So they said, “Behold, there is a feast of the Lord from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south side of Lebonah.”

and as they were returning, after spending the full number of days, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. But His parents were unaware of it,

And he questioned Him at some length; but He answered him nothing.

Therefore take heed, so that the thing spoken of in the Prophets may not come upon you:

If, therefore, a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he shall add to it one-fifth of it.

If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the dowry for virgins.

Now Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood; its length was two and a half cubits, and its width one and a half cubits, and its height one and a half cubits;

“I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether the vine had budded
Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

for he had an only daughter, about twelve years old, and she was dying. But as He went, the crowds were pressing against Him.

But they rebelled
And grieved His Holy Spirit;
Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy,
He fought against them.

The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I shall tell you.

Oil and perfume make the heart glad,
So a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.

Then Jacob sent messengers before him to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Then the servant took ten camels from the camels of his master, and set out with a variety of good things of his master’s in his hand; and he arose and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.

Now it came about when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my own country.

Those who have insight among the people will give understanding to the many; yet they will fall by sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder for many days.

And when he learned that He belonged to Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent Him to Herod, who himself also was in Jerusalem at that time.

and if it bears fruit next year, fine; but if not, cut it down.’”

So the waters have been purified to this day, according to the word of Elisha which he spoke.

Then these three men ceased answering Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

“You shall not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep which has a blemish or any defect, for that is a detestable thing to the Lord your God.

A wicked man displays a bold face,
But as for the upright, he makes his way sure.

Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.

and the priest shall look, and behold, if it appears to be lower than the skin, and the hair on it has turned white, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is the infection of leprosy, it has broken out in the boil.

His shoots will sprout,
And his beauty will be like the olive tree
And his fragrance like the cedars of Lebanon.

And they will make their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will cast dust on their heads,
They will wallow in ashes.

As they were coming down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.”

Your people will volunteer freely in the day of Your power;
In holy array, from the womb of the dawn,
Your youth are to You as the dew.

Because I delivered the poor who cried for help,
And the orphan who had no helper.

Then Jonathan said to the young man who was carrying his armor, “Come and let us cross over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; perhaps the Lord will work for us, for the Lord is not restrained to save by many or by few.”

And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.

Then it came about when the ark set out that Moses said,
“Rise up, O Lord!
And let Your enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate You flee before You.”

All the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

“A bruised reed He will not break
And a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish;
He will faithfully bring forth justice.

Jehoash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trampled the thorn bush.

Answering them, He *said, “Who are My mother and My brothers?”

Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will dwell securely.

Thus says the Lord,
“The people who survived the sword
Found grace in the wilderness—
Israel, when it went to find its rest.”

Then the book will be given to the one who is illiterate, saying, “Please read this.” And he will say, “I cannot read.”

Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.

“In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed;
In Your strength You have guided them to Your holy habitation.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
Hear this, all peoples;
Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of the Lord, but I hate him, because he does not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. He is Micaiah son of Imlah.” But Jehoshaphat said, “Let not the king say so.”

“If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,

The people who were camped heard it said, “Zimri has conspired and has also struck down the king.” Therefore all Israel made Omri, the commander of the army, king over Israel that day in the camp.

Moab said to the elders of Midian, “Now this horde will lick up all that is around us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field.” And Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at that time.

A Song of Ascents.
Those who trust in the Lord
Are as Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

“You shall not see your countryman’s ox or his sheep straying away, and pay no attention to them; you shall certainly bring them back to your countryman.

When we had sailed through the sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we landed at Myra in Lycia.

Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.”

“In those days they will not say again,
‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,
And the children’s teeth are set on edge.’

But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him, for there is no one who will perform a miracle in My name, and be able soon afterward to speak evil of Me.

Know well the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds;

“Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day?
Can a nation be brought forth all at once?
As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.

In that day the Lord will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel.

Moreover, from the blue and purple and scarlet material, they made finely woven garments for ministering in the holy place as well as the holy garments which were for Aaron, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Or for rulers to desire strong drink,

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

The oath which He swore to Abraham our father,

Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek for me a woman who is a medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his servants said to him, “Behold, there is a woman who is a medium at En-dor.”

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

“As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down.”

Abi-albon the Arbathite, Azmaveth the Barhumite,

“His skin is devoured by disease,
The firstborn of death devours his limbs.

“My spirit is broken, my days are extinguished,
The grave is ready for me.

and a man’s enemies will be the members of his household.

The Lord is for me; I will not fear;
What can man do to me?

But I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;
My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.

And when they had received a pledge from Jason and the others, they released them.

Strike a scoffer and the naive may become shrewd,
But reprove one who has understanding and he will gain knowledge.

He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger.

And they could make no reply to this.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it;

yet when it is sown, it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and forms large branches; so that the birds of the air can nest under its shade.”

He does not thank the slave because he did the things which were commanded, does he?

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

Sinners in Zion are terrified;
Trembling has seized the godless.
“Who among us can live with the consuming fire?
Who among us can live with continual burning?”

But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

And all the people of the country of the Gerasenes and the surrounding district asked Him to leave them, for they were gripped with great fear; and He got into a boat and returned.

At one moment I might speak concerning a nation or concerning a kingdom to uproot, to pull down, or to destroy it;

Many more believed because of His word;

Then the Lord said to me, “Even though Moses and Samuel were to stand before Me, My heart would not be with this people; send them away from My presence and let them go!

Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, because you are an obstinate people, and I might destroy you on the way.”

Then it came about after these things, the cupbearer and the baker for the king of Egypt offended their lord, the king of Egypt.

“For He is not a man as I am that I may answer Him,
That we may go to court together.

because he came close to death for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was deficient in your service to me.

Praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord, O my soul!

For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

“Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him;
The number of His years is unsearchable.

I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.

Then Judah approached him, and said, “Oh my lord, may your servant please speak a word in my lord’s ears, and do not be angry with your servant; for you are equal to Pharaoh.

And Abram said, “Since You have given no offspring to me, one born in my house is my heir.”

“Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of all generations.
Ask your father, and he will inform you,
Your elders, and they will tell you.

Though I have many things to write to you, I do not want to do so with paper and ink; but I hope to come to you and speak face to face, so that your joy may be made full.

Therefore I will make the heavens tremble,
And the earth will be shaken from its place
At the fury of the Lord of hosts
In the day of His burning anger.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

But after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, Samson visited his wife with a young goat, and said, “I will go in to my wife in her room.” But her father did not let him enter.

And these also reel with wine and stagger from strong drink:
The priest and the prophet reel with strong drink,
They are confused by wine, they stagger from strong drink;
They reel while having visions,
They totter when rendering judgment.

‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Lord’s Passover.

I robbed other churches by taking wages from them to serve you;

to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

Answering again, Pilate said to them, “Then what shall I do with Him whom you call the King of the Jews?”

and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.

Jesus answered and said to them, “Do not grumble among yourselves.

Now when he had spent everything, a severe famine occurred in that country, and he began to be impoverished.

“His hands are rods of gold
Set with beryl;
His abdomen is carved ivory
Inlaid with sapphires.

“Behold, He puts no trust in His holy ones,
And the heavens are not pure in His sight;

How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

But I said to you that you have seen Me, and yet do not believe.

So she said, “Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother as a wife.”

“Those slain by the Lord on that day will be from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be lamented, gathered or buried; they will be like dung on the face of the ground.

“Nations will come to your light,
And kings to the brightness of your rising.

A Psalm; a Song at the Dedication of the House. A Psalm of David.
I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up,
And have not let my enemies rejoice over me.

But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

When he had gone back up and had broken the bread and eaten, he talked with them a long while until daybreak, and then left.

You did not anoint My head with oil, but she anointed My feet with perfume.

After you there will arise another kingdom inferior to you, then another third kingdom of bronze, which will rule over all the earth.

and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel on the west and to Shihor-libnath.

Immediately one of them ran, and taking a sponge, he filled it with sour wine and put it on a reed, and gave Him a drink.

He who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets,
Therefore do not associate with a gossip.

So he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, at Pethor, which is near the River, in the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, “Behold, a people came out of Egypt; behold, they cover the surface of the land, and they are living opposite me.

Now therefore, take for yourselves seven bulls and seven rams, and go to My servant Job, and offer up a burnt offering for yourselves, and My servant Job will pray for you. For I will accept him so that I may not do with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.”

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding there on the mountain; and the demons implored Him to permit them to enter the swine. And He gave them permission.

Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

His servants drove his body in a chariot from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah and anointed him and made him king in place of his father.

“Oh that I knew where I might find Him,
That I might come to His seat!

Every day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize Me; but this has taken place to fulfill the Scriptures.”

In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, “Why did you not bring Him?”

“Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and stay there; behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”

“Listen to Me, O Jacob, even Israel whom I called;
I am He, I am the first, I am also the last.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

When they called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, came out to them.

Now when Moses saw that the people were out of control—for Aaron had let them get out of control to be a derision among their enemies—

“I, even I, am He who comforts you.
Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies
And of the son of man who is made like grass,

So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the Lord your God is giving you for all time.”

Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory.

But Jonathan answered Saul his father and said to him, “Why should he be put to death? What has he done?”

Immediately the word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled; and he was driven away from mankind and began eating grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.

For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song.
Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered,
And let those who hate Him flee before Him.

“He quieted the sea with His power,
And by His understanding He shattered Rahab.

Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria from my hand?

“The ostriches’ wings flap joyously
With the pinion and plumage of love,

Now the rest of the acts of Solomon and whatever he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

so that I may come to you in joy by the will of God and find refreshing rest in your company.

He said, “I have not troubled Israel, but you and your father’s house have, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals.

Looking about at those who were sitting around Him, He *said, “Behold My mother and My brothers!

And at once his mouth was opened and his tongue loosed, and he began to speak in praise of God.

Fire also came forth from the Lord and consumed the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the incense.

As they were eating, He said, “Truly I say to you that one of you will betray Me.”

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These who speak lies go astray from birth.

Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, ‘You shall never again return that way.’

This is now the third time that Jesus was manifested to the disciples, after He was raised from the dead.

(men of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Everything also on which she lies during her menstrual impurity shall be unclean, and everything on which she sits shall be unclean.

Then you shall erect the tabernacle according to its plan which you have been shown in the mountain.

If You, Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your fellows.

“On my bed night after night I sought him
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.

Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.”

Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ He *said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’

“The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, as the eagle swoops down, a nation whose language you shall not understand,

Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

“For every beast of the forest is Mine,
The cattle on a thousand hills.

And Samuel said to Jesse, “Are these all the children?” And he said, “There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is tending the sheep.” Then Samuel said to Jesse, “Send and bring him; for we will not sit down until he comes here.”

Then Bildad the Shuhite responded,

And he said to them the third time, “Why, what evil has this man done? I have found in Him no guilt demanding death; therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas and to put Jesus to death.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short,
And the joy of the godless momentary?

I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will place them and multiply them, and will set My sanctuary in their midst forever.

And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaped on them and subdued all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

He reigned three years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Micaiah the daughter of Uriel of Gibeah.Now there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.

His servants said to him, “Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life.”

“If a man is caught kidnapping any of his countrymen of the sons of Israel, and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.

“How then can a man be just with God?
Or how can he be clean who is born of woman?

“Behold, I am going to send for many fishermen,” declares the Lord, “and they will fish for them; and afterwards I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them from every mountain and every hill and from the clefts of the rocks.

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

“His anger has torn me and hunted me down,
He has gnashed at me with His teeth;
My adversary glares at me.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding.
Far be it from God to do wickedness,
And from the Almighty to do wrong.

For all the gods of the peoples are idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.

“You are wearied with your many counsels;
Let now the astrologers,
Those who prophesy by the stars,
Those who predict by the new moons,
Stand up and save you from what will come upon you.

“Woe to him who builds his house without righteousness
And his upper rooms without justice,
Who uses his neighbor’s services without pay
And does not give him his wages,

Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.

“Thus you shall keep the sons of Israel separated from their uncleanness, so that they will not die in their uncleanness by their defiling My tabernacle that is among them.”

“Some remove the landmarks;
They seize and devour flocks.

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

This took place to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet:

Moreover, the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth; and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone, which you or your fathers have not known.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

“His cheeks are like a bed of balsam,
Banks of sweet-scented herbs;
His lips are lilies
Dripping with liquid myrrh.

“You neglected the Rock who begot you,
And forgot the God who gave you birth.

And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?

“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,
Who gives songs in the night,

The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook.

“You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide.

You have heard the blasphemy; how does it seem to you?” And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.

a woman came to Him with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume, and she poured it on His head as He reclined at the table.

In the twenty-sixth year of Asa king of Judah, Elah the son of Baasha became king over Israel at Tirzah, and reigned two years.

“Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

The pig, because it divides the hoof but does not chew the cud, it is unclean for you. You shall not eat any of their flesh nor touch their carcasses.

So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David, and his son Asa became king in his place. The land was undisturbed for ten years during his days.

He who gives to the poor will never want,
But he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.

Thus He will sprinkle many nations,
Kings will shut their mouths on account of Him;
For what had not been told them they will see,
And what they had not heard they will understand.

Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”

For the Lord has poured over you a spirit of deep sleep,
He has shut your eyes, the prophets;
And He has covered your heads, the seers.

It is not in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us to get it for us and make us hear it, that we may observe it?’

Now in the days of wheat harvest Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;

But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear Him,
And His righteousness to children’s children,

Nevertheless, as the Lord God of Israel lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one male.”

He shall make atonement for the holy place, because of the impurities of the sons of Israel and because of their transgressions in regard to all their sins; and thus he shall do for the tent of meeting which abides with them in the midst of their impurities.

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty,
But humility goes before honor.

Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely take care of you and bring you up from this land to the land which He promised on oath to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.”

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

They went away and reported it to the others, but they did not believe them either.

Now Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel.

and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

“In a dream, a vision of the night,
When sound sleep falls on men,
While they slumber in their beds,

So Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up, erect an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone, as a stone of crystal-clear jasper.

He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,
And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Behold, I will set your stones in antimony,
And your foundations I will lay in sapphires.

And since he would not be persuaded, we fell silent, remarking, “The will of the Lord be done!”

Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

Because Your lovingkindness is better than life,
My lips will praise You.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

Then Moses bade his father-in-law farewell, and he went his way into his own land.

I will open my mouth in a parable;
I will utter dark sayings of old,

I will set no worthless thing before my eyes;
I hate the work of those who fall away;
It shall not fasten its grip on me.

It is your destruction, O Israel,
That you are against Me, against your help.

For thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will give you into the hand of those whom you hate, into the hand of those from whom you were alienated.

‘Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’

Those who linger long over wine,
Those who go to taste mixed wine.

How is it that you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

And all who lived at Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they turned to the Lord.

Now it was about three months later that Judah was informed, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has played the harlot, and behold, she is also with child by harlotry.” Then Judah said, “Bring her out and let her be burned!”

He went from there to Mount Carmel, and from there he returned to Samaria.

Your eyes will see strange things
And your mind will utter perverse things.

His watchmen are blind,
All of them know nothing.
All of them are mute dogs unable to bark,
Dreamers lying down, who love to slumber;

Then the second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families, and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Judah.

The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever.

While the meat was still between their teeth, before it was chewed, the anger of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord struck the people with a very severe plague.

What, therefore, belongs to the Levites may be redeemed and a house sale in the city of this possession reverts in the jubilee, for the houses of the cities of the Levites are their possession among the sons of Israel.

Moreover, the angel of the Lord said to her, “I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be too many to count.”

“Coastlands, listen to Me in silence,
And let the peoples gain new strength;
Let them come forward, then let them speak;
Let us come together for judgment.

and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, to be his wife.

Moses entered the midst of the cloud as he went up to the mountain; and Moses was on the mountain forty days and forty nights.

“Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and say to those shepherds, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Woe, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding themselves! Should not the shepherds feed the flock?

The sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

and they came and appealed to them, and when they had brought them out, they kept begging them to leave the city.

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin,

That place was called the valley of Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.

And Job again took up his discourse and said,

and you will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field. You will be given grass to eat like cattle, and seven periods of time will pass over you until you recognize that the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind and bestows it on whomever He wishes.’

“Or do you have an arm like God,
And can you thunder with a voice like His?

Then King David rose to his feet and said, “Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent home for the ark of the covenant of the Lord and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.

Therefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak in tongues.

Do not take usurious interest from him, but revere your God, that your countryman may live with you.

“When a man has on the skin of his body a swelling or a scab or a bright spot, and it becomes an infection of leprosy on the skin of his body, then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons the priests.

What, O my son?
And what, O son of my womb?
And what, O son of my vows?

At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon went up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.

For You are our Father, though Abraham does not know us
And Israel does not recognize us.
You, O Lord, are our Father,
Our Redeemer from of old is Your name.

“As I see him from the top of the rocks,
And I look at him from the hills;
Behold, a people who dwells apart,
And will not be reckoned among the nations.

Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

So Omri slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.

and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

And all who heard Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers.

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

“Behold, these are the fringes of His ways;
And how faint a word we hear of Him!
But His mighty thunder, who can understand?”

Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me,

But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Jonathan smote the garrison of the Philistines that was in Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. Then Saul blew the trumpet throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”

“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;
Moreover, all men will follow after him,
While countless ones go before him.

Like snow in summer and like rain in harvest,
So honor is not fitting for a fool.

Go, say to Jeroboam, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel, “Because I exalted you from among the people and made you leader over My people Israel,

Jesus *came and *took the bread and *gave it to them, and the fish likewise.

Thus they set out from the mount of the Lord three days’ journey, with the ark of the covenant of the Lord journeying in front of them for the three days, to seek out a resting place for them.

Then Samson went down to Timnah with his father and mother, and came as far as the vineyards of Timnah; and behold, a young lion came roaring toward him.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If You will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

But Jesus said to him, “Judas, are you betraying the Son of Man with a kiss?”

Shout for joy, O heavens! And rejoice, O earth!
Break forth into joyful shouting, O mountains!
For the Lord has comforted His people
And will have compassion on His afflicted.

For the tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering were in the high place at Gibeon at that time.

You shall put pure frankincense on each row that it may be a memorial portion for the bread, even an offering by fire to the Lord.

So it came about at evening that the quails came up and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.

its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.

Those who camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, and the leader of the sons of Simeon: Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai,

for a wide door for effective service has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.

“Come down and sit in the dust,
O virgin daughter of Babylon;
Sit on the ground without a throne,
O daughter of the Chaldeans!
For you shall no longer be called tender and delicate.

They answered and said to him, “If this Man were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him to you.”

“This is the statute of the law which the Lord has commanded, saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel that they bring you an unblemished red heifer in which is no defect and on which a yoke has never been placed.

“Behold, the former things have come to pass,
Now I declare new things;
Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”

Alas, oh land of whirring wings
Which lies beyond the rivers of Cush,

Saul and the men of Israel were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines.

There were also many burnt offerings with the fat of the peace offerings and with the libations for the burnt offerings. Thus the service of the house of the Lord was established again.

‘Likewise, if a man sells a dwelling house in a walled city, then his redemption right remains valid until a full year from its sale; his right of redemption lasts a full year.

Thus I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!

because David did what was right in the sight of the Lord, and had not turned aside from anything that He commanded him all the days of his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.

You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

Their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, and it ended at the Jordan.

The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive and act and render to each according to all his ways, whose heart You know, for You alone know the hearts of all the sons of men,

Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,
Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary

But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

“Behold, I go forward but He is not there,
And backward, but I cannot perceive Him;

So he said, “I am Abraham’s servant.

They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

Then he said, “I have been very zealous for the Lord, the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

They assembled together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, “You have gone far enough, for all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is in their midst; so why do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?”

Jesus *said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

“You shall not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan, nor take a widow’s garment in pledge.

Greet Rufus, a choice man in the Lord, also his mother and mine.

Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment.

And you will, even of yourself, let go of your inheritance
That I gave you;
And I will make you serve your enemies
In the land which you do not know;
For you have kindled a fire in My anger
Which will burn forever.

A Psalm of Asaph.
O God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance;
They have defiled Your holy temple;
They have laid Jerusalem in ruins.

The Lord sent against him bands of Chaldeans, bands of Arameans, bands of Moabites, and bands of Ammonites. So He sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the Lord which He had spoken through His servants the prophets.

“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’

Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!
Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

Then it came about, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the sons of Israel again played the harlot with the Baals, and made Baal-berith their god.

and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.

The priest shall then command that they empty the house before the priest goes in to look at the mark, so that everything in the house need not become unclean; and afterward the priest shall go in to look at the house.

From the tribe of Issachar, they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands,

You shall tell your son on that day, saying, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’

‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

“Speak kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
That her iniquity has been removed,
That she has received of the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

But when food was set before him to eat, he said, “I will not eat until I have told my business.” And he said, “Speak on.”

and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

Again he says,
“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

The righteous cry, and the Lord hears
And delivers them out of all their troubles.

Give her the product of her hands,
And let her works praise her in the gates.

Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” Still others were saying, “Surely the Christ is not going to come from Galilee, is He?

When He saw them, He said to them, “Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were going, they were cleansed.

“Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning on her beloved?”
“Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;
There your mother was in labor with you,
There she was in labor and gave you birth.

Then behold, one of the sons of Israel came and brought to his relatives a Midianite woman, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of all the congregation of the sons of Israel, while they were weeping at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Now as for the people who were left in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, he appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan over them.

He went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her sight.

Then Doeg the Edomite, who was standing by the servants of Saul, said, “I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.

Their bulbs and their branches shall be of one piece with it; all of it shall be one piece of hammered work of pure gold.

The firstborn bore a son, and called his name Moab; he is the father of the Moabites to this day.

“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him,
And in the end he will be a fool.”

Then the two men said to Lot, “Whom else have you here? A son-in-law, and your sons, and your daughters, and whomever you have in the city, bring them out of the place;

The angel who has redeemed me from all evil,
Bless the lads;
And may my name live on in them,
And the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
And may they grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”

Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and he took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her; thus Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

And he said to them, “Men of Israel, take care what you propose to do with these men.

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,

Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.

Now Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. For Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught fast in the oak, so he was left hanging between heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him kept going.

“When you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the Lord your God will surely require it of you.

and Mizpah, for he said, “May the Lord watch between you and me when we are absent one from the other.

Let us examine and probe our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.

But as for the land to which they desire to return, they will not return to it.

Inasmuch as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

There was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

But Jesus made no further answer; so Pilate was amazed.

“Have you entered into the springs of the sea
Or walked in the recesses of the deep?

because they did not meet you with food and water on the way when you came out of Egypt, and because they hired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse you.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

He measured the court, a perfect square, a hundred cubits long and a hundred cubits wide; and the altar was in front of the temple.

Therefore send to Joppa and invite Simon, who is also called Peter, to come to you; he is staying at the house of Simon the tanner by the sea.’

The crowd sternly told them to be quiet, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”

“For He draws up the drops of water,
They distill rain from the mist,

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth of the month, in the fourteenth year after the city was taken, on that same day the hand of the Lord was upon me and He brought me there.

The leech has two daughters,
“Give,” “Give.”
There are three things that will not be satisfied,
Four that will not say, “Enough”:

You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.

Surely I would carry it on my shoulder,
I would bind it to myself like a crown.

Now it came about on the next day that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he raved in the midst of the house, while David was playing the harp with his hand, as usual; and a spear was in Saul’s hand.

Like cold water to a weary soul,
So is good news from a distant land.

When they saw it, they all began to grumble, saying, “He has gone to be the guest of a man who is a sinner.”

As for your birth, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed with water for cleansing; you were not rubbed with salt or even wrapped in cloths.

She looks for wool and flax
And works with her hands in delight.

A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water,
But a man of understanding draws it out.

So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.

He struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

They are more desirable than gold, yes, than much fine gold;
Sweeter also than honey and the drippings of the honeycomb.

She said to her father, “Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise before you, for the manner of women is upon me.” So he searched but did not find the household idols.

Now you have indeed gone away because you longed greatly for your father’s house; but why did you steal my gods?”

[where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.]

Now he who was betraying Him gave them a sign, saying, “Whomever I kiss, He is the one; seize Him.”

Now therefore, restore the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.”

And he said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has taken away your blessing.”

The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.

David found favor in God’s sight, and asked that he might find a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.

‘The priest who is the highest among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not uncover his head nor tear his clothes;

“I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’
And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’
Bring My sons from afar
And My daughters from the ends of the earth,

For this reason they could not believe, for Isaiah said again,

Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place.

The king answered Daniel and said, “Surely your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of mysteries, since you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.

Tell of His glory among the nations,
His wonderful deeds among all the peoples.

Hezekiah listened to them, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and the house of his armor and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

You shall do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

Lift up a standard on the bare hill,
Raise your voice to them,
Wave the hand that they may enter the doors of the nobles.

After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them.