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

and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its grain offering and its drink offering.

The traders of Sheba and Raamah, they traded with you; they paid for your wares with the best of all kinds of spices, and with all kinds of precious stones and gold.

Then Balak’s anger burned against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, “I called you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have persisted in blessing them these three times!

“Naphtali is a doe let loose,
He gives beautiful words.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah—he is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness when he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

and I will turn you around, drive you on, take you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

But when I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and he turns from his sin and practices justice and righteousness,

I, the Lord, have spoken; it is coming and I will act. I will not relent, and I will not pity and I will not be sorry; according to your ways and according to your deeds I will judge you,” declares the Lord God.’”

Hide Your face from my sins
And blot out all my iniquities.

For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.

Then you will take delight in the Lord,
And I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the nations.

Now all the commanders of the forces that were in the field, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah the son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women and children, those of the poorest of the land who had not been exiled to Babylon.

Scorners set a city aflame,
But wise men turn away anger.

The letter was sent by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, saying,

My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will pluck my feet out of the net.

I believed when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted.”

The men did the work faithfully with foremen over them to supervise: Jahath and Obadiah, the Levites of the sons of Merari, Zechariah and Meshullam of the sons of the Kohathites, and the Levites, all who were skillful with musical instruments.

You have tried my heart;
You have visited me by night;
You have tested me and You find nothing;
I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.

For a multitude of the people, even many from Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise than prescribed. For Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

“For that would be a lustful crime;
Moreover, it would be an iniquity punishable by judges.

For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and have forsaken Him and turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have turned their backs.

He did right in the sight of the Lord according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

He gathered all Judah and Benjamin and those from Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon who resided with them, for many defected to him from Israel when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.

and Obed-edom with his 68 relatives; Obed-edom, also the son of Jeduthun, and Hosah as gatekeepers.

He built the inner court with three rows of cut stone and a row of cedar beams.

“Then the earth shook and quaked,
The foundations of heaven were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.

May God do so to the enemies of David, and more also, if by morning I leave as much as one male of any who belong to him.”

But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”

The son of Jonathan was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal became the father of Micah.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, as his fathers had done; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which he made Israel sin.

The man said to Joab, “Even if I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, I would not put out my hand against the king’s son; for in our hearing the king charged you and Abishai and Ittai, saying, ‘Protect for me the young man Absalom!’

When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”

The border went down to the edge of the hill which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.

Moreover, you shall build there an altar to the Lord your God, an altar of stones; you shall not wield an iron tool on them.

But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.

Then the clean person shall sprinkle on the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day; and on the seventh day he shall purify him from uncleanness, and he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean by evening.

This also is yours, the offering of their gift, even all the wave offerings of the sons of Israel; I have given them to you and to your sons and daughters with you as a perpetual allotment. Everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.

Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.

You shall make five pillars of acacia for the screen and overlay them with gold, their hooks also being of gold; and you shall cast five sockets of bronze for them.

They journeyed from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.

According to the selection by lot, their inheritance shall be divided between the larger and the smaller groups.”

If a part of their carcass falls on any seed for sowing which is to be sown, it is clean.

Afterward his brother came out who had the scarlet thread on his hand; and he was named Zerah.

For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken falsehood,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Then they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food supply, and departed.

And if this should come to the governor’s ears, we will win him over and keep you out of trouble.”

I will give the men who have transgressed My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—

But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then you will be free from this my oath; only do not take my son back there.”

Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home again.

Its streams will be turned into pitch,
And its loose earth into brimstone,
And its land will become burning pitch.

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

“Therefore I swore in My anger,
Truly they shall not enter into My rest.”

“Why do you go around so much
Changing your way?
Also, you will be put to shame by Egypt
As you were put to shame by Assyria.

For the hand of the Lord will rest on this mountain,
And Moab will be trodden down in his place
As straw is trodden down in the water of a manure pile.

Saying to those who are bound, ‘Go forth,’
To those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’
Along the roads they will feed,
And their pasture will be on all bare heights.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One,”
But I say, “Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me!
The treacherous deal treacherously,
And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”

Therefore my heart intones like a harp for Moab
And my inward feelings for Kir-hareseth.

But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold;
He must give all the substance of his house.

Like an archer who wounds everyone,
So is he who hires a fool or who hires those who pass by.

“He will cry to Me, ‘You are my Father,
My God, and the rock of my salvation.’

I will sing to the Lord,
Because He has dealt bountifully with me. Cross references: Psalm 13:1 : Ps 44:24 Psalm 13:1 : Job 13:24; Ps 89:46 Psalm 13:2 : Ps 42:4 Psalm 13:2 : Ps 42:9 Psalm 13:3 : Ps 5:1 Psalm 13:3 : 1 Sam 14:29; Ezra 9:8; Job 33:30; Ps 18:28 Psalm 13:3 : Jer 51:39 Psalm 13:4 : Ps 12:4 Psalm 13:4 : Ps 25:2; 38:16 Psalm 13:5 : Ps 52:8 Psalm 13:5 : Ps 9:14 Psalm 13:6 : Ps 96:1, 2 Psalm 13:6 : Ps 116:7; 119:17; 142:7 end of crossrefs

“Then his soul draws near to the pit,
And his life to those who bring death.

that the manslayer who kills any person unintentionally, without premeditation, may flee there, and they shall become your refuge from the avenger of blood.

“Do you think this is according to justice?
Do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s’?

But David said to Abishai, “Do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the Lord’s anointed and be without guilt?”

“Is it because of your reverence that He reproves you,
That He enters into judgment against you?

“So now you intend to resist the kingdom of the Lord through the sons of David, being a great multitude and having with you the golden calves which Jeroboam made for gods for you.

the seventh for Hakkoz, the eighth for Abijah,

“Go and speak to David, ‘Thus the Lord says, “I am offering you three things; choose for yourself one of them, which I will do to you.”’”

You shall plant and cultivate vineyards, but you will neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm will devour them.

And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not spend the night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means cross over, or else the king and all the people who are with him will be destroyed.’”

If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me to run to Bethlehem his city, because it is the yearly sacrifice there for the whole family.’

Now Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,

“And He was king in Jeshurun,
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.

Of Zebulun he said,
“Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going forth,
And, Issachar, in your tents.

Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

and you shall anoint them even as you have anointed their father, that they may minister as priests to Me; and their anointing will qualify them for a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations.”

The sons of Eliab: Nemuel and Dathan and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who contended against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord,

So the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks and female and male servants and camels and donkeys.

Of Merari was the family of the Mahlites and the family of the Mushites; these were the families of Merari.

and his army, even their numbered men, 62,700.

For this perfume might have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”

if a man does not oppress anyone, but restores to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing,

Now Joseph was the ruler over the land; he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.

that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he owns, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in your presence for a burial site.”

The sons of Gad: Ziphion and Haggi, Shuni and Ezbon, Eri and Arodi and Areli.

Who proceed down to Egypt
Without consulting Me,
To take refuge in the safety of Pharaoh
And to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt!

For I was envious of the arrogant
As I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Then he will stretch out his hand against other countries, and the land of Egypt will not escape.

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your sons will find compassion before those who led them captive and will return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and compassionate, and will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

“Now behold, here comes a troop of riders, horsemen in pairs.”
And one said, “Fallen, fallen is Babylon;
And all the images of her gods are shattered on the ground.”

I shall delight in Your statutes;
I shall not forget Your word.

That which came as the word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet concerning the Philistines, before Pharaoh conquered Gaza.

The earth reels to and fro like a drunkard
And it totters like a shack,
For its transgression is heavy upon it,
And it will fall, never to rise again.

He who leads the upright astray in an evil way
Will himself fall into his own pit,
But the blameless will inherit good.

he went down to the king’s house, into the scribe’s chamber. And behold, all the officials were sitting there—Elishama the scribe, and Delaiah the son of Shemaiah, and Elnathan the son of Achbor, and Gemariah the son of Shaphan, and Zedekiah the son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

Be to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually come;
You have given commandment to save me,
For You are my rock and my fortress.

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name.

within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off you.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David; for a memorial.
O God, hasten to deliver me;
O Lord, hasten to my help!

Then Joash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem and tore down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, 400 cubits.

“To me they listened and waited,
And kept silent for my counsel.

Because you did not carry it at the first, the Lord our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance.”

and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man’s wife,

Then he said to all Israel, “You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good to you.”

Then they came near to him and said, “We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our little ones;

Then Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every skillful person in whom the Lord had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him, to come to the work to perform it.

‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.

Now then, please take your gear, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me;

and does not eat at the mountain shrines or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, or defile his neighbor’s wife or approach a woman during her menstrual period—

The sons of Asher: Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and their sister Serah. And the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.

“They will not build and another inhabit,
They will not plant and another eat;
For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

Also they shall not shave their heads, yet they shall not let their locks grow long; they shall only trim the hair of their heads.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and lifted his voice and wept.

for he had possessions of flocks and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

So then both he who gives his own virgin daughter in marriage does well, and he who does not give her in marriage will do better.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes,
But the poor who has understanding sees through him.

It is He who made the earth by His power,
Who established the world by His wisdom,
And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised;
He is to be feared above all gods.

They opposed Uzziah the king and said to him, “It is not for you, Uzziah, to burn incense to the Lord, but for the priests, the sons of Aaron who are consecrated to burn incense. Get out of the sanctuary, for you have been unfaithful and will have no honor from the Lord God.”

You turn man back into dust
And say, “Return, O children of men.”

Strangers will stand and pasture your flocks,
And foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.

O Lord, You have brought up my soul from Sheol;
You have kept me alive, that I would not go down to the pit.

A writing of Hezekiah king of Judah after his illness and recovery:

“What profit is there in my blood, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise You? Will it declare Your faithfulness?

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
And his tongue speaks justice.

Because God has made her forget wisdom,
And has not given her a share of understanding.

Who is the King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.

O Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, our fathers, preserve this forever in the intentions of the heart of Your people, and direct their heart to You;

“Look at the heavens and see;
And behold the clouds—they are higher than you.

So the Lord routed the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

For the sons of Israel are My servants; they are My servants whom I brought out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.

But the king said, “You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and all your father’s household!”

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth; all the sons and relatives of Hosah were 13.

and the corpse of Jezebel will be as dung on the face of the field in the property of Jezreel, so they cannot say, “This is Jezebel.”’”

Everything, moreover, on which part of their carcass may fall becomes unclean; an oven or a stove shall be smashed; they are unclean and shall continue as unclean to you.

Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.

and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

“If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,

Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

to the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;

Then Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, but behold, you have actually blessed them!”

“You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leavened bread, nor is the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover to be left over until morning.

Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, that he will come and attack me and the mothers with the children.

And when the men of that place recognized Him, they sent word into all that surrounding district and brought to Him all who were sick;

and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, even to this day, these twenty-three years the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.

For as the waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the Lord, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for renown, for praise and for glory; but they did not listen.’

So they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, along with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of the Maacathite, both they and their men.

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”

“Because the ground is cracked,
For there has been no rain on the land;
The farmers have been put to shame,
They have covered their heads.

“Will he make a covenant with you?
Will you take him for a servant forever?

Let them bring forth and declare to us what is going to take place;
As for the former events, declare what they were,
That we may consider them and know their outcome.
Or announce to us what is coming;

“The lotus plants cover him with shade;
The willows of the brook surround him.

In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel.

Take away the dross from the silver,
And there comes out a vessel for the smith;

The singers, the sons of Asaph, were also at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the gatekeepers at each gate did not have to depart from their service, because the Levites their brethren prepared for them.

behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will deliver Israel through me, as You have spoken.”

“Will God hear his cry
When distress comes upon him?

“For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness,
For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

The Philistines made yet another raid in the valley.

and the lampstands, five on the right side and five on the left, in front of the inner sanctuary, of pure gold; and the flowers and the lamps and the tongs, of gold;

Then Amaziah king of Judah took counsel and sent to Joash the son of Jehoahaz the son of Jehu, the king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us face each other.”

now may it be that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar so that I may drink,’ and who answers, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels also’—may she be the one whom You have appointed for Your servant Isaac; and by this I will know that You have shown lovingkindness to my master.”

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

Therefore deal kindly with your servant, for you have brought your servant into a covenant of the Lord with you. But if there is iniquity in me, put me to death yourself; for why then should you bring me to your father?”

Therefore, Saul said to the Lord, the God of Israel, “Give a perfect lot.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.

In Gibeon Jeiel the father of Gibeon lived, and his wife’s name was Maacah,

Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? O Lord God of Israel, I pray, tell Your servant.” And the Lord said, “He will come down.”

And Jotham slept with his fathers, and he was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father; and Ahaz his son became king in his place.

If the people of the land, however, should ever disregard that man when he gives any of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for going out and coming in.

Every devoted thing in Israel shall be yours.

The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity because they acted treacherously against Me, and I hid My face from them; so I gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and all of them fell by the sword.

The name of the Midianite woman who was slain was Cozbi the daughter of Zur, who was head of the people of a father’s household in Midian.

“I bought the field which was at Anathoth from Hanamel my uncle’s son, and I weighed out the silver for him, seventeen shekels of silver.

and may God Almighty grant you compassion in the sight of the man, so that he will release to you your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Her parents were amazed; but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good gift; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she named him Zebulun.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless! For we are going to follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’

So I will choose their punishments
And will bring on them what they dread.
Because I called, but no one answered;
I spoke, but they did not listen.
And they did evil in My sight
And chose that in which I did not delight.”

Then Baruch read from the book the words of Jeremiah in the house of the Lord in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper court, at the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house, to all the people.

And the word of the Lord came to me saying,

when the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and against all the remaining cities of Judah, that is, Lachish and Azekah, for they alone remained as fortified cities among the cities of Judah.

“For I will not contend forever,
Nor will I always be angry;
For the spirit would grow faint before Me,
And the breath of those whom I have made.

“Hear the sound of the cry of the shepherds,
And the wailing of the masters of the flock!
For the Lord is destroying their pasture,

A stone is heavy and the sand weighty,
But the provocation of a fool is heavier than both of them.

O Lord, they sought You in distress;
They could only whisper a prayer,
Your chastening was upon them.

Do not lie in wait, O wicked man, against the dwelling of the righteous;
Do not destroy his resting place;

“In his neck lodges strength,
And dismay leaps before him.

“They are joined one to another;
They clasp each other and cannot be separated.

the sons of the other Elam, 1,254;

But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal’s wife, saying, “Behold, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, and he scorned them.

“The righteous see and are glad,
And the innocent mock them,

All the prophets were prophesying thus, saying, “Go up to Ramoth-gilead and prosper, for the Lord will give it into the hand of the king.”

Of the sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.

then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

Then David took more wives at Jerusalem, and David became the father of more sons and daughters.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me where your great strength is and how you may be bound to afflict you.”

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah helped him, and struck the Philistine and killed him. Then the men of David swore to him, saying, “You shall not go out again with us to battle, so that you do not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

They came and besieged him in Abel Beth-maacah, and they cast up a siege ramp against the city, and it stood by the rampart; and all the people who were with Joab were wreaking destruction in order to topple the wall.

Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and continued on the north of Beth-arabah, and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.

but one who is married is concerned about the things of the world, how he may please his wife,

You shall not cut off your lovingkindness from my house forever, not even when the Lord cuts off every one of the enemies of David from the face of the earth.”

who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the Lord will not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

if he does not lend money on interest or take increase, if he keeps his hand from iniquity and executes true justice between man and man,

“Command the sons of Israel that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.

‘However, a firstborn among animals, which as a firstborn belongs to the Lord, no man may consecrate it; whether ox or sheep, it is the Lord’s.

And he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish for me to bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and approach Ephron the son of Zohar for me,

Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

These are the sons of Shobal: Alvan and Manahath and Ebal, Shepho and Onam.

and say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am about to kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree; the blazing flame will not be quenched and the whole surface from south to north will be burned by it.

Then Gideon said to God, “Do not let Your anger burn against me that I may speak once more; please let me make a test once more with the fleece, let it now be dry only on the fleece, and let there be dew on all the ground.”

and all the foreign people, all the kings of the land of Uz, all the kings of the land of the Philistines (even Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron and the remnant of Ashdod);

The Pharisees then answered them, “You have not also been led astray, have you?

and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, who sits on David’s throne, you and your servants and your people who enter these gates.

Teach me what I do not see;
If I have done iniquity,
I will not do it again’?

Then, like fleeing birds or scattered nestlings,
The daughters of Moab will be at the fords of the Arnon.

May my wife grind for another,
And let others kneel down over her.

“Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes,

He built fortified cities in Judah, since the land was undisturbed, and there was no one at war with him during those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

Now Azmaveth the son of Adiel had charge of the king’s storehouses. And Jonathan the son of Uzziah had charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages and in the towers.

The sons of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its towns and those who are in the valley of Jezreel.”

Joab the son of Zeruiah had begun to count them, but did not finish; and because of this, wrath came upon Israel, and the number was not included in the account of the chronicles of King David.

When ten thousand choice men from all Israel came against Gibeah, the battle became fierce; but Benjamin did not know that disaster was close to them.

Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.

Then the king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and refresh yourself, and I will give you a reward.”

So when he returned the silver to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver and gave them to the silversmith who made them into a graven image and a molten image, and they were in the house of Micah.

Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the Lord your God in the place which the Lord chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

For the Lord had said to Moses, “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘You are an obstinate people; should I go up in your midst for one moment, I would destroy you. Now therefore, put off your ornaments from you, that I may know what I shall do with you.’”

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam and Tidal king of Goiim and Amraphel king of Shinar and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

and the priest who pronounces him clean shall present the man to be cleansed and the aforesaid before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Now in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

It will come about in that day that a great panic from the Lord will fall on them; and they will seize one another’s hand, and the hand of one will be lifted against the hand of another.

“The glory of Lebanon will come to you,
The juniper, the box tree and the cypress together,
To beautify the place of My sanctuary;
And I shall make the place of My feet glorious.

“You have journeyed to the king with oil
And increased your perfumes;
You have sent your envoys a great distance
And made them go down to Sheol.

We have heard of the pride of Moab, an excessive pride;
Even of his arrogance, pride, and fury;
His idle boasts are false.

Declare the things that are going to come afterward,
That we may know that you are gods;
Indeed, do good or evil, that we may anxiously look about us and fear together.

Like charcoal to hot embers and wood to fire,
So is a contentious man to kindle strife.

The strong among the mighty ones shall speak of him and his helpers from the midst of Sheol, ‘They have gone down, they lie still, the uncircumcised, slain by the sword.’

Do not be a terror to me;
You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,
And do not go out with our armies.

In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill; and he prayed to the Lord, and the Lord spoke to him and gave him a sign.

In the light of a king’s face is life,
And his favor is like a cloud with the spring rain.

And the heavens declare His righteousness,
For God Himself is judge. Selah.

“From the wicked their light is withheld,
And the uplifted arm is broken.

‘I am pure, without transgression;
I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.

“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

So he left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the covenant of the Lord to minister before the ark continually, as every day’s work required;

and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the Lord would not forgive.

Moreover, Uzziah had an army ready for battle, which entered combat by divisions according to the number of their muster, prepared by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the official, under the direction of Hananiah, one of the king’s officers.

Now for the rest of the sons of Levi: of the sons of Amram, Shubael; of the sons of Shubael, Jehdeiah.

Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

Then Ahaziah the son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships.” But Jehoshaphat was not willing.

And Jehu slept with his fathers, and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.

Thus he turned the hearts of all the men of Judah as one man, so that they sent word to the king, saying, “Return, you and all your servants.”

Now when Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you alone sit as judge and all the people stand about you from morning until evening?”

“Would that they were wise, that they understood this,
That they would discern their future!

Now then, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul to do so; and our part shall be to surrender him into the king’s hand.”

When there was war again, David went out and fought with the Philistines and defeated them with great slaughter, so that they fled before him.

Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the Lord God of Israel fully.

Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing; and the people answered the same thing as before.

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad married their uncles’ sons.

You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it, and you shall overlay it with bronze.

But if you say, “What are we going to eat on the seventh year if we do not sow or gather in our crops?”

Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after his own name.

Moses therefore spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.

Then he came to his father and said, “My father.” And he said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

But the wheat and the spelt were not ruined, for they ripen late.)

For thus says the Lord God, “I will also do with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been broken;
Wail over her!
Bring balm for her pain;
Perhaps she may be healed.

It came about, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out through a window, and saw, and behold, Isaac was caressing his wife Rebekah.

“And when you divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an allotment to the Lord, a holy portion of the land; the length shall be the length of 25,000 cubits, and the width shall be 20,000. It shall be holy within all its boundary round about.

A fool’s mouth is his ruin,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, My servants will eat, but you will be hungry.
Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty.
Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

As the door turns on its hinges,
So does the sluggard on his bed.

“Its rocks are the source of sapphires,
And its dust contains gold.

They all wait for You
To give them their food in due season.

“Now when you tell this people all these words, they will say to you, ‘For what reason has the Lord declared all this great calamity against us? And what is our iniquity, or what is our sin which we have committed against the Lord our God?’

So when they heard the law, they excluded all foreigners from Israel.

Then he returned and walked in the house once back and forth, and went up and stretched himself on him; and the lad sneezed seven times and the lad opened his eyes.

“But He drags off the valiant by His power;
He rises, but no one has assurance of life.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the Lord and repaired them.

“Also concerning the foreigner who is not from Your people Israel, when he comes from a far country for Your great name’s sake and Your mighty hand and Your outstretched arm, when they come and pray toward this house,

Surely at the command of the Lord it came upon Judah, to remove them from His sight because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

‘Behold, the days are coming when all that is in your house, and all that your fathers have laid up in store to this day will be carried to Babylon; nothing shall be left,’ says the Lord.

“The Lord alone guided him,
And there was no foreign god with him.

But after the death of Jehoiada the officials of Judah came and bowed down to the king, and the king listened to them.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.

Then you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as numerous as the stars of heaven, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

So Moses and Aaron said to all the sons of Israel, “At evening you will know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt;

Then he said to me, “These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah; then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the sea become fresh.

He sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were called together to follow him; and he sent messengers to Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.

Moreover, whenever the stronger of the flock were mating, Jacob would place the rods in the sight of the flock in the gutters, so that they might mate by the rods;

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Enough, you princes of Israel; put away violence and destruction, and practice justice and righteousness. Stop your expropriations from My people,” declares the Lord God.

So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold, a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to its bone.

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the wilderness which is opposite Moab, to the east.

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

Then Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me,

For I will set My eyes on them for good, and I will bring them again to this land; and I will build them up and not overthrow them, and I will plant them and not pluck them up.

“Son of man, speak to the sons of your people and say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land take one man from among them and make him their watchman,

Therefore speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the Lord will be brought to give him an answer in the matter in view of the multitude of his idols,

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;
In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,
No treader treads out wine in the presses,
For I have made the shouting to cease.

“You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones,
And the Lord God will slay you.
But My servants will be called by another name.

“Against the land of Merathaim, go up against it,
And against the inhabitants of Pekod.
Slay and utterly destroy them,” declares the Lord,
“And do according to all that I have commanded you.

This is the message which the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:

Your word is very pure,
Therefore Your servant loves it.

Only no accounting shall be made with them for the money delivered into their hands, for they deal faithfully.”

The way of a guilty man is crooked,
But as for the pure, his conduct is upright.

The heavens will praise Your wonders, O Lord;
Your faithfulness also in the assembly of the holy ones.

Sing praises to God, sing praises;
Sing praises to our King, sing praises.

Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”

Please do not let my lord pay attention to this worthless man, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and folly is with him; but I your maidservant did not see the young men of my lord whom you sent.

therefore I said, ‘Now the Philistines will come down against me at Gilgal, and I have not asked the favor of the Lord.’ So I forced myself and offered the burnt offering.”

So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They also slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar; they slaughtered the lambs also and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

and he went after the man of Israel into the tent and pierced both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman, through the body. So the plague on the sons of Israel was checked.

and the red kite, the falcon, and the kite in their kinds,

“They are insignificant on the surface of the water;
Their portion is cursed on the earth.
They do not turn toward the vineyards.

“Even when I remember, I am disturbed,
And horror takes hold of my flesh.

Come and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him.

And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be according to their kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea, very many.

The priest shall then take some of the blood of the guilt offering, and the priest shall put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand and on the big toe of his right foot.

Then your poverty will come as a robber
And your want like an armed man.

They journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

The Israelites, all the men and women, whose heart moved them to bring material for all the work, which the Lord had commanded through Moses to be done, brought a freewill offering to the Lord.

So Jethro said, “Blessed be the Lord who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

And behold, there was a wall on the outside of the temple all around, and in the man’s hand was a measuring rod of six cubits, each of which was a cubit and a handbreadth. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one rod; and the height, one rod.

“Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
And instead of iron I will bring silver,
And instead of wood, bronze,
And instead of stones, iron.
And I will make peace your administrators
And righteousness your overseers.

There is a kind of man whose teeth are like swords
And his jaw teeth like knives,
To devour the afflicted from the earth
And the needy from among men.

Praise the Lord from the earth,
Sea monsters and all deeps;

and Mishma and Dumah and Massa,

I have become estranged from my brothers
And an alien to my mother’s sons.

Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to You for help,
When I lift up my hands toward Your holy sanctuary.

To bring rain on a land without people,
On a desert without a man in it,

That my soul may sing praise to You and not be silent.
O Lord my God, I will give thanks to You forever.

Do I not hate those who hate You, O Lord?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?

Do all the workers of wickedness not know,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call upon the Lord?

“Also with moisture He loads the thick cloud;
He disperses the cloud of His lightning.

For Your name’s sake, O Lord,
Pardon my iniquity, for it is great.

Moreover, in my delight in the house of my God, the treasure I have of gold and silver, I give to the house of my God, over and above all that I have already provided for the holy temple,

“In a moment they die, and at midnight
People are shaken and pass away,
And the mighty are taken away without a hand.

“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

He gathered the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the house of your God annually, and you shall do the matter quickly.” But the Levites did not act quickly.

“But the earth belongs to the mighty man,
And the honorable man dwells in it.

The whole assembly together was 42,360,

and you will suffer severe sickness, a disease of your bowels, until your bowels come out because of the sickness, day by day.’”

Now behold, with great pains I have prepared for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weight, for they are in great quantity; also timber and stone I have prepared, and you may add to them.

Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the Lord, and let them give it to the workmen who are in the house of the Lord to repair the damages of the house,

God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians who lived in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

So he made two doors of olive wood, and he carved on them carvings of cherubim, palm trees, and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold on the cherubim and on the palm trees.

Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God troubled them with every kind of distress.

But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.