Then David said to all the assembly, “Now bless the Lord your God.” And all the assembly blessed the Lord, the God of their fathers, and bowed low and did homage to the Lord and to the king.

And I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the ground. See, you have what is yours.’

“When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatever way You shall send them, and they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the house which I have built for Your name,

For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the Lord brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; you saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?”

when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place which He will choose, you shall read this law in front of all Israel in their hearing.

When it was told Saul that David had come to Keilah, Saul said, “God has delivered him into my hand, for he shut himself in by entering a city with double gates and bars.”

“The Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness;
According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me.

So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord require it at the hands of David’s enemies.”

Manoah said, “Now when your words come to pass, what shall be the boy’s mode of life and his vocation?”

They stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the leaders and all the congregation, at the doorway of the tent of meeting, saying,

Do not go up, or you will be struck down before your enemies, for the Lord is not among you.

When they came back to their brothers at Zorah and Eshtaol, their brothers said to them, “What do you report?”

and if few years remain until the year of jubilee, he shall so calculate with him. In proportion to his years he is to refund the amount for his redemption.

There they buried Abraham and his wife Sarah, there they buried Isaac and his wife Rebekah, and there I buried Leah—

an oath before the Lord shall be made by the two of them that he has not laid hands on his neighbor’s property; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

So when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; whatever he says to you, you shall do.”

Then Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

But Laban said, “It is not the practice in our place to marry off the younger before the firstborn.

“They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

Then Esau took his wives and his sons and his daughters and all his household, and his livestock and all his cattle and all his goods which he had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to another land away from his brother Jacob.

Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done by deceiving me and carrying away my daughters like captives of the sword?

that eighty men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria with their beards shaved off and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, having grain offerings and incense in their hands to bring to the house of the Lord.

Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son.

But in my opinion she is happier if she remains as she is; and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who went astray from Me after their idols, shall bear the punishment for their iniquity.

When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, they fled and went out of the city at night by way of the king’s garden through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

while they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the wicked who are slain, whose day has come, in the time of the punishment of the end.

Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
At the full moon, on our feast day.

Then He brought them out with silver and gold,
And among His tribes there was not one who stumbled.

You enlarge my steps under me,
And my feet have not slipped.

“Can anyone capture him when he is on watch,
With barbs can anyone pierce his nose?

Who among you will give ear to this?
Who will give heed and listen hereafter?

I will bring distress to Ariel,
And she will be a city of lamenting and mourning;
And she will be like an Ariel to me.

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

“He opens their ear to instruction,
And commands that they return from evil.

The singers: the sons of Asaph, 128.

Among those nations you shall find no rest, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.

The sons of Israel carried away captive of their brethren 200,000 women, sons and daughters; and they took also a great deal of spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

and the gold by weight for the tables of showbread, for each table; and silver for the silver tables;

The battle raged that day, and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot in front of the Arameans until the evening; and at sunset he died.

and commanded Judah to seek the Lord God of their fathers and to observe the law and the commandment.

Consider now, for the Lord has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary; be courageous and act.”

Now in charge of the tribes of Israel: chief officer for the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;

And the king said to the guards who were attending him, “Turn around and put the priests of the Lord to death, because their hand also is with David and because they knew that he was fleeing and did not reveal it to me.” But the servants of the king were not willing to put forth their hands to attack the priests of the Lord.

Also Hosah, one of the sons of Merari had sons: Shimri the first (although he was not the firstborn, his father made him first),

‘Cursed is he who lies with his father’s wife, because he has uncovered his father’s skirt.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

But David’s men said to him, “Behold, we are afraid here in Judah. How much more then if we go to Keilah against the ranks of the Philistines?”

But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Go now to the flock and bring me two choice young goats from there, that I may prepare them as a savory dish for your father, such as he loves.

the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

And they said, “What one is there of the tribes of Israel who did not come up to the Lord at Mizpah?” And behold, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh-gilead to the assembly.

Then the man departed from the city, from Bethlehem in Judah, to stay wherever he might find a place; and as he made his journey, he came to the hill country of Ephraim to the house of Micah.

These are the families of Naphtali according to their families; and those who were numbered of them were 45,400.

“Get away from among this congregation, that I may consume them instantly.” Then they fell on their faces.

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban with his kinsmen camped in the hill country of Gilead.

therefore, behold, I am against you and against your rivers, and I will make the land of Egypt an utter waste and desolation, from Migdol to Syene and even to the border of Ethiopia.

Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom because of the breasts of your youth.

“Son of man, when the house of Israel was living in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds; their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

‘All the inhabitants of the coastlands
Are appalled at you,
And their kings are horribly afraid;
They are troubled in countenance.

They hatch adders’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a snake breaks forth.

These are the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away into exile: in the seventh year 3,023 Jews;

The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up so that none may enter.

Gracious is the Lord, and righteous;
Yes, our God is compassionate.

Terror and pit and snare
Confront you, O inhabitant of the earth.

“You have heard; look at all this.
And you, will you not declare it?
I proclaim to you new things from this time,
Even hidden things which you have not known.

The earth will be completely laid waste and completely despoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word.

The couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with the letters from the hand of the king and his princes, even according to the command of the king, saying, “O sons of Israel, return to the Lord God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, that He may return to those of you who escaped and are left from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

When I wept in my soul with fasting,
It became my reproach.

Let my shoulder fall from the socket,
And my arm be broken off at the elbow.

If I have lifted up my hand against the orphan,
Because I saw I had support in the gate,

Behold, God is my helper;
The Lord is the sustainer of my soul.

All these were under the direction of their father to sing in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, harps and lyres, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the direction of the king.

But Amasa was not on guard against the sword which was in Joab’s hand so he struck him in the belly with it and poured out his inward parts on the ground, and did not strike him again, and he died. Then Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri.

So that they caused the cry of the poor to come to Him,
And that He might hear the cry of the afflicted—

“Who gave Him authority over the earth?
And who has laid on Him the whole world?

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.

They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs and seven male goats for a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah. And he ordered the priests, the sons of Aaron, to offer them on the altar of the Lord.

Every work which he began in the service of the house of God in law and in commandment, seeking his God, he did with all his heart and prospered.

a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh cords that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any other man.”

So Gad came to David and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Take for yourself

So he served Baal and worshiped him and provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger, according to all that his father had done.

Did I just begin to inquire of God for him today? Far be it from me! Do not let the king impute anything to his servant or to any of the household of my father, for your servant knows nothing at all of this whole affair.”

‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your most beautiful wives and children are also mine.’”

And the sons of Israel heard it said, “Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the sons of Israel.”

and you shall have a spade among your tools, and it shall be when you sit down outside, you shall dig with it and shall turn to cover up your excrement.

Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king’s highway, not turning to the right or left, until we pass through your territory.’”

From the tribe of Gad, they gave Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

But if they are from a month even up to five years old, then your valuation shall be five shekels of silver for the male, and for the female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.

You shall put this altar in front of the veil that is near the ark of the testimony, in front of the mercy seat that is over the ark of the testimony, where I will meet with you.

This is the contribution which you are to raise from them: gold, silver and bronze,

They do not know, nor do they understand, for He has smeared over their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot comprehend.

You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs one year old, having them without defect.

But the flesh of the bull and its hide and its refuse, you shall burn with fire outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, at the border of Moab.

Moses spoke to the sons of Israel in accordance with all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

Its length shall be a cubit, and its width a cubit, it shall be square, and its height shall be two cubits; its horns shall be of one piece with it.

The Lord protects the strangers;
He supports the fatherless and the widow,
But He thwarts the way of the wicked.

But if a man eats a holy gift unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it and shall give the holy gift to the priest.

If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

“The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers;
Your wise men, O Tyre, were aboard; they were your pilots.

To Sarah he said, “Behold, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is your vindication before all who are with you, and before all men you are cleared.”

In a dispute they shall take their stand to judge; they shall judge it according to My ordinances. They shall also keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed feasts and sanctify My sabbaths.

Because you have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things, behold, I in turn will bring your conduct down on your own head,” declares the Lord God, “so that you will not commit this lewdness on top of all your other abominations.

So I will calm My fury against you and My jealousy will depart from you, and I will be pacified and angry no more.

For thus the Lord has told me,
“I will look from My dwelling place quietly
Like dazzling heat in the sunshine,
Like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved them and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

And you will defile your graven images overlaid with silver, and your molten images plated with gold. You will scatter them as an impure thing, and say to them, “Be gone!”

For the Lord God of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion
In the valley of vision,
A breaking down of walls
And a crying to the mountain.

Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in prison, for he was enraged at him for this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;
The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

She looked, and behold, the king was standing by his pillar at the entrance, and the captains and the trumpeters were beside the king. And all the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets, the singers with their musical instruments leading the praise. Then Athaliah tore her clothes and said, “Treason! Treason!”

“On the cliff he dwells and lodges,
Upon the rocky crag, an inaccessible place.

“He provides them with security, and they are supported;
And His eyes are on their ways.

You shall furnish him liberally from your flock and from your threshing floor and from your wine vat; you shall give to him as the Lord your God has blessed you.

Of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai, the Gileadite, and was named after them.

I will be his father and he shall be My son; and I will not take My lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him who was before you.

After this Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem while he was besieging Lachish with all his forces with him, against Hezekiah king of Judah and against all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

King David also dedicated these to the Lord with the silver and the gold which he had carried away from all the nations: from Edom, Moab, the sons of Ammon, the Philistines, and from Amalek.

Then David ran and stood over the Philistine and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

So she went from him and shut the door behind her and her sons; they were bringing the vessels to her and she poured.

The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord; they are to be holy to the Lord for the priest.

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel with the women and the little ones and the strangers who were living among them.

Now when the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul,

“Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

All the skilled women spun with their hands, and brought what they had spun, in blue and purple and scarlet material and in fine linen.

“However, if she should marry while under her vows or the rash statement of her lips by which she has bound herself,

This is the thing that you shall do: you shall utterly destroy every man and every woman who has lain with a man.”

and the Negev and the plain in the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

“But if the priest shall look, and indeed the mark has not spread in the garment, either in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather,

You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.

“No, my lord, hear me; I give you the field, and I give you the cave that is in it. In the presence of the sons of my people I give it to you; bury your dead.”

“Take the millstones and grind meal.
Remove your veil, strip off the skirt,
Uncover the leg, cross the rivers.

Because the palace has been abandoned, the populated city forsaken.
Hill and watch-tower have become caves forever,
A delight for wild donkeys, a pasture for flocks;

In that day the Egyptians will become like women, and they will tremble and be in dread because of the waving of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He is going to wave over them.

It shall be made from a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils.

“Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold I will arouse your lovers against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side:

Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;
Sing praises to our God on the lyre,

On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.

Bring water for the thirsty,
O inhabitants of the land of Tema,
Meet the fugitive with bread.

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

“He covers His hands with the lightning,
And commands it to strike the mark.

Gird Your sword on Your thigh, O Mighty One,
In Your splendor and Your majesty!

“He explores the mountains for his pasture
And searches after every green thing.

So I reprimanded the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” Then I gathered them together and restored them to their posts.

For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.

But King Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, prayed about this and cried out to heaven.

“I will instruct you in the power of God;
What is with the Almighty I will not conceal.

Nevertheless the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem, but they ate unleavened bread among their brothers.

the fourth to Izri, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

For through the anger of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah until He cast them out from His presence. And Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

the ninth for Jeshua, the tenth for Shecaniah,

These twenty years I have been in your house; I served you fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flock, and you changed my wages ten times.

So the prophet took up the body of the man of God and laid it on the donkey and brought it back, and he came to the city of the old prophet to mourn and to bury him.

Now when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the spoil to the elders of Judah, to his friends, saying, “Behold, a gift for you from the spoil of the enemies of the Lord:

A clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent and on all the furnishings and on the persons who were there, and on the one who touched the bone or the one slain or the one dying naturally or the grave.

To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

and they put him in custody because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

‘I will heap misfortunes on them;
I will use My arrows on them.

You shall consecrate the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the heave offering which was waved and which was offered from the ram of ordination, from the one which was for Aaron and from the one which was for his sons.

And the Lord gave them rest on every side, according to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood before them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hand.

Aram was your customer because of the abundance of your goods; they paid for your wares with emeralds, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral and rubies.

It shall be square and folded double, a span in length and a span in width.

Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her elder son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.

Did he not himself say to me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ In the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands I have done this.”

“Gather together and hear, O sons of Jacob;
And listen to Israel your father.

and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

For each time I speak, I cry aloud;
I proclaim violence and destruction,
Because for me the word of the Lord has resulted
In reproach and derision all day long.

and he drove away all his livestock and all his property which he had gathered, his acquired livestock which he had gathered in Paddan-aram, to go to the land of Canaan to his father Isaac.

The sons of Dedan were your traders. Many coastlands were your market; ivory tusks and ebony they brought as your payment.

Are we not reckoned by him as foreigners? For he has sold us, and has also entirely consumed our purchase price.

My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

“Make your baggage ready for exile,
O daughter dwelling in Egypt,
For Memphis will become a desolation;
It will even be burned down and bereft of inhabitants.

therefore, behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the valley of Ben-hinnom, but rather the valley of Slaughter.

“But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
And her people for gladness.

Though a host encamp against me,
My heart will not fear;
Though war arise against me,
In spite of this I shall be confident.

“I will winnow them with a winnowing fork
At the gates of the land;
I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people;
They did not repent of their ways.

And were on many waters.
The grain of the Nile, the harvest of the River was her revenue;
And she was the market of nations.

When the wicked increase, transgression increases;
But the righteous will see their fall.

“For truly my words are not false;
One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

He fought also with the king of the Ammonites and prevailed over them so that the Ammonites gave him during that year one hundred talents of silver, ten thousand kors of wheat and ten thousand of barley. The Ammonites also paid him this amount in the second and in the third year.

Thus we came to Jerusalem and remained there three days.

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

Then Jehoiada the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and the large and small shields which had been King David’s, which were in the house of God.

The king said to him, “Do as he has spoken and fall upon him and bury him, that you may remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without cause.

But let no one enter the house of the Lord except the priests and the ministering Levites; they may enter, for they are holy. And let all the people keep the charge of the Lord.

So he said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money; or else, if it pleases you, I will give you a vineyard in its place.’ But he said, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’”

But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives, what my God says, that I will speak.”

of the sons of Uzziel, Amminadab the chief, and 112 of his relatives.

The remnant of the sodomites who remained in the days of his father Asa, he expelled from the land.

for he said, ‘Please let me go, since our family has a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has commanded me to attend. And now, if I have found favor in your sight, please let me get away that I may see my brothers.’ For this reason he has not come to the king’s table.”

except for his relatives who are nearest to him, his mother and his father and his son and his daughter and his brother,

So Achish gave him Ziklag that day; therefore Ziklag has belonged to the kings of Judah to this day.

On the seventh day the priest shall look at the infection, and if the scale has not spread and no yellowish hair has grown in it, and the appearance of the scale is no deeper than the skin,

I have not eaten of it while mourning, nor have I removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of the Lord my God; I have done according to all that You have commanded me.

It shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the Lord’s offerings by fire, his portion forever.”

I adorned you with ornaments, put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.

“The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, that in them they may be anointed and ordained.

All these were the cities of the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was twelve cities.

and say to Tyre, who dwells at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“O Tyre, you have said, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

But they said, “Should he treat our sister as a harlot?”

“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

The man shapes iron into a cutting tool and does his work over the coals, fashioning it with hammers and working it with his strong arm. He also gets hungry and his strength fails; he drinks no water and becomes weary.

“So My hand will be against the prophets who see false visions and utter lying divinations. They will have no place in the council of My people, nor will they be written down in the register of the house of Israel, nor will they enter the land of Israel, that you may know that I am the Lord God.

The sons of Heth answered Abraham, saying to him,

but he will say, ‘I am not a prophet; I am a tiller of the ground, for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.’

say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand.”’

Break forth, shout joyfully together,
You waste places of Jerusalem;
For the Lord has comforted His people,
He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Then he brought me to the nave and measured the side pillars; six cubits wide on each side was the width of the side pillar.

“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Say, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, took its king and princes and brought them to him in Babylon.

Nor do they lie beside the fallen heroes of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were laid under their heads; but the punishment for their iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these heroes was once in the land of the living.

And the Lord has sent to you all His servants the prophets again and again, but you have not listened nor inclined your ear to hear,

then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set glory in the land of the living.

“Surely every man walks about as a phantom;
Surely they make an uproar for nothing;
He amasses riches and does not know who will gather them.

The shephanim are not mighty people,
Yet they make their houses in the rocks;

There is no one like You among the gods, O Lord,
Nor are there any works like Yours.

and for the service for the house of God they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, and 10,000 talents of silver, and 18,000 talents of brass, and 100,000 talents of iron.

That He may turn man aside from his conduct,
And keep man from pride;

So Job opens his mouth emptily;
He multiplies words without knowledge.”

Then I gave an order and they cleansed the rooms; and I returned there the utensils of the house of God with the grain offerings and the frankincense.

And his anger burned against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

and the priests, Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah and Hananiah, with the trumpets;

He appointed judges in the land in all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city.

The sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses had commanded according to the word of the Lord.

of the sons of Elizaphan, Shemaiah the chief, and 200 of his relatives;

If he withdraws into a city, then all Israel shall bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the valley until not even a small stone is found there.”

And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom; take your lord’s servants and pursue him, so that he does not find for himself fortified cities and escape from our sight.”

You are my brothers; you are my bone and my flesh. Why then should you be the last to bring back the king?’

‘Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

“Our father died in the wilderness, yet he was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah; but he died in his own sin, and he had no sons.

We made a raid on the Negev of the Cherethites, and on that which belongs to Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire.”

Saul listened to the voice of Jonathan, and Saul vowed, “As the Lord lives, he shall not be put to death.”

When they were near Jebus, the day was almost gone; and the servant said to his master, “Please come, and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it.”

Then 3,000 men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam and said to Samson, “Do you not know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?” And he said to them, “As they did to me, so I have done to them.”

Now his master saw that the Lord was with him and how the Lord caused all that he did to prosper in his hand.

For you will heap burning coals on his head,
And the Lord will reward you.

“Edom shall be a possession,
Seir, its enemies, also will be a possession,
While Israel performs valiantly.

He shall not defile himself as a relative by marriage among his people, and so profane himself.

As they journeyed, there was a great terror upon the cities which were around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.

The Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up;
His sin is stored up.

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“That I will cause a trumpet blast of war to be heard
Against Rabbah of the sons of Ammon;
And it will become a desolate heap,
And her towns will be set on fire.
Then Israel will take possession of his possessors,”
Says the Lord.

What man can live and not see death?
Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory,
But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.

They shall eagerly utter the memory of Your abundant goodness
And will shout joyfully of Your righteousness.

“Lay your hand on him;
Remember the battle; you will not do it again!

They go from strength to strength,
Every one of them appears before God in Zion.

His prayer also and how God was entreated by him, and all his sin, his unfaithfulness, and the sites on which he built high places and erected the Asherim and the carved images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the records of the Hozai.

The lot to the east fell to Shelemiah. Then they cast lots for his son Zechariah, a counselor with insight, and his lot came out to the north.

Meshelemiah had sons and relatives, 18 valiant men.

God was displeased with this thing, so He struck Israel.

They went out at noon, while Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the temporary shelters with the thirty-two kings who helped him.

David took the shields of gold which were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

When he taunted Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.

These, recorded by name, came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and attacked their tents and the Meunites who were found there, and destroyed them utterly to this day, and lived in their place, because there was pasture there for their flocks.

So David and his men went to Keilah and fought with the Philistines; and he led away their livestock and struck them with a great slaughter. Thus David delivered the inhabitants of Keilah.

They went up and camped at Kiriath-jearim in Judah. Therefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kiriath-jearim.

Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers westward beyond the Jordan. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.

You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother; you shall not approach his wife, she is your aunt.

and all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

‘Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
Both young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.

This is what the Lord has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, ‘Let them marry whom they wish; only they must marry within the family of the tribe of their father.’

The Lord will do to them just as He did to Sihon and Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, when He destroyed them.

It is the Lord your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the Lord has spoken.

On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.

nor shall he go out of the sanctuary nor profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him; I am the Lord.

across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel defeated when they came out from Egypt.

Laban also gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid.

Say to them, ‘If any man among all your descendants throughout your generations approaches the holy gifts which the sons of Israel dedicate to the Lord, while he has an uncleanness, that person shall be cut off from before Me; I am the Lord.

For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received theirs according to their fathers’ households, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers’ households, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their possession.

‘Let every skillful man among you come, and make all that the Lord has commanded:

Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “I will go.”

“My lord, listen to me; a piece of land worth four hundred shekels of silver, what is that between me and you? So bury your dead.”

All who went out of the gate of his city listened to Hamor and to his son Shechem, and every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

chief Kenaz, chief Teman, chief Mibzar,

The Babylonians came to her to the bed of love and defiled her with their harlotry. And when she had been defiled by them, she became disgusted with them.

He also chose David His servant
And took him from the sheepfolds;

When it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob had fled,

Ethiopia, Put, Lud, all Arabia, Libya and the people of the land that is in league will fall with them by the sword.”

So Esau saw that the daughters of Canaan displeased his father Isaac;

Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I am going to give over Pharaoh Hophra king of Egypt to the hand of his enemies, to the hand of those who seek his life, just as I gave over Zedekiah king of Judah to the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who was his enemy and was seeking his life.’”

And the king commanded Jerahmeel the king’s son, Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet, but the Lord hid them.

But now the Lord speaks, saying, “Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and impotent.”

the men, the women, the children, the king’s daughters and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, together with Jeremiah the prophet and Baruch the son of Neriah—

“Yet you have not called on Me, O Jacob;
But you have become weary of Me, O Israel.

‘Ask now, and see
If a male can give birth.
Why do I see every man
With his hands on his loins, as a woman in childbirth?
And why have all faces turned pale?

“When she lifts herself on high,
She laughs at the horse and his rider.

And He called for a famine upon the land;
He broke the whole staff of bread.

Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel,
Who alone works wonders.

“Now men do not see the light which is bright in the skies;
But the wind has passed and cleared them.

“For Job has said, ‘I am righteous,
But God has taken away my right;

Then King Hezekiah arose early and assembled the princes of the city and went up to the house of the Lord.

The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.

“Thus it is hidden from the eyes of all living
And concealed from the birds of the sky.

Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor to do wickedly.

It came about on the next day when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

As the king passed by, he cried to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the midst of the battle; and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

The Ammonites also gave tribute to Uzziah, and his fame extended to the border of Egypt, for he became very strong.

and you shall offer as the drink offering one-half a hin of wine as an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to the Lord.

the third for Harim, the fourth for Seorim,

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be spared?

There were three gates on the east and three gates on the north and three gates on the south and three gates on the west.

He was deeply attracted to Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the girl and spoke tenderly to her.

Thus Zimri destroyed all the household of Baasha, according to the word of the Lord, which He spoke against Baasha through Jehu the prophet,

and the priest shall offer them, one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf before the Lord because of his discharge.

For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man shall covet your land when you go up three times a year to appear before the Lord your God.

They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they enter the tent of meeting, or when they approach the altar to minister in the holy place, so that they do not incur guilt and die. It shall be a statute forever to him and to his descendants after him.

Now let Pharaoh look for a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt.

From the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture lands,

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

And they began laughing at Him, knowing that she had died.

I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,” declares the Lord God.

Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with lovingkindness and compassion;

therefore thus says the Lord God, “I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off man and beast from it. And I will lay it waste; from Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;

For the destroyer is coming against her, against Babylon,
And her mighty men will be captured,
Their bows are shattered;
For the Lord is a God of recompense,
He will fully repay.

I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place, and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies and by the hand of those who seek their life; and I will give over their carcasses as food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

“Their nobles have sent their servants for water;
They have come to the cisterns and found no water.
They have returned with their vessels empty;
They have been put to shame and humiliated,
And they cover their heads.

And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.

Now Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were in the field came to Gedaliah at Mizpah

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, ‘I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon.

Therefore thus says the Lord, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob:
“Jacob shall not now be ashamed, nor shall his face now turn pale;

Neither have I learned wisdom,
Nor do I have the knowledge of the Holy One.

“He scorns the tumult of the city,
The shoutings of the driver he does not hear.

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds,
So that an abundance of water will cover you?

“I would learn the words which He would answer,
And perceive what He would say to me.

So all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and Nehemiah gave the portions due the singers and the gatekeepers as each day required, and set apart the consecrated portion for the Levites, and the Levites set apart the consecrated portion for the sons of Aaron.

I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, so that they may dwell in their own place and not be moved again; and the wicked will not waste them anymore as formerly,

to establish these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.

It was very displeasing to me, so I threw all of Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord.

“Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, ‘What is this unfaithful act which you have committed against the God of Israel, turning away from following the Lord this day, by building yourselves an altar, to rebel against the Lord this day?

then you shall select for yourselves cities to be your cities of refuge, that the manslayer who has killed any person unintentionally may flee there.

The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a bronze capital was on it; the height of the capital was three cubits, with a network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these with network.

So shall their blood return on the head of Joab and on the head of his descendants forever; but to David and his descendants and his house and his throne, may there be peace from the Lord forever.”

Moreover, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot and led Judah astray.

Yet the Lord was not willing to destroy the house of David because of the covenant which He had made with David, and since He had promised to give a lamp to him and his sons forever.

then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.

Judah was defeated by Israel, and they fled each to his tent.

So look, and learn about all the hiding places where he hides himself and return to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”

From there it continued eastward toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin, and it proceeded to Rimmon which stretches to Neah.

They did not find any, even though many false witnesses came forward. But later on two came forward,

Thus you are to keep My charge, that you do not practice any of the abominable customs which have been practiced before you, so as not to defile yourselves with them; I am the Lord your God.’”

and write Aaron’s name on the rod of Levi; for there is one rod for the head of each of their fathers’ households.

Outside the veil of testimony in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall keep it in order from evening to morning before the Lord continually; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations.

and you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.

But he denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know Him.”

and you shall say, ‘Behold, your servant Jacob also is behind us.’” For he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me. Then afterward I will see his face; perhaps he will accept me.”

Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, certainly she is your wife! How then did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘I might die on account of her.’”

Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their calamity, at the time of the punishment of the end,

“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her

“The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights;
They pant for air like jackals,
Their eyes fail
For there is no vegetation.

“I bring near My righteousness, it is not far off;
And My salvation will not delay.
And I will grant salvation in Zion,
And My glory for Israel.

“Go and say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of your father David, “I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Can your heart endure, or can your hands be strong in the days that I will deal with you? I, the Lord, have spoken and will act.

Will you judge them, will you judge them, son of man? Make them know the abominations of their fathers;

Therefore, a curse devours the earth, and those who live in it are held guilty. Therefore, the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men are left.

“For thus says the Lord,
‘I have heard a sound of terror,
Of dread, and there is no peace.

“You have not heard, you have not known.
Even from long ago your ear has not been open,
Because I knew that you would deal very treacherously;
And you have been called a rebel from birth.

For thus says the Lord, “Do not enter a house of mourning, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares the Lord, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

Let the righteous smite me in kindness and reprove me;
It is oil upon the head;
Do not let my head refuse it,
For still my prayer is against their wicked deeds.

God has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there is anyone who understands,
Who seeks after God.

To You they cried out and were delivered;
In You they trusted and were not disappointed.

He has said, “You shall exult no more, O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, pass over to Cyprus; even there you will find no rest.”

God reigns over the nations,
God sits on His holy throne.

Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
With the saving strength of His right hand.

That Your way may be known on the earth,
Your salvation among all nations.

They open wide their mouth at me,
As a ravening and a roaring lion.

From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds,
Hailstones and coals of fire.

“From there he spies out food;
His eyes see it from afar.

“Will you trust him because his strength is great
And leave your labor to him?

“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

“Your wickedness is for a man like yourself,
And your righteousness is for a son of man.

“I chose a way for them and sat as chief,
And dwelt as a king among the troops,
As one who comforted the mourners.

When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

Joash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, “The thorn bush which was in Lebanon sent to the cedar which was in Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son in marriage.’ But there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon and trampled the thorn bush.

all the valiant men rose and walked all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there.

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which his father Jehoiada had shown him, but he murdered his son. And as he died he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

Now it came about after this that Joash decided to restore the house of the Lord.

Then all the people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to Aaron.

He is the Lord our God;
His judgments are in all the earth.

and He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Then the Gibeonites said to him, “We have no concern of silver or gold with Saul or his house, nor is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” And he said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

But all Israel and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them.

Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Do this: take censers for yourselves, Korah and all your company,

“Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
So that it became your distinguishing mark;
Your awning was blue and purple from the coastlands of Elishah.

Also God returned all the wickedness of the men of Shechem on their heads, and the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal came upon them.

you shall take five shekels apiece, per head; you shall take them in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary (the shekel is twenty gerahs),

The sons of Israel captured the women of Midian and their little ones; and all their cattle and all their flocks and all their goods they plundered.

They said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a disgrace to us.

The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600. They shall set out last by their standards.”

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, “I will make a violent wind break out in My wrath. There will also be in My anger a flooding rain and hailstones to consume it in wrath.

so that he will not profane his offspring among his people; for I am the Lord who sanctifies him.’”

Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise, break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris into the water.

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to Baruch the son of Neriah, the scribe, and he wrote on it at the dictation of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and many similar words were added to them.

I will make them a terror and an evil for all the kingdoms of the earth, as a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse in all places where I will scatter them.

He sends forth springs in the valleys;
They flow between the mountains;

“Yet you said, ‘I will be a queen forever.’
These things you did not consider
Nor remember the outcome of them.

Now these are the words which the Lord spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah:

The Lord said, “Surely I will set you free for purposes of good;
Surely I will cause the enemy to make supplication to you
In a time of disaster and a time of distress.

My soul weeps because of grief;
Strengthen me according to Your word.

“You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
And the storm will scatter them;
But you will rejoice in the Lord,
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

“Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“Now I will be exalted, now I will be lifted up.

Then the lookout called,
“O Lord, I stand continually by day on the watchtower,
And I am stationed every night at my guard post.

Let his children be fatherless
And his wife a widow.

Israel also came into Egypt;
Thus Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.

For I have said, “Lovingkindness will be built up forever;
In the heavens You will establish Your faithfulness.”

For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings I sing for joy.

O Lord, I love the habitation of Your house
And the place where Your glory dwells.

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took the captives, and they clothed all their naked ones from the spoil; and they gave them clothes and sandals, fed them and gave them drink, anointed them with oil, led all their feeble ones on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers; then they returned to Samaria.

So the men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent word to them, just as it was written in the letters which she had sent them.

‘Hear, now, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me.’

They sacrificed to the Lord that day 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep from the spoil they had brought.

“On the right hand their brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

She took the pan and dished them out before him, but he refused to eat. And Amnon said, “Have everyone go out from me.” So everyone went out from him.

“How much less when you say you do not behold Him,
The case is before Him, and you must wait for Him!

For Obed-edom it fell to the south, and to his sons went the storehouse.

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.

the seventh to Jesharelah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

Then two hundred men went with Absalom from Jerusalem, who were invited and went innocently, and they did not know anything.

Eliel and Obed and Jaasiel the Mezobaite.

He brought into the house of the Lord the dedicated things of his father and his own dedicated things: silver and gold and utensils.

So the king said, “Whoever speaks to you, bring him to me, and he will not touch you anymore.”

Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

Joab replied, “Far be it, far be it from me that I should swallow up or destroy!

But if her father should forbid her on the day he hears of it, none of her vows or her obligations by which she has bound herself shall stand; and the Lord will forgive her because her father had forbidden her.

Saul said, “Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.

I am weak today, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah are too difficult for me. May the Lord repay the evildoer according to his evil.”

Her father said, “I really thought that you hated her intensely; so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please let her be yours instead.”

These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those who were numbered of them, 32,500. These are the sons of Joseph according to their families.

and all the villages which were around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Simeon according to their families.

And lo, from the Nile there came up seven cows, sleek and fat; and they grazed in the marsh grass.

“Nevertheless Kain will be consumed;
How long will Asshur keep you captive?”

But if a priest’s daughter becomes a widow or divorced, and has no child and returns to her father’s house as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s food; but no layman shall eat of it.

He shall not eat an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, becoming unclean by it; I am the Lord.

Also the tree of the field will yield its fruit and the earth will yield its increase, and they will be secure on their land. Then they will know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and have delivered them from the hand of those who enslaved them.

The priest shall look, and if the scab has spread on the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is leprosy.

This is the service of the families of the sons of Merari, according to all their service in the tent of meeting, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.”

Ask me ever so much bridal payment and gift, and I will give according as you say to me; but give me the girl in marriage.”

and the seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said, then there was famine in all the lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

I signed and sealed the deed, and called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.

Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he did not let the sons of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.

‘The cedars in God’s garden could not match it;
The cypresses could not compare with its boughs,
And the plane trees could not match its branches.
No tree in God’s garden could compare with it in its beauty.

“Behold, you fast for contention and strife and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like you do today to make your voice heard on high.

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and, behold, it has not been bound up for healing or wrapped with a bandage, that it may be strong to hold the sword.

For our transgressions are multiplied before You,
And our sins testify against us;
For our transgressions are with us,
And we know our iniquities:

‘Thus says the Lord God, “Because Moab and Seir say, ‘Behold, the house of Judah is like all the nations,’

He who vindicates Me is near;
Who will contend with Me?
Let us stand up to each other;
Who has a case against Me?
Let him draw near to Me.

O Lord, Your hand is lifted up yet they do not see it.
They see Your zeal for the people and are put to shame;
Indeed, fire will devour Your enemies.

Go up, you horses, and drive madly, you chariots,
That the mighty men may march forward:
Ethiopia and Put, that handle the shield,
And the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.

To make their land a desolation,
An object of perpetual hissing;
Everyone who passes by it will be astonished
And shake his head.

Was it not You who dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
Who made the depths of the sea a pathway
For the redeemed to cross over?

Let them give glory to the Lord
And declare His praise in the coastlands.