Yet David vowed again, saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, or he will be grieved.’ But truly as the Lord lives and as your soul lives, there is hardly a step between me and death.”

All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their pasture lands.

The policemen reported these words to the chief magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that they were Romans,

and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

Worship the Lord in holy attire;
Tremble before Him, all the earth.

Jesus answered and said to them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell Me:

For by wise guidance you will wage war,
And in abundance of counselors there is victory.

Sing praise to the Lord, you His godly ones,
And give thanks to His holy name.

“Who has cleft a channel for the flood,
Or a way for the thunderbolt,

And lifting up their eyes, they saw no one except Jesus Himself alone.

and you will say, ‘I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will go against those who are at rest, that live securely, all of them living without walls and having no bars or gates,

How blessed are those who observe His testimonies,
Who seek Him with all their heart.

“Therefore I will scatter them like drifting straw
To the desert wind.

For He spoke, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.

He said to him, “O son of the king, why are you so depressed morning after morning? Will you not tell me?” Then Amnon said to him, “I am in love with Tamar, the sister of my brother Absalom.”

Only do not rebel against the Lord; and do not fear the people of the land, for they will be our prey. Their protection has been removed from them, and the Lord is with us; do not fear them.”

“O you who tear yourself in your anger—
For your sake is the earth to be abandoned,
Or the rock to be moved from its place?

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”

Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver which he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, commercial standard.

You gave Me no kiss; but she, since the time I came in, has not ceased to kiss My feet.

David said to all the assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if it is from the Lord our God, let us send everywhere to our kinsmen who remain in all the land of Israel, also to the priests and Levites who are with them in their cities with pasture lands, that they may meet with us;

Then he left them with the king of Moab; and they stayed with him all the time that David was in the stronghold.

When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they spoke to her, saying, “David has sent us to you to take you as his wife.”

Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.

Although he was grieved, the king commanded it to be given because of his oaths, and because of his dinner guests.

Now after a considerable time Shua’s daughter, the wife of Judah, died; and when the time of mourning was ended, Judah went up to his sheepshearers at Timnah, he and his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

“Now the generation to come, your sons who rise up after you and the foreigner who comes from a distant land, when they see the plagues of the land and the diseases with which the Lord has afflicted it, will say,

But the disciples were indignant when they saw this, and said, “Why this waste?

Then the angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

I have previously said when present the second time, and though now absent I say in advance to those who have sinned in the past and to all the rest as well, that if I come again I will not spare anyone,

“They struck me, but I did not become ill;
They beat me, but I did not know it.
When shall I awake?
I will seek another drink.”

Then He brought me back by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, which faces the east; and it was shut.

You will be fuel for the fire; your blood will be in the midst of the land. You will not be remembered, for I, the Lord, have spoken.’”

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered.

“And you, son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God concerning the sons of Ammon and concerning their reproach,’ and say: ‘A sword, a sword is drawn, polished for the slaughter, to cause it to consume, that it may be like lightning—

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and the people and all Judah concerning the words of this book that has been found, for great is the wrath of the Lord that burns against us, because our fathers have not listened to the words of this book, to do according to all that is written concerning us.”

“Pharaoh’s chariots and his army He has cast into the sea;
And the choicest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.

Now it happened when the army of the Chaldeans had lifted the siege from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

The lips of the righteous bring forth what is acceptable,
But the mouth of the wicked what is perverted.

That which was torn of beasts I did not bring to you; I bore the loss of it myself. You required it of my hand whether stolen by day or stolen by night.

But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’

“Adorn yourself with eminence and dignity,
And clothe yourself with honor and majesty.

For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods; indeed, it was proven when they dealt proudly against the people.”

The people of all the earth came to Egypt to buy grain from Joseph, because the famine was severe in all the earth.

Helkath with its pasture lands and Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.

From the Lord of hosts you will be punished with thunder and earthquake and loud noise,
With whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a consuming fire.

How blessed is the man who fears always,
But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.

And I placed boundaries on it
And set a bolt and doors,

‘Now that you are broken by the seas
In the depths of the waters,
Your merchandise and all your company
Have fallen in the midst of you.

All flesh would perish together,
And man would return to dust.

Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard and gather in its crop,

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning,
It will be reckoned a curse to him.

“My days are past, my plans are torn apart,
Even the wishes of my heart.

Now when Asa heard these words and the prophecy which Azariah the son of Oded the prophet spoke, he took courage and removed the abominable idols from all the land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities which he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim. He then restored the altar of the Lord which was in front of the porch of the Lord.

for in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!’ And every shipmaster and every passenger and sailor, and as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance,

The Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he followed the example of his father David’s earlier days and did not seek the Baals,

Then David gave to his son Solomon the plan of the porch of the temple, its buildings, its storehouses, its upper rooms, its inner rooms and the room for the mercy seat;

and has gone and served other gods and worshiped them, or the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, which I have not commanded,

He shall take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

Yet I will not cut off every man of yours from My altar so that your eyes will fail from weeping and your soul grieve, and all the increase of your house will die in the prime of life.

So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land in order to give the money at the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and gold from the people of the land, each according to his valuation, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

So David received from her hand what she had brought him and said to her, “Go up to your house in peace. See, I have listened to you and granted your request.”

But Nadab and Abihu died before their father and had no sons. So Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.

Every first issue of the womb of all flesh, whether man or animal, which they offer to the Lord, shall be yours; nevertheless the firstborn of man you shall surely redeem, and the firstborn of unclean animals you shall redeem.

Correct your son, and he will give you comfort;
He will also delight your soul.

Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,

However he shook the creature off into the fire and suffered no harm.

The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

My heart is steadfast, O God, my heart is steadfast;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises!

He shall be with you as a hired man, as if he were a sojourner; he shall serve with you until the year of jubilee.

Then he shall go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it, and shall take some of the blood of the bull and of the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar on all sides.

If you say, “See, we did not know this,”
Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?
And does He not know it who keeps your soul?
And will He not render to man according to his work?

When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet coming in the doorway, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam, why do you pretend to be another woman? For I am sent to you with a harsh message.

Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

O You who hear prayer,
To You all men come.

Then Manoah entreated the Lord and said, “O Lord, please let the man of God whom You have sent come to us again that he may teach us what to do for the boy who is to be born.”

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity,
He who rejects unjust gain
And shakes his hands so that they hold no bribe;
He who stops his ears from hearing about bloodshed
And shuts his eyes from looking upon evil;

And the king of Sodom and the king of Gomorrah and the king of Admah and the king of Zeboiim and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) came out; and they arrayed for battle against them in the valley of Siddim,

The wicked borrows and does not pay back,
But the righteous is gracious and gives.

O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.

Nor can they prove to you the charges of which they now accuse me.

No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

O Lord, God of vengeance,
God of vengeance, shine forth!

“He puts his hand on the flint;
He overturns the mountains at the base.

David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.

In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse;
He who guards himself will be far from them.

you shall not yield to him or listen to him; and your eye shall not pity him, nor shall you spare or conceal him.

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;
Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

“Also if a woman makes a vow to the Lord, and binds herself by an obligation in her father’s house in her youth,

Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

“Bear with me that I may speak;
Then after I have spoken, you may mock.

It shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, so as to do them and not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you played the harlot,

The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.

Now these are those whom David appointed over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark rested there.

The Lord heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites; then they utterly destroyed them and their cities. Thus the name of the place was called Hormah.

But the days will come; and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.”

“Tarshish was your customer because of the abundance of all kinds of wealth; with silver, iron, tin and lead they paid for your wares.

“If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man’s house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.

Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.

He said to me, “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place of the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the sons of Israel forever. And the house of Israel will not again defile My holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their harlotry and by the corpses of their kings when they die,

Thus says the Lord God, “Because your lewdness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered through your harlotries with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your sons which you gave to idols,

And if anyone still prophesies, then his father and mother who gave birth to him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you have spoken falsely in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who gave birth to him will pierce him through when he prophesies.

But you will not go out in haste,
Nor will you go as fugitives;
For the Lord will go before you,
And the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’

The wise will inherit honor,
But fools display dishonor.

then I shall give you rains in their season, so that the land will yield its produce and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.

Let them give thanks to the Lord for His lovingkindness,
And for His wonders to the sons of men!

A divine decision is in the lips of the king;
His mouth should not err in judgment.

As for me, I shall call upon God,
And the Lord will save me.

He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

Many bulls have surrounded me;
Strong bulls of Bashan have encircled me.

that you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground which you bring in from your land that the Lord your God gives you, and you shall put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to establish His name.

And He *said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?”

and unleavened bread and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; you shall make them of fine wheat flour.

“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

The officers also shall speak to the people, saying, ‘Who is the man that has built a new house and has not dedicated it? Let him depart and return to his house, otherwise he might die in the battle and another man would dedicate it.

for they poured out the blood of saints and prophets, and You have given them blood to drink. They deserve it.”

Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and struck Shallum son of Jabesh in Samaria, and killed him and became king in his place.

Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the Lord continually; it is an everlasting covenant for the sons of Israel.

“You shall bring the very first of the first fruits of your soil into the house of the Lord your God.“You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

You shall take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel,

The Lord has bared His holy arm
In the sight of all the nations,
That all the ends of the earth may see
The salvation of our God.

“Issachar is a strong donkey,
Lying down between the sheepfolds.

Festus *said, “King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.

“He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he ate the produce of the field;
And He made him suck honey from the rock,
And oil from the flinty rock,

“Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up
And makes his nest on high?

Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the tender grass springs out of the earth,
Through sunshine after rain.’

He took them and sent them across the stream. And he sent across whatever he had.

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Asa did what was right in the sight of the Lord, like David his father.

“Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then let all the congregation stone him.

“Even today my complaint is rebellion;
His hand is heavy despite my groaning.

If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.

“You also open Your eyes on him
And bring him into judgment with Yourself.

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver which were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse in my hearing, behold, the silver is with me; I took it.” And his mother said, “Blessed be my son by the Lord.”

Has any people heard the voice of God speaking from the midst of the fire, as you have heard it, and survived?

“If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man’s field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.

Moreover, he made the laver of bronze with its base of bronze, from the mirrors of the serving women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Then Jacob asked him and said, “Please tell me your name.” But he said, “Why is it that you ask my name?” And he blessed him there.

The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

After this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field at Machpelah facing Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

So Israel joined themselves to Baal of Peor, and the Lord was angry against Israel.

She named him Joseph, saying, “May the Lord give me another son.”

“I did not send these prophets,
But they ran.
I did not speak to them,
But they prophesied.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David.
Give ear to my prayer, O God;
And do not hide Yourself from my supplication.

Now Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchijah heard the words that Jeremiah was speaking to all the people, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the second time, while he was still confined in the court of the guard, saying,

“He is the first of the ways of God;
Let his maker bring near his sword.

You shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God from the flock and the herd, in the place where the Lord chooses to establish His name.

“Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.

“For your guilt teaches your mouth,
And you choose the language of the crafty.

either three years of famine, or three months to be swept away before your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or else three days of the sword of the Lord, even pestilence in the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now, therefore, consider what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I shall speak.”

you shall devote to the Lord the first offspring of every womb, and the first offspring of every beast that you own; the males belong to the Lord.

“However now, Job, please hear my speech,
And listen to all my words.

This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

He, however, took her by the hand and called, saying, “Child, arise!”

and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king for all of them; and they will no longer be two nations and no longer be divided into two kingdoms.

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

Now if Timothy comes, see that he is with you without cause to be afraid, for he is doing the Lord’s work, as I also am.

My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.

But there is forgiveness with You,
That You may be feared.

Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town, so that they may hear and learn and fear the Lord your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this law.

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,
Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul,
But he who is careless of conduct will die.

From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

Sing to the Lord, bless His name;
Proclaim good tidings of His salvation from day to day.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father, that is, the nakedness of your mother. She is your mother; you are not to uncover her nakedness.

“For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor;
He has seized a house which he has not built.

Go therefore to the main highways, and as many as you find there, invite to the wedding feast.’

Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he, with Joshua the son of Nun.

“Then indeed, He enticed you from the mouth of distress,
Instead of it, a broad place with no constraint;
And that which was set on your table was full of fatness.

“Behold, God is exalted in His power;
Who is a teacher like Him?

Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth.

“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation,

Isaac said, “Behold now, I am old and I do not know the day of my death.

The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”

If David then calls Him ‘Lord,’ how is He his son?”

But they did not understand the statement which He had made to them.

Thus says the Lord God,
‘You will drink your sister’s cup,
Which is deep and wide.
You will be laughed at and held in derision;
It contains much.

Those who had seen it reported to them how the man who was demon-possessed had been made well.

A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding
Than a hundred blows into a fool.

He shall then sprinkle seven times the one who is to be cleansed from the leprosy and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the live bird go free over the open field.

You shall gird them with sashes, Aaron and his sons, and bind caps on them, and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute. So you shall ordain Aaron and his sons.

Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also kept you from sinning against Me; therefore I did not let you touch her.

Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I will lift up My hand to the nations
And set up My standard to the peoples;
And they will bring your sons in their bosom,
And your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.

“You say, ‘What does God know?
Can He judge through the thick darkness?

The Lord therefore be judge and decide between you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and deliver me from your hand.”

Their feet run to evil,
And they hasten to shed innocent blood;
Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity,
Devastation and destruction are in their highways.

“Be silent before me so that I may speak;
Then let come on me what may.

Meshelemiah had sons: Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second, Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,

Moreover, he shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkle it with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; also in front of the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us to death, for they are convinced that John was a prophet.”

Then Pilate *said to Him, “Do You not hear how many things they testify against You?”

Surely I have composed and quieted my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.

Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

So they went to the king in the court, but they had deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and they reported all the words to the king.

When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean.

Show Me the coin used for the poll-tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.

In the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

“Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and lovingkindness,
Do not let all the hardship seem insignificant before You,
Which has come upon us, our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers and on all Your people,
From the days of the kings of Assyria to this day.

“He ties his foal to the vine,
And his donkey’s colt to the choice vine;
He washes his garments in wine,
And his robes in the blood of grapes.

“If even the moon has no brightness
And the stars are not pure in His sight,

All the skillful men among those who were performing the work made the tabernacle with ten curtains; of fine twisted linen and blue and purple and scarlet material, with cherubim, the work of a skillful workman, Bezalel made them.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you’?

“Any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat in the camp, or who slaughters it outside the camp,

But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, crossing his hands, although Manasseh was the firstborn.

For the thing shall surely come to pass which he cried by the word of the Lord against the altar in Bethel and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria.”

The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod to measure the city, and its gates and its wall.

So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies;

But he answered and said to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong; did you not agree with me for a denarius?

cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron and marble,

and will throw them into the furnace of fire; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

You hide Your face, they are dismayed;
You take away their spirit, they expire
And return to their dust.

“Our Law does not judge a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, does it?”

“Please receive instruction from His mouth
And establish His words in your heart.

“They made Him jealous with strange gods;
With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

For thus says the Lord, ‘David shall never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel;

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah who have come to worship in the Lord’s house all the words that I have commanded you to speak to them. Do not omit a word!

Then Josiah celebrated the Passover to the Lord in Jerusalem, and they slaughtered the Passover animals on the fourteenth day of the first month.

“Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.

He said, “In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘Do not let your prophets who are in your midst and your diviners deceive you, and do not listen to the dreams which they dream.

You shall also not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for such a one has made naked his blood relative; they will bear their guilt.

Then you shall bring Aaron and his sons to the doorway of the tent of meeting and wash them with water.

Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish said to their kinsmen, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and household idols and a graven image and a molten image? Now therefore, consider what you should do.”

It is an abomination for kings to commit wicked acts,
For a throne is established on righteousness.

All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

“Do not touch My anointed ones,
And do My prophets no harm.”

The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.

“Who sent out the wild donkey free?
And who loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,

Should anyone rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, then the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living with the Lord your God; but the lives of your enemies He will sling out as from the hollow of a sling.

As the day began to dawn, the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was, until full daylight.

Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said to him, “Blessed are you of the Lord! I have carried out the command of the Lord.”

The birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.

“It is God who has made my heart faint,
And the Almighty who has dismayed me,

Then Jehoahaz entreated the favor of the Lord, and the Lord listened to him; for He saw the oppression of Israel, how the king of Aram oppressed them.

Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up for himself a pillar which is in the King’s Valley, for he said, “I have no son to preserve my name.” So he named the pillar after his own name, and it is called Absalom’s Monument to this day.

When the woman saw that she had not escaped notice, she came trembling and fell down before Him, and declared in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched Him, and how she had been immediately healed.

Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.

And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing around; and he *said to them, ‘Why have you been standing here idle all day long?’

For I, the Lord, love justice,
I hate robbery in the burnt offering;
And I will faithfully give them their recompense
And make an everlasting covenant with them.

These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,

Timna was a concubine of Esau’s son Eliphaz and she bore Amalek to Eliphaz. These are the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.

And when the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent, and reported to no one in those days any of the things which they had seen.

When we had heard this, we as well as the local residents began begging him not to go up to Jerusalem.

The Lord sat as King at the flood;
Yes, the Lord sits as King forever.

Then Abigail came to Nabal, and behold, he was holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; so she did not tell him anything at all until the morning light.

The light of the righteous rejoices,
But the lamp of the wicked goes out.

As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
As wax melts before the fire,
So let the wicked perish before God.

But let the righteous be glad; let them exult before God;
Yes, let them rejoice with gladness.

Then let him be gracious to him, and say,
‘Deliver him from going down to the pit,
I have found a ransom’;

When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you are among those who trouble me; for I have given my word to the Lord, and I cannot take it back.”

After this, Job lived 140 years, and saw his sons and his grandsons, four generations.

But he said to me, ‘Behold, you shall conceive and give birth to a son, and now you shall not drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.’”

“If my heart has been enticed by a woman,
Or I have lurked at my neighbor’s doorway,

He took up his discourse and said,
“The oracle of Balaam the son of Beor,
And the oracle of the man whose eye is opened;

So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers, and Jehoiachin his son became king in his place.

and he spoke to Korah and all his company, saying, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will show who is His, and who is holy, and will bring him near to Himself; even the one whom He will choose, He will bring near to Himself.

The priest shall then look, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is quick raw flesh in the swelling,

And there was no one to deliver them, because it was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone, and it was in the valley which is near Beth-rehob. And they rebuilt the city and lived in it.

You shall keep My statutes and practice them; I am the Lord who sanctifies you.

But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.

Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them; and I will reveal to them an abundance of peace and truth.

Then Isaac his father answered and said to him,
“Behold, away from the fertility of the earth shall be your dwelling,
And away from the dew of heaven from above.

But it was Solomon who built a house for Him.

You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”

“Now behold, he has a son who has observed all his father’s sins which he committed, and observing does not do likewise.

“Stand fast now in your spells
And in your many sorceries
With which you have labored from your youth;
Perhaps you will be able to profit,
Perhaps you may cause trembling.

I said, “In the middle of my life
I am to enter the gates of Sheol;
I am to be deprived of the rest of my years.”

They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots bathed themselves there), according to the word of the Lord which He spoke.

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

My flesh trembles for fear of You,
And I am afraid of Your judgments.

So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down on the earth and put his face between his knees.

“All around terrors frighten him,
And harry him at every step.

Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now reign over Israel? Arise, eat bread, and let your heart be joyful; I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Now it came about after this, that war broke out at Gezer with the Philistines; then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, one of the descendants of the giants, and they were subdued.

He walked in all the way of Asa his father; he did not turn aside from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord. However, the high places were not taken away; the people still sacrificed and burnt incense on the high places.

Ahaziah the son of Ahab became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what is good in his sight. Look, the oxen for the burnt offering, the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until it rained on them from the sky; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.

then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.

And David went from there to Mizpah of Moab; and he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”

The commander took him by the hand and stepping aside, began to inquire of him privately, “What is it that you have to report to me?”

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would not be their slaves, and I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.

“Because he who is blessed in the earth
Will be blessed by the God of truth;
And he who swears in the earth
Will swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My sight!

The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt; and she bore to Amram: Aaron and Moses and their sister Miriam.

And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus; and when they saw Him, they implored Him to leave their region.

For thus says the Lord,
“To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths,
And choose what pleases Me,
And hold fast My covenant,

A throne will even be established in lovingkindness,
And a judge will sit on it in faithfulness in the tent of David;
Moreover, he will seek justice
And be prompt in righteousness.

If I call to the pit, ‘You are my father’;
To the worm, ‘my mother and my sister’;

The dead will not live, the departed spirits will not rise;
Therefore You have punished and destroyed them,
And You have wiped out all remembrance of them.

The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But He loves one who pursues righteousness.

“My beloved has gone down to his garden,
To the beds of balsam,
To pasture his flock in the gardens
And gather lilies.

But the bull of the sin offering and the goat of the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall be taken outside the camp, and they shall burn their hides, their flesh, and their refuse in the fire.

A man of great anger will bear the penalty,
For if you rescue him, you will only have to do it again.

If I should say, “My foot has slipped,”
Your lovingkindness, O Lord, will hold me up.

“Abaddon and Death say,
‘With our ears we have heard a report of it.’

So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail.

When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, Ahab arose to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.

Then Delilah said to Samson, “Up to now you have deceived me and told me lies; tell me how you may be bound.” And he said to her, “If you weave the seven locks of my hair with the web [and fasten it with a pin, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

Then the one who burns them shall wash his clothes and bathe his body with water, then afterward he shall come into the camp.

In the eleventh year, in the month of Bul, which is the eighth month, the house was finished throughout all its parts and according to all its plans. So he was seven years in building it.

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I;
And your own lips testify against you.

“Are the consolations of God too small for you,
Even the word spoken gently with you?

and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, and a maidservant would go and tell them, and they would go and tell King David, for they could not be seen entering the city.

Next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, and the leader of the sons of Manasseh: Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur,

So he came close and kissed him; and when he smelled the smell of his garments, he blessed him and said,
“See, the smell of my son
Is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed;

Now the third lot came up for the sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.

But to the elders he said, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; whoever has a legal matter, let him approach them.”

Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”

Therefore behold, I will surely forget you and cast you away from My presence, along with the city which I gave you and your fathers.

Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;

since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

The Lord will go forth like a warrior,
He will arouse His zeal like a man of war.
He will utter a shout, yes, He will raise a war cry.
He will prevail against His enemies.

Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word:
“Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name’s sake,
Have said, ‘Let the Lord be glorified, that we may see your joy.’
But they will be put to shame.

For he will deliver the needy when he cries for help,
The afflicted also, and him who has no helper.

So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

Then his father and his mother said to him, “Is there no woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she looks good to me.”

When Solomon had finished praying this entire prayer and supplication to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread toward heaven.

He had a bronze helmet on his head, and he was clothed with scale-armor which weighed five thousand shekels of bronze.

Now then, give me this hill country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be with me, and I will drive them out as the Lord has spoken.”

No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot through; whether beast or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain.”

Once God has spoken;
Twice I have heard this:
That power belongs to God;

The righteous will inherit the land
And dwell in it forever.

Simon answered and said, “I suppose the one whom he forgave more.” And He said to him, “You have judged correctly.”

Then he began to curse and swear, “I do not know the man!” And immediately a rooster crowed.

They shall be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God, for they present the offerings by fire to the Lord, the food of their God; so they shall be holy.

Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb.

But you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has commanded you,

But if the bright spot remains in its place and does not spread, it is only the scar of the boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.

Many believed in Him there.

Bread obtained by falsehood is sweet to a man,
But afterward his mouth will be filled with gravel.

And lovingkindness is Yours, O Lord,
For You recompense a man according to his work.

Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“If they hear and serve Him,
They will end their days in prosperity
And their years in pleasures.

Then three of the thirty chief men went down and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, while the troop of the Philistines was camping in the valley of Rephaim.

then make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burnt offering or a sacrifice to fulfill a special vow, or as a freewill offering or in your appointed times, to make a soothing aroma to the Lord, from the herd or from the flock.

After the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke; and the crowds were amazed, and were saying, “Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel.”

“I could strengthen you with my mouth,
And the solace of my lips could lessen your pain.

“What a help you are to the weak!
How you have saved the arm without strength!

“Do you know this from of old,
From the establishment of man on earth,

When it was told to the Gazites, saying, “Samson has come here,” they surrounded the place and lay in wait for him all night at the gate of the city. And they kept silent all night, saying, “Let us wait until the morning light, then we will kill him.”

And Baasha slept with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and Elah his son became king in his place.

He said to David, “You are more righteous than I; for you have dealt well with me, while I have dealt wickedly with you.

On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind.

You may even bequeath them to your sons after you, to receive as a possession; you can use them as permanent slaves. But in respect to your countrymen, the sons of Israel, you shall not rule with severity over one another.

And the Lord said, “Even as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush,

They also took Lot, Abram’s nephew, and his possessions and departed, for he was living in Sodom.

He says, “You are My war-club, My weapon of war;
And with you I shatter nations,
And with you I destroy kingdoms.

“He pled the cause of the afflicted and needy;
Then it was well.
Is not that what it means to know Me?”
Declares the Lord.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

But I said, “I have toiled in vain,
I have spent My strength for nothing and vanity;
Yet surely the justice due to Me is with the Lord,
And My reward with My God.”

“If only you had paid attention to My commandments!
Then your well-being would have been like a river,
And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Like a madman who throws
Firebrands, arrows and death,

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

The Lord will smite you with consumption and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew, and they will pursue you until you perish.

Tsadhe.
Righteous are You, O Lord,
And upright are Your judgments.

“My foot has held fast to His path;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.

Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why are you disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.

You shall have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives will drop off.

So Hilkiah and those whom the king had told went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tokhath, the son of Hasrah, the keeper of the wardrobe (now she lived in Jerusalem in the Second Quarter); and they spoke to her regarding this.

Then he said, “May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on him today.”

Then Saul said, “Let us go down after the Philistines by night and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them.” And they said, “Do whatever seems good to you.” So the priest said, “Let us draw near to God here.”

And Solomon slept with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David, and his son Rehoboam reigned in his place.

He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood
And has not sworn deceitfully.

Then the priest said, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom you killed in the valley of Elah, behold, it is wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if you would take it for yourself, take it. For there is no other except it here.” And David said, “There is none like it; give it to me.”

For he walked in all the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat and in his sins which he made Israel sin, provoking the Lord God of Israel with their idols.

Moses said to Korah, “You and all your company be present before the Lord tomorrow, both you and they along with Aaron.

For those nations, which you shall dispossess, listen to those who practice witchcraft and to diviners, but as for you, the Lord your God has not allowed you to do so.

As for man, his days are like grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

I will let loose among you the beasts of the field, which will bereave you of your children and destroy your cattle and reduce your number so that your roads lie deserted.

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; it was named Allon-bacuth.

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.

Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me;
You will stretch forth Your hand against the wrath of my enemies,
And Your right hand will save me.

It became known all over Joppa, and many believed in the Lord.

Seeing this, the disciples were amazed and asked, “How did the fig tree wither all at once?”

He who goes to and fro weeping, carrying his bag of seed,
Shall indeed come again with a shout of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.

Persia, Ethiopia and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

The cords of death encompassed me,
And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.

Grievous punishment is for him who forsakes the way;
He who hates reproof will die.

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.

Since I know, O my God, that You try the heart and delight in uprightness, I, in the integrity of my heart, have willingly offered all these things; so now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here, make their offerings willingly to You.

“Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.”’” So they brought back word to the king.

Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he recovered.

She considers a field and buys it;
From her earnings she plants a vineyard.

“He is driven from light into darkness,
And chased from the inhabited world.

The Lord will establish you as a holy people to Himself, as He swore to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk in His ways.

“His troops come together,
And build up their way against me
And camp around my tent.

Then Abishai the son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog curse my lord the king? Let me go over now and cut off his head.”

At the end of three years they captured it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was captured.

Also Jonathan, David’s uncle, was a counselor, a man of understanding, and a scribe; and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni tutored the king’s sons.

But Jesus, knowing what they were thinking in their heart, took a child and stood him by His side,

and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish.

He shall take a wife in her virginity.

Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find a man like this, in whom is a divine spirit?”

When you offer your gifts, when you cause your sons to pass through the fire, you are defiling yourselves with all your idols to this day. And shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will not be inquired of by you.

“Even from eternity I am He,
And there is none who can deliver out of My hand;
I act and who can reverse it?”

You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.”

“Now when the Lord brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

Its snuffers and their trays shall be of pure gold.

“I have not spoken in secret,
In some dark land;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
‘Seek Me in a waste place’;
I, the Lord, speak righteousness,
Declaring things that are upright.

How blessed is the one whom You choose and bring near to You
To dwell in Your courts.
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
Your holy temple.