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4003

Then he ran to Eli and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” But he said, “I did not call, lie down again.” So he went and lay down.

4004

Because of the proof given by this ministry, they will glorify God for your obedience to your confession of the gospel of Christ and for the liberality of your contribution to them and to all,

4006

Then I said, “My lord, what are these?” And the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”

4007

and here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

4008

Then He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them.

4009

So the 300 men took the people’s provisions and their trumpets into their hands. And Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.

4010

So all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years, and he died.

4011

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them, and kept giving them to the disciples to set before the people.

4012

“But you are profaning it, in that you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is to be despised.’

4013

They do not crowd each other,
They march everyone in his path;
When they burst through the defenses,
They do not break ranks.

4014

A man will be satisfied with good by the fruit of his words,
And the deeds of a man’s hands will return to him.

4015

“And those who bow down on the housetops to the host of heaven,
And those who bow down and swear to the Lord and yet swear by Milcom,

4016

Now the bronze altar, which Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, was there before the tabernacle of the Lord, and Solomon and the assembly sought it out.

4017

How have the mighty fallen,
And the weapons of war perished!”

4018

now therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but according to the kindness that I have shown to you, you shall show to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.”

4019

“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
In that He judges those on high?

4020

Drinks were served in golden vessels of various kinds, and the royal wine was plentiful according to the king’s bounty.

4021

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

4022

So it came about at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.

4023

Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels moved with them. And whenever the living beings rose from the earth, the wheels rose also.

4024

And all the people saw him walking and praising God;

4025

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;
I saw your forefathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.
But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to shame,
And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

4027

If you would direct your heart right
And spread out your hand to Him,

4028

Then he shall tear it by its wings, but shall not sever it. And the priest shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the wood which is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

4029

So the angel who was speaking with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?” And I said, “No, my lord.”

4030

Satan answered the Lord and said, “Skin for skin! Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

4031

We captured all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we did not take from them: sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

4032

Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

4033

[When he had spoken these words, the Jews departed, having a great dispute among themselves.]

4034

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,

4035

so that no one would say you were baptized in my name.

4036

As the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth resounded.

4037

So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.

4038

So the people, who were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead, continued to testify about Him.

4039

And it will be that like a hunted gazelle,
Or like sheep with none to gather them,
They will each turn to his own people,
And each one flee to his own land.

4040

sound in speech which is beyond reproach, so that the opponent will be put to shame, having nothing bad to say about us.

4041

and four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their service, under the direction of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

4042

And Daniel continued until the first year of Cyrus the king.

4043

Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.

4044

He said to her, “Give me your son.” Then he took him from her bosom and carried him up to the upper room where he was living, and laid him on his own bed.

4045

However, I will not tear away all the kingdom, but I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen.”

4046

yet to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

4047

For I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the open country,
Planting places for a vineyard.
I will pour her stones down into the valley
And will lay bare her foundations.

4048

But Peter continued knocking; and when they had opened the door, they saw him and were amazed.

4049

Now, behold, Adonijah is king; and now, my lord the king, you do not know it.

4050

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

4051

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Edom and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because he pursued his brother with the sword,
While he stifled his compassion;
His anger also tore continually,
And he maintained his fury forever.

4052

I thank my God always, making mention of you in my prayers,

4053

As for you also, because of the blood of My covenant with you,
I have set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

4054

The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.

4055

You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

4056

and are proclaiming customs which it is not lawful for us to accept or to observe, being Romans.”

4057

So Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and Manasseh his son became king in his place.

4058

When these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they entered one tent and ate and drank, and carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they returned and entered another tent and carried from there also, and went and hid them.

4059

“So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre
And it will consume her citadels.”

4060

Then Bathsheba bowed and prostrated herself before the king. And the king said, “What do you wish?”

4061

I will bear the indignation of the Lord
Because I have sinned against Him,
Until He pleads my case and executes justice for me.
He will bring me out to the light,
And I will see His righteousness.

4062

Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.

4063

So the angel who was speaking with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “I am exceedingly jealous for Jerusalem and Zion.

4064

In fierce anger He has cut off
All the strength of Israel;
He has drawn back His right hand
From before the enemy.
And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
Consuming round about.

4065

the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way.

4066

I went out full, but the Lord has brought me back empty. Why do you call me Naomi, since the Lord has witnessed against me and the Almighty has afflicted me?”

4068

Now Jehu came out to the servants of his master, and one said to him, “Is all well? Why did this mad fellow come to you?” And he said to them, “You know very well the man and his talk.”

4069

“Because I called and you refused,
I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;

4070

The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Diphath, and Togarmah.

4071

As for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and intelligence in every branch of literature and wisdom; Daniel even understood all kinds of visions and dreams.

4072

Then they arose and went to Ziph before Saul. Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah to the south of Jeshimon.

4073

But with an overflowing flood
He will make a complete end of its site,
And will pursue His enemies into darkness.

4074

When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is severe on us and on Dagon our god.”

4075

The second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

4076

They said to her, “You are out of your mind!” But she kept insisting that it was so. They kept saying, “It is his angel.”

4077

And the king of Jericho sent word to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land.”

4078

When Elisha became sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash the king of Israel came down to him and wept over him and said, “My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and its horsemen!”

4079

and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, because of the provocation with which you have provoked Me to anger, and because you have made Israel sin.

4080

Now, O Lord God, Your promise to my father David is fulfilled, for You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

4081

“Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
And you will eat the plants of the field;

4082

Then Seth lived eight hundred and seven years after he became the father of Enosh, and he had other sons and daughters.

4083

“For now You number my steps,
You do not observe my sin.

4084

You also say, ‘My, how tiresome it is!’ And you disdainfully sniff at it,” says the Lord of hosts, “and you bring what was taken by robbery and what is lame or sick; so you bring the offering! Should I receive that from your hand?” says the Lord.

4085

and afterward there was a continual burnt offering, also for the new moons and for all the fixed festivals of the Lord that were consecrated, and from everyone who offered a freewill offering to the Lord.

4086

Therefore the Lord has kept the calamity in store and brought it on us; for the Lord our God is righteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not obeyed His voice.

4087

Behold fire came down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.”

4088

“Ask a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.”

4089

And Jesus turned and saw them following, and *said to them, “What do you seek?” They said to Him, “Rabbi (which translated means Teacher), where are You staying?”

4090

I was crying to the Lord with my voice,
And He answered me from His holy mountain. Selah.

4093

On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar they observed seven days and the feast seven days.

4094

For when the priesthood is changed, of necessity there takes place a change of law also.

4095

Among these are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan, so that they will be taught not to blaspheme.

4096

(for by what he saw and heard that righteous man, while living among them, felt his righteous soul tormented day after day by their lawless deeds),

4097

Asahel the brother of Joab was among the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

4098

and I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe; but let us go to him.”

4099

Wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go in that direction. And the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

4100

For I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me, resulting in the obedience of the Gentiles by word and deed,

4102

Now as I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside the living beings, for each of the four of them.

4103

When Hiram heard the words of Solomon, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the Lord today, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.”

4104

“He has brought me to his banquet hall,
And his banner over me is love.

4105

and he said to Him, “All these things I will give You, if You fall down and worship me.”

4106

But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command delivered by the eunuchs. Then the king became very angry and his wrath burned within him.

4107

Stay with me; do not be afraid, for he who seeks my life seeks your life, for you are safe with me.”

4108

So the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, departed and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day while he was taking his midday rest.

4109

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’

4110

For all His ordinances were before me,
And as for His statutes, I did not depart from them.

4111

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

4112

“Their king will go into exile,
He and his princes together,” says the Lord.

4113

He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a horrid image as an Asherah, and Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.

4114

Because of this I must lament and wail,
I must go barefoot and naked;
I must make a lament like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches.

4115

but when he was in Rome, he eagerly searched for me and found me—

4116

And behold, the angel who was speaking with me was going out, and another angel was coming out to meet him,

4117

Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your King is coming, seated on a donkey’s colt.”

4118

Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

4119

The king called aloud to bring in the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners. The king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, “Any man who can read this inscription and explain its interpretation to me shall be clothed with purple and have a necklace of gold around his neck, and have authority as third ruler in the kingdom.”

4120

And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

4122

that is, to pass your way into Macedonia, and again from Macedonia to come to you, and by you to be helped on my journey to Judea.

4123

The seeds shrivel under their clods;
The storehouses are desolate,
The barns are torn down,
For the grain is dried up.

4124

And Jesus said to the centurion, “Go; it shall be done for you as you have believed.” And the servant was healed that very moment.

4125

for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.

4126

Convinced of this, I know that I will remain and continue with you all for your progress and joy in the faith,

4127

Immediately Jesus, aware in His spirit that they were reasoning that way within themselves, *said to them, “Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?

4128

“When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, ‘Work a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’”

4130

In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire was bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.

4131

Yet this you do have, that you hate the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

4132

The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

4133

of Benjamin, Abidan the son of Gideoni;

4134

Then one of the young men said, “Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is a skillful musician, a mighty man of valor, a warrior, one prudent in speech, and a handsome man; and the Lord is with him.”

4135

And a poor man named Lazarus was laid at his gate, covered with sores,

4136

And they shall not teach everyone his fellow citizen,
And everyone his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
For all will know Me,
From the least to the greatest of them.

4137

to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

4138

But from those who were of high reputation (what they were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—well, those who were of reputation contributed nothing to me.

4139

The entrails, however, and the legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall offer all of it, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

4140

And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realized that this also is striving after wind.

4141

The Lord said to the sons of Israel, “Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians, the Amorites, the sons of Ammon, and the Philistines?

4142

and he spoke to them according to the advice of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

4143

But thanks be to God who puts the same earnestness on your behalf in the heart of Titus.

4144

If they were all one member, where would the body be?

4145

‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,

4146

“If thieves came to you,
If robbers by night—
O how you will be ruined!—
Would they not steal only until they had enough?
If grape gatherers came to you,
Would they not leave some gleanings?

4147

Then the angel of the Lord said, “O Lord of hosts, how long will You have no compassion for Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been indignant these seventy years?”

4148

Then the anointed priest is to take some of the blood of the bull and bring it to the tent of meeting,

4149

Now there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

4150

She said to him, “My lord, you swore to your maidservant by the Lord your God, saying, ‘Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me and he shall sit on my throne.’

4151

Then why did you not put my money in the bank, and having come, I would have collected it with interest?’

4152

just as you also partially did understand us, that we are your reason to be proud as you also are ours, in the day of our Lord Jesus.

4153

“The alien has not lodged outside,
For I have opened my doors to the traveler.

4154

to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown in order to display her beauty to the people and the princes, for she was beautiful.

4155

Then he said to him, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of His word?—therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you have gone up, but shall surely die.’”

4156

These are grumblers, finding fault, following after their own lusts; they speak arrogantly, flattering people for the sake of gaining an advantage.

4157

Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah.And they told David, saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”

4158

They run like mighty men,
They climb the wall like soldiers;
And they each march in line,
Nor do they deviate from their paths.

4159

Tell it not in Gath,
Weep not at all.
At Beth-le-aphrah roll yourself in the dust.

4160

The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are this day like the stars of heaven in number.

4161

Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

4162

“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

4163

He who has ears to hear, let him hear.

4164

But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.

4166

Then the king said to the wise men who understood the times—for it was the custom of the king so to speak before all who knew law and justice

4167

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, “Go down, warn the people, so that they do not break through to the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

4168

Let the king appoint overseers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather every beautiful young virgin to the citadel of Susa, to the harem, into the custody of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let their cosmetics be given them.

4169

So he listened to them in this matter and tested them for ten days.

4170

which You have commanded by Your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land which you are entering to possess is an unclean land with the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations which have filled it from end to end and with their impurity.

4171

Those who ate delicacies
Are desolate in the streets;
Those reared in purple
Embrace ash pits.

4172

Now in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

4173

Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied.

4174

When I send Artemas or Tychicus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, for I have decided to spend the winter there.

4175

What is crooked cannot be straightened and what is lacking cannot be counted.

4176

And those who have turned back from following the Lord,
And those who have not sought the Lord or inquired of Him.”

4177

Solomon went up there before the Lord to the bronze altar which was at the tent of meeting, and offered a thousand burnt offerings on it.

4179

Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

4180

I will go down now, and see if they have done entirely according to its outcry, which has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

4181

Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

4182

then you shall investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

4183

The remnant of Jacob
Will be among the nations,
Among many peoples
Like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
Like a young lion among flocks of sheep,
Which, if he passes through,
Tramples down and tears,
And there is none to rescue.

4184

When he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who sang to the Lord and those who praised Him in holy attire, as they went out before the army and said, “Give thanks to the Lord, for His lovingkindness is everlasting.”

4185

So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and appointed them heads over you, leaders of thousands and of hundreds, of fifties and of tens, and officers for your tribes.

4186

Or what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?

4187

He also placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed the golden plate, the holy crown, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

4188

The magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils were on the magicians as well as on all the Egyptians.

4189

Whatever you devise against the Lord,
He will make a complete end of it.
Distress will not rise up twice.

4190

(Hiram king of Tyre had supplied Solomon with cedar and cypress timber and gold according to all his desire), then King Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

4191

And each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they would go, without turning as they went.

4192

I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

4193

But Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink?” They *said to Him, “We are able.”

4194

The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim and Rodanim.

4195

“Yet there will be a tenth portion in it,
And it will again be subject to burning,
Like a terebinth or an oak
Whose stump remains when it is felled.
The holy seed is its stump.”

4196

For this is not for the ease of others and for your affliction, but by way of equality—

4197

So he told her all that was in his heart and said to her, “A razor has never come on my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother’s womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will leave me and I will become weak and be like any other man.”

4198

The doorway for the lowest side chamber was on the right side of the house; and they would go up by winding stairs to the middle story, and from the middle to the third.

4199

For they have refreshed my spirit and yours. Therefore acknowledge such men.

4200

“O how Esau will be ransacked,
And his hidden treasures searched out!

4201

Zion will be redeemed with justice
And her repentant ones with righteousness.

4202

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’

4203

Noah became the father of three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

4204

So he forsook the Lord, the God of his fathers, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

4205

All this I have seen and applied my mind to every deed that has been done under the sun wherein a man has exercised authority over another man to his hurt.

4206

of Dan, Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai;

4207

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever. Why should my face not be sad when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies desolate and its gates have been consumed by fire?”

4209

“The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?

4210

So Bathsheba went in to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

4211

And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God,

4212

For the one concerning whom these things are spoken belongs to another tribe, from which no one has officiated at the altar.

4213

And they had forgotten to take bread, and did not have more than one loaf in the boat with them.

4214

Afterward the sons of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country and in the Negev and in the lowland.

4215

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

4216

Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by not keeping His commandments and His ordinances and His statutes which I am commanding you today;

4217

And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty.

4218

The Lord answered the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.

4219

So he went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak; and he said to him, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” And he said, “I am.”

4220

Toi sent Joram his son to King David to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and defeated him; for Hadadezer had been at war with Toi. And Joram brought with him articles of silver, of gold and of bronze.

4221

The strutting rooster, the male goat also,
And a king when his army is with him.

4222

Do they not blaspheme the fair name by which you have been called?

4223

but taking leave of them and saying, “I will return to you again if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

4224

Not so! Go now, the men among you, and serve the Lord, for that is what you desire.” So they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

4225

that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.”

4227

“Lift up a standard toward Zion!
Seek refuge, do not stand still,
For I am bringing evil from the north,
And great destruction.

4228

The king made of the almug trees supports for the house of the Lord and for the king’s house, also lyres and harps for the singers; such almug trees have not come in again nor have they been seen to this day.

4229

yet he has no firm root in himself, but is only temporary, and when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he falls away.

4231

and,
On their hands they will bear You up,
So that You will not strike Your foot against a stone.’”

4232

A wise man scales the city of the mighty
And brings down the stronghold in which they trust.

4233

David became angry because of the Lord’s outburst against Uzzah, and that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day.

4234

They did so, and had them all sit down.

4235

‘But if his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering from the turtledoves or from young pigeons.

4236

“Nothing remains for him to devour,
Therefore his prosperity does not endure.

4237

If you will fear the Lord and serve Him, and listen to His voice and not rebel against the command of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you will follow the Lord your God.

4238

You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance,
The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling,
The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.

4239

Ephraim mixes himself with the nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.

4240

Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.

4241

do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.

4243

The king of Israel went out and struck the horses and chariots, and killed the Arameans with a great slaughter.

4244

They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet:

4245

Where your fathers tried Me by testing Me,
And saw My works for forty years.

4246

Then let our appearance be observed in your presence and the appearance of the youths who are eating the king’s choice food; and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

4247

Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.’

4248

From now on I am telling you before it comes to pass, so that when it does occur, you may believe that I am He.

4249

Even the beasts of the field pant for You;
For the water brooks are dried up
And fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

4250

and if He rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men

4251

But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

4252

Then the righteous will answer Him, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?

4253

But the children rebelled against Me; they did not walk in My statutes, nor were they careful to observe My ordinances, by which, if a man observes them, he will live; they profaned My sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath on them, to accomplish My anger against them in the wilderness.

4254

Now therefore, make confession to the Lord God of your fathers and do His will; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign wives.”

4255

Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

4256

“Also, I will have no compassion on her children,
Because they are children of harlotry.

4257

Passing through the street near her corner;
And he takes the way to her house,

4258

For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears; not so that you would be made sorrowful, but that you might know the love which I have especially for you.

4259

But many who are first will be last, and the last, first.”

4260

and were close to him: Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media who had access to the king’s presence and sat in the first place in the kingdom—

4261

He shall then cut it into its pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.

4262

Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

4263

and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,

4264

For your servant knows that I have sinned; therefore behold, I have come today, the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.”

4265

It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the first offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’

4267

Then you will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that My covenant may continue with Levi,” says the Lord of hosts.

4268

Therefore thus says the Lord,
“Behold, I am planning against this family a calamity
From which you cannot remove your necks;
And you will not walk haughtily,
For it will be an evil time.

4269

How the beasts groan!
The herds of cattle wander aimlessly
Because there is no pasture for them;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

4270

“So I will kindle a fire on the wall of Rabbah
And it will consume her citadels
Amid war cries on the day of battle,
And a storm on the day of tempest.

4271

For her wound is incurable,
For it has come to Judah;
It has reached the gate of my people,
Even to Jerusalem.

4272

And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder
And the inferior against the honorable.

4273

“If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored;
If you remove unrighteousness far from your tent,

4275

I said to myself, “Behold, I have magnified and increased wisdom more than all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”

4276

Solomon said to God, “You have dealt with my father David with great lovingkindness, and have made me king in his place.

4277

For the queen’s conduct will become known to all the women causing them to look with contempt on their husbands by saying, ‘King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought in to his presence, but she did not come.’

4278

Like tangled thorns,
And like those who are drunken with their drink,
They are consumed
As stubble completely withered.

4279

They began to discuss with one another the fact that they had no bread.

4280

and he looked at Jesus as He walked, and *said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”

4281

Mizraim became the father of the people of Lud, Anam, Lehab, Naphtuh,

4283

Then he arose and departed and went to Samaria. On the way while he was at Beth-eked of the shepherds,

4284

so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.

4285

For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears.

4286

In that night God appeared to Solomon and said to him, “Ask what I shall give you.”

4287

So Ahaziah died according to the word of the Lord which Elijah had spoken. And because he had no son, Jehoram became king in his place in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat, king of Judah.

4288

It shall be when he lies down, that you shall notice the place where he lies, and you shall go and uncover his feet and lie down; then he will tell you what you shall do.”

4289

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they *saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened.

4290

“I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in My name, saying, ‘I had a dream, I had a dream!’

4291

He shall also bring his guilt offering to the Lord for his sin which he has committed, a female from the flock, a lamb or a goat as a sin offering. So the priest shall make atonement on his behalf for his sin.

4292

Immediately, when the entire crowd saw Him, they were amazed and began running up to greet Him.

4293

God said to Solomon, “Because you had this in mind, and did not ask for riches, wealth or honor, or the life of those who hate you, nor have you even asked for long life, but you have asked for yourself wisdom and knowledge that you may rule My people over whom I have made you king,

4294

She said, “Oh, my lord! As your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood here beside you, praying to the Lord.

4295

“They are dreaded and feared;
Their justice and authority originate with themselves.

4296

“And with a pillar of cloud You led them by day,
And with a pillar of fire by night
To light for them the way
In which they were to go.

4297

Six were born to him in Hebron, and there he reigned seven years and six months. And in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

4298

In this confidence I intended at first to come to you, so that you might twice receive a blessing;

4299

So he sent letters to all the king’s provinces, to each province according to its script and to every people according to their language, that every man should be the master in his own house and the one who speaks in the language of his own people.

4300

But I am very angry with the nations who are at ease; for while I was only a little angry, they furthered the disaster.”

4301

Then the word of the Lord came to Zechariah saying,

4302

for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

4303

He said, “If the Arameans are too strong for me, then you shall help me, but if the sons of Ammon are too strong for you, then I will come to help you.

4304

so that your proud confidence in me may abound in Christ Jesus through my coming to you again.

4305

Now Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. So they said to him, “You are not also one of His disciples, are you?” He denied it, and said, “I am not.”

4306

Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked.”

4307

The porch which was in front of the house was as long as the width of the house, twenty cubits, and the height 120; and inside he overlaid it with pure gold.

4309

The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones.

4310

You are already filled, you have already become rich, you have become kings without us; and indeed, I wish that you had become kings so that we also might reign with you.

4311

Mica, Rehob, Hashabiah,

4312

Now in the second year, in the second month, on the twentieth of the month, the cloud was lifted from over the tabernacle of the testimony;

4313

Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it for a whole burnt offering to the Lord; and Samuel cried to the Lord for Israel and the Lord answered him.

4314

But the Lord said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her shame for seven days? Let her be shut up for seven days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.”

4315

From you has gone forth
One who plotted evil against the Lord,
A wicked counselor.

4316

You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

4317

“Will they not teach you and tell you,
And bring forth words from their minds?

4318

Then Omri and all Israel with him went up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.

4319

Also Judah did not keep the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the customs which Israel had introduced.

4320

The angel of the Lord said to Elijah, “Go down with him; do not be afraid of him.” So he arose and went down with him to the king.

4321

If you afflict him at all, and if he does cry out to Me, I will surely hear his cry;

4322

So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.

4323

How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?

4324

As for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

4326

Has not food been cut off before our eyes,
Gladness and joy from the house of our God?

4327

If Satan also is divided against himself, how will his kingdom stand? For you say that I cast out demons by Beelzebul.

4328

Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

4329

because I hear of your love and of the faith which you have toward the Lord Jesus and toward all the saints;

4330

for they gave that to those who did the work, and with it they repaired the house of the Lord.

4333

David said on that day, “Whoever would strike the Jebusites, let him reach the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul, through the water tunnel.” Therefore they say, “The blind or the lame shall not come into the house.”

4334

and they were taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the Beautiful Gate of the temple to beg alms, and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him.

4335

From the priests were Jedaiah, Jehoiarib, Jachin,

4336

Then King Ahaz cut off the borders of the stands, and removed the laver from them; he also took down the sea from the bronze oxen which were under it and put it on a pavement of stone.

4337

Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

4338

“Then I will restore your judges as at the first,
And your counselors as at the beginning;
After that you will be called the city of righteousness,
A faithful city.”

4339

At the same time too, he was hoping that money would be given him by Paul; therefore he also used to send for him quite often and converse with him.

4340

He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.

4341

as unknown yet well-known, as dying yet behold, we live; as punished yet not put to death,

4342

The drinking was done according to the law, there was no compulsion, for so the king had given orders to each official of his household that he should do according to the desires of each person.

4343

Be silent before the Lord God!
For the day of the Lord is near,
For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice,
He has consecrated His guests.

4344

Therefore there arose a discussion on the part of John’s disciples with a Jew about purification.

4346

Even saying these things, with difficulty they restrained the crowds from offering sacrifice to them.

4347

I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

4348

After him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighty men.

4349

Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”’”

4350

of Ezra, Meshullam; of Amariah, Jehohanan;

4351

“And they will pass through the sea of distress
And He will strike the waves in the sea,
So that all the depths of the Nile will dry up;
And the pride of Assyria will be brought down
And the scepter of Egypt will depart.

4352

Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat again, so that I will not cause my brother to stumble.

4353

Otherwise it will come about, as soon as my lord the king sleeps with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon will be considered offenders.”

4355

If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say, ‘The Lord has need of it.’”

4356

But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us good news of your faith and love, and that you always think kindly of us, longing to see us just as we also long to see you,

4357

saying,Amen, blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might, be to our God forever and ever. Amen.”

4358

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbannai the eleventh.

4359

For thus the Lord spoke to me with mighty power and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,

4360

He *said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they came and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

4361

I will also appoint a place for My people Israel and will plant them, that they may live in their own place and not be disturbed again, nor will the wicked afflict them any more as formerly,

4362

Then the magicians, the conjurers, the Chaldeans and the diviners came in and I related the dream to them, but they could not make its interpretation known to me.

4363

nor did we seek glory from men, either from you or from others, even though as apostles of Christ we might have asserted our authority.

4364

Yet the people do not turn back to Him who struck them,
Nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

4365

having a reputation for good works; and if she has brought up children, if she has shown hospitality to strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has assisted those in distress, and if she has devoted herself to every good work.

4366

“The Lord has removed men far away,
And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

4367

“Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.
But they will be held guilty,
They whose strength is their god.”

4368

“Their horses are swifter than leopards
And keener than wolves in the evening.
Their horsemen come galloping,
Their horsemen come from afar;
They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour.

4369

“So I will send fire upon Teman
And it will consume the citadels of Bozrah.”

4370

You shall make an altar of earth for Me, and you shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen; in every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

4371

But now there are many members, but one body.

4372

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”

4373

Others were saying, “These are not the sayings of one demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

4374

and the sixth, Ithream, by David’s wife Eglah. These were born to David at Hebron.

4375

Go on your way, inhabitant of Shaphir, in shameful nakedness.
The inhabitant of Zaanan does not escape.
The lamentation of Beth-ezel: “He will take from you its support.”

4376

and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”

4377

Go up to the mountains, bring wood and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord.

4378

On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person, that alone may be prepared by you.

4379

The priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar.

4380

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of the sons of Ammon and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead
In order to enlarge their borders.

4381

You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”For in subjecting all things to him, He left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

4382

Harness the chariot to the team of horses,
O inhabitant of Lachish—
She was the beginning of sin
To the daughter of Zion—
Because in you were found
The rebellious acts of Israel.

4383

Now David called him, and he ate and drank before him, and he made him drunk; and in the evening he went out to lie on his bed with his lord’s servants, but he did not go down to his house.

4384

wisdom and knowledge have been granted to you. And I will give you riches and wealth and honor, such as none of the kings who were before you has possessed nor those who will come after you.”

4385

Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh,
But I will come over her fair neck with a yoke;
I will harness Ephraim,
Judah will plow, Jacob will harrow for himself.

4386

This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:
‘She has despised you and mocked you,
The virgin daughter of Zion;
She has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!

4387

“Then I charged your judges at that time, saying, ‘Hear the cases between your fellow countrymen, and judge righteously between a man and his fellow countryman, or the alien who is with him.

4388

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

4391

For on the first of the first month he began to go up from Babylon; and on the first of the fifth month he came to Jerusalem, because the good hand of his God was upon him.

4392

experiencing the same conflict which you saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

4393

For amazement had seized him and all his companions because of the catch of fish which they had taken;

4394

But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

4395

“Then it will come about on the day of the Lord’s sacrifice
That I will punish the princes, the king’s sons
And all who clothe themselves with foreign garments.

4396

And Caleb said, “The one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will even give him my daughter Achsah for a wife.”

4397

Take the ark of the Lord and place it on the cart; and put the articles of gold which you return to Him as a guilt offering in a box by its side. Then send it away that it may go.

4398

“Then we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as the Lord our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

4399

Then I said, “Lord, how long?” And He answered,
“Until cities are devastated and without inhabitant,
Houses are without people
And the land is utterly desolate,

4400

So Moses and Aaron took these men who had been designated by name,

4401

Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God which He has given you.

4402

The king replied to the Chaldeans, “The command from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you will be torn limb from limb and your houses will be made a rubbish heap.

4403

So also the Lord directed those who proclaim the gospel to get their living from the gospel.

4404

So King Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned. Now Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen from all the tribes of Israel, to put His name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

4405

Then I will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of the ground; nor will your vine in the field cast its grapes,” says the Lord of hosts.

4406

They brought the boy to Him. When he saw Him, immediately the spirit threw him into a convulsion, and falling to the ground, he began rolling around and foaming at the mouth.

4407

And the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.

4408

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

4409

storing up for themselves the treasure of a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is life indeed.

4411

Pathrus, Casluh, from which the Philistines came, and Caphtor.

4412

Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

4413

“Why should I pardon you?
Your sons have forsaken Me
And sworn by those who are not gods.
When I had fed them to the full,
They committed adultery
And trooped to the harlot’s house.

4414

For the inhabitant of Maroth
Becomes weak waiting for good,
Because a calamity has come down from the Lord
To the gate of Jerusalem.

4415

The strong man will become tinder,
His work also a spark.
Thus they shall both burn together
And there will be none to quench them.

4416

For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His.

4417

Now where there is forgiveness of these things, there is no longer any offering for sin.

4418

And the crowds were questioning him, saying, “Then what shall we do?”

4419

“I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
You have been very pleasant to me.
Your love to me was more wonderful
Than the love of women.

4420

So the Lord cuts off head and tail from Israel,
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

4421

and I pray that the fellowship of your faith may become effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ’s sake.

4422

The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.

4423

Then Solomon said,
“The Lord has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.

4424

These men must also first be tested; then let them serve as deacons if they are beyond reproach.

4425

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, having never been educated?”

4426

Every man 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.

4427

Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news,
Who announces peace!
Celebrate your feasts, O Judah;
Pay your vows.
For never again will the wicked one pass through you;
He is cut off completely.

4428

If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”

4429

Those who desire to make a good showing in the flesh try to compel you to be circumcised, simply so that they will not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

4430

Then from there he went against the inhabitants of Debir (now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher).

4431

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end!

4432

And their sins and their lawless deeds
I will remember no more.”

4433

as it is written, “He who gathered much did not have too much, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

4434

But transgressors and sinners will be crushed together,
And those who forsake the Lord will come to an end.

4435

Cush became the father of Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.

4436

He also confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,

4437

And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,

4438

“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

4439

They will go with their flocks and herds
To seek the Lord, but they will not find Him;
He has withdrawn from them.

4440

They told the king, saying, “Here is Nathan the prophet.” And when he came in before the king, he prostrated himself before the king with his face to the ground.

4441

When evening came, they would go out of the city.

4442

it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon.

4443

And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have testified, behold, He is baptizing and all are coming to Him.”

4444

for it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

4445

Thus the Lord said to me, “Go and stand in the public gate, through which the kings of Judah come in and go out, as well as in all the gates of Jerusalem;

4446

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there were four horns.

4448

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

4449

At the end of ten days their appearance seemed better and they were fatter than all the youths who had been eating the king’s choice food.

4450

But since he did not have the means to repay, his lord commanded him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all that he had, and repayment to be made.

4451

And He was giving orders to them, saying, Watch out! Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

4452

The deliverers will ascend Mount Zion
To judge the mountain of Esau,
And the kingdom will be the Lord’s.

4453

‘You have granted me life and lovingkindness;
And Your care has preserved my spirit.

4454

For he has gone down today and has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the king’s sons and the commanders of the army and Abiathar the priest, and behold, they are eating and drinking before him; and they say, ‘Long live King Adonijah!’

4455

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

4456

not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere, enlarged even more by you,

4457

“Then your mighty men will be dismayed, O Teman,
So that everyone may be cut off from the mountain of Esau by slaughter.

4458

All her majesty
Has departed from the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
And they have fled without strength
Before the pursuer.

4459

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.”

4460

Are You not from everlasting,
O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge;
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.

4461

You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth.

4462

This also comes from the Lord of hosts,
Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

4464

And they all ate and were satisfied; and the broken pieces which they had left over were picked up, twelve baskets full.

4465

So although I wrote to you, it was not for the sake of the offender nor for the sake of the one offended, but that your earnestness on our behalf might be made known to you in the sight of God.

4466

“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the Lord.

4467

Therefore, I was not vacillating when I intended to do this, was I? Or what I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, so that with me there will be yes, yes and no, no at the same time?

4468

It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until it was all leavened.”

4469

“All the men allied with you
Will send you forth to the border,
And the men at peace with you
Will deceive you and overpower you.
They who eat your bread
Will set an ambush for you.
(There is no understanding in him.)

4470

He will not quarrel, nor cry out;
Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets.

4471

I said, “What are these coming to do?” And he said, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah so that no man lifts up his head; but these craftsmen have come to terrify them, to throw down the horns of the nations who have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah in order to scatter it.”

4472

“They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns,
They have strained themselves to no profit.
But be ashamed of your harvest
Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

4473

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

4474

and their kinsmen who performed the work of the temple, 822; and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,

4475

So Nathan went to his house.Then the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s widow bore to David, so that he was very sick.

4476

and they assembled all the congregation together on the first of the second month. Then they registered by ancestry in their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head,

4477

And it will be, if ten men are left in one house, they will die.

4479

When all Jabesh-gilead heard all that the Philistines had done to Saul,

4480

at this present time your abundance being a supply for their need, so that their abundance also may become a supply for your need, that there may be equality;

4481

and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

4482

But they urged Him, saying, “Stay with us, for it is getting toward evening, and the day is now nearly over.” So He went in to stay with them.

4483

His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

4484

Then one of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?”

4485

The king went out and all the people with him, and they stopped at the last house.

4487

Whenever they moved, they moved in any of their four directions without turning as they moved.

4488

For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob,
Because they are filled with influences from the east,
And they are soothsayers like the Philistines,
And they strike bargains with the children of foreigners.

4489

For it is written,
I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

4491

The second one married her, and died leaving behind no children; and the third likewise;

4493

But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

4494

For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no peace because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.

4495

“They mock at kings
And rulers are a laughing matter to them.
They laugh at every fortress
And heap up rubble to capture it.

4496

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

4497

I delivered you from the hands of the Egyptians and from the hands of all your oppressors, and dispossessed them before you and gave you their land,

4498

To You, O Lord, I cry;
For fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness
And the flame has burned up all the trees of the field.

4499

It came about at the end of forty days and nights that the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant.

4500

This day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s conduct will speak in the same way to all the king’s princes, and there will be plenty of contempt and anger.

4501

Therefore you will give parting gifts
On behalf of Moresheth-gath;
The houses of Achzib will become a deception
To the kings of Israel.

4502

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of Yours?”

4503

This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

4504

and of the sons of Bani, Shelomith, the son of Josiphiah and 160 males with him;

4505

Therefore thus says the Lord, “I will return to Jerusalem with compassion; My house will be built in it,” declares the Lord of hosts, “and a measuring line will be stretched over Jerusalem.”’

4507

how will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory?

4508

Whenever those went, these went; and whenever those stood still, these stood still. And whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.

4509

After these things He gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.

4510

of Gad, Eliasaph the son of Deuel;

4511

This word pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.

4512

He put shields and spears in every city and strengthened them greatly. So he held Judah and Benjamin.

4513

Then at the end of the days which the king had specified for presenting them, the commander of the officials presented them before Nebuchadnezzar.

4514

For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to death; because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

4516

“Because of violence to your brother Jacob,
You will be covered with shame,
And you will be cut off forever.

4517

He will also take your male servants and your female servants and your best young men and your donkeys and use them for his work.

4518

The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether and Meshech.

4519

In the presence of the king and the princes, Memucan said, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king but also all the princes and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

4520

Moreover, I issue a decree concerning what you are to do for these elders of Judah in the rebuilding of this house of God: the full cost is to be paid to these people from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces beyond the River, and that without delay.

4521

“Would that God were willing to crush me,
That He would loose His hand and cut me off!

4522

How long will you lie down, O sluggard?
When will you arise from your sleep?

4523

and calling out, they were asking whether Simon, who was also called Peter, was staying there.

4524

“For the day of the Lord draws near on all the nations.
As you have done, it will be done to you.
Your dealings will return on your own head.

4525

“Is not your fear of God your confidence,
And the integrity of your ways your hope?

4526

All the days of his separation he is holy to the Lord.

4527

But when Ahab died, the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

4528

You answered me and said, ‘The thing which you have said to do is good.’

4529

I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites which the Lord our God is about to give us.

4530

Or in case a man has no kinsman, but so recovers his means as to find sufficient for its redemption,

4532

The disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus *answered again and *said to them, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

4533

Next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah the son of Hakkoz made repairs. And next to him Meshullam the son of Berechiah the son of Meshezabel made repairs. And next to him Zadok the son of Baana also made repairs.

4534

As for Ephraim, their glory will fly away like a bird—
No birth, no pregnancy and no conception!

4535

These are they who were called of the congregation, the leaders of their fathers’ tribes; they were the heads of divisions of Israel.”

4536

The elder to the beloved Gaius, whom I love in truth.

4537

They imported chariots from Egypt for 600 shekels of silver apiece and horses for 150 apiece, and by the same means they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

4538

Was any man called when he was already circumcised? He is not to become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? He is not to be circumcised.

4539

the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,

4540

Then Nathan said, “My lord the king, have you said, ‘Adonijah shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne’?

4541

Then Amaziah, the priest of Bethel, sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is unable to endure all his words.

4542

Why have You made men like the fish of the sea,
Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

4543

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not fear man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’

4545

Good understanding produces favor,
But the way of the treacherous is hard.

4546

“Will I not on that day,” declares the Lord,
Destroy wise men from Edom
And understanding from the mountain of Esau?

4548

then he shall confess his sins which he has committed, and he shall make restitution in full for his wrong and add to it one-fifth of it, and give it to him whom he has wronged.

4549

But Solomon did not make slaves for his work from the sons of Israel; they were men of war, his chief captains and commanders of his chariots and his horsemen.

4550

Remember me for this, O my God, and do not blot out my loyal deeds which I have performed for the house of my God and its services.

4551

They were enrolled by genealogy, according to their generations, heads of their fathers’ households, 20,200 mighty men of valor.

4552

Certainly I have not taken advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you, have I?

4553

A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, nor can a bad tree produce good fruit.

4554

Whereas my father loaded you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

4555

When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people in the house of the Lord.

4556

“Those who were full hire themselves out for bread,
But those who were hungry cease to hunger.
Even the barren gives birth to seven,
But she who has many children languishes.

4557

Now King David was old, advanced in age; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not keep warm.

4558

As to all my affairs, Tychicus, our beloved brother and faithful servant and fellow bond-servant in the Lord, will bring you information.

4559

Canaan became the father of Sidon, his firstborn, Heth,

4560

“I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
A haunt of jackals;
And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

4561

You have also appointed prophets to proclaim in Jerusalem concerning you, ‘A king is in Judah!’ And now it will be reported to the king according to these reports. So come now, let us take counsel together.”

4562

And He was saying, He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”

4563

For if in anything I have boasted to him about you, I was not put to shame; but as we spoke all things to you in truth, so also our boasting before Titus proved to be the truth.

4564

If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.

4565

Your poverty will come in like a vagabond
And your need like an armed man.

4566

In the second month on the fourteenth day at twilight, they shall observe it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

4567

Leaving them, He again embarked and went away to the other side.

4568

But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”

4569

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness”;

4570

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare among the peoples His deeds.

4571

But the Lord said to my father David, ‘Because it was in your heart to build a house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.

4572

Simon, whom He also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; and James and John; and Philip and Bartholomew;

4573

As the appearance of the rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding radiance. Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard a voice speaking.

4574

(for He who effectually worked for Peter in his apostleship to the circumcised effectually worked for me also to the Gentiles),

4575

The one on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, this is the man who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy;

4576

Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, “Behold, the Lord, the God of Israel, has commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.

4577

So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplications, and for Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

4578

Moreover, I will bring on you
The one who takes possession,
O inhabitant of Mareshah.
The glory of Israel will enter Adullam.

4579

When Judah turned around, behold, they were attacked both front and rear; so they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets.

4580

Behold, while she was still speaking with the king, Nathan the prophet came in.

4581

Also let the priests who come near to the Lord consecrate themselves, or else the Lord will break out against them.”

4582

The gold of that land is good; the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

4583

So the overseer continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and kept giving them vegetables.

4585

But by a prophet the Lord brought Israel from Egypt,
And by a prophet he was kept.

4587

Make yourself bald and cut off your hair,
Because of the children of your delight;
Extend your baldness like the eagle,
For they will go from you into exile.

4588

As for every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and conjurers who were in all his realm.

4589

But there were some of them, men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who came to Antioch and began speaking to the Greeks also, preaching the Lord Jesus.

4590

And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord went forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.

4591

Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was credited to Abraham as righteousness.”

4592

And after twisting together a crown of thorns, they put it on His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they knelt down before Him and mocked Him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

4593

and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,

4594

If the serpent bites before being charmed, there is no profit for the charmer.

4595

There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and died leaving no children.

4596

Thus says the Lord,
“Though they are at full strength and likewise many,
Even so, they will be cut off and pass away.
Though I have afflicted you,
I will afflict you no longer.

4597

then the Lord will create over the whole area of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud by day, even smoke, and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.

4598

It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the stars to fall to the earth, and it trampled them down.

4599

Having so fond an affection for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become very dear to us.

4600

I will bring you to the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession; I am the Lord.’”

4601

By Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, Malcam,

4602

In my ears the Lord of hosts has sworn, “Surely, many houses shall become desolate,
Even great and fine ones, without occupants.

4603

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well
Is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.

4604

When the devil had finished every temptation, he left Him until an opportune time.

4605

But to those who rebuke the wicked will be delight,
And a good blessing will come upon them.

4606

When He had said this, one of the officers standing nearby struck Jesus, saying, “Is that the way You answer the high priest?”

4607

What I am saying, I am not saying as the Lord would, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

4608

When He had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, He distributed their land as an inheritance—all of which took about four hundred and fifty years.

4609

And some tax collectors also came to be baptized, and they said to him, “Teacher, what shall we do?”

4610

and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord, and he will be forgiven for any one of the things which he may have done to incur guilt.”

4611

But if God so clothes the grass in the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, how much more will He clothe you? You men of little faith!

4612

the Arvadites, the Zemarites and the Hamathites.

4613

He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and of fifties, and some to do his plowing and to reap his harvest and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

4614

The Lord has issued a command concerning you:
Your name will no longer be perpetuated.
I will cut off idol and image
From the house of your gods.
I will prepare your grave,
For you are contemptible.”

4616

“According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti, because she did not obey the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?”

4617

And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”

4619

When the strong ones went out, they were eager to go to patrol the earth.” And He said, “Go, patrol the earth.” So they patrolled the earth.

4621

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

4622

The closest relative said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, because I would jeopardize my own inheritance. Redeem it for yourself; you may have my right of redemption, for I cannot redeem it.”

4623

But some of the scribes were sitting there and reasoning in their hearts,

4624

I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.

4625

and from Jerusalem, and from Idumea, and beyond the Jordan, and the vicinity of Tyre and Sidon, a great number of people heard of all that He was doing and came to Him.

4626

“One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and satisfied;

4627

And behold, I will send the lad, saying, ‘Go, find the arrows.’ If I specifically say to the lad, ‘Behold, the arrows are on this side of you, get them,’ then come; for there is safety for you and no harm, as the Lord lives.

4628

Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, “Please let us detain you so that we may prepare a young goat for you.”

4629

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative Lot with his possessions, and also the women, and the people.

4630

The descendants of the Kenite, Moses’ father-in-law, went up from the city of palms with the sons of Judah, to the wilderness of Judah which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.

4631

For I have assigned you a number of days corresponding to the years of their iniquity, three hundred and ninety days; thus you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

4632

He brought me forth also into a broad place;
He rescued me, because He delighted in me.

4633

And Caleb said, “The one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter as a wife.”

4634

so that your fasting will not be noticed by men, but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.

4635

Then He said, “Put your hand into your bosom again.” So he put his hand into his bosom again, and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh.

4636

It will become a sign and a witness to the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of oppressors, and He will send them a Savior and a Champion, and He will deliver them.

4637

and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan who was at Ashtaroth.

4638

But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem.

4639

And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

4640

Then they took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought us back a report and said, ‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is about to give us.’

4641

And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying,

4642

So Solomon went from the high place which was at Gibeon, from the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel.

4643

So they *said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”

4644

Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.

4645

And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings.

4646

When they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed Him.

4647

of Asher, Pagiel the son of Ochran;

4648

By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the exodus of the sons of Israel, and gave orders concerning his bones.

4649

Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city.

4650

Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

4651

For the king of the North will again raise a greater multitude than the former, and after an interval of some years he will press on with a great army and much equipment.

4652

Moreover, man does not know his time: like fish caught in a treacherous net and birds trapped in a snare, so the sons of men are ensnared at an evil time when it suddenly falls on them.

4653

Then the Lord raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the royal line in Edom.

4654

And He came up and touched the coffin; and the bearers came to a halt. And He said, “Young man, I say to you, arise!”

4655

“Were He to snatch away, who could restrain Him?
Who could say to Him, ‘What are You doing?’

4656

Be warned, O Jerusalem,
Or I shall be alienated from you,
And make you a desolation,
A land not inhabited.”

4657

“If they will not believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe the witness of the last sign.

4658

“Do not stand at the fork of the road
To cut down their fugitives;
And do not imprison their survivors
In the day of their distress.

4659

It was a handbreadth thick, and its brim was made like the brim of a cup, like a lily blossom; it could hold 3,000 baths.

4660

“On the day that you stood aloof,
On the day that strangers carried off his wealth,
And foreigners entered his gate
And cast lots for Jerusalem—
You too were as one of them.

4661

and next to him Jehozabad, and with him 180,000 equipped for war.

4662

Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their disaster.

4663

Moses said to Pharaoh, “The honor is yours to tell me: when shall I entreat for you and your servants and your people, that the frogs be destroyed from you and your houses, that they may be left only in the Nile?”

4664

The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars as plentiful as sycamores in the lowland.

4665

You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance.

4666

Deacons must be husbands of only one wife, and good managers of their children and their own households.

4667

Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.

4668

of Naphtali, Ahira the son of Enan.

4669

When the king’s edict which he will make is heard throughout all his kingdom, great as it is, then all women will give honor to their husbands, great and small.”

4670

But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.”

4671

When He utters His voice, there is a tumult of waters in the heavens,
And He causes the clouds to ascend from the end of the earth;
He makes lightning for the rain,
And brings out the wind from His storehouses.

4672

Then after his return from the defeat of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).

4673

If it pleases the king, let a royal edict be issued by him and let it be written in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti may no longer come into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and let the king give her royal position to another who is more worthy than she.

4674

Solomon amassed chariots and horsemen. He had 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen, and he stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king at Jerusalem.

4675

Then Hushai said to Absalom, “No! For whom the Lord, this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his I will be, and with him I will remain.

4676

there went into the ark to Noah by twos, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

4677

Then the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and felled to the ground on that day 22,000 men of Israel.

4678

We are not again commending ourselves to you but are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

4679

Then the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

4680

But now take courage, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord, ‘take courage also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you people of the land take courage,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ declares the Lord of hosts.

4681

For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.

4682

But the sons of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who lived in Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have lived with the sons of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

4684

while they also, by prayer on your behalf, yearn for you because of the surpassing grace of God in you.

4685

But I call God as witness to my soul, that to spare you I did not come again to Corinth.

4686

“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

4687

Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

4688

Then he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’

4690

Joktan became the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,

4691

But Saul said, “Not a man shall be put to death this day, for today the Lord has accomplished deliverance in Israel.”

4692

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up on the land of Egypt and eat every plant of the land, even all that the hail has left.”

4693

Joshua captured all the cities of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.

4694

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

4695

Before Him goes pestilence,
And plague comes after Him.

4696

But I have used none of these things. And I am not writing these things so that it will be done so in my case; for it would be better for me to die than have any man make my boast an empty one.

4697

and they began to acclaim Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

4699

and Arpachshad lived four hundred and three years after he became the father of Shelah, and he had other sons and daughters.

4700

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

4701

David built there an altar to the Lord and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Thus the Lord was moved by prayer for the land, and the plague was held back from Israel.

4702

The appearance of the wheels and their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel were within another.

4703

As for their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were full of eyes round about.

4704

For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like a wild donkey all alone;
Ephraim has hired lovers.

4705

And He healed many who were ill with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He was not permitting the demons to speak, because they knew who He was.

4706

Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

4707

“As for you, tower of the flock,
Hill of the daughter of Zion,
To you it will come—
Even the former dominion will come,
The kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

4708

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s traders procured them from Kue for a price.

4709

Moses then took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.

4711

The chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

4712

The priest shall also take some of the log of oil, and pour it into his left palm;

4713

But Jesus took him by the hand and raised him; and he got up.

4714

“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance,
Your name is like purified oil;
Therefore the maidens love you.

4715

God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.

4716

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

4717

And He asked them, “What are you discussing with them?”

4718

Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”

4719

Then I was very angry when I had heard their outcry and these words.

4720

even from the day that I commanded judges to be over My people Israel; and I will give you rest from all your enemies. The Lord also declares to you that the Lord will make a house for you.

4721

If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated Me and My Father as well.

4722

“So now, I will break his yoke bar from upon you,
And I will tear off your shackles.”

4723

It is He who flashes forth with destruction upon the strong,
So that destruction comes upon the fortress.

4724

Arpachshad became the father of Shelah and Shelah became the father of Eber.

4725

For I have sent him to you for this very purpose, that you may know about our circumstances and that he may encourage your hearts;

4726

But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the Lord!”

4727

“My covenant with him was one of life and peace, and I gave them to him as an object of reverence; so he revered Me and stood in awe of My name.

4728

And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence so as to realize the full assurance of hope until the end,

4729

He said, “This will be the procedure of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and place them for himself in his chariots and among his horsemen and they will run before his chariots.

4730

And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country.

4731

Eber lived thirty-four years, and became the father of Peleg;

4735

The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.

4736

“And I will punish on that day all who leap on the temple threshold,
Who fill the house of their lord with violence and deceit.

4738

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you;

4739

and all the kings of the north, near and far, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the earth which are upon the face of the ground, and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

4741

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

4743

Two sons were born to Eber, the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother’s name was Joktan.

4744

“All of them come for violence.
Their horde of faces moves forward.
They collect captives like sand.

4745

Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one accord they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed by the king’s country.

4746

Now may God give you of the dew of heaven,
And of the fatness of the earth,
And an abundance of grain and new wine;

4747

“But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape,
And it will be holy.
And the house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

4749

So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

4750

and they sent this letter by them, The apostles and the brethren who are elders, to the brethren in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia who are from the Gentiles, greetings.

4751

“And I will strengthen them in the Lord,
And in His name they will walk,” declares the Lord.

4752

with all his reign, his power, and the circumstances which came on him, on Israel, and on all the kingdoms of the lands.

4753

Thus says the Lord,
What injustice did your fathers find in Me,
That they went far from Me
And walked after emptiness and became empty?

4754

(for Joab and all Israel stayed there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom),

4755

Then Amaziah said to Amos, “Go, you seer, flee away to the land of Judah and there eat bread and there do your prophesying!

4756

and Joshua said to them, “Cross again to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel.

4757

And Jesus said to them, “The attendants of the bridegroom cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.

4758

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but, ‘I have been sent ahead of Him.’

4760

But these, like unreasoning animals, born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge, will in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed,

4761

and Ahitub became the father of Zadok, and Zadok became the father of Ahimaaz,

4762

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

4763

And He was asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”

4765

in the power of signs and wonders, in the power of the Spirit; so that from Jerusalem and round about as far as Illyricum I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.

4766

And He told His disciples that a boat should stand ready for Him because of the crowd, so that they would not crowd Him;

4767

Turning to the disciples, He said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see,

4768

And the slave came back and reported this to his master. Then the head of the household became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the city and bring in here the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

4769

Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for a wife.

4770

So they said to one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it, to decide whose it shall be”; this was to fulfill the Scripture: “They divided My outer garments among them, and for My clothing they cast lots.”

4771

And He stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately the leprosy left him.

4772

Ebal, Abimael, Sheba,

4774

Thus the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months; and the Lord blessed the family of Obed-edom with all that he had.

4775

As for you, lift up your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, and the sons of Israel shall go through the midst of the sea on dry land.

4776

Now Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, and the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel. But the Lord thundered with a great thunder on that day against the Philistines and confused them, so that they were routed before Israel.

4777

They kept beating His head with a reed, and spitting on Him, and kneeling and bowing before Him.

4778

On the contrary, it is much truer that the members of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;

4779

For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him.

4780

Also when the Sidonians, the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, you cried out to Me, and I delivered you from their hands.

4781

by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh,

4782

This is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”

4783

From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;

4784

Now when day came, there was no small disturbance among the soldiers as to what could have become of Peter.

4785

Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me,
As in the day of trial in the wilderness,

4787

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me;
I will change their glory into shame.

4788

But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to wave over the trees?’

4789

Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.

4790

Now behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem and said to the reapers, “May the Lord be with you.” And they said to him, “May the Lord bless you.”

4791

And all the people were trying to touch Him, for power was coming from Him and healing them all.

4792

‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.

4793

These four were born to the giant in Gath, and they fell by the hand of David and by the hand of his servants.

4794

When Herod had searched for him and had not found him, he examined the guards and ordered that they be led away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and was spending time there.

4795

“So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight.
Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

4796

When Haman saw that Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage.

4797

Now over the heads of the living beings there was something like an expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, spread out over their heads.

4798

Of Jezebel also has the Lord spoken, saying, ‘The dogs will eat Jezebel in the district of Jezreel.’

4799

“On that day,” declares the Lord,
“There will be the sound of a cry from the Fish Gate,
A wail from the Second Quarter,
And a loud crash from the hills.

4801

You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

4802

They said, “It is a lie, tell us now.” And he said, “Thus and thus he said to me, ‘Thus says the Lord, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’”

4803

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

4804

Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

4805

for I say to you, that many prophets and kings wished to see the things which you see, and did not see them, and to hear the things which you hear, and did not hear them.”

4806

“Is there yet a man in the wicked house,
Along with treasures of wickedness
And a short measure that is cursed?

4807

Then Samuel arose and went up from Gilgal to Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about six hundred men.

4808

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great name?”

4809

for now we really live, if you stand firm in the Lord.

4810

Now I have come to give you an understanding of what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision pertains to the days yet future.”

4811

Surely you will be ashamed of the oaks which you have desired,
And you will be embarrassed at the gardens which you have chosen.

4812

‘Because the Lord could not bring this people into the land which He promised them by oath, therefore He slaughtered them in the wilderness.’

4814

“Oh that my request might come to pass,
And that God would grant my longing!

4815

The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

4816

“So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way
And be satiated with their own devices.

4817

And he wrote a letter having this form:

4818

Of the sons of Gad, their genealogical registration by their families, by their fathers’ households, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, whoever was able to go out to war,

4819

The old man said, “Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square.”

4820

In the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious things
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They mocked at her ruin.

4821

Moreover, King Hezekiah and the officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the Lord with the words of David and Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with joy, and bowed down and worshiped.

4822

As they went up the slope to the city, they found young women going out to draw water and said to them, “Is the seer here?”

4823

For the Son of Man is to go just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

4824

He overlaid the main room with cypress wood and overlaid it with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.

4825

The king talked with them, and out of them all not one was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; so they entered the king’s personal service.

4826

“It will come about at that time
That I will search Jerusalem with lamps,
And I will punish the men
Who are stagnant in spirit,
Who say in their hearts,
‘The Lord will not do good or evil!’

4827

Therefore, though I have enough confidence in Christ to order you to do what is proper,

4828

She said to him, “Give me a blessing, since you have given me the land of the Negev, give me also springs of water.” So Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

4829

“He has no offspring or posterity among his people,
Nor any survivor where he sojourned.

4830

“For wisdom is better than jewels;
And all desirable things cannot compare with her.

4831

The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it.

4832

Then all the king’s wise men came in, but they could not read the inscription or make known its interpretation to the king.

4833

but glory and honor and peace to everyone who does good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

4834

Shem, Arpachshad, Shelah,

4835

but in the place which the Lord chooses in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.

4836

“When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and they shall take down the veil of the screen and cover the ark of the testimony with it;

4837

Then another angel, the one who has power over fire, came out from the altar; and he called with a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, “Put in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, because her grapes are ripe.”

4838

And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight; I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

4839

And Judah took Gaza with its territory and Ashkelon with its territory and Ekron with its territory.

4840

These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.

4841

“Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar,
For all the people of Canaan will be silenced;
All who weigh out silver will be cut off.

4843

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Judah and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because they rejected the law of the Lord
And have not kept His statutes;
Their lies also have led them astray,
Those after which their fathers walked.

4844

With the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied;
He will be satisfied with the product of his lips.

4846

“Your two breasts are like two fawns,
Twins of a gazelle
Which feed among the lilies.

4847

“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am lovesick.

4848

Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their little ones you will dash in pieces, and their women with child you will rip up.”

4849

That they may possess the remnant of Edom
And all the nations who are called by My name,”
Declares the Lord who does this.

4850

Then it came about when she came to him, that she persuaded him to ask her father for a field. Then she alighted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

4851

Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor can salt water produce fresh.

4852

“They will be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “on the day that I prepare My own possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him.”

4853

The servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his own house.

4854

All because of the many harlotries of the harlot,
The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations by her harlotries
And families by her sorceries.

4855

What more can David still say to You concerning the honor bestowed on Your servant? For You know Your servant.

4856

So David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?”

4857

“You are no longer to give the people straw to make brick as previously; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

4859

Diligently help Zenas the lawyer and Apollos on their way so that nothing is lacking for them.

4860

The news about them reached the ears of the church at Jerusalem, and they sent Barnabas off to Antioch.

4861

And on account of transgression the host will be given over to the horn along with the regular sacrifice; and it will fling truth to the ground and perform its will and prosper.

4862

They answered a second time and said, “Let the king tell the dream to his servants, and we will declare the interpretation.”

4863

You shall make four gold rings for it and put rings on the four corners which are on its four feet.

4864

He said to him, “Behold, I grant you this request also, not to overthrow the town of which you have spoken.

4865

Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

4866

Then you took your embroidered cloth and covered them, and offered My oil and My incense before them.

4867

Simon and his companions searched for Him;

4868

My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

4869

Then He said to me, “Son of man, I am sending you to the sons of Israel, to a rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers have transgressed against Me to this very day.

4870

Do not gloat over your brother’s day,
The day of his misfortune.
And do not rejoice over the sons of Judah
In the day of their destruction;
Yes, do not boast
In the day of their distress.

4871

Only to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He spoke to him.

4872

And place your gold in the dust,
And the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks,

4873

Ophir, Havilah and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.

4874

However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, “He who practices them shall live by them.”

4875

The Lord God has sworn by Himself, the Lord God of hosts has declared:
“I loathe the arrogance of Jacob,
And detest his citadels;
Therefore I will deliver up the city and all it contains.”

4876

They rush on the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb into the houses,
They enter through the windows like a thief.

4877

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

4878

Then King David said, “Call Bathsheba to me.” And she came into the king’s presence and stood before the king.

4879

For this reason we have been comforted.And besides our comfort, we rejoiced even much more for the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

4880

“And now, O Lord our God, who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and have made a name for Yourself, as it is this day—we have sinned, we have been wicked.

4881

I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me.

4882

So I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these?” And he answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel and Jerusalem.”

4884

Now I have told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

4885

Now then, my sons, listen to me
And do not depart from the words of my mouth.

4886

What do I mean then? That a thing sacrificed to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?

4887

then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations?

4888

Even on My bondslaves, both men and women,
I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit
And they shall prophesy.

4889

Then David said to Ornan, “Give me the site of this threshing floor, that I may build on it an altar to the Lord; for the full price you shall give it to me, that the plague may be restrained from the people.”

4890

and so all seven left no children. Last of all the woman died also.

4891

They turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol and spied it out.

4892

The sea began to be stirred up because a strong wind was blowing.

4893

“Draw me after you and let us run together!
The king has brought me into his chambers.”
We will rejoice in you and be glad;
We will extol your love more than wine.
Rightly do they love you.”

4894

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

4895

Then Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they struck the Canaanites living in Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called Hormah.

4896

And the whole city had gathered at the door.

4897

and the ostrich, the owl, the sea gull, and the hawk in their kinds,

4898

So Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him, and they did not please him.

4899

their numbered men of the tribe of Gad were 45,650.

4900

“For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”

4901

You have made him for a little while lower than the angels;
You have crowned him with glory and honor,
And have appointed him over the works of Your hands;

4902

The sons of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

4903

“I will tell you, listen to me;
And what I have seen I will also declare;

4904

These are the families of the Zebulunites according to those who were numbered of them, 60,500.

4905

from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.

4906

Then my enemy will see,
And shame will cover her who said to me,
“Where is the Lord your God?”
My eyes will look on her;
At that time she will be trampled down
Like mire of the streets.

4907

For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,

4909

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,

4910

“It will be in that day,” declares the Lord,
That I will cut off your horses from among you
And destroy your chariots.

4911

All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin not leading to death.

4912

All the people went away to eat, to drink, to send portions and to celebrate a great festival, because they understood the words which had been made known to them.

4913

“Because just as you drank on My holy mountain,
All the nations will drink continually.
They will drink and swallow
And become as if they had never existed.

4914

So he waited yet another seven days; and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

4915

These were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan and Solomon, four, by Bath-shua the daughter of Ammiel;

4916

Then all the assembly replied with a loud voice, “That’s right! As you have said, so it is our duty to do.

4917

So Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.

4918

and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess;

4919

nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you;

4921

But on the contrary, seeing that I had been entrusted with the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been to the circumcised

4922

Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

4923

Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, when the Lord said to me, ‘Assemble the people to Me, that I may let them hear My words so they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’

4924

For Saul and they and all the men of Israel are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”

4925

Let the priests, the Lord’s ministers,
Weep between the porch and the altar,
And let them say, “Spare Your people, O Lord,
And do not make Your inheritance a reproach,
A byword among the nations.
Why should they among the peoples say,
Where is their God?’”

4926

Brethren, each one is to remain with God in that condition in which he was called.

4927

“Then the house of Jacob will be a fire
And the house of Joseph a flame;
But the house of Esau will be as stubble.
And they will set them on fire and consume them,
So that there will be no survivor of the house of Esau,”
For the Lord has spoken.

4928

Will they therefore empty their net
And continually slay nations without sparing?

4929

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the holy of holies, under the wings of the cherubim.

4930

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

4931

“They were well-fed lusty horses,
Each one neighing after his neighbor’s wife.

4932

Although there is no violence in my hands,
And my prayer is pure.

4933

their numbered men of the tribe of Reuben were 46,500.

4934

I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together,” declares the Lord. “I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.”’”

4935

The elders of his household stood beside him in order to raise him up from the ground, but he was unwilling and would not eat food with them.

4937

Prize her, and she will exalt you;
She will honor you if you embrace her.

4938

you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.

4940

His kinsmen by their families, in the genealogy of their generations, were Jeiel the chief, then Zechariah

4941

For He who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not commit murder.” Now if you do not commit adultery, but do commit murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

4942

The man of God sent word to the king of Israel saying, “Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Arameans are coming down there.”

4943

Then the Lord said to him, “Go down and come up again, you and Aaron with you; but do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the Lord, or He will break forth upon them.”

4944

He who is guarantor for a stranger will surely suffer for it,
But he who hates being a guarantor is secure.

4945

and leaving Nazareth, He came and settled in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali.

4946

Arise, walk about the land through its length and breadth; for I will give it to you.”

4947

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

4948

“A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a waste.
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.

4949

Eber, Peleg, Reu,

4951

When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, “What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?” Then they understood that the ark of the Lord had come into the camp.

4952

and to keep the Lord’s commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

4953

“Furthermore, wine betrays the haughty man,
So that he does not stay at home.
He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,
And he is like death, never satisfied.
He also gathers to himself all nations
And collects to himself all peoples.

4954

“I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
And I find knowledge and discretion.

4955

all the valiant men arose and took away the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons and brought them to Jabesh, and they buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

4956

It happened when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why have you torn your clothes? Now let him come to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.”

4957

and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

4959

He fixed his gaze steadily on him until he was ashamed, and the man of God wept.

4960

Watch, if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done us this great evil. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”

4961

It even magnified itself to be equal with the Commander of the host; and it removed the regular sacrifice from Him, and the place of His sanctuary was thrown down.

4962

Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

4963

then watch yourself, that you do not forget the Lord who brought you from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

4964

This is how you shall make it: the length of the ark three hundred cubits, its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits.

4965

Being reminded, Peter *said to Him, “Rabbi, look, the fig tree which You cursed has withered.”

4966

and houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and hewn cisterns which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and you eat and are satisfied,

4967

So he built the house and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.

4968

The Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them and gave them into the hand of plunderers, until He had cast them out of His sight.

4969

He will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam, which he committed and with which he made Israel to sin.”

4970

On an appointed day Herod, having put on his royal apparel, took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

4971

But refuse to put younger widows on the list, for when they feel sensual desires in disregard of Christ, they want to get married,

4972

In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of Judah, Menahem son of Gadi became king over Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria.

4973

David sent messengers to the men of Jabesh-gilead, and said to them, “May you be blessed of the Lord because you have shown this kindness to Saul your lord, and have buried him.

4975

just as the Lord had commanded Moses. So he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai.

4976

Such is not the case. But a man from the hill country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, has lifted up his hand against King David. Only hand him over, and I will depart from the city.” And the woman said to Joab, “Behold, his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”

4978

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul, the thing was agreeable to him.

4979

How then was it credited? While he was circumcised, or uncircumcised? Not while circumcised, but while uncircumcised;

4980

Because they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord.

4981

“Do not enter the gate of My people
In the day of their disaster.
Yes, you, do not gloat over their calamity
In the day of their disaster.
And do not loot their wealth
In the day of their disaster.

4983

however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.

4984

A time to search and a time to give up as lost;
A time to keep and a time to throw away.

4986

“For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’

4987

I am writing these things to you, hoping to come to you before long;

4988

So now do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters to your sons, and never seek their peace or their prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’

4989

Also the priest who presents any man’s burnt offering, that priest shall have for himself the skin of the burnt offering which he has presented.

4990

for this reason, brethren, in all our distress and affliction we were comforted about you through your faith;

4991

As they drank their wine at the banquet, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition, for it shall be granted to you. And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done.”

4992

For each one threw down his staff and they turned into serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.

4993

saying,“We give You thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.

4995

They feed on the sin of My people
And direct their desire toward their iniquity.

4996

But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads.”

4997

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations and against My statutes more than the lands which surround her; for they have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’

4998

But Sihon would not permit Israel to pass through his border. So Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

4999

“You are those who have stood by Me in My trials;

5000

Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the army, and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder.

5001

Now the weight of gold which came in to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

5002

He *said to them, “Let us go somewhere else to the towns nearby, so that I may preach there also; for that is what I came for.”