The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
He will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

O Lord of hosts,
How blessed is the man who trusts in You!

“Shall He recompense on your terms, because you have rejected it?
For you must choose, and not I;
Therefore declare what you know.

He also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar who had made him swear allegiance by God. But he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart against turning to the Lord God of Israel.

Let my judgment come forth from Your presence;
Let Your eyes look with equity.

Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok said to him, “Since the contributions began to be brought into the house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat with plenty left over, for the Lord has blessed His people, and this great quantity is left over.”

the sons of Asnah, the sons of Meunim, the sons of Nephisim,

But I am not silenced by the darkness,
Nor deep gloom which covers me.

In the cities of Manasseh, Ephraim, Simeon, even as far as Naphtali, in their surrounding ruins,

He also removed the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. And the kingdom was undisturbed under him.

for the sons of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; for the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;

David said to Gad, “I am in great distress; please let me fall into the hand of the Lord, for His mercies are very great. But do not let me fall into the hand of man.”

the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

Then they sent word to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned and is dead.”

The sons of Jehieli, Zetham and Joel his brother, had charge of the treasures of the house of the Lord.

the thirteenth for Huppah, the fourteenth for Jeshebeab,

nor let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,

the son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,

Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.

These things Benaiah the son of Jehoiada did, and had a name as well as the three mighty men.

Micah said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going to stay wherever I may find a place.”

So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

But if her husband indeed annuls them on the day he hears them, then whatever proceeds out of her lips concerning her vows or concerning the obligation of herself shall not stand; her husband has annulled them, and the Lord will forgive her.

The rest of the sons of Kohath received ten cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from the half-tribe of Manasseh.

The inheritance of the sons of Simeon was taken from the portion of the sons of Judah, for the share of the sons of Judah was too large for them; so the sons of Simeon received an inheritance in the midst of Judah’s inheritance.

We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan.”

And one male goat for a sin offering to the Lord; it shall be offered with its drink offering in addition to the continual burnt offering.

For the width of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits with their ten pillars and their ten sockets.

This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering and the sin offering and the guilt offering and the ordination offering and the sacrifice of peace offerings,

For I have taken the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution from the sons of Israel from the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them to Aaron the priest and to his sons as their due forever from the sons of Israel.

He replied, “Must I not be careful to speak what the Lord puts in my mouth?”

You shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth around it; and you shall make a gold border for the rim around it.

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up out of your graves, My people.

Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob and their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

For I was in fact kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing that they should have put me into the dungeon.”

So he put them all together in prison for three days.

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.

The mighty men of Babylon have ceased fighting,
They stay in the strongholds;
Their strength is exhausted,
They are becoming like women;
Their dwelling places are set on fire,
The bars of her gates are broken.

‘Thus says the Lord,
“Indeed, those who support Egypt will fall
And the pride of her power will come down;
From Migdol to Syene
They will fall within her by the sword,”
Declares the Lord God.

then you shall say, ‘These belong to your servant Jacob; it is a present sent to my lord Esau. And behold, he also is behind us.’”

“Behold, one will come up like a lion from the thicket of the Jordan to a perennially watered pasture; for in an instant I will make them run away from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it. For who is like Me, and who will summon Me into court? And who then is the shepherd who can stand before Me?”

It will come about at the end of seventy years that the Lord will visit Tyre. Then she will go back to her harlot’s wages and will play the harlot with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.

Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

For thus says the Lord God, “My people went down at the first into Egypt to reside there; then the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

It is like the dew of Hermon
Coming down upon the mountains of Zion;
For there the Lord commanded the blessing—life forever. Cross references: Psalm 133:1 : Gen 13:8; Heb 13:1 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 29:7; 30:25, 30; Lev 8:12 Psalm 133:2 : Ex 28:33; 39:24 Psalm 133:3 : Prov 19:12; Hos 14:5; Mic 5:7 Psalm 133:3 : Deut 3:9; 4:48 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 48:2; 74:2; 78:68 Psalm 133:3 : Lev 25:21; Deut 28:8; Ps 42:8 Psalm 133:3 : Ps 21:4 end of crossrefs

You are the God who works wonders;
You have made known Your strength among the peoples.

Deal with them as with Midian,
As with Sisera and Jabin at the torrent of Kishon,

He gives great deliverance to His king,
And shows lovingkindness to His anointed,
To David and his descendants forever.

Truth springs from the earth,
And righteousness looks down from heaven.

He delivered me from my strong enemy,
And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.

Which I have reserved for the time of distress,
For the day of war and battle?

God has ascended with a shout,
The Lord, with the sound of a trumpet.

Because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His words against this place and against its inhabitants, and because you humbled yourself before Me, tore your clothes and wept before Me, I truly have heard you,” declares the Lord.

While the whole assembly worshiped, the singers also sang and the trumpets sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

“But you were full of judgment on the wicked;
Judgment and justice take hold of you.

At the Fountain Gate they went directly up the steps of the city of David by the stairway of the wall above the house of David to the Water Gate on the east.

This is the thing which you shall do: one third of you, of the priests and Levites who come in on the sabbath, shall be gatekeepers,

behold, the Lord is going to strike your people, your sons, your wives and all your possessions with a great calamity;

Ezri the son of Chelub had charge of the agricultural workers who tilled the soil.

The son of Gershom was Shebuel the chief.

So when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with David and served him. Thus the Arameans were not willing to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

Then he put garrisons in Edom, and all the Edomites became servants to David. And the Lord helped David wherever he went.

When it was told David, he gathered all Israel together and crossed the Jordan, and came upon them and drew up in formation against them. And when David drew up in battle array against the Arameans, they fought against him.

These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites according to their generations, chief men, who lived in Jerusalem.

‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

and from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its pasture lands, Allemeth with its pasture lands, and Anathoth with its pasture lands. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

the son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,

So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city, and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

When Saul saw that he was prospering greatly, he dreaded him.

only the gold and the silver, the bronze, the iron, the tin and the lead,

The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord.”

But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;

also for his virgin sister, who is near to him because she has had no husband; for her he may defile himself.

Then Joseph said to him, “This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days;

Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”

She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her.

And he said, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he said, “I am.”

and the man became rich, and continued to grow richer until he became very wealthy;

This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate ordered it to be given to him.

Who covers the heavens with clouds,
Who provides rain for the earth,
Who makes grass to grow on the mountains.

It was carved with cherubim and palm trees; and a palm tree was between cherub and cherub, and every cherub had two faces,

Dedan traded with you in saddlecloths for riding.

Then the nations that are left round about you will know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken and will do it.”

As I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘Surely in the country of the king who put him on the throne, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, in Babylon he shall die.

Behold, though it is planted, will it thrive? Will it not completely wither as soon as the east wind strikes it—wither on the beds where it grew?”’”

because they rejected My ordinances, and as for My statutes, they did not walk in them; they even profaned My sabbaths, for their heart continually went after their idols.

“How the hammer of the whole earth
Has been cut off and broken!
How Babylon has become
An object of horror among the nations!

“If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave gleanings?
If thieves came by night,
They would destroy only until they had enough.

Therefore I declared them to you long ago,
Before they took place I proclaimed them to you,
So that you would not say, ‘My idol has done them,
And my graven image and my molten image have commanded them.’

For all the tables are full of filthy vomit, without a single clean place.

They made a calf in Horeb
And worshiped a molten image.

May he come down like rain upon the mown grass,
Like showers that water the earth.

Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were in Mizpah, the king’s daughters and all the people who were left in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard had put under the charge of Gedaliah the son of Ahikam; thus Ishmael the son of Nethaniah took them captive and proceeded to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

They also provoked Him to wrath at the waters of Meribah,
So that it went hard with Moses on their account;

My mouth shall tell of Your righteousness
And of Your salvation all day long;
For I do not know the sum of them.

Every one of them has turned aside; together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one.

For it flatters him in his own eyes
Concerning the discovery of his iniquity and the hatred of it.

To satisfy the waste and desolate land
And to make the seeds of grass to sprout?

Through God we shall do valiantly,
And it is He who will tread down our adversaries.

“I shall take no young bull out of your house
Nor male goats out of your folds.

All the temple servants and the sons of Solomon’s servants were 392.

As David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out from the threshing floor and prostrated himself before David with his face to the ground.

But David did not count those twenty years of age and under, because the Lord had said He would multiply Israel as the stars of heaven.

the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,

They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

The young men of the rulers of the provinces went out first; and Ben-hadad sent out and they told him, saying, “Men have come out from Samaria.”

“If the Lord your God enlarges your territory, just as He has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which He promised to give your fathers—

All the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”

and Me-jarkon and Rakkon, with the territory over against Joppa.

and Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

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

Joshua captured all these kings and their lands at one time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

“O Lord, bless his substance,
And accept the work of his hands;
Shatter the loins of those who rise up against him,
And those who hate him, so that they will not rise again.”

If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his nearest relative in his own family, and he shall possess it; and it shall be a statutory ordinance to the sons of Israel, just as the Lord commanded Moses.’”

how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear when you were faint and weary; and he did not fear God.

All the women whose heart stirred with a skill spun the goats’ hair.

of Ozni, the family of the Oznites; of Eri, the family of the Erites;

Thus for every piece of your property, you are to provide for the redemption of the land.

This is the law regarding the animal and the bird, and every living thing that moves in the waters and everything that swarms on the earth,

onyx stones and setting stones for the ephod and for the breastpiece.

My flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill; My flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth, and there was no one to search or seek for them.”’”

The two and a half tribes have received their possession across the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward toward the sunrising.”

Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’; and you would not listen? Now comes the reckoning for his blood.”

But his mother said to him, “Your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, get them for me.”

Then all the princes of the sea will go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

and the sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s maid: Dan and Naphtali;

So the present passed on before him, while he himself spent that night in the camp.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The broad wall of Babylon will be completely razed
And her high gates will be set on fire;
So the peoples will toil for nothing,
And the nations become exhausted only for fire.”

So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And in the morning I did as I was commanded.

“Nevertheless, I will restore their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, and along with them your own captivity,

Because he did not kill me before birth,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.

“As for the message that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you!

Then Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore to them and to their men, saying, “Do not be afraid of serving the Chaldeans; stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, that it may go well with you.

“Have you not observed what this people have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the Lord chose, He has rejected them’? Thus they despise My people, no longer are they as a nation in their sight.

“Your nakedness will be uncovered,
Your shame also will be exposed;
I will take vengeance and will not spare a man.”

And they brought Uriah from Egypt and led him to King Jehoiakim, who slew him with a sword and cast his dead body into the burial place of the common people.

“Put Me in remembrance, let us argue our case together;
State your cause, that you may be proved right.

Now in that day the glory of Jacob will fade,
And the fatness of his flesh will become lean.

The locusts have no king,
Yet all of them go out in ranks;

When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands,
You will be happy and it will be well with you.

“You have not brought to Me the sheep of your burnt offerings,
Nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices.
I have not burdened you with offerings,
Nor wearied you with incense.

Every day I will bless You,
And I will praise Your name forever and ever.

But You, O Lord, abide forever,
And Your name to all generations.

“But I would feed you with the finest of the wheat,
And with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”

And in Your majesty ride on victoriously,
For the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness;
Let Your right hand teach You awesome things.

I have not hidden Your righteousness within my heart;
I have spoken of Your faithfulness and Your salvation;
I have not concealed Your lovingkindness and Your truth from the great congregation.

Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord,
And grant us Your salvation.

The floods have lifted up, O Lord,
The floods have lifted up their voice,
The floods lift up their pounding waves.

Men of low degree are only vanity and men of rank are a lie;
In the balances they go up;
They are together lighter than breath.

Then certain persons went and told David about the men. And he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

if they return to You with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their enemies who have taken them captive, and pray to You toward their land which You have given to their fathers, the city which You have chosen, and the house which I have built for Your name;

Moreover, he built cities in the hill country of Judah, and he built fortresses and towers on the wooded hills.

“So I say, ‘Listen to me,
I too will tell what I think.’

Now then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the Lord; for the king of Israel has come out to search for a single flea, just as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”

But the troops whom Amaziah sent back from going with him to battle, raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon, and struck down 3,000 of them and plundered much spoil.

The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac.

She fell at his feet and said, “On me alone, my lord, be the blame. And please let your maidservant speak to you, and listen to the words of your maidservant.

Of the Gershonites were Ladan and Shimei.

The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “O my lord, the king, the iniquity is on me and my father’s house, but the king and his throne are guiltless.”

Now the five men who went to spy out the land went up and entered there, and took the graven image and the ephod and household idols and the molten image, while the priest stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

The one who burns it shall also wash his clothes in water and bathe his body in water, and shall be unclean until evening.

So they said to him, “No, but we will bind you fast and give you into their hands; yet surely we will not kill you.” Then they bound him with two new ropes and brought him up from the rock.

When the sun goes down you shall surely return the pledge to him, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you; and it will be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

Saul said, “May God do this to me and more also, for you shall surely die, Jonathan.”

nor did they show kindness to the household of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in accord with all the good that he had done to Israel.

‘You shall present these to the Lord at your appointed times, besides your votive offerings and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings and for your grain offerings and for your drink offerings and for your peace offerings.’”

But if he is poorer than your valuation, then he shall be placed before the priest and the priest shall value him; according to the means of the one who vowed, the priest shall value him.

He shall therefore tear down the house, its stones, and its timbers, and all the plaster of the house, and he shall take them outside the city to an unclean place.

When you have seen it, you too will be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother was;

The numbered men of the families of the sons of Merari by their families, by their fathers’ households,

“But if the scab spreads farther on the skin after he has shown himself to the priest for his cleansing, he shall appear again to the priest.

from thirty years and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered the service for work in the tent of meeting.

“A sword against their horses and against their chariots
And against all the foreigners who are in the midst of her,
And they will become women!
A sword against her treasures, and they will be plundered!

He measured on the east side with the measuring reed five hundred reeds by the measuring reed.

Thus says the Lord God, “Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!’ and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,’

“They will not take from you even a stone for a corner
Nor a stone for foundations,
But you will be desolate forever,” declares the Lord.

“Son of man, they who live in these waste places in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one, yet he possessed the land; so to us who are many the land has been given as a possession.’

And I will bring Israel back to his pasture and he will graze on Carmel and Bashan, and his desire will be satisfied in the hill country of Ephraim and Gilead.

Ishmael the son of Nethaniah and the ten men who were with him arose and struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, with the sword and put to death the one whom the king of Babylon had appointed over the land.

As I have watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to overthrow, to destroy and to bring disaster, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” declares the Lord.

He will fulfill the desire of those who fear Him;
He will also hear their cry and will save them.

Perhaps the house of Judah will hear all the calamity which I plan to bring on them, in order that every man will turn from his evil way; then I will forgive their iniquity and their sin.”

Even those who trust in their wealth
And boast in the abundance of their riches?

because of all the evil of the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah which they have done to provoke Me to anger—they, their kings, their leaders, their priests, their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah:
“You are like Gilead to Me,
Like the summit of Lebanon;
Yet most assuredly I will make you like a wilderness,
Like cities which are not inhabited.

“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart,
But you will cry out with a heavy heart,
And you will wail with a broken spirit.

Then those who sing as well as those who play the flutes shall say,
“All my springs of joy are in you.”

And roll you tightly like a ball,
To be cast into a vast country;
There you will die
And there your splendid chariots will be,
You shame of your master’s house.’

I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold;
I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me.

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.

Let all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;
And let those who love Your salvation say continually,
“Let God be magnified.”

Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich,
When the glory of his house is increased;

“Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you;
And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

The fourth for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him; and in his division were 24,000.

Let me sow and another eat,
And let my crops be uprooted.

“Behold, no fear of me should terrify you,
Nor should my pressure weigh heavily on you.

David slaughtered them from the twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode on camels and fled.

of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and 220 of his relatives;

And ten young men who carried Joab’s armor gathered around and struck Absalom and killed him.

According to all these words and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

that David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.

“The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father’s brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

and Nibshan and the City of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages.

Then the tribes of Israel sent men through the entire tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has taken place among you?

Then Abimelech remained at Arumah, but Zebul drove out Gaal and his relatives so that they could not remain in Shechem.

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

This is the law for the mark of leprosy in a garment of wool or linen, whether in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, for pronouncing it clean or unclean.

Then he examined it and said, “It is my son’s tunic. A wild beast has devoured him; Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”

from the firstborn of the sons of Israel he took the money in terms of the shekel of the sanctuary, 1,365.

the woven garments as well, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, with which to carry on their priesthood;

When Joseph saw his brothers he recognized them, but he disguised himself to them and spoke to them harshly. And he said to them, “Where have you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

No one recalls, nor is there knowledge or understanding to say, “I have burned half of it in the fire and also have baked bread over its coals. I roast meat and eat it. Then I make the rest of it into an abomination, I fall down before a block of wood!”

At the doorway of the tent of meeting, moreover, you shall remain day and night for seven days and keep the charge of the Lord, so that you will not die, for so I have been commanded.”

He related it to his father and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have had? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow ourselves down before you to the ground?”

For the material they had was sufficient and more than enough for all the work, to perform it.

Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than to give her to another man; stay with me.”

‘But it was plucked up in fury;
It was cast down to the ground;
And the east wind dried up its fruit.
Its strong branch was torn off
So that it withered;
The fire consumed it.

Judah spoke to him, however, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.’

“The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac,
I will give it to you,
And I will give the land to your descendants after you.”

Who has fashioned a god or cast an idol to no profit?

“So gladness and joy are taken away
From the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.
And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses;
No one will tread them with shouting,
The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

therefore, behold, I am going to deprive the flank of Moab of its cities, of its cities which are on its frontiers, the glory of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon and Kiriathaim,

that the kingdom might be in subjection, not exalting itself, but keeping his covenant that it might continue.

in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile 745 Jewish people; there were 4,600 persons in all.

and he will take Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” declares the Lord. “If you fight against the Chaldeans, you will not succeed”’?”

and they entered the land of Egypt (for they did not obey the voice of the Lord) and went in as far as Tahpanhes.

Then the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,

If Your law had not been my delight,
Then I would have perished in my affliction.

His speech was smoother than butter,
But his heart was war;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.

“My lovingkindness I will keep for him forever,
And My covenant shall be confirmed to him.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off;
Women come and make a fire with them,
For they are not a people of discernment,
Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them.
And their Creator will not be gracious to them.

My mouth is filled with Your praise
And with Your glory all day long.

Arouse Yourself, why do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.

Where are Your former lovingkindnesses, O Lord,
Which You swore to David in Your faithfulness?

O God, when You went forth before Your people,
When You marched through the wilderness, Selah.

My heart was hot within me,
While I was musing the fire burned;
Then I spoke with my tongue:

He shall receive a blessing from the Lord
And righteousness from the God of his salvation.

For those blessed by Him will inherit the land,
But those cursed by Him will be cut off.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,
From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,
And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;
They are satisfied with children,
And leave their abundance to their babes.

You will make them as a fiery oven in the time of your anger;
The Lord will swallow them up in His wrath,
And fire will devour them.

Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;

the sons of Giddel, the sons of Gahar, the sons of Reaiah,

He also appointed the king’s portion of his goods for the burnt offerings, namely, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths and for the new moons and for the fixed festivals, as it is written in the law of the Lord.

he decided with his officers and his warriors to cut off the supply of water from the springs which were outside the city, and they helped him.

So Edom revolted against Judah to this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time against his rule, because he had forsaken the Lord God of his fathers.

So Asa slept with his fathers, having died in the forty-first year of his reign.

The two pillars, the one sea, and the stands which Solomon had made for the house of the Lord—the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight.

On the same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, because there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings; for the bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to hold the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat of the peace offerings.

He said to her, “What is his form?” And she said, “An old man is coming up, and he is wrapped with a robe.” And Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground and did homage.

They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the time we were with them tending the sheep.

The sons of Mushi were three: Mahli, Eder and Jeremoth.

The sons of Hebron were Korah and Tappuah and Rekem and Shema.

Then she went in and fell at his feet and bowed herself to the ground, and she took up her son and went out.

But Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa from the highway into the field and threw a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

Then Abishai said to David, “Today God has delivered your enemy into your hand; now therefore, please let me strike him with the spear to the ground with one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh cords that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

For the battle there was spread over the whole countryside, and the forest devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.

And Saul built an altar to the Lord; it was the first altar that he built to the Lord.

Then the commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or rather these years, and I have found no fault in him from the day he deserted to me to this day?”

So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it, and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire.

and after them seven years of famine will come, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine will ravage the land.

Or if it is a female, then your valuation shall be thirty shekels.

and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their villages;

He said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have had;

Thus the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

They journeyed from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.

So she conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

But some of the poorest people who had nothing, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard left behind in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at that time.

‘And fire has gone out from its branch;
It has consumed its shoots and fruit,
So that there is not in it a strong branch,
A scepter to rule.’”
This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel:
“The daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor
At the time it is stamped firm;
Yet in a little while the time of harvest will come for her.”

‘Thus says the Lord God, “On the day when it went down to Sheol I caused lamentations; I closed the deep over it and held back its rivers. And its many waters were stopped up, and I made Lebanon mourn for it, and all the trees of the field wilted away on account of it.

So you go and read from the scroll which you have written at my dictation the words of the Lord to the people in the Lord’s house on a fast day. And also you shall read them to all the people of Judah who come from their cities.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces that were with him took from Mizpah all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, after he had struck down Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, that is, the men who were soldiers, the women, the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

Behold, their brave men cry in the streets,
The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.

For the waters of Nimrim are desolate.
Surely the grass is withered, the tender grass died out,
There is no green thing.

The poor man and the oppressor have this in common:
The Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning about Him,
And He covers the depths of the sea.

Pass over to Tarshish;
Wail, O inhabitants of the coastland.

Then Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites who showed good insight in the things of the Lord. So they ate for the appointed seven days, sacrificing peace offerings and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers.

O Lord, surely I am Your servant,
I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid,
You have loosed my bonds.

“Who has appointed Him His way,
And who has said, ‘You have done wrong’?

The priests slaughtered them and purged the altar with their blood to atone for all Israel, for the king ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.

Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,

Therefore the wrath of the Lord was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes.

Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, even all his wars and his acts, behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah.

They came to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them saying,

But a man of God came to him saying, “O king, do not let the army of Israel go with you, for the Lord is not with Israel nor with any of the sons of Ephraim.

On the top of the stand there was a circular form half a cubit high, and on the top of the stand its stays and its borders were part of it.

but sought the God of his father, followed His commandments, and did not act as Israel did.

Azel had six sons whose names are these: Azrikam, Bocheru and Ishmael and Sheariah and Obadiah and Hanan. These were the sons of Azel.

“They confronted me in the day of my calamity,
But the Lord was my support.

And we will take 10 men out of 100 throughout the tribes of Israel, and 100 out of 1,000, and 1,000 out of 10,000 to supply food for the people, that when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, they may punish them for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed in Israel.”

and Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

and they sent the varicolored tunic and brought it to their father and said, “We found this; please examine it to see whether it is your son’s tunic or not.”

Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad,

Therefore, the anger of the Lord burned against that land, to bring upon it every curse which is written in this book;

You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

The priest shall value it as either good or bad; as you, the priest, value it, so it shall be.

“Say to Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, that he shall take up the censers out of the midst of the blaze, for they are holy; and you scatter the burning coals abroad.

They did not thirst when He led them through the deserts.
He made the water flow out of the rock for them;
He split the rock and the water gushed forth.

When the days of mourning for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If now I have found favor in your sight, please speak to Pharaoh, saying,

“Son of man, prophesy and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

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

O that You would slay the wicked, O God;
Depart from me, therefore, men of bloodshed.

You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

“Like a shepherd’s tent my dwelling is pulled up and removed from me;
As a weaver I rolled up my life.
He cuts me off from the loom;
From day until night You make an end of me.

I rise before dawn and cry for help;
I wait for Your words.

Then Jeremiah went to Mizpah to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam and stayed with him among the people who were left in the land.

But there the majestic One, the Lord, will be for us
A place of rivers and wide canals
On which no boat with oars will go,
And on which no mighty ship will pass—

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

For the redemption of his soul is costly,
And he should cease trying forever—

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.

You Yourself crushed Rahab like one who is slain;
You scattered Your enemies with Your mighty arm.

The Lord of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.

Between the upper room of the corner and the Sheep Gate the goldsmiths and the merchants carried out repairs.

If the Lord had not been my help,
My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.

Moreover, they made an oath to the Lord with a loud voice, with shouting, with trumpets and with horns.

Be exalted, O Lord, in Your strength;
We will sing and praise Your power.

Josiah contributed to the lay people, to all who were present, flocks of lambs and young goats, all for the Passover offerings, numbering 30,000 plus 3,000 bulls; these were from the king’s possessions.

that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, which He commanded our fathers.

Yet the men were very good to us, and we were not insulted, nor did we miss anything as long as we went about with them, while we were in the fields.

He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the one who is high priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall return to his own city and to his own house, to the city from which he fled.’”

the fifteenth for Bilgah, the sixteenth for Immer,

So David reigned over all Israel; and he administered justice and righteousness for all his people.

The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

The sons of his brother Helem were Zophah, Imna, Shelesh and Amal.

The king chanted a lament for Abner and said,
“Should Abner die as a fool dies?

On the left hand were their kinsmen the sons of Merari: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

“Cursed shall you be in the city, and cursed shall you be in the country.

So the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities in seven divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.

And Jonathan called after the lad, “Hurry, be quick, do not stay!” And Jonathan’s lad picked up the arrow and came to his master.

And the sons of Israel were sorry for their brother Benjamin and said, “One tribe is cut off from Israel today.

Their meat shall be yours; it shall be yours like the breast of a wave offering and like the right thigh.

You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the Lord am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’”

You will eat the old supply and clear out the old because of the new.

I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will close your eyes.”

for I will indeed honor you richly, and I will do whatever you say to me. Please come then, curse this people for me.’”

and the sash of fine twisted linen, and blue and purple and scarlet material, the work of the weaver, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

he is a leprous man, he is unclean. The priest shall surely pronounce him unclean; his infection is on his head.

Then the man brought the men into Joseph’s house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys fodder.

You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, as though they were rams, lambs, goats and bulls, all of them fatlings of Bashan.

He put the maids and their children in front, and Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph last.

For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them in order to cleanse the land.

and I brought them into the house of the Lord, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man of God, which was near the chamber of the officials, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the doorkeeper.

“Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,’ although the Lord was there,

“Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
O you who pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about like a threshing heifer
And neigh like stallions,

“Therefore thus says the Lord, ‘You have not obeyed Me in proclaiming release each man to his brother and each man to his neighbor. Behold, I am proclaiming a release to you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to the sword, to the pestilence and to the famine; and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

To defraud a man in his lawsuit—
Of these things the Lord does not approve.

“Your gates will be open continually;
They will not be closed day or night,
So that men may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
With their kings led in procession.

Within a year and a few days
You will be troubled, O complacent daughters;
For the vintage is ended,
And the fruit gathering will not come.

Then all the officials sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, to Baruch, saying, “Take in your hand the scroll from which you have read to the people and come.” So Baruch the son of Neriah took the scroll in his hand and went to them.

to listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have been sending to you again and again, but you have not listened;

One thousand will flee at the threat of one man;
You will flee at the threat of five,
Until you are left as a flag on a mountain top
And as a signal on a hill.

thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Behold, I am sending upon them the sword, famine and pestilence, and I will make them like split-open figs that cannot be eaten due to rottenness.

“Then I will cause your enemies to bring it
Into a land you do not know;
For a fire has been kindled in My anger,
It will burn upon you.”

You are near, O Lord,
And all Your commandments are truth.

The king is not saved by a mighty army;
A warrior is not delivered by great strength.

“All the earth will worship You,
And will sing praises to You;
They will sing praises to Your name.” Selah.

Of old I have known from Your testimonies
That You have founded them forever.

Man in his pomp, yet without understanding,
Is like the beasts that perish.

For evils beyond number have surrounded me;
My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to see;
They are more numerous than the hairs of my head,
And my heart has failed me.

Your testimonies are fully confirmed;
Holiness befits Your house,
O Lord, forevermore.

and the forks, the basins, and the pitchers of pure gold; and for the golden bowls with the weight for each bowl; and for the silver bowls with the weight for each bowl;

the sons of Pashhur, 1,247;

Moreover, all the utensils which King Ahaz had discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated; and behold, they are before the altar of the Lord.”

“Then if you have anything to say, answer me;
Speak, for I desire to justify you.

So David and Abishai came to the people by night, and behold, Saul lay sleeping inside the circle of the camp with his spear stuck in the ground at his head; and Abner and the people were lying around him.

O seed of Israel His servant,
Sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

The sons of Zophah were Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri and Imrah,

Thus all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united as one man.

Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;

Go now, make more sure, and investigate and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for I am told that he is very cunning.

six of their names on the one stone and the names of the remaining six on the other stone, according to their birth.

They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. And will you sit still? Do not delay to go, to enter, to possess the land.

Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded up to the entrance of the gate.

Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger of the Lord against Israel.