Wounds and disgrace he will find,
And his reproach will not be blotted out.

You shed abroad a plentiful rain, O God;
You confirmed Your inheritance when it was parched.

So Johanan the son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces, and all the people, did not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah.

“I spoke to you in your prosperity;
But you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your practice from your youth,
That you have not obeyed My voice.

And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, which is beside Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt

Judah and all its cities will dwell together in it, the farmer and they who go about with flocks.

So is the man who deceives his neighbor,
And says, “Was I not joking?”

He sends forth His command to the earth;
His word runs very swiftly.

You with Your own hand drove out the nations;
Then You planted them;
You afflicted the peoples,
Then You spread them abroad.

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

the sons of Jaalah, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

The Levites will surround the king, each man with his weapons in his hand; and whoever enters the house, let him be killed. Thus be with the king when he comes in and when he goes out.”

These were their offices for their ministry when they came in to the house of the Lord according to the ordinance given to them through Aaron their father, just as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

But if the manslayer at any time goes beyond the border of his city of refuge to which he may flee,

and Zabad became the father of Ephlal, and Ephlal became the father of Obed,

Attai became the father of Nathan, and Nathan became the father of Zabad,

So Benaiah came to the tent of the Lord and said to him, “Thus the king has said, ‘Come out.’” But he said, “No, for I will die here.” And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “Thus spoke Joab, and thus he answered me.”

So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

and Elon and Timnah and Ekron,

Every open vessel, which has no covering tied down on it, shall be unclean.

Then he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

The Lord will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandments which I have commanded you.

Or if he consecrates to the Lord a field which he has bought, which is not a part of the field of his own property,

Afterward all the sons of Israel came near, and he commanded them to do everything that the Lord had spoken to him on Mount Sinai.

He came to him, and behold, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the leaders of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

They shall bind the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it will be on the skillfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece will not come loose from the ephod.

“As I live,” declares the Lord God, “surely because My flock has become a prey, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not search for My flock, but rather the shepherds fed themselves and did not feed My flock;

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you will be cultivated and sown.

When the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food, for why should we die in your presence? For our money is gone.”

‘Thus says the Lord God, “If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

He said, ‘Lift up now your eyes and see that all the male goats which are mating are striped, speckled, and mottled; for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

All mankind is stupid, devoid of knowledge;
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols,
For his molten images are deceitful,
And there is no breath in them.

“Because of the noise of the galloping hoofs of his stallions,
The tumult of his chariots, and the rumbling of his wheels,
The fathers have not turned back for their children,
Because of the limpness of their hands,

For there is a testing; and what if even the rod which despises will be no more?” declares the Lord God.

My eyes bring pain to my soul
Because of all the daughters of my city.

My eyes run down with streams of water
Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.

And I shall set fire to the temples of the gods of Egypt, and he will burn them and take them captive. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself with his garment, and he will depart from there safely.

and do not go after other gods to serve them and to worship them, and do not provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands, and I will do you no harm.’

“Go and speak to Hananiah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have broken the yokes of wood, but you have made instead of them yokes of iron.”

Yet, O Lord of hosts, You who test the righteous,
Who see the mind and the heart;
Let me see Your vengeance on them;
For to You I have set forth my cause.

Now as for the cistern where Ishmael had cast all the corpses of the men whom he had struck down because of Gedaliah, it was the one that King Asa had made on account of Baasha, king of Israel; Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with the slain.

Ishmael also struck down all the Jews who were with him, that is with Gedaliah at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

My heart is in anguish within me,
And the terrors of death have fallen upon me.

“Because of your raging against Me
And because your arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back by the way which you came.

Well then, where are your wise men?
Please let them tell you,
And let them understand what the Lord of hosts
Has purposed against Egypt.

“Upon a high and lofty mountain
You have made your bed.
You also went up there to offer sacrifice.

Let them also offer sacrifices of thanksgiving,
And tell of His works with joyful singing.

“He regards iron as straw,
Bronze as rotten wood.

But You, O God, the Lord, deal kindly with me for Your name’s sake;
Because Your lovingkindness is good, deliver me;

The woman had a fattened calf in the house, and she quickly slaughtered it; and she took flour, kneaded it and baked unleavened bread from it.

For Your lovingkindness is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the skies.

He set up the altar of the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings and thank offerings on it; and he ordered Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout all Israel from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to celebrate the Passover to the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem. For they had not celebrated it in great numbers as it was prescribed.

Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare rooms in the house of the Lord, and they prepared them.

You said, ‘Behold, you have defeated Edom.’ And your heart has become proud in boasting. Now stay at home; for why should you provoke trouble so that you, even you, would fall and Judah with you?”

for Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jeremoth the son of Azriel;

Is this not David, of whom they sing in the dances, saying,
‘Saul has slain his thousands,
And David his ten thousands’?”

the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

and the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and the laver and its stand.

‘These things shall be for a statutory ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

He said, therefore, “I will send you a young goat from the flock.” She said, moreover, “Will you give a pledge until you send it?”

‘Now if it is an animal of the kind which men can present as an offering to the Lord, any such that one gives to the Lord shall be holy.

To cleanse the house then, he shall take two birds and cedar wood and a scarlet string and hyssop,

Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli.

They journeyed from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

and when it reverts in the jubilee, the field shall be holy to the Lord, like a field set apart; it shall be for the priest as his property.

They journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

You shall make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the first set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

Laban also gave his maid Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maid.

He measured it on the four sides; it had a wall all around, the length five hundred and the width five hundred, to divide between the holy and the profane.

And Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

“I will set a fire in Egypt;
Sin will writhe in anguish,
Thebes will be breached
And Memphis will have distresses daily.

As for the pillars, the height of each pillar was eighteen cubits, and it was twelve cubits in circumference and four fingers in thickness, and hollow.

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are too powerful for us.”

And even the name of the city will be Hamonah. So they will cleanse the land.”’

It is given to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened and polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. And he will carry off her wealth and capture her spoil and seize her plunder; and it will be wages for his army.

Your sisters, Sodom with her daughters and Samaria with her daughters, will return to their former state, and you with your daughters will also return to your former state.

He then blinded Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters of bronze to bring him to Babylon.

I will also make this city a desolation and an object of hissing; everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its disasters.

My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.

they even sent and took Jeremiah out of the court of the guardhouse and entrusted him to Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he stayed among the people.

And there will be goats’ milk enough for your food,
For the food of your household,
And sustenance for your maidens.

“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Thus you are to say to the king of Judah, who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: “Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come out for your assistance is going to return to its own land of Egypt.

“Among the smooth stones of the ravine
Is your portion, they are your lot;
Even to them you have poured out a drink offering,
You have made a grain offering.
Shall I relent concerning these things?

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord which you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “For there will be peace and truth in my days.”

“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

“Bring my soul out of prison,
So that I may give thanks to Your name;
The righteous will surround me,
For You will deal bountifully with me.”

They also do no unrighteousness;
They walk in His ways.

He has made His wonders to be remembered;
The Lord is gracious and compassionate.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
From everlasting even to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord!

That when the wicked sprouted up like grass
And all who did iniquity flourished,
It was only that they might be destroyed forevermore.

Then He led them with the cloud by day
And all the night with a light of fire.

For the Lord has built up Zion;
He has appeared in His glory.

Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

We have sinned like our fathers,
We have committed iniquity, we have behaved wickedly.

For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.

I will also praise You with a harp,
Even Your truth, O my God;
To You I will sing praises with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.

The Lord is great in Zion,
And He is exalted above all the peoples.

These searched among their ancestral registration, but it could not be located; therefore they were considered unclean and excluded from the priesthood.

He did right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of his father David and did not turn aside to the right or to the left.

Moreover, it shall eat the offspring of your herd and the produce of your ground until you are destroyed, who also leaves you no grain, new wine, or oil, nor the increase of your herd or the young of your flock until they have caused you to perish.

And with the choice yield of the sun,
And with the choice produce of the months.

For he sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him, and said, “Because the gods of the kings of Aram helped them, I will sacrifice to them that they may help me.” But they became the downfall of him and all Israel.

He had large supplies in the cities of Judah, and warriors, valiant men, in Jerusalem.

They have lived in it, and have built You a sanctuary there for Your name, saying,

This Shelomoth and his relatives had charge of all the treasures of the dedicated gifts which King David and the heads of the fathers’ households, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, and the commanders of the army, had dedicated.

Uzzia the Ashterathite, Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,

So Amasa went to call out the men of Judah, but he delayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, when they came out from Egypt,

All the cities which you shall give to the Levites shall be forty-eight cities, together with their pasture lands.

According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for everyone according to their number.

He shall have the house scraped all around inside, and they shall dump the plaster that they scrape off at an unclean place outside the city.

They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

The son of Pallu: Eliab.

“One from Jacob shall have dominion,
And will destroy the remnant from the city.”

Joseph hurried out for he was deeply stirred over his brother, and he sought a place to weep; and he entered his chamber and wept there.

They shall not profane the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they offer to the Lord,

“Then you shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

So the flocks mated by the rods, and the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted.

one male goat for a sin offering;

He caused me to pass among them round about, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley; and lo, they were very dry.

Now, therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the lad a slave to my lord, and let the lad go up with his brothers.

Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son.

The altar hearth shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth shall extend upwards four horns.

Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols as you shed blood. Should you then possess the land?

‘All the birds of the heavens nested in its boughs,
And under its branches all the beasts of the field gave birth,
And all great nations lived under its shade.

O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause;
You have redeemed my life.

Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

For his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king of Babylon, a daily portion all the days of his life until the day of his death.

“A sword against the Chaldeans,” declares the Lord,
“And against the inhabitants of Babylon
And against her officials and her wise men!

They will drink and stagger and go mad because of the sword that I will send among them.”

For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, one will fly swiftly like an eagle
And spread out his wings against Moab.

“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

Go up to Gilead and obtain balm,
O virgin daughter of Egypt!
In vain have you multiplied remedies;
There is no healing for you.

Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord,

“But as for you, O Jacob My servant, do not fear,
Nor be dismayed, O Israel!
For, see, I am going to save you from afar,
And your descendants from the land of their captivity;
And Jacob will return and be undisturbed
And secure, with no one making him tremble.

There is an outcry in the streets concerning the wine;
All joy turns to gloom.
The gaiety of the earth is banished.

“Go and speak to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I am about to bring My words on this city for disaster and not for prosperity; and they will take place before you on that day.

Will Your lovingkindness be declared in the grave,
Your faithfulness in Abaddon?

His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.

I shall give thanks to You, for You have answered me,
And You have become my salvation.

There they were in great fear where no fear had been;
For God scattered the bones of him who encamped against you;
You put them to shame, because God had rejected them.

In God we have boasted all day long,
And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah.

As for me, I said in my alarm,
“I am cut off from before Your eyes”;
Nevertheless You heard the voice of my supplications
When I cried to You.

Your carcasses will be food to all birds of the sky and to the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

And my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
And my adversaries will rejoice when I am shaken.

the sons of Delaiah, the sons of Tobiah, the sons of Nekoda, 642.

Moreover, when Ahaz gathered together the utensils of the house of God, he cut the utensils of the house of God in pieces; and he closed the doors of the house of the Lord and made altars for himself in every corner of Jerusalem.

So many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream which flowed through the region, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find abundant water?”

Adina the son of Shiza the Reubenite, a chief of the Reubenites, and thirty with him,

But David pursued, he and four hundred men, for two hundred who were too exhausted to cross the brook Besor remained behind.

Also every sickness and every plague which, not written in the book of this law, the Lord will bring on you until you are destroyed.

When David came to the two hundred men who were too exhausted to follow David, who had also been left at the brook Besor, and they went out to meet David and to meet the people who were with him, then David approached the people and greeted them.

then the priest shall come in and make an inspection. If he sees that the mark has indeed spread in the house, it is a malignant mark in the house; it is unclean.

Then they shall take other stones and replace those stones, and he shall take other plaster and replaster the house.

‘Also if one of the animals dies which you have for food, the one who touches its carcass becomes unclean until evening.

Then Saul said to Jonathan, “Tell me what you have done.” So Jonathan told him and said, “I indeed tasted a little honey with the end of the staff that was in my hand. Here I am, I must die!”

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

We took only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

and his army, even their numbered men, 53,400.

and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

He made its seven lamps with its snuffers and its trays of pure gold.

And all the skillful men who were performing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work which he was performing,

The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits with their three pillars and their three sockets.

You shall make on the breastpiece chains of twisted cordage work in pure gold.

These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah; and she bore to Jacob these sixteen persons.

And they said, “We will call the girl and consult her wishes.”

I myself will be surety for him; you may hold me responsible for him. If I do not bring him back to you and set him before you, then let me bear the blame before you forever.

Now the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve wide, square in its four sides.

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”’

“Cut off the sower from Babylon
And the one who wields the sickle at the time of harvest;
From before the sword of the oppressor
They will each turn back to his own people
And they will each flee to his own land.

therefore, I will deliver My flock, and they will no longer be a prey; and I will judge between one sheep and another.

For they prophesy falsely to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares the Lord.

The word of the Lord came to me saying,

The young lions roar after their prey
And seek their food from God.

Nevertheless hear the word of the Lord, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, ‘Behold, I have sworn by My great name,’ says the Lord, ‘never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord God lives.”

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

The mind of the hasty will discern the truth,
And the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.

Like the legs which are useless to the lame,
So is a proverb in the mouth of fools.

Wealth and riches are in his house,
And his righteousness endures forever.

My soul is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe forth fire,
Even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows
And their tongue a sharp sword.

and behold, he has charged her with shameful deeds, saying, “I did not find your daughter a virgin.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

For You are the Lord Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted far above all gods.

Your statutes are my songs
In the house of my pilgrimage.

But transgressors will be altogether destroyed;
The posterity of the wicked will be cut off.

The Lord laughs at him,
For He sees his day is coming.

The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
Bring me out of my distresses.

For the king trusts in the Lord,
And through the lovingkindness of the Most High he will not be shaken.

“And with the best things of the ancient mountains,
And with the choice things of the everlasting hills,

thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am bringing evil on this place and on its inhabitants, even all the curses written in the book which they have read in the presence of the king of Judah.

The total number of the heads of the households, of valiant warriors, was 2,600.

He said to them, “Thus and so has Micah done to me, and he has hired me and I have become his priest.”

Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,

but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, while our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Yet if the one who consecrates it should wish to redeem his house, then he shall add one-fifth of your valuation price to it, so that it may be his.

They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the Lord has given them?

They put him in custody so that the command of the Lord might be made clear to them.

But Joseph had recognized his brothers, although they did not recognize him.

The prince shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate. Then the priests shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate and then go out; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.

when he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die. Thus your servants will bring the gray hair of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.

The young man did not delay to do the thing, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was more respected than all the household of his father.

These are the children of Anah: Dishon, and Oholibamah, the daughter of Anah.

If they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the house, its structure, its exits, its entrances, all its designs, all its statutes, and all its laws. And write it in their sight, so that they may observe its whole design and all its statutes and do them.

This is the law of the house: its entire area on the top of the mountain all around shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“The sons of Israel are oppressed,
And the sons of Judah as well;
And all who took them captive have held them fast,
They have refused to let them go.

‘Thus says the Lord God,
“I will also make the hordes of Egypt cease
By the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.

Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and the whole house of the Rechabites,

Then King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I dread the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldeans, for they may give me over into their hand and they will abuse me.”

In the cities of the hill country, in the cities of the lowland, in the cities of the Negev, in the land of Benjamin, in the environs of Jerusalem and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who numbers them,’ says the Lord.

Within two years I am going to bring back to this place all the vessels of the Lord’s house, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.

Then the priests and the prophets spoke to the officials and to all the people, saying, “A death sentence for this man! For he has prophesied against this city as you have heard in your hearing.”

“I clothe the heavens with blackness
And make sackcloth their covering.”

The sound of joyful shouting and salvation is in the tents of the righteous;
The right hand of the Lord does valiantly.

“Formerly I said to Zion, ‘Behold, here they are.’
And to Jerusalem, ‘I will give a messenger of good news.’

A spirit of justice for him who sits in judgment,
A strength to those who repel the onslaught at the gate.

Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.”

But they mingled with the nations
And learned their practices,

Sing to Him, sing praises to Him;
Speak of all His wonders.

The heavens declare His righteousness,
And all the peoples have seen His glory.

Your name, O Lord, is everlasting,
Your remembrance, O Lord, throughout all generations.

Make Your face to shine upon Your servant;
Save me in Your lovingkindness.

Evil shall slay the wicked,
And those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;
And give heed to the voice of my supplications!

‘Should my head be lifted up, You would hunt me like a lion;
And again You would show Your power against me.

“Its abundant produce is for the kings
Whom You have set over us because of our sins;
They also rule over our bodies
And over our cattle as they please,
So we are in great distress.

Now they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David, and gave him bread and he ate, and they provided him water to drink.

“I will answer you,
And your friends with you.

for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

And the Egyptians treated us harshly and afflicted us, and imposed hard labor on us.

and Eleasah became the father of Sismai, and Sismai became the father of Shallum,

For on the day you go out and cross over the brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head.”

When David and his men came to the city, behold, it was burned with fire, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.

You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very distinctly.”

and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib,

Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for you.

then the one who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, saying, ‘Something like a mark of leprosy has become visible to me in the house.’

The length of the court shall be one hundred cubits, and the width fifty throughout, and the height five cubits of fine twisted linen, and their sockets of bronze.

that our fathers went down to Egypt, and we stayed in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.

And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.

‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”

And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance,” declares the Lord God.

‘The waters made it grow, the deep made it high.
With its rivers it continually extended all around its planting place,
And sent out its channels to all the trees of the field.

He also took from the city one official who was overseer of the men of war, and seven of the king’s advisers who were found in the city, and the scribe of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

Then Abraham said to him, “Beware that you do not take my son back there!

So I will make the land of Egypt a desolation in the midst of desolated lands. And her cities, in the midst of cities that are laid waste, will be desolate forty years; and I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.”

The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.

“A sword against the oracle priests, and they will become fools!
A sword against her mighty men, and they will be shattered!

“May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,”
The inhabitant of Zion will say;
And, “May my blood be upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
Jerusalem will say.

“Leave the cities and dwell among the crags,
O inhabitants of Moab,
And be like a dove that nests
Beyond the mouth of the chasm.

“Draw up your battle lines against Babylon on every side,
All you who bend the bow;
Shoot at her, do not be sparing with your arrows,
For she has sinned against the Lord.

“Ah, sword of the Lord,
How long will you not be quiet?
Withdraw into your sheath;
Be at rest and stay still.

that each man should set free his male servant and each man his female servant, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman; so that no one should keep them, a Jew his brother, in bondage.

So He poured out on him the heat of His anger
And the fierceness of battle;
And it set him aflame all around,
Yet he did not recognize it;
And it burned him, but he paid no attention.

Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after the king had burned the scroll and the words which Baruch had written at the dictation of Jeremiah, saying,

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.

O seed of Abraham, His servant,
O sons of Jacob, His chosen ones!

“Your builders hurry;
Your destroyers and devastators
Will depart from you.

“I will make all My mountains a road,
And My highways will be raised up.

And the multitude of all the nations who wage war against Ariel,
Even all who wage war against her and her stronghold, and who distress her,
Will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

Though his hatred covers itself with guile,
His wickedness will be revealed before the assembly.

More than the sounds of many waters,
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.

Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good;
Sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.

So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

How long, O Lord? Will You be angry forever?
Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord;
In the night my hand was stretched out without weariness;
My soul refused to be comforted.

O God, You are awesome from Your sanctuary.
The God of Israel Himself gives strength and power to the people.
Blessed be God!

From His dwelling place He looks out
On all the inhabitants of the earth,

But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What have we to do with each other, O King of Judah? I am not coming against you today but against the house with which I am at war, and God has ordered me to hurry. Stop for your own sake from interfering with God who is with me, so that He will not destroy you.”

Tomorrow go down against them. Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley in front of the wilderness of Jeruel.

So also he made for the entrance of the nave four-sided doorposts of olive wood

I will come with the mighty deeds of the Lord God;
I will make mention of Your righteousness, Yours alone.

They called this out with a loud voice in the language of Judah to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them, so that they might take the city.

When the woman saw Samuel, she cried out with a loud voice; and the woman spoke to Saul, saying, “Why have you deceived me? For you are Saul.”

“Shall it be told Him that I would speak?
Or should a man say that he would be swallowed up?

The sons of Jether were Jephunneh, Pispa and Ara.

Shema became the father of Raham, the father of Jorkeam; and Rekem became the father of Shammai.

Now therefore, arise by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.

Then men will say, ‘Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

So he shall burn the garment, whether the warp or the woof, in wool or in linen, or any article of leather in which the mark occurs, for it is a leprous malignancy; it shall be burned in the fire.

So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh, for every Egyptian sold his field, because the famine was severe upon them. Thus the land became Pharaoh’s.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Elizur the son of Shedeur.

The seven lean and ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven thin ears scorched by the east wind will be seven years of famine.

He made all the utensils of the altar, the pails and the shovels and the basins, the flesh hooks and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.

which the Lord commanded Moses at Mount Sinai in the day that He commanded the sons of Israel to present their offerings to the Lord in the wilderness of Sinai.

You shall make two rings of gold and put them on the bottom of the two shoulder pieces of the ephod, on the front of it close to the place where it is joined, above the skillfully woven band of the ephod.

Then Israel said, “It is enough; my son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

and did not allow me to kiss my sons and my daughters? Now you have done foolishly.

Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”

for he said, “If Esau comes to the one company and attacks it, then the company which is left will escape.”

The length of the porch was twenty cubits and the width eleven cubits; and at the stairway by which it was ascended were columns belonging to the side pillars, one on each side.

For thus says the Lord God, “Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the scorn of your soul against the land of Israel,

Then God went up from him in the place where He had spoken with him.

and say to it, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir,
And I will stretch out My hand against you
And make you a desolation and a waste.

My enemies without cause
Hunted me down like a bird;

We have transgressed and rebelled,
You have not pardoned.

They have ears, but they cannot hear;
They have noses, but they cannot smell;

“Therefore I will wail for Moab,
Even for all Moab will I cry out;
I will moan for the men of Kir-heres.

And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, waters are going to rise from the north
And become an overflowing torrent,
And overflow the land and all its fullness,
The city and those who live in it;
And the men will cry out,
And every inhabitant of the land will wail.

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains which are on your hands. If you would prefer to come with me to Babylon, come along, and I will look after you; but if you would prefer not to come with me to Babylon, never mind. Look, the whole land is before you; go wherever it seems good and right for you to go.”

‘While they are coming to fight with the Chaldeans and to fill them with the corpses of men whom I have slain in My anger and in My wrath, and I have hidden My face from this city because of all their wickedness:

I will also give over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things; even all the treasures of the kings of Judah I will give over to the hand of their enemies, and they will plunder them, take them away and bring them to Babylon.

“Against whom do you jest?
Against whom do you open wide your mouth
And stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of rebellion,
Offspring of deceit,

Therefore thus says the Lord, “Behold, I am about to give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he will take it.

You have said to me, O Lord God, “Buy for yourself the field with money and call in witnesses”—although the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.’”

Until I came into the sanctuary of God;
Then I perceived their end.

They make shrewd plans against Your people,
And conspire together against Your treasured ones.

It is time for the Lord to act,
For they have broken Your law.

“You were tired out by the length of your road,
Yet you did not say, ‘It is hopeless.’
You found renewed strength,
Therefore you did not faint.

The earth has yielded its produce;
God, our God, blesses us.

The nations made an uproar, the kingdoms tottered;
He raised His voice, the earth melted.

Because of his strength I will watch for You,
For God is my stronghold.

Give heed to me and answer me;
I am restless in my complaint and am surely distracted,

The sons of Israel and Judah who lived in the cities of Judah also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of sacred gifts which were consecrated to the Lord their God, and placed them in heaps.

You are my King, O God;
Command victories for Jacob.

Then the Levitical priests arose and blessed the people; and their voice was heard and their prayer came to His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

the sons of Senaah, 3,930.

the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,

For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves; therefore, the Levites were over the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was unclean, in order to consecrate them to the Lord.

The twelfth for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite of Othniel; and in his division were 24,000.

Under their direction was an elite army of 307,500, who could wage war with great power, to help the king against the enemy.

When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled, they also fled before Abshai his brother and entered the city. Then Joab came to Jerusalem.

Of Asher there were 40,000 who went out in the army to draw up in battle formation.

The sons of Ammon came out and drew up in battle array at the entrance of the city, and the kings who had come were by themselves in the field.

The sons of Japhlet were Pasach, Bimhal and Ashvath. These were the sons of Japhlet.

then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

The sons of Salma were Bethlehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.

Saul said, “Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people, and investigate and see how this sin has happened today.

Then all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, “Because the king is a close relative to us. Why then are you angry about this matter? Have we eaten at all at the king’s expense, or has anything been taken for us?”

Then Saul said to David, “Blessed are you, my son David; you will both accomplish much and surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.

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

Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull and a third of a hin for the ram and a fourth of a hin for a lamb; this is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

The sons of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the families of the tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

He shall thus cleanse the house with the blood of the bird and with the running water, along with the live bird and with the cedar wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet string.

Of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

Even your cattle and the animals that are in your land shall have all its crops to eat.

You shall make two gold rings for it under its molding; you shall make them on its two side walls—on opposite sides—and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it.

You shall slaughter the bull before the Lord at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them.

They made the tunics of finely woven linen for Aaron and his sons,

When it was told to Jacob, “Behold, your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel collected his strength and sat up in the bed.

Then I took the deeds of purchase, both the sealed copy containing the terms and conditions and the open copy;

He wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard of it.

And beside the border of Gad, at the south side toward the south, the border shall be from Tamar to the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, to the Great Sea.

Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt and will break his arms, both the strong and the broken; and I will make the sword fall from his hand.

Therefore thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am going to plead your case
And exact full vengeance for you;
And I will dry up her sea
And make her fountain dry.

He gives to the beast its food,
And to the young ravens which cry.

“Flee away, turn back, dwell in the depths,
O inhabitants of Dedan,
For I will bring the disaster of Esau upon him
At the time I punish him.

The mountains rose; the valleys sank down
To the place which You established for them.

who has set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and even to this day both in Israel and among mankind; and You have made a name for Yourself, as at this day.

and all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam and all the kings of Media;

He has given food to those who fear Him;
He will remember His covenant forever.

All of us growl like bears,
And moan sadly like doves;
We hope for justice, but there is none,
For salvation, but it is far from us.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Who made heaven and earth,
The sea and all that is in them;
Who keeps faith forever;

Your heart will meditate on terror:
“Where is he who counts?
Where is he who weighs?
Where is he who counts the towers?”

And do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,
For I wait for Your ordinances.

With trumpets and the sound of the horn
Shout joyfully before the King, the Lord.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests,
And Samuel was among those who called on His name;
They called upon the Lord and He answered them.

Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent them throughout the land of the Philistines, to carry the good news to the house of their idols and to the people.

Your God has commanded your strength;
Show Yourself strong, O God, who have acted on our behalf.

“Turn Your gaze away from me, that I may smile again
Before I depart and am no more.”

All the men of valor, seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths, one thousand, all strong and fit for war, and these the king of Babylon brought into exile to Babylon.

That I may proclaim with the voice of thanksgiving
And declare all Your wonders.

When the Almighty was yet with me,
And my children were around me;

the sons of Lod, Hadid and Ono, 721;

and Azariah became the father of Helez, and Helez became the father of Eleasah,

This thing that you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, all of you must surely die, because you did not guard your lord, the Lord’s anointed. And now, see where the king’s spear is and the jug of water that was at his head.”

Arab and Dumah and Eshan,

the land which the Lord conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”

These are the families of Judah according to those who were numbered of them, 76,500.

whether in warp or woof, of linen or of wool, whether in leather or in any article made of leather,

They journeyed from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

The first ripe fruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, shall be yours; everyone of your household who is clean may eat it.

As the most holy gifts you shall eat it; every male shall eat it. It shall be holy to you.

but when I lie down with my fathers, you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I will do as you have said.”

They also made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates all around on the hem of the robe,

You shall place the ark of the testimony there, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

I will feed them in a good pasture, and their grazing ground will be on the mountain heights of Israel. There they will lie down on good grazing ground and feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.

Then they went up from Egypt, and came to the land of Canaan to their father Jacob.

Thus it came about when we went up to your servant my father, we told him the words of my lord.

Then Reuben spoke to his father, saying, “You may put my two sons to death if I do not bring him back to you; put him in my care, and I will return him to you.”

It shall be that when they enter at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and wool shall not be on them while they are ministering in the gates of the inner court and in the house.

Then Jobab died, and Husham of the land of the Temanites became king in his place.

But her brother and her mother said, “Let the girl stay with us a few days, say ten; afterward she may go.”

These are the sons of Dishan: Uz and Aran.

A man’s foot will not pass through it, and the foot of a beast will not pass through it, and it will not be inhabited for forty years.

But since we stopped burning sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have met our end by the sword and by famine.”

“Indeed this city has been to Me a provocation of My anger and My wrath from the day that they built it, even to this day, so that it should be removed from before My face,

“Your wealth and your treasures
I will give for booty without cost,
Even for all your sins
And within all your borders.

We have become like those over whom You have never ruled,
Like those who were not called by Your name.

“Your first forefather sinned,
And your spokesmen have transgressed against Me.

Your tackle hangs slack;
It cannot hold the base of its mast firmly,
Nor spread out the sail.
Then the prey of an abundant spoil will be divided;
The lame will take the plunder.

Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea speaks, the stronghold of the sea, saying,
“I have neither travailed nor given birth,
I have neither brought up young men nor reared virgins.”

And served their idols,
Which became a snare to them.

Nor do those who pass by say,
“The blessing of the Lord be upon you;
We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

Then I shall not be ashamed
When I look upon all Your commandments.

The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless us;
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron.

Let the field exult, and all that is in it.
Then all the trees of the forest will sing for joy

“So I gave them over to the stubbornness of their heart,
To walk in their own devices.

I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days,
Your years are throughout all generations.

Let them fear You while the sun endures,
And as long as the moon, throughout all generations.

But I am afflicted and in pain;
May Your salvation, O God, set me securely on high.

Deliver me from the mire and do not let me sink;
May I be delivered from my foes and from the deep waters.

My mouth will speak wisdom,
And the meditation of my heart will be understanding.

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap;
He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Do not drag me away with the wicked
And with those who work iniquity,
Who speak peace with their neighbors,
While evil is in their hearts.

Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression;

Now Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the city gate; and Abimelech and the people who were with him arose from the ambush.

The Lord your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.

and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim,

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once more abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”

from Ekron even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.

“You shall make fifty clasps of bronze, and you shall put the clasps into the loops and join the tent together so that it will be a unit.

These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730.

Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.”

You know that I have served your father with all my strength.

He placed the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

The sons of Arvad and your army were on your walls, all around, and the Gammadim were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

Behold, when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the plaster with which you plastered it?’”

and I set My face against them. Though they have come out of the fire, yet the fire will consume them. Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I set My face against them.

I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and the sons of Ammon a resting place for flocks. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.”

“Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.

I will also clap My hands together, and I will appease My wrath; I, the Lord, have spoken.”

then I would reject the descendants of Jacob and David My servant, not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. But I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.’”

I have heard a message from the Lord,
And an envoy is sent among the nations, saying,
“Gather yourselves together and come against her,
And rise up for battle!”

The Lord supports the afflicted;
He brings down the wicked to the ground.

thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, as follows: ‘As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, “We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her.” Go ahead and confirm your vows, and certainly perform your vows!’

“But when I look, there is no one,
And there is no counselor among them
Who, if I ask, can give an answer.

Give thanks to the God of heaven,
For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

I will never forget Your precepts,
For by them You have revived me.

Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble,
And He brought them out of their distresses.

“There I will cause the horn of David to spring forth;
I have prepared a lamp for Mine anointed.

You are my God, and I give thanks to You;
You are my God, I extol You.

May those who wait for You not be ashamed through me, O Lord God of hosts;
May those who seek You not be dishonored through me, O God of Israel,

Iniquities prevail against me;
As for our transgressions, You forgive them.

For Your lovingkindness is great to the heavens
And Your truth to the clouds.

They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,
And in the days of famine they will have abundance.

I will cause Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will give You thanks forever and ever.

David also said, “As the Lord lives, surely the Lord will strike him, or his day will come that he dies, or he will go down into battle and perish.

so that he will not give even one of them any of the flesh of his children which he will eat, since he has nothing else left, during the siege and the distress by which your enemy will oppress you in all your towns.

Arise, O Lord, confront him, bring him low;
Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

“Teach us what we shall say to Him;
We cannot arrange our case because of darkness.

the sons of Pashhur, 1,247;

for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his relatives, twelve;

They captured it and struck it and its king and all its cities and all the persons who were in it with the edge of the sword. He left no survivor, according to all that he had done to Eglon. And he utterly destroyed it and every person who was in it.

and his firstborn son was Abdon, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab,

They said, “Why, O Lord, God of Israel, has this come about in Israel, so that one tribe should be missing today in Israel?”

You shall make on the breastpiece two rings of gold, and shall put the two rings on the two ends of the breastpiece.

All the utensils of the tabernacle used in all its service, and all its pegs, and all the pegs of the court, shall be of bronze.

When the prince provides a freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the Lord, the gate facing east shall be opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

He commanded the one in front, saying, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks you, saying, ‘To whom do you belong, and where are you going, and to whom do these animals in front of you belong?’

And it was like the appearance of the vision which I saw, like the vision which I saw when He came to destroy the city. And the visions were like the vision which I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell on my face.

Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?” So they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.”

“I will abandon you to the wilderness, you and all the fish of your rivers;
You will fall on the open field; you will not be brought together or gathered.
I have given you for food to the beasts of the earth and to the birds of the sky.

Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,
The most ruthless of the nations.
And they will draw their swords
Against the beauty of your wisdom
And defile your splendor.

For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,