Where the birds build their nests,
And the stork, whose home is the fir trees.

Take away reproach and contempt from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Nevertheless He saved them for the sake of His name,
That He might make His power known.

I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings;
I shall pay You my vows,

Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord, and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.

You love evil more than good,
Falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

The voice of the Lord is powerful,
The voice of the Lord is majestic.

In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,

The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”

The screen of the gate of the court was the work of the weaver, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen. And the length was twenty cubits and the height was five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the court.

To the sons of Gershom were given, from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands and Ashtaroth with its pasture lands;

Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

They went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted to them.

As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, you shall take more from the larger and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”

So he put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the bodyguard, in the jail, the same place where Joseph was imprisoned.

and lo, seven ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up after them;

Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds, approached Moses,

his sons and his grandsons with him, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

The sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood will be on himself. But had he taken warning, he would have delivered his life.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

For I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; and I will break the arms of Pharaoh, so that he will groan before him with the groanings of a wounded man.

They shall fall in the midst of those who are slain by the sword. She is given over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away.

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon you a sword and I will cut off from you man and beast.

‘They will bring you down to the pit,
And you will die the death of those who are slain
In the heart of the seas.

I will scatter you among the nations and I will disperse you through the lands, and I will consume your uncleanness from you.

Now a capital of bronze was on it; and the height of each capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital all around, all of bronze. And the second pillar was like these, including pomegranates.

Panic and pitfall have befallen us,
Devastation and destruction;

“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘I made a covenant with your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, saying,

“For by the ascent of Luhith
They will ascend with continual weeping;
For at the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the anguished cry of destruction.

The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of calamity and of pestilence.

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

“Because you have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon’—

“You will seek those who quarrel with you, but will not find them,
Those who war with you will be as nothing and non-existent.

Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
With the lyre and the sound of melody.

You have increased the nation, O Lord,
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.

The Lord bless you from Zion,
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life.

Pour out Your wrath upon the nations which do not know You,
And upon the kingdoms which do not call upon Your name.

Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples fall under You;
Your arrows are in the heart of the King’s enemies.

Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us;
Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we are brought very low.

For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Let Your work appear to Your servants
And Your majesty to their children.

And those who repay evil for good,
They oppose me, because I follow what is good.

Of the gold, the silver and the bronze and the iron there is no limit. Arise and work, and may the Lord be with you.”

And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day requires,

Look upon my enemies, for they are many,
And they hate me with violent hatred.

the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

The God who executes vengeance for me,
And brings down peoples under me,

Then David and the people who were with him lifted their voices and wept until there was no strength in them to weep.

The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

They said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be blotted out from Israel.

If there are still many years, he shall refund part of his purchase price in proportion to them for his own redemption;

So Gaal went out before the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.

if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather, or in the warp or in the woof, or in any article of leather, it is a leprous mark and shall be shown to the priest.

Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

Our little ones, our wives, our livestock and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;

A tenth of an ephah you shall offer for each of the seven lambs;

The skillfully woven band which was on it was like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold and of blue and purple and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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 Pagiel the son of Ochran.

and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board and two sockets under another board.

You shall bring in the table and arrange what belongs on it; and you shall bring in the lampstand and mount its lamps.

Everyone who could make a contribution of silver and bronze brought the Lord’s contribution; and every man who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a gold border around it.

He asked Pharaoh’s officials who were with him in confinement in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

They said to Pharaoh, “We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

When Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm may befall him.”

Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad’s life,

“When they took hold of you with the hand,
You broke and tore all their hands;
And when they leaned on you,
You broke and made all their loins quake.”

Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes astray or is naive; so you shall make atonement for the house.

Then he brought me into the outer court, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the court all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

‘Now the coastlands will tremble
On the day of your fall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be terrified at your passing.’”

And with you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
And with you I shatter the farmer and his team,
And with you I shatter governors and prefects.

So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there will die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence; and they will have no survivors or refugees from the calamity that I am going to bring on them.”’”

‘But it will come about in the last days
That I will restore the fortunes of Elam,’”
Declares the Lord.

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

And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

Remember His wonders which He has done,
His marvels and the judgments uttered by His mouth,

‘Then behold, all of the women who have been left in the palace of the king of Judah are going to be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon; and those women will say,
“Your close friends
Have misled and overpowered you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire,
They turned back.”

‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No healing for your sore,
No recovery for you.

At midnight I shall rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous ordinances.

Let the nomads of the desert bow before him,
And his enemies lick the dust.

“Behold, the man who would not make God his refuge,
But trusted in the abundance of his riches
And was strong in his evil desire.”

Man did eat the bread of angels;
He sent them food in abundance.

For the Lord hears the needy
And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power
And come to save us!

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him;
And let them pray for him continually;
Let them bless him all day long.

May their eyes grow dim so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually.

Rebuke the beasts in the reeds,
The herd of bulls with the calves of the peoples,
Trampling under foot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

He rules by His might forever;
His eyes keep watch on the nations;
Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth of the second month. And the priests and Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

God blesses us,
That all the ends of the earth may fear Him.

He will abide before God forever;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth that they may preserve him.

And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying:

see how they are rewarding us by coming to drive us out from Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.

for Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; for Aaron, Zadok;

and the pails and the shovels and the bowls; even all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the Lord were of polished bronze.

She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they arose and went away that night.

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” However, his servants together with the woman urged him, and he listened to them. So he arose from the ground and sat on the bed.

and rams’ skins dyed red, and porpoise skins, and acacia wood,

and to those who were in Racal, and to those who were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to those who were in the cities of the Kenites,

You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them;

Ekron, with its towns and its villages;

Then for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side, he made twenty boards,

Let the food become as a reserve for the land for the seven years of famine which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land will not perish during the famine.”

Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons, at the command of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

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

Then ten brothers of Joseph went down to buy grain from Egypt.

Then it sprouted and became a low, spreading vine with its branches turned toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

Then he went to the gate which faced east, went up its steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold was one rod in width.

Thus his sons did for him as he had charged them;

Then he said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, they are the holy chambers where the priests who are near to the Lord shall eat the most holy things. There they shall lay the most holy things, the grain offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering; for the place is holy.

The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide; and there were five cubits between the guardrooms. And the threshold of the gate by the porch of the gate facing inward was one rod.

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, who did not go astray when the sons of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray.

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe to the bloody city,
To the pot in which there is rust
And whose rust has not gone out of it!
Take out of it piece after piece,
Without making a choice.

Grain for bread is crushed,
Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.

And you will know that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land which I swore to give to your forefathers.

The captain of the guard also took away the bowls, the firepans, the basins, the pots, the lampstands, the pans and the drink offering bowls, what was fine gold and what was fine silver.

They have silenced me in the pit
And have placed a stone on me.

Thus you are to say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Behold, what I have built I am about to tear down, and what I have planted I am about to uproot, that is, the whole land.”

One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress;
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call answer me quickly.

But afterward they turned around and took back the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free, and brought them into subjection for male servants and for female servants.

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

and all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign people who dwell in the desert;

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross;
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

When God heard, He was filled with wrath
And greatly abhorred Israel;

Confuse, O Lord, divide their tongues,
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

“O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.

How long, O God, will the adversary revile,
And the enemy spurn Your name forever?

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites;

Your creatures settled in it;
You provided in Your goodness for the poor, O God.

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah.

Their inner thought is that their houses are forever
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have called their lands after their own names.

The God who executes vengeance for me,
And subdues peoples under me.

When the king heard the words of the law, he tore his clothes.

and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, that he may work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

the sons of Immer, 1,052;

So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Moreover, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh had done, but Amon multiplied guilt.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord as Manasseh his father had done, and Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

Is not Hezekiah misleading you to give yourselves over to die by hunger and by thirst, saying, “The Lord our God will deliver us from the hand of the king of Assyria”?

David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help his son Solomon, saying,

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran and Beera.

and Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah,

You shall anoint the laver and its stand, and consecrate it.

and to those who were in Aroer, and to those who were in Siphmoth, and to those who were in Eshtemoa,

and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the screening veil;

These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all these cities.

On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.

This was the dedication offering for the altar from the leaders of Israel when it was anointed: twelve silver dishes, twelve silver bowls, twelve gold pans,

They brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent and all its furnishings: its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars and its sockets;

They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would be on the woven band of the ephod, and that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

the table and its poles, and all its utensils, and the bread of the Presence;

For your servant became surety for the lad to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.’

Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies;

and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

But if you do not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

“These men are friendly with us; therefore let them live in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters in marriage, and give our daughters to them.

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil.”

You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

In the porch of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

“I will leave you on the land;
I will cast you on the open field.
And I will cause all the birds of the heavens to dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the beasts of the whole earth with you.

Say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Will it thrive? Will he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, so that it withers—so that all its sprouting leaves wither? And neither by great strength nor by many people can it be raised from its roots again.

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in its loftiness,

He will slay your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make siege walls against you, cast up a ramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘As the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

There is a sound of fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon,
To declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
Vengeance for His temple.

Those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs.

So there will be no refugees or survivors for the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to reside there and then to return to the land of Judah, to which they are longing to return and live; for none will return except a few refugees.’”

“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,
‘Devastation and great destruction!’

Then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven away and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered in wine and summer fruit in great abundance.

You who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.

For even if you had defeated the entire army of Chaldeans who were fighting against you, and there were only wounded men left among them, each man in his tent, they would rise up and burn this city with fire.’”

So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;

Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, that they may smoke.

Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness,
And let Your godly ones sing for joy.

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves;
But when they perish, the righteous increase.

For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant:

“But I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor deal falsely in My faithfulness.

Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
To give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in Your praise.

Do return, O Lord; how long will it be?
And be sorry for Your servants.

The north and the south, You have created them;
Tabor and Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

You, even You, are to be feared;
And who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

Draw also the spear and the battle-axe to meet those who pursue me;
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

“Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim also is the helmet of My head;
Judah is My scepter.

Thus Saul died with his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men on that day together.

My God in His lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly upon my foes.

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.

His soul will abide in prosperity,
And his descendants will inherit the land.

You shall give three cities across the Jordan and three cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be cities of refuge.

They shall divide it into seven portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their territory on the north.

I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it.

They married those from the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained with the tribe of the family of their father.

and oil for lighting, and spices for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

and three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering, for the one ram;

They made pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet material and twisted linen on the hem of the robe.

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran back to the well to draw, and she drew for all his camels.

So Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you are to apportion by lot among you as a possession, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.

The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.

“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons;

But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

For their property had become too great for them to live together, and the land where they sojourned could not sustain them because of their livestock.

This is a lamentation and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and over all her hordes they shall chant it,” declares the Lord God.

Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,

“So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Also bear your disgrace in that you have made judgment favorable for your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. Yes, be also ashamed and bear your disgrace, in that you made your sisters appear righteous.

So Ebed-melech took the men under his authority and went into the king’s palace to a place beneath the storeroom and took from there worn-out clothes and worn-out rags and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

“They will roar together like young lions,
They will growl like lions’ cubs.

For You have rescued my soul from death,
My eyes from tears,
My feet from stumbling.

“They will take away their tents and their flocks;
They will carry off for themselves
Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels,
And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

He gives snow like wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.

Sustain me according to Your word, that I may live;
And do not let me be ashamed of my hope.

that Jeremiah went out from Jerusalem to go to the land of Benjamin in order to take possession of some property there among the people.

for thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who dwell in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile—

Show me a sign for good,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

So the Lord heard Hezekiah and healed the people.

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in!

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

The tenth for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite of the Zerahites; and in his division were 24,000.

Now slaughter the Passover animals, sanctify yourselves and prepare for your brethren to do according to the word of the Lord by Moses.”

It came about as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by the hidden part of the mountain, that behold, David and his men were coming down toward her; so she met them.

If he has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,

When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley, with those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them.

and Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the tops of the mountains.” But Zebul said to him, “You are seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”

Like a man hired year by year he shall be with him; he shall not rule over him with severity in your sight.

To Aaron were born Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father charged before he died, saying,

It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a span long and a span wide when folded double.

and all the firstborn males by the number of names from a month old and upward, for their numbered men were 22,273.

There I will also provide for you, for there are still five years of famine to come, and you and your household and all that you have would be impoverished.”’

But bring your youngest brother to me that I may know that you are not spies, but honest men. I will give your brother to you, and you may trade in the land.’”

They took their flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and that which was in the city and that which was in the field;

Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the lad with me and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, we as well as you and our little ones.

shall be the gates of the city, named for the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

When the sons of your people speak to you saying, ‘Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order that they may not bring them out into the outer court to transmit holiness to the people.”

The building that was in front of the separate area at the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the lands. According to their ways and their deeds I judged them.

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,
Whom your eyes have seen.

They will take up a lamentation over you and say to you,
‘How you have perished, O inhabited one,
From the seas, O renowned city,
Which was mighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all her inhabitants!

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because all of you have become dross, therefore, behold, I am going to gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and disperse them among the lands.

“Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
And panic has gripped her;
Distress and pangs have taken hold of her
Like a woman in childbirth.

When my spirit was overwhelmed within me,
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.

“I trod down the peoples in My anger
And made them drunk in My wrath,
And I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”

provoking Me to anger with the works of your hands, burning sacrifices to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are entering to reside, so that you might be cut off and become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

Perhaps their supplication will come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

You appoint darkness and it becomes night,
In which all the beasts of the forest prowl about.

Now then thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why are you doing great harm to yourselves, so as to cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, from among Judah, leaving yourselves without remnant,

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

Therefore I love Your commandments
Above gold, yes, above fine gold.

Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known among the nations in our sight,
Vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been shed.

O may Your lovingkindness comfort me,
According to Your word to Your servant.

Oh give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain.

storehouses also for the produce of grain, wine and oil, pens for all kinds of cattle and sheepfolds for the flocks.

So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
That I may pay my vows day by day.

But those who seek my life to destroy it,
Will go into the depths of the earth.

He will redeem my soul in peace from the battle which is against me,
For they are many who strive with me.

I will give You thanks in the great congregation;
I will praise You among a mighty throng.

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is poured out on us because our fathers have not observed the word of the Lord, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.

the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.

and Ramoth with its pasture lands, Anem with its pasture lands;

and from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh with its pasture lands, Daberath with its pasture lands

Now some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each departed to his home.

and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,

These are those whom the Lord commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.

They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

The chief jailer committed to Joseph’s charge all the prisoners who were in the jail; so that whatever was done there, he was responsible for it.

and the gold altar, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the veil for the doorway of the tent;

and divide the booty between the warriors who went out to battle and all the congregation.

In the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, its bulbs and its flowers;

On the twelfth day it was Ahira the son of Enan, leader of the sons of Naphtali;

The rulers brought the onyx stones and the stones for setting for the ephod and for the breastpiece;

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; let what you have be your own.”

and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to make atonement for them,” declares the Lord God.

And He said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘These are the statutes for the altar on the day it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

Then he went inside and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits high; and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

“They seize their bow and javelin;
They are cruel and have no mercy.
Their voice roars like the sea;
And they ride on horses,
Marshalled like a man for the battle
Against you, O daughter of Babylon.

‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of your slayer,
Though you are a man and not God,
In the hands of those who wound you?

“Also her mercenaries in her midst
Are like fattened calves,
For even they too have turned back and have fled away together;
They did not stand their ground.
For the day of their calamity has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

You will recompense them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.

Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword and by famine until they are completely gone.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know! Why should he take your life, so that all the Jews who are gathered to you would be scattered and the remnant of Judah would perish?”

For Jeremiah had come into the dungeon, that is, the vaulted cell; and Jeremiah stayed there many days.

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord which He spoke through Jeremiah the prophet.

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will make man and beast to cease from it?’”

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

O Israel, trust in the Lord;
He is their help and their shield.

The wicked will see it and be vexed,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked will perish.

For thus says the Lord God of Israel concerning the houses of this city, and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah which are broken down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,

“So have those become to you with whom you have labored,
Who have trafficked with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own way;
There is none to save you.

In whose hand are the depths of the earth,
The peaks of the mountains are His also.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and said to him, “What did these men say, and from where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They have come to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Even though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared.

They in turn gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy quarried stone and timber for couplings and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples.

O God, shatter their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will render thank offerings to You.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name.

He asked life of You,
You gave it to him,
Length of days forever and ever.

God has spoken in His holiness:
“I will exult, I will portion out Shechem and measure out the valley of Succoth.

He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,

Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate the feast another seven days, so they celebrated the seven days with joy.

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

So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord.

also for the divisions of the priests and the Levites and for all the work of the service of the house of the Lord and for all the utensils of service in the house of the Lord;

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals which were on the tops of the pillars;

Jediael the son of Shimri and Joha his brother, the Tizite,

So your life shall hang in doubt before you; and you will be in dread night and day, and shall have no assurance of your life.

It was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.

Shimei then said to the king, “The word is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

The woman came to Saul and saw that he was terrified, and said to him, “Behold, your maidservant has obeyed you, and I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to your words which you spoke to me.

So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you so that we may give you into the hands of the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me.”

‘Then on the fourth day: ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.

You shall offer a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs one year old;

and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

He will bring back on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

If he consecrates his field as of the year of jubilee, according to your valuation it shall stand.

besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

But if on the bald head or the bald forehead, there occurs a reddish-white infection, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or on his bald forehead.

Then she arose and departed, and removed her veil and put on her widow’s garments.

and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot—

The one among the sons of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat, the right thigh shall be his as his portion.

Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

“Then you shall make bars of acacia wood, five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the Lord continually by a perpetual ordinance.

But they said, “We cannot, until all the flocks are gathered, and they roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we water the sheep.”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Say to your brothers, ‘Do this: load your beasts and go to the land of Canaan,

The nave and the sanctuary each had a double door.

Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

It will be the lowest of the kingdoms, and it will never again lift itself up above the nations. And I will make them so small that they will not rule over the nations.

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
I have put her blood on the bare rock,
That it may not be covered.”

in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar 832 persons from Jerusalem;

“Her cities have become an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no man lives
And through which no son of man passes.

At the shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth is shaken, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act in accordance with the whole message with which the Lord your God will send you to us.

Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observed the command of their father which he commanded them, but this people has not listened to Me.’”’

And in their heart they put God to the test
By asking food according to their desire.

“Take again another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

I have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My mighty warriors,
My proudly exulting ones,
To execute My anger.

“I will abundantly bless her provision;
I will satisfy her needy with bread.

He changes a wilderness into a pool of water
And a dry land into springs of water;

I lie awake,
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander about all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

“Give heed to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Deliver me from my persecutors,
For they are too strong for me.

Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.

He split the rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths.

They say, “How does God know?
And is there knowledge with the Most High?”

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne as the sun before Me.

If I had said, “I will speak thus,”
Behold, I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Then I said, “It is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

May the flood of water not overflow me
Nor the deep swallow me up,
Nor the pit shut its mouth on me.

“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory be above all the earth.

For You are the God of my strength; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy crown of him who goes on in his guilty deeds.

The princes of the people have assembled themselves as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into his hand, because he struck his neighbor without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.

Guard my soul and deliver me;
Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.

For You meet him with the blessings of good things;
You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

the men of Jericho, 345;

Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle overtook them while those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of them.

‘Then on the fifth day: nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without defect;

Ashan with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

and blue, purple and scarlet material, fine linen, goats’ hair,

Then Abimelech and the company who was with him dashed forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; the other two companies then dashed against all who were in the field and slew them.

We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.

He made fifty loops in the one curtain and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that was in the second set; the loops were opposite each other.

one gold pan of ten shekels, full of incense;

So the abundance will be unknown in the land because of that subsequent famine; for it will be very severe.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have today bought you and your land for Pharaoh; now, here is seed for you, and you may sow the land.

When that year was ended, they came to him the next year and said to him, “We will not hide from my lord that our money is all spent, and the cattle are my lord’s. There is nothing left for my lord except our bodies and our lands.

Behold, the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks we have brought back to you from the land of Canaan. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?

For how shall I go up to my father if the lad is not with me—for fear that I see the evil that would overtake my father?”

And Abraham bowed before the people of the land.

He said to them, “Do not delay me, since the Lord has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master.”

But when the people of the land come before the Lord at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

Yes, I will cause men—My people Israel—to walk on you and possess you, so that you will become their inheritance and never again bereave them of children.’

By the swords of the mighty ones I will cause your hordes to fall; all of them are tyrants of the nations,
And they will devastate the pride of Egypt,
And all its hordes will be destroyed.

Also I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

Thus I will establish My covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the Lord,

Then the word of the Lord came to me saying,

“Its sound moves along like a serpent;
For they move on like an army
And come to her as woodcutters with axes.

Thus I will execute judgments on Moab, and they will know that I am the Lord.”

“I will set fire to the wall of Damascus,
And it will devour the fortified towers of Ben-hadad.”

But it is you, a man my equal,
My companion and my familiar friend;

The Lord has spoken to you, O remnant of Judah, “Do not go into Egypt!” You should clearly understand that today I have testified against you.

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

Zephaniah the priest read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.

“They are created now and not long ago;
And before today you have not heard them,
So that you will not say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’

There will be no work for Egypt
Which its head or tail, its palm branch or bulrush, may do.

Men shall speak of the power of Your awesome acts,
And I will tell of Your greatness.

And smote all the firstborn in Egypt,
The first issue of their virility in the tents of Ham.

For my eyes are toward You, O God, the Lord;
In You I take refuge; do not leave me defenseless.

Let my prayer come before You;
Incline Your ear to my cry!

“When you see a thief, you are pleased with him,
And you associate with adulterers.

Therefore, I command you, saying, ‘You shall set aside three cities for yourself.’

Do not take my soul away along with sinners,
Nor my life with men of bloodshed,

So they roasted the Passover animals on the fire according to the ordinance, and they boiled the holy things in pots, in kettles, in pans, and carried them speedily to all the lay people.

Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the sons of Israel, and made all who were present in Israel to serve the Lord their God. Throughout his lifetime they did not turn from following the Lord God of their fathers.

“Let me speak that I may get relief;
Let me open my lips and answer.

the sons of Jaala, the sons of Darkon, the sons of Giddel,

everyone who prepares his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though not according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

or if he struck him down with his hand in enmity, and as a result he died, the one who struck him shall surely be put to death, he is a murderer; the blood avenger shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands able at all to deliver their land from my hand?

without regard to their genealogical enrollment, to the males from thirty years old and upward—everyone who entered the house of the Lord for his daily obligations—for their work in their duties according to their divisions;

that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You have given to our fathers.

You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two tenons and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;

Moses and Eleazar the priest did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

Then Aaron returned to Moses at the doorway of the tent of meeting, for the plague had been checked.

You shall put it beneath, under the ledge of the altar, so that the net will reach halfway up the altar.

and the opening of the robe was at the top in the center, as the opening of a coat of mail, with a binding all around its opening, so that it would not be torn.

and on the vine were three branches. And as it was budding, its blossoms came out, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.

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

When Joseph came to them in the morning and observed them, behold, they were dejected.

When she saw that he had left his garment in her hand and had fled outside,

The sons of Jacob’s wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass by this heap to you for harm, and you will not pass by this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Take double the money in your hand, and take back in your hand the money that was returned in the mouth of your sacks; perhaps it was a mistake.

Now it came about as they were emptying their sacks, that behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack; and when they and their father saw their bundles of money, they were dismayed.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons’; it shall belong to them.

During the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

From the base on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits and the width one cubit; and from the smaller ledge to the larger ledge shall be four cubits and the width one cubit.

And you have spoken arrogantly against Me and have multiplied your words against Me; I have heard it.”

Then they will know that I, the Lord their God, am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are My people,” declares the Lord God.

The lips of my assailants and their whispering
Are against me all day long.

You have heard my voice,
“Do not hide Your ear from my prayer for relief,
From my cry for help.”

“Terror, pit and snare are coming upon you,
O inhabitant of Moab,” declares the Lord.

We have only dwelt in tents, and have obeyed and have done according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.

“Moab is broken,
Her little ones have sounded out a cry of distress.

saying, “No, but we will go to the land of Egypt, where we will not see war or hear the sound of a trumpet or hunger for bread, and we will stay there”;

“They lift it upon the shoulder and carry it;
They set it in its place and it stands there.
It does not move from its place.
Though one may cry to it, it cannot answer;
It cannot deliver him from his distress.

I will also punish him and his descendants and his servants for their iniquity, and I will bring on them and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah all the calamity that I have declared to them—but they did not listen.”’”

Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, “I am restricted; I cannot go into the house of the Lord.

So Hananiah the prophet died in the same year in the seventh month.

Let us go into His dwelling place;
Let us worship at His footstool.

The Lord preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.

They will bear you up in their hands,
That you do not strike your foot against a stone.

The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke,
I do not forget Your statutes.

Because they were rebellious against His Spirit,
He spoke rashly with his lips.

And not be like their fathers,
A stubborn and rebellious generation,
A generation that did not prepare its heart
And whose spirit was not faithful to God.

May all who hate Zion
Be put to shame and turned backward;

He sent Moses His servant,
And Aaron, whom He had chosen.

And He brought forth His people with joy,
His chosen ones with a joyful shout.

But chose the tribe of Judah,
Mount Zion which He loved.