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7003

Another one said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused.’

7004

Ishmerai, Izliah and Jobab were the sons of Elpaal.

7006

Besides, whom should I serve? Should I not serve in the presence of his son? As I have served in your father’s presence, so I will be in your presence.”

7007

But he said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent!’

7008

So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

7009

Upon hearing this, they entered into the temple about daybreak and began to teach.Now when the high priest and his associates came, they called the Council together, even all the Senate of the sons of Israel, and sent orders to the prison house for them to be brought.

7010

hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved; with the result that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.

7011

And He said to them, Take nothing for your journey, neither a staff, nor a bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not even have two tunics apiece.

7012

Then the king gave orders to call in the magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king.

7014

Now no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make swords or spears.”

7015

Did the Lord rage against the rivers,
Or was Your anger against the rivers,
Or was Your wrath against the sea,
That You rode on Your horses,
On Your chariots of salvation?

7016

“From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia
My worshipers, My dispersed ones,
Will bring My offerings.

7017

Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain.

7018

Also anything with its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut, you shall not offer to the Lord, or sacrifice in your land,

7019

Then Aaron’s sons shall offer it up in smoke on the altar on the burnt offering, which is on the wood that is on the fire; it is an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

7020

Also the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon and their brethren who kept watch at the gates, were 172.

7021

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

7022

and when they come from the market place, they do not eat unless they cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received in order to observe, such as the washing of cups and pitchers and copper pots.)

7023

Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground was dried up.

7024

For when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh,

7025

for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

7026

Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres.

7027

And this is clearer still, if another priest arises according to the likeness of Melchizedek,

7028

And you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.

7029

But he said, “Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.”

7030

Peter said, “Behold, we have left our own homes and followed You.”

7031

Those passing by were hurling abuse at Him, wagging their heads, and saying, “Ha! You who are going to destroy the temple and rebuild it in three days,

7032

Now these are the records of the generations of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and sons were born to them after the flood.

7033

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

7034

So if the uncircumcised man keeps the requirements of the Law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

7035

“So two or three cities would stagger to another city to drink water,
But would not be satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

7036

You, in Your great compassion,
Did not forsake them in the wilderness;
The pillar of cloud did not leave them by day,
To guide them on their way,
Nor the pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they were to go.

7037

Then I reprimanded the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing you are doing, by profaning the sabbath day?

7038

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

7039

The word of the Lord which came to Zephaniah son of Cushi, son of Gedaliah, son of Amariah, son of Hezekiah, in the days of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah:

7040

When he had spoken to me according to these words, I turned my face toward the ground and became speechless.

7041

Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

7042

And he took a potsherd to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

7043

The heads of the Levites were Hashabiah, Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brothers opposite them, to praise and give thanks, as prescribed by David the man of God, division corresponding to division.

7044

The Lord said to Samuel, “Behold, I am about to do a thing in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle.

7045

You shall put in the breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.

7047

He said, “Which way shall we go up?” And he answered, “The way of the wilderness of Edom.”

7048

For a command came to me by the word of the Lord, ‘You shall eat no bread, nor drink water there; do not return by going the way which you came.’”

7049

Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God here.” For the ark of God was at that time with the sons of Israel.

7050

They shall perform the duties for him and for the whole congregation before the tent of meeting, to do the service of the tabernacle.

7051

then he said to them, “This is what the Lord meant: Tomorrow is a sabbath observance, a holy sabbath to the Lord. Bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”

7052

nor was it that He would offer Himself often, as the high priest enters the holy place year by year with blood that is not his own.

7053

‘Nevertheless, anything which a man sets apart to the Lord out of all that he has, of man or animal or of the fields of his own property, shall not be sold or redeemed. Anything devoted to destruction is most holy to the Lord.

7054

But many of the crowd believed in Him; and they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not perform more signs than those which this man has, will He?”

7056

For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.

7057

But who is able to build a house for Him, for the heavens and the highest heavens cannot contain Him? So who am I, that I should build a house for Him, except to burn incense before Him?

7058

When he had begun to settle them, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him.

7059

“Will not your creditors rise up suddenly,
And those who collect from you awaken?
Indeed, you will become plunder for them.

7060

Further, he adorned the house with precious stones; and the gold was gold from Parvaim.

7061

Haman controlled himself, however, went to his house and sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh.

7062

For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.

7063

His servants arose and made a conspiracy and struck down Joash at the house of Millo as he was going down to Silla.

7064

For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the Lord.

7065

thus incurring condemnation, because they have set aside their previous pledge.

7066

They helped David against the band of raiders, for they were all mighty men of valor, and were captains in the army.

7067

and that which was a trial to you in my bodily condition you did not despise or loathe, but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus Himself.

7068

The sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

7069

Then Elkanah went to his home at Ramah. But the boy ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest.

7070

do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a footstep because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

7071

And He went off with him; and a large crowd was following Him and pressing in on Him.

7072

You, O king, have made a decree that every man who hears the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery, and bagpipe and all kinds of music, is to fall down and worship the golden image.

7073

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Rise up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

7074

Terah lived seventy years, and became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran.

7075

And he who is physically uncircumcised, if he keeps the Law, will he not judge you who though having the letter of the Law and circumcision are a transgressor of the Law?

7076

for it will come upon all those who dwell on the face of all the earth.

7077

And then He will send forth the angels, and will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the farthest end of the earth to the farthest end of heaven.

7078

He will love you and bless you and multiply you; He will also bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain and your new wine and your oil, the increase of your herd and the young of your flock, in the land which He swore to your forefathers to give you.

7079

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will perform My service, then you will also govern My house and also have charge of My courts, and I will grant you free access among these who are standing here.

7080

And Huram by his servants sent him ships and servants who knew the sea; and they went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir, and took from there four hundred and fifty talents of gold and brought them to King Solomon.

7081

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,
And together they are against Judah.
In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

7082

Their banquets are accompanied by lyre and harp, by tambourine and flute, and by wine;
But they do not pay attention to the deeds of the Lord,
Nor do they consider the work of His hands.

7083

For I have taken all this to my heart and explain it that righteous men, wise men, and their deeds are in the hand of God. Man does not know whether it will be love or hatred; anything awaits him.

7084

He who despises his neighbor sins,
But happy is he who is gracious to the poor.

7085

But the father said to his slaves, ‘Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet;

7086

Now Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

7087

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

7088

Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son.

7089

And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

7090

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

7092

Zebadiah, Arad, Eder,

7094

But some of the Pharisees said, “Why do you do what is not lawful on the Sabbath?”

7095

Also every contribution pertaining to all the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they offer to the priest, shall be his.

7096

But you know of his proven worth, that he served with me in the furtherance of the gospel like a child serving his father.

7097

Indeed you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, and under the sun.’”

7099

Hold them guilty, O God;
By their own devices let them fall!
In the multitude of their transgressions thrust them out,
For they are rebellious against You.

7100

All that my eyes desired I did not refuse them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart was pleased because of all my labor and this was my reward for all my labor.

7101

But now he has died; why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him, but he will not return to me.”

7102

When Jesus came into the official’s house, and saw the flute-players and the crowd in noisy disorder,

7103

Then King Darius issued a decree, and search was made in the archives, where the treasures were stored in Babylon.

7104

When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.”

7105

But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not a prophet of the Lord here, that we may inquire of the Lord by him?” And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”

7106

of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.

7107

He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and he disciplined the men of Succoth with them.

7108

She said, “I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the Lord will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman.” Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

7109

Nothing from that which is put under the ban shall cling to your hand, in order that the Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you, and have compassion on you and make you increase, just as He has sworn to your fathers,

7110

Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

7111

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

7112

Therefore when we could endure it no longer, we thought it best to be left behind at Athens alone,

7113

They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him.

7114

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

7115

The Lord said, “Because they have forsaken My law which I set before them, and have not obeyed My voice nor walked according to it,

7116

Arise, O Lord, do not let man prevail;
Let the nations be judged before You.

7117

They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore; nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any heat;

7118

But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

7119

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit,
Because he answers like wicked men.

7120

“How then can I answer Him,
And choose my words before Him?

7121

The rest of Israel, of the priests and of the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own inheritance.

7123

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and they are there to this day.

7124

“I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I dried up
All the rivers of Egypt.”

7125

besides that from the traders and the wares of the merchants and all the kings of the Arabs and the governors of the country.

7126

At mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here, that you may eat of the bread and dip your piece of bread in the vinegar.” So she sat beside the reapers; and he served her roasted grain, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left.

7127

Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

7128

Of the sons of Simeon, mighty men of valor for war, 7,100.

7129

and had seen that some of His disciples were eating their bread with impure hands, that is, unwashed.

7130

Next Moses slaughtered it and took the blood and with his finger put some of it around on the horns of the altar, and purified the altar. Then he poured out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar and consecrated it, to make atonement for it.

7131

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey, and there was no water for the army or for the cattle that followed them.

7132

Now then, do it! For the Lord has spoken of David, saying, ‘By the hand of My servant David I will save My people Israel from the hand of the Philistines and from the hand of all their enemies.’”

7133

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life.”

7134

Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.”

7135

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

7136

Behold, about this time tomorrow, I will send a very heavy hail, such as has not been seen in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

7137

The Lord has become like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel;
He has swallowed up all its palaces,
He has destroyed its strongholds
And multiplied in the daughter of Judah
Mourning and moaning.

7140

“Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked,
And this is the place of him who does not know God.”

7141

But the temple servants were living in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa were in charge of the temple servants.

7142

All the Levites in the holy city were 284.

7143

the sons of Elam, 1,254;

7144

And He wondered at their unbelief.And He was going around the villages teaching.

7145

Hodiah, Hashum, Bezai,

7146

The crowds with one accord were giving attention to what was said by Philip, as they heard and saw the signs which he was performing.

7147

Now when Rehoboam had come to Jerusalem, he assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who were warriors, to fight against Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.

7148

Now the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.

7149

Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying,

7150

Hurry, escape there, for I cannot do anything until you arrive there.” Therefore the name of the town was called Zoar.

7151

The gatekeepers called and told it within the king’s household.

7152

Now if we put the bits into the horses’ mouths so that they will obey us, we direct their entire body as well.

7153

You have no part or portion in this matter, for your heart is not right before God.

7154

You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

7155

and the Hivite and the Arkite and the Sinite

7156

“Go, stand and speak to the people in the temple the whole message of this Life.”

7157

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me!
Destruction is theirs, for they have rebelled against Me!
I would redeem them, but they speak lies against Me.

7158

But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered.

7159

yet the house of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, since they are not willing to listen to Me. Surely the whole house of Israel is stubborn and obstinate.

7160

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And twist everything that is straight,

7161

May the Lord reward your work, and your wages be full from the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to seek refuge.”

7162

nor to many peoples of unintelligible speech or difficult language, whose words you cannot understand. But I have sent you to them who should listen to you;

7163

Now when he had departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him; and he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” And he gave him his hand, and he took him up to him into the chariot.

7164

Then he took the crown of their king from his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone; and it was placed on David’s head. And he brought out the spoil of the city in great amounts.

7166

Not that I seek the gift itself, but I seek for the profit which increases to your account.

7167

But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”

7168

and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

7169

Thus I hated all the fruit of my labor for which I had labored under the sun, for I must leave it to the man who will come after me.

7170

And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; do this and you will live.”

7171

“If it is a matter of power, behold, He is the strong one!
And if it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

7172

Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who observe it begin to ridicule him,

7173

Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn aside, my master, turn aside to me! Do not be afraid.” And he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

7174

They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce and send her away.”

7175

Do not be among those who give pledges,
Among those who become guarantors for debts.

7176

Only your holy things which you may have and your votive offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the Lord chooses.

7177

Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?”

7178

And hearing this, the ten became indignant with the two brothers.

7179

To vindicate the orphan and the oppressed,
So that man who is of the earth will no longer cause terror.

7180

Why did I not die at birth,
Come forth from the womb and expire?

7181

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

7182

Take hold of instruction; do not let go.
Guard her, for she is your life.

7184

He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth your maid. So spread your covering over your maid, for you are a close relative.”

7185

But he became hungry and was desiring to eat; but while they were making preparations, he fell into a trance;

7187

Then they said, “This is blood; the kings have surely fought together, and they have slain one another. Now therefore, Moab, to the spoil!”

7188

Then I had the leaders of Judah come up on top of the wall, and I appointed two great choirs, the first proceeding to the right on top of the wall toward the Refuse Gate.

7189

Thus all the work of Solomon was carried out from the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was completed.

7190

Then all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.

7191

When the sons of Ammon saw that the Arameans fled, they also fled before Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab returned from fighting against the sons of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

7192

Now the man Jeroboam was a valiant warrior, and when Solomon saw that the young man was industrious, he appointed him over all the forced labor of the house of Joseph.

7193

and his offering was one silver dish whose weight was one hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a grain offering;

7194

For who is there of all flesh who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

7195

So watch yourselves, that you do not forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make for yourselves a graven image in the form of anything against which the Lord your God has commanded you.

7196

Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” And they said, “They were like you, each one resembling the son of a king.”

7197

The burden of the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, with Damascus as its resting place (for the eyes of men, especially of all the tribes of Israel, are toward the Lord),

7198

At the same time also prepare me a lodging, for I hope that through your prayers I will be given to you.

7199

But someone came and reported to them, “The men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people!”

7200

“Is it that my help is not within me,
And that deliverance is driven from me?

7201

“He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd,
So that their hands cannot attain success.

7202

Now in the second year of their coming to the house of God at Jerusalem in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Levites, and all who came from the captivity to Jerusalem, began the work and appointed the Levites from twenty years and older to oversee the work of the house of the Lord.

7204

All King Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None was of silver; it was not considered valuable in the days of Solomon.

7205

And he summoned one of the servants and began inquiring what these things could be.

7206

I was a wall, and my breasts were like towers;
Then I became in his eyes as one who finds peace.

7207

When they heard this and were filled with rage, they began crying out, saying, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

7208

All the people went up after him, and the people were playing on flutes and rejoicing with great joy, so that the earth shook at their noise.

7209

Mattaniah, Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon and Akkub were gatekeepers keeping watch at the storehouses of the gates.

7210

So he invited them in and gave them lodging.And on the next day he got up and went away with them, and some of the brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

7211

For David said, “The Lord God of Israel has given rest to His people, and He dwells in Jerusalem forever.

7212

and Azariah became the father of Amariah, and Amariah became the father of Ahitub,

7213

And He was saying to her, “Let the children be satisfied first, for it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

7214

And a centurion’s slave, who was highly regarded by him, was sick and about to die.

7215

When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

7216

And he came in the Spirit into the temple; and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, to carry out for Him the custom of the Law,

7218

And when He came out onto the land, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed with demons; and who had not put on any clothing for a long time, and was not living in a house, but in the tombs.

7219

“When I broke the seven for the four thousand, how many large baskets full of broken pieces did you pick up?” And they *said to Him, “Seven.”

7220

Having arrested Him, they led Him away and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance.

7221

But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.

7222

“But the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb
Which he bought and nourished;
And it grew up together with him and his children.
It would eat of his bread and drink of his cup and lie in his bosom,
And was like a daughter to him.

7223

A worthless person, a wicked man,
Is the one who walks with a perverse mouth,

7225

And He was teaching them many things in parables, and was saying to them in His teaching,

7226

How blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!

7227

So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.

7228

Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks.

7229

the sons of Zattu, 945;

7230

When He had torn Israel from the house of David, they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. Then Jeroboam drove Israel away from following the Lord and made them commit a great sin.

7231

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand.” So Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

7232

A strategic day came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his lords and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee;

7233

The priest is to put on his linen robe, and he shall put on undergarments next to his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire reduces the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

7234

Ben-abinadab, in all the height of Dor (Taphath the daughter of Solomon was his wife);

7235

Then the anger of the Lord burned against Moses, and He said, “Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

7236

However, so that we do not offend them, go to the sea and throw in a hook, and take the first fish that comes up; and when you open its mouth, you will find a shekel. Take that and give it to them for you and Me.”

7237

All the spoil of these cities and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left no one who breathed.

7238

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?

7239

when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces you picked up?” They *said to Him, “Twelve.”

7240

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

7241

Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

7242

The sons of Shem were Elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.

7243

Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You.”

7244

Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers.

7245

They who heard it said, “Then who can be saved?”

7246

And He sternly warned him and immediately sent him away,

7247

Because of this the king became indignant and very furious and gave orders to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.

7248

and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

7249

but their plot became known to Saul. They were also watching the gates day and night so that they might put him to death;

7250

“The caravans of Tema looked,
The travelers of Sheba hoped for them.

7251

Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.

7252

Calling to those who pass by,
Who are making their paths straight:

7253

But it will not be well for the evil man and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

7254

For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”

7255

Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to give you an answer concerning this matter.

7256

I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.

7257

(for the men of the land who have been before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become defiled);

7258

and not only this, but he has also been appointed by the churches to travel with us in this gracious work, which is being administered by us for the glory of the Lord Himself, and to show our readiness,

7260

Now from the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, the son of Bunni;

7261

He said, “Open the window toward the east,” and he opened it. Then Elisha said, “Shoot!” And he shot. And he said, “The Lord’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Aram; for you will defeat the Arameans at Aphek until you have destroyed them.”

7262

The sons of Zerah were Zimri, Ethan, Heman, Calcol and Dara; five of them in all.

7263

However, we know where this man is from; but whenever the Christ may come, no one knows where He is from.”

7264

“In that day the beautiful virgins
And the young men will faint from thirst.

7265

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

7266

The words of the wise heard in quietness are better than the shouting of a ruler among fools.

7267

Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their orders for the service of God in Jerusalem, as it is written in the book of Moses.

7268

There I have set the ark in which is the covenant of the Lord, which He made with the sons of Israel.”

7269

But Moses said, “The people, among whom I am, are 600,000 on foot; yet You have said, ‘I will give them meat, so that they may eat for a whole month.’

7270

Seeing Jesus, he cried out and fell before Him, and said in a loud voice, “What business do we have with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me.”

7271

Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,

7272

their descendants who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel were unable to destroy utterly, from them Solomon levied forced laborers, even to this day.

7273

But Barak pursued the chariots and the army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

7274

Zebulun did not drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, or the inhabitants of Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and became subject to forced labor.

7275

Their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in the middle of the valley and all the plain by Medeba;

7276

And He *took with Him Peter and James and John, and began to be very distressed and troubled.

7279

“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house
To put his nest on high,
To be delivered from the hand of calamity!

7280

Those who went in front and those who followed were shouting:
“Hosanna!
Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord;

7281

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

7282

But they were startled and frightened and thought that they were seeing a spirit.

7283

But whoever does not fall down and worship shall be cast into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire.

7284

There are certain Jews whom you have appointed over the administration of the province of Babylon, namely Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. These men, O king, have disregarded you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image which you have set up.”

7285

Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have good reason to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “I have good reason to be angry, even to death.”

7286

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.

7287

Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but rather in deception,” declares the Lord.

7288

Say to your brothers, “Ammi,” and to your sisters, “Ruhamah.”

7289

“It shall come about in that day,” declares the Lord, “that the heart of the king and the heart of the princes will fail; and the priests will be appalled and the prophets will be astounded.”

7290

And the light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,
And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

7291

Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

7292

Folly is joy to him who lacks sense,
But a man of understanding walks straight.

7293

Until the cool of the day
When the shadows flee away,
I will go my way to the mountain of myrrh
And to the hill of frankincense.

7294

It happened on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth to a child, and we were together. There was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

7295

And he made houses on high places, and made priests from among all the people who were not of the sons of Levi.

7296

King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire which she requested besides a return for what she had brought to the king. Then she turned and went to her own land with her servants.

7297

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

7298

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

7299

but on the day that Lot went out from Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.

7300

“Now therefore, if you have dealt in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have dealt with him as he deserved—

7301

Then God spoke to Noah, saying,

7302

saying, “We found the prison house locked quite securely and the guards standing at the doors; but when we had opened up, we found no one inside.”

7303

When Joab and all the army that was with him arrived, they told Joab, saying, “Abner the son of Ner came to the king, and he has sent him away, and he has gone in peace.”

7304

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you?”

7305

And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed; and they were trying to bring him in and to set him down in front of Him.

7307

They will eat, but not have enough;
They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have stopped giving heed to the Lord.

7309

But the saints of the Highest One will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.’

7310

And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

7311

A lying tongue hates those it crushes,
And a flattering mouth works ruin.

7312

You have put gladness in my heart,
More than when their grain and new wine abound.

7313

“Why then do You not pardon my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me, but I will not be.”

7314

The sons of Judah who bore shield and spear were 6,800, equipped for war.

7315

In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;

7316

Now Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, 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.

7317

Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son who is living, and your son is the dead one’; and the other says, ‘No! For your son is the dead one, and my son is the living one.’”

7318

Then he sent out a second horseman, who came to them and said, “Thus says the king, ‘Is it peace?’” And Jehu answered, “What have you to do with peace? Turn behind me.”

7319

Then Elijah said to him, “Please stay here, for the Lord has sent me to the Jordan.” And he said, “As the Lord lives, and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So the two of them went on.

7320

Not only is there danger that this trade of ours fall into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis be regarded as worthless and that she whom all of Asia and the world worship will even be dethroned from her magnificence.”

7321

The king said to them, “Take with you the servants of your lord, and have my son Solomon ride on my own mule, and bring him down to Gihon.

7322

When the Sabbath came, He began to teach in the synagogue; and the many listeners were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things, and what is this wisdom given to Him, and such miracles as these performed by His hands?

7323

because he was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.

7324

Therefore openly before the churches, show them the proof of your love and of our reason for boasting about you.

7326

When they came down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

7327

So she went down to the threshing floor and did according to all that her mother-in-law had commanded her.

7328

Then the king went off to his palace and spent the night fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his sleep fled from him.

7329

When all the people and the tax collectors heard this, they acknowledged God’s justice, having been baptized with the baptism of John.

7330

‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘and in this place I will give peace,’ declares the Lord of hosts.”

7331

Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, to Geshem the Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall, and that no breach remained in it, although at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,

7332

Therefore the Lord, the God of hosts, will send a wasting disease among his stout warriors;
And under his glory a fire will be kindled like a burning flame.

7333

and since we have a great priest over the house of God,

7334

Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Surely You have utterly deceived this people and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You will have peace’; whereas a sword touches the throat.”

7335

Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

7336

These are the ones who crossed the Jordan in the first month when it was overflowing all its banks and they put to flight all those in the valleys, both to the east and to the west.

7337

And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.”

7338

And they did not depart from the commandment of the king to the priests and Levites in any manner or concerning the storehouses.

7339

Then he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands.

7340

Then Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the frogs which He had inflicted upon Pharaoh.

7341

One of his servants said, “No, my lord, O king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedroom.”

7342

The servant in charge of the reapers replied, “She is the young Moabite woman who returned with Naomi from the land of Moab.

7343

The Lord said to Samuel, “Listen to their voice and appoint them a king.” So Samuel said to the men of Israel, “Go every man to his city.”

7344

Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.

7345

So the taskmasters of the people and their foremen went out and spoke to the people, saying, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I am not going to give you any straw.

7346

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is stubborn; he refuses to let the people go.

7347

and the Jebusite and the Amorite and the Girgashite

7349

For they all seek after their own interests, not those of Christ Jesus.

7350

This came about from the Lord,
And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

7351

But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”

7352

On that day, the one who is on the housetop and whose goods are in the house must not go down to take them out; and likewise the one who is in the field must not turn back.

7353

“While I was fainting away,
I remembered the Lord,
And my prayer came to You,
Into Your holy temple.

7354

Did you present Me with sacrifices and grain offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?

7355

Thus it will be done to you at Bethel because of your great wickedness.
At dawn the king of Israel will be completely cut off.

7356

As for them, whether they listen or not—for they are a rebellious house—they will know that a prophet has been among them.

7357

Whoever is naive, let him turn in here,”
And to him who lacks understanding she says,

7358

They shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet material, and cover the same with a covering of porpoise skin, and they shall insert its poles.

7359

He was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

7360

At the harvest time he sent a slave to the vine-growers, in order to receive some of the produce of the vineyard from the vine-growers.

7361

But after hearing of Him, a woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit immediately came and fell at His feet.

7362

Now there was at the citadel in Susa a Jew whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

7363

But the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day.

7364

The news about Him spread throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all who were ill, those suffering with various diseases and pains, demoniacs, epileptics, paralytics; and He healed them.

7365

Now this was the reason why he rebelled against the king: Solomon built the Millo, and closed up the breach of the city of his father David.

7366

only he shall not go in to the veil or come near the altar because he has a defect, so that he will not profane My sanctuaries. For I am the Lord who sanctifies them.’”

7367

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.

7368

The advice of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if one inquired of the word of God; so was all the advice of Ahithophel regarded by both David and Absalom.

7369

So they killed him and his sons and all his people, until there was no remnant left him; and they possessed his land.

7370

Then Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon was Jazer.

7371

But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief;

7373

Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, greets you,

7374

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

7376

“And now many nations have been assembled against you
Who say, ‘Let her be polluted,
And let our eyes gloat over Zion.’

7377

All flesh will see that I, the Lord, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.”’”

7378

And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land.

7379

If the man said to him, “They must surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as you desire,” then he would say, “No, but you shall give it to me now; and if not, I will take it by force.”

7380

Then he said, “May you be blessed of the Lord, my daughter. You have shown your last kindness to be better than the first by not going after young men, whether poor or rich.

7381

Then the king answered and said to the woman, “Please do not hide anything from me that I am about to ask you.” And the woman said, “Let my lord the king please speak.”

7382

and He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you are from; depart from Me, all you evildoers.’

7383

Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.

7384

It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

7385

So he looked this way and that, and when he saw there was no one around, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

7386

They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

7387

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord so that we will not be condemned along with the world.

7388

While they were seeking to kill him, a report came up to the commander of the Roman cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

7389

They will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt and you will say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.’

7390

if you will listen to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping all His commandments which I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the Lord your God.

7392

For I have no one else of kindred spirit who will genuinely be concerned for your welfare.

7393

All the saints greet you, especially those of Caesar’s household.

7394

For no one does anything in secret when he himself seeks to be known publicly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world.”

7395

“You have devised a shameful thing for your house
By cutting off many peoples;
So you are sinning against yourself.

7396

“But I will leave among you
A humble and lowly people,
And they will take refuge in the name of the Lord.

7398

Then he said to me, “To build a temple for her in the land of Shinar; and when it is prepared, she will be set there on her own pedestal.”

7399

but My lovingkindness shall not depart from him, as I took it away from Saul, whom I removed from before you.

7400

Behold, I am going to stir up the Medes against them,
Who will not value silver or take pleasure in gold.

7401

“Stolen water is sweet;
And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

7402

But I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
I am weary with holding it in.
Pour it out on the children in the street
And on the gathering of young men together;
For both husband and wife shall be taken,
The aged and the very old.

7403

“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
As to what you will tell him:
For I am lovesick.”

7404

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

7405

So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the wisdom of the poor man is despised and his words are not heeded.

7406

Then a cry passed throughout the army close to sunset, saying, “Every man to his city and every man to his country.”

7407

So the sons of the singers were assembled from the district around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites,

7408

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez saying, “Because I bore him with pain.”

7409

and Ibhar, Elishama, Eliphelet,

7410

But Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?”

7411

Then they brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, “Behold, the head of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life; thus the Lord has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.”

7412

He also took all the fat that was on the entrails and the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys and their fat; and Moses offered it up in smoke on the altar.

7413

While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward the way of the wilderness.

7414

For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith is made void and the promise is nullified;

7415

Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?”

7417

and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, fearfully tormented.”

7419

You go and get straw for yourselves wherever you can find it, but none of your labor will be reduced.’”

7420

Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

7421

one saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, “Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.”

7422

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

7423

And the foundations of the thresholds trembled at the voice of him who called out, while the temple was filling with smoke.

7424

Now when the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard these words, they were greatly perplexed about them as to what would come of this.

7425

and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens will be shaken.

7426

“Contend with your mother, contend,
For she is not my wife, and I am not her husband;
And let her put away her harlotry from her face
And her adultery from between her breasts,

7427

“I will throw filth on you
And make you vile,
And set you up as a spectacle.

7428

the son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

7429

For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

7430

But the Lord took me from following the flock and the Lord said to me, ‘Go prophesy to My people Israel.’

7431

“As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt,
I will show you miracles.”

7432

Should good be repaid with evil?
For they have dug a pit for me.
Remember how I stood before You
To speak good on their behalf,
So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

7433

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen,
Because their speech and their actions are against the Lord,
To rebel against His glorious presence.

7435

“But it is still my consolation,
And I rejoice in unsparing pain,
That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

7436

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

7437

Moreover, I have acquired Ruth the Moabitess, the widow of Mahlon, to be my wife in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance, so that the name of the deceased will not be cut off from his brothers or from the court of his birth place; you are witnesses today.”

7438

And He answered and said, “It is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

7439

“The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.

7440

O Lord, there is none like You, nor is there any God besides You, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

7441

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven,

7442

Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods; therefore I will no longer deliver you.

7443

Then Joram said, “Get ready.” And they made his chariot ready. Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him in the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

7444

and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

7445

So Joab and the people who were with him drew near to the battle against the Arameans, and they fled before him.

7446

So he said, “What shall I give you?” And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this one thing for me, I will again pasture and keep your flock:

7448

See what the land is like, and whether the people who live in it are strong or weak, whether they are few or many.

7449

The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.

7451

I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren;

7452

Then Paul took the men, and the next day, purifying himself along with them, went into the temple giving notice of the completion of the days of purification, until the sacrifice was offered for each one of them.

7453

And behold, a woman comes to meet him,
Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.

7454

and they will bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it;

7455

Do not fear, beasts of the field,
For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,
For the tree has borne its fruit,
The fig tree and the vine have yielded in full.

7456

You slaughtered My children and offered them up to idols by causing them to pass through the fire.

7457

‘I was looking in the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed, and behold, an angelic watcher, a holy one, descended from heaven.

7458

Moreover, the thing which the king demands is difficult, and there is no one else who could declare it to the king except gods, whose dwelling place is not with mortal flesh.”

7459

and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.

7460

“If he is removed from his place,
Then it will deny him, saying, ‘I never saw you.’

7461

but after we had already suffered and been mistreated in Philippi, as you know, we had the boldness in our God to speak to you the gospel of God amid much opposition.

7462

The rings shall be close to the rim as holders for the poles to carry the table.

7463

From the first of your dough you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.

7464

of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;

7465

Now the acts of Rehoboam, from first to last, are they not written in the records of Shemaiah the prophet and of Iddo the seer, according to genealogical enrollment? And there were wars between Rehoboam and Jeroboam continually.

7466

It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing.

7467

And Jacob said, “First swear to me”; so he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob.

7468

When you cultivate the ground, it will no longer yield its strength to you; you will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth.”

7469

‘If I am wicked, woe to me!
And if I am righteous, I dare not lift up my head.
I am sated with disgrace and conscious of my misery.

7470

then wrote Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe and the rest of their colleagues, the judges and the lesser governors, the officials, the secretaries, the men of Erech, the Babylonians, the men of Susa, that is, the Elamites,

7471

According to the good hand of our God upon us they brought us a man of insight of the sons of Mahli, the son of Levi, the son of Israel, namely Sherebiah, and his sons and brothers, 18 men;

7472

Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and indeed my servants will work with your servants,

7473

Then he made the ten golden lampstands in the way prescribed for them and he set them in the temple, five on the right side and five on the left.

7474

then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever.”

7475

He had forty sons and thirty grandsons who rode on seventy donkeys; and he judged Israel eight years.

7476

Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.

7477

All the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the place of his father Amaziah.

7478

“My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel,
The volunteers among the people;
Bless the Lord!

7479

Should flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Or should all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

7480

Moreover, the Lord showed great and distressing signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household;

7481

The fish that were in the Nile died, and the Nile became foul, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. And the blood was through all the land of Egypt.

7482

Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brethren who are with me greet you.

7483

“And then I will uncover her lewdness
In the sight of her lovers,
And no one will rescue her out of My hand.

7484

But Paul said, “I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city; and I beg you, allow me to speak to the people.”

7485

Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I bear you witness that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

7487

Now the word of the Lord came to me saying,

7488

They came to Jesus and woke Him up, saying, “Master, Master, we are perishing!” And He got up and rebuked the wind and the surging waves, and they stopped, and it became calm.

7489

Say to the righteous that it will go well with them,
For they will eat the fruit of their actions.

7490

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s.

7491

For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.

7492

Sounds of terror are in his ears;
While at peace the destroyer comes upon him.

7493

Then he built the walls of the house on the inside with boards of cedar; from the floor of the house to the ceiling he overlaid the walls on the inside with wood, and he overlaid the floor of the house with boards of cypress.

7494

When all the men of Israel saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.

7495

the sons of Elam, 1,254;

7496

Meshezabel, Zadok, Jaddua,

7497

He used to go annually on circuit to Bethel and Gilgal and Mizpah, and he judged Israel in all these places.

7498

Now therefore, gather the rest of the people together and camp against the city and capture it, or I will capture the city myself and it will be named after me.”

7499

and said to the men, “I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land have melted away before you.

7500

Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

7501

But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves have also been found sinners, is Christ then a minister of sin? May it never be!

7502

The robbers who had been crucified with Him were also insulting Him with the same words.

7503

So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel.

7504

and they questioned Him, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife, and he is childless, his brother should marry the wife and raise up children to his brother.

7505

Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, “Why do you deal this way with your servants?

7506

The taskmasters pressed them, saying, “Complete your work quota, your daily amount, just as when you had straw.”

7507

And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned Jesus, asking, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse Him.

7509

but so that the world may know that I love the Father, I do exactly as the Father commanded Me. Get up, let us go from here.

7511

This was because an extraordinary spirit, knowledge and insight, interpretation of dreams, explanation of enigmas and solving of difficult problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Let Daniel now be summoned and he will declare the interpretation.”

7512

They said, “The Lord has need of it.”

7513

Again I said, “The thing which you are doing is not good; should you not walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

7514

I will scatter to every wind all who are around him, his helpers and all his troops; and I will draw out a sword after them.

7515

He was hired for this reason, that I might become frightened and act accordingly and sin, so that they might have an evil report in order that they could reproach me.

7516

Then his servants came near and spoke to him and said, “My father, had the prophet told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more then, when he says to you, ‘Wash, and be clean’?”

7517

Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord, but rushed upon the spoil and did what was evil in the sight of the Lord?”

7518

Then Samuel took the flask of oil, poured it on his head, kissed him and said, “Has not the Lord anointed you a ruler over His inheritance?

7519

There was a small city with few men in it and a great king came to it, surrounded it and constructed large siegeworks against it.

7520

There is no end to all the people, to all who were before them, and even the ones who will come later will not be happy with him, for this too is vanity and striving after wind.

7521

and in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its towns,

7522

All the earth was seeking the presence of Solomon, to hear his wisdom which God had put in his heart.

7523

Then Jeroboam’s wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah. As she was entering the threshold of the house, the child died.

7524

Then Abner was very angry over the words of Ish-bosheth and said, “Am I a dog’s head that belongs to Judah? Today I show kindness to the house of Saul your father, to his brothers and to his friends, and have not delivered you into the hands of David; and yet today you charge me with a guilt concerning the woman.

7525

In the name of our Lord Jesus, when you are assembled, and I with you in spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus,

7526

Absalom set Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

7527

For, on the one hand, there is a setting aside of a former commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

7528

Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.

7529

For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.

7530

Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who were living in Gezer; so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

7531

Moreover, the Jordan was its border on the east side. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, according to their families and according to its borders all around.

7532

So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had ordered, and it did not become foul nor was there any worm in it.

7533

taking precaution so that no one will discredit us in our administration of this generous gift;

7534

And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.

7535

And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner?

7537

On the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.

7538

and the rest should follow, some on planks, and others on various things from the ship. And so it happened that they all were brought safely to land.

7539

I rejoice that in everything I have confidence in you.

7540

Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord according to the directions of King David of Israel.

7541

“So I also have made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality in the instruction.

7542

But he went out and began to proclaim it freely and to spread the news around, to such an extent that Jesus could no longer publicly enter a city, but stayed out in unpopulated areas; and they were coming to Him from everywhere.

7543

“Has a nation changed gods
When they were not gods?
But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.

7544

On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,

7545

“For on the day that I punish Israel’s transgressions,
I will also punish the altars of Bethel;
The horns of the altar will be cut off
And they will fall to the ground.

7546

God says, “If a husband divorces his wife
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completely polluted?
But you are a harlot with many lovers;
Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.

7547

“I, even I, King Artaxerxes, issue a decree to all the treasurers who are in the provinces beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven, may require of you, it shall be done diligently,

7548

Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

7549

Are not Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.

7550

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

7551

I know that everything God does will remain forever; there is nothing to add to it and there is nothing to take from it, for God has so worked that men should fear Him.

7552

You shall not distort justice; you shall not be partial, and you shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

7553

Baal-hanan the Gederite had charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah; and Joash had charge of the stores of oil.

7554

and the custom of the priests with the people. When any man was offering a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come while the meat was boiling, with a three-pronged fork in his hand.

7555

I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.

7556

But whatever is in the seas and in the rivers that does not have fins and scales among all the teeming life of the water, and among all the living creatures that are in the water, they are detestable things to you,

7557

and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.

7558

Then Elisha said to them, “This is not the way, nor is this the city; follow me and I will bring you to the man whom you seek.” And he brought them to Samaria.

7559

Ben-hesed, in Arubboth (Socoh was his and all the land of Hepher);

7560

The men of Israel said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house free in Israel.”

7561

But concerning the Gentiles who have believed, we wrote, having decided that they should abstain from meat sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication.”

7562

The thigh offered by lifting up and the breast offered by waving they shall bring along with the offerings by fire of the portions of fat, to present as a wave offering before the Lord; so it shall be a thing perpetually due you and your sons with you, just as the Lord has commanded.”

7563

saying, “Go into the village ahead of you; there, as you enter, you will find a colt tied on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

7564

But no one can enter the strong man’s house and plunder his property unless he first binds the strong man, and then he will plunder his house.

7565

If I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? For this reason they will be your judges.

7566

And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.”

7567

On the very same day Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the ark,

7568

“It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And I led you in the wilderness forty years
That you might take possession of the land of the Amorite.

7570

Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, “Recognize, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

7571

And the Lord said to me, “Faithless Israel has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

7572

shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not be angry with us to the point of destruction, until there is no remnant nor any who escape?

7573

They will come and will declare His righteousness
To a people who will be born, that He has performed it.

7574

Then David the king went in and sat before the Lord, and he said, “Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that You have brought me this far?

7575

“His sons achieve honor, but he does not know it;
Or they become insignificant, but he does not perceive it.

7576

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

7577

and in Ziklag, in Meconah and in its towns,

7578

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

7579

And all that Samuel the seer had dedicated and Saul the son of Kish, Abner the son of Ner and Joab the son of Zeruiah, everyone who had dedicated anything, all of this was in the care of Shelomoth and his relatives.

7580

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

7581

Then he prepared an inner sanctuary within the house in order to place there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

7582

Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived fifteen years after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel.

7583

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

7584

Then Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Take him up and cast him into the property of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite, for I remember when you and I were riding together after Ahab his father, that the Lord laid this oracle against him:

7585

Then David left his baggage in the care of the baggage keeper, and ran to the battle line and entered in order to greet his brothers.

7586

They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, so that it will not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.

7587

the rabbit also, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you;

7588

He sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times and anointed the altar and all its utensils, and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.

7589

Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

7590

When the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were terrified, and said, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out in fear.

7591

Going on from there He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and He called them.

7592

and Nethanel the son of Zuar, over the tribal army of the sons of Issachar;

7593

how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?”

7594

“I sent a plague among you after the manner of Egypt;
I slew your young men by the sword along with your captured horses,
And I made the stench of your camp rise up in your nostrils;
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

7595

Then the Lord said, “You had compassion on the plant for which you did not work and which you did not cause to grow, which came up overnight and perished overnight.

7596

“I will punish her for the days of the Baals
When she used to offer sacrifices to them
And adorn herself with her earrings and jewelry,
And follow her lovers, so that she forgot Me,” declares the Lord.

7597

So the seacoast will be pastures,
With caves for shepherds and folds for flocks.

7598

The inhabitants of Samaria will fear
For the calf of Beth-aven.
Indeed, its people will mourn for it,
And its idolatrous priests will cry out over it,
Over its glory, since it has departed from it.

7599

Please, let us make a little walled upper chamber and let us set a bed for him there, and a table and a chair and a lampstand; and it shall be, when he comes to us, that he can turn in there.”

7600

“Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel,
And that I am the Lord your God,
And there is no other;
And My people will never be put to shame.

7601

I will lay waste your cities as well and will make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will not smell your soothing aromas.

7602

These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.

7603

For the Levites left their pasture lands and their property and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons had excluded them from serving as priests to the Lord.

7604

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

7605

Then Boaz said to Ruth, “Listen carefully, my daughter. Do not go to glean in another field; furthermore, do not go on from this one, but stay here with my maids.

7606

and in Jeshua, in Moladah and Beth-pelet,

7607

Then King David said, “Call to me Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada.” And they came into the king’s presence.

7608

But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and consume the men of Shechem and Beth-millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from Beth-millo, and consume Abimelech.”

7609

Now on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one. When all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,

7610

We utterly destroyed them, as we did to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women and children of every city.

7611

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

7612

You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led.

7613

And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,

7614

If one of the unbelievers invites you and you want to go, eat anything that is set before you without asking questions for conscience’ sake.

7615

Then they set out from Succoth and camped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

7616

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest, he has gone to you of his own accord.

7617

Nevertheless what you have, hold fast until I come.

7618

You are not restrained by us, but you are restrained in your own affections.

7619

So there was much rejoicing in that city.

7620

And when Paul wanted to go into the assembly, the disciples would not let him.

7621

When Peter said, “From strangers,” Jesus said to him, “Then the sons are exempt.

7622

I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments,

7623

and *said to them, “Go into the village opposite you, and immediately as you enter it, you will find a colt tied there, on which no one yet has ever sat; untie it and bring it here.

7624

for Herod was afraid of John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was very perplexed; but he used to enjoy listening to him.

7625

For behold, I am going to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for the perishing, seek the scattered, heal the broken, or sustain the one standing, but will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hoofs.

7626

Then Nebuchadnezzar in rage and anger gave orders to bring Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego; then these men were brought before the king.

7627

So she seizes him and kisses him
And with a brazen face she says to him:

7628

Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will bear no fruit.
Even though they bear children,
I will slay the precious ones of their womb.

7629

but have walked after the stubbornness of their heart and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them,”

7630

“Are you not as the sons of Ethiopia to Me,
O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.
“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,
And the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?

7631

In that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A scorching wind from the bare heights in the wilderness in the direction of the daughter of My people—not to winnow and not to cleanse,

7632

The afflicted will eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
Let your heart live forever!

7633

Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in Your presence, and You taught in our streets’;

7634

She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her,
And happy are all who hold her fast.

7636

“Why did the knees receive me,
And why the breasts, that I should suck?

7637

‘Now this is the law of the Nazirite when the days of his separation are fulfilled, he shall bring the offering to the doorway of the tent of meeting.

7638

I took hold of the two tablets and threw them from my hands and smashed them before your eyes.

7640

“I am guiltless;
I do not take notice of myself;
I despise my life.

7641

for my father fought for you and risked his life and delivered you from the hand of Midian;

7642

Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak in tongues, and ungifted men or unbelievers enter, will they not say that you are mad?

7643

In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah, Hoshea the son of Elah became king over Israel in Samaria, and reigned nine years.

7644

Serug lived thirty years, and became the father of Nahor;

7645

and Reu lived two hundred and seven years after he became the father of Serug, and he had other sons and daughters.

7647

One of the slaves of the high priest, being a relative of the one whose ear Peter cut off, *said, “Did I not see you in the garden with Him?”

7648

When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him,

7649

“I will destroy her vines and fig trees,
Of which she said, ‘These are my wages
Which my lovers have given me.’
And I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field will devour them.

7650

Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Lord’s Passover.

7651

“I will also put an end to all her gaiety,
Her feasts, her new moons, her sabbaths
And all her festal assemblies.

7652

Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

7653

He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces;
He has made me desolate.

7654

All are not apostles, are they? All are not prophets, are they? All are not teachers, are they? All are not workers of miracles, are they?

7655

“There are sixty queens and eighty concubines,
And maidens without number;

7656

Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the city of David, which is Zion.

7657

Now the woman was a Gentile, of the Syrophoenician race. And she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her daughter.

7658

Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil.

7659

They took their stand in the midst of the plot and defended it, and struck down the Philistines; and the Lord saved them by a great victory.

7660

When he returned to the man of God with all his company, and came and stood before him, he said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel; so please take a present from your servant now.”

7661

His friend replied, “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given Midian and all the camp into his hand.”

7662

When your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What do the testimonies and the statutes and the judgments mean which the Lord our God commanded you?’

7663

And I testify again to every man who receives circumcision, that he is under obligation to keep the whole Law.

7665

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. Now it was during the days of Unleavened Bread.

7666

“Concerning this house which you are building, if you will walk in My statutes and execute My ordinances and keep all My commandments by walking in them, then I will carry out My word with you which I spoke to David your father.

7667

When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied.

7668

The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’

7669

But, so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”—He said to the paralytic—“I say to you, get up, and pick up your stretcher and go home.”

7670

For who has despised the day of small things? But these seven will be glad when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel—these are the eyes of the Lord which range to and fro throughout the earth.”

7672

So Simon Peter *gestured to him, and *said to him, “Tell us who it is of whom He is speaking.”

7673

Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs.

7674

“They have also cast lots for My people,
Traded a boy for a harlot
And sold a girl for wine that they may drink.

7675

(and behold, a lead cover was lifted up); and this is a woman sitting inside the ephah.”

7676

And you, son of man, neither fear them nor fear their words, though thistles and thorns are with you and you sit on scorpions; neither fear their words nor be dismayed at their presence, for they are a rebellious house.

7677

Though the pride of Israel testifies against him,
Yet they have not returned to the Lord their God,
Nor have they sought Him, for all this.

7678

along with the prophets of Israel who prophesy to Jerusalem, and who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace,’ declares the Lord God.

7679

He is to me like a bear lying in wait,
Like a lion in secret places.

7682

Let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel, and blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

7683

then you shall take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he shall be your servant forever. Also you shall do likewise to your maidservant.

7685

But Abishai the son of Zeruiah said, “Should not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the Lord’s anointed?”

7686

As soon as you enter the city you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat, for the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now therefore, go up for you will find him at once.”

7687

In accordance with all these words and all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.

7688

You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to give your fathers,

7689

So all the days of Enosh were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

7690

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

7691

even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

7692

After quieting the crowd, the town clerk *said, “Men of Ephesus, what man is there after all who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of the image which fell down from heaven?

7694

Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

7695

Then Moses departed and returned to Jethro his father-in-law and said to him, “Please, let me go, that I may return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see if they are still alive.” And Jethro said to Moses, “Go in peace.”

7696

Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

7698

Therefore Pilate went out to them and *said, “What accusation do you bring against this Man?”

7699

the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

7700

Then Daniel replied with discretion and discernment to Arioch, the captain of the king’s bodyguard, who had gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon;

7701

Departing from there, Jesus went along by the Sea of Galilee, and having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there.

7702

For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure with which the Lord was wrathful against you in order to destroy you, but the Lord listened to me that time also.

7703

When Peter came to himself, he said, “Now I know for sure that the Lord has sent forth His angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from all that the Jewish people were expecting.”

7704

I feel compassion for the people because they have remained with Me now three days and have nothing to eat.

7705

The king answered them harshly, and King Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the elders.

7706

When they had crossed over, Elijah said to Elisha, “Ask what I shall do for you before I am taken from you.” And Elisha said, “Please, let a double portion of your spirit be upon me.”

7707

I saw at night, and behold, a man was riding on a red horse, and he was standing among the myrtle trees which were in the ravine, with red, sorrel and white horses behind him.

7708

One day he came there and turned in to the upper chamber and rested.

7709

In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me,

7711

It has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!”

7712

But the officers who came did not find them in the prison; and they returned and reported back,

7714

And He *said to them, “Have you never read what David did when he was in need and he and his companions became hungry;

7715

Thus says the Lord,
“For three transgressions of Moab and for four
I will not revoke its punishment,
Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

7716

Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord which He loves and has married the daughter of a foreign god.

7717

Behold, You have driven me this day from the face of the ground; and from Your face I will be hidden, and I will be a vagrant and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

7719

Then Jehu sent throughout Israel and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left who did not come. And when they went into the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.

7720

inasmuch as we, having put it on, will not be found naked.

7721

“Then in his place one will arise who will send an oppressor through the Jewel of his kingdom; yet within a few days he will be shattered, though not in anger nor in battle.

7722

‘Behold, the day! Behold, it is coming! Your doom has gone forth; the rod has budded, arrogance has blossomed.

7725

And you shall not go up by steps to My altar, so that your nakedness will not be exposed on it.’

7726

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

7727

The Lord was angry enough with Aaron to destroy him; so I also prayed for Aaron at the same time.

7728

For this time I will send all My plagues on you and your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.

7729

These are the sons of Ham, according to their families, according to their languages, by their lands, by their nations.

7730

When this letter is read among you, have it also read in the church of the Laodiceans; and you, for your part read my letter that is coming from Laodicea.

7731

Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

7733

When He entered the house, the blind men came up to Him, and Jesus *said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They *said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

7734

At this remark, Moses fled and became an alien in the land of Midian, where he became the father of two sons.

7735

the son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Hesli, the son of Naggai,

7736

Those who had seen it described to them how it had happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine.

7737

“And it will come about that all who see you
Will shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is devastated!
Who will grieve for her?’
Where will I seek comforters for you?”

7738

And He called them to Himself and began speaking to them in parables, “How can Satan cast out Satan?

7739

Sing for joy and be glad, O daughter of Zion; for behold I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” declares the Lord.

7740

For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces;
And Judah has multiplied fortified cities,
But I will send a fire on its cities that it may consume its palatial dwellings.

7741

behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you.

7742

and the meaning of the ten horns that were on its head and the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell, namely, that horn which had eyes and a mouth uttering great boasts and which was larger in appearance than its associates.

7743

a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;

7744

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke;
Among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

7746

He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons;
He makes His arrows fiery shafts.

7747

Also, do not take seriously all words which are spoken, so that you will not hear your servant cursing you.

7748

Wisdom strengthens a wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

7749

“But He saves from the sword of their mouth,
And the poor from the hand of the mighty.

7750

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

7751

Then the king said to me, the queen sitting beside him, “How long will your journey be, and when will you return?” So it pleased the king to send me, and I gave him a definite time.

7752

Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead were his: the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars were his);

7753

For many in Judah were bound by oath to him because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah, and his son Jehohanan had married the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah.

7755

Now three times in a year Solomon offered burnt offerings and peace offerings on the altar which he built to the Lord, burning incense with them on the altar which was before the Lord. So he finished the house.

7756

Now Solomon decided to build a house for the name of the Lord and a royal palace for himself.

7757

All Israel buried him and mourned for him, according to the word of the Lord which He spoke through His servant Ahijah the prophet.

7758

As for Zillah, she also gave birth to Tubal-cain, the forger of all implements of bronze and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.

7759

Each one of them seized his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

7760

Again he said, “Give me the cloak that is on you and hold it.” So she held it, and he measured six measures of barley and laid it on her. Then she went into the city.

7761

if then you have dealt in truth and integrity with Jerubbaal and his house this day, rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you.

7762

The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you.

7763

Saul’s uncle said, “Please tell me what Samuel said to you.”

7764

And when Peter came up to Jerusalem, those who were circumcised took issue with him,

7765

Now Rebekah had a brother whose name was Laban; and Laban ran outside to the man at the spring.

7766

But after the three and a half days, the breath of life from God came into them, and they stood on their feet; and great fear fell upon those who were watching them.

7767

But we, brethren, having been taken away from you for a short while—in person, not in spirit—were all the more eager with great desire to see your face.

7768

But if anyone says to you, “This is meat sacrificed to idols,” do not eat it, for the sake of the one who informed you, and for conscience’ sake;

7771

Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved.

7772

Other seed fell on rocky soil, and as soon as it grew up, it withered away, because it had no moisture.

7773

Your bow was made bare,
The rods of chastisement were sworn. Selah.
You cleaved the earth with rivers.

7774

I gave her time to repent, and she does not want to repent of her immorality.

7775

‘Thus says the Lord, “You must not go up and fight against your relatives the sons of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing has come from Me.”’” So they listened to the word of the Lord, and returned and went their way according to the word of the Lord.

7776

I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime;

7777

At the beginning of their living there, they did not fear the Lord; therefore the Lord sent lions among them which killed some of them.

7778

Saul sent to Jesse, saying, “Let David now stand before me, for he has found favor in my sight.”

7779

Lamech took to himself two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other, Zillah.

7780

the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

7781

He *said, “Yes.” And when he came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, “What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs or poll-tax, from their sons or from strangers?”

7782

And Jesus *said to him, See that you tell no one; but go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.”

7783

Whatever city you enter and they receive you, eat what is set before you;

7784

Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”

7785

and He saw two boats lying at the edge of the lake; but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

7788

Then the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze chains, and he was a grinder in the prison.

7789

Her consecrated ones were purer than snow,
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in body than corals,
Their polishing was like lapis lazuli.

7790

in the day that the watchmen of the house tremble, and mighty men stoop, the grinding ones stand idle because they are few, and those who look through windows grow dim;

7791

The mountains saw You and quaked;
The downpour of waters swept by.
The deep uttered forth its voice,
It lifted high its hands.

7792

I will not punish your daughters when they play the harlot
Or your brides when they commit adultery,
For the men themselves go apart with harlots
And offer sacrifices with temple prostitutes;
So the people without understanding are ruined.

7795

For I have told him that I am about to judge his house forever for the iniquity which he knew, because his sons brought a curse on themselves and he did not rebuke them.

7796

Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and men of every language that live in all the earth: “May your peace abound!

7797

Then Absalom her brother said to her, “Has Amnon your brother been with you? But now keep silent, my sister, he is your brother; do not take this matter to heart.” So Tamar remained and was desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

7798

Then it came about afterwards that David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I go up to one of the cities of Judah?” And the Lord said to him, “Go up.” So David said, “Where shall I go up?” And He said, “To Hebron.”

7799

A voice was heard in Ramah,
Weeping and great mourning,
Rachel weeping for her children;
And she refused to be comforted,
Because they were no more.”

7800

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

7802

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, with Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supporting them.

7803

For I, on my part, though absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged him who has so committed this, as though I were present.

7804

When they had passed the first and second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened for them by itself; and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

7805

And David realized that the Lord had established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for the sake of His people Israel.

7806

Then his return was to Ramah, for his house was there, and there he judged Israel; and he built there an altar to the Lord.

7807

When the sons of Israel cried to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the sons of Israel to deliver them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

7808

However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will take place in the latter days. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while on your bed.

7809

So Saul said to his uncle, “He told us plainly that the donkeys had been found.” But he did not tell him about the matter of the kingdom which Samuel had mentioned.

7810

So the men pursued them on the road to the Jordan to the fords; and as soon as those who were pursuing them had gone out, they shut the gate.

7811

Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

7812

Let Me alone, that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they.’

7814

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

7815

I said to them, “We according to our ability have redeemed our Jewish brothers who were sold to the nations; now would you even sell your brothers that they may be sold to us?” Then they were silent and could not find a word to say.

7816

For the king had at sea the ships of Tarshish with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the ships of Tarshish came bringing gold and silver, ivory and apes and peacocks.

7817

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you do not arouse or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”

7818

How handsome you are, my beloved,
And so pleasant!
Indeed, our couch is luxuriant!

7819

How beautiful you are, my darling,
How beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves.”

7820

Now King Solomon sent and brought Hiram from Tyre.

7821

Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

7822

When Boaz had eaten and drunk and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain; and she came secretly, and uncovered his feet and lay down.

7824

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.

7825

If any woman who is a believer has dependent widows, she must assist them and the church must not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are widows indeed.

7826

The slaves of the landowner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’

7827

You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.

7828

The manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.

7829

The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it. It shall not go out, but the priest shall burn wood on it every morning; and he shall lay out the burnt offering on it, and offer up in smoke the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.

7830

Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

7831

And David says,
Let their table become a snare and a trap,
And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.

7832

When they lifted up their eyes at a distance and did not recognize him, they raised their voices and wept. And each of them tore his robe and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky.

7834

and you will even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

7835

For what comeliness and beauty will be theirs!
Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

7836

therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I, even I, am against you, and I will execute judgments among you in the sight of the nations.

7837

So he went down and dipped himself seven times in the Jordan, according to the word of the man of God; and his flesh was restored like the flesh of a little child and he was clean.

7838

Therefore say, ‘Thus says the Lord God, “Though I had removed them far away among the nations and though I had scattered them among the countries, yet I was a sanctuary for them a little while in the countries where they had gone.”’

7839

The exiles observed the Passover on the fourteenth of the first month.

7841

Hear the word which the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel.

7842

Then she fell on her face, bowing to the ground and said to him, “Why have I found favor in your sight that you should take notice of me, since I am a foreigner?”

7843

For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

7844

For it came about when the flame went up from the altar toward heaven, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell on their faces to the ground.

7846

Now it came about when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were within their land,

7847

Ibhar, Elishua, Nepheg, Japhia,

7848

Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to him; and He took of the Spirit who was upon him and placed Him upon the seventy elders. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do it again.

7849

So the angel swung his sickle to the earth and gathered the clusters from the vine of the earth, and threw them into the great wine press of the wrath of God.

7850

Then what had been spoken through Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled:

7851

The Lord spoke again to Moses and to Aaron, saying to them,

7852

Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

7853

Behold, I will throw her on a bed of sickness, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of her deeds.

7854

And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.”

7855

For men swear by one greater than themselves, and with them an oath given as confirmation is an end of every dispute.

7856

“But we have cast them down,
Heshbon is ruined as far as Dibon,
Then we have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba.”

7857

Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm your love for him.

7859

My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

7860

“I will surely assemble all of you, Jacob,
I will surely gather the remnant of Israel.
I will put them together like sheep in the fold;
Like a flock in the midst of its pasture
They will be noisy with men.

7861

My God will cast them away
Because they have not listened to Him;
And they will be wanderers among the nations.

7862

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.

7863

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

7864

It came about as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

7865

So he will turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land, but he will stumble and fall and be found no more.

7866

“For the house of Israel and the house of Judah
Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” declares the Lord.

7867

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?

7868

Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

7869

So then, if while her husband is living she is joined to another man, she shall be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress though she is joined to another man.

7870

Then the king of Israel said, “Alas! For the Lord has called these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.”

7871

So it was continuously; the cloud would cover it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.

7873

and Eliab the son of Helon over the tribal army of the sons of Zebulun.

7874

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents and have heads, and with them they do harm.

7875

And Abraham replied, “Now behold, I have ventured to speak to the Lord, although I am but dust and ashes.

7876

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and his facial expression was altered toward Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego. He answered by giving orders to heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.

7877

So, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans.

7878

He *said to the man with the withered hand, Get up and come forward!”

7879

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Ask now the priests for a ruling:

7880

“I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of hosts.

7881

They sang, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, saying, “For He is good, for His lovingkindness is upon Israel forever.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

7882

“Then I raised up some of your sons to be prophets
And some of your young men to be Nazirites.
Is this not so, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.

7883

He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

7884

and the doors on the street are shut as the sound of the grinding mill is low, and one will arise at the sound of the bird, and all the daughters of song will sing softly.

7885

For behold, the Lord is going to command that the great house be smashed to pieces and the small house to fragments.

7886

Or you will give your vigor to others
And your years to the cruel one;

7887

Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I will drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them.

7888

So his fellow slave fell to the ground and began to plead with him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you.’

7889

Posterity will serve Him;
It will be told of the Lord to the coming generation.

7890

“For then you will delight in the Almighty
And lift up your face to God.

7892

The Spirit of the Lord came upon him, and he judged Israel. When he went out to war, the Lord gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand, so that he prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.

7893

In all this, they are surprised that you do not run with them into the same excesses of dissipation, and they malign you;

7894

Now these are those who conspired against him: Zabad the son of Shimeath the Ammonitess, and Jehozabad the son of Shimrith the Moabitess.

7895

So the people scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

7896

In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years.

7897

In the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dry.

7898

Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

7899

Now not for his sake only was it written that it was credited to him,

7900

then he took Him into his arms, and blessed God, and said,

7901

‘Return, O faithless sons,’ declares the Lord;
‘For I am a master to you,
And I will take you one from a city and two from a family,
And I will bring you to Zion.’

7902

and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.

7903

Moreover, the Lord said, “Because the daughters of Zion are proud
And walk with heads held high and seductive eyes,
And go along with mincing steps
And tinkle the bangles on their feet,

7904

“This is another thing you do: you cover the altar of the Lord with tears, with weeping and with groaning, because He no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.

7905

Their whole body, their backs, their hands, their wings and the wheels were full of eyes all around, the wheels belonging to all four of them.

7906

Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

7907

As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him.

7908

Ornan said to David, “Take it for yourself; and let my lord the king do what is good in his sight. See, I will give the oxen for burnt offerings and the threshing sledges for wood and the wheat for the grain offering; I will give it all.”

7909

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

7910

Then he brought me to the porch of the temple and measured each side pillar of the porch, five cubits on each side; and the width of the gate was three cubits on each side.

7911

Let it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is being built with huge stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is going on with great care and is succeeding in their hands.

7912

You shall not behave thus toward the Lord your God, for every abominable act which the Lord hates they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

7913

you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.

7914

Now, my daughter, do not fear. I will do for you whatever you ask, for all my people in the city know that you are a woman of excellence.

7915

Then the woman wisely came to all the people. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, each to his tent. Joab also returned to the king at Jerusalem.

7916

The Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

7917

Then David and all the people who were with him arose and crossed the Jordan; and by dawn not even one remained who had not crossed the Jordan.

7918

The time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

7919

Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of the whole earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of the whole earth.

7920

Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place.

7921

Now there was a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish the son of Abiel, the son of Zeror, the son of Becorath, the son of Aphiah, the son of a Benjamite, a mighty man of valor.

7922

When you enter your neighbor’s standing grain, then you may pluck the heads with your hand, but you shall not wield a sickle in your neighbor’s standing grain.

7923

You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do.

7924

For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses?

7925

The sons of Joseph according to their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

7926

Thus Noah did; according to all that God had commanded him, so he did.

7927

knowing that He who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and will present us with you.

7929

But when they recognized that he was a Jew, a single outcry arose from them all as they shouted for about two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!”

7930

So then, some were shouting one thing and some another, for the assembly was in confusion and the majority did not know for what reason they had come together.

7931

Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour; and behold, a man stood before me in shining garments,

7932

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

7933

And all the people in the synagogue were filled with rage as they heard these things;

7934

But Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me yourselves, so that nothing of what you have said may come upon me.”

7935

And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

7936

But He gave him no inheritance in it, not even a foot of ground, and yet, even when he had no child, He promised that He would give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him.

7937

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?”

7938

“That with an iron stylus and lead
They were engraved in the rock forever!

7939

Large crowds followed Him from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan.

7941

For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him.”

7942

“Is it being said, O house of Jacob:
‘Is the Spirit of the Lord impatient?
Are these His doings?’
Do not My words do good
To the one walking uprightly?

7943

And I will wait for the Lord who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob; I will even look eagerly for Him.

7944

“He captures the wise by their own shrewdness,
And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.

7945

For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

7946

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.”

7947

Recently My people have arisen as an enemy—
You strip the robe off the garment
From unsuspecting passers-by,
From those returned from war.

7948

With his finger he shall sprinkle some of the blood on it seven times and cleanse it, and from the impurities of the sons of Israel consecrate it.

7949

though these three men were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not deliver either their sons or their daughters. They alone would be delivered, but the country would be desolate.

7950

I said to the king, “If it please the king, and if your servant has found favor before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

7951

Now behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, 20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and 20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil.”

7952

He will give grass in your fields for your cattle, and you will eat and be satisfied.

7953

The priest shall offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering, and make atonement for him concerning his sin because of the dead person. And that same day he shall consecrate his head,

7954

You shall, moreover, command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

7955

‘Now when you bring an offering of a grain offering baked in an oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.

7956

Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; the other half followed Omri.

7957

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a valiant warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. And Gilead was the father of Jephthah.

7958

This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

7959

Now the sons of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord. So the Lord strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the Lord.

7960

while it is said,
Today if you hear His voice,
Do not harden your hearts, as when they provoked Me.”

7962

And he said, “Well, how could I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

7963

If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.

7964

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.

7965

But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!

7966

Taking the blind man by the hand, He brought him out of the village; and after spitting on his eyes and laying His hands on him, He asked him, “Do you see anything?”

7967

and yet Elijah was sent to none of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.

7968

The man came to the second and said the same thing; and he answered, ‘I will, sir’; but he did not go.

7969

Though I wrote for him ten thousand precepts of My law,
They are regarded as a strange thing.

7970

‘Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant,
And in it was food for all.
The beasts of the field found shade under it,
And the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches,
And all living creatures fed themselves from it.

7971

They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes and on all the watering places.

7973

For seven women will take hold of one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; take away our reproach!”

7974

The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,
But the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.

7975

Be gracious to me, O Lord;
See my affliction from those who hate me,
You who lift me up from the gates of death,

7976

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.Now Jehu had stationed for himself eighty men outside, and he had said, “The one who permits any of the men whom I bring into your hands to escape shall give up his life in exchange.”

7978

The rabble who were among them had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel wept again and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

7979

Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon, when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram had always been a friend of David.

7980

Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed of the Lord who has not withdrawn his kindness to the living and to the dead.” Again Naomi said to her, “The man is our relative, he is one of our closest relatives.”

7981

Miriam answered them,
Sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”

7982

The sons of Manasseh were Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.

7983

Gideon went up by the way of those who lived in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the camp when the camp was unsuspecting.

7984

Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

7985

But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

7986

I passed by the field of the sluggard
And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense,

7987

The chariots race madly in the streets,
They rush wildly in the squares,
Their appearance is like torches,
They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.

7988

And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian.

7989

And they spent a long time with the disciples.

7991

Was the baptism of John from heaven, or from men? Answer Me.”

7992

They passed through Pisidia and came into Pamphylia.

7993

“I have heard the taunting of Moab
And the revilings of the sons of Ammon,
With which they have taunted My people
And become arrogant against their territory.

7994

When a person sins and acts unfaithfully against the Lord, and deceives his companion in regard to a deposit or a security entrusted to him, or through robbery, or if he has extorted from his companion,

7995

therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

7996

So when his fellow slaves saw what had happened, they were deeply grieved and came and reported to their lord all that had happened.

7997

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the gazelles or by the hinds of the field,
That you will not arouse or awaken my love
Until she pleases.”

7998

So act according to your wisdom, and do not let his gray hair go down to Sheol in peace.

7999

Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; I have indeed transgressed the command of the Lord and your words, because I feared the people and listened to their voice.

8000

Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne and be king in my place; for I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah.”

8001

So Saul’s servants spoke these words to David. But David said, “Is it trivial in your sight to become the king’s son-in-law, since I am a poor man and lightly esteemed?”

8002

All these were sons of Jediael, according to the heads of their fathers’ households, 17,200 mighty men of valor, who were ready to go out with the army to war.