what I am commanding you {today} [is] to love Yahweh your God by going in his ways and by keeping his commandments and his statutes and his regulations, and then you will live, and you will become numerous, and Yahweh your God will bless you in the {land where you are going}.

And {my anger shall flare up against them} on that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall become as prey, and disasters and troubles shall find them, and they shall say on that day, '[Is it] not because our God is not in our midst [that] these disasters have found us?'

For when I bring them into the land that I swore to their ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey, {they will eat their fill}, and they will become fat, and [then] they will turn to other gods, and they will serve them, and they will spurn me, and they will break my covenant.

[They will become] weakened by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter pestilence; and the teeth of wild animals I will send against them, with [the] poison of [the] creeping [things] in [the] dust;

The {Israelites} were unable to stand before their enemies; {they fled from their enemies} because they have become a thing devoted for destruction. {I will be with you no more} unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Now I say, I will not drive them out from before you; they will {become as thorns} for you, and their gods will be a trap for you."

And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That being so, we have now returned to you, that you may go with us {to fight} against the {Ammonites} and become for us as head of all the inhabitants of Gilead."

And the moment he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Ah! My daughter, you have caused me to bow down, and you have become my trouble. {I made an oath} to Yahweh, and I cannot take [it] back."

Samson said to her, "If you tie me up with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried up, I will become weak like everyone else."

He said to her, "If they tie me tightly with new ropes that have not been used, I will become weak and be like everyone else."

So {he confided everything to her}, and he said to her, "A razor {has never touched} my head, for I [am] a {Nazirite of God} {from birth}. If I am shaved my strength will leave me, and I will become weak, like everyone else.

And Micah said, "Now I know Yahweh will make me prosperous, because the Levite has become my priest."

Those who were full must hire themselves out for bread, but those who are hungry will become fat. As for the infertile, she will bear seven, but [she who has] many sons withers away.

They said, "If you [are] sending the ark of the God of Israel away, you must not send it away empty, but by all means return it with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and it will become known to you why his hand [is] not turned aside from you."

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you [yourselves] will become his servants.

And all Israel did hear, saying, "Saul has defeated the garrison of [the] Philistines; and also, Israel has become a stench among [the] Philistines!" So the people were called out after Saul at Gilgal.

And Saul thought, "I will give her to him, so that she may be a snare for him and the hand of [the] Philistines may be against him." So Saul said to David, "For a second [time] you can become my son-in-law today."

Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in secret, saying, 'Look, the king [is] pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.'"

And Saul's servants spoke these words {to David privately}. But David said, "[Is] it insignificant {in your sight} to become the son-in-law of the king, [as] I am a poor and lightly esteemed man?"

So his servants told David these words, and the matter {pleased David} to become the son-in-law of the king [as] {the specified time had not expired}.

And David got up, and he and his men went and struck down two hundred men [of the] Philistines. Then David brought their foreskins, and {they presented the full number} to become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him Michal his daughter as [his] wife.

Then Samuel said, "Why do you ask me, since Yahweh has turned away from you and has become your enemy?

But the commanders of [the] Philistines were angry with him and they said to him, "Send the man back so that he might return to his place where you have assigned him! But he will not go down with us into the battle, so that he does not become an adversary to us in the battle. By what could this fellow make himself favorable to his lord? Is it not with the heads of these men?

You have established your people Israel for yourself as a people forever, and you, O Yahweh, have become their God.

When the {Ammonites} saw that they had become odious to David, the {Ammonites} sent [word] and hired Aram Beth-Rehob and Aram-Zobah, twenty thousand infantry; and [they also hired] the king of Maacah, a thousand men, and the men of Tob, twelve thousand men.

Then he said, "If Aram [is] stronger than I [am], you must become my deliverer; but if the {Ammonites} [are] too strong for you, then I will come to rescue you.

Then Absalom sent scouts throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "When you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall shout 'Absalom has become king in Hebron!'"

Now King David had become old, {advanced in years}, and they covered him with garments, but he was not warm.

Then Nathan said to Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, "Have you not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith has become king, but our lord David does not know?

Come, go to King David and say to him, 'Have you not, my lord the king, sworn to your servant, "Surely Solomon your son shall become king after me. And he will sit on my throne"? But why is Adonijah king?'

She said to him, "My lord, you swore by Yahweh your God to your servant, 'Solomon your son surely shall become king after me, and he will sit upon my throne!'

But now, look! Adonijah has become king! And now, my lord the king, you do not know!

then I will cut Israel off from the face of the land that I have given to them, [even] the house which I have consecrated for my name I will cast away from my face; and Israel shall become a proverb and an object of taunting among all the peoples.

This house shall become a heap of ruins; all those passing by will be appalled by it and hiss, and they will say, 'On what account did Yahweh do this to this land and to this house?'

In the third year of Asa king of Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah had become king over all of Israel; [he lived] in Tirzah twenty-four years.

Now Joram the son of Ahab had become king over Israel in Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah. He reigned twelve years

He took his firstborn son who was to become king in his place and offered him [as] a burnt offering on the wall. Great wrath came upon Israel, and they withdrew from him and returned to the land.

In the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab, Ahaziah had become king over Judah.

Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.

I will give up the remainder of my inheritance, and I will give them into the hand of their enemies. They shall become as prey and as spoil for all their enemies,

because you have a responsive heart, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh when you heard how I spoke against this place and against its inhabitants to become a desolation and a curse, and you have torn your clothes and wept before my face, I have also heard, declares Yahweh.

In his days, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up [because] Jehoiakim had become his servant [for] three years; then he turned and rebelled against him.

When they sin against you--for there is no person who does not sin--and you become angry with them and place them before their enemy that they carry them away as captives to a land far or near,

Did you not drive out the priests of Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, the Levites? Have you [not] made for yourselves priests like all the peoples of the lands? All who come {to be consecrated for priestly service} with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of [what is] not a god.

And let the young woman {who is pleasing} in the king's eyes become queen in place of Vashti. The thing was good in the king's eyes, and he acted accordingly.

Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

"For now you have become {such}; you see terrors, and you fear.

[If] I have sinned, what have I done to you, watcher of humanity? Why have you made me as a target for yourself, so that I have become a burden to myself?

I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.

{O that} you would keep completely silent, and [that] it would become wisdom for you.

His children may [come to] honor, but he does not know [it]; or they may become lowly, but he does not realize it.

He will not become rich, and his wealth will not endure, and their possessions will not stretch across the earth.

The light becomes dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.

His wealth will become hunger, and disaster is ready for his stumbling.

The sojourners in my house and my slave women count me as a stranger; I have become a foreigner in their eyes.

Look, you all have seen, and {why in the world} {have you become altogether vain}?

"But now I am their mocking song, and I have become a byword for them.

He has cast me into the dirt, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Like stone [the] waters become hard, and [the] faces of the deep freeze.

To you, O Yahweh, I call. O my rock, do not be deaf to me. Or else, if you are silent to me, then I will become like those descending to [the] pit.

Incline your ear to me. Quickly deliver me. Become my rock of refuge, {a fortified keep} to save me.

Because of all my adversaries I have become a disgrace, especially to my neighbors, and a dread to my acquaintances. [Those who] see me in the street flee from me.

I have become forgotten like [one] dead, out of {mind}. I am like a destroyed vessel.

Do not fear when a man becomes rich, when the wealth of his house increases,

They [who] would {deliver him to the sword} will become a portion for jackals.

I have become a stranger to my brothers and a foreigner to my mother's sons,

I have become a wonder to many, but you [are] my strong refuge.

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.

All passing along [the] road plunder him; he has become a taunt to his neighbors.

But Yahweh has become my [high] stronghold, and my God [has become] my rock of refuge.

And he blesses them and they multiply greatly, and he does not let their cattle become few.

When they become few and they are bent down from [the] oppression of calamity and grief,

When he is judged, let him come out guilty, and let his prayer become as sin.

[The] wicked sees [it] and is vexed. He gnashes his teeth and {becomes weak}. [The] desire of [the] wicked perishes.

[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

Yah [is] my strength and [my] song, and he has become my salvation.

I will give thanks [to] you for you have answered me, and you have become my salvation.

[The] stone the builders rejected has become [the] chief cornerstone.

For I have become like a wineskin in [the] smoke, [yet] I have not forgotten your statutes.

[Those who] make them become like them, [as does] everyone who trusts in them.

I hate them with a complete hatred; they have become my enemies.

Quickly answer me, O Yahweh; my spirit fails. Do not hide your face from me, or I will become like [those] descending to [the] pit.

Give to a wise one and he will become more wise; {teach} a righteous one and he will increase learning.

In the heart of him who has understanding, wisdom rests, but [even] in the midst of fools it becomes known.

A person who lacks {sense} {pledges}; he becomes security before his neighbor.

Do not love sleep, lest you become poor; open your eyes [and] have plenty bread.

With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge.

A man of want [is] he who loves pleasure; he who loves wine and oil will not become rich.

lest you learn his way and become entangled in a snare to yourself.

Do not tire [in order] to become rich; out of your understanding, [may you] desist

For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor, and [with] rags, drowsiness will clothe them

Remove the dross from silver, and it will become a vessel for the smith.

Make your foot scarce in the house of your neighbor, lest he become weary of you and hate you.

Do not answer a fool according to his folly lest you become like him--even you.

A man of faithfulness [has] abundant blessings, but he who hurries to become rich will not go unpunished.

under a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is satisfied [with] food;

{I said to myself}, "Look! I have become great and have increased [in] wisdom more than anyone who {has preceded} me over Jerusalem. {I have acquired a great deal of wisdom and knowledge}."

I have come to my garden, my sister bride, I have gathered my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk! Eat, O friends! {Drink and become drunk [with] love}!