Another one said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.’

Ishmerai, Izliah and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Besides, whom should I serve? Should I not serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’

So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach.Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

And He said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.

Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

Then Elijah said to the people, “I alone am left a prophet of the Lord, but Baal’s prophets are 450 men.

Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

Did the Lord rage against the rivers,
Or was Your anger against the rivers,
Or was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
On Your chariots of salvation?

“From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshipers, My dispersed ones,
Will bring My offerings.

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord, or sacrifice in your land,

Then Aaron’s sons shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Also the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren who kept watch at the gates, were 172.

These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men.

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.

For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh,

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.

But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

Peter said, “Behold, we have left our own homes and followed You.”

Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

“So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,
But would not be satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.

Then I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, by profaning the sabbath day?

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah:

When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

The heads of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to praise and give thanks, as prescribed by David the man of God, division corresponding to division.

The Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

You shall put in the breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.

For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.

He said, “Which way shall we go up?” And he answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”

For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.’”

Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For the ark of God was at that time with the sons of Israel.

They shall perform the duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

then he said to them, “This is what the Lord meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord.

But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?”

I have directed you in the way of wisdom;
I have led you in upright paths.

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him?

When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.

“Will not your creditors rise up suddenly,
And those who collect from you awaken?
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

Haman controlled himself, however, went to his house and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.

thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.

and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah. But the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a footstep because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, is to fall down and worship the golden image.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?

for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.

And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.

And Huram by his servants sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,
And together they are against Judah.
In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.

He who despises his neighbor sins,
But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

Now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son.

And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,

But each one must examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another.

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

Also every contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they offer to the priest, shall be his.

But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.’”

Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever?

Hold them guilty, O God;
By their own devices let them fall!
In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out,
For they are rebellious against You.

All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

When Jesus came into the official’s house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,

Then King Darius issued a decree, and search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord by him?” And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”

of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

She said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers,

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

Joktan became the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

Therefore when we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone,

They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.

They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat;

But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,
Because he answers like wicked men.

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

The rest of Israel, of the priests and of the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own inheritance.

the sons of Zattu, 845;

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and they are there to this day.

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of Egypt.”

besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.

Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

Of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100.

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

Next Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns of the altar, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey, and there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them.

Now then, do it! For the Lord has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of My servant David I will save My people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.’”

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”

Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.”

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

so that no man may boast before God.

And He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to perform healing.

“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

But the temple servants were living in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the temple servants.

All the Levites in the holy city were 284.

the sons of Elam, 1,254;

And He wondered at their unbelief.And He was going around the villages teaching.

Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing.

Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Now the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

The gatekeepers called and told it within the king’s household.

Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.

You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

“Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.”

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.

yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And twist everything that is straight,

May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”

nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;

Now when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.

Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.

Some devout men buried Stephen, and made loud lamentation over him.

Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.

But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”

“If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,

Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.” And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

Do not be among those who give pledges,
Among those who become guarantors for debts.

Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses.

Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?”

And hearing this, the ten became indignant with the two brothers.

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

“Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

Also the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Take hold of instruction; do not let go.
Guard her, for she is your life.

so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth your maid. So spread your covering over your maid, for you are a close relative.”

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

Of the sons of Levi 4,600.

Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have slain one another. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”

Then I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I appointed two great choirs, the first proceeding to the right on top of the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.

Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” And they said, “They were like you, each one resembling the son of a king.”

The burden of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord),

At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

But someone came and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”

“Is it that my help is not within me,
And that deliverance is driven from me?

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to oversee the work of the house of the Lord.

Masters, grant to your slaves justice and fairness, knowing that you too have a Master in heaven.

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

And he summoned one of the servants and began inquiring what these things could be.

“I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers;
Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.

So he invited them in and gave them lodging.And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.

and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

And a centurion’s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.

When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,

Carry no money belt, no bag, no shoes; and greet no one on the way.

And when He came out onto the land, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed with demons; and who had not put on any clothing for a long time, and was not living in a house, but in the tombs.

“When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”

Having arrested Him, they led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.

But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb
Which he bought and nourished;
And it grew up together with him and his children.
It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,
And was like a daughter to him.

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

if service, in his serving; or he who teaches, in his teaching;

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

the sons of Zattu, 945;

When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and made them commit a great sin.

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

The priest is to put on his linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next to his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one who breathed.

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”

Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

They who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,

Because of this the king became indignant and very furious and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

“The caravans of Tema looked,
The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.

Calling to those who pass by,
Who are making their paths straight:

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,

‘You shall break them with a rod of iron,
You shall shatter them like earthenware.’”

Now from the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

He said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” And he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them.”

The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Dara; five of them in all.

However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.”

“In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint from thirst.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

The words of the wise heard in quietness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their orders for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

There I have set the ark in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the sons of Israel.”

But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’

Seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me.”

“Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day.

But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and became subject to forced labor.

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.

For it is not you who speak, but it is the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

and 72,000 cattle,

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.”

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception,” declares the Lord.

Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”

“It shall come about in that day,” declares the Lord, “that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded.”

And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,
And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,
But a man of understanding walks straight.

“Until the cool of the day
When the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire which she requested besides a return for what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her own land with her servants.

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

“Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have dealt with him as he deserved—

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”

When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, they told Joab, saying, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”

And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him.

Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David;
Hosanna in the highest!”

They will eat, but not have enough;
They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord.

and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.

But the saints of the Highest One will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.’

And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

The sons of Judah who bore shield and spear were 6,800, equipped for war.

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one’; and the other says, ‘No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.”

Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.

Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.”

The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

When they came down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall, and that no breach remained in it, although at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace’; whereas a sword touches the throat.”

Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the storehouses.

Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.

One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

The servant in charge of the reapers replied, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint them a king.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”

Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I am not going to give you any straw.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go.

and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.

For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.

“While I was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.

“Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

As for them, whether they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

“Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”
And to him who lacks understanding she says,

They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet.

Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

But the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day.

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.

only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.

So they killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was no remnant left him; and they possessed his land.

Then Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer.

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;

For we wanted to come to you—I, Paul, more than once—and yet Satan hindered us.

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.

“And now many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes gloat over Zion.’

All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”’”

And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.

If the man said to him, “They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

Then he said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.

Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king please speak.”

and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’

Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all!

For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.

For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.

“But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last; and great fear came over all who heard of it.

Then he said to me, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”

but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

“Stolen water is sweet;
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary with holding it in.
“Pour it out on the children in the street
And on the gathering of young men together;
For both husband and wife shall be taken,
The aged and the very old.

“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
As to what you will tell him:
For I am lovesick.”

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words are not heeded.

Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city and every man to his country.”

So the sons of the singers were assembled from the district around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites,

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,

But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”

Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.”

He also took all the fat that was on the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar.

While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;

Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows.

and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.”

But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”

You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but none of your labor will be reduced.’”

Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this.

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

“Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile,
And set you up as a spectacle.

the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

But the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’

“As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt,
I will show you miracles.”

Should good be repaid with evil?
For they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their speech and their actions are against the Lord,
To rebel against His glorious presence.

A man has joy in an apt answer,
And how delightful is a timely word!

“But it is still my consolation,
And I rejoice in unsparing pain,
That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

And He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

“The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.

O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.

Then Joram said, “Get ready.” And they made his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good work and word.

See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.