And Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza, and Amon his son became king in his place.

I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

For He Himself knows our frame;
He is mindful that we are but dust.

After all this, when Josiah had set the temple in order, Neco king of Egypt came up to make war at Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.

But his concubine played the harlot against him, and she went away from him to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah, and was there for a period of four months.

“You shall not wear a material mixed of wool and linen together.

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it.

“When the Lord your God cuts off the nations, whose land the Lord your God gives you, and you dispossess them and settle in their cities and in their houses,

And Azariah slept with his fathers, and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and Jotham his son became king in his place.

For what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

On the next day Moses said to the people, “You yourselves have committed a great sin; and now I am going up to the Lord, perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”

But the other disciples came in the little boat, for they were not far from the land, but about one hundred yards away, dragging the net full of fish.

The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.

He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

So he consented, and began seeking a good opportunity to betray Him to them apart from the crowd.

David stayed in the wilderness in the strongholds, and remained in the hill country in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God did not deliver him into his hand.

“Oh that you were like a brother to me
Who nursed at my mother’s breasts.
If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you;
No one would despise me, either.

So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and He gave them continually into the hand of Hazael king of Aram, and into the hand of Ben-hadad the son of Hazael.

“You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

“Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the light, to make a lamp burn continually.

but supposed Him to be in the caravan, and went a day’s journey; and they began looking for Him among their relatives and acquaintances.

And Judas, who was betraying Him, said, “Surely it is not I, Rabbi?” Jesus *said to him, “You have said it yourself.”

To the sons of Gershon, one of the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.

A scoffer does not love one who reproves him,
He will not go to the wise.

How great is Your goodness,
Which You have stored up for those who fear You,
Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You,
Before the sons of men!

You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, their hooks also being of gold, on four sockets of silver.

“He is torn from the security of his tent,
And they march him before the king of terrors.

Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he and his mother and his servants and his captains and his officials. So the king of Babylon took him captive in the eighth year of his reign.

“By the abundance of your trade
You were internally filled with violence,
And you sinned;
Therefore I have cast you as profane
From the mountain of God.
And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the stones of fire.

“Is not God in the height of heaven?
Look also at the distant stars, how high they are!

Jacob said, “O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac, O Lord, who said to me, ‘Return to your country and to your relatives, and I will prosper you,’

And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long and one cubit wide and one and a half cubits high.

“They will come and shout for joy on the height of Zion,
And they will be radiant over the bounty of the Lord—
Over the grain and the new wine and the oil,
And over the young of the flock and the herd;
And their life will be like a watered garden,
And they will never languish again.

Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.

At that time they were holding a notorious prisoner, called Barabbas.

“Declare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and lift up a standard.
Do not conceal it but say,
‘Babylon has been captured,
Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered;
Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’

For the choir director, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.
I said, “I will guard my ways
That I may not sin with my tongue;
I will guard my mouth as with a muzzle
While the wicked are in my presence.”

And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth of the month, saying,

The oracle about Arabia.
In the thickets of Arabia you must spend the night,
O caravans of Dedanites.

“Will the faultfinder contend with the Almighty?
Let him who reproves God answer it.”

Then Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him and struck him before the people and killed him, and reigned in his place.

“Now on the eighth day he is to take two male lambs without defect, and a yearling ewe lamb without defect, and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, and one log of oil;

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty,
And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Most of the crowd spread their coats in the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them in the road.

Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, “None of us shall give his daughter to Benjamin in marriage.”

And Balaam lifted up his eyes and saw Israel camping tribe by tribe; and the Spirit of God came upon him.

So the lot was made for the rest of the sons of Manasseh according to their families: for the sons of Abiezer and for the sons of Helek and for the sons of Asriel and for the sons of Shechem and for the sons of Hepher and for the sons of Shemida; these were the male descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their families.

O Lord, the hope of Israel,
All who forsake You will be put to shame.
Those who turn away on earth will be written down,
Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even the Lord.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

Finally the woman died also.

I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.

He makes the barren woman abide in the house
As a joyful mother of children.
Praise the Lord!

For the choir director. A Maskil of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul and said to him, “David has come to the house of Ahimelech.”
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man?
The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.

“I will make a covenant of peace with them and eliminate harmful beasts from the land so that they may live securely in the wilderness and sleep in the woods.

So Moses cried out to the Lord, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me.”

You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.

“You are a garden spring,
A well of fresh water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

“But the Levitical priests, the sons of Zadok, who kept charge of My sanctuary when the sons of Israel went astray from Me, shall come near to Me to minister to Me; and they shall stand before Me to offer Me the fat and the blood,” declares the Lord God.

And put a knife to your throat
If you are a man of great appetite.

David persuaded his men with these words and did not allow them to rise up against Saul. And Saul arose, left the cave, and went on his way.

‘Then on the sabbath day two male lambs one year old without defect, and two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, and its drink offering:

For the choir director; on a stringed instrument. A Psalm of David.
Hear my cry, O God;
Give heed to my prayer.

“And He rode on a cherub and flew;
And He appeared on the wings of the wind.

and a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly screams, and it throws him into a convulsion with foaming at the mouth; and only with difficulty does it leave him, mauling him as it leaves.

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun,
Who rides the heavens to your help,
And through the skies in His majesty.

Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the Lord, and their sin offering before the Lord, for their error.

Then he charged them and said to them, “I am about to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

I will come upon him while he is weary and exhausted and terrify him, so that all the people who are with him will flee. Then I will strike down the king alone,

When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people mourned greatly.

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

In those days and at that time I will cause a righteous Branch of David to spring forth; and He shall execute justice and righteousness on the earth.

Behold, the Lord has a strong and mighty agent;
As a storm of hail, a tempest of destruction,
Like a storm of mighty overflowing waters,
He has cast it down to the earth with His hand.

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go for the ships were broken at Ezion-geber.

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half-shekel and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels in gold,

And Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her sight. May the Lord judge between you and me.”

Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

“The peoples have heard, they tremble;
Anguish has gripped the inhabitants of Philistia.

“Will you keep to the ancient path
Which wicked men have trod,

“Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.

and said to them, “Men, I perceive that the voyage will certainly be with damage and great loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”

from the Shihor which is east of Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the Avvite

When Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times to seek omens but he set his face toward the wilderness.

Judgments are prepared for scoffers,
And blows for the back of fools.

I will bless the Lord who has counseled me;
Indeed, my mind instructs me in the night.

“For he who finds me finds life
And obtains favor from the Lord.

How blessed is the man whose strength is in You,
In whose heart are the highways to Zion!

The Lord will give strength to His people;
The Lord will bless His people with peace.

Then the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Behold, another man running by himself.” And the king said, “This one also is bringing good news.”

But he began to curse and swear, “I do not know this man you are talking about!”

“When He imparted weight to the wind
And meted out the waters by measure,

“They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.

Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.

The king stood by the pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and all his soul, to carry out the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people entered into the covenant.

“Fear not, for you will not be put to shame;
And do not feel humiliated, for you will not be disgraced;
But you will forget the shame of your youth,
And the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king’s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah.

I will bring you out from the peoples and gather you from the lands where you are scattered, with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with wrath poured out;

“Before she travailed, she brought forth;
Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.

“Set up for yourself roadmarks,
Place for yourself guideposts;
Direct your mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor
Than he who flatters with the tongue.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying,
So a curse without cause does not alight.

They said to Him, “Grant that we may sit, one on Your right and one on Your left, in Your glory.”

“Dominion and awe belong to Him
Who establishes peace in His heights.

When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

“But who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer as generously as this? For all things come from You, and from Your hand we have given You.

Flee from the midst of Babylon,
And each of you save his life!
Do not be destroyed in her punishment,
For this is the Lord’s time of vengeance;
He is going to render recompense to her.

Then he gave orders to the centurion for him to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from ministering to him.

Answering Jesus, they *said, “We do not know.” And Jesus *said to them, “Nor will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

Better is a little with righteousness
Than great income with injustice.

Now the king of Israel said to his servants, “Do you know that Ramoth-gilead belongs to us, and we are still doing nothing to take it out of the hand of the king of Aram?”

“He who offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving honors Me;
And to him who orders his way aright
I shall show the salvation of God.”

Lord, You will establish peace for us,
Since You have also performed for us all our works.

and blessed be your discernment, and blessed be you, who have kept me this day from bloodshed and from avenging myself by my own hand.

“For the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

And the man Micah had a shrine and he made an ephod and household idols and consecrated one of his sons, that he might become his priest.

There was no water for the congregation, and they assembled themselves against Moses and Aaron.

the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

Then Jehoshaphat the king of Judah returned in safety to his house in Jerusalem.

Jehoiachin changed his prison clothes and had his meals in the king’s presence regularly all the days of his life;

If the distance is so great for you that you are not able to bring the tithe, since the place where the Lord your God chooses to set His name is too far away from you when the Lord your God blesses you,

‘Now if a woman has a discharge of her blood many days, not at the period of her menstrual impurity, or if she has a discharge beyond that period, all the days of her impure discharge she shall continue as though in her menstrual impurity; she is unclean.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go.

“Phinehas the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned away My wrath from the sons of Israel in that he was jealous with My jealousy among them, so that I did not destroy the sons of Israel in My jealousy.

You shall put into the ark the testimony which I shall give you.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

If a man injures his neighbor, just as he has done, so it shall be done to him:

‘If there is a man who takes his sister, his father’s daughter or his mother’s daughter, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; and they shall be cut off in the sight of the sons of their people. He has uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he bears his guilt.

Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

I said to the Lord, “You are my Lord;
I have no good besides You.”

There is no one greater in this house than I, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”

“Then the tent of meeting shall set out with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; just as they camp, so they shall set out, every man in his place by their standards.

From the God of your father who helps you,
And by the Almighty who blesses you
With blessings of heaven above,
Blessings of the deep that lies beneath,
Blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

“I too could speak like you,
If I were in your place.
I could compose words against you
And shake my head at you.

So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell upon him so that he died.

And he went out and wept bitterly.

Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the best products of the land in your bags, and carry down to the man as a present, a little balm and a little honey, aromatic gum and myrrh, pistachio nuts and almonds.

And Jesus stopped and commanded that he be brought to Him; and when he came near, He questioned him,

“Do you know about the layers of the thick clouds,
The wonders of one perfect in knowledge,

Then Moses lifted up his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation and their beasts drank.

Greet one another with a holy kiss.

Until the Spirit is poured out upon us from on high,
And the wilderness becomes a fertile field,
And the fertile field is considered as a forest.

When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

For on My holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel,” declares the Lord God, “there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land; there I will accept them and there I will seek your contributions and the choicest of your gifts, with all your holy things.

“Now as for you, son of man, say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus you have spoken, saying, “Surely our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we are rotting away in them; how then can we survive?”’

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

You shall follow the Lord your God and fear Him; and you shall keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him, and cling to Him.

“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act;
For how can My name be profaned?
And My glory I will not give to another.

O Lord, by Your favor You have made my mountain to stand strong;
You hid Your face, I was dismayed.

“When you take a census of the sons of Israel to number them, then each one of them shall give a ransom for himself to the Lord, when you number them, so that there will be no plague among them when you number them.

Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel sin; he did not turn from them.

Then she said, “I am making one small request of you; do not refuse me.” And the king said to her, “Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse you.”

One of the lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too.”

And whoever swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it.

and Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah,

saying, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you.’

He bought the piece of land where he had pitched his tent from the hand of the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for one hundred pieces of money.

He shall take from the congregation of the sons of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.

And Jesus *said to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And they said, “Seven, and a few small fish.”

And the Lord will cause His voice of authority to be heard,
And the descending of His arm to be seen in fierce anger,
And in the flame of a consuming fire
In cloudburst, downpour and hailstones.

“If I have put my confidence in gold,
And called fine gold my trust,

Then the king arose, tore his clothes and lay on the ground; and all his servants were standing by with clothes torn.

Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and sent a present to the king of Assyria.

Be on your guard before him and obey his voice; do not be rebellious toward him, for he will not pardon your transgression, since My name is in him.

“Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be careful to present My offering, My food for My offerings by fire, of a soothing aroma to Me, at their appointed time.’

And a second time they said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever.”

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea.
As windstorms in the Negev sweep on,
It comes from the wilderness, from a terrifying land.

I also discovered that the portions of the Levites had not been given them, so that the Levites and the singers who performed the service had gone away, each to his own field.

As for the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; he is the father of the sons of Ammon to this day.

And the dread of God was on all the kingdoms of the lands when they heard that the Lord had fought against the enemies of Israel.

And He answered, “He who dipped his hand with Me in the bowl is the one who will betray Me.

“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I put you before kings,
That they may see you.

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

Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelech and his wife and his maids, so that they bore children.

“I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,
‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained calf;
Bring me back that I may be restored,
For You are the Lord my God.

The scorched land will become a pool
And the thirsty ground springs of water;
In the haunt of jackals, its resting place,
Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

So he said to his men, “Far be it from me because of the Lord that I should do this thing to my lord, the Lord’s anointed, to stretch out my hand against him, since he is the Lord’s anointed.”

So Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father who was born in Israel; however, the name of the city formerly was Laish.

“Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together,
For I will turn their mourning into joy
And will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.

While he was at the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah the son of Hananiah was there; and he arrested Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are going over to the Chaldeans!”

Jesus answered, “I told you that I am He; so if you seek Me, let these go their way,”

Then I said to them, ‘What is the high place to which you go?’ So its name is called Bamah to this day.”’

The Lord reigns, let the peoples tremble;
He is enthroned above the cherubim, let the earth shake!

Yodh.
Your hands made me and fashioned me;
Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.

“Drought and heat consume the snow waters,
So does Sheol those who have sinned.

‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’

“You shall not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed which you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled.

So you shall observe to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

So the sons of Dan went on their way; and when Micah saw that they were too strong for him, he turned and went back to his house.

If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.

Then the moon will be abashed and the sun ashamed,
For the Lord of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,
But who can find a trustworthy man?

ordering his accusers to come before you.] By examining him yourself concerning all these matters you will be able to ascertain the things of which we accuse him.”

and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

He who increases his wealth by interest and usury
Gathers it for him who is gracious to the poor.

and of human beings, of the women who had not known man intimately, all the persons were 32,000.

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself,
The naive proceed and pay the penalty.

For the devious are an abomination to the Lord;
But He is intimate with the upright.

This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
And saved him out of all his troubles.

standing at a distance because of the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For in one hour your judgment has come.’

But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel; he also made molten images for the Baals.

At that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah and said to him, “Because you have relied on the king of Aram and have not relied on the Lord your God, therefore the army of the king of Aram has escaped out of your hand.

“At the blast of Your nostrils the waters were piled up,
The flowing waters stood up like a heap;
The deeps were congealed in the heart of the sea.

“Indeed, you do away with reverence
And hinder meditation before God.

Then some came and reported to Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, out of Aram and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar (that is Engedi).”

Then the trees of the forest will sing for joy before the Lord;
For He is coming to judge the earth.

Thus Joshua struck all the land, the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings. He left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Now with all my ability I have provided for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, onyx stones and inlaid stones, stones of antimony and stones of various colors, and all kinds of precious stones and alabaster in abundance.

Out of all these people 700 choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

“If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying helpless under its load, you shall refrain from leaving it to him, you shall surely release it with him.

Excellent speech is not fitting for a fool,
Much less are lying lips to a prince.

Now when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him.” But his hand which he stretched out against him dried up, so that he could not draw it back to himself.

Having been prompted by her mother, she *said, “Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.”

“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

From the top of the mountain the border curved to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron, then the border curved to Baalah (that is, Kiriath-jearim).

“By the multitude of your iniquities,
In the unrighteousness of your trade
You profaned your sanctuaries.
Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you;
It has consumed you,
And I have turned you to ashes on the earth
In the eyes of all who see you.

God was with the lad, and he grew; and he lived in the wilderness and became an archer.

Pilate answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”

Tremble, you women who are at ease;
Be troubled, you complacent daughters;
Strip, undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.

The sons of Israel did things secretly which were not right against the Lord their God. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these among those which chew the cud, or among those that divide the hoof in two: the camel and the rabbit and the shaphan, for though they chew the cud, they do not divide the hoof; they are unclean for you.

“King Solomon has made for himself a sedan chair
From the timber of Lebanon.

On the fourth day the silver and the gold and the utensils were weighed out in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest, and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them were the Levites, Jozabad the son of Jeshua and Noadiah the son of Binnui.

“Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”

“And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, ‘For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.’

And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”

When Samlah died, Shaul of Rehoboth by the River became king in his place.

And Jeremiah said, “The word of the Lord came to me, saying,

“Do you give the horse his might?
Do you clothe his neck with a mane?

Do you not know that the Lord God of Israel gave the rule over Israel forever to David and his sons by a covenant of salt?

and in the lampstand four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers.

Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years; so the length of Jacob’s life was one hundred and forty-seven years.

So David went out wherever Saul sent him, and prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war. And it was pleasing in the sight of all the people and also in the sight of Saul’s servants.

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

Have you found honey? Eat only what you need,
That you not have it in excess and vomit it.

A righteous man hates falsehood,
But a wicked man acts disgustingly and shamefully.

Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them.

O daughter of Babylon, you devastated one,
How blessed will be the one who repays you
With the recompense with which you have repaid us.

The first appeared, saying, ‘Master, your mina has made ten minas more.’

And the chief priests and the scribes were standing there, accusing Him vehemently.

“For you have taken pledges of your brothers without cause,
And stripped men naked.

And some of those who were standing there, when they heard it, began saying, “This man is calling for Elijah.”

and he said, “O Lord, the God of our fathers, are You not God in the heavens? And are You not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand so that no one can stand against You.

“I call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised,
And I am saved from my enemies.

I will not die, but live,
And tell of the works of the Lord.

By forbearance a ruler may be persuaded,
And a soft tongue breaks the bone.

Then they will rebuild the ancient ruins,
They will raise up the former devastations;
And they will repair the ruined cities,
The desolations of many generations.

Later the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open up for us.’

At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he offered sacrifice there.

Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel.

So in the twentieth year of Jeroboam the king of Israel, Asa began to reign as king of Judah.

A scoffer seeks wisdom and finds none,
But knowledge is easy to one who has understanding.

Four things are small on the earth,
But they are exceedingly wise:

Was it from you that the word of God first went forth? Or has it come to you only?

“A multitude of camels will cover you,
The young camels of Midian and Ephah;
All those from Sheba will come;
They will bring gold and frankincense,
And will bear good news of the praises of the Lord.

Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, killed the two sons of Ariel of Moab. He also went down and killed a lion in the middle of a pit on a snowy day.

Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was.

After these acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and besieged the fortified cities, and thought to break into them for himself.

O Lord, do save, we beseech You;
O Lord, we beseech You, do send prosperity!

He placed troops in all the fortified cities of Judah, and set garrisons in the land of Judah and in the cities of Ephraim which Asa his father had captured.

besides those of the sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts and besides all your votive and freewill offerings, which you give to the Lord.

“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob,
And all the remnant of the house of Israel,
You who have been borne by Me from birth
And have been carried from the womb;

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.

Now in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and seized them.

For this is a rebellious people, false sons,
Sons who refuse to listen
To the instruction of the Lord;

He said to his servant, “Go up now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back” seven times.

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab; I will give her to you as a wife, only be a valiant man for me and fight the Lord’s battles.” For Saul thought, “My hand shall not be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”

If there is a man who lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

Lift up your hands to the sanctuary
And bless the Lord.

So David gave orders to gather the foreigners who were in the land of Israel, and he set stonecutters to hew out stones to build the house of God.

The sons of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

“How could one chase a thousand,
And two put ten thousand to flight,
Unless their Rock had sold them,
And the Lord had given them up?

“As for the leper who has the infection, his clothes shall be torn, and the hair of his head shall be uncovered, and he shall cover his mustache and cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

They came to the chief priests and the elders and said, “We have bound ourselves under a solemn oath to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.

“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of your garment with which you cover yourself.

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

It shall be when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall observe this rite in this month.

The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

There we found some brethren, and were invited to stay with them for seven days; and thus we came to Rome.

And the word of the Lord was being spread through the whole region.

and said, “You are to say, ‘His disciples came by night and stole Him away while we were asleep.’

(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

“Out of the north comes golden splendor;
Around God is awesome majesty.

“For the ear tests words
As the palate tastes food.

I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations.

And he measured its wall, seventy-two yards, according to human measurements, which are also angelic measurements.

“Do you hear the secret counsel of God,
And limit wisdom to yourself?

This is the bread which came down out of heaven; not as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live forever.”

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

A just balance and scales belong to the Lord;
All the weights of the bag are His concern.

Solomon said, “If he is a worthy man, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if wickedness is found in him, he will die.”

Then all the Midianites and the Amalekites and the sons of the east assembled themselves; and they crossed over and camped in the valley of Jezreel.

Creating the praise of the lips.
Peace, peace to him who is far and to him who is near,”
Says the Lord, “and I will heal him.”

So Jonathan told David saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now therefore, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

With all my heart I have sought You;
Do not let me wander from Your commandments.

When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.

So the word of the Lord to them will be,
“Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you shall serve other gods, wood and stone.

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

So the ransomed of the Lord will return
And come with joyful shouting to Zion,
And everlasting joy will be on their heads.
They will obtain gladness and joy,
And sorrow and sighing will flee away.

With Your counsel You will guide me,
And afterward receive me to glory.

And I heard the angel of the waters saying, “Righteous are You, who are and who were, O Holy One, because You judged these things;

Then the Lord answered Job out of the storm and said,

Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon, and they have come up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise which you have heard.

‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

“Now gird up your loins like a man,
And I will ask you, and you instruct Me!

But the man from whom the demons had gone out was begging Him that he might accompany Him; but He sent him away, saying,

Therefore He again asked them, “Whom do you seek?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran away and reported it in the city and out in the country.

“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;
They do not want to know its ways
Nor abide in its paths.

He continued to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding through the vision of God; and as long as he sought the Lord, God prospered him.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah went up against Ramoth-gilead.

So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, “Your servant Ben-hadad says, ‘Please let me live.’” And he said, “Is he still alive? He is my brother.”

Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

and Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),

But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You are the ones who have caused the death of the Lord’s people.”

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.

This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

Then Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

(Now the flax and the barley were ruined, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.

for they all saw Him and were terrified. But immediately He spoke with them and *said to them, “Take courage; it is I, do not be afraid.”

This is the number of the things for the tabernacle, the tabernacle of the testimony, as they were numbered according to the command of Moses, for the service of the Levites, by the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

From the outside to the inner gate were chambers for the singers in the inner court, one of which was at the side of the north gate, with its front toward the south, and one at the side of the south gate facing toward the north.

Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, with his armor, including his sword and his bow and his belt.

Greet Herodion, my kinsman. Greet those of the household of Narcissus, who are in the Lord.

Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

Truly, You are a God who hides Himself,
O God of Israel, Savior!

“Your neck is like the tower of David,
Built with rows of stones
On which are hung a thousand shields,
All the round shields of the mighty men.

For when she poured this perfume on My body, she did it to prepare Me for burial.

But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me on these charges?”

So then, if Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a complaint against any man, the courts are in session and proconsuls are available; let them bring charges against one another.

Some years later he went down to visit Ahab at Samaria. And Ahab slaughtered many sheep and oxen for him and the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

Who shows no partiality to princes
Nor regards the rich above the poor,
For they all are the work of His hands?

Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’

Then all the guests of Adonijah were terrified; and they arose and each went on his way.

Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a level path
Because of my foes.

These are the ones who were numbered, whom Moses and Aaron numbered, with the leaders of Israel, twelve men, each of whom was of his father’s household.

Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of the corrupt.

Concerning Edom.
Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Is there no longer any wisdom in Teman?
Has good counsel been lost to the prudent?
Has their wisdom decayed?

Of the sons of Asaph: Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah and Asharelah; the sons of Asaph were under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied under the direction of the king.

His servant Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. Now he was at Tirzah drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, who was over the household at Tirzah.

Justice is turned back,
And righteousness stands far away;
For truth has stumbled in the street,
And uprightness cannot enter.

He said, “O Lord God, how may I know that I will possess it?”

The Lord said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”

For the Lord your God has chosen him and his sons from all your tribes, to stand and serve in the name of the Lord forever.

And He said, “Go into the city to a certain man, and say to him, ‘The Teacher says, “My time is near; I am to keep the Passover at your house with My disciples.”’”

So you shall stone him to death because he has sought to seduce you from the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

He said to me, “This is the chamber which faces toward the south, intended for the priests who keep charge of the temple;

Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were dead.

When all the congregation saw that Aaron had died, all the house of Israel wept for Aaron thirty days.

but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”

Now then let the fear of the Lord be upon you; be very careful what you do, for the Lord our God will have no part in unrighteousness or partiality or the taking of a bribe.”

“How blessed is the man who does this,
And the son of man who takes hold of it;
Who keeps from profaning the sabbath,
And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Jonadab then said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill; when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me some food to eat, and let her prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat from her hand.’”

Yet he urged them strongly, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.

Although the Lord has given you bread of privation and water of oppression, He, your Teacher will no longer hide Himself, but your eyes will behold your Teacher.

Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs of water and to all the valleys; perhaps we will find grass and keep the horses and mules alive, and not have to kill some of the cattle.”

“Although our iniquities testify against us,
O Lord, act for Your name’s sake!
Truly our apostasies have been many,
We have sinned against You.

“Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon with the crown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”

But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was terrified by the sword of the angel of the Lord.

He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.

So Ahab slept with his fathers, and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.

Now on the tenth day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who was in the service of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?

They said to him, “We have neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brethren come here and reported or spoken anything bad about you.

Someone said to Him, “Behold, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside seeking to speak to You.”

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

For thus the Lord says to me,
“Go, station the lookout, let him report what he sees.

“You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling,
As lovely as Jerusalem,
As awesome as an army with banners.

The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit;
He who is cursed of the Lord will fall into it.

They took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

Then Saul said to his armor bearer, “Draw your sword and pierce me through with it, otherwise these uncircumcised will come and pierce me through and make sport of me.” But his armor bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid. So Saul took his sword and fell on it.

You have indeed defeated Edom, and your heart has become proud. Enjoy your glory and stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall, and Judah with you?”

Anyone belonging to Jeroboam who dies in the city the dogs will eat. And he who dies in the field the birds of the heavens will eat; for the Lord has spoken it.”’

“I have taken off my dress,
How can I put it on again?
I have washed my feet,
How can I dirty them again?

“He made its posts of silver,
Its back of gold
And its seat of purple fabric,
With its interior lovingly fitted out
By the daughters of Jerusalem.

So Solomon observed the feast at that time, and all Israel with him, a great assembly from the entrance of Hamath to the brook of Egypt, before the Lord our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

I will bless her, and indeed I will give you a son by her. Then I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will come from her.”

But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.

So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and consecrated the people, and they washed their garments.

Running under the shelter of a small island called Clauda, we were scarcely able to get the ship’s boat under control.

So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.

So now come, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it be a witness between you and me.”

Also keep back Your servant from presumptuous sins;
Let them not rule over me;
Then I will be blameless,
And I shall be acquitted of great transgression.

But the Lord, who brought you up from the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, Him you shall fear, and to Him you shall bow yourselves down, and to Him you shall sacrifice.

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?

When the king heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

He also put away the male cult prostitutes from the land and removed all the idols which his fathers had made.

“I have heard many such things;
Sorry comforters are you all.

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them and make them a horror and a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.

Ahithophel was counselor to the king; and Hushai the Archite was the king’s friend.

If I sharpen My flashing sword,
And My hand takes hold on justice,
I will render vengeance on My adversaries,
And I will repay those who hate Me.

If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty-handed. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered judgment last night.”

And he said to Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to battle at Ramoth-gilead?” And Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.