You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony which I will give to you.

“Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a delightful child?
Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him,
I certainly still remember him;
Therefore My heart yearns for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,” declares the Lord.

Of Asher he said,
“More blessed than sons is Asher;
May he be favored by his brothers,
And may he dip his foot in oil.

then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale, it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.’”

Then he will pray to God, and He will accept him,
That he may see His face with joy,
And He may restore His righteousness to man.

While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;

As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was living.

“Therefore,” he *said, “let the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them prosecute him.”

“Pure gold cannot be given in exchange for it,
Nor can silver be weighed as its price.

But, that I may not weary you any further, I beg you to grant us, by your kindness, a brief hearing.

“Blessed are you, O Israel;
Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord,
Who is the shield of your help
And the sword of your majesty!
So your enemies will cringe before you,
And you will tread upon their high places.”

“Like valleys that stretch out,
Like gardens beside the river,
Like aloes planted by the Lord,
Like cedars beside the waters.

but I will take the kingdom from his son’s hand and give it to you, even ten tribes.

for we are about to destroy this place, because their outcry has become so great before the Lord that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”

So now swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants after me and that you will not destroy my name from my father’s household.”

He said to the people, “Be ready for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the sons of Heth; even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

It will blossom profusely
And rejoice with rejoicing and shout of joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
The majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
The majesty of our God.

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,
And as a lion, who dares rouse him?
Blessed is everyone who blesses you,
And cursed is everyone who curses you.”

“Surely My hand founded the earth,
And My right hand spread out the heavens;
When I call to them, they stand together.

But the Levites shall camp around the tabernacle of the testimony, so that there will be no wrath on the congregation of the sons of Israel. So the Levites shall keep charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.”

And the demons came out of the man and entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and was drowned.

In that day the Lord of hosts will become a beautiful crown
And a glorious diadem to the remnant of His people;

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel,
“Woe to Nebo, for it has been destroyed;
Kiriathaim has been put to shame, it has been captured;
The lofty stronghold has been put to shame and shattered.

For not from the east, nor from the west,
Nor from the desert comes exaltation;

I gave you a king in My anger
And took him away in My wrath.

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers; and so they hated him and could not speak to him on friendly terms.

“Heed instruction and be wise,
And do not neglect it.

The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations;
He frustrates the plans of the peoples.

We will also bring the first of our dough, our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the new wine and the oil to the priests at the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites, for the Levites are they who receive the tithes in all the rural towns.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked,
But those who keep the law strive with them.

He trains my hands for battle,
So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.”

“He seals the hand of every man,
That all men may know His work.

Then the king of Israel replied, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who girds on his armor boast like him who takes it off.’”

“He has built his house like the spider’s web,
Or as a hut which the watchman has made.

Again He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.’

“Will he take delight in the Almighty?
Will he call on God at all times?

They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer, on the right side of the city that is in the middle of the valley of Gad and toward Jazer.

For if a man finds his enemy, will he let him go away safely? May the Lord therefore reward you with good in return for what you have done to me this day.

“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics; you shall also make sashes for them, and you shall make caps for them, for glory and for beauty.

“Behold, as wild donkeys in the wilderness
They go forth seeking food in their activity,
As bread for their children in the desert.

Thus says the Lord,
“Restrain your voice from weeping
And your eyes from tears;
For your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord,
“And they will return from the land of the enemy.

“Behold, these will come from afar;
And lo, these will come from the north and from the west,
And these from the land of Sinim.”

“The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’

But as for me, I trust in You, O Lord,
I say, “You are my God.”

The sorrows of those who have bartered for another god will be multiplied;
I shall not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
Nor will I take their names upon my lips.

“When evening came, the owner of the vineyard *said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last group to the first.’

Of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and he was called by their name.

Wherefore, the Lord his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Aram; and they defeated him and carried away from him a great number of captives and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who inflicted him with heavy casualties.

“Will you show partiality for Him?
Will you contend for God?

He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel.

God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

When Ben-hadad heard this message, as he was drinking with the kings in the temporary shelters, he said to his servants, “Station yourselves.” So they stationed themselves against the city.

“For the sake of Jacob My servant,
And Israel My chosen one,
I have also called you by your name;
I have given you a title of honor
Though you have not known Me.

Benaiah a Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

So you shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

“You will also suck the milk of nations
And suck the breast of kings;
Then you will know that I, the Lord, am your Savior
And your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

Now he went through all the tribes of Israel to Abel, even Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they were gathered together and also went after him.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled my soul with fasting,
And my prayer kept returning to my bosom.

“As for you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel

He will not fear evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.

‘I must arise now and go about the city;
In the streets and in the squares
I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but did not find him.

Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad,
That I may reply to him who reproaches me.

Wealth adds many friends,
But a poor man is separated from his friend.

I will meditate on Your precepts
And regard Your ways.

For they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt; they are not to be sold in a slave sale.

“But He has made me a byword of the people,
And I am one at whom men spit.

For he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, gates and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the Lord our God; we have sought Him, and He has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

“For You have kept their heart from understanding,
Therefore You will not exalt them.

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

Then Moses commanded them, saying, “At the end of every seven years, at the time of the year of remission of debts, at the Feast of Booths,

“My people have become lost sheep;
Their shepherds have led them astray.
They have made them turn aside on the mountains;
They have gone along from mountain to hill
And have forgotten their resting place.

Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul; and it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, then turned and proceeded on down to Gilgal.”

for the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

Elijah said, “As the Lord of hosts lives, before whom I stand, I will surely show myself to him today.”

The king appointed Benaiah the son of Jehoiada over the army in his place, and the king appointed Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

Therefore, to this day the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the hip which is on the socket of the thigh, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew of the hip.

For the land is full of adulterers;
For the land mourns because of the curse.
The pastures of the wilderness have dried up.
Their course also is evil
And their might is not right.

Though the wicked is shown favor,
He does not learn righteousness;
He deals unjustly in the land of uprightness,
And does not perceive the majesty of the Lord.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber;
It rejoices as a strong man to run his course.

“The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers

It came about at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.” And he said, “Go up, say to Ahab, ‘Prepare your chariot and go down, so that the heavy shower does not stop you.’”

“Then it will come about in that day,
That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

Yet his food in his stomach is changed
To the venom of cobras within him.

He perishes forever like his refuse;
Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’

“They said to God, ‘Depart from us!’
And ‘What can the Almighty do to them?’

“He does not look at the streams,
The rivers flowing with honey and curds.

He brought out the people who were in it, and cut them with saws and with sharp instruments and with axes. And thus David did to all the cities of the sons of Ammon. Then David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, divided them according to their offices for their ministry.

Now behold, the whole family has risen against your maidservant, and they say, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and destroy the heir also.’ Thus they will extinguish my coal which is left, so as to leave my husband neither name nor remnant on the face of the earth.”

Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,

He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

Thus the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

But Joab said to the king, “Now may the Lord your God add to the people a hundred times as many as they are, while the eyes of my lord the king still see; but why does my lord the king delight in this thing?”

The king said to the man of God, “Please entreat the Lord your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored to me.” So the man of God entreated the Lord, and the king’s hand was restored to him, and it became as it was before.

One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.

This will be the sign to you which will come concerning your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas: on the same day both of them will die.

This is the manner of remission: every creditor shall release what he has loaned to his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because the Lord’s remission has been proclaimed.

Then Saul heard that David and the men who were with him had been discovered. Now Saul was sitting in Gibeah, under the tamarisk tree on the height with his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing around him.

otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone might invite you to eat of his sacrifice,

Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and nothing leavened shall be seen among you, nor shall any leaven be seen among you in all your borders.

So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image which he had made, all the time that the house of God was at Shiloh.

And he said, “Why, what evil has He done?” But they kept shouting all the more, saying, “Crucify Him!”

He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts the spear in two;
He burns the chariots with fire.

After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,

The sons of Issachar: Tola and Puvvah and Iob and Shimron.

As they had their pasture, they became satisfied,
And being satisfied, their heart became proud;
Therefore they forgot Me.

Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, “Take thirty men from here under your authority and bring up Jeremiah the prophet from the cistern before he dies.”

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. Thus they have committed adultery with their idols and even caused their sons, whom they bore to Me, to pass through the fire to them as food.

Even Egypt, whose help is vain and empty.
Therefore, I have called her
“Rahab who has been exterminated.”

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.

“A snare seizes him by the heel,
And a trap snaps shut on him.

So it came about, when Joseph reached his brothers, that they stripped Joseph of his tunic, the varicolored tunic that was on him;

They carried the ark of God on a new cart from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio drove the cart.

But you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

David took these words to heart and greatly feared Achish king of Gath.

Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

She stretches out her hands to the distaff,
And her hands grasp the spindle.

It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be very many fish, for these waters go there and the others become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes.

Then Hushai said to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, “This is what Ahithophel counseled Absalom and the elders of Israel, and this is what I have counseled.

Then Absalom and all the people, the men of Israel, entered Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

If anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, so that you will not come together for judgment. The remaining matters I will arrange when I come.

Now, therefore, please come, curse this people for me since they are too mighty for me; perhaps I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land. For I know that he whom you bless is blessed, and he whom you curse is cursed.”

So then, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

and Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest was the chief of the leaders of Levi, and had the oversight of those who perform the duties of the sanctuary.

“My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth,
And My arms will judge the peoples;
The coastlands will wait for Me,
And for My arm they will wait expectantly.

I give you one portion more than your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite with my sword and my bow.”

“For the sake of My name I delay My wrath,
And for My praise I restrain it for you,
In order not to cut you off.

Blessed is the man whom You chasten, O Lord,
And whom You teach out of Your law;

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Some of the scribes answered and said, “Teacher, You have spoken well.”

The prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, then that prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent.”

He rode upon a cherub and flew;
And He sped upon the wings of the wind.

“These things you have done and I kept silence;
You thought that I was just like you;
I will reprove you and state the case in order before your eyes.

Then the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he girded up his loins and outran Ahab to Jezreel.

“From whose womb has come the ice?
And the frost of heaven, who has given it birth?

Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Now these are those who came up from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan and Immer, but they were not able to give evidence of their fathers’ households and their descendants, whether they were of Israel:

If its owner is with it, he shall not make restitution; if it is hired, it came for its hire.

But the people said, “You should not go out; for if we indeed flee, they will not care about us; even if half of us die, they will not care about us. But you are worth ten thousand of us; therefore now it is better that you be ready to help us from the city.”

But rather we will certainly carry out every word that has proceeded from our mouths, by burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, just as we ourselves, our forefathers, our kings and our princes did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food and were well off and saw no misfortune.

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

Then Joab returned from following Abner; when he had gathered all the people together, nineteen of David’s servants besides Asahel were missing.

The high priest stood up and came forward and questioned Jesus, saying, “Do You not answer? What is it that these men are testifying against You?”

from the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli;

And it shall be that when they say to you, ‘Where should we go?’ then you are to tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord:
“Those destined for death, to death;
And those destined for the sword, to the sword;
And those destined for famine, to famine;
And those destined for captivity, to captivity.”’

Praise Him, all His angels;
Praise Him, all His hosts!

“Your stature is like a palm tree,
And your breasts are like its clusters.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses
Will revive me again,
And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Therefore the abundance which they have acquired and stored up
They carry off over the brook of Arabim.

Then David spoke to the Lord when he saw the angel who was striking down the people, and said, “Behold, it is I who have sinned, and it is I who have done wrong; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s house.”

I also clothed you with embroidered cloth and put sandals of porpoise skin on your feet; and I wrapped you with fine linen and covered you with silk.

He who loves purity of heart
And whose speech is gracious, the king is his friend.

“His strong scales are his pride,
Shut up as with a tight seal.

“Can you send forth lightnings that they may go
And say to you, ‘Here we are’?

Vav.
May Your lovingkindnesses also come to me, O Lord,
Your salvation according to Your word;

“No, I have not allowed my mouth to sin
By asking for his life in a curse.

He sacrificed and burned incense on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

Then the messengers returned and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad, ‘Surely, I sent to you saying, “You shall give me your silver and your gold and your wives and your children,”

The cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the manslayer to flee to; and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities.

He walked in all the sins of his father which he had committed before him; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God, like the heart of his father David.

Keep your tongue from evil
And your lips from speaking deceit.

Then Saul summoned the people and numbered them in Telaim, 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men of Judah.

Javan, Tubal and Meshech, they were your traders; with the lives of men and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.

When they fast, I am not going to listen to their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I am not going to accept them. Rather I am going to make an end of them by the sword, famine and pestilence.”

With the other half-tribe, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the Lord gave to them;

Not one of the good promises which the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass.

A sound of tumult on the mountains,
Like that of many people!
A sound of the uproar of kingdoms,
Of nations gathered together!
The Lord of hosts is mustering the army for battle.

To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial,
And a name better than that of sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

and her two sons, of whom one was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

“I have found David My servant;
With My holy oil I have anointed him,

Heth.
The Lord is my portion;
I have promised to keep Your words.

May our God come and not keep silence;
Fire devours before Him,
And it is very tempestuous around Him.

So it shall be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which the Lord your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large stones and coat them with lime

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, so that they would give him some of the produce of the vineyard; but the vine-growers beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

the men of Jericho, 345;

And Job died, an old man and full of days.

“No one shall take a handmill or an upper millstone in pledge, for he would be taking a life in pledge.

You shall speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone curses his God, then he will bear his sin.

God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”

He sent young men of the sons of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.

Now it came about, as soon as the kingdom was firmly in his hand, that he killed his servants who had slain the king his father.

(for you know how we lived in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the midst of the nations through which you passed;

The cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.

Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.

Do not go out hastily to argue your case;
Otherwise, what will you do in the end,
When your neighbor humiliates you?

Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
And Your law is truth.

Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

The voice of the Lord is upon the waters;
The God of glory thunders,
The Lord is over many waters.

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

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me.’

My heart cries out for Moab;
His fugitives are as far as Zoar and Eglath-shelishiyah,
For they go up the ascent of Luhith weeping;
Surely on the road to Horonaim they raise a cry of distress over their ruin.

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

“I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go.
My heart does not reproach any of my days.

In charge of the storehouses I appointed Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, and in addition to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah; for they were considered reliable, and it was their task to distribute to their kinsmen.

Those who died by the plague were 24,000.

Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took torches, and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between two tails.

“These ten times you have insulted me;
You are not ashamed to wrong me.

There was war at Gath again, where there was a man of great stature who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also had been born to the giant.

Abraham also ran to the herd, and took a tender and choice calf and gave it to the servant, and he hurried to prepare it.

“He will surely reprove you
If you secretly show partiality.

How fair are your tents, O Jacob,
Your dwellings, O Israel!

He walked in the way of his father Asa and did not depart from it, doing right in the sight of the Lord.

Then they delivered the king’s edicts to the king’s satraps and to the governors in the provinces beyond the River, and they supported the people and the house of God.

Now one of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the Lord; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chief of Saul’s shepherds.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me, so that they will not die.”

For no one who has a defect shall approach: a blind man, or a lame man, or he who has a disfigured face, or any deformed limb,

For how then can it be known that I have found favor in Your sight, I and Your people? Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people who are upon the face of the earth?”

The priest shall offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on her behalf before the Lord because of her impure discharge.’

from the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph;

if he gets up and walks around outside on his staff, then he who struck him shall go unpunished; he shall only pay for his loss of time, and shall take care of him until he is completely healed.

Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried, they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.

And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the grave.

“Why was there no man when I came?
When I called, why was there none to answer?
Is My hand so short that it cannot ransom?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Behold, I dry up the sea with My rebuke,
I make the rivers a wilderness;
Their fish stink for lack of water
And die of thirst.

The cords of Sheol surrounded me;
The snares of death confronted me.

“It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,
In precious onyx, or sapphire.

“Listen closely to the thunder of His voice,
And the rumbling that goes out from His mouth.

Now after this he built the outer wall of the city of David on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance of the Fish Gate; and he encircled the Ophel with it and made it very high. Then he put army commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister as priests to Me.

A certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of the chariot, “Turn around and take me out of the fight, for I am severely wounded.”

“When they sin against You (for there is no man who does not sin) and You are angry with them and deliver them to an enemy, so that they take them away captive to a land far off or near,

But a prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out to meet the army which came to Samaria and said to them, “Behold, because the Lord, the God of your fathers, was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand, and you have slain them in a rage which has even reached heaven.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah had done; however he did not enter the temple of the Lord. But the people continued acting corruptly.

Now after Amaziah came from slaughtering the Edomites, he brought the gods of the sons of Seir, set them up as his gods, bowed down before them and burned incense to them.

And the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I indeed bear a child, when I am so old?’

and I will bring a piece of bread, that you may refresh yourselves; after that you may go on, since you have visited your servant.” And they said, “So do, as you have said.”

For your servant vowed a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’”

Take ten loaves with you, some cakes and a jar of honey, and go to him. He will tell you what will happen to the boy.”

and with them the Levites, Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah, Asahel, Shemiramoth, Jehonathan, Adonijah, Tobijah and Tobadonijah, the Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, the priests.

from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

But if the sun has risen on him, there will be bloodguiltiness on his account. He shall surely make restitution; if he owns nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said,
“Your dwelling place is enduring,
And your nest is set in the cliff.

and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds.

As he said this, there occurred a dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

This is my comfort in my affliction,
That Your word has revived me.

Whether then it was I or they, so we preach and so you believed.

That you have forgotten the Lord your Maker,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you fear continually all day long because of the fury of the oppressor,
As he makes ready to destroy?
But where is the fury of the oppressor?

Establish my footsteps in Your word,
And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.

The Lord looks from heaven;
He sees all the sons of men;

“He has left His hiding place like the lion;
For their land has become a horror
Because of the fierceness of the oppressing sword
And because of His fierce anger.”

Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

The lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, “Entice him, and see where his great strength lies and how we may overpower him that we may bind him to afflict him. Then we will each give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.”

The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it the same grain offering and the same drink offering as in the morning, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

Take his garment when he becomes surety for a stranger;
And for foreigners, hold him in pledge.

I will also bring upon you a sword which will execute vengeance for the covenant; and when you gather together into your cities, I will send pestilence among you, so that you shall be delivered into enemy hands.

Of Dan he said,
“Dan is a lion’s whelp,
That leaps forth from Bashan.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come close and kiss me, my son.”

from the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu;

My soul longed and even yearned for the courts of the Lord;
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.

Greet Ampliatus, my beloved in the Lord.

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel;
There is no secret that is a match for you.

then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and of Your people Israel, indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on Your land, which You have given Your people for an inheritance.

A false witness will not go unpunished,
And he who tells lies will perish.

“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

“His young ones also suck up blood;
And where the slain are, there is he.”

Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel had charge of the first division for the first month; and in his division were 24,000.

The guards shook for fear of him and became like dead men.

It came about when he became king, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he killed all the household of Baasha; he did not leave a single male, neither of his relatives nor of his friends.

Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my son who came out from me seeks my life; how much more now this Benjamite? Let him alone and let him curse, for the Lord has told him.

You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the holy of holies.

He then returned the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a graven image and a molten image; now therefore, I will return them to you.”

Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

Then the disciples understood that He had spoken to them about John the Baptist.

Now the upper chambers were smaller because the galleries took more space away from them than from the lower and middle ones in the building.

Behold, the name of the Lord comes from a remote place;
Burning is His anger and dense is His smoke;
His lips are filled with indignation
And His tongue is like a consuming fire;

“Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples,
A leader and commander for the peoples.

You whom I have taken from the ends of the earth,
And called from its remotest parts
And said to you, ‘You are My servant,
I have chosen you and not rejected you.

“Nevertheless, in Your great compassion You did not make an end of them or forsake them,
For You are a gracious and compassionate God.

I gave them My statutes and informed them of My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live.

Now it came about in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth of the month, that Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, showed favor to Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.

“I will make justice the measuring line
And righteousness the level;
Then hail will sweep away the refuge of lies
And the waters will overflow the secret place.

The north wind brings forth rain,
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.

I shall run the way of Your commandments,
For You will enlarge my heart.

Let all the earth fear the Lord;
Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

“He looks on everything that is high;
He is king over all the sons of pride.”

“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

but the prudent took oil in flasks along with their lamps.

David and all Israel went up to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belongs to Judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, the Lord who is enthroned above the cherubim, where His name is called.

and said, “Please, my brothers, do not act wickedly.

Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord and said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?

Elishama, Beeliada and Eliphelet.

But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not yet a prophet of the Lord here that we may inquire of him?”

then her former husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife, since she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before the Lord, and you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.

Then Moses and Aaron came in from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting and fell on their faces. Then the glory of the Lord appeared to them;

Now in the morning his spirit was troubled, so he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

He was most honored of the thirty, therefore he became their commander; however, he did not attain to the three.

Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came upon the city unawares, and killed every male.

Now David became aware that Saul had come out to seek his life while David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.

The prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold; depart, and go into the land of Judah.” So David departed and went into the forest of Hereth.

He sent messengers to Abimelech deceitfully, saying, “Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his relatives have come to Shechem; and behold, they are stirring up the city against you.

He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at evening time, the time when women go out to draw water.

And his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

‘Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot.

‘Was it not My hand which made all these things?’

A God greatly feared in the council of the holy ones,
And awesome above all those who are around Him?

(now the man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name was Abigail. And the woman was intelligent and beautiful in appearance, but the man was harsh and evil in his dealings, and he was a Calebite),

“Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him,
‘You compared yourself to a young lion of the nations,
Yet you are like the monster in the seas;
And you burst forth in your rivers
And muddied the waters with your feet
And fouled their rivers.’”

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah, and Baruch wrote on a scroll at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which He had spoken to him.

“The murderer arises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he is as a thief.

saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls;

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Is it not so, if there will be peace and truth in my days?”

“From the city men groan,
And the souls of the wounded cry out;
Yet God does not pay attention to folly.

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He does not have authority to sell her to a foreign people because of his unfairness to her.

They struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the doorway.

All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia;
Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

When the Lord your God gives it into your hand, you shall strike all the men in it with the edge of the sword.

“Furthermore, they have even sent for men who come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and lo, they came—for whom you bathed, painted your eyes and decorated yourselves with ornaments;

Now it came about, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

For the Lord Most High is to be feared,
A great King over all the earth.

But the noble man devises noble plans;
And by noble plans he stands.

May their table before them become a snare;
And when they are in peace, may it become a trap.

You need not fight in this battle; station yourselves, stand and see the salvation of the Lord on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem.’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out to face them, for the Lord is with you.”

Then all the men who were aware that their wives were burning sacrifices to other gods, along with all the women who were standing by, as a large assembly, including all the people who were living in Pathros in the land of Egypt, responded to Jeremiah, saying,

When He set a limit for the rain
And a course for the thunderbolt,

“For I am full of words;
The spirit within me constrains me.

“Now therefore arise, O Lord God, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your might; let Your priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation and let Your godly ones rejoice in what is good.

Now, therefore, thus shall you say to My servant David, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep, to be leader over My people Israel.

They served idols, concerning which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this thing.”

and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men.

But Samuel said, “What have you done?” And Saul said, “Because I saw that the people were scattering from me, and that you did not come within the appointed days, and that the Philistines were assembling at Michmash,

These are the animals which you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat,

Complete the week of this one, and we will give you the other also for the service which you shall serve with me for another seven years.”

But it came about in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men and struck Gedaliah down so that he died along with the Jews and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.

And Moses said to them, “Have you spared all the women?

But all the girls who have not known man intimately, spare for yourselves.

But you shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect;

The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you and men will no longer find them.

But they did not receive Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.

She is like merchant ships;
She brings her food from afar.