“The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke, in all you undertake to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, on account of the evil of your deeds, because you have forsaken Me.

O God, You have taught me from my youth,
And I still declare Your wondrous deeds.

A Psalm of David.
O Lord, I call upon You; hasten to me!
Give ear to my voice when I call to You!

“And He made darkness canopies around Him,
A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.

Anyone, moreover, who touches his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening;

“His roots are dried below,
And his branch is cut off above.

From then on he began looking for a good opportunity to betray Jesus.

behold, I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

So he said to the king, “Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

The Philistine came forward morning and evening for forty days and took his stand.

David was prospering in all his ways for the Lord was with him.

Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and flowing water shall be added to them in a vessel.

Those who were reclining at the table with Him began to say to themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

‘Now if a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, then the priest shall value it as either good or bad; as the priest values it, so it shall stand.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Ephraim: 108,100, by their armies. And they shall set out third.

So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Judah and the land of Israel, they were your traders; with the wheat of Minnith, cakes, honey, oil and balm they paid for your merchandise.

Causing the omens of boasters to fail,
Making fools out of diviners,
Causing wise men to draw back
And turning their knowledge into foolishness,

and if it spreads farther on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

And the report about Him was spreading into every locality in the surrounding district.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me,
And the light around me will be night,”

‘Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum your uncle is coming to you, saying, “Buy for yourself my field which is at Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.”’

“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Do you come to inquire of Me? As I live,” declares the Lord God, “I will not be inquired of by you.”’

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“Out of his nostrils smoke goes forth
As from a boiling pot and burning rushes.

When He acts on the left, I cannot behold Him;
He turns on the right, I cannot see Him.

“Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria; behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth where he has gone down to take possession of it.

But to the wicked God says,
“What right have you to tell of My statutes
And to take My covenant in your mouth?

“O Lord God, do not turn away the face of Your anointed; remember Your lovingkindness to Your servant David.”

“The Lord shall cause your enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way and will flee before you seven ways.

Therefore say, ‘Behold, I give him My covenant of peace;

For Shuppim and Hosah it was to the west, by the gate of Shallecheth, on the ascending highway. Guard corresponded to guard.

They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. They have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and have sacrificed to it and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!’”

Again he sent another group of slaves larger than the first; and they did the same thing to them.

Only the women and the children and the animals and all that is in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as booty for yourself; and you shall use the spoil of your enemies which the Lord your God has given you.

and to those he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ And so they went.

But the servants of David had struck down many of Benjamin and Abner’s men, so that three hundred and sixty men died.

and for the woman who is ill because of menstrual impurity, and for the one who has a discharge, whether a male or a female, or a man who lies with an unclean woman.

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears both by the altar and by everything on it.

Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

and they could not find anything that they might do, for all the people were hanging on to every word He said.

How then will the Scriptures be fulfilled, which say that it must happen this way?”

Then He will give you rain for the seed which you will sow in the ground, and bread from the yield of the ground, and it will be rich and plenteous; on that day your livestock will graze in a roomy pasture.

“And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.

They will be terrified,
Pains and anguish will take hold of them;
They will writhe like a woman in labor,
They will look at one another in astonishment,
Their faces aflame.

“I will make her princes and her wise men drunk,
Her governors, her prefects and her mighty men,
That they may sleep a perpetual sleep and not wake up,”
Declares the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

Be silent, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon;
Your messengers crossed the sea

Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Once again they will speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities when I restore their fortunes,
‘The Lord bless you, O abode of righteousness,
O holy hill!’

“Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.

He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him,
Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

besides their male and female servants who numbered 7,337; and they had 200 singing men and women.

For the choir director; on stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding himself among us?”
Save me, O God, by Your name,
And vindicate me by Your power.

And he went up and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth and his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands, and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child became warm.

thus says the Lord, “Behold, I bring evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the words of the book which the king of Judah has read.

Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem; and he did evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

For the sons of the wicked Athaliah had broken into the house of God and even used the holy things of the house of the Lord for the Baals.

Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice;
And let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns.”

He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them,

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What, then, will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Then they came to Gilead and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and they came to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon,

The border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and continued to the slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is, Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and continued through Timnah.

So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

Now when Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the commander of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner said, “By your life, O king, I do not know.”

Nevertheless a spring or a cistern collecting water shall be clean, though the one who touches their carcass shall be unclean.

Any of the food which may be eaten, on which water comes, shall become unclean, and any liquid which may be drunk in every vessel shall become unclean.

Joseph then answered Pharaoh, saying, “It is not in me; God will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Then God came to Balaam and said, “Who are these men with you?”

you shall say, ‘Your servants have been keepers of livestock from our youth even until now, both we and our fathers,’ that you may live in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is loathsome to the Egyptians.”

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who prophesy, and say to those who prophesy from their own inspiration, ‘Listen to the word of the Lord!

“But as for you, son of man, your fellow citizens who talk about you by the walls and in the doorways of the houses, speak to one another, each to his brother, saying, ‘Come now and hear what the message is which comes forth from the Lord.’

‘Build houses and live in them; and plant gardens and eat their produce.

You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.

“Yet I will restore the fortunes of Moab
In the latter days,” declares the Lord.Thus far the judgment on Moab.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army, with all the kingdoms of the earth that were under his dominion and all the peoples, were fighting against Jerusalem and against all its cities, saying,

“For there will be a day when watchmen
On the hills of Ephraim call out,
‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,
To the Lord our God.’”

O Lord, be gracious to us; we have waited for You.
Be their strength every morning,
Our salvation also in the time of distress.

From Your precepts I get understanding;
Therefore I hate every false way.

He who tends the fig tree will eat its fruit,
And he who cares for his master will be honored.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His habitation.

“Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all His people, may the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!’”

“Whether for correction, or for His world,
Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

When he came to the king, the king said to him, “Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we refrain?” And he answered him, “Go up and succeed, and the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

Then she said to him, “How can you say, ‘I love you,’ when your heart is not with me? You have deceived me these three times and have not told me where your great strength is.”

“For the waves of death encompassed me;
The torrents of destruction overwhelmed me;

Perhaps the Lord will look on my affliction and return good to me instead of his cursing this day.”

As soon as he finished offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him and to greet him.

The one who presents his offering shall present to the Lord a grain offering of one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a hin of oil,

Joshua said to them, “If you are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear a place for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.”

Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.

“You shall also make a laver of bronze, with its base of bronze, for washing; and you shall put it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall put water in it.

Also some of the Hebrews crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. But as for Saul, he was still in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling.

Then Manoah arose and followed his wife, and when he came to the man he said to him, “Are you the man who spoke to the woman?” And he said, “I am.”

and his army, even their numbered men, 32,200.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord; yet they have come out of His land.’

Now I have given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and I have given him also the wild animals of the field to serve him.

They shall eat equal portions, except what they receive from the sale of their fathers’ estates.

Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

“Gold or glass cannot equal it,
Nor can it be exchanged for articles of fine gold.

So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.

but to the sons of his concubines, Abraham gave gifts while he was still living, and sent them away from his son Isaac eastward, to the land of the east.

I will establish for them a renowned planting place, and they will not again be victims of famine in the land, and they will not endure the insults of the nations anymore.

But you, O mountains of Israel, you will put forth your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel; for they will soon come.

For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses, chariots, cavalry and a great army.

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

What then could I do when God arises?
And when He calls me to account, what will I answer Him?

“I have kept silent for a long time,
I have kept still and restrained Myself.
Now like a woman in labor I will groan,
I will both gasp and pant.

“Within the walls they produce oil;
They tread wine presses but thirst.

“Therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when it will no longer be called Topheth, or the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of the Slaughter; for they will bury in Topheth because there is no other place.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house, and he was lying down. And she took dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.

Therefore glorify the Lord in the east,
The name of the Lord, the God of Israel,
In the coastlands of the sea.

“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Then Elijah said to her, “Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son.

So she went and did according to the word of Elijah, and she and he and her household ate for many days.

Now the priests and the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers and the temple servants lived in their cities, and all Israel in their cities.

Some of the heads of fathers’ households, when they arrived at the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem, offered willingly for the house of God to restore it on its foundation.

The one who takes the life of an animal shall make it good, life for life.

and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns.

Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

So the king said to Ziba, “Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours.” And Ziba said, “I prostrate myself; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord, the king!”

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and has kept back His servant from evil. The Lord has also returned the evildoing of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent a proposal to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

The cherubim shall have their wings spread upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings and facing one another; the faces of the cherubim are to be turned toward the mercy seat.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has informed you of all this, there is no one so discerning and wise as you are.

So Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

You are not allowed to sacrifice the Passover in any of your towns which the Lord your God is giving you;

There is no one who calls on Your name,
Who arouses himself to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us
And have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.

This is the law for the one with a discharge, and for the man who has a seminal emission so that he is unclean by it,

He looked, and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it, for from that well they watered the flocks. Now the stone on the mouth of the well was large.

She senses that her gain is good;
Her lamp does not go out at night.

They will no longer defile themselves with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. And they will be My people, and I will be their God.

So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

When I say to the righteous he will surely live, and he so trusts in his righteousness that he commits iniquity, none of his righteous deeds will be remembered; but in that same iniquity of his which he has committed he will die.

He built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.

I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them wielding swords;

‘Behold, Assyria was a cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And very high,
And its top was among the clouds.

This wicked people, who refuse to listen to My words, who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts and have gone after other gods to serve them and to bow down to them, let them be just like this waistband which is totally worthless.

“He will not cry out or raise His voice,
Nor make His voice heard in the street.

I said to them, ‘Cast away, each of you, the detestable things of his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.’

Does he not level its surface
And sow dill and scatter cummin
And plant wheat in rows,
Barley in its place and rye within its area?

“Surely the coastlands will wait for Me;
And the ships of Tarshish will come first,
To bring your sons from afar,
Their silver and their gold with them,
For the name of the Lord your God,
And for the Holy One of Israel because He has glorified you.

The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.

In God, whose word I praise,
In God I have put my trust;
I shall not be afraid.
What can mere man do to me?

For she abandons her eggs to the earth
And warms them in the dust,

Therefore My people shall know My name; therefore in that day I am the one who is speaking, ‘Here I am.’”

“Man puts an end to darkness,
And to the farthest limit he searches out
The rock in gloom and deep shadow.

“The Lord thundered from heaven,
And the Most High uttered His voice.

“Let his own eyes see his decay,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;

But there is some good in you, for you have removed the Asheroth from the land and you have set your heart to seek God.”

Then they kept crossing the ford to bring over the king’s household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan.

And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it turns out that way.

Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Do not regard their offering! I have not taken a single donkey from them, nor have I done harm to any of them.”

This event became sin to the house of Jeroboam, even to blot it out and destroy it from off the face of the earth.

The sons of Merari according to their families received twelve cities from the tribe of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the tribe of Zebulun.

So we have brought as an offering to the Lord what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings and necklaces, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and the Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’

Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua; and he took her and went in to her.

Abimelech then took sheep and oxen and male and female servants, and gave them to Abraham, and restored his wife Sarah to him.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem looking for Him.

A man who loves wisdom makes his father glad,
But he who keeps company with harlots wastes his wealth.

‘You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.

The eyes of all look to You,
And You give them their food in due time.

Go forth from Babylon! Flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with the sound of joyful shouting, proclaim this,
Send it out to the end of the earth;
Say, “The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob.”

You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

“Who are these who fly like a cloud
And like the doves to their lattices?

Then Jeremiah chanted a lament for Josiah. And all the male and female singers speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them an ordinance in Israel; behold, they are also written in the Lamentations.

“Even young children despise me;
I rise up and they speak against me.

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in You.

“He returns what he has attained
And cannot swallow it;
As to the riches of his trading,
He cannot even enjoy them.

know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

“God understands its way,
And He knows its place.

that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.

Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.

Please let your servant return, that I may die in my own city near the grave of my father and my mother. However, here is your servant Chimham, let him cross over with my lord the king, and do for him what is good in your sight.”

So the priest gave him consecrated bread; for there was no bread there but the bread of the Presence which was removed from before the Lord, in order to put hot bread in its place when it was taken away.

Ahab king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat king of Judah, “Will you go with me against Ramoth-gilead?” And he said to him, “I am as you are, and my people as your people, and we will be with you in the battle.”

When they were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was dressed in his military attire, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened at his waist; and as he went forward, it fell out.

Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.

It came about at the time she was giving birth, that behold, there were twins in her womb.

I made you numerous like plants of the field. Then you grew up, became tall and reached the age for fine ornaments; your breasts were formed and your hair had grown. Yet you were naked and bare.

But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to them.

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he *said, “you shall hear him.”

The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to occupy, that you may possess his land.’

Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh.” And he stayed with him a month.

Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

“Then he may have a violent son who sheds blood and who does any of these things to a brother

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and they seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them the things which Jesus had done.

Where now is your king
That he may save you in all your cities,
And your judges of whom you requested,
“Give me a king and princes”?

Like a bad tooth and an unsteady foot
Is confidence in a faithless man in time of trouble.

For their Redeemer is strong;
He will plead their case against you.

“But if they had stood in My council,
Then they would have announced My words to My people,
And would have turned them back from their evil way
And from the evil of their deeds.

He who is a partner with a thief hates his own life;
He hears the oath but tells nothing.

“I thought age should speak,
And increased years should teach wisdom.

The chariots of God are myriads, thousands upon thousands;
The Lord is among them as at Sinai, in holiness.

Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed;
Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge,
But the hearts of fools are not so.

As for the saints who are in the earth,
They are the majestic ones in whom is all my delight.

When you set him free, you shall not send him away empty-handed.

Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Moreover, Amaziah assembled Judah and appointed them according to their fathers’ households under commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds throughout Judah and Benjamin; and he took a census of those from twenty years old and upward and found them to be 300,000 choice men, able to go to war and handle spear and shield.

It was Hezekiah who stopped the upper outlet of the waters of Gihon and directed them to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all that he did.

In Jerusalem also Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites and priests, and some of the heads of the fathers’ households of Israel, for the judgment of the Lord and to judge disputes among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Then it will be, that if you listen to all that I command you and walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight by observing My statutes and My commandments, as My servant David did, then I will be with you and build you an enduring house as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

He also sought Ahaziah, and they caught him while he was hiding in Samaria; they brought him to Jehu, put him to death and buried him. For they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the Lord with all his heart.” So there was no one of the house of Ahaziah to retain the power of the kingdom.

Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and its timber with which Baasha had been building, and with them he fortified Geba and Mizpah.

Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel this day; give me a man that we may fight together.”

Nevertheless they did not turn away from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel sin, but walked in them; and the Asherah also remained standing in Samaria.

But it came about at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, “Behold, your servants are in Gath.”

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

As soon as he was removed from the highway, all the men passed on after Joab to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri.

So Abimelech and all the people who were with him arose by night and lay in wait against Shechem in four companies.

There is no speech, nor are there words;
Their voice is not heard.

Abimelech fought against the city all that day, and he captured the city and killed the people who were in it; then he razed the city and sowed it with salt.

And she said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

When Moses heard this, he fell on his face;

Heshbon with its pasture lands, Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.

Moses made haste to bow low toward the earth and worship.

Exalt the Lord our God
And worship at His footstool;
Holy is He.

Therefore He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or infirm; He gave them all into his hand.

Thus says the Lord God, “This shall be the boundary by which you shall divide the land for an inheritance among the twelve tribes of Israel; Joseph shall have two portions.

Moreover, by them Your servant is warned;
In keeping them there is great reward.

For jealousy enrages a man,
And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

You who were full of noise,
You boisterous town, you exultant city;
Your slain were not slain with the sword,
Nor did they die in battle.

A sated man loathes honey,
But to a famished man any bitter thing is sweet.

He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an iron axe,
And Lebanon will fall by the Mighty One.

Or have eaten my morsel alone,
And the orphan has not shared it

He keeps back his soul from the pit,
And his life from passing over into Sheol.

“Beware that wrath does not entice you to scoffing;
And do not let the greatness of the ransom turn you aside.

The sons of Solomon’s servants: the sons of Sotai, the sons of Hassophereth, the sons of Peruda,

“As for me, is my complaint to man?
And why should I not be impatient?

They destroyed all the cities around Gerar, for the dread of the Lord had fallen on them; and they despoiled all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

David said to God, “Is it not I who commanded to count the people? Indeed, I am the one who has sinned and done very wickedly, but these sheep, what have they done? O Lord my God, please let Your hand be against me and my father’s household, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.”

Saul hurled the spear for he thought, “I will pin David to the wall.” But David escaped from his presence twice.

Shaphan the scribe came to the king and brought back word to the king and said, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord.”

But Jeroboam had set an ambush to come from the rear, so that Israel was in front of Judah and the ambush was behind them.

Then David and his men, about six hundred, arose and departed from Keilah, and they went wherever they could go. When it was told Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he gave up the pursuit.

so that you will not associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.

He did what was right in the sight of the Lord; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, yet not like David his father; he did according to all that Joash his father had done.

Then Saul hurled his spear at him to strike him down; so Jonathan knew that his father had decided to put David to death.

Then Jonathan spoke well of David to Saul his father and said to him, “Do not let the king sin against his servant David, since he has not sinned against you, and since his deeds have been very beneficial to you.

The three older sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle. And the names of his three sons who went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the sons of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession which they had possessed, according to the command of the Lord through Moses.

If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He will bring you back.

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.

Then the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor and proceeded from there to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south and touched Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the east.

The sixth lot fell to the sons of Naphtali; to the sons of Naphtali according to their families.

The sons of the third generation who are born to them may enter the assembly of the Lord.

and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the border of the sons of Ammon;

As to their redemption price, from a month old you shall redeem them, by your valuation, five shekels in silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, which is twenty gerahs.

As for any earthenware vessel into which one of them may fall, whatever is in it becomes unclean and you shall break the vessel.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a harlot, for she had covered her face.

For seven days you shall make atonement for the altar and consecrate it; then the altar shall be most holy, and whatever touches the altar shall be holy.

You shall not go outside the doorway of the tent of meeting for seven days, until the day that the period of your ordination is fulfilled; for he will ordain you through seven days.

You shall offer up in smoke the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord: it is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

“Then I bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you and anointed you with oil.

Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right, and brought them close to him.

Perhaps my father will feel me, then I will be as a deceiver in his sight, and I will bring upon myself a curse and not a blessing.”

The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Ashbel, Gera and Naaman, Ehi and Rosh, Muppim and Huppim and Ard.

“Thus says the Lord,
‘Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob
And have compassion on his dwelling places;
And the city will be rebuilt on its ruin,
And the palace will stand on its rightful place.

So he removed on that day the striped and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats, every one with white in it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and gave them into the care of his sons.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have bereaved me of my children: Joseph is no more, and Simeon is no more, and you would take Benjamin; all these things are against me.”

They reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’

For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if the Lord permits.

Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the Lord, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Do you see a man who is hasty in his words?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

But the Lord has been my stronghold,
And my God the rock of my refuge.

“Though he piles up silver like dust
And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay,

“I call to my servant, but he does not answer;
I have to implore him with my mouth.

The lion which is mighty among beasts
And does not retreat before any,

“The folds of his flesh are joined together,
Firm on him and immovable.

May their camp be desolate;
May none dwell in their tents.

And David put his hand into his bag and took from it a stone and slung it, and struck the Philistine on his forehead. And the stone sank into his forehead, so that he fell on his face to the ground.

So after all this the Lord smote him in his bowels with an incurable sickness.

So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God.

the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

So when they had gone about through the whole land, they came to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and twenty days.

Your harvest’s aftergrowth you shall not reap, and your grapes of untrimmed vines you shall not gather; the land shall have a sabbatical year.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might which he showed and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

And you shall again obey the Lord, and observe all His commandments which I command you today.

for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf rose up and also stood erect; and behold, your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in years.

then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

You shall redeem with a lamb the first offspring from a donkey; and if you do not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. You shall redeem all the firstborn of your sons. None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

Then Moses said to Aaron, “What did this people do to you, that you have brought such great sin upon them?”

From there they continued to Beer, that is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

Everyone who eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned the holy thing of the Lord; and that person shall be cut off from his people.

After laying His hands on them, He departed from there.

They will live on the land that I gave to Jacob My servant, in which your fathers lived; and they will live on it, they, and their sons and their sons’ sons, forever; and David My servant will be their prince forever.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “Because you have spoken falsehood and seen a lie, therefore behold, I am against you,” declares the Lord God.

Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built for himself a house and made booths for his livestock; therefore the place is named Succoth.

“I will punish Bel in Babylon,
And I will make what he has swallowed come out of his mouth;
And the nations will no longer stream to him.
Even the wall of Babylon has fallen down!

Yet you said, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger is turned away from me.’
Behold, I will enter into judgment with you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’

I will add fifteen years to your life, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.”’”

“A noose for him is hidden in the ground,
And a trap for him on the path.

and they came against Judah and invaded it, and carried away all the possessions found in the king’s house together with his sons and his wives, so that no son was left to him except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

Then the king commanded all the people saying, “Celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God as it is written in this book of the covenant.”

So he disguised his sanity before them, and acted insanely in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down into his beard.

“Remember that you should exalt His work,
Of which men have sung.

And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge and in all craftsmanship;

Then Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” And David said, “To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the Lord, that the plague may be held back from the people.”

When he had set fire to the torches, he released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines, thus burning up both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves.

For he walked in all the way that his father had walked, and served the idols that his father had served and worshiped them.

you shall set aside three cities for yourself in the midst of your land, which the Lord your God gives you to possess.

And the lords of the Philistines were proceeding on by hundreds and by thousands, and David and his men were proceeding on in the rear with Achish.

David was the youngest. Now the three oldest followed Saul,

and Adamah and Ramah and Hazor,

because you broke faith with Me in the midst of the sons of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, because you did not treat Me as holy in the midst of the sons of Israel.

However, if she vowed in her husband’s house, or bound herself by an obligation with an oath,

Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure.

So they took Joseph’s tunic, and slaughtered a male goat and dipped the tunic in the blood;

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700.

And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

So he said to him, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.”

I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

So Moab was in great fear because of the people, for they were numerous; and Moab was in dread of the sons of Israel.

When those hired about the eleventh hour came, each one received a denarius.

But we must run aground on a certain island.”

For we rejoice when we ourselves are weak but you are strong; this we also pray for, that you be made complete.

But they said, “We will not drink wine, for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, ‘You shall not drink wine, you or your sons, forever.

he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

After we put in at Syracuse, we stayed there for three days.

For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.

The Lord performs righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are oppressed.

“Please inquire of the Lord on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is warring against us; perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wonderful acts, so that the enemy will withdraw from us.”

Let your foot rarely be in your neighbor’s house,
Or he will become weary of you and hate you.

A leader who is a great oppressor lacks understanding,
But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Men will buy fields for money, sign and seal deeds, and call in witnesses in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland and in the cities of the Negev; for I will restore their fortunes,’ declares the Lord.”

There is gold, and an abundance of jewels;
But the lips of knowledge are a more precious thing.

“They harvest their fodder in the field
And glean the vineyard of the wicked.

“Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;
Even twice, and I will add nothing more.”

“Memory of him perishes from the earth,
And he has no name abroad.

On the next day they made sacrifices to the Lord and offered burnt offerings to the Lord, 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams and 1,000 lambs, with their drink offerings and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord shall be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore now I will make preparation for it.” So David made ample preparations before his death.

“Would He contend with me by the greatness of His power?
No, surely He would pay attention to me.

But Jehoshabeath the king’s daughter took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and placed him and his nurse in the bedroom. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest (for she was the sister of Ahaziah), hid him from Athaliah so that she would not put him to death.

Moreover, Jehoiada placed the offices of the house of the Lord under the authority of the Levitical priests, whom David had assigned over the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses—with rejoicing and singing according to the order of David.

Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah defeated 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

He said, “Throw her down.” So they threw her down, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses, and he trampled her under foot.

I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord and walked in the way of his father and in the way of his mother and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who caused Israel to sin.

Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and fainthearted? Let him depart and return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart.’

This is according to all that you asked of the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, let me not see this great fire anymore, or I will die.’

The bronze altar, which was before the Lord, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and he put it on the north side of his altar.

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Far from it! As the Lord lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I heard your father speak to your brother Esau, saying,

Now therefore, apportion this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Sarah denied it however, saying, “I did not laugh”; for she was afraid. And He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

It is better to live in a corner of the roof
Than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

When Jacob finished charging his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and breathed his last, and was gathered to his people.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them. He blessed them, every one with the blessing appropriate to him.

So Isaac lived in Gerar.

Therefore, give orders for the grave to be made secure until the third day, otherwise His disciples may come and steal Him away and say to the people, ‘He has risen from the dead,’ and the last deception will be worse than the first.”

But as for me, I shall sing of Your strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Your lovingkindness in the morning,
For You have been my stronghold
And a refuge in the day of my distress.

For it is not an enemy who reproaches me,
Then I could bear it;
Nor is it one who hates me who has exalted himself against me,
Then I could hide myself from him.

As for me, where could I get rid of my reproach? And as for you, you will be like one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, please speak to the king, for he will not withhold me from you.”

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is like dew on the grass.

The herdsmen ran away, and went to the city and reported everything, including what had happened to the demoniacs.

We will sing for joy over your victory,
And in the name of our God we will set up our banners.
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions.

‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Men will clap their hands at him
And will hiss him from his place.

Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him and bound him with bronze chains to take him to Babylon.

The altar also was split apart and the ashes were poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

For he left to Jehoahaz of the army not more than fifty horsemen and ten chariots and 10,000 footmen, for the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord before the new court,

And David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that his kingdom was highly exalted, for the sake of His people Israel.

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.

‘Take from among you a contribution to the Lord; whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze,

When they received it, they grumbled at the landowner,

Then, too, it is out of the sons of the sojourners who live as aliens among you that you may gain acquisition, and out of their families who are with you, whom they will have produced in your land; they also may become your possession.

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and he camped against Thebez and captured it.

All the people were quarreling throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “The king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the Philistines, but now he has fled out of the land from Absalom.

For I have heard the whispering of many,
“Terror on every side!
Denounce him; yes, let us denounce him!”
All my trusted friends,
Watching for my fall, say:
“Perhaps he will be deceived, so that we may prevail against him
And take our revenge on him.”

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like the place Topheth, because of all the houses on whose rooftops they burned sacrifices to all the heavenly host and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”’”

And Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?”

Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

“Foreigners will build up your walls,
And their kings will minister to you;
For in My wrath I struck you,
And in My favor I have had compassion on you.

this is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
“She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

“This one will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;
And that one will call on the name of Jacob;
And another will write on his hand, ‘Belonging to the Lord,’
And will name Israel’s name with honor.

Surely, thus says the Lord,
“Even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away,
And the prey of the tyrant will be rescued;
For I will contend with the one who contends with you,
And I will save your sons.

The works of His hands are truth and justice;
All His precepts are sure.

To whom I gave the wilderness for a home
And the salt land for his dwelling place?

He will not have regard for the altars, the work of his hands,
Nor will he look to that which his fingers have made,
Even the Asherim and incense stands.

But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ‘You have shed much blood and have waged great wars; you shall not build a house to My name, because you have shed so much blood on the earth before Me.

“I will not keep silence concerning his limbs,
Or his mighty strength, or his orderly frame.

then you shall bring out that man or that woman who has done this evil deed to your gates, that is, the man or the woman, and you shall stone them to death.

God listened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again to the woman as she was sitting in the field, but Manoah her husband was not with her.

Likewise, whomever the one with the discharge touches without having rinsed his hands in water shall wash his clothes and bathe in water and be unclean until evening.

Then she said, “Please let the king remember the Lord your God, so that the avenger of blood will not continue to destroy, otherwise they will destroy my son.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

The Lord will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way about which I spoke to you, ‘You will never see it again!’ And there you will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

When he came in, he ate and drank; and he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, for she is a king’s daughter.”

Then Moses sent a summons to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; but they said, “We will not come up.

So he cut out two stone tablets like the former ones, and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and he took two stone tablets in his hand.

is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;

So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

A widow, or a divorced woman, or one who is profaned by harlotry, these he may not take; but rather he is to marry a virgin of his own people,

from the tribe of Joseph, from the tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi the son of Susi;

When they sought to seize Him, they feared the people, because they considered Him to be a prophet.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

“Where is the way that the light is divided,
Or the east wind scattered on the earth?

“And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord.

“The cities of Aroer are forsaken;
They will be for flocks to lie down in,
And there will be no one to frighten them.

“They will say of Me, ‘Only in the Lord are righteousness and strength.’
Men will come to Him,
And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

There are three things which are stately in their march,
Even four which are stately when they walk:

Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.

and for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the model of the chariot, even the cherubim that spread out their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

So the king summoned Jehoiada the chief priest and said to him, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring in from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy fixed by Moses the servant of the Lord on the congregation of Israel for the tent of the testimony?”

“Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Lod and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

So David did not take the ark with him to the city of David, but took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have followed the Lord my God fully.’

“He also brought me forth into a broad place;
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.

But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”

Then all the assembly said that they would do so, for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

Then the king sent someone to summon Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father’s household, the priests who were in Nob; and all of them came to the king.

then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the Lord fully.’

“Nevertheless, I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.

The name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam the daughter of Ahimaaz. And the name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

When it came to rest, he said,
“Return, O Lord,
To the myriad thousands of Israel.”

If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of them,’ and immediately he will send them.”

So the sons of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments, from Mount Horeb onward.

She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder, and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’; so I drank, and she watered the camels also.

Thus says the Lord to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander; they have not kept their feet in check. Therefore the Lord does not accept them; now He will remember their iniquity and call their sins to account.”

chief Oholibamah, chief Elah, chief Pinon,

when you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they made My covenant void—this in addition to all your abominations.

It shall be the prince’s part to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the feasts, on the new moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.”

“Thus says the Lord, ‘If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

How often they rebelled against Him in the wilderness
And grieved Him in the desert!

And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me,
Until I declare Your strength to this generation,
Your power to all who are to come.

Why is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like the one who treads in the wine press?

and send word to the king of Edom, to the king of Moab, to the king of the sons of Ammon, to the king of Tyre and to the king of Sidon by the messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king of Judah.

Righteous lips are the delight of kings,
And he who speaks right is loved.

“It is I who have declared and saved and proclaimed,
And there was no strange god among you;
So you are My witnesses,” declares the Lord,
“And I am God.

Then Absalom would say to him, “See, your claims are good and right, but no man listens to you on the part of the king.”

So the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water from the well of Bethlehem which was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David. Nevertheless he would not drink it, but poured it out to the Lord;

A rebellious man seeks only evil,
So a cruel messenger will be sent against him.

“Out of his mouth go burning torches;
Sparks of fire leap forth.

For the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi shall bring the contribution of the grain, the new wine and the oil to the chambers; there are the utensils of the sanctuary, the priests who are ministering, the gatekeepers and the singers. Thus we will not neglect the house of our God.