“You would even cast lots for the orphans
And barter over your friend.

As for the builders, each wore his sword girded at his side as he built, while the trumpeter stood near me.

Now that which was prepared for each day was one ox and six choice sheep, also birds were prepared for me; and once in ten days all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance. Yet for all this I did not demand the governor’s food allowance, because the servitude was heavy on this people.

Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’

Now you write to the Jews as you see fit, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring may not be revoked.”

And Solomon sat on the throne of David his father, and his kingdom was firmly established.

The king took off his signet ring which he had taken away from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

So the Lord said, “If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare the whole place on their account.”

After him the priests, the men of the valley, carried out repairs.

I will make the house of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah.

So the young man, the servant of the prophet, went to Ramoth-gilead.

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and slew the men of Ai.

How is the land, is it fat or lean? Are there trees in it or not? Make an effort then to get some of the fruit of the land.” Now the time was the time of the first ripe grapes.

then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’

Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;

He went up from there to Penuel and spoke similarly to them; and the men of Penuel answered him just as the men of Succoth had answered.

But Moses said to the people, “Do not fear! Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever.

if his sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a male without defect.

Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the sons of Israel; and the Israelite woman’s son and a man of Israel struggled with each other in the camp.

But the person who eats the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings which belong to the Lord, in his uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from his people.

Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “I have sinned this time; the Lord is the righteous one, and I and my people are the wicked ones.

and recognizing the grace that had been given to me, James and Cephas and John, who were reputed to be pillars, gave to me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we might go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

When Jesus heard this, He said to him, “One thing you still lack; sell all that you possess and distribute it to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

The middle bar in the center of the boards shall pass through from end to end.

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an Egyptian officer of Pharaoh, the captain of the bodyguard, bought him from the Ishmaelites, who had taken him down there.

“And to the angel of the church in Smyrna write:The first and the last, who was dead, and has come to life, says this:

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace toward me did not prove vain; but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.

‘The sun will be turned into darkness
And the moon into blood,
Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood. It is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am.

In the very same day Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son.

I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and putting both men and women into prisons,

serving the Lord with all humility and with tears and with trials which came upon me through the plots of the Jews;

but that he will receive a hundred times as much now in the present age, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and farms, along with persecutions; and in the age to come, eternal life.

But the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down),

What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith;

who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

And they began to accuse Him, saying, “We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding to pay taxes to Caesar, and saying that He Himself is Christ, a King.”

Some soldiers were questioning him, saying, “And what about us, what shall we do?” And he said to them, “Do not take money from anyone by force, or accuse anyone falsely, and be content with your wages.”

And He said, “See to it that you are not misled; for many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am He,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not go after them.

So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus), and Matthias.

So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”

But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he *saw the linen wrappings only; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.

Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage,

Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, “I find no guilt in this man.”

And the Lord said, “If you had faith like a mustard seed, you would say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea’; and it would obey you.

Let this Christ, the King of Israel, now come down from the cross, so that we may see and believe!” Those who were crucified with Him were also insulting Him.

I tell you, even though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.

The tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

Then he said to me, “This is the curse that is going forth over the face of the whole land; surely everyone who steals will be purged away according to the writing on one side, and everyone who swears will be purged away according to the writing on the other side.

Since the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets, daily rising early and sending them.

And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His spirit.

Her house is the way to Sheol,
Descending to the chambers of death.

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser,
Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Your slain whom you have laid in the midst of the city are the flesh and this city is the pot; but I will bring you out of it.

Even when their survivors escape, they will be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, each over his own iniquity.

Therefore, prophesy against them, son of man, prophesy!”

The joy of our hearts has ceased;
Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

and I said, “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, for our iniquities have risen above our heads and our guilt has grown even to the heavens.

“Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “adding one thing to another to find an explanation,

“Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm carries away?

“How painful are honest words!
But what does your argument prove?

“They were disappointed for they had trusted,
They came there and were confounded.

“You also gave them kingdoms and peoples,
And allotted them to them as a boundary.
They took possession of the land of Sihon the king of Heshbon
And the land of Og the king of Bashan.

Or, ‘Deliver me from the hand of the adversary,’
Or, ‘Redeem me from the hand of the tyrants’?

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish origin, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”

“Now therefore, Tattenai, governor of the province beyond the River, Shethar-bozenai and your colleagues, the officials of the provinces beyond the River, keep away from there.

the sons of Nebo, 52;

Then you shall surround the king, each with his weapons in his hand; and whoever comes within the ranks shall be put to death. And be with the king when he goes out and when he comes in.”

The men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the gate as far as Shebarim and struck them down on the descent, so the hearts of the people melted and became as water.

“Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

Then King Jehoash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests and said to them, “Why do you not repair the damages of the house? Now therefore take no more money from your acquaintances, but pay it for the damages of the house.”

But it came about that in the twenty-third year of King Jehoash the priests had not repaired the damages of the house.

When he came, behold, the captains of the army were sitting, and he said, “I have a word for you, O captain.” And Jehu said, “For which one of us?” And he said, “For you, O captain.”

He had two wives: the name of one was Hannah and the name of the other Peninnah; and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

So they would camp against them and destroy the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, and leave no sustenance in Israel as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.

The sons of Benjamin did so, and took wives according to their number from those who danced, whom they carried away. And they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the cities and lived in them.

“Between her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;
Between her feet he bowed, he fell;
Where he bowed, there he fell dead.

It came about that when she came to him, she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. So she alighted from the donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

You shall do to Ai and its king just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.

“Do not say in your heart when the Lord your God has driven them out before you, ‘Because of my righteousness the Lord has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is dispossessing them before you.

to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,

“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive,

holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.

At the command of the Lord the sons of Israel would set out, and at the command of the Lord they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.

and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book.

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘You shall not eat any fat from an ox, a sheep or a goat.

one male goat for a sin offering;

I tell you, this man went to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other was named Puah;

For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit;

for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

So the frogs will come up on you and your people and all your servants.”’”

and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do the things that are pleasing in His sight.

from thirty years and upward to fifty years old, you shall number them; all who enter to perform the service to do the work in the tent of meeting.

Now there was a famine in the land, besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to Abimelech king of the Philistines.

So all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years, and he died.

Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out of Egypt.

And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon.

And they were not permitted to kill anyone, but to torment for five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.

these he gathered together with the workmen of similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that our prosperity depends upon this business.

he is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the sea.”

Peter *said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”

For if I cause you sorrow, who then makes me glad but the one whom I made sorrowful?

And there was a young man named Eutychus sitting on the window sill, sinking into a deep sleep; and as Paul kept on talking, he was overcome by sleep and fell down from the third floor and was picked up dead.

Otherwise, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why then are they baptized for them?

‘Behold, you scoffers, and marvel, and perish;
For I am accomplishing a work in your days,
A work which you will never believe, though someone should describe it to you.’”

“And now, brethren, I know that you acted in ignorance, just as your rulers did also.

But He was speaking of the temple of His body.

you who received the law as ordained by angels, and yet did not keep it.”

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved *said to Peter, “It is the Lord.” So when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put his outer garment on (for he was stripped for work), and threw himself into the sea.

Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It was written, “JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.”

Nathanael answered Him, “Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.”

Joseph of Arimathea came, a prominent member of the Council, who himself was waiting for the kingdom of God; and he gathered up courage and went in before Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus.

And I will give them one heart, and put a new spirit within them. And I will take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh,

“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and does not find it.

“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and cry against it, for their wickedness has come up before Me.”

“Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are going to be fulfilled?”

the son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon, the son of Nahshon,

As they were coming out, they found a man of Cyrene named Simon, whom they pressed into service to bear His cross.

As these men were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus;

Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am going to save My people from the land of the east and from the land of the west;

Bring your baggage out by day in their sight, as baggage for exile. Then you will go out at evening in their sight, as those going into exile.

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot,
Israel has defiled itself.

On that day your mouth will be opened to him who escaped, and you will speak and be mute no longer. Thus you will be a sign to them, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

Young men worked at the grinding mill,
And youths stumbled under loads of wood.

For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a man and his neighbor,

Do not look on the wine when it is red,
When it sparkles in the cup,
When it goes down smoothly;

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

“Thus says the Lord God, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands around her.

Princes were hung by their hands;
Elders were not respected.

But at the evening offering I arose from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn, and I fell on my knees and stretched out my hands to the Lord my God;

The punishment of your iniquity has been completed, O daughter of Zion;
He will exile you no longer.
But He will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
He will expose your sins!

‘Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord,
‘On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?’

For thus says the Lord,
“The whole land shall be a desolation,
Yet I will not execute a complete destruction.

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness,
And all its cities were pulled down
Before the Lord, before His fierce anger.

That they may keep you from an adulteress,
From the foreigner who flatters with her words.

I am weary with my sighing;
Every night I make my bed swim,
I dissolve my couch with my tears.

For there is a proper time and procedure for every delight, though a man’s trouble is heavy upon him.

Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead.

“Do you intend to reprove my words,
When the words of one in despair belong to the wind?

and he spoke kindly to him and set his throne above the throne of the kings who were with him in Babylon.

and of the sons of Elam, Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah and 70 males with him;

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

For the Lord your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

So he brought the people down to the water. And the Lord said to Gideon, “You shall separate everyone who laps the water with his tongue as a dog laps, as well as everyone who kneels to drink.”

Now the rest of the acts of Josiah and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

So the priests agreed that they would take no more money from the people, nor repair the damages of the house.

So the captains of hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded. And each one of them took his men who were to come in on the sabbath, with those who were to go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

When the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was torn down, and the Asherah which was beside it was cut down, and the second bull was offered on the altar which had been built.

For all my father’s household was nothing but dead men before my lord the king; yet you set your servant among those who ate at your own table. What right do I have yet that I should complain anymore to the king?”

“Then the horses’ hoofs beat
From the dashing, the dashing of his valiant steeds.

His concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.

And I saw between the throne (with the four living creatures) and the elders a Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God, sent out into all the earth.

Israel took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the Lord which He had commanded Joshua.

He took the fat, and the fat tail, and all the fat that was on the entrails, and the lobe of the liver and the two kidneys and their fat and the right thigh.

When the Lord sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, ‘Go up and possess the land which I have given you,’ then you rebelled against the command of the Lord your God; you neither believed Him nor listened to His voice.

Or if he touches human uncleanness, of whatever sort his uncleanness may be with which he becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, and then he comes to know it, he will be guilty.

But at the age of fifty years they shall retire from service in the work and not work any more.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

Then after that the Levites went in to perform their service in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons; just as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did to them.

Then he presented the people’s offering, and took the goat of the sin offering which was for the people, and slaughtered it and offered it for sin, like the first.

God spoke further to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord;

And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.

For when they maintain this, it escapes their notice that by the word of God the heavens existed long ago and the earth was formed out of water and by water,

By faith they passed through the Red Sea as though they were passing through dry land; and the Egyptians, when they attempted it, were drowned.

All its fat he shall offer up in smoke on the altar as in the case of the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings. Thus the priest shall make atonement for him in regard to his sin, and he will be forgiven.

The days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

And he entered the synagogue and continued speaking out boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading them about the kingdom of God.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.

When He said, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. But whatever is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to disappear.

My children, with whom I am again in labor until Christ is formed in you—

All who are under the yoke as slaves are to regard their own masters as worthy of all honor so that the name of God and our doctrine will not be spoken against.

And on the Sabbath day we went outside the gate to a riverside, where we were supposing that there would be a place of prayer; and we sat down and began speaking to the women who had assembled.

but get up and enter the city, and it will be told you what you must do.”

Then the commander came up and took hold of him, and ordered him to be bound with two chains; and he began asking who he was and what he had done.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy,To the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you;

So they watched Him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, in order that they might catch Him in some statement, so that they could deliver Him to the rule and the authority of the governor.

I affirm, brethren, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

When we had parted from them and had set sail, we ran a straight course to Cos and the next day to Rhodes and from there to Patara;

And on the basis of faith in His name, it is the name of Jesus which has strengthened this man whom you see and know; and the faith which comes through Him has given him this perfect health in the presence of you all.

For the bread of God is that which comes down out of heaven, and gives life to the world.”

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were listening to all these things and were scoffing at Him.

So Jesus, knowing all the things that were coming upon Him, went forth and *said to them, “Whom do you seek?”

And following Him was a large crowd of the people, and of women who were mourning and lamenting Him.

When they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not worry about how or what you are to speak in your defense, or what you are to say;

When it was day, the Council of elders of the people assembled, both chief priests and scribes, and they led Him away to their council chamber, saying,

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

shouting:
“Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord;
Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”

But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known.

there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—He *said to the paralytic,

For there is no good tree which produces bad fruit, nor, on the other hand, a bad tree which produces good fruit.

And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’

On the next day, when they came down from the mountain, a large crowd met Him.

Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was happening; and he was greatly perplexed, because it was said by some that John had risen from the dead,

Now when morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the people conferred together against Jesus to put Him to death;

They are all adulterers,
Like an oven heated by the baker
Who ceases to stir up the fire
From the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.

Daniel said,
“Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever,
For wisdom and power belong to Him.

Israel is swallowed up;
They are now among the nations
Like a vessel in which no one delights.

I did so, as I had been commanded. By day I brought out my baggage like the baggage of an exile. Then in the evening I dug through the wall with my hands; I went out in the dark and carried the baggage on my shoulder in their sight.

The revolters have gone deep in depravity,
But I will chastise all of them.

Dig a hole through the wall in their sight and go out through it.

Then the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire which was between the cherubim, took some and put it into the hands of the one clothed in linen, who took it and went out.

Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised of heart.”

“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You,
And cast Your law behind their backs
And killed Your prophets who had admonished them
So that they might return to You,
And they committed great blasphemies.

Then lay siege against it, build a siege wall, raise up a ramp, pitch camps and place battering rams against it all around.

“Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house and proclaim there this word and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, all you of Judah, who enter by these gates to worship the Lord!’”

and say, ‘Mountains of Israel, listen to the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to the mountains, the hills, the ravines and the valleys: “Behold, I Myself am going to bring a sword on you, and I will destroy your high places.

“Depart! Unclean!” they cried of themselves.
“Depart, depart, do not touch!”
So they fled and wandered;
Men among the nations said,
“They shall not continue to dwell with us.”

For at the window of my house
I looked out through my lattice,

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you,
Reprove a wise man and he will love you.

The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning,
While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure.

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the wicked,
But He blesses the dwelling of the righteous.

There were others who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine.”

Then said Esther, “If it pleases the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

Hear, O our God, how we are despised! Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity.

Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you, Queen Esther? And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be given to you.”

the sons of Azgad, 2,322;

Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogies. Then I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up first in which I found the following record:

When all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they lost their confidence; for they recognized that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.

Then I said to them, “You are holy to the Lord, and the utensils are holy; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering to the Lord God of your fathers.

and has extended lovingkindness to me before the king and his counselors and before all the king’s mighty princes. Thus I was strengthened according to the hand of the Lord my God upon me, and I gathered leading men from Israel to go up with me.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask what you wish Me to give you.”

But he forsook the counsel of the elders which they had given him, and consulted with the young men who grew up with him and served him.

When Judah came to the lookout of the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude, and behold, they were corpses lying on the ground, and no one had escaped.

When the letter came to them, they took the king’s sons and slaughtered them, seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him at Jezreel.

However, they did not listen, but they did according to their earlier custom.

The Lord said, “I will blot out man whom I have created from the face of the land, from man to animals to creeping things and to birds of the sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.”

Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.

So Joshua rose with all the people of war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men, valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.

Their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took the timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dancing.

They said to one another, “Who did this thing?” And when they searched about and inquired, they said, “Gideon the son of Joash did this thing.”

Remember, do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness; from the day that you left the land of Egypt until you arrived at this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

Then Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and lived in his own house.

I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your descendants after you.

But for all this, you did not trust the Lord your God,

If a man actually lies with her so that her menstrual impurity is on him, he shall be unclean seven days, and every bed on which he lies shall be unclean.

He also had Aaron’s sons come near; and Moses put some of the blood on the lobe of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand and on the big toe of their right foot. Moses then sprinkled the rest of the blood around on the altar.

Moses said to him, “As soon as I go out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord; the thunder will cease and there will be hail no longer, that you may know that the earth is the Lord’s.

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

For this is contained in Scripture:
“Behold, I lay in Zion a choice stone, a precious corner stone,
And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”

Aaron therefore did so; he mounted its lamps at the front of the lampstand, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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

Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their fathers’ households, made an offering (they were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who were over the numbered men).

let me pass through your entire flock today, removing from there every speckled and spotted sheep and every black one among the lambs and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and such shall be my wages.

Then the priest is to take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering; and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

behold, the hand of the Lord will come with a very severe pestilence on your livestock which are in the field, on the horses, on the donkeys, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks.

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

The man gave names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the sky, and to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.

For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

Now Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven years; these were the years of the life of Sarah.

So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did.

Now the man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,

Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

Therefore, be on the alert—for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning—

Simon Peter was following Jesus, and so was another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered with Jesus into the court of the high priest,

When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

Looking up, they *saw that the stone had been rolled away, although it was extremely large.

For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,

So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

Thomas *said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?”

Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, “What are these, my lord?”

But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.

Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews.

Then Job answered the Lord and said,

Hear now what the Lord is saying,
“Arise, plead your case before the mountains,
And let the hills hear your voice.

For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies,” declares the Lord God. “Therefore, repent and live.”

but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him:

They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,

When they had been brought safely through, then we found out that the island was called Malta.

But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

“You will pray to Him, and He will hear you;
And you will pay your vows.

After them Zadok the son of Immer carried out repairs in front of his house. And after him Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the East Gate, carried out repairs.

And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all who have been slain on the earth.”

The men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali and Asher and all Manasseh, and they pursued Midian.

He crouches, he bows down,
And the unfortunate fall by his mighty ones.

When he lifted up his eyes and looked, behold, three men were standing opposite him; and when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth,

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the cup of His anger; and he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

“Take the Levites from among the sons of Israel and cleanse them.

He also took up the mantle of Elijah that fell from him and returned and stood by the bank of the Jordan.

They journeyed from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

but in everything commending ourselves as servants of God, in much endurance, in afflictions, in hardships, in distresses,

Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.

You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. You shall do so for six days.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

“Is there injustice on my tongue?
Cannot my palate discern calamities?

“A single witness shall not rise up against a man on account of any iniquity or any sin which he has committed; on the evidence of two or three witnesses a matter shall be confirmed.

son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki,

“If a man finds a girl who is a virgin, who is not engaged, and seizes her and lies with her and they are discovered,

Then Satan stood up against Israel and moved David to number Israel.

and I will bring them back and they will live in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God in truth and righteousness.’

But Jesus Himself would often slip away to the wilderness and pray.

“She reached out her hand for the tent peg,
And her right hand for the workmen’s hammer.
Then she struck Sisera, she smashed his head;
And she shattered and pierced his temple.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak; I have become all things to all men, so that I may by all means save some.

Now those who escorted Paul brought him as far as Athens; and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him as soon as possible, they left.

of the sons of Shecaniah who was of the sons of Parosh, Zechariah and with him 150 males who were in the genealogical list;

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

“The eternal God is a dwelling place,
And underneath are the everlasting arms;
And He drove out the enemy from before you,
And said, ‘Destroy!’

In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of Median descent, who was made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans—

Judas and Silas, also being prophets themselves, encouraged and strengthened the brethren with a lengthy message.

And they *sang the song of Moses, the bond-servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
“Great and marvelous are Your works,
O Lord God, the Almighty;
Righteous and true are Your ways,
King of the nations!

although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:

Thus I weighed into their hands 650 talents of silver, and silver utensils worth 100 talents, and 100 gold talents,

You may eat any clean bird.

But Paul chose Silas and left, being committed by the brethren to the grace of the Lord.

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you,” declares the Lord God.

Now it came about on the eighth day that Moses called Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel;

Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head
And ornaments about your neck.

But go now, lead the people where I told you. Behold, My angel shall go before you; nevertheless in the day when I punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

For thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Cut down her trees
And cast up a siege against Jerusalem.
This is the city to be punished,
In whose midst there is only oppression.

This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one fate for all men. Furthermore, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil and insanity is in their hearts throughout their lives. Afterwards they go to the dead.

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrians will come into Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria, and the Egyptians will worship with the Assyrians.

“Then bring near to yourself Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the sons of Israel, to minister as priest to Me—Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

Then the men rose up from there, and looked down toward Sodom; and Abraham was walking with them to send them off.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said to Jonathan, “What have I done? What is my iniquity? And what is my sin before your father, that he is seeking my life?”

I had no rest for my spirit, not finding Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia.

Yet they did not listen to Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck; they did more evil than their fathers.

The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour.

In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

saying, “Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes; and they will condemn Him to death and will hand Him over to the Gentiles.

You have feared a sword; so I will bring a sword upon you,” the Lord God declares.

Haman also said, “Even Esther the queen let no one but me come with the king to the banquet which she had prepared; and tomorrow also I am invited by her with the king.

So the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed, and came to Samaria.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am pining away;
Heal me, O Lord, for my bones are dismayed.

And He got up and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Hush, be still.” And the wind died down and it became perfectly calm.

And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac;

“The fear of the Lord is to hate evil;
Pride and arrogance and the evil way
And the perverted mouth, I hate.

You also took along the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of the god Rompha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon.’

When they had brought them, they stood them before the Council. The high priest questioned them,

They returned to Joshua and said to him, “Do not let all the people go up; only about two or three thousand men need go up to Ai; do not make all the people toil up there, for they are few.”

But if we judged ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family, that remains in all the places to which I have driven them,” declares the Lord of hosts.

And He began telling this parable: “A man had a fig tree which had been planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and did not find any.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according to their deeds.

The sons of Israel shall not come near the tent of meeting again, or they will bear sin and die.

But have nothing to do with worldly fables fit only for old women. On the other hand, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;

While Saul talked to the priest, the commotion in the camp of the Philistines continued and increased; so Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”

Now again the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and it incited David against them to say, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

and came and lived in a city called Nazareth. This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophets: “He shall be called a Nazarene.”

When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end.

He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.

then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will be agreeable with God that you curse them for me from there.”

“I will go to the great
And will speak to them,
For they know the way of the Lord
And the ordinance of their God.”
But they too, with one accord, have broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.

Above the Horse Gate the priests carried out repairs, each in front of his house.

“Son of man, has not the house of Israel, the rebellious house, said to you, ‘What are you doing?’

“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.

But they feared greatly and said, “Behold, the two kings did not stand before him; how then can we stand?”

The days of punishment have come,
The days of retribution have come;
Let Israel know this!
The prophet is a fool,
The inspired man is demented,
Because of the grossness of your iniquity,
And because your hostility is so great.

We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

I prayed to the Lord and said, ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in carrying:

And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots.

Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,

I heard the man dressed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, as he raised his right hand and his left toward heaven, and swore by Him who lives forever that it would be for a time, times, and half a time; and as soon as they finish shattering the power of the holy people, all these events will be completed.

So about three thousand men from the people went up there, but they fled from the men of Ai.

Paul stood up, and motioning with his hand said,“Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen:

Zerubbabel was the father of Abihud, Abihud the father of Eliakim, and Eliakim the father of Azor.

And He *said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death; remain here and keep watch.”

But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was withstanding me for twenty-one days; then behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left there with the kings of Persia.

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

“All your sons will be taught of the Lord;
And the well-being of your sons will be great.

Do not go out into the field
And do not walk on the road,
For the enemy has a sword,
Terror is on every side.

And it happened that the father of Publius was lying in bed afflicted with recurrent fever and dysentery; and Paul went in to see him and after he had prayed, he laid his hands on him and healed him.

Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks.

He spoke another parable to them, “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, is to be put to death’;

But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat and fastened itself on his hand.

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!”

And they were casting out many demons and were anointing with oil many sick people and healing them.

But when Jesus heard this, He said, “It is not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.

For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

So you remained in Kadesh many days, the days that you spent there.

Now the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord terrorized him.

But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.

For not knowing about God’s righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

Moreover, I will make you a desolation and a reproach among the nations which surround you, in the sight of all who pass by.