The LORD said, "Judah first."
"'If you walk contrary to me, and won't listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
A man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the storm, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a large rock in a weary land.
but they shall serve the LORD their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, 'You are my people.'"
For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'The jar of flour shall not empty, neither shall the jug of oil be empty, until the day that the LORD sends rain on the earth.'"
Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not hear them.
David said, "I will show kindness to Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.
He sings before men, and says, 'I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it did not profit me.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my gall on the ground.
You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you; neither shall you fear other gods.
Moses said, "Now the LORD shall give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you; because the LORD hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD."
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear in oppression.
and in the morning, then you shall see the glory of the LORD; because he hears your murmurings against the LORD. Who are we, that you murmur against us?"
He set the engraved image of Asherah, that he had made, in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever;
Then the Levites arose, Mahath, the son of Amasai, and Joel the son of Azariah, of the sons of the Kohathites; and of the sons of Merari, Kish the son of Abdi, and Azariah the son of Jehallelel; and of the Gershonites, Joah the son of Zimmah, and Eden the son of Joah;
David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.
Jonathan, Saul's son, arose, and went to David into the woods, and strengthened his hand in God.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the people were distressed), then the people hid themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
Your bars shall be iron and brass. As your days, so your strength will be.
"LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."
She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
So they passed on and went their way; and the sun set on them near Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.
And he said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.
The LORD has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: "I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
You shall say everyone to his neighbor, and everyone to his brother, "What has the LORD answered?" and, "What has the LORD spoken?"
Israel will be saved by the LORD with an everlasting salvation. You will not be disappointed nor confounded to ages everlasting.
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity, than he who is perverse in his ways, and he is rich.
Thus says the LORD, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it:' so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
Do not enter into judgment with your servant, for in your sight no man living is righteous.
You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
God, why have you rejected us forever? Why does your anger smolder against the sheep of your pasture?
Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock, which have come up from the washing, where every one of them has twins. None is bereaved among them.
And as Josiah turned himself, he saw the tombs that were there in the mountain. And he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast. And he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God who proclaimed these things.
The steps of his strength shall be shortened. His own counsel shall cast him down.
to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
For the entrance of the oracle he made doors of olive wood: the lintel and door posts were a fifth part of the wall.
"Now give a pledge, be collateral for me with yourself. Who is there who will strike hands with me?
That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?
When the Philistines heard that David was anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David: and David heard of it, and went out against them.
But Amaziah would not listen. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth Shemesh, which belongs to Judah.
These are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart.
The donkeys were thirty thousand five hundred; of which the LORD's tribute was sixty-one.
It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel,' says the Lord GOD, 'that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
Then they said, "Come, and let us make plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words."
"Judah mourns, and its gates languish, they sit in black on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
For the people will dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. You will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the voice of your cry. When he hears you, he will answer you.
I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians, and they will fight everyone against his brother, and everyone against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now I observe your word.
The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome.
My times are in your hand. Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, and from those who persecute me.
Aaron said to them, "Take off the golden rings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them to me."
But as for me, I am like a green olive tree in God's house. I trust in God's loving kindness forever and ever.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. And all the people said, "Amen," and praised the LORD.
May the LORD judge between me and you, and may the LORD avenge me of you; but my hand shall not be on you.
You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
A letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, 'Because you have not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat your father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,
to a foreigner you may lend on interest; but to your brother you shall not lend on interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all that you put your hand to, in the land where you go in to possess it.
Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before the LORD; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD spoke to him by Moses.
To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, Kartah with its suburbs,
"'My holy name will I make known in the midst of my people Israel; neither will I allow my holy name to be profaned any more: and the nations shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
You shall kill the ram, and you shall take its blood, and sprinkle it around on the altar.
"Many women do noble things, but you excel them all."
Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
Your people also shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions of it, shall tell you, 'Have you come to take the spoil? Have you assembled your company to take the prey, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to take great spoil?'"'
"Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who forms it to establish it; the LORD is his name:
There is a generation that curses their father, and doesn't bless their mother.
that the daughters of Israel went yearly four days in a year to commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's house.
and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
Come, and hear, all you who fear God. I will declare what he has done for my soul.
I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.
But he did not put their children to death, but did according to that which is written in the law in the book of Moses, as the LORD commanded, saying, "The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers; but every man shall die for his own sin."
Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the City of David his father. And Rehoboam his son reigned in his place.
This shall be the priests' due from the people, from those who offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep, that they shall give to the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
You shall make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the waist even to the thighs they shall reach:
If it is on the bed, or on anything whereon she sits, when he touches it, he shall be unclean until the evening.
I will also judge that nation, whom they will serve. Afterward they will come out with great wealth,
All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.
His division, and those who were numbered of it, were forty-six thousand five hundred.
The angel of the LORD said to her, "Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands."
The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.
There the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy, and he put us on board.
Her spirit returned, and she rose up immediately. He commanded that something be given to her to eat.
Good and upright is the LORD, therefore he will instruct sinners in the way.
Many, LORD, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can't be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
When therefore they had come together here, I did not delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.
Jesus answered them, "Have you come out, as against a robber, with swords and clubs to seize me?
You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be saved?
and that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.
With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
and I will bring back all the people to you. The man whom you seek is as if all returned. All the people shall be in peace."
He set three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Do not move the ancient boundary stone. Do not encroach on the fields of the fatherless:
Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it.
Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, Jahaz with its suburbs,
"The tribe of Benjamin: and the prince of the children of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.
"'But you trusted in your beauty, and played the prostitute because of your renown, and poured out your prostitution on everyone who passed by; his it was.
This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,' says the LORD; 'because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Pause and wonder. Blind yourselves and be blind. They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
"Do not slander a servant to his master, lest he curse you, and you be held guilty.
This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
"This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from Shaddai.
but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen: then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.
Whoever keeps the Law is a wise son; but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
To his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a lamp always before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.
"'Whoever of the seed of Aaron is a leper or has an issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he is clean. Whoever touches anything that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose seed goes from him;
All these had taken foreign wives; and some of them had wives by whom they had children.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
They did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
David said to Achish, "Therefore you shall know what your servant will do." Achish said to David, "therefore I will make you my bodyguard for ever."
Thus says the Lord GOD, "Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing.
Putting to sea from there, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.
to love the LORD your God, to obey his voice, and to cling to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.
had prepared for him a great room, where before they laid the meal offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the tithes of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers; and the wave offerings for the priests.
The governor said to them, that they should not eat of the most holy things, until there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim.
saying, 'These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.'
So David assembled all Israel together, from the Shihor the brook of Egypt even to the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath Jearim.
And the border of the children of Dan slipped out of their control, so the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and after capturing it and striking it with the sword they took possession of it and dwelt in it, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their ancestor.
Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
It turned toward the sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the left hand,
From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceeding good land.
They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues: and you will have no power to stand before your enemies.
He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.
The appearance of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Now therefore, you with the council inform the commanding officer that he should bring him down to you, as though you were going to judge his case more exactly. We are ready to kill him before he comes near."
It shall come to pass on the sixth day, that they shall prepare that which they bring in, and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily."
Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
They blessed Rebekah, and said to her, "Our sister, may you be the mother of thousands of ten thousands, and let your seed possess the gate of those who hate them."
Therefore they will be like the morning mist, and like the dew that passes away early, like the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing floor, and like the smoke out of the chimney.
These are the names of the children of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons: Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Now will I bring back the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy on the whole house of Israel; and I will be jealous for my holy name.
The LORD's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.
The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon by the gate of Bathrabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon which looks toward Damascus.
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I did not know, I searched out.
Can you hold the wild ox in the furrow with his harness? Or will he till the valleys after you?
Look at everyone who is proud, and humble him. Crush the wicked in their place.
that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he did not seek the LORD, but to the physicians.
But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.
then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
Ahiam the son of Sacar the Hararite, Eliphal the son of Ur,
It shall happen, that he who escapes from the sword of Hazael, Jehu will kill; and he who escapes from the sword of Jehu, Elisha will kill.
The king said, "What have I to do with you, you sons of Zeruiah? Because he curses, and because the LORD has said to him, 'Curse David;' who then shall say, 'Why have you done so?'"
Moses returned to the LORD, and said, "Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made themselves gods of gold.
Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his place.
In the thirty-seventh year of Joash king of Judah, Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz began to reign over Israel in Samaria for sixteen years.
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
Now there lived an old prophet in Bethel; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
Balaam answered the servants of Balak, "If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I can't go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do less or more.
and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:
Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand.
His division, and those who were numbered of them, were forty-five thousand six hundred fifty.
"'But if she is cleansed of her discharge, then she shall count to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves something to eat."
You shall weave the coat in checker work of fine linen, and you shall make a turban of fine linen, and you shall make a sash, the work of the embroiderer.
They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.
The kings of Tarshish and of the islands will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
As soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.
Doesn't he see my ways, and number all my steps?
Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, "Neither has the LORD chosen this one."
One of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.
It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites at Ataroth;
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.
Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
"Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
The men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,
For the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
When therefore they were gathered together, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release to you? Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Messiah?"
and said to them, "Why do you sleep? Rise and pray that you may not enter into temptation."
Now when they shall fall, they shall receive a little help. And many shall join with them insincerely.
"I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the peoples there was no man with me: yes, I trod them in my anger, and trampled them in my wrath; and their lifeblood is sprinkled on my garments, and I have stained all my clothing.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
As clouds and wind without rain, so is he who boasts of gifts deceptively.
He looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on the coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank, and lay down again.
"If I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me, or lifted up myself when evil found him;
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.
Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
David took from him one thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen; and David hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for one hundred chariots.
He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job again took up his parable, and said,
Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying, "Hilkiah the priest has delivered a book to me." Shaphan read it before the king.
Benjamin, Malluch, Shemariah.
"El, God, the LORD. El, God, the LORD. He knows; and Israel shall know. If it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the LORD, do not save us this day,
This day the LORD your God commands you to do these statutes and ordinances: you shall therefore keep and do them with all your heart, and with all your soul.
They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
but if you return to the city, and tell Absalom, 'I will be your servant, O king. As I have been your father's servant in time past, so will I now be your servant; then will you defeat for me the counsel of Ahithophel.'
David swore to Saul. Saul went home; but David and his men went up to the stronghold.
For the LORD your God will bless you, as he promised you: and you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you.
They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
"Benjamin is a ravenous wolf. In the morning he will devour the prey. At evening he will divide the spoil."
He gave her his hand, and raised her up. Calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.
She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
and you shall come up against my people Israel, as a cloud to cover the land: it shall happen in the latter days, that I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when I shall be sanctified in you, Gog, before their eyes."
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet. Praise him with harp and lyre.
Generation, consider the word of the LORD. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, 'We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?'
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his holy Spirit in their midst?
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
For my sword has drunk its fill in the sky. Behold, it will come down on Edom, and on the people of my curse, for judgment.
Woe to you who destroy, but you weren't destroyed; and who betray, but nobody betrayed you. When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of betrayal, you will be betrayed.
Your eyes will see the king in his beauty. They will see a distant land.
SAMEKH. I hate double-minded men, but I love your Law.
Therefore I will give thanks to you, LORD, among the nations, and will sing praises to your name.
Your lips are like scarlet thread. Your mouth is lovely. Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil.
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.
His armor bearer said to him, ?Do all that your heart inclines toward. Behold, I am with you, my heart is as your heart."
Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.
for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the gutters in the watering-troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
So they came up to Baal Perazim, and David struck them there; and David said, God has broken through my enemies by my hand, like a breakthrough of waters. Therefore they called the name of that place Baal Perazim.
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country; yes, I have spoken, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed, I will also do it.
Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
But he shall have control over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the riches of Egypt; and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his feet.
She wrote in the letters, saying, "Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people.
Now we pray to God that you do no evil; not that we may appear approved, but that you may do that which is honorable, though we are as reprobate.
they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand minas of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.
Wail, you shepherds, and cry; and wallow in dust, you principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and you shall fall like a goodly vessel.
Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron, and said, "Thus says the LORD, 'With these you shall push the Syrians, until they are consumed.'"
Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-Ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.
He called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren Happuch.
Let the sea roar, and its fullness. Let the field exult, and all that is therein.
and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty leaders of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown;
Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."
Absalom and all the men of Israel said, "The counsel of Hushai the Archite is better than the counsel of Ahithophel." For the LORD had ordained to defeat the good counsel of Ahithophel, to the intent that the LORD might bring evil on Absalom.
For this cause I write these things while absent, that I may not deal sharply when present, according to the authority which the Lord gave me for building up, and not for tearing down.
So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, the cave which was in it, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all of its borders, were deeded
Behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth shined with his glory.
The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
Every bed whereon she lies all the days of her discharge shall be to her as the bed of her period: and everything whereon she sits shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her period.
He, casting away his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.
"Speak to Aaron, and to his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: 'This is the thing which the LORD has commanded,
none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.
and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
She took off of her the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn't given to him as a wife.
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. LORD, you preserve man and animal.
"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.
The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
"Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
and it went out southward of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about to Karka;
Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's place in Jerusalem.
Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and set before them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
It shall be eaten on the same day; you shall leave none of it until the morning. I am the LORD.
He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
The sun rose on him as he passed over Peniel, and he limped because of his thigh.
"Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, 'Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest."'
Set up a standard in the land, blow the trumpet among the nations, prepare the nations against her, call together against her the kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz: appoint a marshal against her; cause the horses to come up as the rough canker worm.
Praise the LORD. Praise the name of the LORD. Praise him, you servants of the LORD,
She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me." He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
Immediately the one who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will Shaddai pervert justice.
because they did not meet the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, to curse them: however our God turned the curse into a blessing.
When they came to the threshing floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled.
She said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: 'Tell the man who sent you to me,
Then Job answered,
So the priests, and the Levites, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, lived in their cities. When the seventh month had come, the children of Israel were in their cities.
David said to Ahimelech, "Isn't there here under your hand spear or sword? For I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste."
You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field.
Abijah stood up on Mount Zemaraim, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, and said, "Hear me, Jeroboam and all Israel:
They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
The heads of the ancestral houses of the family of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near, and spoke before Moses, and before the leaders, the heads of the ancestral houses of the children of Israel:
Reuben, the firstborn of Israel; the sons of Reuben: of Hanoch, the family of the Hanochites; of Pallu, the family of the Palluites;
Balaam said to Balak, "Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go: perhaps the LORD will come to meet me; and whatever he shows me I will tell you." He went to a bare height.
He looked at Amalek, and took up his parable, and said, "Amalek was the first of the nations, But his latter end shall come to destruction."
Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
There are, it may be, so many kinds of sounds in the world, and none is without meaning.
When I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of those who were with me, I came into Damascus.
Get up, lift up the boy, and hold him in your hand. For I will make him a great nation."
"Behold, God is mighty, and doesn't despise anyone. He is mighty in strength of understanding.
He burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.
"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?'
There shall dwell in his tent that which is none of his. Sulfur shall be scattered on his habitation.
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made a proclamation, and said, "Tomorrow shall be a feast to the LORD."
Saul sent messengers to David's house, to watch him, and to kill him in the morning. Michal, David's wife, told him, saying, "If you do not save your life tonight, tomorrow you will be killed."
and it shall be to him, and to his seed after him, the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the children of Israel.'"
Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother, answered, "Do not let my lord suppose that they have killed all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead; for by the appointment of Absalom this has been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by."
For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it."
But the LORD was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
"But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them will be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land in which you dwell.
"But when the farmers saw him, they reasoned among themselves, saying, 'This is the heir. Let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.'
Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages.
and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.
So the commanding officer let the young man go, charging him, "Tell no one that you have revealed these things to me."
Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him." They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up. Get up. He is calling you."
The high priest stood up, and said to him, "Have you no answer? What is this that these testify against you?"
"'Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
This will be written for the generation to come, that a people yet to be created may praise the LORD.
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains: for the LORD will destroy the Philistines, the remnant of the isle of Caphtor.
But you shall be named the priests of the LORD; men will call you the ministers of our God: you will eat the wealth of the nations, and you will boast in their glory.
May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
Do not give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
LORD, do not rebuke me in your wrath, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the king's son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.
He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
They encamped one over against the other seven days. So it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined; and the children of Israel killed one hundred thousand footmen of the Syrians in one day.
When they brought out the money that was brought into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the LORD given by Moses.
"'If a man dedicates to the LORD part of the field of his possession, then your valuation shall be according to the seed for it: the sowing of a homer of barley shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver.
Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the City of David his father; Jehoram his son reigned in his place.
Saul asked counsel of God, "Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will you deliver them into the hand of Israel?" But he did not answer him that day.
After him was Eleazar the son of Dodai the son of an Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines who were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away.
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill some of the people, as at other times, on the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
and be ready against the third day; for on the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
The LORD will command the blessing on you in your barns, and in all that you put your hand to; and he will bless you in the land which the LORD your God gives you.
all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only you allocate it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
"I have made the earth, the men and the animals that are on the surface of the earth, by my great power and by my outstretched arm; and I give it to whom it seems right to me.
"Thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because Edom has dealt against the house of Judah by taking vengeance, and has greatly offended, and revenged himself on them';
Of Damascus. "Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.
Who has raised up one from the east? Whom he called to his foot in righteousness? He hands over nations to him, and makes him rule over kings. He gives them like the dust to his sword, like the driven stubble to his bow.
From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, The LORD's name is to be praised.
Thus said the LORD: "Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,
The LORD has done great things for us, and we are glad.
KAPH. My soul faints for your salvation. I hope in your word.
The dead do not praise the LORD, neither any who go down into silence;
Then you spoke in vision to your holy ones, and said, "I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.
(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
I am not worthy of the least of all the loving kindnesses, and of all the truth, which you have shown to your servant; for with just my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I have become two companies.
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood; you have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,' says the Lord GOD.
If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;
and said to the judges, "Consider what you do: for you do not judge for man, but for the LORD; and he is with you in the judgment.
"These shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people, when you have passed over the Jordan: Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin.
She girds her waist with strength, and makes her arms strong.
He did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, who came from the service of the war.
The LORD spoke to Moses that same day, saying,
A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart.
Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells at your left hand, she and her daughters; and your younger sister, who dwells at your right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.
Go through the gates, prepare the way of the people. Build up, build up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up a banner for the peoples.
Now it happened in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the chief officers of the king, and ten men with him, came to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and there they ate bread together in Mizpah.
and shall return to the LORD your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;
The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
"Behold, I cry out 'Injustice.' but there is no justice.
David went and took the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son from the men of Jabesh Gilead, who had stolen them from the street of Beth Shan, where the Philistines had hanged them, in the day that the Philistines killed Saul in Gilboa;
Else if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
They said, "Stand back." They said, "This one fellow came in to live as a foreigner, and he appoints himself a judge. Now will we deal worse with you, than with them." They pressed hard on the man Lot, and drew near to break the door.
There is also a difference between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman cares about the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit. But she who is married cares about the things of the world?how she may please her husband.
So the people went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was in the forest of Ephraim.
The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
who say, Stand by yourself, do not come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Moses alone shall come near to the LORD, but they shall not come near, neither shall the people go up with him."
Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
"You, son of man, thus says the Lord GOD: Speak to the birds of every sort, and to every animal of the field, 'Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for you, even a great sacrifice on the mountains of Israel, that you may eat flesh and drink blood.
For though he may cause grief, yet he will have compassion according to the abundance of his loving kindness.
amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Then I said, "Ah, Lord GOD. Behold, the prophets tell them, 'You shall not see the sword, neither shall you have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.'"
My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in safe dwellings, and in quiet resting places.
Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
Your body is like a round goblet, no mixed wine is wanting. Your waist is like a heap of wheat, set about with lilies.
For it is a fire that consumes to destruction, and would root out all my increase.
If there is among you any man who is not clean by reason of that which happens him by night, then shall he go outside of the camp. He shall not come within the camp:
Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, with stringed instruments and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
"Therefore do my thoughts give answer to me, even by reason of my haste that is in me.
The Levites: the children of Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy-four.
As soon as the boy was gone, David arose from beside the mound, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three times. They kissed one another, and wept one with another, and David wept the most.
Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah,
It happened the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying,
But his father and his mother did not know that it was of the LORD, for he sought for an opportunity against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, "It is not me, is it, Lord?"
The priest shall examine him on the seventh day. If it has spread in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is the plague of leprosy.
and they played the prostitute in Egypt; they played the prostitute in their youth; there were their breasts pressed, and there was handled the bosom of their virginity.
The incense which you shall make, according to its composition you shall not make for yourselves: it shall be to you holy for the LORD.
I will send an angel before you; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.'
"'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs shall use this proverb against you, saying, "As is the mother, so is her daughter."
Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, and doesn't respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.
who show loving kindness to thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the Great, the Mighty God, the LORD of hosts is his name;
I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters; and they shall eat everyone the flesh of his friend, in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, shall distress them."'
Do not forsake your friend and your father's friend. Do not go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.
Of Egypt: concerning the army of Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon struck in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah.
therefore I will also uncover your skirts on your face, and your shame shall appear.
Hear my prayer, LORD. Let my cry come to you.
"Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars, and stretches her wings toward the south?
David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
"Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding is ready, but those who were invited weren't worthy.
who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Mattithiah, one of the Levites, who was the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, had the office of trust over the things that were baked in pans.
As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
The LORD said to me, "They have well said that which they have spoken.
I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set fir trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
and Ishbibenob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being armed with a new sword, thought to have slain David.
Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that the LORD has blessed me for your sake."
for the crowd of the people followed after, crying out, "Away with him."
Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God.
"Attend to me, my people; and give ear to me, my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.
I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the islands; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth."
Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
For you, God, have tested us. You have refined us, as silver is refined.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
"Remember this, and show yourselves men; bring it again to mind, you transgressors.
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.
You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
all this, king, does Araunah give to the king." Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."
and wine for the drink offering, the fourth part of a hin, you shall prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
'Cursed is he who sets light by his father or his mother.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'
So I brought him to your disciples, and they could not cure him."
"Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.
Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
"Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Therefore do not be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says the LORD; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.
But Rabshakeh said, "Has my master sent me only to your master and to you, to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, who will eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?"
In my distress, I cried to the LORD. He answered me.
Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.
They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
She said to him, "My father, since you have given your word to the LORD; do to me as you promised, because the LORD has taken vengeance for you on your enemies, even on the children of Ammon."
It shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off. He shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his body in water, then he shall be clean.
Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.
A servant who deals wisely will rule over a son who causes shame, and shall have a part in the inheritance among the brothers.
So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.
"Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, when he shall come out of a far country for your name's sake
Barzillai said to the king, "How many are the days of the years of my life, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?
But you be strong, and do not let your hands be slack; for your work shall be rewarded."
then hear in heaven, and do, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
He said, "O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
Balaam said to Balak, "Behold, I have come to you: have I now any power at all to speak anything? The word that God puts in my mouth, that shall I speak."
He said to him, "If your presence doesn't go with me, do not carry us up from here.
These are the statutes, ordinances and laws, which the LORD made between him and the children of Israel in Mount Sinai by Moses.
who brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. I am the LORD."
It shall be on Aaron to minister: and its sound shall be heard when he goes in to the holy place before the LORD, and when he comes out, that he not die.
"Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Paul summoned one of the centurions, and said, "Bring this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to tell him."
Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'
Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.
As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover to an obedient ear.
We can't reach Shaddai. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.
Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."
Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: "This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God."
Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the abundance of your house. You will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.
Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.
"A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.
David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it; and it was set on David's head: and he brought forth the spoil of the city, a very great amount.
"Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
Of the sons of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, Shimei.
"'In the beginnings of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young bulls, and one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;
As Jehu entered in at the gate, she said, "Do you come in peace, Zimri, you murderer of your master?"
But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out, and spoke to the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept until I could send him to Caesar."
He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go see." When they knew, they said, "Five, and two fish."
The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, Neither shall it be valued with pure gold.
I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness," says the LORD.
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
The peaceable folds are brought to silence because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah: "they shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah my brother. or, Ah sister.' They shall not lament for him, saying, 'Ah lord.' or, 'Ah his glory.'
Righteousness guards the way of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.
Your head on you is like Carmel. The hair of your head like purple. The king is held captive in its tresses.
My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother.
It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.
"Are you the first man who was born? Or were you brought forth before the hills?
The LORD said to Moses, "Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to the LORD before the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel."
He took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
For the LORD brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed severely against the LORD.
He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
All Israel that were around them fled at their cry; for they said, "Lest the earth swallow us up."
It happened, after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, "When I am dead, then bury me in the tomb in which the man of God is buried. Lay my bones beside his bones.
Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of the LORD.
and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered into the holy city and appeared to many.
Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the LORD.
Sing, you heavens, for the LORD has done it. Shout, you lower parts of the earth. Break out into singing, you mountains, O forest, all of your trees, for the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and will glorify himself in Israel.
How well you prepare your way to seek love. Therefore you have taught even the wicked women your ways.
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.
Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He answered, "I have found you, because you have sold yourself to do that which is evil in the sight of the LORD.
Now when all this was finished, all Israel who were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the Asherim, and broke down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.
The staff of his spear was like a weaver's beam; and his spear's head weighed six hundred shekels of iron: and his shield bearer went before him.
"But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.
On that day were men appointed over the rooms for the treasures, for the wave offerings, for the first fruits, and for the tithes, to gather into them, according to the fields of the cities, the portions appointed by the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the priests and for the Levites who waited.
In overflowing wrath I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting loving kindness will I have mercy on you," says the LORD your Redeemer.
Yet for all this, we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our leaders, our Levites, and our priests, seal it."
"Aaron shall offer the bull of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make atonement for himself and for his house.
and the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
David struck Hadadezer king of Zobah to Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
After him was Shammah the son of Agee a Hararite. The Philistines were gathered together into a troop, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils; and the people fled from the Philistines.
That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length in an acre of land.
Israel set ambushes all around Gibeah.
that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you.
Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him," says the LORD.
Of Asher he said, "Asher is blessed with children. Let him be acceptable to his brothers. Let him dip his foot in oil.
then the priest shall examine the plague; and behold, if its appearance is deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is an itch, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.
He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the loving kindness of the LORD.
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, 'Absalom is king in Hebron.'"
He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.
As they stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;
"Let them therefore," said he, "that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him."
But, that I do not delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.
You are happy, Israel. Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency. Your enemies shall submit themselves to you. You shall tread on their high places."