55 Bible Verses about Government

Folly being bound in the heart of a youth; the rod of correction shall remove it far off from him.

Correct thy son when there is hope, and thy soul shall not lift up for his sighing.

Thou shalt not withhold instruction from youth: if thou shalt strike him with a rod he shall not die.

He withholding his rod hates his son: and he loving him, sought correction for him.

A king in judgment shall establish the land: and a man of presents shall overthrow it

In a multitude of people the king's decoration: and in the cessation of the people the destruction of the prince.

Not for kings, O Lemuel, not for kings to drink and for princes the desire of strong drink: Lest he shall drink and forget what is prescribed, and change the judgment of all the sons of affliction. Ye shall give strong drink to him perishing, and wine to the bitter of soul read more.
He shall drink and forget his poverty, and shall no more remember his toil.

The God of Israel said to me, the Rock of Israel spake a parable upon the just man: a parable to fear God.

For thou, O God, heartiest to my vows: thou gavest the inheritance to those fearing thy name. Thou wilt add days to the days of the king: his years as generation and generation. He shall dwell before God forever: mercy and truth a portion shall guard him.

Because thy wrath against me, and thine arrogance came up into mine ears, and I put my hook in thy nose and my bit into thy lips, and I turned thee back in the way which thou camest in it

And I turned thee back, and I gave hooks in thy jaw bones, and I brought thee forth and all thine army of horses and horsemen, clothed in perfection, all of them a great convocation with buckler and shield, holding swords all of them:

Bringing to naught the signs at vain boasters, and he will make those divining, foolish; turning back the wise backward, and he will frustrate their knowledge.

Steams of waters the heart of the king, in the hand of Jehovah: upon all which he shall delight in he will turn it

Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty.

And to the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; Thus says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor boiling: I would thou shouldest be cold or boiling. For so thou art tepid, and neither cold nor boiling, I am about to vomit thee out of my month. read more.
For thou sayest, That I am rich, and have abounded, and have need of nothing; and thou knowest not that thou art wretched, and pitiable, and poor, and blind, and naked; I counsel thee to buy gold of me refined by fire, that thou mightest be rich; and white garments, that thou mightest be surrounded, and that the shame of thy nakedness might not be made manifest; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve that thou mightest see. I, if as many as I love, I rebuke and correct: be emulous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand before the door, and knock: and if any hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. He conquering, will I give to him to sit with me on my throne, as I also conquered, and sat down with my Father on his throne.

For this I endure all things for the chosen, that they also might attain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory. Faithful the word: For if we died together, we shall also live together: If we endure, we shall also reign together: if we deny, he will also deny us:

I Daniel was grieved in the midst of the sheath, and the visions of my heart will terrify me. I drew near to one of those standing by, and I sought from him the truth concerning all this: and he said to me, and he will cause me to know the interpretation of the words. Those great beasts that they are four, four kings they shall rise up from the earth. read more.
And the holy ones of the Most High shall take the kingdom and shall possess the kingdom even to forever, and even to forever of forever. Then I willed to speak the truth concerning the fourth beast that was different from all of them, exceedingly fearful, its teeth of iron and its hoofs of brass; eating, beating small, and treading down the remainder with its feet; And concerning the ten horns that were upon its head, and the other that went up, and three fell from before it; and this horn and eyes to it, and a mouth speaking great things, and its sight great above its companions. I was seeing, and this horn made an encounter with the holy ones, and prevailed against them; Even till that the Ancient of days came, and the judgment was given to the holy ones of the Most High; and the time extending and the holy ones possessed the kingdom. Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom in the earth, that shall be different from all kingdoms, and shall eat up all the earth, and shall tread it down and beat it And the ten horns from this kingdom, ten kings shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be different from the first, and he shall humble three kings. And he shall speak words against the Most High, and he shall vex the holy ones of the Most High, and he will hope to change times and law: and they shall be given into his hand even to a time and times, and the dividing of time. And the tribunal sat, and they shall take away his power to cut off and to destroy even to the end. And the kingdom and the power, and the greatness of the kingdom under All the heavens was given to the people of the holy ones of the Most High his kingdom an eternal kingdom, and all powers shall serve to him, and shall hear.

And truly the Son of man goes according to that determined: but woe to that man by whom he is delivered up! And they began to seek together among themselves, which of them it should be that was about to do this thing. And a love of strife was in them, which of them thinks to be the greater. read more.
And he said to them, The kings of the nations rule over them; and they exercising power over them are called benefactors. And ye not so: but let the greater with you be as the younger; and he leading, as he serving. For which the greater, he reclining, or he serving? is not he reclining and I am in the midst of you as he serving. And ye are they having remained with me in my temptations. And I set to you, as my Father set to me, a kingdom; That ye might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and might sit upon thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And to the messenger of the church among the Thyatirians write; Thus says the Son of God, having his eyes as a flame of fire, and his feet like the brass of Lebanon; I know thy works, and love, and service, and faith, and thy patience, and thy works; and the last more than the first. But I have a few things against thee, for thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, calling herself a prophetess, to teach and to lead my servants astray to commit fornication, and to eat things offered to idols. read more.
And I gave her time that she might repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them committing adultery with her into great pressure, except they repent of their works. And her children will I kill in death; and all the churches shall know that I am he searching the reins and hearts: and I will give to you each according to our works. And say to you, and to the rest among the Thyatirians, as many as have not this teaching, and who know not the burden of Satan, as they say; I will cast no other burden upon you. But what ye have, hold ye until I come. And he conquering, and keeping my works till the end, I will give him power over the nations: And he will rule them with an iron rod; as vessels of earthen ware shall they be rubbed together: as I also have received of my Father. And I will give him the morning star.

A man who shall perfume like it, and shall give to the stranger, and he shall be cut off from his people.

They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without.

Seven days ye shall eat unleavened; wholly in the first day shall ye turn away leaven in your houses; for all eating leavened and that soul was destroyed from Israel from the first day even to the seventh day.

And the soul which shall eat the flesh of the sacrifice of peace which to Jehovah, and his uncleanness upon him, that soul was cut off from its people.

And at the door of the tent of appointment brought it not to do it to Jehovah; and that man was cut off from his people.

And the word of Jehovah will be to me, saying, As this potter shall I not be able to do to you, O house of Israel? says Jehovah. Behold, as the clay in the hand of the potter, thus are ye in my hand, O house of Israel. The moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to tear down, and to destroy: read more.
And that nation which I spake against it turned back from its evil, and I lamented for the evil which I proposed to do to it. And the moment I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant: And it did evil in mine eyes not to hear to my voice, and I lamented for the good which I said to do well to it

The word by the decree of the watchers, and the saying of the holy ones is the question: for the reason that the living shall know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and to whom that he will, he will give it, and he will raise up over it the low of men.

Who knew not in all these that the hand of God did this? Which in his hand the soul of all living, and the spirit of all the flesh of man. Shall not the ear try words? and the palate shall taste food to it? read more.
With old men is wisdom, and length of days, understanding With him wisdom and strength, to him counsel and understanding. Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened. Behold, he will hold back upon the waters, and they will dry up: and he will send them forth and they will overturn the earth. With him strength and purpose:to him the one led astray and him leading astray. Leading away counselors stripped off and he will make foolish the judges He loosed the bonds of kings, and he will gird upon their loins a girdle. Leading away priests stripped off, and he will overthrow the mighty. Removing the lip to the faithful, and he will take discernment of old men. Proving contempt upon nobles, and he slackened the girdle of the strong. Revealing deep things from darkness, and he will bring to light the shadow of death. Making great to the nations, and he will destroy them: he spread out to the nations, and he will guide them.

He sitting upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants as locusts; he stretching out the heavens as fine cloth, and he will extend them as a tent to dwell in: He gave princes to nothing; he made the judges of the earth as vanity.

And command them to say to their lords, Thus said Jehovah of armies God of Israel: Thus shall ye say to your lords: I made the earth, the man and the cattle which are upon the face of the earth, by my great power and by mine arm stretched forth, and I gave it to whom was right in mine eyes. And now I gave all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, my servant; and also the beasts of the field gave I to him to serve him. read more.
And all the nations served him, and his son, and his son's son, even till the time itself also of his land came: and many nations and great kings served upon him. And it was the nation and kingdom which shall not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babel, and which shall not give his neck in the yoke of the king of Babel, with the sword and with famine and with death I will review upon that nation, says Jehovah, even to my finishing them by his hand.

And he began to teach them that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be disapproved of by the elders, and the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise up.

And having been morning, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to kill him: And having bound they brought him away, and they delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the leader.

And to him, having come into the temple to him teaching, came the chief priests and elders of the people, saying, By what authority doest thou these? and who gave thee this authority?

And quickly the chief priests having made counsel with the more ancient and scribes and the whole council, having bound Jesus, led away, and delivered to Pilate.

Then were gathered together the chief priests, and scribes, and the more ancient of the people, into the court-yard of the chief priest, called Caliaphas, And they counselled together, that they might obtain Jesus by stratagem, and might kill. And they said, Not in the festival, lest there should be an uproar among the people.

And if any hunger, let him eat in the house; lest ye come together for judgment. And the rest when I come I will regulate.

And the sent and elders were gathered together to see about this word.

For it seemed fitting to the Holy Spirit, and to us, for no more burden to be put upon you but the necessities of these;

(And if any know not to preside over his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

An elder shouldest thou not reprove, but beseech as a father; the younger as brethren;

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and we will make our stay with him. He not loving me will not keep my words.: and the word which ye hear is not of me, but of the Father having sent me. These have I spoken to you, remaining with you. read more.
But the Intercessor, the Holy Spirit, which the Father will send in my name, the same shall teach you all things, and he shall remind you of all things which I spake to you. Peace I leave to you, my peace I give to you: not as the world gives, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be timid. Ye have heard that I said to you, I retire, and I am coming to you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice because I said, I go to the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now have I told you before it shall be, that when it should be, ye might believe. I will no more speak much with you: for the ruler of this world comes, and has nothing in me.

And if also our good news is hid, in the lost is it hid: In whom the God of this world blinded the minds of the unbelieving, so that the enlightening of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, does not enlighten them.

But I say the truth to you; it is profitable to you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Intercessor shall not come to you; and if I go, I will send him to you. And having come, he will convict the world of sin, and of justice, and of judgment: Truly of sin, because they believe not in me; read more.
And of justice, because I retire to my Father, and ye see me no more; And of judgment, for the ruler of this world has been judged.

But we speak wisdom among the perfected: and the wisdom not of this life, nor of the rulers of this life, they being left unemployed: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, hidden, which God determined beforehand, before the times to our glory: Which none of the rulers of this world knew: for if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

They shall confess to Jehovah his mercy, and his wonders to the sons of man. And they shall exalt him in the convocation of the people, and they shall praise him in the seat of the old men. He will set rivers to a desert, and the findings of waters to thirst; read more.
A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it He will set a desert for pools of water, and a land of dryness for findings of water. And there will he cause the hungering to dwell, and they shall prepare a city of dwelling; And they shall sow fields and plant vineyards, and they will make fruits of produce. And he will bless them, and they shall multiply greatly, and he will not diminish their cattle. And they will be diminished and brought low from oppression, evil and grief He poured out contempt upon the nobles, and he will cause them to wander in a waste of not a way.

And they will eat and drink before Jehovah in that day with great gladness. And they will make the second time for Solomon son of David to be king, and they will anoint him to Jehovah for leader, and to Zadok for priest

And all the convocation will cut out a covenant in the house of God with the king. And he will say to them, Behold, the king's son shall reign, as Jehovah spake concerning the sons of David.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Take to thee Joshua, son of Nun, a man in whom the spirit in him, and place thy hand upon him; And make him to stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the assembly: and command him before their eyes. And give from thy majesty upon him, so that all the assembly of the sons of Israel shall hear him. read more.
And before Eleazar the priest, he shall stand, and he asked for him in the judgment of the Lights before Jehovah: at his mouth they shall go out, and at his mouth they shall come in, he and all the sons of Israel with him, and all the assembly. And Moses will do as Jehovah commanded him; and he will take Joshua and will make him stand before Eleazar the priest, and before all the assembly. And he will place his hands upon him and command him as . Jehovah spake by the hand of Moses.

And Samuel will say to all the people, See whom Jehovah chose to him, for none like him among all the people. And all the people will shout and say, The king shall live.

And all the old men of Israel will gather together and will come to Samuel to Ramah; . And they will say to him, Behold, thou wert old, and thy sons went not in thy ways: now set up for us a king to judge us as all the nations. And the word will be evil in the eyes of Samuel when they said, Give to us a king to judge us: and Samuel will pray to Jehovah. read more.
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them. According to all the works which they did from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, and even to this day, and they will forsake me and serve other gods, so they do also to thee. And now hear to their voice: but protesting, thou shalt protest to them, and announce to them the judgment of the king who shall reign over them. And Samuel will say all the words of Jehovah to the people asking from him a king. And he will say, This shall be the judgment of the king who shall reign over you: your sons he will take and set for himself, for his chariots and for his horsemen; and running before his chariots. And to set to himself captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and to plough his ploughing and to reap his harvest, and to do all his fighting and all his chariots. And your daughters he will take for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers. And your fields and your vineyards, and your olive trees, the good he will take and give to his servants. And of your seeds and of your vineyards he will take the tenth and give to his eunuchs and to his servants. And your servants and your maids, and your good young men, and your asses, he will take and make for his services. And of your sheep he will take the tenth: and ye shall be to him for servants. And ye cried out in that day from before your king which ye chose to yourselves; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day. And the people will refuse to hear to the voice of Samuel; and they will say, Nay; but a king shall be over us. And we were as all the nations; and our king judged us and went out before us, and fought our battles. And Samuel will hear all the words of the people, and he will speak them in the ears of Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to their voice, and make a king for them. And Samuel will say to them, Go ye a man to his city.

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

Then thou spakest in a vision to thy godly one, and thou wilt say, I put help upon the mighty one; I exalted the chosen one from the people. I found David my servant; with my holy oil I anointed him: Which my hand shall be prepared with him: also shall mine arm strengthen him. read more.
The enemy shall not impose upon him, and the son of iniquity shall not afflict him. And I beat down his adversaries from his fame, and I will smite those hating him. And my faithfulness and my mercy with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. And I set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall call me, Thou my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation, Also I will give him the firstborn, the highest to the kings of the earth. Forever will I watch my mercy to him, and my covenant was firm to him. I set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. If his sons shall forsake my law, and not go in my judgments; If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands; And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows. And my mercy I will not rend from him, and I will not lie in my faithfulness, I will not profane my covenant, and I will not change the going forth of my lips. Once did I swear in my holy place if I shall lie to David. His seed shall be forever and his throne as the sun before me. As the moon it shall be prepared forever, and a faithful witness in the cloud. Silence.

And now thus shalt thou say to my servant, to David, Thus said Jehovah of armies, I took thee from quiet, from after the sheep, to be ruler over my people, over Israel: And I will be with thee in all where thou wilt go, and I will cut off all thine enemies from thy face, and I made to thee a great name as the name of the great which are upon the earth. And I set a place for my people, for Israel, and I planted him and he dwelt in his place, and he shall be no more moved; and the sons of iniquity shall not add to humble him as in the beginning. read more.
And from the day I commanded judges over my people Israel, and I gave rest to thee from all thine enemies. And Jehovah announced to thee that Jehovah will make to thee a house. When thy days shall be filled up and thou shalt lie down with thy fathers, and I raised up thy seed after thee which shall come forth thy bowels, and I prepared his kingdom. He shall build a house for my name, and I set the throne of his kingdom even to forever. I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men. And my mercy I will not remove from him as I removed from Saul whom I removed from thy face. And thy house was firm and thy kingdom even to forever before thee; thy throne shall be prepared even to forever.

And David the king will rise upon his feet and say, Hear me, my brethren and my people: I with my heart to build a house of rest for the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and for the footstool of the feet of our God; and I prepared for the building. And God said to me, Thou shalt not build a house to my name, for thou a man of war, and thou didst pour out bloods. And Jehovah God of Israel will choose in me from all the house of my father to be for king over Israel forever: for in Judah he chose for leader; and in the house of Judah the house of my father; and in the sons of my father he delighted in me to make a king over ail Israel: read more.
And from all my sons (for Jehovah gave to me many sons) and he will choose in Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel And he will say to me, Solomon thy son, he shall build my house and my enclosures: for I chose in him to me for son, and I will be to him for father. And I set up his kingdom even to forever, if he shall be strong to do my commands and my judgments as this day.

Behold, God is mighty, and he will not despise: mighty in strength of heart He will not save alive the unjust one, and he will give the judgment of the poor. He will not take off his eyes from the just: and with kings upon the throne, and he will seat them for glory, and they shall be exalted.

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them.

And all the people will answer together, and will say, All which Jehovah spake, we will do. And Moses turned back the words of the people to Jehovah.

At the mouth of Jehovah the sons of Israel will remove, and at the mouth of Jehovah they will encamp: all the days which the cloud shall dwell upon the dwelling they shall encamp.

For thy passing into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God made with thee this day:

And Gideon will say to them, I will not rule over you, and my son shall not rule over you: Jehovah shall rule over you.

Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

And after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who exhibited to the leader against Paul.

Also from the day which it was commanded me to be their prefect in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year and even to the thirty and second year to Arthasatha the king, twelve years I and my brethren ate not the bread of the prefect

Rehum, lord of judgment, and Shimshai, the scribe, wrote one epistle against Jerusalem to Arthasatha the king, thus: Then Rehum lord of judment, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their colleagues, the Danites and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babelites, the Susanchites, the Dehavites, the Elamites,

And having bound they brought him away, and they delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the leader.

A man, a heretic after one and the second admonition, reject;

Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered to Satan, that they should not be taught to blaspheme.

And I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and equity of Christ, who, in face truly low with you, but at a distance bold towards you:

To deliver such a one to Satan for the ruin of the flesh, that the spirit might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

I have said before, and say beforehand, as being present the second; and being away now I write to them having sinned before, and to all the rest, that, if I should come again, I will not spare:

Thus said Jehovah, The heavens my throne, and the earth the footstool of my feet: where this house which ye will build to me? and where this place of my rest?

Thy throne, O God, forever and ever: a rod of straightness the rod of thy kingdom.

Jehovah prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruled over all.

And I saw a great white throne, and him sitting upon it, from the face of whom the earth and the heaven fled; and there was found no place for them.

But I say to you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, it is the throne of God:

For a child was born to us, a son was given to us, and the dominion shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, everlasting Father, Captain of Peace. To the increase of his dominion and to peace no end, upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to prepare it and to support it in judgment and in justice from now and even to forever: the zeal of Jehovah of armies will do this.

Jehovah shall reign forever and yet

Say to God, How terrible thy works! in the multitude of thy strength thine enemies shall lie to thee. All the earth shall worship to thee, and they shall play on the harp to thee; they shall play on the harp to thy name. Silence. Come and see ye the works of God: terrible the doing upon the sons of man. read more.
He turned the sea into dry land: they will pass through the river on foot: there we shall rejoice in him. Ruling by his strength forever; his eyes will look about upon the nations: they turning away shall not lift up for themselves. Silence.

Jehovah shall reign forever, thy God, O Zion, to generation and generation. Praise ye Jah.

And the seventh angel sounded the trumpet; and great voices were in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of the world were our Lord's, and his Christ's; and he shall reign for ever and ever. And the twenty four elders, which before God sitting upon their thrones, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God, Saying, We return thanks to thee, O Lord God, the Omnipotent Ruler, who being, and who was, and who coming; for thou hast taken thy great power, and reigned.

Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted to them: whose soever ye retain, they have been retained.

And I will give thee the keys of the kingdom of the heavens: and whatever thou shalt bind upon earth shall be bound in the heavens: and whatever thou shalt loose upon earth shall be loosed in the heavens.

Truly I say to you, Whatever things ye should bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever things ye should loose upon earth shall be loosed in heaven.

And as they were going through the cities, they delivered them the orders to watch, having been determined by the sent and the elders in Jerusalem.

Believe them guiding you, and yield: (for they watch vigilantly for your souls, as going to return the word.) that with joy they might do this, and not lamenting: for this unprofitable for you.

Remind them to be subordinate to beginnings and powers, to yield obedience to authority, to be prepared for every good work,

Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God. So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment. For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it: read more.
For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil. Wherefore necessity to be placed under, not only for anger, but also for consciousness. For this also pay ye taxes: for they are workmen of God, persevering in this same. Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.

Therefore say to us, What seems to thee Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not? But Jesus, having known their evil, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites? Show me the piece of money of tribute. And they brought him a drachma. read more.
And he says to them, Whose is this image and inscription? They say to him, Caesar's. Then says he to them, Give back then to Caesar the things of Caesar; and the things of God to God.

And he said to them, Return therefore to Caesar, Caesar's things, and to God the things of God.

Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority; Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good. (For so is the will of God, those doing good to silence the want of knowledge of the foolish men:) read more.
As free, and as not having liberty for a covering of wickedness, but as the servants of God. Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

Then one of the twelve having gone forth, he being called Judas Iscariot, to the chief priests, Said, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him to you? and they placed to him thirty silver coins.

And she will write letters in the name of Ahab, and seal with his seal; and she will send the letters to the old men, and to the nobles who were in his city dwelling with Naboth. And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die. read more.
And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them. They called a fast; they will set Naboth upon the head of the people. And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die. And they will send to Jezebel, saying, Naboth was stoned, and he will die.

And seventy men from the old men of the house of Israel, and Jaazaniah, son of Shaphan, stood in the midst of them, standing before them, and each his censer in his hand; and a rich cloud of incense went up. And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man, what the old men of the house of Israel are doing in darkness, a man in the chambers of his images? for they are saying, Jehovah sees us not; Jehovah forsook the earth.

Then Judas, he delivering him up, having seen that he was condemned, having felt regret, returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests, and the more ancient, Saying, I have sinned, having delivered up guiltless blood. And they said, What to us? thou shalt see.

And Jezebel his wife will say to him, Thou now wilt do the kingdom over Israel: arise, eat bread, and do thy heart good: I will give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. And she will write letters in the name of Ahab, and seal with his seal; and she will send the letters to the old men, and to the nobles who were in his city dwelling with Naboth. And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: read more.
And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die. And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them. They called a fast; they will set Naboth upon the head of the people. And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die. And they will send to Jezebel, saying, Naboth was stoned, and he will die. And it will be when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and he will die, and Jezebel will say to Ahab, Arise, inherit the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give to thee for silver: for Naboth is not living, but dead. And it will be when Ahab heard,that Naboth was dead, and Ahab will rise to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, and to possess it

And king Solomon will swear by Jehovah, saying, Thus will God do to me, and thus will he add, for Adonijah spoke this word against his soul. And now Jehovah lives who prepared me, and he will set me upon the throne of David my father, and who made for me a house as he spake, for this day Adonijah shall die. And king Solomon will send by the hand of Benaiah, son of Jehoida, and he will strike upon him and he will die.

And the report came even to Joab: (for Joab turned after Adonijah, and after Absalom he turned not;) and Joab will flee to the tent of Jehovah and will lay hold upon the horns of the altar. And it will be announced to king Solomon that Joab fled to the tent of Jehovah; and behold, by the altar. And Solomon will send Benaiah son of Jehoida, saying, Go strike upon him. And Benaiah will go to the tent of Jehovah, and say to him, Thus said the king, Come forth. And he will say, Nay; for here will I die. And Benaiah will turn back the king word, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me. read more.
And the king will say to him, Do as he said, and strike upon him, and bury him; and take away the bloods which Joab shed gratuitously, from me and from my father's house. And Jehovah turned back his blood upon his head, who struck upon two just men and good above him, and he will kill them with the sword, and my father David knew not, Abner son of Ner, chief of the army of Israel, and Amasa, son of Jether, chief of the army of Judah. And their bloods shall turn back upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed forever: and to David and to his seed and to his house and to his throne shall be peace even forever, from Jehovah. And Benaiah son of Jehoida will go up, and will strike upon him and will kill him: and he will be buried in his house in the desert

And the king will send and call for Shimei, and say to him, Build for thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and thou shalt not go forth from thence, whither and whither. For being in the day of thy going forth, and thou didst pass the torrent Kidron, knowing, thou shalt know that dying, thou shalt die: thy blood shall be upon thy head. And Shimei will say, Good the word: according to what my lord the king spake, thus will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days. read more.
And it will be from the end of three years, and two servants to Shimei, will flee to Achish, son of Maachah, king of Gath: and they will announce to Shimci, saying, Behold, thy servants in Gath. And Shimei will rise and saddle his ass, and go to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei will go and bring his servants from Gath. And it will be announced to Solomon that Shimei went from Jerusalem to Gath, and he will turn back And the king will send and call for Shimei, and say to him, Did not I cause thee to swear by Jehovah, and attest to thee, saying, In the day of thy going forth, and thou wentest whither and whither, knowing, thou shalt know that dying, thou shalt die? and thou wilt say to me, Good the word I heard. And wherefore didst thou not watch the oath of Jehovah, and the command which I commanded upon thee? And the king will say to Shimei, Thou knewest all the evil which thy heart knew, which thou didst to David my father: and Jehovah turned back thy evil upon thy head. And blessed be kind Solomon, and the throne of David shall be prepared before Jehovah, even forever. And the king will command Benaiah son of Jehoida, and he will go forth and will strike upon him, and he will die. And the kingdom was prepared in the hand of Solomon.

And Rehoboam will go to Shechem, for to Shechem came all Israel to make him king. And it will be when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard and he yet in Egypt where he fled from the face of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt; And they will send and call for him: and Jeroboam and all the convocation of Israel will come and speak to Rehoboam, saying, read more.
Thy father made our yoke hard and now do thou lighten from the hard service of thy father, and from the heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee. And he will say to them, Go ye, until three days, and turn back to me. And the people will go. And king Rehoboam will consult the old men which were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive saying, How advise ye to turn back this people word? And they will speak to him, saying, If this day thou wilt be a servant to this people and serve them, and answer them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him, and he will consult with the children which grew up with him which were standing before him. And he will say to them, What do ye advise? and we will turn back word to this people who spake to me, saying, Lighten from the yoke which thy father gave upon us. And the children which grew up with him will speak to him, saying, Thus shalt thou say to this people who spake to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou lighten from upon us; thus shalt thou speak to them, My littleness thick above my father's loins. And now my father loaded upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add upon your yoke: my father chastised you with whips and I will chastise you with scorpions. And Jeroboam and all the people will come to Rehoboam in the third day, as the king spake, saying, Turn back to me in the third day. And the king will answer the people hard, and he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him; And he will speak to them according to the counsel of the children, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add upon your yoke: my father chastised you with whips and I will chastise you with scorpions. And the king heard not to the people, for the turn was from Jehovah for sake of lifting up his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. And all Israel will see that the king heard not to them, and the people will turn back the king word, saying, What part to us in David? and no inheritance in the son of Jesse: to thy tents, O Israel: now see to thy house, David. And Israel will go to their tents.

And Samuel will take the horn of oil and he will anoint him in the midst of his brethren: and the spirit of Jehovah will cleave to David from that day and over. And Samuel will rise and go to Ramab.

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Thou shalt not look upon his aspect or upon the height of his stature; for I rejected him: for not what man will see, for man will see with the eyes, and Jehovah will see at the heart

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, How long mournest thou for Saul, and I rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill thy horn with oil, and go; I will send thee to Jesse of the House of Bread, for I saw among his sons a king to me.

Then thou spakest in a vision to thy godly one, and thou wilt say, I put help upon the mighty one; I exalted the chosen one from the people. I found David my servant; with my holy oil I anointed him: Which my hand shall be prepared with him: also shall mine arm strengthen him. read more.
The enemy shall not impose upon him, and the son of iniquity shall not afflict him. And I beat down his adversaries from his fame, and I will smite those hating him. And my faithfulness and my mercy with him, and in my name shall his horn be exalted. And I set his hand in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers. He shall call me, Thou my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation, Also I will give him the firstborn, the highest to the kings of the earth. Forever will I watch my mercy to him, and my covenant was firm to him. I set his seed forever, and his throne as the days of the heavens. If his sons shall forsake my law, and not go in my judgments; If they shall profane my laws and watch not my commands; And I reviewed their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with blows. And my mercy I will not rend from him, and I will not lie in my faithfulness, I will not profane my covenant, and I will not change the going forth of my lips. Once did I swear in my holy place if I shall lie to David. His seed shall be forever and his throne as the sun before me. As the moon it shall be prepared forever, and a faithful witness in the cloud. Silence.

He shall build a house for my name, and I set the throne of his kingdom even to forever. I will be to him for father, and he shall be to me for son; who in his sinning I struck him with the rod of men, and with the blows of the sons of men. And my mercy I will not remove from him as I removed from Saul whom I removed from thy face. read more.
And thy house was firm and thy kingdom even to forever before thee; thy throne shall be prepared even to forever.

And Joseph will go up to bury his father; and all the servants of Pharaoh will go up with him, the old men of his house, and all the old men of the land of Egypt

And it was announced to the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh will be turned, and his servants, against the people, and they will say, What this we did, that we sent forth Israel from serving us?

And the word will be good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh will say to his servants, Shall we find such as this man which has the spirit of God in him?

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Go to Pharaoh: for I made his heart heavy, and the heart of his servants; for sake of my setting these my signs within him.

And Pharaoh's servants will say to him, How long will this, be to us for a snare? Send forth the men, and they shall serve Jehovah their God, before thou shalt know that Egypt is destroyed.

And it will be in the days of Ahasuerus, (this Ahasuerus reigned from India and even to Cush; seven and twenty and one hundred provinces:)

And it shall be in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch king of Alasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of nations,

And it was in those days an order came out from Caesar Angustus, for the whole habitable globe to be enrolled.

Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations and tongues, that dwell in all the earth, your peace shall become great

It pleased before Darius and he set up over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, whom to be over all the kingdom; And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was one: that to them the satraps giving to them account, and the king not for him detriment Then this Daniel excelling above the presidents and satraps because that an excellent spirit was in him; and the king doing to set him up over all the kingdom.

And Jehovah will magnify Solomon to above before the eyes of all Israel, and he will give upon him the majesty of the kingdom which was not upon any king before him over Israel.

For to Jehovah the kingdom, and he rules among the nations.

And Jehovah raised up to him a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: and what? also now

And the word of Jehovah will be to Jehu, son of Hanani, against Baasha, saying, Because I raised thee up from the dust, and I will give thee chief over my people Israel, and thou wilt go in the way of Jeroboam, and cause my people Israel to sin, to irritate me in their sins. Behold me taking away after Baasha, and after his house; and I gave thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat read more.
Him dying to Baasha in the city shall the dogs eat; and him dying to him in the field, shall the birds of the heavens eat

And Jehovah God of Israel will choose in me from all the house of my father to be for king over Israel forever: for in Judah he chose for leader; and in the house of Judah the house of my father; and in the sons of my father he delighted in me to make a king over ail Israel: And from all my sons (for Jehovah gave to me many sons) and he will choose in Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel

And Moses went up to God, and Jehovah will call to him from the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and shalt announce to the sons of Israel: Ye saw what I did to Egypt, and I will lift you up upon the wings of eagles, and I will bring you to me. And now if hearing, ye shall hear to my voice, and watch my covenant, and ye were to me wealth above all peoples, for to me is all the earth. read more.
And ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These the words which thou shalt speak to the sons of Israel. And Moses will go and will call to the old men of the people, and he will set before them all these words that Jehovah commanded him. And all the people will answer together, and will say, All which Jehovah spake, we will do. And Moses turned back the words of the people to Jehovah.

This day Jehovah thy God commands thee to do these laws and judgments: and watch thou to do them with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Thou saidst this day Jehovah to be to thee for God, and to go in his ways, and to watch his laws and his commands, and his judgments, and to hear to his voice. And Jehovah said thee this day to be to him for a people of property, as he spake to thee, and to watch all his commands, read more.
And to give thee high above all the nations which he made for a beginning and for a name, and for an ornament, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God., as he spake.

These the words of the covenant which Jehovah commanded Moses to make with the sons of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. And Moses will call to all Israel and will say, to them, Ye saw all that Jehovah did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; The great temptations which thine eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders: read more.
And Jehovah gave not to you an heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, even to this day. And I shall lead you forty years in the desert: your garments did not fall away from you, and thy shoe was not warn away from thy foot Bread ye ate not, and wine and strong drink ye drank not; so that ye shall know that I am Jehovah your God. And ye shall come to this place; and Sihon, king of Heshbon, will come, and Og, king of Bashan, to our meeting, to war; and we shall smite them. And we shall take their land and give it for an inheritance to the Reubenites and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of the Manassites And watch ye the words of this covenant, and do them, so that ye shall be circumspect in all things which ye shall do. Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads of your tribes, your old men, and your scribes, every man of Israel; Your little ones, your wives and thy stranger which is in the midst of thy camp, from him cutting thy woods to him drawing thy waters: For thy passing into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God made with thee this day: In order to set thee this day to him for a people, and he shall be to thee for God as he spake to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob.

And the word will be evil in the eyes of Samuel when they said, Give to us a king to judge us: and Samuel will pray to Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them.

And from God was the destruction of Ahaziah, for coming to Joram: and in his coming he went forth with Jehoram against Jehu son of Nimshi, whom Jehovah anointed him to cut off the house of Ahab.

But I will not rend all the kingdom; one tribe I will give to thy son for sake of David my servant, and for sake of Jerusalem which I chose.

And Rehoboam will go to Shechem, for to Shechem came all Israel to make him king. And it will be when Jeroboam son of Nebat heard and he yet in Egypt where he fled from the face of Solomon the king, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt; And they will send and call for him: and Jeroboam and all the convocation of Israel will come and speak to Rehoboam, saying, read more.
Thy father made our yoke hard and now do thou lighten from the hard service of thy father, and from the heavy yoke which he gave upon us, and we will serve thee. And he will say to them, Go ye, until three days, and turn back to me. And the people will go. And king Rehoboam will consult the old men which were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive saying, How advise ye to turn back this people word? And they will speak to him, saying, If this day thou wilt be a servant to this people and serve them, and answer them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him, and he will consult with the children which grew up with him which were standing before him. And he will say to them, What do ye advise? and we will turn back word to this people who spake to me, saying, Lighten from the yoke which thy father gave upon us. And the children which grew up with him will speak to him, saying, Thus shalt thou say to this people who spake to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, do thou lighten from upon us; thus shalt thou speak to them, My littleness thick above my father's loins. And now my father loaded upon you a heavy yoke, and I will add upon your yoke: my father chastised you with whips and I will chastise you with scorpions. And Jeroboam and all the people will come to Rehoboam in the third day, as the king spake, saying, Turn back to me in the third day. And the king will answer the people hard, and he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him; And he will speak to them according to the counsel of the children, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add upon your yoke: my father chastised you with whips and I will chastise you with scorpions. And the king heard not to the people, for the turn was from Jehovah for sake of lifting up his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam son of Nebat. And all Israel will see that the king heard not to them, and the people will turn back the king word, saying, What part to us in David? and no inheritance in the son of Jesse: to thy tents, O Israel: now see to thy house, David. And Israel will go to their tents. And the sons of Israel dwelling in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam will reign over them. And king Rehoboam will send Adoram who was over the tribute, and all Israel will stone upon him with stone, and he will die. And king Rehoboam strengthened himself to go up into the chariot to flee to Jerusalem. And Israel will break with the house of David even to this day. And it will be when all Israel heard that Jeroboam turned back, and they will send and call him to the assembly, and they will make him king over all Israel, and there was none after the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone. And Rehoboam will come to Jerusalem, and he will convoke together all the house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen to make war to fight with the house of Israel to turn back the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon. And the word of God will be to Shemaiah, a man of God, saying, Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the remainder of the people, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not go up and ye shall not fight with your brethren, sons of Israel: turn back each to his house, for this word was from me. And they will hear the word of Jehovah and turn back to go according to the word of Jehovah.

And the king heard not to the people, for the turn was of God, so that Jehovah raised up his word which he spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat

Thus said Jehovah, Ye shall not go up, and ye shall not war with your brethren: turn ye back each to his house: for from me was this word. And they will hear the words of Jehovah and turn back from going against Jeroboam.

And it will be on the morrow, and Moses will sit to judge the people: and they will stand by Moses from the morning to the evening. And Moses' father-in-law will see all which he did for the people, and he will say, What this thou doest to the people? Wherefore wilt thou sit alone by thyself, and all the people stand by thee from morning to evening? And Moses will say to his father-in-law, Because the people will come to me to seek God. read more.
For when the word will be to them, they came to me, and I judged between a man and between his friend, and I made known the laws Of God and his precepts. And Moses' father-in-law will say to him, The word is not good which thou doest. Fading, thou wilt fade away, also thou, also this people that is with thee: for this word is heavy for thee; thou wilt not be able to do it thyself alone. Now hear to my voice, I will advise thee, and God will be with thee: be thou for the people towards God, and bring thou their words to God; And teach them the laws and the precepts and make known to them the way they shall go in it, and the work which they shall do. And thou shalt look out from all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, men hating gain; and set thou over them chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of ten. And they judged the people in all time: and it will be every great word they will bring to thee, and every small word they shall judge: and it will be light for thee, and they shall lift up with thee. If thou shalt do this word, and God commanded thee, and thou shalt be. able to stand, and all this people shall go to their place in peace. And Moses will hear to the voice of Jethro, and will do all that he said. And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten. And they judged the people in all time; and the hard word they brought to Moses, and every small word they will judge themselves.

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Gather to me seventy men of the old men of Israel, whom thou knewest that they were old men of the people, and their scribes; and take them to the tent of appointment, and they shall stand there with thee. And I came down and I spake with thee there; and I took from the spirit which is upon thee, and I put upon them, and they lifted up with thee in the debt of the people, and thou shalt not lift it up thyself alone.

And Moses will go forth, and will speak to the people the words of Jehovah; and he will gather the seventy men, of the old men of the people, and he will cause them to stand round about the tent And Jehovah will come down in the cloud, and will speak to him, and he will take from the spirit which is upon him, and will give upon the seventy men, the old men: and it shall be in the resting of the spirit upon them, and they shall prophesy, and they shall not cease.

And I spake to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able alone to bear you: Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. Jehovah the God of your fathers will add to you as ye a thousand times, and he will bless you as he spake to you. read more.
How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads. And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do. And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes. And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger. Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it

And it will be in the seventh year, in the fifth, in the tenth to the month, men from the old men of Israel came to seek Jehovah, and they sat before my face.

Consecrate a fast., call an assembly, gather together the old men, all the inhabitants of the land to the house of Jehovah your God, and cry to Jehovah.

And it was in the sixth year, in the sixth, in the fifth to the month, I sitting in my house, and the old men of Judah sitting before me, and the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

And there will come to me men from the old men of Israel, and sit before me.

Son of man, speak to the old men of Israel, and say to them, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Come ye to seek me? I live, if I will be sought for you, says the Lord Jehovah.

And saying, Hear now, ye heads of Jacob, and ye judges of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment? Hating the good and loving the evil; plucking off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones. And who ate the flesh of my people, and they stripp off their skin from off them; and they brake their bones in pieces, and separated as for the pot, and as flesh in the midst of the kettle. read more.
Then shall they cry to Jehovah and he will not answer them, and he will hide his face from them in that time, as their doings were evil.

And Jezebel his wife will come to him, and she will speak to him, What this thy spirit rebellious, and thou not eating bread? And he will speak to her, Because I shall speak to Naboth the Jezreelite and say to him, Thou shalt give to me thy vineyard for silver; or if thou art willing, I will give to thee a vineyard in its stead. And he will say, I will not give to thee my vineyard. And Jezebel his wife will say to him, Thou now wilt do the kingdom over Israel: arise, eat bread, and do thy heart good: I will give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. read more.
And she will write letters in the name of Ahab, and seal with his seal; and she will send the letters to the old men, and to the nobles who were in his city dwelling with Naboth. And she will write in the letters, Saying, Call a fast; set Naboth in the head of the people: And set two men, sons of Belial, over against him, and they shall bear witness, saying, Thou didst praise God and the king. And they shall bring him forth and stone him, and he shall die. And the men of his city, the old men and the nobles, who were dwelling in his city, will do as Jezebel sent to them, according to what was written in the letters which she sent to them. They called a fast; they will set Naboth upon the head of the people. And two men will come, sons of Belial, and they will set before him: and the men of Belial will testify against Naboth before the people, saying, Naboth praised Jehovah and the king. And they will bring him without the city, and stone him with stones, and he will die.

Take ye away the unjust one from before the king, and his throne shall be prepared in justice.

Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness. Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us.

Thou shalt not make light of God, and thou shalt not curse the chiefs of thy people.

Thou shalt not curse the king in thy consciousness, and in thy bed-chamber thou shalt not curse the rich for the bird of the heavens will bring the voice, and the possessor of wings shall announce the word.

And he will take the book of the covenant and read in the ears of the people: and they will say, All which Jehovah spake we will do, and we will heed.

And Moses will go and will call to the old men of the people, and he will set before them all these words that Jehovah commanded him. And all the people will answer together, and will say, All which Jehovah spake, we will do. And Moses turned back the words of the people to Jehovah.

And Moses will come and recount to the people all the words of Jehovah, and all the judgments: and all the people will answer with one voice, and will say, All the words which Jehovah spake, we will do.

Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah your God; your heads of your tribes, your old men, and your scribes, every man of Israel; Your little ones, your wives and thy stranger which is in the midst of thy camp, from him cutting thy woods to him drawing thy waters: For thy passing into the covenant of Jehovah thy God, and into his oath, which Jehovah thy God made with thee this day: read more.
In order to set thee this day to him for a people, and he shall be to thee for God as he spake to thee, and as he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak, and to Jacob. And not with you alone do I make this covenant and this oath; But with those being here with us, standing before Jehovah our God, and with those not here with us this day:

Be subjected to every creation proceeding from man on account of the Lord: whether to the king, as having superiority; Or to chiefs, as sent by him for the punishing of them doing evil, and the praise of them doing good.

Let every soul be placed under the protecting powers. For there is no power except from God: and the powers being, were ordered by God. So he opposing the power, has resisted the arrangement of God: and they having resisted shall receive to themselves judgment. For rulers are not the terror of good works, but of evil. And wilt thou not fear the power do good, and thou shalt have approbation of it: read more.
For he is servant of God to thee for good. And if thou do evil, be afraid; for he bears not the sword without order: for he is servant of God, avenging for anger to him doing evil. Wherefore necessity to be placed under, not only for anger, but also for consciousness. For this also pay ye taxes: for they are workmen of God, persevering in this same. Therefore restore debts to all; to whom tribute, tribute; to whom recompense, recompense; to whom fear, fear; to whom honour, honour.

To Solomon. O God, thou wilt give thy judgments to the king, and thy justice to the king's son. He shall judge thy people in justice, and thy poor in judgment. The mountains shall lift up peace to the people, and the hills in justice. read more.
He shall judge the poor of the people, and save to the sons of the needy, and he will break in pieces him oppressing. And they shall fear thee with the sun and before the moon, generation of generations. He shall come down as rain upon a fleece, as showers of pouring rain upon the earth. The just one shall break forth in his days, and a multitude of peace even till no moon. And he shall rule from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the. ends of the earth. Inhabitants of the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust The kings of Tarshish and the islands shall turn back a gift, the kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring a present And all kings shall worship to him: all nations shall serve him. For we will deliver the needy from the powerful one, and the poor and no helper to him. He will spare for the poor and the needy, and he will save the souls of the needy. From oppression and from violence he will redeem their soul, and their blood shall be precious in his eyes. And he shall live, and there shall be given to him from the gold of Sheba: and there shall always be supplications for him; all the day shall they praise him. There shall be diffusion of grain in the earth upon the head of the mountains; its fruit shall shake as Lebanon, and they shall blossom from the city as the grass of the earth. His name shall be forever: his name shall flourish before the sun: and they shall be praised in him: all nations shall pronounce him happy.

A wise king scatters the unjust, and he will turn back a wheel over them.

And David will answer Rechab and Baanah his brother, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and he will say to them, Jehovah lives who redeemed my soul from all straits, When he announcing to me, saying, Behold, Saul died; and he was in his eyes as announcing good news; and I shall seize upon him and kill him in Ziklag, which I gave to him for the good news: Much more when wicked men killed a just man in his house upon his bed; and now shall I not seek out his blood from your hand and take you away from the earth? read more.
And David will command the boys and they will kill them and cut off their hands and their feet, and hang them over the pain Hebron. And the head of Ishbosheth they took and they will bury it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

And David will say to the youth announcing to him, From whence thou? and he will say, I the son of a man, a stranger, an Amalekite. And David will say to him, How, wert thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy Jehoyah's Messiah? And David will call to one of his youths and say, Come near, fall upon him. And he will strike him, and be will die. read more.
And David will say to him, Thy bloods upon thy head, for thy mouth answered against thee, saying, I killed Jehovah's Messiah.

And it will be in the morning, and David will write a letter to Joab, and send by the hand of Uriah. And he will write in the letter: saying, Bring in Uriah to the front of the face of the strong battle, and turn ye back from after him, and he shall be smitten and die. And it will be in Joab's watching the city, and he will give Uriah to the place where he knew that strong men were there. read more.
And the men of the city will go forth and fight with Joab: and there will fall of the people from the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also will die.

A roaring lion and a greedy bear the unjust one ruling over a poor people.

Hear now this, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and judges of the house of Israel abhorring judgment, and they will pervert all uprightness. Building Zion with bloods and Jerusalem with iniquity. Her heads will judge for a gift, and her priests will teach for hire, and her prophets will divine for silver: and they will lean upon Jehovah, saying, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? he will not bring evil upon us. read more.
For this, on account of you Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of the forest.

And David will be, and the old men of Israel and the chiefs of thousands, going to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the house of Obed-Edom with joy.

And the old men of his house will rise to him to lift him up from the earth; and he would not, and he ate not bread with them.

And David will lift up his eyes and see the messenger of Jehovah standing between the earth and between the heavens, and his sword drawn in his hand stretched forth over Jerusalem. And David will fall, and the old men being covered with sackcloth, upon their face.

And all the old men of Israel will come to the king to Hebron; and king David will cut out for them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah, and they will anoint David for king over Israel

And all the old men of Israel will come to the king to Hebron; and David will cut out to them a covenant in Hebron before Jehovah; and they will anoint David for king over Israel according to the word of Jehovah by the hand of Samuel.

And a word of Abner was with the old men of Israel, saying, Also yesterday also the third day ye were seeking David for king over you. And now do; for Jehovah said to David, saying, By the hand of David my servant I saved my people from the hand of the rovers, and from the hand of all their enemies. And Abner will speak also in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner will also go to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all which was good in the eyes of Israel and in the eyes of all the house of Benjamin. read more.
And Abner will come to David to Hebron, and with him twenty men: and David will make to Abner and to the men with him a drinking. And Abner will say to David, I will arise and go and gather to my lord the king, all Israel, and they shall cut out with thee a covenant, and thou didst reign over all that thy soul shall desire. And David will send away Abner, and he will go in peace.

And Pilate, seeing that it profits nothing, but there is rather an uproar, having taken water, he washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am guiltless of the blood of this just one: ye shall see yourselves.

From this Pilate sought to loose him: and the Jews cried out, saying, If thou loose this, thou art not Caesar's friend: every one making himself a king speaks against Caesar. Then Pilate having heard, brought Jesus without, and sat upon the judgment seat, in a place called Paved with ornamental stones; in Hebraic, Gabbatha. And it was the preparation of the pascha, and about the sixth hour: and he says to the Jews, Behold your King! read more.
And they cried, Take away, take away, crucify him. Pilate says to them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar. Then, therefore, delivered he him to them, that he might be crucified.

And the king will stand upon his standing, and he will cut out a covenant before Jehovah to go after Jehovah and to watch his commands and his testimonies, and his laws with all his heart and with all his soul, to do the words of the covenant being written upon this book.

And the king will send and gather to him all the old men of Judah and Jerusalem.

And the kind will send and gather together all the old men of Judah and Jerusalem.

And Samuel will say to Saul, I will not turn back with thee, for thou didst reject the word of Jehovah, and Jehovah will reject thee from being king over Israel And Samuel will turn about to go, and he will seize upon the wing of his upper garment, and it will rend. And Samuel will say to him, Jehovah rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and gave it to thy neighbor being good above thee.

And having removed him, he raised up to them David for king; to whom also having testified, he said, I found David of Jesse, a man according to my heart, who shall do all my desires.

And the chief of the eunuchs will say to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who allotted your food and your drink: for wherefore shall he see your faces gloomy above the children as of your age? and make my head guilty to the King

The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, The word went out from me: if ye will not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, ye shall be made pieces, and your houses shall be set dung-hills. And if ye shall show the dream and its interpretation, ye shall receive from before me a gift and present, and great honor: therefore shove me the dream and its interpretation. They answered a second time, and said, The king will say to his servants the dream, and we will show its interpretation. read more.
And the king answered and said, Certainly I know that ye buy the time, for which cause that ye saw that the word went out from me. Enough if ye will not make known to me the dream, this one edict for you; and ye divided out the word of falsehood and this corruption to say before me, till that the time shall change: therefore say to me the dream and I shall know that ye will show me its interpretation. The Chaldean answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the dry land that shall be able to show the king's word: for which cause that every king, leader, and ruler, asked not a word like this to any sacred scribe, and enchanter, and Chaldean. And the word the king asked will be made rare, and there is not another that will show it before the king except the gods that their dwelling is not with flesh. For this cause the king was in dignant and greatly angry, and he spake to destroy to all the wise of Babel. And the edict went forth and the wise men being killed; and they sought Daniel and his associates to be killed.

And from the greatness that he gave to him, all peoples, nations and tongues, were trembling and fearing from before him: whom he was willing he killed; and whom he was willing, he was saving alive; and whom be was willing, he was setting up; and whom he willed he was humbling.

Go say to Jeroboam, Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Because I raised thee up from the midst of the people, and I will give thee chief over my people Israel, And I will rend the kingdom from the house of David, and I will give it to thee: and thou wert not as my servant David who watched my commands and who went after me with all his heart to do only the straight in mine eyes; And thou wilt be evil doing above all who were before thee: and thou wilt go and make to thee other gods, and molten things to irritate me, and didst cast me behind thy back. read more.
For this, behold me bringing evil to the house of Jeroboam, and I cut off to Jeroboam him pissing against the wall, the shut up and the forsaken in Israel, and I took away after the house of Jeroboam as dung shall be taken away till its finishing. Him dying to Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat; and him dying in the field shall the birds of the heavens eat: for Jehovah spake. And arise, thou, go to thy house: in the coming of thy feet to the city and the child died. And all Israel mourned for him, and they buried him: for this alone to Jeroboam shall come to the grave, because there was found in him a good word to Jehovah God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam. And Jehovah raised up to him a king over Israel who will cut off the house of Jeroboam that day: and what? also now And Jehovah smote Israel as a reed will be shaken in the water, and he plucked up Israel from this good land which he gave to their fathers, and he scattered them from beyond the river, because they made their images, irritating Jehovah. And he will give up Israel on account of the sins of Jeroboam who sinned, and who caused Israel to sin.

And Baasha son of Ahijah, to the house of Issachar, will conspire against him; and Baasha will strike him in Gibbethon, which is to the rovers; for Nadab and all Israel pressed upon Gibbethon. And Baasha will kill him in the third year to Asa king of Judah, and he will reign in his stead. And it will be when he reigned, he struck all the house of Jeroboam; he left not any breathing to Jeroboam, till he destroyed him according to the word of Jehovah which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the Shilonite: read more.
For the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he caused Israel to sin, in his irritation which he irritated Jehovah the God of Israel.

Wherefore do thy disciples pass by the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

Hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me. But they worship me in vain, teaching doctrines the commands of men.

And the Pharisees are gathered together to him, and certain of the scribes, having come from Jerusalem, And having seen some of his disciples with common hands, that is, unwashed, eating loaves, they rebuked. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they vigorously wash hands, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Then Solomon will convoke together the old men of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, chiefs of the fathers to the sons of Israel, to king Solomon at Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the city of David: this is Zion. And every man of Israel will be convoked to king Solomon in the month Ethanim in the festival: this the seventh month. And all the old men of Israel will come, and the priests will lift up the ark

Then Solomon will convoke together the old men of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers to the sons of Israel, to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah from the city of David; it is Zion. And all the men of Israel will be convoked together to the king in this festival of the seventh month. And all the old men of Israel will come; and the Levites will lift up the ark.

When thou shalt come to the land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee, and shall possess it and shall dwell in it, and thou saidst, I will set over me a king according to all the nations which are round about me; Setting, thou shalt set over thee a king whom Jehovah thy God shall choose in him: from the midst of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a king: thou shalt not be able to set over thee a foreigner who is not of thy brethren. Only he shall not multiply. to himself horses, and he shall not turn back the people to Egypt in order to multiply the horse: and Jehovah said to you, Ye shall no more add to turn back that way. read more.
And he shall not multiply to him wives, and his heart shall not turn away: and silver and gold he shall not greatly multiply to himself. And it was when he sits upon the throne of his kingdom and he wrote for him this second law upon a book, from before the priests, the Levites. And it shall be with him, and he read in it all the days of his life; so that he shall learn to fear Jehovah his God, to watch all the words of this instruction and these laws to do them: Not to lift up his head above his brethren, and not to turn away from the commands, to the right or to the left; so that he shall prolong the days upon his kingdom he, and his sons in the midst of Israel.

Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads. And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do. And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes.

And our old men and all the inhabitants of our land will say to us, saying, Take in your hand food for the way, and go to meet them, and say to them, We your servants: and now cut out to us a covenant:

Good a poor and wise child above an old and foolish king, who knew not more to receive instruction. For from the house of those turning away he came forth to reign; for also he being born in his kingdom became poor.

Wo! to thee, O land: thy king a youth, and thy chiefs will eat in the morning.

Happy thou, O land: thy king the son of nobles, and thy chiefs shall eat in time, in strength and not in drinking.

And Samuel will take a flask of oil and pour upon his head, and he will kiss him and say, Is it not that Jehovah anointed thee for leader over his inheritance?

And Jehovah revealed in the ear of Samuel one day, before Saul came, saying, About the time to-morrow I will send to thee a man from the land of Benjamin, and anoint him for leader over my people Israel; he shall save my people from the hand of Philisteim; for I saw my people, for their cry came to me. And Samuel saw Saul, and Jehovah answered him, Behold the man that I said to thee, He shall rule over my people.

In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.

The words of the wise being heard in quiet more than the cry of him ruling among the foolish.

My son, fear thou Jehovah and the king: thou shalt not intermingle with those changing: For suddenly shall their calamity rise, and who shall make known the misfortune of them two?

And in these things being finished, the chiefs came near to me, saying, The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites were not separated from the people of the lands according to their abominations, to the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian and the imorite.

And every one who shall not come in three days according to the counsel of the chiefs and the old men, all his substance shall be devoted, and he shall be separated from the convocation of the exile. And all the men of Judah and Benjamin will gather together at Jerusalem in three days. It was the ninth month, in the twentieth in the month, and all the people will sit in the broad place of the house of God, trembling for the word, and from the heavy showers. And Ezra the priest will rise up and say to them, Ye transgressed, and ye will dwell with strange wives to add upon the guilt of Israel. read more.
And now ye shall give praise to Jehovah the God of your fathers, and do acceptance: and separate from the people of the land and from the strange wives. And all the convocation will answer and say, with a great voice, So to do according to thy words to us. But the people many, and a time of heavy showers, and no power to stand without, and the work not for one day, and not for two: for we many transgressing in this word. And our chiefs to all the convocation shall stand now, and all who in our cities dwelt with strange wives, shall come at the appointed times, and with them the old men of city and city, and its judges, until the turning back the burning of the anger of our God from us even for this word.

And all the old men of Israel will gather together and will come to Samuel to Ramah; . And they will say to him, Behold, thou wert old, and thy sons went not in thy ways: now set up for us a king to judge us as all the nations. And the word will be evil in the eyes of Samuel when they said, Give to us a king to judge us: and Samuel will pray to Jehovah. read more.
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them. According to all the works which they did from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, and even to this day, and they will forsake me and serve other gods, so they do also to thee. And now hear to their voice: but protesting, thou shalt protest to them, and announce to them the judgment of the king who shall reign over them. And Samuel will say all the words of Jehovah to the people asking from him a king.

And the people will refuse to hear to the voice of Samuel; and they will say, Nay; but a king shall be over us. And we were as all the nations; and our king judged us and went out before us, and fought our battles. And Samuel will hear all the words of the people, and he will speak them in the ears of Jehovah. read more.
And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to their voice, and make a king for them. And Samuel will say to them, Go ye a man to his city.

The unjust fled and none pursuing, and the just shall be confident as the young lion. In the transgression of a land many its chiefs: and by a man understanding to know, the place shall be extended.

And Saul will hear, for David was known, and the men which were with him. And Saul will dwell in the hill under the tamarisk tree, in Ramah, and his spear in his hand, and all his servants standing over him.

And Saul will say, Hear now, son of Ahitub. And he will say, Behold me, my lord. And Saul will say to him, Why were ye bound together against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in thy giving to him bread and a sword, and asking for him in God to rise up against me, to lie in wait as this day? And Ahimelech will answer the king and say, And who among all thy servants faithful as David, and son-in-law of the king, and he departed at hearing thee, and honored in thy house? read more.
This day did I begin to ask for him in God? far be it to me. The king shall not put upon his servant upon all the house of my father: for thy servant knew not a word upon all this, small or great And the king will say, Dying, thou shalt die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. And the king will say to the runners standing by him, Turn about and kill the priests of Jehovah, for their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not uncover his ear. And the king's servants would not stretch forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah. And the king will say to Doeg, Turn thou about, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite will turn about, and he will fall upon the priests and kill in that day eighty and five men lifting up a linen ephod. And Nob the city of the priests. he struck with the mouth of the sword, from man and even to woman, from child and even to suckling, and ox, and ass, and sheep, with the mouth of the sword.

And they to you the cities for refuge from the nearest relative; and the slayer shall not die till his standing before the assembly for judgment,

And the assembly judged between him smiting, and between the nearest relation of blood according to these judgments: And the assembly delivered the slayer out of the hand of the nearest relation of blood, and the assembly turned him back to the city of his refuge where he fled there: and he dwelt in it till the death of the great priest who anointed him with the holy oil.

The king judging the poor in truth, his throne shall be established for a testimony.

A prince wanting understanding and great in oppressions: he hating gain shall lengthen the days.

The hand of the active shall give dominion: and of the slothful one shall be for tribute.

A ruler listening to the word of falsehood, all serving him are unjust

And the king will answer the people hard, and he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him;

And king Rehoboam will consult the old men which were standing before Solomon his father in his being alive saying, How advise ye to turn back this people word? And they will speak to him, saying, If this day thou wilt be a servant to this people and serve them, and answer them, and speak to them good words, and they were servants to thee all the days. And he will forsake the counsel of the old men which they counseled him, and he will consult with the children which grew up with him which were standing before him.

In the increasing of the just the people will rejoice: and in the ruling of the unjust one the people will groan.

And Saul will say, So will Jehovah do, and so will he add; for dying, thou shalt die, Jonathan. And the people will say to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who did this great salvation in Israel? Far be it: Jehovah lives if there shall fall from the hair of his head to the earth; for he did with Jehovah this day. And the people will let Jonathan go free, and he died not.

And Jehovah will raise up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he from the king's seed in Edom.

And God will raise up to him an adversary, Rezon, son of Eliadah, who lied from Hadadezer king of Zobah his lord.

And the chiefs of Judah will hear these words, and they will come up from the king's house to the house of Jehovah, and they will sit in the opening of the new gate of Jehovah. And the priests and the prophets will say to the chiefs, and to all the people, saying, The judgment of death for this man, for he prophesied against this city, as ye heard with your ears. And Jeremiah will say to all the chiefs and to all the people, saying, Jehovah sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words which ye heard. read more.
And now make good your ways and your doings, and hear to the voice of Jehovah your God; and Jehovah will lament for the evil which he spake against you. And I, behold me in your hand do to me as the good and right in your eyes: But knowing, ye shall know that if ye put me to death, that ye give innocent blood upon yourselves and upon this city, and to her inhabitants: for in truth Jehovah sent me to you to speak in your ears all these words. And the chiefs will say, and all the people to the priests and to the prophets: Not for this man the judgment of death, for in the name of Jehovah his God he spake to us. And men will rise up from the old men of the land, and they will say to all the convocation of the people, saying, Micah the Morasthite was prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he will say to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus said Jehovah of armies: Zion shall be ploughed a field, and Jerusalem shall be ruins, and the mountain of the house for the heights of a forest Putting to death, did Hezekiah king of Judah put him to death, and all Judah? Did he not fear Jehovah, and wait for the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah will lament for the evil which he spake against them? And we are doing great evil against our souls. And also a man was prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, from the city of the forests, and he will prophesy against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah. And king Jehoiakim will hear, and all the great ones, and all the chiefs, his words, and the king will seek to kill him: and Urijah will hear and be afraid, and he will flee and go to Egypt And king Jehoiakim will send men to Egypt, Elnathan, son of Achbor, and men with him to Egypt And they will bring forth Urijah from Egypt and bring him to king Jehoiakim; and he will strike him with the sword, and cast his carcass into the graves of the sons of the people. But the hand of Ahikam son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah not to give him into the hand of the people to kill him.

For the rod of the unjust one shall not rest upon the lot of the just; so that the just shall not stretch forth their hand in iniquity.

Honour all. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.

And Jehovah will be angry with Solomon, for his heart was turned from Jehovah the God of Israel, being seen to him twice. And he commanded him concerning this word not to go after other gods: and he watched not what Jehovah commanded. And Jehovah will say to Solomon, Because this was with thee, and thou didst not watch my covenant and my laws which I commanded upon thee, rending, I will rend the kingdom from thee and give it to thy servant read more.
But in thy days I will not do it for sake of David thy father; out of the hand of thy son will I rend it But I will not rend all the kingdom; one tribe I will give to thy son for sake of David my servant, and for sake of Jerusalem which I chose.

And Joseph will say to Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh, one: this which he did; God announces to Pharaoh. The seven good heifers, they are seven years; and the seven good ears, they are seven years: this dream one. And the seven heifers, thin and evil, coming up after them, they are seven years; and the seven ears, thin, blasted by the east, shall be seven years of famine. read more.
This the word which I spake to Pharaoh: what God did, he showed Pharaoh. Behold, seven years coming of great plenty, in all the land of Egypt And seven years of famine arose after them, and all the plenty was forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine consumed the land. And the plenty shall not be known in the land on account of the famine after this; for it shall be exceedingly heavy. And because of the repeating of Pharaoh's dream twice, that the word was prepared from God; and God is hastening to do it And now will Pharaoh look out a man discerning and wise, and set him over the land of Egypt And will Pharaoh make and appoint overseers over the land, exacting a fifth part of the land of Egypt, in the seven years of plenty. And they shall gather all the food of these good years coming, and they shall heap up the grain under the hand of Pharaoh, and they shall watch food in the cities. And the food was for a deposit to the land, for the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; and the land shall not be cut off in the famine. And the word will be good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh will say to his servants, Shall we find such as this man which has the spirit of God in him? And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, After that God showed thee all this, none discerning and wise as thou. Thou shalt be over my house, and to thy mouth all my people shall bend: only upon the throne I shall be great above thee. And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, See, I gave thee over all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will remove his signet ring from his hand, and will give it upon Joseph's hand; and will put upon him a white garment, and will put a gold collar about his neck. And he will cause him to ride in the second chariot which is to him. And they will cry out before him, Aback. And he gave him over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh will say to Joseph, I am Pharaoh; and without thee, a man shall not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt And Pharaoh will call Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he will give to him Asenath, daughter of PotiPherah, priest of Ain, for a wife; and Joseph will go forth over the land of Egypt And Joseph the son of thirty years in his standing before Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and Joseph will go forth from the face of Pharaoh, and will pass over all the land of Egypt And the earth will make in the seven years of plenty by handfuls. And he will gather all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and he will give the food in the cities: the food of the field of the city which round about her, he gave in the midst of her. And Joseph will gather grain as the sand of the sea, exceedingly much that he ceased to number; for there was no numbering. And to Joseph will be born two sons before the years of the famine will come: which Asenath, daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of Ain, bare to him. And Joseph will call the name of the first-born, Manasseh; for God made me forget all my toils and all my father's house. And the name of the second, he called Ephraim; for God caused me to flourish in the land of my affliction. And the seven years of plenty will be completed, which was in the land of Egypt And the seven years of famine will begin to come, according to that Joseph said: and the famine will be in all the lands; and in all the land of Egypt was bread. And all the land of Egypt shall hunger, and the people will cry out to Pharaoh for bread; and Pharaoh will say to all Egypt, Go to Joseph; what he shall say to you, ye shall do. And the famine was upon all the face of the earth: and Joseph will open all which in them, and he will sell to Egypt; and the famine was strong in the land of Egypt And all the earth came to Egypt to Joseph to buy, for the famine was strong in all the earth.

And quickly the king, having sent a scout, commanded his head to be brought: And he having departed, beheaded him in prison, and brought his head upon a board, and gave it to the little girl: and the little girl gave it to her mother.

And all the assembly will lift up and give their voice; and the people will weep in that night And all the children of Israel will murmur against Moses, and against Aaron; and all the assembly will say to them, Would we died in the land of Egypt! or in this desert would that we died! And wherefore does Jehovah bring us to this land to fall by the sword? our wives and our little ones shall be for a prey. Would it not be good for us to turn back to Egypt? read more.
And they will say, a man to his brother, We will give a head, and turn back to Egypt And Moses will fall, and Aaron, upon their faces before all the gathering of the assembly of the sons of Israel. And Joshua, son of Nun, and Caleb, son of Jephunneh, from those searching out the land, tare their garments. And they will speak to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying, The land which we passed over upon it to search it out, a good land exceedingly, exceedingly, If Jehovah delight in us, and he brought us to this land, and he gave it to us; a land which it flowing with milk and honey. But against Jehovah ye shall not rebel, and ye shall not be afraid of the people of the land; for they our bread: for their shadow removed from them and Jehovah with us; ye shall not be afraid of them. And all the assembly will say to stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah was seen in the tent of appointment to all the sons of Israel.

And the king of Israel will call for all the old men of the land, and he will say, Know now, and see that this seeks evil, for he sent to me for my wives and for my sons, and for my silver, and for my gold, and I withheld not from him. And all the old men and all the people will say to him, Thou shalt not hear, and thou shalt not be willing.

And in the third year to his kingdom he sent to his chiefs to the son of power, and to the servant of Jehovah, and to him Remembered of Jehovah, and to the Gift of God, and to Who as God, to teach in the cities of Judah. And with them the Levites, him Heard of Jehovah, and The gift of Jehovah, and him Jehovah gave, and him God made, and The Watchful of Death, and him Jehovah gave, and the Lord Jehovah, and The Good of Jehovah, and The Good Lord Jehovah, Levites; and with them God will hear, and Jehovah exalted the priests. And they will teach in Judah, and with them the book of the law of Jehovah, and they will turn about in all the cities of Judah, and they will teach among the people.

And he will say, I sinned this time; honor me now before the old men of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me, and I worshipped to Jehovah thy God.

And Jehovah will be seen to Solomon the second time as he was seen to him in the hill. And Jehovah will say to him, I heard thy supplication and thy prayer which thou didst supplicate before me: I consecrated this house which thou didst build to put my name there even to forever; and mine eyes and my heart were there all the days. And thou, if thou shalt go before me as David thy father went with integrity of heart and in uprightness to do according to all that I commanded thee, my law and my judgment thou shalt watch: read more.
And I raised up the throne of thv kingdom over Israel forever, as spake to David thy father, saying, There shall not be cut off to thee a man from the throne of Israel. If turning back, ye shall turn back, ye and your sons from after me, and shall not watch my commands, my laws which I gave before you, and ye went and served other gods and worshiped to them: And I cut off Israel from the face of the earth which I gave to them and the house which I consecrated to my name I will cast out from my face; and Israel was for a parable and for a derision among all peoples. And this house shall be high, every one passing by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss: and they said, For what did Jehovah thus to this land and to this house? And they said, Because they forsook Jehovah their God who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and they will lay hold upon other gods and worship to them, and serve them: for this, Jehovah brought, upon them all this evil.

And Jehovah will magnify Solomon to above before the eyes of all Israel, and he will give upon him the majesty of the kingdom which was not upon any king before him over Israel.

And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak ye to the old men of Judah, saying, Wherefore will ye be the last to turn back the king to his house? And the word of all Israel came to the king to his house.

And Moab will say to the old men of Midian, Now this gathering will lick up all round about us, as the ox licking up the green of the field. And Balak, son of Zippor, the king of Moab in that time.

And the old men of Moab and the old men of Midian, will go, and divinations in their hand; and they will come to Balsam, and they will speak to him the words of Balak.

And the king will say to Ashpenaz the leader of his eunuchs to bring from the sons of Israel and from the seed royal, and from the nobles; Children whom not any blemish in them, and good of aspect, and understanding in all wisdom, and knowing knowledge, and understanding intelligence, and to whom power in them to stand in the king's temple, and to teach them the writing and tongue of the chaldees And the king will allot to them the word of a day in its day from the king's dainties and from the wine of his drinking: and to nourish them three years, and from the end of three years they shall stand before the king. read more.
And there will be among them from the sons of Judah, Daniel, Hansniah, Mishael, and Azariah And the chief of the eunuchs will set names to them: to David, Belteshazzar; and to Hananiah, Shadrach; and to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abed-Nego. And Daniel will set up upon his heart that he will not be defiled with the dainties of the king, and with the wine of his drinking: and he will seek from the chief of the eunuchs that he shall not defile himself. And God will give Daniel to mercy and compassion before the chiefs of the eunuchs. And the chief of the eunuchs will say to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who allotted your food and your drink: for wherefore shall he see your faces gloomy above the children as of your age? and make my head guilty to the King And Daniel will say to Melzar, whom the chief of the eunuchs appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, Prove now thy servants, ten days; and they shall give to us from seed herbs, and we will eat, and water, and we will drink. And our aspects shall be seen before thee, and the aspect of the children eating the king's dainties: and according to what thou shalt see, do with thy servants. And he wilt hear to them for this word, and he will try them ten days. And from the end of ten days their aspect was seen good and fat of flesh above all the children eating of the king's dainties. And Melzar will be taking away their dainties, and the wine of their drinking, and he gave to them seed herbs. And these four children, God gave to them knowledge and understanding in all writing and wisdom: and Daniel understood in every vision and dreams. And from the end of the days when the king said to bring them in, and the chief of the eunuchs will bring them in before Nebuchadnezzar. And the king will speak with them: and there was not found from all of them as Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: and they will stand before the king. And every word of the wisdom of understanding which the king sought from them, and he will find them ten hands over all the sacred scribes, the enchanters which were in all his kingdom.

And at the same time also hoping that money should be given him by Paul, so that he might loose him: wherefore also sending for him more frequently, he conversed with him.

And the word will be straight in the eyes of Absalom and in the eyes of all the old men of Israel.

And our old men and all the inhabitants of our land will say to us, saying, Take in your hand food for the way, and go to meet them, and say to them, We your servants: and now cut out to us a covenant:

I called to those loving me, they deceived me: my priests and my old men expired in the city, for they sought food for them, and they will turn back their souls.

Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah upon the sinning kingdom, and I destroyed it from the face of the earth; only that destroying, I will not destroy the house of Jacob, says Jehovah.

And Moses will choose men of ability from all Israel, and he will give them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, chiefs of ten.

And I spake to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able alone to bear you: Jehovah your God multiplied you, and behold, you this day as the stars of the heavens for multitude. Jehovah the God of your fathers will add to you as ye a thousand times, and he will bless you as he spake to you. read more.
How shall I bear alone your burden and your lifting up and your strife Give to yourselves men wise and known to your tribes, and I will set them for your heads. And ye will answer me and say, Good the word which thou spakest to do. And I will take the heads of your tribes, men wise and known, and I will give them heads over you, captains of thousands, and captains and hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens, and scribes for your tribes. And I shall command your judges in that time, saying, Hear between your brethren, and judge justice between a man and between his brother and between his stranger. Ye shall not look upon faces in judgment; as the small so the great shall ye hear; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is to God; and the word which shall be hard for you, ye shall bring to me and I heard it