‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.

When He broke the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying, “Come.”

begging us with much urging for the favor of participation in the support of the saints,

But the man who is clean and is not on a journey, and yet neglects to observe the Passover, that person shall then be cut off from his people, for he did not present the offering of the Lord at its appointed time. That man will bear his sin.

When you bring in the grain offering which is made of these things to the Lord, it shall be presented to the priest and he shall bring it to the altar.

See that you make them after the pattern for them, which was shown to you on the mountain.

and they were not strong enough, and there was no longer a place found for them in heaven.

Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the Lord our God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the Lord.”

“May God enlarge Japheth,
And let him dwell in the tents of Shem;
And let Canaan be his servant.”

Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.

Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; and leading him by the hand, they brought him into Damascus.

When he had gone through those districts and had given them much exhortation, he came to Greece.

The man answered and said to them, “Well, here is an amazing thing, that you do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.

For just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation.

Now Judas also, who was betraying Him, knew the place, for Jesus had often met there with His disciples.

And behold, some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last.”

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘The fast of the fourth, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth months will become joy, gladness, and cheerful feasts for the house of Judah; so love truth and peace.’

I did not eat any tasty food, nor did meat or wine enter my mouth, nor did I use any ointment at all until the entire three weeks were completed.

“To You, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,
For You have given me wisdom and power;
Even now You have made known to me what we requested of You,
For You have made known to us the king’s matter.”

So those who were sent went away and found it just as He had told them.

The Lord will be terrifying to them, for He will starve all the gods of the earth; and all the coastlands of the nations will bow down to Him, everyone from his own place.

All who pass along the way
Clap their hands in derision at you;
They hiss and shake their heads
At the daughter of Jerusalem,
“Is this the city of which they said,
‘The perfection of beauty,
A joy to all the earth’?”

Therefore, O king, may my advice be pleasing to you: break away now from your sins by doing righteousness and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your prosperity.’

“The breaker goes up before them;
They break out, pass through the gate and go out by it.
So their king goes on before them,
And the Lord at their head.”

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil,
Who spreads strife.

“You also, O Ethiopians, will be slain by My sword.”

And a mighty king will arise, and he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases.

Woe to those who drag iniquity with the cords of falsehood,
And sin as if with cart ropes;

Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not know You
And on the families that do not call Your name;
For they have devoured Jacob;
They have devoured him and consumed him
And have laid waste his habitation.

They will pass through the land hard-pressed and famished, and it will turn out that when they are hungry, they will be enraged and curse their king and their God as they face upward.

By the blessing of the upright a city is exalted,
But by the mouth of the wicked it is torn down.

For a complete destruction, one that is decreed, the Lord God of hosts will execute in the midst of the whole land.

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came. He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

The righteous will never be shaken,
But the wicked will not dwell in the land.

A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.
O Lord, how my adversaries have increased!
Many are rising up against me.

While I am decaying like a rotten thing,
Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Meanwhile, David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord with all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets and cymbals.

Then I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will use force against you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

Then Haman went out that day glad and pleased of heart; but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate and that he did not stand up or tremble before him, Haman was filled with anger against Mordecai.

then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.’

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, thought, “Behold, my master has spared this Naaman the Aramean, by not receiving from his hands what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and take something from him.”

from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the sons of Israel, “You shall not associate with them, nor shall they associate with you, for they will surely turn your heart away after their gods.” Solomon held fast to these in love.

Listen to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place; hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven; hear and forgive.

Now these are the ones who came to David at Ziklag, while he was still restricted because of Saul the son of Kish; and they were among the mighty men who helped him in war.

that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”

So they spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations whom you have carried away into exile in the cities of Samaria do not know the custom of the god of the land; so he has sent lions among them, and behold, they kill them because they do not know the custom of the god of the land.”

The sons of Levi were Gershon, Kohath and Merari.

and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you defeat them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them and show no favor to them.

and Jesse became the father of Eliab his firstborn, then Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord, the God of Israel, which He spoke through His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.

who have kept with Your servant, my father David, that which You have promised him; indeed, You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand as it is this day.

So Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David; and his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.

But Jonathan had not heard when his father put the people under oath; therefore, he put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth, and his eyes brightened.

But certain worthless men said, “How can this one deliver us?” And they despised him and did not bring him any present. But he kept silent.

He said, “Call her.” When he had called her, she stood in the doorway.

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned because we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth; but now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

If one man sins against another, God will mediate for him; but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for the Lord desired to put them to death.

So the men said to her, “Our life for yours if you do not tell this business of ours; and it shall come about when the Lord gives us the land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with you.”

for it is on this day that atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you; you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

And He who was sitting was like a jasper stone and a sardius in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life.”

“It shall come about, when the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, that you shall place the blessing on Mount Gerizim and the curse on Mount Ebal.

When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

The people therefore cried out to Moses, and Moses prayed to the Lord and the fire died out.

and a man has intercourse with her and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and she is undetected, although she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act,

and the gecko, and the crocodile, and the lizard, and the sand reptile, and the chameleon.

of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, died.

Israel took all these cities and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all her villages.

which is a symbol for the present time. Accordingly both gifts and sacrifices are offered which cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience,

Then the Kohathites set out, carrying the holy objects; and the tabernacle was set up before their arrival.

But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

So Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him.

But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice them to the Lord our God.

So we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well.

The commander came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes.”

I am not speaking these things according to human judgment, am I? Or does not the Law also say these things?

However, they did not all heed the good news; for Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”

Jesus *said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”

For son treats father contemptuously,
Daughter rises up against her mother,
Daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law;
A man’s enemies are the men of his own household.

As He was going, they were spreading their coats on the road.

And His disciples answered Him, “Where will anyone be able to find enough bread here in this desolate place to satisfy these people?”

Now there was a herd of many swine feeding at a distance from them.

For he did not know what to answer; for they became terrified.

Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown and set it on the head of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

O king, the Most High God granted sovereignty, grandeur, glory and majesty to Nebuchadnezzar your father.

The Lord has taken away His judgments against you,
He has cleared away your enemies.
The King of Israel, the Lord, is in your midst;
You will fear disaster no more.

So I say, “My strength has perished,
And so has my hope from the Lord.”

And He said to me, “Yet you will see still greater abominations which they are committing.”

They say to their mothers,
“Where is grain and wine?”
As they faint like a wounded man
In the streets of the city,
As their life is poured out
On their mothers’ bosom.

My soul, my soul! I am in anguish! Oh, my heart!
My heart is pounding in me;
I cannot be silent,
Because you have heard, O my soul,
The sound of the trumpet,
The alarm of war.

The prophet who has a dream may relate his dream, but let him who has My word speak My word in truth. What does straw have in common with grain?” declares the Lord.

“What do you mean by crushing My people
And grinding the face of the poor?”
Declares the Lord God of hosts.

With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor,
But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered.

All go to the same place. All came from the dust and all return to the dust.

From Dan is heard the snorting of his horses;
At the sound of the neighing of his stallions
The whole land quakes;
For they come and devour the land and its fullness,
The city and its inhabitants.

A good man will obtain favor from the Lord,
But He will condemn a man who devises evil.

The hope of the righteous is gladness,
But the expectation of the wicked perishes.

From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;

For the choir director; upon an eight-stringed lyre. A Psalm of David.
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be,
For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men.

From You comes my praise in the great assembly;
I shall pay my vows before those who fear Him.

The king was deeply moved and went up to the chamber over the gate and wept. And thus he said as he walked, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

“You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
And you will not be afraid of violence when it comes.

“While he is carried to the grave,
Men will keep watch over his tomb.

Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the Jews.

Jeroboam did not again recover strength in the days of Abijah; and the Lord struck him and he died.

But when they urged him until he was ashamed, he said, “Send.” They sent therefore fifty men; and they searched three days but did not find him.

But when David returned to bless his household, Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David and said, “How the king of Israel distinguished himself today! He uncovered himself today in the eyes of his servants’ maids as one of the foolish ones shamelessly uncovers himself!”

The sons of Judah were Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur and Shobal.

Then Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth while he has been a warrior from his youth.”

Nahshon became the father of Salma, Salma became the father of Boaz,

Then Elisha came to Damascus. Now Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and it was told him, saying, “The man of God has come here.”

and he cried to the man of God who came from Judah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, ‘Because you have disobeyed the command of the Lord, and have not observed the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you,

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “I will make it with you on this condition, that I will gouge out the right eye of every one of you, thus I will make it a reproach on all Israel.”

Then he said, “Please speak to Solomon the king, for he will not refuse you, that he may give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

Therefore he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire.” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

It came about after they had departed that they came up out of the well and went and told King David; and they said to David, “Arise and cross over the water quickly for thus Ahithophel has counseled against you.”

You came only yesterday, and shall I today make you wander with us, while I go where I will? Return and take back your brothers; mercy and truth be with you.”

The men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?”

For the land, into which you are entering to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, where you used to sow your seed and water it with your foot like a vegetable garden.

but now our appetite is gone. There is nothing at all to look at except this manna.”

When Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,

So it shall be a perpetual statute for them. And he who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and he who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

So she stayed close by the maids of Boaz in order to glean until the end of the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead that are called Havvoth-jair to this day.

Now the Levites shall lay their hands on the heads of the bulls; then offer the one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.

Then he shall take off his garments and put on other garments, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a clean place.

And another, a red horse, went out; and to him who sat on it, it was granted to take peace from the earth, and that men would slay one another; and a great sword was given to him.

and Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur over the tribal army of the sons of Manasseh;

The priest shall look at the raw flesh, and he shall pronounce him unclean; the raw flesh is unclean, it is leprosy.

But the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail”—so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

The priest then shall take up from the grain offering its memorial portion, and shall offer it up in smoke on the altar as an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord.

Then Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who was he then that hunted game and brought it to me, so that I ate of all of it before you came, and blessed him? Yes, and he shall be blessed.”

and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets;

and he began to speak out boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him aside and explained to him the way of God more accurately.

The water prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” And he said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

If Cain is avenged sevenfold,
Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

and Hadoram and Uzal and Diklah

But I said, ‘By no means, Lord, for nothing unholy or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’

Who improvise to the sound of the harp,
And like David have composed songs for themselves,

Do we not have a right to eat and drink?

Yet I will exult in the Lord,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.

When some of the bystanders heard it, they began saying, “Behold, He is calling for Elijah.”

Therefore He will give them up until the time
When she who is in labor has borne a child.
Then the remainder of His brethren
Will return to the sons of Israel.

Solomon was the father of Rehoboam, Rehoboam the father of Abijah, and Abijah the father of Asa.

Then I lifted up my eyes and looked, and behold, there was a man with a measuring line in his hand.

And in that day I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Then these commissioners and satraps came by agreement to the king and spoke to him as follows: “King Darius, live forever!

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!

For every boot of the booted warrior in the battle tumult,
And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;

After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will come to the king of the North to carry out a peaceful arrangement. But she will not retain her position of power, nor will he remain with his power, but she will be given up, along with those who brought her in and the one who sired her as well as he who supported her in those times.

But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up and parceled out toward the four points of the compass, though not to his own descendants, nor according to his authority which he wielded, for his sovereignty will be uprooted and given to others besides them.

The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked,
And the one who loves violence His soul hates.

The king said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen and its interpretation?”

The time has come, the day has arrived. Let not the buyer rejoice nor the seller mourn; for wrath is against all their multitude.

Then they will look to the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and they will be driven away into darkness.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one fate befalls them both.

Do not contend with a man without cause,
If he has done you no harm.

“Hurry, my beloved,
And be like a gazelle or a young stag
On the mountains of spices.”

It is also not good to fine the righteous,
Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David and for the people who were with him, to eat; for they said, “The people are hungry and weary and thirsty in the wilderness.”

“When he fills his belly,
God will send His fierce anger on him
And will rain it on him while he is eating.

“Even now, behold, my witness is in heaven,
And my advocate is on high.

“He has lived in desolate cities,
In houses no one would inhabit,
Which are destined to become ruins.

Now these are the foundations which Solomon laid for building the house of God. The length in cubits, according to the old standard was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

Thus he set up the pillars at the porch of the nave; and he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin, and he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.

In this matter may the Lord pardon your servant: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon to worship there, and he leans on my hand and I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, when I bow myself in the house of Rimmon, the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.”

“If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, and pray and make supplication before You in this house,

Afterward you will come to the hill of God where the Philistine garrison is; and it shall be as soon as you have come there to the city, that you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and a lyre before them, and they will be prophesying.

The sons of Shemida were Ahian and Shechem and Likhi and Aniam.

He did evil in the sight of the Lord, though not like his father and his mother; for he put away the sacred pillar of Baal which his father had made.

So when Joab came to the king and told him, he called for Absalom. Thus he came to the king and prostrated himself on his face to the ground before the king, and the king kissed Absalom.

(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he used to say, “Come, and let us go to the seer”; for he who is called a prophet now was formerly called a seer.)

and they said to him, “Behold, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king for us to judge us like all the nations.”

Abner repeated again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I lift up my face to your brother Joab?”

So Abner said to him, “Turn to your right or to your left, and take hold of one of the young men for yourself, and take for yourself his spoil.” But Asahel was not willing to turn aside from following him.

So the slave fell to the ground and prostrated himself before him, saying, ‘Have patience with me and I will repay you everything.’

It happened at that time as Eli was lying down in his place (now his eyesight had begun to grow dim and he could not see well),

Please do not depart from here, until I come back to You, and bring out my offering and lay it before You.” And He said, “I will remain until you return.”

On the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; for Samuel grieved over Saul. And the Lord regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel.

There also you and your households shall eat before the Lord your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings in which the Lord your God has blessed you.

having a golden altar of incense and the ark of the covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tables of the covenant;

So afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.

No, my sons; for the report is not good which I hear the Lord’s people circulating.

Then she said, “Wait, my daughter, until you know how the matter turns out; for the man will not rest until he has settled it today.”

‘Indeed, I lift up My hand to heaven,
And say, as I live forever,

And you brethren, like Isaac, are children of promise.

But He said to him, “A man was giving a big dinner, and he invited many;

Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

These then are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

No one who may have been set apart among men shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.

All of them were encouraged and they themselves also took food.

‘Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.

But a voice from heaven answered a second time, ‘What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy.’

There will be two women grinding at the same place; one will be taken and the other will be left.

When his disciples heard about this, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

So after receiving the morsel he went out immediately; and it was night.

And when He had said this, He showed them His hands and His feet.

For thus says the Lord God,
“The city which goes forth a thousand strong
Will have a hundred left,
And the one which goes forth a hundred strong
Will have ten left to the house of Israel.”

She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in the whole body
And all their faces are grown pale!

and I pronounced them unclean because of their gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire so that I might make them desolate, in order that they might know that I am the Lord.”’

“I, Nebuchadnezzar, was at ease in my house and flourishing in my palace.

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

The Lord also has a dispute with Judah,
And will punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him according to his deeds.

He has broken my teeth with gravel;
He has made me cower in the dust.

“Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her lover,
So you have dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” declares the Lord.

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

When a wicked man dies, his expectation will perish,
And the hope of strong men perishes.

Then He said to me, “Son of man, stand on your feet that I may speak with you!”

Then as for the prophet or the priest or the people who say, ‘The oracle of the Lord,’ I will bring punishment upon that man and his household.

In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,

I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have annihilated them.”

And in that day you will say,
“Give thanks to the Lord, call on His name.
Make known His deeds among the peoples;
Make them remember that His name is exalted.”

For the choir director. A Psalm of David.
In the Lord I take refuge;
How can you say to my soul, “Flee as a bird to your mountain;

Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres.

“O you who sit in the gardens,
My companions are listening for your voice—
Let me hear it!”

“He will drop off his unripe grape like the vine,
And will cast off his flower like the olive tree.

All my enemies will be ashamed and greatly dismayed;
They shall turn back, they will suddenly be ashamed.

Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids from the king’s palace and transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.

“Shall your boasts silence men?
And shall you scoff and none rebuke?

Now let it be known to the king, that if that city is rebuilt and the walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, custom or toll, and it will damage the revenue of the kings.

Solomon numbered all the aliens who were in the land of Israel, following the census which his father David had taken; and 153,600 were found.

Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the Lord to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, under the wings of the cherubim.

As for the Hebronites, Jerijah the chief (these Hebronites were investigated according to their genealogies and fathers’ households, in the fortieth year of David’s reign, and men of outstanding capability were found among them at Jazer of Gilead)

There were nets of network and twisted threads of chainwork for the capitals which were on the top of the pillars; seven for the one capital and seven for the other capital.

“As for God, His way is blameless;
The word of the Lord is tested;
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

Thus says the king, ‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you from my hand;

Then he said to the closest relative, “Naomi, who has come back from the land of Moab, has to sell the piece of land which belonged to our brother Elimelech.

The sons of Reuben and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, consisting of valiant men, men who bore shield and sword and shot with bow and were skillful in battle, were 44,760, who went to war.

In his days Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt went up to the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates. And King Josiah went to meet him, and when Pharaoh Neco saw him he killed him at Megiddo.

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.

Each stood in his place around the camp; and all the army ran, crying out as they fled.

Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that day, saying,

then Saul was even more afraid of David. Thus Saul was David’s enemy continually.

and they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has He not spoken through us as well?” And the Lord heard it.

When they had driven him out of the city, they began stoning him; and the witnesses laid aside their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”

and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah,

“Command the sons of Israel that they send away from the camp every leper and everyone having a discharge and everyone who is unclean because of a dead person.

the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

“So we took possession of this land at that time. From Aroer, which is by the valley of Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead and its cities I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.

For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability, they gave of their own accord,

‘No grain offering, which you bring to the Lord, shall be made with leaven, for you shall not offer up in smoke any leaven or any honey as an offering by fire to the Lord.

saying, “The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised up on the third day.”

Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,

and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, which is on the loins, and the lobe of the liver, which he shall remove with the kidneys

The Lord further spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying:

And inasmuch as it was not without an oath

but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

Now observe how great this man was to whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth of the choicest spoils.

I have become foolish; you yourselves compelled me. Actually I should have been commended by you, for in no respect was I inferior to the most eminent apostles, even though I am a nobody.

So go now and work; for you will be given no straw, yet you must deliver the quota of bricks.”

and Obal and Abimael and Sheba

He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely,
But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.

But He was saying this to indicate the kind of death by which He was to die.

The disciples *said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?”

for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.”

“When He established the heavens, I was there,
When He inscribed a circle on the face of the deep,

And you know the way where I am going.”

All your enemies
Have opened their mouths wide against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, “We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the day for which we waited;
We have reached it, we have seen it.”

“Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.

Tremble, and do not sin;
Meditate in your heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

Better are those slain with the sword
Than those slain with hunger;
For they pine away, being stricken
For lack of the fruits of the field.

it is you, O king; for you have become great and grown strong, and your majesty has become great and reached to the sky and your dominion to the end of the earth.

Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

“Who among all these does not know
That the hand of the Lord has done this,

“Shall a multitude of words go unanswered,
And a talkative man be acquitted?

“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

“I would declare to Him the number of my steps;
Like a prince I would approach Him.

“Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?

“I am not at ease, nor am I quiet,
And I am not at rest, but turmoil comes.”

And Job said,

And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come as gatekeepers to sanctify the sabbath day. For this also remember me, O my God, and have compassion on me according to the greatness of Your lovingkindness.

So she arose in the middle of the night and took my son from beside me while your maidservant slept, and laid him in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

Now the boy Samuel was growing in stature and in favor both with the Lord and with men.

and she bore him sons: Jeush, Shemariah and Zaham.

Then David commanded the young men, and they killed them and cut off their hands and feet and hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.

He took ten men of the elders of the city and said, “Sit down here.” So they sat down.

Now therefore, O Lord, the God of Israel, let Your word be confirmed which You have spoken to Your servant David.

Phinehas the son of Eleazar was ruler over them previously, and the Lord was with him.

When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took with him 700 men who drew swords, to break through to the king of Edom; but they could not.

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

But when the cloud had withdrawn from over the tent, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. As Aaron turned toward Miriam, behold, she was leprous.

Then the king said to the Cushite, “Is it well with the young man Absalom?” And the Cushite answered, “Let the enemies of my lord the king, and all who rise up against you for evil, be as that young man!”

The people were still sacrificing on the high places, because there was no house built for the name of the Lord until those days.

Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim; now it was he who cursed me with a violent curse on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see him whom the Lord has chosen? Surely there is no one like him among all the people.” So all the people shouted and said, “Long live the king!”

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall, so that she was living on the wall.

and the curse, if you do not listen to the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside from the way which I am commanding you today, by following other gods which you have not known.

Then Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put the gold necklace around his neck.

that he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

If he offers it by way of thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers spread with oil, and cakes of well stirred fine flour mixed with oil.

the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the Lord your God, and you shall eat the flesh.

Nevertheless, you are not to eat of these, among those which chew the cud, or among those which divide the hoof: the camel, for though it chews cud, it does not divide the hoof, it is unclean to you.

And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

He brought us out from there in order to bring us in, to give us the land which He had sworn to our fathers.’

As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron placed it before the Testimony, to be kept.

When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

When the seven peals of thunder had spoken, I was about to write; and I heard a voice from heaven saying, “Seal up the things which the seven peals of thunder have spoken and do not write them.”

and Abidan the son of Gideoni over the tribal army of the sons of Benjamin.

So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you,

But God raised Him from the dead;

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;

And some of the scribes said to themselves, “This fellow blasphemes.”

And behold, two men were talking with Him; and they were Moses and Elijah,

Demetrius has received a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself; and we add our testimony, and you know that our testimony is true.

They led Jesus away to the high priest; and all the chief priests and the elders and the scribes *gathered together.

But when the brethren learned of it, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him away to Tarsus.

Then again He laid His hands on his eyes; and he looked intently and was restored, and began to see everything clearly.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

His disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.

Woe is me! For I am
Like the fruit pickers, like the grape gatherers.
There is not a cluster of grapes to eat,
Or a first-ripe fig which I crave.

And He warned them to tell no one about Him.

They will walk after the Lord,
He will roar like a lion;
Indeed He will roar
And His sons will come trembling from the west.

“Because of this will not the land quake
And everyone who dwells in it mourn?
Indeed, all of it will rise up like the Nile,
And it will be tossed about
And subside like the Nile of Egypt.

But the court will sit for judgment, and his dominion will be taken away, annihilated and destroyed forever.

The satraps, the prefects, the governors and the king’s high officials gathered around and saw in regard to these men that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men nor was the hair of their head singed, nor were their trousers damaged, nor had the smell of fire even come upon them.

At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.

headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes, amulets,

For the burnt offering there were four tables of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide and one cubit high, on which they lay the instruments with which they slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;

In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments,

even though Noah, Daniel and Job were in its midst, as I live,” declares the Lord God, “they could not deliver either their son or their daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.”

In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:

If you have been foolish in exalting yourself
Or if you have plotted evil, put your hand on your mouth.

“The small and the great are there,
And the slave is free from his master.

“He rushes headlong at Him
With his massive shield.

Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test Solomon with difficult questions. She had a very large retinue, with camels carrying spices and a large amount of gold and precious stones; and when she came to Solomon, she spoke with him about all that was on her heart.

the sons of Ater of Hezekiah, 98;

Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

Thus they answered us, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.

Then it came about, as soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the royal officers, “Go in, kill them; let none come out.” And they killed them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the royal officers threw them out, and went to the inner room of the house of Baal.

Absalom commanded his servants, saying, “See now, when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon,’ then put him to death. Do not fear; have not I myself commanded you? Be courageous and be valiant.”

Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to contain the burnt offering, the grain offering and the fat.

that Your eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer which Your servant shall pray toward this place.

for the four chief gatekeepers who were Levites, were in an office of trust, and were over the chambers and over the treasuries in the house of God.

When he had taken him and brought him to his mother, he sat on her lap until noon, and then died.

As for the house which King Solomon built for the Lord, its length was sixty cubits and its width twenty cubits and its height thirty cubits.

So all Israel was enrolled by genealogies; and behold, they are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. And Judah was carried away into exile to Babylon for their unfaithfulness.

“If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,

Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

Then the Spirit of God came upon Saul mightily when he heard these words, and he became very angry.

When all the kings, servants of Hadadezer, saw that they were defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and served them. So the Arameans feared to help the sons of Ammon anymore.

“And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
As was Issachar, so was Barak;
Into the valley they rushed at his heels;
Among the divisions of Reuben
There were great resolves of heart.

Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the Lord is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.”

He said to them, “Why do you do such things, the evil things that I hear from all these people?

You shall tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and burn their Asherim with fire, and you shall cut down the engraved images of their gods and obliterate their name from that place.

And He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.

The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi; and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem in Judah. Now they entered the land of Moab and remained there.

Deborah said to Barak, “Arise! For this is the day in which the Lord has given Sisera into your hands; behold, the Lord has gone out before you.” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

So Joshua arose early in the morning and brought Israel near by tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.

And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

Then they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,

the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth.

Now when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

and that you may tell in the hearing of your son, and of your grandson, how I made a mockery of the Egyptians and how I performed My signs among them, that you may know that I am the Lord.”

So God heard their groaning; and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

“Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.

But afterward he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’

Then the standard of the camp of the sons of Dan, according to their armies, which formed the rear guard for all the camps, set out, with Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai over its army,

But also some of the Jewish exorcists, who went from place to place, attempted to name over those who had the evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, “I adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preaches.”

So the name of that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the Lord burned among them.

Moses said, “Thus says the Lord, ‘About midnight I am going out into the midst of Egypt,

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape;

And although the king was very sorry, yet because of his oaths and because of his dinner guests, he was unwilling to refuse her.

The magicians tried with their secret arts to bring forth gnats, but they could not; so there were gnats on man and beast.

And His disciples said to Him, “You see the crowd pressing in on You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

But when the crowds saw this, they were awestruck, and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”

For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

When Belshazzar tasted the wine, he gave orders to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you will be My people; and you will walk in all the way which I command you, that it may be well with you.’

Therefore, return to your God,
Observe kindness and justice,
And wait for your God continually.

I said to the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the ephah?”

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the wailing women, that they may come!

Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations and men of every language who were living in all the land: “May your peace abound!

Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled,
I have not gone after the Baals’?
Look at your way in the valley!
Know what you have done!
You are a swift young camel entangling her ways,

Why are we sitting still?
Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the fortified cities
And let us perish there,
Because the Lord our God has doomed us
And given us poisoned water to drink,
For we have sinned against the Lord.

There was a great famine in Samaria; and behold, they besieged it, until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a fourth of a kab of dove’s dung for five shekels of silver.

Wisdom rests in the heart of one who has understanding,
But in the hearts of fools it is made known.

they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we, like you, seek your God; and we have been sacrificing to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

the son of a Danite woman and a Tyrian father, who knows how to work in gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone and wood, and in purple, violet, linen and crimson fabrics, and who knows how to make all kinds of engravings and to execute any design which may be assigned to him, to work with your skilled men and with those of my lord David your father.

“Let us rise early and go to the vineyards;
Let us see whether the vine has budded
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.

“Will You cause a driven leaf to tremble?
Or will You pursue the dry chaff?

The king said to Haman, “The silver is yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please.”

Now the leaders of the people lived in Jerusalem, but the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while nine-tenths remained in the other cities.

Now because we are in the service of the palace, and it is not fitting for us to see the king’s dishonor, therefore we have sent and informed the king,

Then he made a bronze altar, twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in width and ten cubits in height.

Then he made two sculptured cherubim in the room of the holy of holies and overlaid them with gold.

Elkanah his son, Ebiasaph his son and Assir his son,

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasture lands of Sharon, as far as their borders.

Now the king of Aram had commanded the thirty-two captains of his chariots, saying, “Do not fight with small or great, but with the king of Israel alone.”

Eshton became the father of Beth-rapha and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

The sons of Lotan were Hori and Homam; and Lotan’s sister was Timna.

So the Lord said to Solomon, “Because you have done this, and you have not kept My covenant and My statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.

The house, that is, the nave in front of the inner sanctuary, was forty cubits long.

As Samuel turned to go, Saul seized the edge of his robe, and it tore.

The people rushed greedily upon the spoil, and took sheep and oxen and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people ate them with the blood.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

The king has also sent with him Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites; and they have made him ride on the king’s mule.

He had a son whose name was Saul, a choice and handsome man, and there was not a more handsome person than he among the sons of Israel; from his shoulders and up he was taller than any of the people.

Now Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim; and he went on to the Jordan with the king to escort him over the Jordan.

Then Samuel told the people the ordinances of the kingdom, and wrote them in the book and placed it before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his house.

And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

then they would say to him, “Say now, ‘Shibboleth.’” But he said, “Sibboleth,” for he could not pronounce it correctly. Then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. Thus there fell at that time 42,000 of Ephraim.

She took it up and went into the city, and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. She also took it out and gave Naomi what she had left after she was satisfied.

And the Lord confounded them before Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

But if she cannot afford a lamb, then she shall take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, the one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord.” And they went to their own home.

‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the doorway of the tent of meeting a one year old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

and to Hezron was born Ram, and to Ram, Amminadab,

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

Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your kinsmen, the whole house of Israel, shall bewail the burning which the Lord has brought about.

He brought the family of Judah near, and he took the family of the Zerahites; and he brought the family of the Zerahites near man by man, and Zabdi was taken.

It shall not be poured on anyone’s body, nor shall you make any like it in the same proportions; it is holy, and it shall be holy to you.

The fish that are in the Nile will die, and the Nile will become foul, and the Egyptians will find difficulty in drinking water from the Nile.”’”

But his wife, from behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

“Even on the male and female servants
I will pour out My Spirit in those days.

And He *came and *found them sleeping, and *said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour?

Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh, as he comes out to the water, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.

The commander answered, “I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money.” And Paul said, “But I was actually born a citizen.”

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan cohort named Julius.

When he came to Jerusalem, he was trying to associate with the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

Also let none of you devise evil in your heart against another, and do not love perjury; for all these are what I hate,’ declares the Lord.”

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

“He who grasps the bow will not stand his ground,
The swift of foot will not escape,
Nor will he who rides the horse save his life.