Take reproach and contempt away from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.

Nevertheless He saved them for His name’s sake,
That He might make His [supreme] power known.

I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings;
I shall pay You my vows,

Then the king stood in his place and made a covenant before the Lord—to walk after (obey) the Lord, and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant written in this book.

You love evil more than good,
And falsehood more than speaking what is right. Selah.

The voice of the Lord is powerful;
The voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

In God, whose word I praise,
In the Lord, whose word I praise,

The archers shot King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, “Take me away, for I am badly wounded.”

The screen (curtain) for the gate of the courtyard [on the east side] was the work of an embroiderer, in blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen; it was twenty cubits long and five cubits high, corresponding to the curtains of the court.

To the sons of Gershom were given from the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and Ashtaroth, with their pasture lands;

Hilen with its pasture lands, Debir with its pasture lands,

You shall anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, and the altar shall be most holy.

the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

For they went and served other gods and worshiped them, [false] gods whom they have not known and whom He had not allotted (given) to them.

As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the Israelites, from the larger tribes you shall take many and from the smaller tribes few; each tribe shall give [at least some] of its cities to the Levites in proportion to [the size of] its inheritance which it possesses.”

He put them in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

and lo, seven [other] ears, withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind, sprouted after them;

Then the officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and hundreds, approached Moses,

His sons and his grandsons, his daughters and his granddaughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.

Therefore, you [spiritual] shepherds, hear the word of the Lord:

The sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes.

He heard the sound of the trumpet but did not take warning; his blood shall be on himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life.

So I will silence your songs, and the sound of your lyres will no longer be heard.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon and put My sword in his hand; but I will break Pharaoh’s arms and he will groan before him (Nebuchadnezzar) with the groanings of a [mortally] wounded man.

They will fall among those who are slain by the sword. She (Egypt) is handed over to the sword; they have drawn her and all her hordes away [to judgment].

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I am going to bring a sword on you and cut off (destroy) both man and animal,

‘They will bring you down to the pit [of destruction],
And you will die the death of all those who die
In the heart of the seas.

I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will destroy your filthiness.

A capital of bronze was on [top of] it. The height of each capital was five cubits (seven and one-half feet), with a lattice-work and pomegranates around it, all of bronze. The second pillar also, with its pomegranates, was similar to these.

Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us,
Devastation and destruction.

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I made a covenant (solemn pledge) with your forefathers in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying,

“For the Ascent of Luhith
Will be climbed by [successive groups of] fugitives with continual weeping;
For on the descent of Horonaim
They have heard the distress of the cry of destruction.

The prophets who were before me and before you from ancient times prophesied against many lands and against great kingdoms, of war and of disaster and of virulent disease.

Give thanks to the God of gods,
For His lovingkindness endures forever.

“Because you [who have remained in Jerusalem] have said, ‘The Lord has raised up prophets for us in Babylon,’

“You shall search for those who quarrel with you, but will not find them;
They who war against you will be as nothing, as nothing at all.

Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre,
With the lyre and the sound of melody.

You have increased the nation, O Lord;
You have increased the nation, You are glorified;
You have extended all the borders of the land.

May the Lord bless you from Zion [His holy mountain],
And may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life;

Pour out Your wrath on the [Gentile] nations that do not know You,
And on the kingdoms that do not call on Your name.

Your arrows are sharp;
The peoples (nations) fall under You;
Your arrows pierce the hearts of the King’s enemies.

O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.
Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,
For we have been brought very low.

He built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants
And Your [glorious] majesty to their children.

They repay evil for good, they attack and try to kill me,
Because I follow what is good.

As for the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the iron, there is no limit. So arise and begin working, and may the Lord be with you.”

Let these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near to the Lord our God day and night, so that He will maintain the cause and right of His servant and of His people Israel as each day requires,

Look upon my enemies, for they are many;
They hate me with cruel and violent hatred.

the son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

“It is God who executes vengeance for me,
And brings down [and disciplines] the peoples under me,

Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they were too exhausted to weep [any longer].

The number of days that David lived in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

They said, “There must be an inheritance for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe will not be wiped out from Israel.

If there are still many years [before the Year of Jubilee], in proportion to them he must refund [to the purchaser] part of the price of his sale for his redemption and release.

So Gaal went out ahead of the leaders of Shechem and fought with Abimelech.

if the mark is greenish or reddish in the garment or in the leather or in the warp or woof or in any article made of leather, it is an infestation of leprosy and shall be shown to the priest.

from the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of Gilead.

you shall offer a tenth [of an ephah] for each of the seven male lambs;

The skillfully woven sash with which to bind it, which was on the ephod [to hold it in place], was like its workmanship, of the same material: of gold and of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats, five male lambs one year old. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ochran [from the tribe of Asher].

and their forty silver sockets, two sockets under each board.

You shall bring in the table [for the bread] and arrange its setting; you shall bring in the lampstand and mount and light its lamps.

Everyone who could make an offering of silver or bronze brought it as the Lord’s offering; every man who had in his possession acacia wood for any work of the service brought it.

You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around the top of it.

So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in confinement with him in his master’s house, “Why do you look so down-hearted today?”

Moreover, they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to live temporarily (sojourn) in the land [of Egypt], for there is no pasture for the flocks of your servants [in our land], for the famine is very severe in Canaan. So now, please let your servants live in the land of Goshen.”

And it shall be that when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’

But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s [younger] brother, with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that some harm or injury may come to him.”

Now, therefore, when I come to your servant my father, and the young man is not with us, since his life is bound up in the young man’s life,

“When they (Israel) grasped you (Egypt) by the hand,
You broke and tore apart their hands;
When they leaned on you,
You broke and strained their backs.”

You shall do this on the seventh [day] of the month for everyone who goes astray [and sins through error or ignorance] and for him who is naive; so shall you make atonement for the temple (house).

Then he brought me into the outer courtyard, and behold, there were chambers and a pavement made for the courtyard all around; thirty chambers faced the pavement.

I will make many peoples appalled at you [at your judgment and your defeat], and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword [of judgment] before them; they will tremble and shudder every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.”

‘Now the coastlands will tremble
On the day of your fall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be terrified at your departure.’”

With you I shatter the shepherd and his flock,
With you I shatter the farmer and his yoke of oxen,
And with you I shatter governors and commanders.

So all the men who set their mind to go to Egypt to reside there [temporarily] will die by the sword, by famine and by virulent disease; none of them will remain or survive the disaster that I am going to bring on them.”’”

‘But it will be in the last days (the end of days)
That I will reverse the captivity and restore the fortunes of Elam,’”
Says the Lord.

Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the Lord of hosts,

And He remembered His covenant for their sake,
And relented [rescinding their sentence] according to the greatness of His lovingkindness [when they cried out to Him],

Now the word of the Lord had come to Jeremiah while he was [still] confined in the court of the guardhouse, saying,

Remember [with awe and gratitude] the wonderful things which He has done,
His amazing deeds and the judgments uttered by His mouth [on His enemies, as in Egypt],

‘Then behold, all the women who are left in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officers of the king of Babylon and those women will say [to you, King Zedekiah],

“Your close friends
Have prevailed against your better judgment and have overpowered and deceived you;
While your feet were sunk in the mire [of trouble],
They turned back.”

‘There is no one to plead your cause;
No [device to close and allow the] healing of your wound,
No recovery for you.

At midnight I will rise to give thanks to You
Because of Your righteous ordinances.

The nomads of the desert will bow before him,
And his enemies will lick the dust.

“Look, [this is] the man who would not make God his strength [his stronghold and fortress],
But trusted in the abundance of his riches,
Taking refuge in his wealth.”

Man ate the bread of angels;
God sent them provision in abundance.

For the Lord hears the needy
And does not despise His who are prisoners.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your power
And come to save us!

So may he live, and may the gold of Sheba be given to him;
And let them pray for him continually;
Let them bless and praise him all day long.

May their eyes be dimmed so that they cannot see,
And make their loins shake continually [in terror and weakness].

Rebuke the beasts [living] among the reeds [in Egypt],
The herd of bulls (the leaders) with the calves of the peoples;
Trampling underfoot the pieces of silver;
He has scattered the peoples who delight in war.

Who rules by His might forever,
His eyes keep watch on the nations;
Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.

Then they slaughtered the Passover lambs on the fourteenth day of the second month. And the priests and the Levites were ashamed of themselves, and consecrated themselves and brought burnt offerings to the house of the Lord.

God, in her palaces,
Has made Himself known as a stronghold.

God blesses us,
And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

He will sit enthroned forever before [the face of] God;
Appoint lovingkindness and truth to watch over and preserve him.

And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

here they are, rewarding us by coming to drive us out of Your possession which You have given us as an inheritance.

of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;

the pails, the shovels, and the bowls; all these utensils which Hiram made for King Solomon in the house of the Lord were of polished bronze.

She brought it before Saul and his servants, and they ate. Then they got up and went away that night.

But he refused and said, “I will not eat.” But his servants together with the woman urged him, and he [finally] listened to them. So he got up from the ground and sat on the bed.

and rams’ skins dyed red, and skins of porpoises, and acacia wood,

Racal, the cities of the Jerahmeelites, the cities of the Kenites,

You shall bring his sons and put tunics on them;

Ekron, with its towns and villages;

For the other side of the tabernacle, the north side, he made twenty boards,

That food shall be put [in storage] as a reserve for the land against the seven years of famine and hunger which will occur in the land of Egypt, so that the land (people) will not be ravaged during the famine.”

Then Moses gave the ransom money to Aaron and to his sons at the command of the Lord, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

and onyx stones and other stones to be set for the ephod and the breastpiece.

So ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain in Egypt.

Then it sprouted and grew and became a low, spreading vine whose branches turned [in submission] toward him, but its roots remained under it. So it became a vine and yielded shoots and sent out branches.

Then he went to the gate which faced the east and went up its [seven] steps and measured the threshold of the gate, one rod in width; and the other threshold [of the gate inside the thick wall] was one rod in width.

So Jacob’s sons did for him as he had commanded them;

Then he (the angel) said to me, “The north chambers and the south chambers, which are opposite the separate area, are the holy chambers where the priests who are close to the Lord shall eat the most holy offerings. There they shall place the most holy things—the grain offering, the sin offering, and the guilt offering—for the place is holy.

The guardroom was one rod long and one rod wide, and [the space] between the guardrooms was five cubits. And the threshold of the gate by the porch (portico) of the gate facing inward was one rod.

It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept My charge, and who did not go astray when the children (descendants) of Israel went astray as the [other] Levites did.

‘Therefore, thus says the Lord God,
“Woe (judgment is coming) to the bloody city,
To the pot in which there is rust
And whose rust has not gone out of it!
Take out of it piece by piece,
Without making any choice.

Bread grain is crushed fine,
Indeed, the farmer does not continue to thresh it forever.
Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,
He does not thresh it longer.

And you will know [without any doubt] that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land which I swore to give to your fathers.

The captain of the guard also took away the [small] bowls and the firepans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the incense cups and the bowls for the drink offerings—whatever was made of fine gold and whatever was made of fine silver.

They silenced me in the pit
And placed a stone over me.

Say this to him, ‘The Lord speaks in this way, “Behold, what I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, that is, the whole land.”

One courier runs to meet another,
And one messenger to meet another,
To tell the king of Babylon
That his city has been captured from end to end;

Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress!
Incline Your ear to me;
In the day when I call, answer me quickly.

But afterward they backed out [of the covenant] and made the male servants and the female servants whom they had set free return [to them], and brought the male servants and the female servants again into servitude.

Then they spoke against God;
They said, “Can God prepare [food for] a table in the wilderness?

all the kings of Arabia and all the kings of the foreign population who live in the desert;

You have removed all the wicked of the earth like dross [for they have no value];
Therefore I love Your testimonies.

When God heard this, He was filled with [righteous] wrath;
And utterly rejected Israel, [greatly hating her ways],

Confuse [my enemies], O Lord, divide their tongues [destroying their schemes],
For I have seen violence and strife in the city.

“O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation,
You have covered my head in the day of battle.

O God, how long will the adversary scoff?
Is the enemy to revile Your name forever?

The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Of Moab and the Hagrites,

Your flock found a dwelling place in it;
O God, in Your goodness You provided for the poor.

Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

Their inward thought is that their houses will continue forever,
And their dwelling places to all generations;
They have named their lands after their own names [ignoring God].

The God who avenges me,
And subdues peoples (nations) under me.

When the king heard the words of the Law, he tore his clothes.

and in the cutting of stones for settings, and in the carving of wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

the sons of Immer, 1,052;

So his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Jerusalem where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

Further, he did not humble himself before the Lord as his father Manasseh [finally] had done, but Amon multiplied his guilt and his sin.

But he did evil in the sight of the Lord, just as his father Manasseh had done. Amon sacrificed to all the carved images which his father Manasseh had made, and he served them.

Is not Hezekiah misleading you in order to let you die by famine and thirst, while saying, “The Lord our God will rescue us from the hand of the king of Assyria?”

David also commanded all the leaders of Israel to help Solomon his son, saying,

Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera.

Obed became the father of Jehu, and Jehu became the father of Azariah.

You shall anoint the basin and its base, and consecrate it.

Aroer, Siphmoth, Eshtemoa,

and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of porpoise skins, and the veil (partition) of the screen (curtain);

These cities each had its surrounding pasture lands; so it was with all these cities.

On the seventh day you shall have a holy [summoned] assembly; you shall do no laborious work.

This was the dedication offering for the altar from the leaders of Israel on the day when it was anointed: twelve dishes of silver, twelve silver basins, twelve golden bowls;

They brought the tabernacle to Moses [for him to inspect]: the tent and all its furnishings, its hooks, its [frame] boards, its bars, its support poles, its sockets or bases;

They bound the breastpiece by its rings to the rings of the ephod with a blue cord, so that it would lie on the woven sash of the ephod, and so that the breastpiece would not come loose from the ephod, just as the Lord commanded Moses.

the table and its carrying poles, and all its utensils, and the bread of the [divine] Presence (showbread);

For your servant became security for the young man to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then let me bear the blame before my father forever.’

Joseph said to them, “It is as I said to you, you are spies.

and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds [of prey] were eating [these foods] out of the basket on my head.”

But if you will not send him, we will not go down there; for the man said to us, ‘You will not see my face unless your brother is with you.’”

“These men are peaceful and friendly with us; so let them live in the land and do business in it, for the land is large enough [for us and] for them; let us take their daughters for wives and let us give them our daughters [in marriage].

In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month at the feast, he shall provide [offerings] like these for the seven days, as the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the oil.”

You shall present them before the Lord, and the priests shall throw salt on them, and they shall offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

In the porch (portico) of the gate were two tables on each side, on which to slaughter the burnt offering, the sin offering and the guilt offering.

“Then I will leave you (Egypt) on the land;
I will hurl you on the open field.
And I will make all the birds of the sky dwell on you,
And I will satisfy the animals of all the earth with you.

Thus says the Lord God, ‘Ask, “Will it thrive? Will he (Nebuchadnezzar) not uproot it and strip off its fruit so that all its sprouting leaves will wither? It will not take a strong arm or many people to uproot it [ending Israel’s national existence].

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the thick boughs and the clouds, and its heart is proud of its height,

He will kill your daughters on the mainland with the sword, and he shall make siege walls against you and build a siege ramp against you and raise [a roof of] large shields [as a defense] against you.

I will gather you and blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and you will be melted in the midst of it.

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Like the wood of the grapevine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so have I given up the people of Jerusalem;

Listen to the voice of the refugees who flee and escape from the land of Babylon,
Proclaiming in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God,
The vengeance [of the Lord against the Chaldeans] for [plundering and destroying] His temple.

Yet a small number [of My choosing] who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah; and all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs.

so none of the survivors from the remnant of Judah who have entered the land of Egypt to live there will survive, even though they lift up their souls in longing to return to the land of Judah, [the place] to which they long to return to live; none will return except a few refugees.’”

“The sound of an outcry from Horonaim,
‘Desolation and great destruction!’

then all the Jews returned from all the places to which they had been driven and came back to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah at Mizpah, and gathered a great abundance of wine and summer fruits.

You who [reverently] fear the Lord, trust in Lord;
He is their help and their shield.

For even if you had defeated the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained only the wounded men among them, yet they would rise up, every man confined in his tent, and burn down this city with fire.’”

Do not listen to and believe the words of the [false] prophets who are saying to you, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;

Bow Your heavens, O Lord, and come down;
Touch the mountains, and they will smoke.

Let Your priests be clothed with righteousness (right living),
And let Your godly ones shout for joy.

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while;
Our adversaries have trampled it down.

When the wicked rise [to power], men hide themselves;
But when the wicked perish, the [consistently] righteous increase and become great.

For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant—

“Nevertheless, I will not break off My lovingkindness from him,
Nor allow My faithfulness to fail.

Save us, O Lord our God,
And gather us from among the nations,
That we may give thanks to Your holy name
And glory in praising You.

Turn, O Lord [from Your fierce anger]; how long will it be?
Be compassionate toward Your servants—revoke Your sentence.

The north and the south, You have created them;
Mount Tabor and Mount Hermon shout for joy at Your name.

You, even You, are to be feared [with the submissive wonder of reverence];
Who may stand in Your presence when once You are angry?

Draw also the spear and javelin to meet those who pursue me.
Say to my soul, “I am your salvation.”

“Gilead is Mine, and Manasseh is Mine;
Ephraim is My helmet;
Judah is My scepter.

So Saul, his three sons, his armor bearer, and all his men died together on that day.

My God in His [steadfast] lovingkindness will meet me;
God will let me look triumphantly on my enemies [who lie in wait for me].

When his armor bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died with him.

His soul will dwell in prosperity and goodness,
And his descendants will inherit the land.

You shall provide three cities on this [east] side of the Jordan [River], and three [more] cities in the land of Canaan; they are to be the cities of refuge.

They shall divide it into seven parts; [the tribe of] Judah shall remain in its territory on the south, and the house of Joseph shall remain in its territory on the north.

I declare to you today that you will certainly perish. You will not live long in the land which you cross the Jordan to enter and possess.

They married into the families of the descendants of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

and [olive] oil for the lighting, and balsam for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense,

and three-tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, for each bull; and two-tenths [of an ephah] of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, for the one ram;

On the hem of the robe they made pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, and fine twisted linen.

So she quickly emptied her jar into the trough, and ran again to the well and drew water for all his camels.

So Moses commanded the Israelites, saying, “This is the land you are to inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe [of Manasseh],

The hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary and the sockets of the veil (partition curtain); a hundred sockets for the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; except for father or for mother, for son or for daughter, for brother or for sister who has had no husband; they may defile themselves.

“Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.

Your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife [Rachel] bore me [only] two sons.

But Joseph said, “Far be it from me that I should do that; but the man in whose hand the cup has been found, he will be my servant; and as for [the rest of] you, get up and go in peace to your father.”

For their [great flocks and herds and] possessions made it impossible for them to live together [in the same region]; the land in which they lived temporarily could not support them because of their livestock.

This is the dirge (funeral poem to be sung) and they shall sing it [for her]. The daughters of the nations shall sing it; for Egypt and for all her hordes they shall sing it,” says the Lord God.

Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for this is what the king of Assyria says, ‘Make peace with me and come out to me, and each one of you will eat from his own vine and each from his own fig tree and each [one of you] drink from the water of his own cistern,

“So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel.

Also bear your disgrace [as punishment], having made judgment favorable for your sisters, for [you virtually absolved them] because of your sins in which you behaved more repulsively than they; they are more in the right than you. Yes, be ashamed and bear your disgrace, for you made your [pagan] sisters seem righteous.

So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went into the palace of the king to a place under the storeroom and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes and let them down by ropes into the cistern to Jeremiah.

“They (the Chaldean lords) will be roaring together [before their sudden capture] like young lions [roaring over their prey],
They (the princes) will be growling like lions’ cubs.

For You have rescued my life from death,
My eyes from tears,
And my feet from stumbling and falling.

“They (the Babylonians) will take away their tents and their flocks;
They will carry off for themselves
Their tent curtains, all their goods and their camels,
And they will call out to one another, ‘Terror on every side!’

He gives [to the earth] snow like [a blanket of] wool;
He scatters the frost like ashes.

Uphold me according to Your word [of promise], so that I may live;
And do not let me be ashamed of my hope [in Your great goodness].

that Jeremiah left Jerusalem [during the withdrawal of the Chaldean invaders] to go to [Anathoth, his hometown, in] the land of Benjamin to take possession of [the title to] the land [which he had purchased] there among the people.

thus says the Lord concerning the king who sits on the throne of David, and concerning all the people who live in this city, your brothers (fellow people of Judah) who did not go with you into captivity—

Show me a sign of [Your] goodwill,
That those who hate me may see it and be ashamed,
Because You, O Lord, helped and comforted me.

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”
They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

So the Lord listened to Hezekiah and healed the people [of their uncleanness].

Lift up your heads, O gates,
And lift them up, ancient doors,
That the King of glory may come in.

Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them one heart to do that which the king and the officials had commanded by the word of the Lord.

The tenth, for the tenth month was Maharai from Netophah of the Zerahites; and in his division were 24,000.

Slaughter the Passover lambs and consecrate yourselves, and prepare for your fellow countrymen to carry out (obey) the word of the Lord given by Moses.”

It happened that as she was riding on her donkey and coming down by [way of] the hidden part of the mountain, that suddenly David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

If a man has no daughter, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers.

and on the other side of the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan the Levites were given, from the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness and Jahzah with their pasture lands,

When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley [of Jezreel], and those who were beyond the Jordan, saw that the other men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled; then the Philistines came and lived in them.

Shallum became the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah became the father of Elishama.

When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, “Look, people are coming down from the mountaintops.” But Zebul said to him, “You are only seeing the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.”

Like a man hired year by year he shall deal with him; he shall not rule over him with harshness in your sight.

To Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded us before he died, saying,

It was square; they made the breastpiece folded double, a [hand’s] span long and a [hand’s] span wide when folded double.

and all the firstborn males from a month old and upward as numbered were 22,273 [273 more than the Levites].

There I will provide for you and sustain you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not become impoverished, for there are still five years of famine to come.”’

Bring your youngest brother to me; then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. Then I will return your [imprisoned] brother [back] to you, and you may trade and do business in the land.’”

They took the Canaanites’ flocks and their herds and their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field;

Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the young man with me and we will get up and go [buy food], so that we may live and not die [of starvation], we as well as you and our little ones.

there shall also be gates of the city, named after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates toward the north: one gate of Reuben, one gate of Judah, one gate of Levi.

When your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’

He said to me, “This is the place where the priests shall boil (cook) the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, so that they do not bring them out into the outer courtyard to transmit holiness to the people.”

The building that was in front of the separate area on the side toward the west was seventy cubits wide; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick all around, and its length was ninety cubits.

Also I scattered them among the nations and they were dispersed throughout the countries. I judged and punished them in accordance with their conduct and their [idolatrous] behavior.

For it is better that it be said to you, “Come up here,”
Than for you to be placed lower in the presence of the prince,
Whom your eyes have seen.

They will take up a dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you and say to you,

‘How you have perished and vanished, O renowned city,
From the seas, O renowned city,
Which was mighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all who lived there!

Therefore, thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have all become dross, therefore, behold, I will gather you [O Israel] into the midst of Jerusalem.

I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations and will disperse them throughout the lands.

“Damascus has become helpless;
She has turned away to flee,
Terror (panic) has seized her;
Anguish and distress have gripped her
Like a woman in childbirth.

When my spirit was overwhelmed and weak within me [wrapped in darkness],
You knew my path.
In the way where I walk
They have hidden a trap for me.

“I trampled the peoples in My anger
And made them drunk with [the cup of] My wrath,
And I spilled their lifeblood on the earth.”

Why do you [deliberately] provoke Me to anger with the works (idols) of your hands, burning sacrifices and incense to [make-believe] gods in the land of Egypt, where you [of your own accord] have come to live [as temporary residents], that you might be cut off and become a curse and a disgrace [an object of taunts] among all the nations of the earth?

It may be that their supplication [for mercy] will come before the Lord, and everyone will turn from his evil way, for great is the anger and the wrath that the Lord has pronounced against this people.”

You [O Lord] make darkness and it becomes night,
In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

Therefore now thus says the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, “Why did you commit this great evil against yourselves [bringing disaster] that will cut off from you man and woman, child and infant, out of Judah, leaving yourselves without a remnant?

Listen carefully, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, utterly destroying them. So will you be rescued?

Therefore I love Your commandments more than gold,
Yes, more than refined gold.

Why should the [Gentile] nations say, “Where is their God?”
Let there be known [without delay] among the nations in our sight [and to this generation],
Your vengeance for the blood of Your servants which has been poured out.

O may Your lovingkindness and graciousness comfort me,
According to Your word (promise) to Your servant.

Give us help against the adversary,
For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

and storehouses for the produce of grain, new wine, and [olive] oil, and stalls for all kinds of cattle, and sheepfolds for the flocks.

So I will sing praise to Your name forever,
Paying my vows day by day.

But those who seek my life to destroy it
Will [be destroyed and] go into the depths of the earth [into the underworld].

He has redeemed my life in peace from the battle that was against me,
For there were many against me.

I will give You thanks in the great congregation;
I will praise You among a mighty people.

“Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah in regard to the words of the book which has been found; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept and obeyed the word of the Lord, to act in accordance with everything that is written in this book.”

The singers: the sons of Asaph, 148.

the sons of Gazzam, the sons of Uzza, the sons of Paseah,

Now David had said, “Surely in vain I have protected and guarded all that this man has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missing of all that belonged to him; and he has repaid me evil for good.

Ramoth and Anem with their pasture lands;

from the tribe of Issachar: Kedesh and Daberath with their pasture lands,

Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their [allotted] territory from the tribe of Ephraim.

Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, each departed to his home.

and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,

These are the [twelve] men whom the Lord commanded [to work with Joshua and Eleazar] to divide the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.

They moved out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.

the golden altar [of incense], the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the [hanging] veil for the doorway of the tent;

Divide the spoil into two [equal] parts between those who were involved in the war, that is, those who went out to battle and all [the rest of] the congregation.

On the center shaft of the lampstand there were four cups shaped like almond blossoms, with calyxes and flowers [one at the top];

On the twelfth day [it was] Ahira the son of Enan, leader [of the tribe] of the sons of Naphtali [who presented his offering];

The leaders brought onyx stones and other stones to be put in settings for the ephod and for the breastpiece,

But Esau said, “I have plenty, my brother; keep what you have for yourself.”

and [you shall offer] one sheep out of every flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel—for a grain offering, for a burnt offering, and for peace offerings to make atonement for [those who brought] them,” says the Lord God.

And He [the Lord] said to me, “Son of man, thus says the Lord God, ‘These are the statutes and regulations for [the use of] the altar on the day that it is built, to offer burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it.

Then he went inside [the inner sanctuary] and measured each side pillar of the doorway, two cubits, and the doorway, six cubits [high], and the width of the doorway, seven cubits.

“They seize their bow and spear;
They are cruel and have no compassion.
They sound like the roaring of the sea;
They ride on horses,
Every man equipped like a man [ready] for the battle
Against you, O Daughter of Babylon.

‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of him who kills you?
But you are [only] a man [made of earth] and not God,
In the hands of those who wound and profane you.

“Also her mercenaries in her army
Are like fattened calves,
For they too have turned back and have fled together;
They did not stand [their ground],
Because the day of their disaster has come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

You will repay them, O Lord,
According to the work of their hands.

Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good; and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by famine until they are all destroyed.

Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke secretly to Gedaliah in Mizpah, saying, “Let me go and kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and not a man will know [who is responsible]. Why should he kill you and cause all the Jews who are gathered near you to be scattered and the remnant of Judah to perish?”

When Jeremiah had come into the vaulted cell in the dungeon and had remained there many days,

But neither he nor his servants nor the people of the land listened to the words of the Lord which He spoke through the prophet Jeremiah.

And concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah you shall say, ‘Thus says the Lord, “You have burned this scroll, saying, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon will certainly come and destroy this land, and will cut off man and beast from it?’”

Your holy cities have become a wilderness,
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.

O Israel, trust and take refuge in the Lord! [Be confident in Him, cling to Him, rely on His word!]
He is their help and their shield.

The wicked will see it and be angered,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away [in despair and death];
The desire of the wicked will perish and come to nothing.

For thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah which are torn down to make a defense against the siege ramps and against the sword,

“This is how they have become to you, those [astrologers and sorcerers] with whom you have labored,
Those who have done business with you from your youth;
Each has wandered in his own way.
There is no one to save you.

In whose hand are the depths of the earth;
The peaks of the mountains are His also.

Then Isaiah the prophet came to King Hezekiah and asked, “What did these men say? From where have they come to you?” And Hezekiah said, “They came to me from a far country, from Babylon.”

Even though princes sit and talk to one another against me,
Your servant meditates on Your statutes.

Make vows to the Lord your God and fulfill them;
Let all who are around Him bring gifts to Him who is to be feared [with awe-inspired reverence].

They in turn gave it to the carpenters and builders to buy quarried stone and timber for couplings (trusses, braces) and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had let go to ruin.

Who stills the roaring of the seas,
The roaring of their waves,
And the tumult of the peoples,

O God, break their teeth in their mouth;
Break out the fangs of the young lions, O Lord.

Your vows are binding upon me, O God;
I will give thank offerings to You.

For You have heard my vows, O God;
You have given me the inheritance of those who fear Your name [with reverence].

He asked life of You,
And You gave it to him,
Long life forever and evermore.

God has spoken in His holiness [in His promises]:
“I will rejoice, I will divide [the land of] Shechem and measure out the Valley of Succoth [west to east].

He also removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the Lord, as well as all the altars which he had built on the mountain of the house of the Lord and in Jerusalem; and he threw them outside the city.

the sons of Bazlith, the sons of Mehida, the sons of Harsha,

Then the whole assembly decided to celebrate [the feast] for another seven days; and they celebrated it another seven days with joy.

the sons of Bakbuk, the sons of Hakupha, the sons of Harhur,

So he set it before them, and they ate and left some, in accordance with the word of the Lord.

the plan for the divisions of the priests and the Levites and for all the work of the service in the house of the Lord and for all the utensils for service in the house of the Lord;

and the four hundred pomegranates for the two networks, two rows of pomegranates for each network to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the tops of the pillars;

Jediael the son of Shimri, and his brother Joha, the Tizite,

Your life will hang in doubt before you; night and day you will be filled with anxiety and have no assurance of living.

Now Solomon was told that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had returned.

Shimei said to the king, “The word (ruling) is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” So Shimei lived in Jerusalem for many days.

The woman came to Saul and saw that he was greatly troubled, and she said to him, “Look, your maidservant has obeyed you, and I have taken my life in my hand and have listened to everything you said to me.

So from that day forward he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

They said to him, “We have come down to bind you, so that we may hand you over to the Philistines.” And Samson said to them, “Swear to me that you will not kill me.”

‘Then on the fourth day [of the Feast of Booths]: ten bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

So David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken, and rescued his two wives.

You shall present the burnt offering as a sweet and soothing aroma to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs one year old;

and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

Moreover, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were afraid, and they will cling to you.

If he consecrates his field during the Year of Jubilee, it shall stand according to your valuation.

These are in addition to the burnt offering of the New Moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to the ordinance for them, as a sweet and soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the Lord.

But if there is a reddish-white infection on the bald head or forehead, it is leprosy breaking out on his bald head or forehead.

Then she got up and left, and removed her veil and put on her widow’s clothing.

and for a swelling, and for a scab, and for a bright spot on the skin—

The son of Aaron who offers the blood of the peace offerings and the fat shall have the right thigh as his portion.

Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.

“Then you shall make [fifteen] bars of acacia wood: five for the boards of one side of the tabernacle,

Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, one-sixth of an ephah with one-third of a hin of oil to sprinkle on the finely-milled flour. This is a perpetual ordinance for a continual grain offering to the Lord.

But they said, “We cannot [leave] until all the flocks are gathered together, and the shepherds roll the stone from the mouth of the well; then we will water the sheep.”

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Tell your brothers, ‘Do this: load your animals and return to the land of Canaan [without delay],

The nave (Holy Place) and the sanctuary (Holy of Holies) each had a double door.

Then the man (angel) brought me to the inner courtyard by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to those same measurements.

It will be the lowliest of the kingdoms, and it will never again exalt itself above the nations; I will diminish the Egyptians so they will never again rule over the nations.

“That it may cause wrath to come up to take vengeance,
I have put her blood [guilt for her children sacrificed to Molech] on the bare rock,
That it may not be covered.”

in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar, [he took captive] 832 persons from Jerusalem;

“Her cities have become an astonishing desolation and an object of horror,
A parched land and a desert,
A land in which no one lives,
And through which no son of man passes.

At the shout, “Babylon has been seized!” the earth quakes, and an outcry is heard among the nations.

Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the Lord be a true and faithful witness against us if we fail to act in accordance with all the things that the Lord your God sends you to tell us.

Indeed, the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have observed the command of their father which he gave them, but this people has not listened to Me.’”’

And in their hearts they put God to the test
By asking for food according to their [selfish] appetite.

“Take another scroll and write on it all the former words that were on the first scroll which Jehoiakim the king of Judah burned.

I [the Lord] have commanded My consecrated ones,
I have even called My great warriors,
My proudly exulting ones [the Medes and the Persians who triumph for My honor]—
To execute My anger.

“I will abundantly bless her provisions;
I will satisfy her poor with bread.

He turns a wilderness into a pool of water
And a dry land into springs of water;

I am sleepless and lie awake [mourning],
I have become like a lonely bird on a housetop.

“What shall I say?
For He has spoken to me, and He Himself has done it;
I will wander aimlessly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

“Give attention to my cry,
For I am brought very low;
Rescue me from my persecutors,
For they are stronger than I.

Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears be attentive
To the voice of my supplications.

He split rocks in the wilderness
And gave them abundant [water to] drink like the ocean depths.

They say, “How does God know?
Is there knowledge [of us] with the Most High?”

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne [will continue] as the sun before Me.

If I had said, “I will say this,” [and expressed my feelings],
I would have betrayed the generation of Your children.

As a crushing of my bones [with a sword], my adversaries taunt me,
While they say continually to me, “Where is your God?”

And I said, “This is my grief,
That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Do not let the floodwater overwhelm me,
Nor the deep waters swallow me up,
Nor the pit [of Sheol] shut its mouth over me.

“I know every bird of the mountains,
And everything that moves in the field is Mine.

Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
Let Your glory and majesty be over all the earth.

For You are the God of my strength [my stronghold—in whom I take refuge]; why have You rejected me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Surely God will shatter the head of His enemies,
The hairy scalp of one who goes on in his guilty ways.

The princes of the people have gathered together as the people of the God of Abraham,
For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is highly exalted.

If the blood avenger pursues him, they shall not hand the offender (manslayer) over to him, because he killed his neighbor unintentionally and without premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.

Guard my soul and rescue me;
Do not let me be ashamed or disappointed,
For I have taken refuge in You.

For You meet him with blessings of good things;
You set a crown of pure gold on his head.

the sons of Jericho, 345;

Therefore, they turned their backs before the men of Israel [and fled] toward the direction of the wilderness, but the battle followed and overtook them. As the [fighting men of the] sons of Benjamin ran among them, the Israelites of the cities came out and destroyed them.

‘Then on the fifth day [of the Feast of Booths]: nine bulls, two rams, and fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish,

Ashan with its pasture lands, and Beth-shemesh with its pasture lands;

So all the people and all Israel understood that day that it had not been the will of the king to put Abner the son of Ner to death.

blue, purple, and scarlet fabric, fine linen, goats’ hair,

Then Abimelech and the company with him advanced forward and stood in the entrance of the city gate; the two other companies attacked all who were in the field and killed them.

We will not return to our homes until every one of the [other] sons of Israel has taken possession of his inheritance.

He made fifty loops in the one curtain [of the first set] and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain which was in the second set; the loops were opposite one another.