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13004

“As for you, lie down on your left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel on it; you shall bear their iniquity for the number of days that you lie on it.

13006

The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has thrown down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

13007

Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;

13008

However, if you have warned the righteous man that the righteous should not sin and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; and you have delivered yourself.”

13010

and say, ‘You, O Lord, have promised concerning this place to cut it off, so that there will be nothing dwelling in it, whether man or beast, but it will be a perpetual desolation.’

13011

You called as in the day of an appointed feast
My terrors on every side;
And there was no one who escaped or survived
In the day of the Lord’s anger.
Those whom I bore and reared,
My enemy annihilated them.

13012

But desert creatures will lie down there,
And their houses will be full of owls;
Ostriches also will live there, and shaggy goats will frolic there.

13013

Its arrows are sharp and all its bows are bent;
The hoofs of its horses seem like flint and its chariot wheels like a whirlwind.

13014

“An appalling and horrible thing
Has happened in the land:

13015

“Why do you contend with Me?
You have all transgressed against Me,” declares the Lord.

13017

He will die for lack of instruction,
And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.

13018

Your men will fall by the sword
And your mighty ones in battle.

13019

“When I lie down I say,
‘When shall I arise?’
But the night continues,
And I am continually tossing until dawn.

13020

Enjoy life with the woman whom you love all the days of your fleeting life which He has given to you under the sun; for this is your reward in life and in your toil in which you have labored under the sun.

13021

For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

13022

“You forever overpower him and he departs;
You change his appearance and send him away.

13023

It is God who removes the mountains, they know not how,
When He overturns them in His anger;

13024

“Does the wild donkey bray over his grass,
Or does the ox low over his fodder?

13025

So the king commanded that it should be done so; and an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman’s ten sons were hanged.

13026

So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.

13027

When our enemies heard that it was known to us, and that God had frustrated their plan, then all of us returned to the wall, each one to his work.

13028

After him Baruch the son of Zabbai zealously repaired another section, from the Angle to the doorway of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

13029

Whatever seems good to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, you may do according to the will of your God.

13030

Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

13031

Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

13032

Blessed be the Lord your God who delighted in you, setting you on His throne as king for the Lord your God; because your God loved Israel establishing them forever, therefore He made you king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”

13033

and Baalath and all the storage cities that Solomon had, and all the cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen, and all that it pleased Solomon to build in Jerusalem, in Lebanon, and in all the land under his rule.

13034

whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel, each knowing his own affliction and his own pain, and spreading his hands toward this house,

13035

The pails, the shovels, the forks and all its utensils, Huram-abi made of polished bronze for King Solomon for the house of the Lord.

13036

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

13037

All the men of Israel assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that is in the seventh month.

13038

So he was hidden with her in the house of the Lord six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

13039

Now it happened after many days that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, “Go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth.”

13040

When the queen of Sheba perceived all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,

13041

for the twentieth to Eliathah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

13042

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

13043

For they would come up with their livestock and their tents, they would come in like locusts for number, both they and their camels were innumerable; and they came into the land to devastate it.

13044

Jerahmeel had another wife, whose name was Atarah; she was the mother of Onam.

13045

Now it came about in the third year of Hoshea, the son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah became king.

13046

All the doorways and doorposts had squared artistic frames, and window was opposite window in three ranks.

13047

“Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers!
I—to the Lord, I will sing,
I will sing praise to the Lord, the God of Israel.

13048

This was the design of the stands: they had borders, even borders between the frames,

13049

And He took him outside and said, “Now look toward the heavens, and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And He said to him, “So shall your descendants be.”

13050

When the men of Ai turned back and looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or that, for the people who had been fleeing to the wilderness turned against the pursuers.

13051

Now Joab was over the whole army of Israel, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites;

13052

When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and behold, the doors of the roof chamber were locked; and they said, “He is only relieving himself in the cool room.”

13053

Then the priest shall present them before the Lord and shall offer his sin offering and his burnt offering.

13054

Now as for the flesh of the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offerings, it shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it over until morning.

13056

Then they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient because of the journey.

13057

And behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” And he entered with her, and behold Sisera was lying dead with the tent peg in his temple.

13058

“This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to present to the Lord on the day when he is anointed; the tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening.

13059

Do not fear them, for the Lord your God is the one fighting for you.’

13060

The priest shall take the grain offering of jealousy from the woman’s hand, and he shall wave the grain offering before the Lord and bring it to the altar;

13061

Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether a carcass of an unclean beast or the carcass of unclean cattle or a carcass of unclean swarming things, though it is hidden from him and he is unclean, then he will be guilty.

13062

the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

13063

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

13064

Now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon you, and you will be blind and not see the sun for a time.” And immediately a mist and a darkness fell upon him, and he went about seeking those who would lead him by the hand.

13065

until the Lord gives rest to your fellow countrymen as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them beyond the Jordan. Then you may return every man to his possession which I have given you.’

13066

He said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said to him, “No, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”

13067

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.

13068

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having won over the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

13069

“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

13070

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

13071

Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him.

13072

Now he arose that same night and took his two wives and his two maids and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

13073

Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.

13074

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,To the church of God which is at Corinth with all the saints who are throughout Achaia:

13075

For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.

13076

Moreover, the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty when He speaks.

13077

Simon Peter *said to Him, “Lord, where are You going?” Jesus answered, Where I go, you cannot follow Me now; but you will follow later.”

13078

The scribe said to Him, “Right, Teacher; You have truly stated that He is One, and there is no one else besides Him;

13079

While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him.

13080

He came up to the ram that had the two horns, which I had seen standing in front of the canal, and rushed at him in his mighty wrath.

13081

And He spoke to the man clothed in linen and said, “Enter between the whirling wheels under the cherubim and fill your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And he entered in my sight.

13082

“Is My inheritance like a speckled bird of prey to Me?
Are the birds of prey against her on every side?
Go, gather all the beasts of the field,
Bring them to devour!

13083

So it will be a reproach, a reviling, a warning and an object of horror to the nations who surround you when I execute judgments against you in anger, wrath and raging rebukes. I, the Lord, have spoken.

13084

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,
Who dwells in the land of Uz;
But the cup will come around to you as well,
You will become drunk and make yourself naked.

13085

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed,
Was captured in their pits,
Of whom we had said, “Under his shadow
We shall live among the nations.”

13086

Let them be yours alone
And not for strangers with you.

13087

‘Your iniquities have turned these away,
And your sins have withheld good from you.

13088

and say to him, ‘Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stubs of smoldering firebrands, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah.

13089

“When they become waterless, they are silent,
When it is hot, they vanish from their place.

13090

“For this the earth shall mourn
And the heavens above be dark,
Because I have spoken, I have purposed,
And I will not change My mind, nor will I turn from it.”

13091

Then the Almighty will be your gold
And choice silver to you.

13092

“As a slave who pants for the shade,
And as a hired man who eagerly waits for his wages,

13093

And her gates will lament and mourn,
And deserted she will sit on the ground.

13094

So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

13095

the young lady would go in to the king in this way: anything that she desired was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

13096

Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have been unfaithful and have married foreign wives adding to the guilt of Israel.

13097

The temple servants living in Ophel made repairs as far as the front of the Water Gate toward the east and the projecting tower.

13098

Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his task,

13099

Malchijah the son of Rechab, the official of the district of Beth-haccherem repaired the Refuse Gate. He built it and hung its doors with its bolts and its bars.

13100

Daniel, Ginnethon, Baruch,

13102

Then she gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold and a very great amount of spices and precious stones; there had never been spice like that which the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

13103

the sons of Kiriath-arim, Chephirah and Beeroth, 743;

13104

and Hashabiah and Jeshaiah of the sons of Merari, with his brothers and their sons, 20 men;

13105

When the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house which he had built,

13106

How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

13107

So he went with them; and when they came to the Jordan, they cut down trees.

13108

Now figures like oxen were under it and all around it, ten cubits, entirely encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast in one piece.

13109

And you shall go in and shut the door behind you and your sons, and pour out into all these vessels, and you shall set aside what is full.”

13110

just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.

13111

The king said to Hazael, “Take a gift in your hand and go to meet the man of God, and inquire of the Lord by him, saying, ‘Will I recover from this sickness?’”

13112

And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them, therefore the Lord has brought all this adversity on them.’”

13113

So Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, and conquered Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, besides all the land of Naphtali.

13114

then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

13115

Then it happened as often as the king entered the house of the Lord, that the guards would carry them and would bring them back into the guards’ room.

13116

The men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire.

13117

Then he spoke to his sons, saying, “Saddle the donkey for me.” And they saddled it.

13118

Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

13119

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

13120

Again he prostrated himself and said, “What is your servant, that you should regard a dead dog like me?”

13121

The priest shall take the ram’s shoulder when it has been boiled, and one unleavened cake out of the basket and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them on the hands of the Nazirite after he has shaved his dedicated hair.

13122

Then David came to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone and no one with you?”

13123

And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” And He *said, “Write, for these words are faithful and true.”

13124

So he said to Jether his firstborn, “Rise, kill them.” But the youth did not draw his sword, for he was afraid, because he was still a youth.

13125

So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

13126

But the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, so that through me the proclamation might be fully accomplished, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was rescued out of the lion’s mouth.

13127

So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.

13128

Of the first of your dough you shall lift up a cake as an offering; as the offering of the threshing floor, so you shall lift it up.

13129

The magicians did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up on the land of Egypt.

13130

He put the tunic on him and girded him with the sash, and clothed him with the robe and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the artistic band of the ephod, with which he tied it to him.

13132

It came about when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks as before.

13133

that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord.’”

13134

‘This is the law of jealousy: when a wife, being under the authority of her husband, goes astray and defiles herself,

13135

Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have sworn to the Lord God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,

13136

In the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, there were 8,600, performing the duties of the sanctuary.

13137

We must go a three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He commands us.”

13138

He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.

13140

and for many days He appeared to those who came up with Him from Galilee to Jerusalem, the very ones who are now His witnesses to the people.

13141

But Peter sent them all out and knelt down and prayed, and turning to the body, he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter, she sat up.

13142

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

13143

Simon Peter then, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s slave, and cut off his right ear; and the slave’s name was Malchus.

13144

And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

13145

And He spoke many things to them in parables, saying, “Behold, the sower went out to sow;

13146

And the jailer reported these words to Paul, saying, “The chief magistrates have sent to release you. Therefore come out now and go in peace.”

13147

When they had carried out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb.

13148

Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread out of heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread out of heaven.

13149

and from inside he answers and says, ‘Do not bother me; the door has already been shut and my children and I are in bed; I cannot get up and give you anything.’

13150

Yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”

13151

As Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant-girls of the high priest *came,

13153

But woe to you who are rich, for you are receiving your comfort in full.

13154

Jesus withdrew to the sea with His disciples; and a great multitude from Galilee followed; and also from Judea,

13155

I saw him come beside the ram, and he was enraged at him; and he struck the ram and shattered his two horns, and the ram had no strength to withstand him. So he hurled him to the ground and trampled on him, and there was none to rescue the ram from his power.

13156

But I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, I have never been defiled; for from my youth until now I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has any unclean meat ever entered my mouth.”

13157

Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over the sea and came to His own city.

13158

From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

13159

The Lord God of hosts,
The One who touches the land so that it melts,
And all those who dwell in it mourn,
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

13160

Therefore, son of man, prepare for yourself baggage for exile and go into exile by day in their sight; even go into exile from your place to another place in their sight. Perhaps they will understand though they are a rebellious house.

13161

‘Thus My anger will be spent and I will satisfy My wrath on them, and I will be appeased; then they will know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My zeal when I have spent My wrath upon them.

13162

He said to me, “Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you.” Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.

13163

Then the Lord said, “Thus will the sons of Israel eat their bread unclean among the nations where I will banish them.”

13164

Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let your eyes have no rest.

13165

As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the hoe, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample.

13166

“I have made you an assayer and a tester among My people,
That you may know and assay their way.”

13167

for before the boy knows how to cry out ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

13168

Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter’s hand
And like a bird from the hand of the fowler.

13169

I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” but it was far from me.

13170

Because all his days his task is painful and grievous; even at night his mind does not rest. This too is vanity.

13171

It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise man
Than for one to listen to the song of fools.

13172

Whatever exists has already been named, and it is known what man is; for he cannot dispute with him who is stronger than he is.

13173

At whatever place you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”

13174

and 20 gold bowls worth 1,000 darics, and two utensils of fine shiny bronze, precious as gold.

13175

Next to him Ezer the son of Jeshua, the official of Mizpah, repaired another section in front of the ascent of the armory at the Angle.

13176

If your sons sinned against Him,
Then He delivered them into the power of their transgression.

13177

And they observed the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy, for the Lord had caused them to rejoice, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to encourage them in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

13178

the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

13179

the men of Michmas, 122;

13180

the men of Anathoth, 128;

13181

Adoraim, Lachish, Azekah,

13182

So He said, “Go forth and stand on the mountain before the Lord.” And behold, the Lord was passing by! And a great and strong wind was rending the mountains and breaking in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind. And after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.

13183

Elisha saw it and cried out, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!” And he saw Elijah no more. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.

13184

namely, from their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel had not destroyed, them Solomon raised as forced laborers to this day.

13185

The water flowed around the altar and he also filled the trench with water.

13186

So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

13187

The sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada. And the sons of Shammai were Nadab and Abishur.

13188

Two parts of you, even all who go out on the sabbath, shall also keep watch over the house of the Lord for the king.

13189

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

13190

If we say, ‘We will enter the city,’ then the famine is in the city and we will die there; and if we sit here, we die also. Now therefore come, and let us go over to the camp of the Arameans. If they spare us, we will live; and if they kill us, we will but die.”

13191

Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.

13192

Micaiah said, “If you indeed return safely the Lord has not spoken by me.” And he said, “Listen, all you people.”

13193

Thus also he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

13194

Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

13195

Now each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles, and its four feet had supports; beneath the basin were cast supports with wreaths at each side.

13196

He overlaid the floor of the house with gold, inner and outer sanctuaries.

13197

When they told it to David, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

13198

in order to change the appearance of things your servant Joab has done this thing. But my lord is wise, like the wisdom of the angel of God, to know all that is in the earth.”

13199

When they blew 300 trumpets, the Lord set the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army; and the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the edge of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.

13200

“If there is a poor man with you, one of your brothers, in any of your towns in your land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart, nor close your hand from your poor brother;

13201

Also for the house he made windows with artistic frames.

13202

The king said to Barzillai, “You cross over with me and I will sustain you in Jerusalem with me.”

13203

The Lord said to Gideon, “I will deliver you with the 300 men who lapped and will give the Midianites into your hands; so let all the other people go, each man to his home.”

13204

Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

13205

When Joab came out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, and they brought him back from the well of Sirah; but David did not know it.

13206

Are they not finding, are they not dividing the spoil?
A maiden, two maidens for every warrior;
To Sisera a spoil of dyed work,
A spoil of dyed work embroidered,
Dyed work of double embroidery on the neck of the spoiler?’

13207

Then the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven,

13208

Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, “Rise up yourself, and fall on us; for as the man, so is his strength.” So Gideon arose and killed Zebah and Zalmunna, and took the crescent ornaments which were on their camels’ necks.

13209

Then they came to the valley of Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men, with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

13210

Thus you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying water on them, and let them use a razor over their whole body and wash their clothes, and they will be clean.

13211

“The responsibility of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest is the oil for the light and the fragrant incense and the continual grain offering and the anointing oil—the responsibility of all the tabernacle and of all that is in it, with the sanctuary and its furnishings.”

13213

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will then be free and conceive children.

13214

the sons of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone. So Moses would replace the veil over his face until he went in to speak with Him.

13215

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take for yourselves handfuls of soot from a kiln, and let Moses throw it toward the sky in the sight of Pharaoh.

13216

the blind receive sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

13217

I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. Authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.

13218

Now the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

13219

Then Moses said, “Behold, I am going out from you, and I shall make supplication to the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow; only do not let Pharaoh deal deceitfully again in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.”

13220

The Lord said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward;

13221

For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time.”

13223

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes, and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

13224

It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, “Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.”

13225

to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?

13226

Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands.

13229

Greet Andronicus and Junias, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners, who are outstanding among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

13230

And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

13231

Was it not necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and to enter into His glory?”

13232

For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established;

13233

But we, going ahead to the ship, set sail for Assos, intending from there to take Paul on board; for so he had arranged it, intending himself to go by land.

13234

For some were supposing, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus was saying to him, “Buy the things we have need of for the feast”; or else, that he should give something to the poor.

13235

Or do you suppose that those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were worse culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem?

13236

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.

13238

For behold, He who forms mountains and creates the wind
And declares to man what are His thoughts,
He who makes dawn into darkness
And treads on the high places of the earth,
The Lord God of hosts is His name.

13239

A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they *seized him.

13240

And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he regretted it and went.

13241

They have set up kings, but not by Me;
They have appointed princes, but I did not know it.
With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves,
That they might be cut off.

13242

Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, the height of which was sixty cubits and its width six cubits; he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.

13243

Then the angel who was speaking with me went out and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is going forth.”

13244

My people, what have I done to you,
And how have I wearied you? Answer Me.

13245

Because you disheartened the righteous with falsehood when I did not cause him grief, but have encouraged the wicked not to turn from his wicked way and preserve his life,

13246

Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple and stood over the cherubim.

13247

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the river Chebar. Each one went straight ahead.

13248

‘Like a cage full of birds,
So their houses are full of deceit;
Therefore they have become great and rich.

13249

“Come, let us drink our fill of love until morning;
Let us delight ourselves with caresses.

13250

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “None of My words will be delayed any longer. Whatever word I speak will be performed,”’” declares the Lord God.

13251

This city will not be a pot for you, nor will you be flesh in the midst of it, but I will judge you to the border of Israel.

13252

For the brokenness of the daughter of my people I am broken;
I mourn, dismay has taken hold of me.

13253

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you dwell in this place.

13254

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
Sharp as a two-edged sword.

13255

But when I speak to you, I will open your mouth and you will say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

13256

And you, O desolate one, what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,
Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your lovers despise you;
They seek your life.

13257

Should your springs be dispersed abroad,
Streams of water in the streets?

13258

It shall come about when they say, ‘Why has the Lord our God done all these things to us?’ then you shall say to them, ‘As you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you will serve strangers in a land that is not yours.’

13259

How long must I see the standard
And hear the sound of the trumpet?

13260

Do not be a witness against your neighbor without cause,
And do not deceive with your lips.

13261

The desire of the sluggard puts him to death,
For his hands refuse to work;

13262

He read from it before the square which was in front of the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of men and women, those who could understand; and all the people were attentive to the book of the law.

13264

Heed the sound of my cry for help, my King and my God,
For to You I pray.

13265

So we carried on the work with half of them holding spears from dawn until the stars appeared.

13266

Oh that my grief were actually weighed
And laid in the balances together with my calamity!

13267

“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.

13268

The rest of the needs for the house of your God, for which you may have occasion to provide, provide for it from the royal treasury.

13269

After him their brothers carried out repairs under Bavvai the son of Henadad, official of the other half of the district of Keilah.

13270

So we boiled my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

13271

At that time Tattenai, the governor of the province beyond the River, and Shethar-bozenai and their colleagues came to them and spoke to them thus, “Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?”

13272

the sons of Azmaveth, 42;

13273

Nevertheless I did not believe the reports, until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity the report which I heard.

13274

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.

13275

“Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin, saying,

13276

For the whole house of Ahab shall perish, and I will cut off from Ahab every male person both bond and free in Israel.

13277

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

13278

The mother of the lad said, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” And he arose and followed her.

13279

It stood on twelve oxen, three facing north, three facing west, three facing south, and three facing east; and the sea was set on top of them, and all their rear parts turned inward.

13280

Please run now to meet her and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?’” And she answered, “It is well.”

13281

The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.

13282

Now Barzillai was very old, being eighty years old; and he had sustained the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

13283

They waited until they became anxious; but behold, he did not open the doors of the roof chamber. Therefore they took the key and opened them, and behold, their master had fallen to the floor dead.

13284

“It shall not seem hard to you when you set him free, for he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man; so the Lord your God will bless you in whatever you do.

13285

Then Joab came to the king and said, “What have you done? Behold, Abner came to you; why then have you sent him away and he is already gone?

13286

Then Ibzan died and was buried in Bethlehem.

13287

Now Gideon had seventy sons who were his direct descendants, for he had many wives.

13288

Not one of these men, this evil generation, shall see the good land which I swore to give your fathers,

13289

The priest shall have her take an oath and shall say to the woman, “If no man has lain with you and if you have not gone astray into uncleanness, being under the authority of your husband, be immune to this water of bitterness that brings a curse;

13293

Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel to the Levites; according to all that the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel did to them.

13294

but what is left over from the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.

13295

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

13296

You are not to eat any blood, either of bird or animal, in any of your dwellings.

13297

He shall make restitution for that which he has sinned against the holy thing, and shall add to it a fifth part of it and give it to the priest. The priest shall then make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and it will be forgiven him.

13298

and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, in front of the veil.

13301

For the Law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the Law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever.

13302

He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar which is before the Lord in the tent of meeting; and all the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering which is at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

13303

in which also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,

13304

And,
You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the works of Your hands;

13305

but he who paid no regard to the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.

13306

But Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we will sacrifice to the Lord our God what is an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice what is an abomination to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not then stone us?

13309

but at the proper time manifested, even His word, in the proclamation with which I was entrusted according to the commandment of God our Savior,

13311

Be on guard against him yourself, for he vigorously opposed our teaching.

13312

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

13313

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

13314

For He had not yet fallen upon any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

13315

And there he spent three months, and when a plot was formed against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he decided to return through Macedonia.

13316

When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

13317

And having spent some time there, he left and passed successively through the Galatian region and Phrygia, strengthening all the disciples.

13318

When they had read it, they rejoiced because of its encouragement.

13319

And they said to Him, “The disciples of John often fast and offer prayers, the disciples of the Pharisees also do the same, but Yours eat and drink.”

13321

John was clothed with camel’s hair and wore a leather belt around his waist, and his diet was locusts and wild honey.

13322

and led Him to Annas first; for he was father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year.

13323

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

13324

His disciples *said, “Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech.

13325

And He was saying to them, You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

13326

Two others also, who were criminals, were being led away to be put to death with Him.

13327

When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

13329

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!

13330

“But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, commits iniquity and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, will he live? All his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered for his treachery which he has committed and his sin which he has committed; for them he will die.

13331

He stretched out the form of a hand and caught me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner court, where the seat of the idol of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy, was located.

13332

therefore, you women will no longer see false visions or practice divination, and I will deliver My people out of your hand. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.”

13333

Then I told the exiles all the things that the Lord had shown me.

13334

Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

13335

The measuring line will go out farther straight ahead to the hill Gareb; then it will turn to Goah.

13336

For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem,
Break up your fallow ground,
And do not sow among thorns.

13337

Ezra the scribe stood at a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam on his left hand.

13338

“And I set watchmen over you, saying,
‘Listen to the sound of the trumpet!’
But they said, ‘We will not listen.’

13339

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men—

13340

I have seen all the living under the sun throng to the side of the second lad who replaces him.

13341

“For then it would be heavier than the sand of the seas;
Therefore my words have been rash.

13342

Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

13343

So Haman took the robe and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king desires to honor.”

13344

Also the gold and silver utensils of the house of God which Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, and brought them to the temple of Babylon, these King Cyrus took from the temple of Babylon and they were given to one whose name was Sheshbazzar, whom he had appointed governor.

13345

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

13346

“You, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the River, even all those who know the laws of your God; and you may teach anyone who is ignorant of them.

13347

with whom the Lord made a covenant and commanded them, saying, “You shall not fear other gods, nor bow down yourselves to them nor serve them nor sacrifice to them.

13348

So the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves and said, “The Lord is righteous.”

13349

Nevertheless I did not believe their reports until I came and my eyes had seen it. And behold, the half of the greatness of your wisdom was not told me. You surpass the report that I heard.

13350

She said to her mistress, “I wish that my master were with the prophet who is in Samaria! Then he would cure him of his leprosy.”

13351

And when he humbled himself, the anger of the Lord turned away from him, so as not to destroy him completely; and also conditions were good in Judah.

13352

Then King Rehoboam made shields of bronze in their place and committed them to the care of the commanders of the guard who guarded the door of the king’s house.

13353

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

13355

All the days of his separation he shall not eat anything that is produced by the grape vine, from the seeds even to the skin.

13356

May it fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house; and may there not fail from the house of Joab one who has a discharge, or who is a leper, or who takes hold of a distaff, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks bread.”

13358

The priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and shields that had been King David’s, which were in the house of the Lord.

13359

select the best and fittest of your master’s sons, and set him on his father’s throne, and fight for your master’s house.”

13361

And the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?”

13362

Then he said to them, “Depart for three days, then return to me.” So the people departed.

13363

Then Saul and all the people who were with him rallied and came to the battle; and behold, every man’s sword was against his fellow, and there was very great confusion.

13364

They looked, but there was none to save;
Even to the Lord, but He did not answer them.

13365

They struck down at that time about ten thousand Moabites, all robust and valiant men; and no one escaped.

13366

They took them from inside the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, and they poured them out before the Lord.

13367

So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up from the Jordan.”

13368

Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from each tribe,

13369

You shall consecrate to the Lord your God all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock; you shall not work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.

13370

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

13371

Moses slaughtered it and took some of its blood and put it on the lobe of Aaron’s right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

13372

Every male among the sons of Aaron may eat it; it is a permanent ordinance throughout your generations, from the offerings by fire to the Lord. Whoever touches them will become consecrated.’”

13373

Make for yourself an ark of gopher wood; you shall make the ark with rooms, and shall cover it inside and out with pitch.

13374

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

13375

“Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you mount the lamps, the seven lamps will give light in the front of the lampstand.’”

13376

their numbered men of the tribe of Manasseh were 32,200.

13377

Then the Lord smote the people, because of what they did with the calf which Aaron had made.

13378

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

13379

He also washed the entrails and the legs, and offered them up in smoke with the burnt offering on the altar.

13380

Then he is to bring out the bull to a place outside the camp and burn it as he burned the first bull; it is the sin offering for the assembly.

13381

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come.

13382

Then the Lord said to Noah, “Enter the ark, you and all your household, for you alone I have seen to be righteous before Me in this time.

13383

He made a screen for the doorway of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, the work of a weaver;

13384

“We are Jews by nature and not sinners from among the Gentiles;

13386

You shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before Me at all times.

13388

So all the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink of the water of the Nile.

13390

So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every day with those who happened to be present.

13391

You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

13394

And when they did not agree with one another, they began leaving after Paul had spoken one parting word, “The Holy Spirit rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,

13395

But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?”

13396

But Saul began ravaging the church, entering house after house, and dragging off men and women, he would put them in prison.

13397

and they have been told about you, that you are teaching all the Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children nor to walk according to the customs.

13398

he said, “I will give you a hearing after your accusers arrive also,” giving orders for him to be kept in Herod’s Praetorium.

13399

And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

13400

and he said,
“I called out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
You heard my voice.

13401

“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will search them out and take them from there;
And though they conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent and it will bite them.

13402

These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling.

13403

One of the synagogue officials named Jairus *came up, and on seeing Him, *fell at His feet

13404

Now when evening came, His disciples went down to the sea,

13405

If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.

13406

And Jesus said to them, Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

13407

The best of them is like a briar,
The most upright like a thorn hedge.
The day when you post your watchmen,
Your punishment will come.
Then their confusion will occur.

13408

The Lord changed His mind about this.
“It shall not be,” said the Lord.

13409

Then I looked, and behold, four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub; and the appearance of the wheels was like the gleam of a Tarshish stone.

13410

Although I trained and strengthened their arms,
Yet they devise evil against Me.

13411

But if you will not listen to it,
My soul will sob in secret for such pride;
And my eyes will bitterly weep
And flow down with tears,
Because the flock of the Lord has been taken captive.

13412

When I would heal Israel,
The iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the evil deeds of Samaria,
For they deal falsely;
The thief enters in,
Bandits raid outside,

13414

“Son of man, behold, the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now, and he prophesies of times far off.’

13415

And all the people know it,
That is, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria,
Asserting in pride and in arrogance of heart:

13416

And it will growl over it in that day like the roaring of the sea.
If one looks to the land, behold, there is darkness and distress;
Even the light is darkened by its clouds.

13417

He lurks in a hiding place as a lion in his lair;
He lurks to catch the afflicted;
He catches the afflicted when he draws him into his net.

13418

He says to himself, “I will not be moved;
Throughout all generations I will not be in adversity.”

13419

His ways prosper at all times;
Your judgments are on high, out of his sight;
As for all his adversaries, he snorts at them.

13420

“And I will bring you out of the midst of the city and deliver you into the hands of strangers and execute judgments against you.

13421

Its roaring is like a lioness, and it roars like young lions;
It growls as it seizes the prey
And carries it off with no one to deliver it.

13422

For you also have realized that you likewise have many times cursed others.

13424

In the first year of King Cyrus, Cyrus the king issued a decree: ‘Concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, let the temple, the place where sacrifices are offered, be rebuilt and let its foundations be retained, its height being 60 cubits and its width 60 cubits;

13425

If you are pure and upright,
Surely now He would rouse Himself for you
And restore your righteous estate.

13426

‘For he adds rebellion to his sin;
He claps his hands among us,
And multiplies his words against God.’”

13427

He said to him, “Take these utensils, go and deposit them in the temple in Jerusalem and let the house of God be rebuilt in its place.”

13428

After him Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, repaired another section. After him Meshullam the son of Berechiah carried out repairs in front of his own quarters.

13429

Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee and do not wait.”

13430

As often as the king entered the house of the Lord, the guards came and carried them and then brought them back into the guards’ room.

13432

It came about the next day, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

13433

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in its lid and put it beside the altar, on the right side as one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money which was brought into the house of the Lord.

13434

He said to them, “Look at me and do likewise. And behold, when I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.

13435

How blessed are your men, how blessed are these your servants who stand before you continually and hear your wisdom.

13436

Now in the eleventh year of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.

13437

Vengeance is Mine, and retribution,
In due time their foot will slip;
For the day of their calamity is near,
And the impending things are hastening upon them.’

13438

Now there was no king in Edom; a deputy was king.

13439

Therefore David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” So Ittai the Gittite passed over with all his men and all the little ones who were with him.

13440

For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

13441

Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt.

13444

“Command the priests who carry the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan.”

13445

Now the Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they had approached the presence of the Lord and died.

13446

Whoever hits you on the cheek, offer him the other also; and whoever takes away your coat, do not withhold your shirt from him either.

13448

But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel.

13449

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

13451

but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

13452

just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.’

13454

So you shall keep My statutes and My judgments, by which a man may live if he does them; I am the Lord.

13455

And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs;

13456

When he had cut the ram into its pieces, Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

13457

He shall lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slay it in the place where they slay the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering.

13458

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the streams and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt.’”

13459

Seven days passed after the Lord had struck the Nile.

13460

Then Methuselah lived seven hundred and eighty-two years after he became the father of Lamech, and he had other sons and daughters.

13461

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

13462

for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’;

13463

Then the woman fled into the wilderness where she *had a place prepared by God, so that there she would be nourished for one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

13464

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

13465

But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;

13467

What He has seen and heard, of that He testifies; and no one receives His testimony.

13468

“So let us know, let us press on to know the Lord.
His going forth is as certain as the dawn;
And He will come to us like the rain,
Like the spring rain watering the earth.”

13469

“I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
And gather them from Assyria;
And I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon
Until no room can be found for them.

13470

Thus you are different from those women in your harlotries, in that no one plays the harlot as you do, because you give money and no money is given you; thus you are different.”

13471

Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands.

13472

Now the crown will become a reminder in the temple of the Lord to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah and Hen the son of Zephaniah.

13473

So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.

13474

How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the corner of every street.

13475

Thus says the Lord,
“Behold, a people is coming from the north land,
And a great nation will be aroused from the remote parts of the earth.

13476

And my soul is greatly dismayed;
But You, O Lordhow long?

13477

For why should you, my son, be exhilarated with an adulteress
And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?

13479

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am laying stumbling blocks before this people.
And they will stumble against them,
Fathers and sons together;
Neighbor and friend will perish.”

13481

“Declare this in the house of Jacob
And proclaim it in Judah, saying,

13482

A worker’s appetite works for him,
For his hunger urges him on.

13483

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet.” And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

13484

“It is all one; therefore I say,
‘He destroys the guiltless and the wicked.’

13485

even up to 100 talents of silver, 100 kors of wheat, 100 baths of wine, 100 baths of oil, and salt as needed.

13486

Then that Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundations of the house of God in Jerusalem; and from then until now it has been under construction and it is not yet completed.’

13487

He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

13488

also their brothers Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

13489

The Lord said, “I will remove Judah also from My sight, as I have removed Israel. And I will cast off Jerusalem, this city which I have chosen, and the temple of which I said, ‘My name shall be there.’”

13490

Beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should damage increase to the detriment of the kings?”

13491

He captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.

13492

Then she said to the king, “It was a true report which I heard in my own land about your words and your wisdom.

13493

He said to Jeroboam, “Take for yourself ten pieces; for thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon and give you ten tribes

13495

and the life was manifested, and we have seen and testify and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—

13496

So, now issue a decree to make these men stop work, that this city may not be rebuilt until a decree is issued by me.

13497

He commanded them, saying, “This is the thing that you shall do: one third of you, who come in on the sabbath and keep watch over the king’s house

13498

He makes my feet like hinds’ feet,
And sets me on my high places.

13500

Please forgive the transgression of your maidservant; for the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord is fighting the battles of the Lord, and evil will not be found in you all your days.

13501

When David heard of it, he sent Joab and all the army, the mighty men.

13502

Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him in front and in the rear, he selected from all the choice men of Israel, and arrayed them against the Arameans.

13503

Then Gideon took ten men of his servants and did as the Lord had spoken to him; and because he was too afraid of his father’s household and the men of the city to do it by day, he did it by night.

13504

They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks and shovels and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of porpoise skin over it and insert its poles.

13506

I then will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and heap your remains on the remains of your idols, for My soul shall abhor you.

13507

When anyone touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or any unclean detestable thing, and eats of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, that person shall be cut off from his people.’”

13508

So Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because he had put their brother Asahel to death in the battle at Gibeon.

13509

But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see.’

13510

their numbered men of the tribe of Ephraim were 40,500.

13511

Or if a person swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in whatever matter a man may speak thoughtlessly with an oath, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty in one of these.

13512

Then the anointed priest is to bring some of the blood of the bull to the tent of meeting;

13514

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east.

13515

and standing behind Him at His feet, weeping, she began to wet His feet with her tears, and kept wiping them with the hair of her head, and kissing His feet and anointing them with the perfume.

13517

And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them just as He did upon us at the beginning.

13518

God raised Him up on the third day and granted that He become visible,

13520

For He did not subject to angels the world to come, concerning which we are speaking.

13521

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

13522

Those on the rocky soil are those who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no firm root; they believe for a while, and in time of temptation fall away.

13523

But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul began devoting himself completely to the word, solemnly testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.

13525

thus invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”

13526

And when they heard it they began glorifying God; and they said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the Law;

13527

for I have five brothers—in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’

13528

and Annas the high priest was there, and Caiaphas and John and Alexander, and all who were of high-priestly descent.

13529

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

13530

Jesus *said to him, You have said it yourself; nevertheless I tell you, hereafter you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

13531

When He approached Bethphage and Bethany, near the mount that is called Olivet, He sent two of the disciples,

13534

And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

13535

So then, you will know them by their fruits.

13536

“You were in Eden, the garden of God;
Every precious stone was your covering:
The ruby, the topaz and the diamond;
The beryl, the onyx and the jasper;
The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald;
And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets,
Was in you.
On the day that you were created
They were prepared.

13537

who, appearing in glory, were speaking of His departure which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.

13539

“At the end time the king of the South will collide with him, and the king of the North will storm against him with chariots, with horsemen and with many ships; and he will enter countries, overflow them and pass through.

13541

‘The merchants among the peoples hiss at you;
You have become terrified
And you will cease to be forever.’”’”

13542

When you built your shrine at the beginning of every street and made your high place in every square, in disdaining money, you were not like a harlot.

13543

And you will swear, ‘As the Lord lives,’
In truth, in justice and in righteousness;
Then the nations will bless themselves in Him,
And in Him they will glory.”

13544

You will fall by the sword. I will judge you to the border of Israel; so you shall know that I am the Lord.

13545

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

13546

For oppression makes a wise man mad,
And a bribe corrupts the heart.

13547

I will give thanks to the Lord according to His righteousness
And will sing praise to the name of the Lord Most High.

13548

“The paths of their course wind along,
They go up into nothing and perish.

13549

For he will not often consider the years of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

13550

After him Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, carried out repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and of the merchants, in front of the Inspection Gate and as far as the upper room of the corner.

13551

I am now eighty years old. Can I distinguish between good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

13552

Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may have success wherever you go.

13553

Therefore I completely despaired of all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun.

13554

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the fruit of my labor for which I have labored by acting wisely under the sun. This too is vanity.

13555

I also applied myself to the work on this wall; we did not buy any land, and all my servants were gathered there for the work.

13557

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which was in his hand. So Esther came near and touched the top of the scepter.

13558

After them the Tekoites repaired another section in front of the great projecting tower and as far as the wall of Ophel.

13559

Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel.

13560

A decree has been issued by me, and a search has been made and it has been discovered that that city has risen up against the kings in past days, that rebellion and revolt have been perpetrated in it,

13561

and build an altar to the Lord your God on the top of this stronghold in an orderly manner, and take a second bull and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.”

13562

It came about at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were neighbors and that they were living within their land.

13563

He went and found his body thrown on the road with the donkey and the lion standing beside the body; the lion had not eaten the body nor torn the donkey.

13564

Afterward when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are innocent before the Lord forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.

13565

Mephibosheth said to the king, “Let him even take it all, since my lord the king has come safely to his own house.”

13566

Saul was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty two years over Israel.

13567

This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: all the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt.

13570

and command them, saying, ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firm, and carry them over with you and lay them down in the lodging place where you will lodge tonight.’”

13571

“You shall surely tithe all the produce from what you sow, which comes out of the field every year.

13572

These are the sons of Benjamin according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,600.

13573

He then placed the breastpiece on him, and in the breastpiece he put the Urim and the Thummim.

13575

The Levites, too, purified themselves from sin and washed their clothes; and Aaron presented them as a wave offering before the Lord. Aaron also made atonement for them to cleanse them.

13577

Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

13578

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, that hail may fall on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.”

13579

one bull, one ram, one male lamb one year old, for a burnt offering;

13580

And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension and debate with them, the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders concerning this issue.

13581

Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

13582

For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?

13585

Noah did according to all that the Lord had commanded him.

13586

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who is not the owner of the sheep, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

13587

Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house with no concern even for this.

13588

And he cried out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus so that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool off my tongue, for I am in agony in this flame.’

13590

Erastus remained at Corinth, but Trophimus I left sick at Miletus.

13591

I have come as Light into the world, so that everyone who believes in Me will not remain in darkness.

13592

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

13595

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes.And on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

13596

For indeed, the Son of Man is going as it has been determined; but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!”

13597

They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

13598

Now one of them, when he saw that he had been healed, turned back, glorifying God with a loud voice,

13599

When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”

13600

On one of the days while He was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the gospel, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders confronted Him,

13601

And they brought to Him a paralytic lying on a bed. Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralytic, Take courage, son; your sins are forgiven.”

13602

But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank; so he sought permission from the commander of the officials that he might not defile himself.

13603

But He answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet;

13604

When they came to the crowd, a man came up to Jesus, falling on his knees before Him and saying,

13605

And behold, Jesus met them and greeted them. And they came up and took hold of His feet and worshiped Him.

13606

Then if anyone says to you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or ‘There He is,’ do not believe him.

13607

Hear this, you who trample the needy, to do away with the humble of the land,

13608

Salt is good; but if the salt becomes unsalty, with what will you make it salty again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”

13609

For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”

13610

‘They are fat, they are sleek,
They also excel in deeds of wickedness;
They do not plead the cause,
The cause of the orphan, that they may prosper;
And they do not defend the rights of the poor.

13612

Moreover, the pride of Israel testifies against him,
And Israel and Ephraim stumble in their iniquity;
Judah also has stumbled with them.

13613

They will incite a crowd against you and they will stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

13614

The prince who is among them will load his baggage on his shoulder in the dark and go out. They will dig a hole through the wall to bring it out. He will cover his face so that he can not see the land with his eyes.

13615

Now the cherubim were standing on the right side of the temple when the man entered, and the cloud filled the inner court.

13616

The Spirit then entered me and made me stand on my feet, and He spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself up in your house.

13617

Give no sleep to your eyes,
Nor slumber to your eyelids;

13618

Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

13619

“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols,
Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

13620

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord,
“Do men fall and not get up again?
Does one turn away and not repent?

13621

Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying,

13622

No one in it is weary or stumbles,
None slumbers or sleeps;
Nor is the belt at its waist undone,
Nor its sandal strap broken.

13623

Far be it from You to do such a thing, to slay the righteous with the wicked, so that the righteous and the wicked are treated alike. Far be it from You! Shall not the Judge of all the earth deal justly?”

13624

“He may flee from the iron weapon,
But the bronze bow will pierce him.

13625

He said, ‘I will go and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ Then He said, ‘You are to entice him and prevail also. Go and do so.’

13627

then I put Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the commander of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem, for he was a faithful man and feared God more than many.

13628

After him Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz repaired another section, from the doorway of Eliashib’s house even as far as the end of his house.

13629

son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub,

13630

“Now if it pleases the king, let a search be conducted in the king’s treasure house, which is there in Babylon, if it be that a decree was issued by King Cyrus to rebuild this house of God at Jerusalem; and let the king send to us his decision concerning this matter.”

13631

Then all the elders of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

13632

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you counsel me to answer this people?”

13633

So he said to them, “What counsel do you give that we may answer this people who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”

13634

Then Menahem exacted the money from Israel, even from all the mighty men of wealth, from each man fifty shekels of silver to pay the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned and did not remain there in the land.

13635

But he said to them, “What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer?

13636

But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.

13637

Know then that there shall fall to the earth nothing of the word of the Lord, which the Lord spoke concerning the house of Ahab, for the Lord has done what He spoke through His servant Elijah.”

13638

They arose at twilight to go to the camp of the Arameans; when they came to the outskirts of the camp of the Arameans, behold, there was no one there.

13639

But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

13640

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

13641

Then Gideon and the 300 men who were with him came to the Jordan and crossed over, weary yet pursuing.

13642

The mountains quaked at the presence of the Lord,
This Sinai, at the presence of the Lord, the God of Israel.

13643

Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow path of the vineyards, with a wall on this side and a wall on that side.

13644

He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to this day.

13645

It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your sabbath.”

13646

So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.See how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire!

13647

So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was concealed in his tent with the silver underneath it.

13649

Surely all the men who have seen My glory and My signs which I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have put Me to the test these ten times and have not listened to My voice,

13650

But Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid it upon both their shoulders and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned away, so that they did not see their father’s nakedness.

13651

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

13652

You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, only let me pass through on foot,

13653

and the priest shall take a handful of the grain offering as its memorial offering and offer it up in smoke on the altar, and afterward he shall make the woman drink the water.

13654

‘Let me pass through your land, I will travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

13655

He then put all these on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons and presented them as a wave offering before the Lord.

13656

I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.

13657

But as for you, turn around and set out for the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.’

13658

Moreover, the man will be free from guilt, but that woman shall bear her guilt.’”

13659

But if the sacrifice of his offering is a votive or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day that he offers his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten;

13661

The Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain; and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

13662

And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

13663

according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.

13665

All the men of his household, who were born in the house or bought with money from a foreigner, were circumcised with him.

13666

The appearance of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle; and on their heads appeared to be crowns like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

13668

that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

13669

Entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting at the right, wearing a white robe; and they were amazed.

13671

Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, “Do you understand what you are reading?”

13672

But Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”

13674

And He could do no miracle there except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them.

13675

Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and *said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.”

13676

And He said to them, “No doubt you will quote this proverb to Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we heard was done at Capernaum, do here in your hometown as well.’”

13681

Those who are far off will come and build the temple of the Lord.” Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. And it will take place if you completely obey the Lord your God.

13682

In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay on his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related the following summary of it.

13683

Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub to the threshold of the temple, and the temple was filled with the cloud and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the Lord.

13684

He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying,
“My anger burns against them!”
How long will they be incapable of innocence?

13685

“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword; take and use it as a barber’s razor on your head and beard. Then take scales for weighing and divide the hair.

13686

The oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

13687

Hear this, O elders,
And listen, all inhabitants of the land.
Has anything like this happened in your days
Or in your fathers’ days?

13688

Or can a man walk on hot coals
And his feet not be scorched?

13689

who say, ‘The time is not near to build houses. This city is the pot and we are the flesh.’

13691

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

13692

That you may observe discretion
And your lips may reserve knowledge.

13693

“I have listened and heard,
They have spoken what is not right;
No man repented of his wickedness,
Saying, ‘What have I done?’
Everyone turned to his course,
Like a horse charging into the battle.

13694

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.

13695

For all His ordinances were before me,
And I did not put away His statutes from me.

13696

“Now a word was brought to me stealthily,
And my ear received a whisper of it.

13697

Palal the son of Uzai made repairs in front of the Angle and the tower projecting from the upper house of the king, which is by the court of the guard. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh made repairs.

13698

Maaziah, Bilgai, Shemaiah. These were the priests.

13699

After them Benjamin and Hasshub carried out repairs in front of their house. After them Azariah the son of Maaseiah, son of Ananiah, carried out repairs beside his house.

13700

“Your father made our yoke hard; now therefore lighten the hard service of your father and his heavy yoke which he put on us, and we will serve you.”

13701

He said to them, “Return to me again in three days.” So the people departed.

13702

They put his armor in the house of their gods and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

13703

So they sent and summoned him. When Jeroboam and all Israel came, they spoke to Rehoboam, saying,

13704

Only the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burned incense on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.

13705

When they saw that there was much money in the chest, the king’s scribe and the high priest came up and tied it in bags and counted the money which was found in the house of the Lord.

13706

Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “Thus and thus spoke the girl who is from the land of Israel.”

13707

When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

13708

The guards stood each with his weapons in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, by the altar and by the house, around the king.

13709

Therefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents and their horses and their donkeys, even the camp just as it was, and fled for their life.

13710

Then she said, “Did I ask for a son from my lord? Did I not say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

13711

Then he found another man and said, “Please strike me.” And the man struck him, wounding him.

13713

The sons of Ammon came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, while the Arameans of Zobah and of Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the field.

13714

He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who are following me, for they are weary, and I am pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

13715

“Out of the window she looked and lamented,
The mother of Sisera through the lattice,
‘Why does his chariot delay in coming?
Why do the hoofbeats of his chariots tarry?’

13716

It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”

13717

Now the day came that Jonathan, the son of Saul, said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the Philistines’ garrison that is on the other side.” But he did not tell his father.

13718

They captured the two leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb, and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and they killed Zeeb at the wine press of Zeeb, while they pursued Midian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon from across the Jordan.

13720

But they took alive the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.

13721

So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel.

13723

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the Lord who had appeared to him.

13724

Go, say to them, “Return to your tents.”

13726

driving out from before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.

13727

or when a spirit of jealousy comes over a man and he is jealous of his wife, he shall then make the woman stand before the Lord, and the priest shall apply all this law to her.

13728

So we remained in the valley opposite Beth-peor.

13729

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

13730

So it shall be when he becomes guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that in which he has sinned.

13732

Now it came about in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard labors; and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

13733

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it divided and became four rivers.

13734

This is the service of the families of the sons of the Gershonites in the tent of meeting, and their duties shall be under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

13735

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,

13736

Of the sons of Joseph, namely, of the sons of Ephraim, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

13737

So you shall keep My commandments, and do them; I am the Lord.

13738

also of the birds of the sky, by sevens, male and female, to keep offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

13741

There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

13743

One person has faith that he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats vegetables only.

13745

Then Lamech lived five hundred and ninety-five years after he became the father of Noah, and he had other sons and daughters.

13746

All things that the Father has are Mine; therefore I said that He takes of Mine and will disclose it to you.

13747

For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;

13748

For as many as are the promises of God, in Him they are yes; therefore also through Him is our Amen to the glory of God through us.

13751

and he *saw the sky opened up, and an object like a great sheet coming down, lowered by four corners to the ground,

13752

When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come forth.”

13754

for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.

13755

And there was a woman in the city who was a sinner; and when she learned that He was reclining at the table in the Pharisee’s house, she brought an alabaster vial of perfume,

13756

For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

13757

So when He heard that he was sick, He then stayed two days longer in the place where He was.

13758

Paul wanted this man to go with him; and he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those parts, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

13759

After the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus *said to him, “What you do, do quickly.”

13760

Therefore the Jews were grumbling about Him, because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”

13762

so that while seeing, they may see and not perceive, and while hearing, they may hear and not understand, otherwise they might return and be forgiven.”

13763

The woman *said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

13765

“He has given help to Israel His servant,
In remembrance of His mercy,

13767

And it happened that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to call him Zacharias, after his father.

13768

But regarding the fact that the dead rise again, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the burning bush, how God spoke to him, saying, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?

13770

Concerning evil, both hands do it well.
The prince asks, also the judge, for a bribe,
And a great man speaks the desire of his soul;
So they weave it together.

13771

And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary His mother, “Behold, this Child is appointed for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and for a sign to be opposed—

13772

Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter;

13773

They turn, but not upward,
They are like a deceitful bow;
Their princes will fall by the sword
Because of the insolence of their tongue.
This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

13774

also two olive trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left side.”

13775

It came about when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” he entered and stood beside a wheel.

13776

Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

13777

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You have smitten them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

13778

Say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “This burden concerns the prince in Jerusalem as well as all the house of Israel who are in it.”’

13779

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
And roll in ashes;
Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.

13780

“Therefore I have come out to meet you,
To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.

13781

Let him put his mouth in the dust,
Perhaps there is hope.

13782

Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

13783

“But it will come about, if you listen attentively to Me,” declares the Lord, “to bring no load in through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to keep the sabbath day holy by doing no work on it,

13784

Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah, said, “Arise, bless the Lord your God forever and ever!
O may Your glorious name be blessed
And exalted above all blessing and praise!

13785

“The comely and dainty one, the daughter of Zion, I will cut off.

13786

It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

13787

“And although they say, ‘As the Lord lives,’
Surely they swear falsely.”

13788

“Let us go up against Judah and terrorize it, and make for ourselves a breach in its walls and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,”

13789

‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

13790

the sons of Hariph, 112;

13792

For the priests and the Levites had purified themselves together; all of them were pure. Then they slaughtered the Passover lamb for all the exiles, both for their brothers the priests and for themselves.

13793

They gave the money which was weighed out into the hands of those who did the work, who had the oversight of the house of the Lord; and they paid it out to the carpenters and the builders who worked on the house of the Lord;

13794

Now when the wall was rebuilt and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers and the singers and the Levites were appointed,

13795

let the priests take it for themselves, each from his acquaintance; and they shall repair the damages of the house wherever any damage may be found.”

13796

Its opening inside the crown at the top was a cubit, and its opening was round like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also on its opening there were engravings, and their borders were square, not round.

13797

But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

13798

(one third also shall be at the gate Sur, and one third at the gate behind the guards), shall keep watch over the house for defense.

13799

So he took him into his house and gave the donkeys fodder, and they washed their feet and ate and drank.

13800

See now that I, I am He,
And there is no god besides Me;
It is I who put to death and give life.
I have wounded and it is I who heal,
And there is no one who can deliver from My hand.

13801

“The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock;
And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

13802

Moreover, he has slandered your servant to my lord the king; but my lord the king is like the angel of God, therefore do what is good in your sight.

13803

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
When He separated the sons of man,
He set the boundaries of the peoples
According to the number of the sons of Israel.

13804

Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armor bearers of Joab the son of Zeruiah,

13805

Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”

13806

The Lord lift up His countenance on you,
And give you peace.’

13807

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.

13808

So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe;

13809

“Then it shall be, when you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and you possess it and live in it,

13811

“This is what applies to the Levites: from twenty-five years old and upward they shall enter to perform service in the work of the tent of meeting.

13812

What is left of it Aaron and his sons are to eat. It shall be eaten as unleavened cakes in a holy place; they are to eat it in the court of the tent of meeting.

13813

He shall bring the bull to the doorway of the tent of meeting before the Lord, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slay the bull before the Lord.

13814

The sons of Israel went through the midst of the sea on the dry land, and the waters were like a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

13816

For a fire went forth from Heshbon,
A flame from the town of Sihon;
It devoured Ar of Moab,
The dominant heights of the Arnon.

13817

He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”

13819

“As for the sons of Merari, you shall number them by their families, by their fathers’ households;

13820

“Do not let the tribe of the families of the Kohathites be cut off from among the Levites.

13821

“Take a census of the sons of Gershon also, by their fathers’ households, by their families;

13822

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

13823

Now the time that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

13824

The Lord did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants and from his people; not one remained.

13825

and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.

13829

But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

13830

For this reason it is by faith, in order that it may be in accordance with grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the descendants, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,

13831

Which one of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? They killed those who had previously announced the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become;

13832

that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you.”

13833

and Jason has welcomed them, and they all act contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, Jesus.”

13834

And Isaiah is very bold and says,
I was found by those who did not seek Me,
I became manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

13836

And they drew lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias; and he was added to the eleven apostles.

13837

Very early on the first day of the week, they *came to the tomb when the sun had risen.

13839

Then, after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions.

13840

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. So he went down to Joppa, found a ship which was going to Tarshish, paid the fare and went down into it to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord.

13841

But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

13842

Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’

13843

In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes, were mocking Him among themselves and saying, “He saved others; He cannot save Himself.

13844

So Peter and the other disciple went forth, and they were going to the tomb.

13845

And He was also telling them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise he will both tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old.

13846

When Jesus came into Peter’s home, He saw his mother-in-law lying sick in bed with a fever.

13847

“For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay.

13848

They will fling their silver into the streets and their gold will become an abhorrent thing; their silver and their gold will not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their appetite nor can they fill their stomachs, for their iniquity has become an occasion of stumbling.

13849

Now at the feast he used to release for them any one prisoner whom they requested.

13850

It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher, and the slave like his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign the members of his household!

13851

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and give evil advice in this city,

13853

Oh that my head were waters
And my eyes a fountain of tears,
That I might weep day and night
For the slain of the daughter of my people!

13854

The sword is outside and the plague and the famine are within. He who is in the field will die by the sword; famine and the plague will also consume those in the city.

13855

Moreover, He said to me, “Son of man, behold, I am going to break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and drink water by measure and in horror,

13856

Moreover, I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth so that you will be mute and cannot be a man who rebukes them, for they are a rebellious house.

13857

For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

13858

As for you, son of man, they will put ropes on you and bind you with them so that you cannot go out among them.

13859

He who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself,
And he who reproves a wicked man gets insults for himself.

13860

Now Tobiah the Ammonite was near him and he said, “Even what they are building—if a fox should jump on it, he would break their stone wall down!”

13861

“Arise, and let us attack by night
And destroy her palaces!”

13862

“You will also decree a thing, and it will be established for you;
And light will shine on your ways.

13863

Again the Lord spoke to me further, saying,

13864

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.

13865

At that time I also said to the people, “Let each man with his servant spend the night within Jerusalem so that they may be a guard for us by night and a laborer by day.”

13866

Remember me, O my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.

13867

They spoke to him, saying, “If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”

13869

So he said to them, “What counsel do you give that we may answer this people, who have spoken to me, saying, ‘Lighten the yoke which your father put on us’?”

13870

The weight of the gold earrings that he requested was 1,700 shekels of gold, besides the crescent ornaments and the pendants and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and besides the neck bands that were on their camels’ necks.

13871

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day.” And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones.

13872

Then he wrote a letter to them a second time saying, “If you are on my side, and you will listen to my voice, take the heads of the men, your master’s sons, and come to me at Jezreel tomorrow about this time.” Now the king’s sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who were rearing them.

13873

You shall not eat anything which dies of itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

13874

The Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man.

13875

The name of Abishur’s wife was Abihail, and she bore him Ahban and Molid.

13876

So the king died and was brought to Samaria, and they buried the king in Samaria.

13877

And the one who was over the household, and he who was over the city, the elders, and the guardians of the children, sent word to Jehu, saying, “We are your servants, all that you say to us we will do, we will not make any man king; do what is good in your sight.”

13879

Three years passed without war between Aram and Israel.

13880

I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that you cannot tolerate evil men, and you put to the test those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and you found them to be false;

13881

All the people crossed over the Jordan and the king crossed too. The king then kissed Barzillai and blessed him, and he returned to his place.

13882

As for any garment or any leather on which there is seminal emission, it shall be washed with water and be unclean until evening.

13883

So they shall invoke My name on the sons of Israel, and I then will bless them.”

13884

from the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi the son of Vophsi;

13885

If you have died with Christ to the elementary principles of the world, why, as if you were living in the world, do you submit yourself to decrees, such as,

13887

Now this was the workmanship of the lampstand, hammered work of gold; from its base to its flowers it was hammered work; according to the pattern which the Lord had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.

13888

But do this to them that they may live and not die when they approach the most holy objects: Aaron and his sons shall go in and assign each of them to his work and to his load;

13889

Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering, and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread,

13890

“But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall surely observe My sabbaths; for this is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

13891

“And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write:The Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet are like burnished bronze, says this:

13892

Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

13893

The hail struck all that was in the field through all the land of Egypt, both man and beast; the hail also struck every plant of the field and shattered every tree of the field.

13894

He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, to him I will give authority over the nations;

13895

Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;

13897

But the one whose genealogy is not traced from them collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed the one who had the promises.

13899

and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

13901

But the Jews, becoming jealous and taking along some wicked men from the market place, formed a mob and set the city in an uproar; and attacking the house of Jason, they were seeking to bring them out to the people.

13902

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.

13903

While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men suddenly stood near them in dazzling clothing;

13904

but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage;

13905

“Which of you, having a slave plowing or tending sheep, will say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come immediately and sit down to eat’?

13906

Now when Daniel knew that the document was signed, he entered his house (now in his roof chamber he had windows open toward Jerusalem); and he continued kneeling on his knees three times a day, praying and giving thanks before his God, as he had been doing previously.

13907

Festus then, having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

13908

And they prayed and said, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all men, show which one of these two You have chosen

13910

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

13911

For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if possible, on the day of Pentecost.

13912

Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,

13914

While He was still speaking, behold, Judas, one of the twelve, came up accompanied by a large crowd with swords and clubs, who came from the chief priests and elders of the people.

13915

Now it was the day of preparation for the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he *said to the Jews, “Behold, your King!”

13916

I will set My jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in wrath. They will remove your nose and your ears; and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your survivors will be consumed by the fire.

13917

and a sword will pierce even your own soul—to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

13918

So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

13919

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘I am exceedingly jealous for Zion, yes, with great wrath I am jealous for her.’

13920

There is a conspiracy of her prophets in her midst like a roaring lion tearing the prey. They have devoured lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

13921

Load the baggage on your shoulder in their sight and carry it out in the dark. You shall cover your face so that you cannot see the land, for I have set you as a sign to the house of Israel.”

13922

Cut off your hair and cast it away,
And take up a lamentation on the bare heights;
For the Lord has rejected and forsaken
The generation of His wrath.’

13923

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

13924

When I send against them the deadly arrows of famine which were for the destruction of those whom I will send to destroy you, then I will also intensify the famine upon you and break the staff of bread.

13925

He who is far off will die by the plague, and he who is near will fall by the sword, and he who remains and is besieged will die by the famine. Thus will I spend My wrath on them.

13926

because bread and water will be scarce; and they will be appalled with one another and waste away in their iniquity.

13927

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.”

13928

Yet You, O Lord, know
All their deadly designs against me;
Do not forgive their iniquity
Or blot out their sin from Your sight.
But may they be overthrown before You;
Deal with them in the time of Your anger!

13929

At the sound of the horseman and bowman every city flees;
They go into the thickets and climb among the rocks;
Every city is forsaken,
And no man dwells in them.

13930

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried Israel away into exile to Assyria, and settled them in Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

13931

“For a voice of wailing is heard from Zion,
How are we ruined!
We are put to great shame,
For we have left the land,
Because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

13932

Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim,
And to the fading flower of its glorious beauty,
Which is at the head of the fertile valley
Of those who are overcome with wine!

13933

We have heard the report of it;
Our hands are limp.
Anguish has seized us,
Pain as of a woman in childbirth.

13934

Rejoicing in the world, His earth,
And having my delight in the sons of men.

13935

I looked on the mountains, and behold, they were quaking,
And all the hills moved to and fro.

13936

Then we journeyed from the river Ahava on the twelfth of the first month to go to Jerusalem; and the hand of our God was over us, and He delivered us from the hand of the enemy and the ambushes by the way.

13937

Go then, eat your bread in happiness and drink your wine with a cheerful heart; for God has already approved your works.

13938

“If the scourge kills suddenly,
He mocks the despair of the innocent.

13939

Then the angel of the Lord came and sat under the oak that was in Ophrah, which belonged to Joash the Abiezrite as his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine press in order to save it from the Midianites.

13940

After him Binnui the son of Henadad repaired another section, from the house of Azariah as far as the Angle and as far as the corner.

13941

The battle raged that day, and the king was propped up in his chariot in front of the Arameans, and died at evening, and the blood from the wound ran into the bottom of the chariot.

13942

So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife, and he went in to her. And the Lord enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.

13944

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

13945

You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

13946

Now when they told Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and lifted his voice and called out. Thus he said to them, “Listen to me, O men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

13947

Do this thing: remove the kings, each from his place, and put captains in their place,

13948

God has given the leaders of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb into your hands; and what was I able to do in comparison with you?” Then their anger toward him subsided when he said that.

13949

Then the Lord said to Gideon, “The people are still too many; bring them down to the water and I will test them for you there. Therefore it shall be that he of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go with you; but everyone of whom I say to you, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

13950

Now therefore come, proclaim in the hearing of the people, saying, ‘Whoever is afraid and trembling, let him return and depart from Mount Gilead.’” So 22,000 people returned, but 10,000 remained.

13951

But the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you shall speak only the word which I tell you.” So Balaam went along with the leaders of Balak.

13952

Now there went forth a wind from the Lord and it brought quail from the sea, and let them fall beside the camp, about a day’s journey on this side and a day’s journey on the other side, all around the camp and about two cubits deep on the surface of the ground.

13953

and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

13954

All who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000—all the people of Ai.

13955

It shall not be baked with leaven. I have given it as their share from My offerings by fire; it is most holy, like the sin offering and the guilt offering.

13957

Then he presented the second ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

13958

It was also given to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them, and authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation was given to him.

13959

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’

13960

Then Moses had Aaron and his sons come near and washed them with water.

13961

‘Now this is the law of the guilt offering; it is most holy.

13962

He is then to bring to the priest a ram without defect from the flock, according to your valuation, for a guilt offering. So the priest shall make atonement for him concerning his error in which he sinned unintentionally and did not know it, and it will be forgiven him.

13963

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.

13964

And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing to the right of the altar of incense.

13966

He shall remove all its fat from it and offer it up in smoke on the altar.

13967

If your eye causes you to stumble, throw it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye, than, having two eyes, to be cast into hell,

13968

And Abimelech said, “I do not know who has done this thing; you did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.”

13969

Jesus answered them, To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been granted.

13970

But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”

13971

When they had set a day for Paul, they came to him at his lodging in large numbers; and he was explaining to them by solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, from both the Law of Moses and from the Prophets, from morning until evening.

13974

Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth and laid Him in a tomb which had been hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

13975

When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to stay by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

13976

This is the third time I am coming to you. Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

13977

But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says,
I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation,
By a nation without understanding will I anger you.”

13978

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

13979

And Jesus answered and said to them, “Truly I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ it will happen.

13981

So Pilate *said to Him, “You do not speak to me? Do You not know that I have authority to release You, and I have authority to crucify You?”

13982

“Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.

13983

Truly I say to you, among those born of women there has not arisen anyone greater than John the Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

13984

Their deeds will not allow them
To return to their God.
For a spirit of harlotry is within them,
And they do not know the Lord.

13986

It seemed good to Darius to appoint 120 satraps over the kingdom, that they would be in charge of the whole kingdom,

13987

Say, ‘I am a sign to you. As I have done, so it will be done to them; they will go into exile, into captivity.’

13988

“They seize bow and spear;
They are cruel and have no mercy;
Their voice roars like the sea,
And they ride on horses,
Arrayed as a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Zion!”

13989

In the morning the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

13991

You have multiplied your slain in this city, filling its streets with them.”

13992

All hands will hang limp and all knees will become like water.

13993

So throughout all their habitations I will stretch out My hand against them and make the land more desolate and waste than the wilderness toward Diblah; thus they will know that I am the Lord.”’”

13994

May an outcry be heard from their houses,
When You suddenly bring raiders upon them;
For they have dug a pit to capture me
And hidden snares for my feet.

13995

Now therefore, my sons, listen to me,
And pay attention to the words of my mouth.

13996

“Now therefore thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning this city of which you say, ‘It is given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, by famine and by pestilence.’

13997

So is the one who goes in to his neighbor’s wife;
Whoever touches her will not go unpunished.

13998

“At that time,” declares the Lord, “they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem from their graves.

13999

“They slip by like reed boats,
Like an eagle that swoops on its prey.

14000

which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these.

14001

But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

14002

He puts no trust even in His servants;
And against His angels He charges error.