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10003

“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

10004

“When you enter into battle in your land against an adversary who is attacking you, sound short blasts on the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God and be delivered from your enemies.

10005

When He opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”

10007

“But the man who is ceremonially clean, is not on a journey, and yet fails to observe the Passover is to be cut off from his people, because he did not present the Lord’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.

10008

When you bring to the Lord the grain offering made in any of these ways, it is to be presented to the priest, and he will take it to the altar.

10009

Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain.

10010

but he could not prevail, and there was no place for them in heaven any longer.

10011

Nicodemus (who had previously come to Him at night) also came, bringing a mixture of about 75 pounds of myrrh and aloes.

10012

Even our livestock must go with us; not a hoof will be left behind because we will take some of them to worship Yahweh our God. We will not know what we will use to worship Yahweh until we get there.”

10013

God will extend Japheth;
he will dwell in the tents of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

10014

Then Abram journeyed by stages to the Negev.

10015

Then Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing. So they took him by the hand and led him into Damascus.

10016

And when he had passed through those areas and exhorted them at length, he came to Greece

10017

“This is an amazing thing,” the man told them. “You don’t know where He is from, yet He opened my eyes!

10018

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

10019

Judas, who betrayed Him, also knew the place, because Jesus often met there with His disciples.

10020

Note this: Some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

10021

“The Lord of Hosts says this: The fast of the fourth month, the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.”

10022

I didn’t eat any rich food, no meat or wine entered my mouth, and I didn’t put any oil on my body until the three weeks were over.

10024

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

10025

The Lord will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.

10026

ס SamekAll who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?

10027

Therefore, may my advice seem good to you my king. Separate yourself from your sins by doing what is right, and from your injustices by showing mercy to the needy. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

10028

One who breaks open the way
will advance before them;
they will break out, pass through the gate,
and leave by it.
Their King will pass through before them,
the Lord as their leader.

10030

You Cushites will also be slain by My sword.

10031

Then a warrior king will arise; he will rule a vast realm and do whatever he wants.

10032

Woe to those who drag wickedness
with cords of deceit
and pull sin along with cart ropes,

10033

Pour out Your wrath on the nations
that don’t recognize You
and on the families
that don’t call on Your name,
for they have consumed Jacob;
they have consumed him and finished him off
and made his homeland desolate.

10034

They will wander through the land, dejected and hungry. When they are famished, they will become enraged, and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God.

10036

For throughout the land
the Lord God of Hosts
is carrying out a destruction that was decreed.

10037

As he came from his mother’s womb, so he will go again, naked as he came; he will take nothing for his efforts that he can carry in his hands.

10038

The righteous will never be shaken,
but the wicked will not remain on the earth.

10039

A psalm of David when he fled from his son Absalom.Lord, how my foes increase!
There are many who attack me.

10040

Man wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.


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10041

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

10042

but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I’ll use force against you.” After that they did not come again on the Sabbath.

10043

That day Haman left full of joy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the King’s Gate, and Mordecai didn’t rise or tremble in fear at his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

10044

I will establish your royal throne, as I promised your father David: You will never fail to have a man ruling in Israel.

10045

Gehazi, the attendant of Elisha the man of God, thought: My master has let this Aramean Naaman off lightly by not accepting from him what he brought. As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.

10046

from the nations that the Lord had told the Israelites about, “Do not intermarry with them, and they must not intermarry with you, because they will turn you away from Me to their gods.” Solomon was deeply attached to these women and loved them.

10047

Hear the petitions of Your servant
and Your people Israel,
which they pray toward this place.
May You hear in Your dwelling place in heaven.
May You hear and forgive.

10048

The following were the men who came to David at Ziklag while he was still banned from the presence of Saul son of Kish. They were among the warriors who helped him in battle.

10049

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”

10050

The settlers spoke to the king of Assyria, saying, “The nations that you have deported and placed in the cities of Samaria do not know the requirements of the God of the land. Therefore He has sent lions among them that are killing them because the people don’t know the requirements of the God of the land.”

10051

Levi’s sons: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

10052

and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

10053

Jesse fathered Eliab, his firstborn; Abinadab was born second, Shimea third,

10054

He restored Israel’s border from Lebo-hamath as far as the Sea of the Arabah, according to the word the Lord, the God of Israel, had spoken through His servant, the prophet Jonah son of Amittai from Gath-hepher.

10055

You have kept what You promised
to Your servant, my father David.
You spoke directly to him
and You fulfilled Your promise by Your power
as it is today.

10056

Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Hezekiah became king in his place.

10057

However, Jonathan had not heard his father make the troops swear the oath. He reached out with the end of the staff he was carrying and dipped it into the honeycomb. When he ate the honey, he had renewed energy.

10058

But some wicked men said, “How can this guy save us?” They despised him and did not bring him a gift, but Saul said nothing.

10059

“Call her,” Elisha said. So Gehazi called her, and she stood in the doorway.

10060

Then they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, for we abandoned the Lord and worshiped the Baals and the Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the power of our enemies, and we will serve You.’

10061

If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him, but if a man sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?” But they would not listen to their father, since the Lord intended to kill them.

10062

The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”

10063

Atonement will be made for you on this day to cleanse you, and you will be clean from all your sins before the Lord.

10064

and the One seated looked like jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that looked like an emerald surrounded the throne.

10065

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

10066

When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess, you are to proclaim the blessing at Mount Gerizim and the curse at Mount Ebal.

10067

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

10068

Then the people cried out to Moses, and he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down.

10069

and sleeps with another, but it is concealed from her husband, and she is undetected, even though she has defiled herself, since there is no witness against her, and she wasn’t caught in the act;

10070

the gecko, the monitor lizard,
the common lizard, the skink,
and the chameleon.

10071

Everything with the breath of the spirit of life in its nostrils—everything on dry land died.

10072

Israel took all the cities and lived in all these Amorite cities, including Heshbon and all its villages.

10073

This is a symbol for the present time, during which gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the worshiper’s conscience.

10074

The Kohathites then set out, transporting the holy objects; the tabernacle was to be set up before their arrival.

10076

So Noah, along with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, came out.

10077

Moses responded, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings to prepare for Yahweh our God.

10078

So we urged Titus that just as he had begun, so he should also complete this grace to you.

10079

The commander came and said to him, “Tell me—are you a Roman citizen?”

“Yes,” he said.

10080

Am I saying this from a human perspective? Doesn’t the law also say the same thing?

10081

But all did not obey the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message?

10082

“Your brother will rise again,” Jesus told her.

10084

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

10085

His disciples answered Him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?”

10087

because he did not know what he should say, since they were terrified.

10088

Take silver and gold, make crowns and place them on the head of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest.

10089

Your Majesty, the Most High God gave sovereignty, greatness, glory, and majesty to your predecessor Nebuchadnezzar.

10090

The Lord has removed your punishment;
He has turned back your enemy.
The King of Israel, Yahweh, is among you;
you need no longer fear harm.

10092

Again He said to me, “You will see even more detestable things, which they are committing.”

10093

ל LamedThey cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine?
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.

10094

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in agony!
Oh, the pain in my heart!
My heart pounds;
I cannot be silent.
For you, my soul,
have heard the sound of the ram’s horn—
the shout of battle.

10095

The prophet who has only a dream should recount the dream, but the one who has My word should speak My word truthfully, for what is straw compared to grain?”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

10096

Why do you crush My people
and grind the faces of the poor?”
This is the declaration
of the Lord God of Hosts.

10098

All are going to the same place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

10099

From Dan the snorting of horses is heard.
At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds,
the whole land quakes.
They come to devour the land and everything in it,
the city and all its residents.

10100

The good person obtains favor from the Lord,
but He condemns a man who schemes.

10102

from those who abandon the right paths
to walk in ways of darkness,

10103

For the choir director: according to Sheminith. A Davidic psalm.Help, Lord, for no faithful one remains;
the loyal have disappeared from the human race.

10104

I will give praise in the great congregation
because of You;
I will fulfill my vows
before those who fear You.

10107

He is carried to the grave,
and someone keeps watch over his tomb.

10108

Mordecai told the messenger to reply to Esther, “Don’t think that you will escape the fate of all the Jews because you are in the king’s palace.

10109

Jeroboam no longer retained his power during Abijah’s reign; ultimately, the Lord struck him and he died.

10110

However, they urged him to the point of embarrassment, so he said, “Send them.” They sent 50 men, who looked for three days but did not find him.

10111

When David returned home to bless his household, Saul’s daughter Michal came out to meet him. “How the king of Israel honored himself today!” she said. “He exposed himself today in the sight of the slave girls of his subjects like a vulgar person would expose himself.”

10112

Judah’s sons: Perez, Hezron, Carmi, Hur, and Shobal.

10113

But Saul replied, “You can’t go fight this Philistine. You’re just a youth, and he’s been a warrior since he was young.”

10114

Nahshon fathered Salma, and Salma fathered Boaz.

10115

Elisha came to Damascus while Ben-hadad king of Aram was sick, and the king was told, “The man of God has come here.”

10116

and the prophet cried out to the man of God who had come from Judah, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you rebelled against the command of the Lord and did not keep the command that the Lord your God commanded you—

10117

Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I’ll make one with you on this condition: that I gouge out everyone’s right eye and humiliate all Israel.”

10118

He replied, “Please speak to King Solomon since he won’t turn you down. Let him give me Abishag the Shunammite as a wife.”

10119

Then Absalom said to his servants, “See, Joab has a field right next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set fire to it!” So Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.

10120

After they had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed out of the well and went and informed King David. They told him, “Get up and immediately ford the river, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

10121

Besides, you only arrived yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I go wherever I can? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the Lord show you kindness and faithfulness.”

10122

The men of Beth-shemesh asked, “Who is able to stand in the presence of this holy Lord God? Who should the ark go to from here?”

10123

For the land you are entering to possess is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated by hand as in a vegetable garden.

10124

But now our appetite is gone; there’s nothing to look at but this manna!”

10125

Saul realized that the Lord was with David and that his daughter Michal loved him,

10126

This is a permanent statute for them. The person who sprinkles the water for impurity is to wash his clothes, and whoever touches the water for impurity will be unclean until evening.

10127

Ruth stayed close to Boaz’s female servants and gathered grain until the barley and the wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law.

10128

If anyone disregards Moses’ law, he dies without mercy, based on the testimony of two or three witnesses.

10129

He had 30 sons who rode on 30 donkeys. They had 30 towns in Gilead, which are called Jair’s Villages to this day.

10130

Next the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls. Sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering to the Lord, to make atonement for the Levites.

10131

Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and bring the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.

10132

Then another horse went out, a fiery red one, and its horseman was empowered to take peace from the earth, so that people would slaughter one another. And a large sword was given to him.

10133

Gamaliel son of Pedahzur was over the division of the tribe of Manasseh,

10134

When the priest examines the raw flesh, he must pronounce him unclean. Raw flesh is unclean; it is a skin disease.

10135

but the Lord told him, “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail.” So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.

10136

The priest will remove the memorial portion from the grain offering and burn it on the altar, a fire offering of a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

10137

Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”

10139

He began to speak boldly in the synagogue. After Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him home and explained the way of God to him more accurately.

10140

The waters surged and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

10141

But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”

He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”

10142

If Cain is to be avenged seven times over,
then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!

10143

Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,

10144

“‘No, Lord!’ I said. ‘For nothing common or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

10145

They improvise songs to the sound of the harp
and invent their own musical instruments like David.

10146

Don’t we have the right to eat and drink?

10148

When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “Look, He’s calling for Elijah!”

10149

Therefore, He will abandon them until the time
when she who is in labor has given birth;
then the rest of His brothers will return
to the people of Israel.

10150

Solomon fathered Rehoboam,
Rehoboam fathered Abijah,
Abijah fathered Asa,

10151

I looked up and saw a man with a measuring line in his hand.

10152

On that day I will set out to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

10153

So the administrators and satraps went together to the king and said to him, “May King Darius live forever.

10155

For the trampling boot of battle
and the bloodied garments of war
will be burned as fuel for the fire.

10157

After some years they will form an alliance, and the daughter of the king of the South will go to the king of the North to seal the agreement. She will not retain power, and his strength will not endure. She will be given up, together with her entourage, her father, and the one who supported her during those times.

10158

But as soon as he is established, his kingdom will be broken up and divided to the four winds of heaven, but not to his descendants; it will not be the same kingdom that he ruled, because his kingdom will be uprooted and will go to others besides them.

10160

The king said in reply to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to tell me the dream I had and its interpretation?”

10161

The time has come; the day has arrived.
Let the buyer not rejoice
and the seller not mourn,
for wrath is on all her masses.

10162

They will look toward the earth and see only distress, darkness, and the gloom of affliction, and they will be driven into thick darkness.

10163

The wise man has eyes in his head,
but the fool walks in darkness.


Yet I also knew that one fate comes to them both.

10164

Don’t accuse anyone without cause,
when he has done you no harm.

10165

W Hurry to me, my love,
and be like a gazelle
or a young stag
on the mountains of spices.

10166

It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty.

10167

honey, curds, sheep, and cheese from the herd for David and the people with him to eat. They had reasoned, “The people must be hungry, exhausted, and thirsty in the desert.”

10168

When he fills his stomach,
God will send His burning anger against him,
raining it down on him while he is eating.

10169

Even now my witness is in heaven,
and my advocate is in the heights!

10170

he will dwell in ruined cities,
in abandoned houses destined to become piles of rubble.

10171

These are Solomon’s foundations for building God’s temple: the length was 90 feet, and the width 30 feet.

10172

He set up the pillars at the portico of the sanctuary: he set up the right pillar and named it Jachin; then he set up the left pillar and named it Boaz.

10173

However, in a particular matter may the Lord pardon your servant: When my master, the king of Aram, goes into the temple of Rimmon to worship and I, as his right-hand man, bow in the temple of Rimmon—when I bow in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord pardon your servant in this matter.”

10174

If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy,
because they have sinned against You,
and they return to You and praise Your name,
and they pray and plead for mercy
before You in this temple,

10175

“After that you will come to the Hill of God where there are Philistine garrisons. When you arrive at the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place prophesying. They will be preceded by harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres.

10176

Shemida’s sons: Ahian, Shechem, Likhi, and Aniam.

10177

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, but not like his father and mother, for he removed the sacred pillar of Baal his father had made.

10178

Joab went to the king and told him. So David summoned Absalom, who came to the king and bowed down with his face to the ground before him. Then the king kissed Absalom.

10179

Formerly in Israel, a man who was going to inquire of God would say, “Come, let’s go to the seer,” for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.

10180

They said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not follow your example. Therefore, appoint a king to judge us the same as all the other nations have.”

10181

Once again, Abner warned Asahel, “Stop chasing me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How could I ever look your brother Joab in the face?”

10182

Abner said to him, “Turn to your right or left, seize one of the young soldiers, and take whatever you can get from him.” But Asahel would not stop chasing him.

10183

“At this, the slave fell facedown before him and said, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you everything!’

10184

One day Eli, whose eyesight was failing, was lying in his room.

10185

Please do not leave this place until I return to You. Let me bring my gift and set it before You.”

And He said, “I will stay until you return.”

10187

Even to the day of his death, Samuel never again visited Saul. Samuel mourned for Saul, and the Lord regretted He had made Saul king over Israel.

10188

You will eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice with your household in everything you do, because the Lord your God has blessed you.

10189

It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which there was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

10190

After this, Joshua struck them down and executed them. He hung their bodies on five trees and they were there until evening.

10191

No, my sons, the report I hear from the Lord’s people is not good.

10192

Naomi said, “My daughter, wait until you find out how things go, for he won’t rest unless he resolves this today.”

10193

I raise My hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,

10196

They were also regarded as Rephaim, like the Anakim, though the Moabites called them Emim.

10197

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

10198

No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

10199

They all became encouraged and took food themselves.

10200

“When someone sins in any of these ways:

If he has seen, heard, or known about something he has witnessed, and did not respond to a public call to testify, he is responsible for his sin.

10201

But a voice answered from heaven a second time, ‘What God has made clean, you must not call common.’

10202

Two women will be grinding grain together: One will be taken and the other left.

10203

When his disciples heard about it, they came and removed his corpse and placed it in a tomb.

10204

After receiving the piece of bread, he went out immediately. And it was night.

10205

Having said this, He showed them His hands and feet.

10206

For the Lord God says:

The city that marches out a thousand strong
will have only a hundred left,
and the one that marches out a hundred strong
will have only ten left in the house of Israel.

10207

Desolation, decimation, devastation!
Hearts melt,
knees tremble,
loins shake,
every face grows pale!

10208

When they made every firstborn pass through the fire, I defiled them through their gifts in order to devastate them so they would know that I am Yahweh.

10209

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

10210

But if a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

10211

The Lord also has a dispute with Judah.
He is about to punish Jacob according to his ways;
He will repay him based on his actions.

10212

ו VavHe ground my teeth on gravel
and made me cower in the dust.

10213

However, as a woman may betray her lover,
so you have betrayed Me, house of Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

10214

The word of the Lord came to me:

10216

He said to me, “Son of man, stand up on your feet and I will speak with you.”

10217

“As for the prophet, priest, or people who say, ‘The burden of the Lord,’ I will punish that man and his household.

10218

On that day people will throw
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.

10219

I will scatter them among the nations that they and their fathers have not known. I will send a sword after them until I have finished them off.”

10220

and on that day you will say:
“Give thanks to Yahweh; proclaim His name!
Celebrate His works among the peoples.
Declare that His name is exalted.

10221

For the choir director. Davidic.I have taken refuge in the Lord.
How can you say to me,
“Escape to the mountain like a bird!

10222

So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.

10223

M You who dwell in the gardens—
companions are listening for your voice—
let me hear you!

10224

He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes
and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

10225

All my enemies will be ashamed and shake with terror;
they will turn back and suddenly be disgraced.

10226

The young woman pleased him and gained his favor so that he accelerated the process of the beauty treatments and the special diet that she received. He assigned seven hand-picked female servants to her from the palace and transferred her and her servants to the harem’s best quarters.

10227

Should your babbling put others to silence,
so that you can keep on ridiculing
with no one to humiliate you?

10228

Let it now be known to the king that if that city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, they will not pay tribute, duty, or land tax, and the royal revenue will suffer.

10229

Solomon took a census of all the foreign men in the land of Israel, after the census that his father David had conducted, and the total was 153,600.

10230

The priests brought the ark of the Lord’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the temple, to the most holy place beneath the wings of the cherubim.

10231

From the Hebronites: Jerijah was the head of the Hebronites, according to the genealogical records of his ancestors. A search was made in the fortieth year of David’s reign and strong, capable men were found among them at Jazer in Gilead.

10232

The capitals on top of the pillars had gratings of latticework, wreaths made of chainwork—seven for the first capital and seven for the second.

10233

God—His way is perfect;
the word of the Lord is pure.
He is a shield to all who take refuge in Him.

10234

This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; he can’t deliver you from my hand.

10235

He said to the redeemer, “Naomi, who has returned from the land of Moab, is selling a piece of land that belonged to our brother Elimelech.

10236

The sons of Reuben and Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh had 44,760 warriors who could serve in the army—men who carried shield and sword, drew the bow, and were trained for war.

10237

During his reign, Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt marched up to help the king of Assyria at the Euphrates River. King Josiah went to confront him, and at Megiddo when Neco saw him he killed him.

10238

his son Jehoram,
his son Ahaziah, his son Joash,

10239

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

10240

Each Israelite took his position around the camp, and the entire Midianite army fled, and cried out as they ran.

10241

Baana son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

10242

On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:

10243

and he became even more afraid of David. As a result, Saul was David’s enemy from then on.

10244

They said, “Does the Lord speak only through Moses? Does He not also speak through us?” And the Lord heard it.

10245

They threw him out of the city and began to stone him. And the witnesses laid their robes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

10246

You are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your fellowship sacrifices and on your joyous occasions, your appointed festivals, and the beginning of each of your months. They will serve as a reminder for you before your God: I am Yahweh your God.”

10247

Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,

10248

“Command the Israelites to send away anyone from the camp who is afflicted with a skin disease, anyone who has a bodily discharge, or anyone who is defiled because of a corpse.

10249

the king of Tappuahone the king of Hepher one

10250

Don’t be terrified of them, for the Lord your God, a great and awesome God, is among you.

10251

“At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

10252

I testify that, on their own, according to their ability and beyond their ability,

10253

“No grain offering that you present to the Lord is to be made with yeast, for you are not to burn any yeast or honey as a fire offering to the Lord.

10256

and the two kidneys with the fat on them at the loins. He will also remove the fatty lobe of the liver with the kidneys,

10257

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron:

10258

None of this happened without an oath. For others became priests without an oath,

10259

But if there is no interpreter, that person should keep silent in the church and speak to himself and to God.

10260

Now consider how great this man was—even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the plunder to him!

10261

I have become a fool; you forced it on me. I should have been endorsed by you, since I am not in any way inferior to the “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

10262

Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks.”

10263

Obal, Abimael, Sheba,

10265

He said this to signify what kind of death He was about to die.

10266

The disciples said to Him, “Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place to fill such a crowd?”

10267

for the Lord will execute His sentence
completely and decisively on the earth.

10268

I was there when He established the heavens,
when He laid out the horizon on the surface of the ocean,

10269

You know the way to where I am going.”

10270

פ PeAll your enemies
open their mouths against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth,
saying, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”

10271

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

10273

ט TetThose slain by the sword are better off
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.

10274

that tree is you, the king. For you have become great and strong: your greatness has grown and even reaches the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.

10276

Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this?

10277

Should this stream of words go unanswered
and such a talker be acquitted?

10278

I will say to God:
“Do not declare me guilty!
Let me know why You prosecute me.

10279

I would give Him an account of all my steps;
I would approach Him like a prince.

10280

If I have sinned, what have I done to You,
Watcher of mankind?
Why have You made me Your target,
so that I have become a burden to You?

10281

I cannot relax or be still;
I have no rest, for trouble comes.

10282

He said:

10283

Then I instructed the Levites to purify themselves and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy.

Remember me for this also, my God, and look on me with compassion in keeping with Your abundant, faithful love.

10284

She got up in the middle of the night and took my son from my side while your servant was asleep. She laid him at her breast, and she put her dead son in my arms.

10286

She bore sons to him: Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.

10287

So David gave orders to the young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took Ish-bosheth’s head and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

10288

Then Boaz took 10 men of the town’s elders and said, “Sit here.” And they sat down.

10289

Now, Lord God of Israel, please confirm
what You promised to Your servant David.

10290

In earlier times Phinehas son of Eleazar had been their leader, and the Lord was with him.

10291

When the king of Moab saw that the battle was too fierce for him, he took 700 swordsmen with him to try to break through to the king of Edom, but they could not do it.

10292

In the twelfth year of Israel’s King Joram son of Ahab, Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.

10293

As the cloud moved away from the tent, Miriam’s skin suddenly became diseased, as white as snow. When Aaron turned toward her, he saw that she was diseased

10294

The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?”

The Cushite replied, “May what has become of the young man happen to the enemies of my lord the king and to all who rise up against you with evil intent.”

10295

However, the people were sacrificing on the high places, because until that time a temple for the Lord’s name had not been built.

10296

“Keep an eye on Shimei son of Gera, the Benjaminite from Bahurim who is with you. He uttered malicious curses against me the day I went to Mahanaim. But he came down to meet me at the Jordan River, and I swore to him by the Lord: ‘I will never kill you with the sword.’

10297

Samuel said to all the people, “Do you see the one the Lord has chosen? There is no one like him among the entire population.”

And all the people shouted, “Long live the king!”

10298

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.

10299

and a curse, if you do not obey the commands of the Lord your God and you turn aside from the path I command you today by following other gods you have not known.

10300

Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph’s hand, clothed him with fine linen garments, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

10301

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed because Gibeon was a large city like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were warriors.

10302

If he presents it for thanksgiving, in addition to the thanksgiving sacrifice, he is to present unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

10303

or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,

10304

Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you may eat the meat.

10305

But among the ones that chew the cud or have divided hooves you are not to eat these:

the camel, though it chews the cud,
does not have divided hooves—it is unclean for you;

10306

All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

10307

but He brought us from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that He swore to our fathers.

10308

As the Lord commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

10309

Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put My hand on Egypt and bring the divisions of My people the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

10310

And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down!”

10311

and Abidan son of Gideoni was over the division of the tribe of Benjamin.

10313

But God raised Him from the dead,

10317

Demetrius has a good testimony from everyone, and from the truth itself. And we also testify for him, and you know that our testimony is true.

10318

They led Jesus away to the high priest, and all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes convened.

10319

When the brothers found out, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

10320

Again Jesus placed His hands on the man’s eyes, and he saw distinctly. He was cured and could see everything clearly.

10322

Then his disciples came, removed the corpse, buried it, and went and reported to Jesus.

10323

How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.

10324

And He strictly warned them to tell no one about Him.

10325

They will follow the Lord;
He will roar like a lion.
When He roars,
His children will come trembling from the west.

10326

Because of this, won’t the land quake
and all who dwell in it mourn?
All of it will rise like the Nile;
it will surge and then subside
like the Nile in Egypt.

10327

But the court will convene, and his dominion will be taken away, to be completely destroyed forever.

10328

When the satraps, prefects, governors, and the king’s advisers gathered around, they saw that the fire had no effect on the bodies of these men: not a hair of their heads was singed, their robes were unaffected, and there was no smell of fire on them.

10329

In the end it bites like a snake
and stings like a viper.

10330

headdresses, ankle jewelry, sashes, perfume bottles, amulets,

10331

There were also four tables of cut stone for the burnt offering, each 31½ inches long, 31½ inches wide, and 21 inches high. The utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices were placed on them.

10333

On that day the Lord will strip their finery: ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents,

10334

even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, as I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“they could not deliver their son or daughter. They would deliver only themselves by their righteousness.

10335

In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle came:

10336

If you have been foolish by exalting yourself
or if you’ve been scheming,
put your hand over your mouth.

10337

Both small and great are there,
and the slave is set free from his master.

10338

He rushes headlong at Him
with his thick, studded shields.

10339

The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon’s fame, so she came to test Solomon with difficult questions at Jerusalem with a very large entourage, with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke with him about everything that was on her mind.

10340

Ater’s descendants: of Hezekiah98

10341

Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,

10342

This is the reply they gave us:

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.

10343

When he finished offering the burnt offering, Jehu said to the guards and officers, “Go in and kill them. Don’t let anyone out.” So they struck them down with the sword. Then the guards and officers threw the bodies out and went into the inner room of the temple of Baal.

10344

Now Absalom commanded his young men, “Watch Amnon until he is in a good mood from the wine. When I order you to strike Amnon, then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Am I not the one who has commanded you? Be strong and courageous!”

10345

Since the bronze altar that Solomon had made could not accommodate the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the fat of the fellowship offerings, Solomon first consecrated the middle of the courtyard that was in front of the Lord’s temple and then offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the fellowship offerings there.

10346

so that Your eyes watch over this temple
day and night,
toward the place where You said
You would put Your name;
and so that You may hear the prayer
Your servant prays toward this place.

10347

but the four chief gatekeepers, who were Levites, were entrusted with the rooms and the treasuries of God’s temple.

10348

So he picked him up and took him to his mother. The child sat on her lap until noon and then died.

10349

The temple that King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

10350

All Israel was registered in the genealogies that are written in the Book of the Kings of Israel. But Judah was exiled to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness.

10351

When a man sins against his neighbor
and is forced to take an oath,
and he comes to take an oath
before Your altar in this temple,

10352

Kenaz’s sons: Othniel and Seraiah.
Othniel’s sons: Hathath and Meonothai.

10353

When Saul heard these words, the Spirit of God suddenly took control of him, and his anger burned furiously.

10354

When all the kings who were Hadadezer’s subjects saw that they had been defeated by Israel, they made peace with Israel and became their subjects. After this, the Arameans were afraid to ever help the Ammonites again.

10355

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah;
Issachar was with Barak.
They set out at his heels in the valley.
There was great searching of heart
among the clans of Reuben.

10356

At that time Joshua imposed this curse:

The man who undertakes
the rebuilding of this city, Jericho,
is cursed before the Lord.
He will lay its foundation
at the cost of his firstborn;
he will set up its gates
at the cost of his youngest.

10357

He said to them, “Why are you doing these things? I have heard about your evil actions from all these people.

10358

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the carved images of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

10360

The man’s name was Elimelech, and his wife’s name was Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah. They entered the land of Moab and settled there.

10361

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Move on, for this is the day the Lord has handed Sisera over to you. Hasn’t the Lord gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.

10362

Joshua got up early the next morning. He had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

10363

The priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

10364

It was reported to Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor.

10365

Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

10366

any creature that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the waters under the earth.

10367

After the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua:

10368

and so that you may tell your son and grandson how severely I dealt with the Egyptians and performed miraculous signs among them, and you will know that I am Yahweh.”

10369

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

10370

“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to summon the community and have the camps set out.

10371

Finally, he sent his son to them. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.

10372

The military divisions of the camp of Dan with their banner set out, serving as rear guard for all the camps, and Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai was over Dan’s division.

10373

Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists attempted to pronounce the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I command you by the Jesus that Paul preaches!”

10374

So that place was named Taberah, because the Lord’s fire had blazed among them.

10375

So Moses said, “This is what Yahweh says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt,

10376

The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners so that no one could swim away and escape.

10377

Though the king was deeply distressed, because of his oaths and the guests he did not want to refuse her.

10378

The magicians tried to produce gnats using their occult practices, but they could not. The gnats remained on man and beast.

10379

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

10380

When the crowds saw this, they were awestruck and gave glory to God who had given such authority to men.

10381

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.

10382

“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”

10383

For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.

10384

Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.

10385

However, I did give them this command: Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.

10387

So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “Where are they taking the basket?”

10388

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Consider, and summon the women who mourn;
send for the skillful women.

10389

Then King Darius wrote to those of every people, nation, and language who live in all the earth: “May your prosperity abound.

10390

listening closely to wisdom
and directing your heart to understanding;

10391

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals”?
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,

10392

Why are we just sitting here?
Gather together; let us enter the fortified cities
and perish there,
for the Lord our God has destroyed us.
He has given us poisoned water to drink,
because we have sinned against the Lord.

10393

So there was a great famine in Samaria, and they continued the siege against it until a donkey’s head sold for 80 silver shekels, and a cup of dove’s dung sold for five silver shekels.

10394

Wisdom resides in the heart of the discerning;
she is known even among fools.

10395

they approached Zerubbabel and the leaders of the families and said to them, “Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.”

10396

He is the son of a woman from the daughters of Dan. His father is a man of Tyre. He knows how to work with gold, silver, bronze, iron, stone, and wood, with purple, blue, crimson yarn, and fine linen. He knows how to do all kinds of engraving and to execute any design that may be given him. I have sent him to be with your craftsmen and the craftsmen of my lord, your father David.

10397

Let’s go early to the vineyards;
let’s see if the vine has budded,
if the blossom has opened,
if the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.

10398

Will You frighten a wind-driven leaf?
Will You chase after dry straw?

10399

Then the king told Haman, “The money and people are given to you to do with as you see fit.”

10400

Now the leaders of the people stayed in Jerusalem, and the rest of the people cast lots for one out of ten to come and live in Jerusalem, the holy city, while the other nine-tenths remained in their towns.

10401

Since we have taken an oath of loyalty to the king, and it is not right for us to witness his dishonor, we have sent to inform the king

10402

He made a bronze altar 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 15 feet high.

10403

He made two cherubim of sculptured work, for the most holy place, and he overlaid them with gold.

10404

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

10405

They lived in Gilead, in Bashan and its towns, and throughout the pasturelands of Sharon.

10406

Now the king of Aram had ordered his 32 chariot commanders, “Do not fight with anyone at all except the king of Israel.”

10407

Eshton fathered Beth-rapha, Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Irnahash. These were the men of Recah.

10408

Lotan’s sons: Hori and Homam. Timna was Lotan’s sister.

10409

Then the Lord said to Solomon, “Since you have done this and did not keep My covenant and My statutes, which I commanded you, I will tear the kingdom away from you and give it to your servant.

10410

The temple, that is, the sanctuary in front of the most holy place, was 60 feet long.

10411

When Samuel turned to go, Saul grabbed the hem of his robe, and it tore.

10412

they rushed to the plunder, took sheep, cattle, and calves, slaughtered them on the ground, and ate meat with the blood still in it.

10413

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell before the ark of the Lord with his face to the ground until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

10414

And with Solomon, the king has sent Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have had him ride on the king’s mule.

10415

He had a son named Saul, an impressive young man. There was no one more impressive among the Israelites than he. He stood a head taller than anyone else.

10416

Barzillai the Gileadite had come down from Rogelim and accompanied the king to the Jordan River to see him off at the Jordan.

10417

Samuel proclaimed to the people the rights of kingship. He wrote them on a scroll, which he placed in the presence of the Lord. Then Samuel sent all the people away, each to his home.

10418

She named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” referring to the capture of the ark of God and to the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband.

10419

they told him, “Please say Shibboleth.” If he said, “Sibboleth,” because he could not pronounce it correctly, they seized him and killed him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 from Ephraim died.

10420

She picked up the grain and went into the town, where her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned. Then she brought out what she had left over from her meal and gave it to her.

10421

The Lord threw them into confusion before Israel. He defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased them through the ascent of Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

10422

But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.

10423

But if she doesn’t have sufficient means for a sheep, she may take two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement on her behalf, and she will be clean.”

10424

Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife: “May the Lord give you children by this woman in place of the one she has given to the Lord.” Then they would go home.

10425

“When her days of purification are complete, whether for a son or daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting a year-old male lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.

10426

Hezron fathered Ram,
who fathered Amminadab.

10427

the hyrax, though it chews the cud,
does not have hooves—it is unclean for you;

10428

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair hang loose and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the Lord will become angry with the whole community. However, your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn over that tragedy when the Lord sent the fire.

10429

He had the clans of Judah come forward, and the Zerahite clan was selected. He had the Zerahite clan come forward by heads of families, and Zabdi was selected.

10430

It must not be used for ordinary anointing on a person’s body, and you must not make anything like it using its formula. It is holy, and it must be holy to you.

10431

The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it.”

10433

I will even pour out My Spirit
on the male and female slaves in those days.

10434

Then He came and found them sleeping. “Simon, are you sleeping?” He asked Peter. “Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?

10435

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

10436

The Lord said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh when you see him going out to the water. Tell him: This is what Yahweh says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

10437

The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.”

“But I was born a citizen,” Paul said.

10438

When it was decided that we were to sail to Italy, they handed over Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion named Julius, of the Imperial Regiment.

10439

When he arrived in Jerusalem, he tried to associate with the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, since they did not believe he was a disciple.

10440

Do not plot evil in your hearts against your neighbor, and do not love perjury, for I hate all this”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

10441

Indeed, they sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.

10442

The archer will not stand his ground,
the one who is swift of foot
will not save himself,
and the one riding a horse will not save his life.

10443

It was annulled on that day, and so the afflicted of the flock who were watching me knew that it was the word of the Lord.

10444

The earth will respond to the grain,
the new wine, and the oil,
and they will respond to Jezreel.

10445

Then your survivors will remember Me among the nations where they are taken captive, how I was crushed by their promiscuous hearts that turned away from Me and by their eyes that lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil things they did, their detestable practices of every kind.

10446

ק QofArise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.

10447

When Ephraim saw his sickness
and Judah his wound,
Ephraim went to Assyria
and sent a delegation to the great king.
But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

10448

Nebuchadnezzar then approached the door of the furnace of blazing fire and called: “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you servants of the Most High God—come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the fire.

10449

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom in order to burn their sons and daughters in the fire, a thing I did not command; I never entertained the thought.

10450

Then all the trees of the field will know
that I am Yahweh.
I bring down the tall tree,
and make the low tree tall.
I cause the green tree to wither
and make the withered tree thrive.
I, Yahweh, have spoken
and I will do it.

10451

So I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and there was a written scroll in it.

10452

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts within you?

10453

“When they arrive there, they will remove all its detestable things and practices from it.

10454

Therefore the Lord’s anger burns against His people.
He raised His hand against them and struck them;
the mountains quaked,
and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.
In all this, His anger is not removed,
and His hand is still raised to strike.

10455

Sing to Yahweh, for He has done glorious things.
Let this be known throughout the earth.

10456

The Lord will not let the righteous go hungry,
but He denies the wicked what they crave.

10457

Break the arm of the wicked and evil person;
call his wickedness into account
until nothing remains of it.

10458

or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver.

10460

The lion may roar and the fierce lion growl,
but the fangs of young lions are broken.

10461

The captives are completely at ease;
they do not hear the voice of their oppressor.

10462

The whole community that had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. They had not celebrated like this from the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day. And there was tremendous joy.

10463

Those whose seals were on the document were:

Nehemiah the governor, son of Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,

10464

Four men with a skin disease were at the entrance to the gate. They said to each other, “Why just sit here until we die?

10465

Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horsemen and stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

10466

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedar as abundant as sycamore in the Judean foothills.

10467

The rest of the events of Abijah’s reign, along with his ways and his sayings, are written in the Writing of the Prophet Iddo.

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10468

Caleb son of Hezron had children by his wife Azubah and by Jerioth. These were Azubah’s sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon.

10469

On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, in the year Evil-merodach became king of Babylon, he pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.

10470

Amasa’s mother was Abigail, and his father was Jether the Ishmaelite.

10471

He made the pillars with two encircling rows of pomegranates on the one grating to cover the capital on top; he did the same for the second capital.

10472

When he shaved his head—he shaved it every year because his hair got so heavy for him that he had to shave it off—he would weigh the hair from his head and it would be five pounds according to the royal standard.

10473

Then Hadad died.

Edom’s chiefs: Timna, Alvah, Jetheth,

10475

But when you saw that Nahash king of the Ammonites was coming against you, you said to me, ‘No, we must have a king rule over us’—even though the Lord your God is your king.

10476

However, the king added, “He may return to his house, but he may not see my face.” So Absalom returned to his house, but he did not see the king.

10477

Then, one of the troops said, “Your father made the troops solemnly swear, ‘The man who eats food today is cursed,’ and the troops are exhausted.”

10478

Sons were born to David in Hebron:

his firstborn was Amnon,
by Ahinoam the Jezreelite;

10479

On that very night the Lord said to him, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old. Then tear down the altar of Baal that belongs to your father and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

10480

It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must practice self-denial; it is a permanent statute.

10481

On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

10482

from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

10483

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will quickly perish from the land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not live long there, but you will certainly be destroyed.

10484

The Israelites struck down the following kings of the land and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan to the east and from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the Arabah eastward:

10485

At sunset Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave where they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

10486

If you defile the land, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.

10487

When you cross the Jordan and live in the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you live in security,

10488

You are blessed when people hate you,
when they exclude you, insult you,
and slander your name as evil
because of the Son of Man.

10489

and whoever carries any of their carcasses must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening.

10490

The tribe of Issachar will camp next to it. The leader of the Issacharites is Nethanel son of Zuar.

10491

No one will be able to stand against you; the Lord your God will put fear and dread of you in all the land where you set foot, as He has promised you.

10492

The Lord instructed Moses:

10493

On the eighth day he is to bring these things for his cleansing to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting before the Lord.

10494

Then he slaughtered the burnt offering. Aaron’s sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.

10495

But the rest of the grain offering will belong to Aaron and his sons; it is the holiest part of the fire offerings to the Lord.

10497

The cherubim of glory were above it overshadowing the mercy seat. It is not possible to speak about these things in detail right now.

10498

When they had gone through the whole island as far as Paphos, they came across a sorcerer, a Jewish false prophet named Bar-Jesus.

10499

“What do You have to do with us, Jesus—Nazarene? Have You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!”

10500

Then Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” And they took stones and made a mound, then ate there by the mound.

10501

Some in the mob were shouting one thing and some another. Since he was not able to get reliable information because of the uproar, he ordered him to be taken into the barracks.

10502

“As you have said,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”

10503

Then some shepherds arrived and drove them away, but Moses came to their rescue and watered their flock.

10505

Pharaoh responded, “I will let you go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness, but don’t go very far. Make an appeal for me.”

10506

Then one of His disciples, Judas Iscariot (who was about to betray Him), said,

10507

Their settlements extended from Mesha to Sephar, the eastern hill country.

10509

After he read it, he asked what province he was from. So when he learned he was from Cilicia,

10510

Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced. But from this day on I will bless you.”

10511

“Consider carefully from this day forward; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; consider it carefully.

10512

This is the self-assured city
that lives in security,
that thinks to herself:
I exist, and there is no one else.
What a desolation she has become,
a place for wild animals to lie down!
Everyone who passes by her
jeers and shakes his fist.

10513

Then the word of the Lord of Hosts came to me:

10514

Put the horn to your mouth!
One like an eagle comes
against the house of the Lord,
because they transgress My covenant
and rebel against My law.

10515

TEKEL means that you have been weighed in the balance and found deficient.

10516

Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
my refuge in a time of distress,
the nations will come to You
from the ends of the earth, and they will say,
“Our fathers inherited only lies,
worthless idols of no benefit at all.”

10517

Jacob fled to the land of Aram.
Israel worked to earn a wife;
he tended flocks for a wife.

10518

I was left alone, looking at this great vision. No strength was left in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.

10519

My people are bent on turning from Me.
Though they call to Him on high,
He will not exalt them at all.

10520

So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates, and all the rulers of the provinces assembled for the dedication of the statue the king had set up. Then they stood before the statue Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

10521

Give them, Lord
What should You give?
Give them a womb that miscarries
and breasts that are dry!

10524

If you have raced with runners
and they have worn you out,
how can you compete with horses?
If you stumble in a peaceful land,
what will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?

10525

—came up from Babylon. He was a scribe skilled in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted him everything he requested because the hand of Yahweh his God was on him.

10526

You have said, “My teaching is sound,
and I am pure in Your sight.”

10527

Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle of Mordecai who had adopted her as his own daughter. When her turn came to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, suggested. Esther won approval in the sight of everyone who saw her.

10528

Surely He knows which people are worthless.
If He sees iniquity, will He not take note of it?

10529

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

10530

When Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he abandoned the law of the Lord—he and all Israel with him.

10531

After I made an inspection, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the great and awe-inspiring Lord, and fight for your countrymen, your sons and daughters, your wives and homes.”

10532

Hariph, Anathoth, Nebai,

10533

The throne had six steps; there was a footstool covered in gold for the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

10534

Then Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced over how God had prepared the people, for it had come about suddenly.

10535

Then they will say: Because they abandoned the Lord God of their ancestors who brought them out of the land of Egypt. They clung to other gods and worshiped and served them. Because of this, He brought all this ruin on them.

10536

Then Jehu drew his bow and shot Joram between the shoulders. The arrow went through his heart, and he slumped down in his chariot.

10537

The sons of half the tribe of Manasseh settled in the land from Bashan to Baal-hermon (that is, Senir or Mount Hermon); they were numerous.

10538

When the Philistine looked and saw David, he despised him because he was just a youth, healthy and handsome.

10539

Meonothai fathered Ophrah,
and Seraiah fathered Joab, the ancestor of those in the Valley of Craftsmen, for they were craftsmen.

10540

When Hadad died, Samlah from Masrekah ruled in his place.

10541

When Joram saw Jehu he asked, “Do you come in peace, Jehu?”

He answered, “What peace can there be as long as there is so much prostitution and witchcraft from your mother Jezebel?”

10542

Then she let him fall asleep on her lap and called a man to shave off the seven braids on his head. In this way, she made him helpless, and his strength left him.

10543

Jeroboam rested with his fathers, the kings of Israel. His son Zechariah became king in his place.

10544

He also defeated the Moabites, and after making them lie down on the ground, he measured them off with a cord. He measured every two cord lengths of those to be put to death and one length of those to be kept alive. So the Moabites became David’s subjects and brought tribute.

10545

However, the Lord had not said He would blot out the name of Israel under heaven, so He delivered them by the hand of Jeroboam son of Jehoash.

10546

So he prepared a great feast for them. When they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. The Aramean raiders did not come into Israel’s land again.

10547

So he said to him, “Go in peace.”

After Naaman had traveled a short distance from Elisha,

10548

He walked in the way of the house of Ahab and did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law to Ahab’s family.

10549

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue. The king’s traders bought them from Kue at the going price.

10550

Here I am. Bring charges against me before the Lord and His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I wronged or mistreated? From whose hand have I taken a bribe to overlook something? I will return it to you.”

10551

When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road watching, because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.

10552

Her husband followed her, weeping all the way to Bahurim. Abner said to him, “Go back.” So he went back.

10553

Saul did not say anything that day because he thought, “Something unexpected has happened; he must be ceremonially unclean—yes, that’s it, he is unclean.”

10554

So the Lord sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel. He rescued you from the power of the enemies around you, and you lived securely.

10555

So the people sent men to Shiloh to bring back the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.

10556

but Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. By sunset, they had gone as far as the hill of Ammah, which is opposite Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

10557

The Philistines lined up in battle formation against Israel, and as the battle intensified, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about 4,000 men on the battlefield.

10558

Everyone who saw it said, “Nothing like this has ever happened or has been seen since the day the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt to this day. Think it over, discuss it, and speak up!”

10559

When Phinehas the priest and the community leaders, the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him, heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.

10560

Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Be strong and courageous, for the Lord will do this to all the enemies you fight.”

10561

in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon—the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon. Their land also included the Jordan and its territory as far as the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east side of the Jordan.

10562

He wiped out every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, from mankind to livestock, to creatures that crawl, to the birds of the sky, and they were wiped off the earth. Only Noah was left, and those that were with him in the ark.

10564

At that time Joshua turned back, captured Hazor, and struck down its king with the sword, because Hazor had formerly been the leader of all these kingdoms.

10565

But he replied to him, “I don’t want to go. Instead, I will go to my own land and my relatives.”

10566

the king of Shimron-meronone the king of Achshaph one

10567

because every firstborn belongs to Me. At the time I struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, I consecrated every firstborn in Israel to Myself, both man and animal. They are Mine; I am Yahweh.”

10568

The soldiers also twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and threw a purple robe around Him.

10569

An infant will play beside the cobra’s pit,
and a toddler will put his hand into a snake’s den.

10570

Aren’t these mountains across the Jordan, beyond the western road in the land of the Canaanites, who live in the Arabah, opposite Gilgal, near the oaks of Moreh?

10571

But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and shanks, and its entrails and dung—

10572

At my first defense, no one stood by me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be counted against them.

10573

Then the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the possessions for yourself.”

10575

This was the order of march for the Israelites by their military divisions as they set out.

10576

He will then present part of the fellowship sacrifice as a fire offering to the Lord consisting of its fat and the entire fat tail, which he is to remove close to the backbone. He will also remove the fat surrounding the entrails, all the fat on the entrails,

10577

and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land,

10578

But Peter helped him up and said, “Stand up! I myself am also a man.”

10579

Cush’s sons: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. And Raamah’s sons: Sheba and Dedan.

10580

Their hearts are devious;
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and demolish their sacred pillars.

10581

Among them, from the descendants of Judah, were Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah.

10582

You also will become drunk;
you will hide yourself.
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

10583

Indeed, I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from that place of slavery.
I sent Moses, Aaron, and Miriam ahead of you.

10584

Since the king’s command was so urgent and the furnace extremely hot, the raging flames killed those men who carried Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego up.

10585

So he went and married Gomer daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.

10586

In the place of the king of the South, one from her family will rise up, come against the army, and enter the fortress of the king of the North. He will take action against them and triumph.

10587

They will have no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”

10588

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: “I am about to punish them. The young men will die by the sword; their sons and daughters will die by famine.

10589

What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation?
The Lord has founded Zion,
and His afflicted people find refuge in her.

10591

And the Lord of Hosts will brandish a whip against him as He did when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; and He will raise His staff over the sea as He did in Egypt.

10592

He raises a signal flag for the distant nations
and whistles for them from the ends of the earth.
Look—how quickly and swiftly they come!

10593

The righteousness of the blameless clears his path,
but the wicked person will fall because of his wickedness.

10594

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?

10595

The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with pure gold.

10596

Doesn’t the ear test words
as the palate tastes food?

10597

After I arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days,

10599

I went to the governors of the region west of the Euphrates and gave them the king’s letters. The king had also sent officers of the infantry and cavalry with me.

10600

so he assigned 70,000 men as porters, 80,000 men as stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 as supervisors over them.

10601

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon. It was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high on four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams on top of the pillars.

10602

Then he made the cast metal reservoir, 15 feet from brim to brim, perfectly round. It was 7½ feet high and 45 feet in circumference.

10603

How then can you drive back a single officer among the least of my master’s servants and trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

10604

If a man sins against his neighbor
and is forced to take an oath
and he comes to take an oath
before Your altar in this temple,

10605

Elisha said, “At this time next year you will have a son in your arms.”

Then she said, “No, my lord. Man of God, do not deceive your servant.”

10606

So now, You have been pleased to bless Your servant’s house that it may continue before You forever. For You, Lord, have blessed it, and it is blessed forever.

10607

wandering from nation to nation
and from one kingdom to another,

10608

While the Levites were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord, with God’s help, they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams.

10609

All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.

10610

The reservoir was three inches thick, and its rim was fashioned like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom. It held 11,000 gallons.

10611

“Go to My servant David and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you to build a house for Me to live in?

10612

Throughout Solomon’s reign, Judah and Israel lived in safety from Dan to Beer-sheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.

10613

Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well,” and then bowed down to the king with his face to the ground. He continued, “May the Lord your God be praised! He delivered up the men who rebelled against my lord the king.”

10614

for he had dominion over everything west of the Euphrates from Tiphsah to Gaza and over all the kings west of the Euphrates. He had peace on all his surrounding borders.

10615

Jonathan replied, “My father has brought trouble to the land. Just look at how I have renewed energy because I tasted a little honey.

10616

When the troops entered the forest, they saw the flow of honey, but none of them ate any of it because they feared the oath.

10617

When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why did the Lord let us be defeated today by the Philistines? Let’s bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant from Shiloh. Then it will go with us and save us from the hand of our enemies.”

10618

The survivors came down to the nobles;
the Lord’s people came down to me with the warriors.

10619

“As God lives,” Joab replied, “if you had not spoken up, the troops wouldn’t have stopped pursuing their brothers until morning.”

10620

When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, you will return to the Lord your God in later days and obey Him.

10621

At the carved images near Gilgal he returned and said, “King Eglon, I have a secret message for you.” The king called for silence, and all his attendants left him.

10622

and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab the Reubenite, when in the middle of the whole Israelite camp the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing with them.

10623

They are to remain detestable to you; you must not eat any of their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.

10624

Then they must place it with all its utensils inside a covering made of manatee skin and put them on the carrying frame.

10627

You will rejoice before the Lord your God—you, your sons and daughters, your male and female slaves, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion or inheritance among you.

10628

In this way you are to separate the Levites from the rest of the Israelites so that the Levites will belong to Me.

10629

Instantly her flow of blood ceased, and she sensed in her body that she was cured of her affliction.

10630

the Asrielite clan from Asriel;
the Shechemite clan from Shechem;

10631

Peter told Him, “Even if everyone runs away because of You, I will never run away!”

10632

In Lystra a man without strength in his feet, lame from birth, and who had never walked, sat

10633

The Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai:

10634

The only place it didn’t hail was in the land of Goshen where the Israelites were.

10635

Pharaoh said to him, “Leave me! Make sure you never see my face again, for on the day you see my face, you will die.”

10636

He said to them, “Haven’t you read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry—

10638

Likewise, good works are obvious, and those that are not obvious cannot remain hidden.

10639

But I sent the brothers so our boasting about you in the matter would not prove empty, and so you would be prepared just as I said.

10640

After commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground,

10641

Only I, Daniel, saw the vision. The men who were with me did not see it, but a great terror fell on them, and they ran and hid.

10642

Beauty is stripped,
she is carried away;
her ladies-in-waiting moan
like the sound of doves,
and beat their breasts.

10643

The four horns that took the place of the shattered horn represent four kingdoms. They will rise from that nation, but without its power.

10644

How great are His miracles,
and how mighty His wonders!
His kingdom is an eternal kingdom,
and His dominion is from generation to generation.

10646

“How your heart was inflamed with lust”—the declaration of the Lord God—“when you did all these things, the acts of a brazen prostitute,

10647

He said to me: “Son of man, eat what you find here. Eat this scroll, then go and speak to the house of Israel.”

10648

Circumcise yourselves to the Lord;
remove the foreskin of your hearts,
men of Judah and residents of Jerusalem.
Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire
and burn with no one to extinguish it
because of your evil deeds.

10649

Don’t say to your neighbor, “Go away! Come back later.
I’ll give it tomorrow”—when it is there with you.

10650

My son, obey my words,
and treasure my commands.

10652

I wish I had never existed
but had been carried from the womb to the grave.

10653

After him Uzziel son of Harhaiah, the goldsmith, made repairs, and next to him Hananiah son of the perfumer made repairs. They restored Jerusalem as far as the Broad Wall.

10654

Therefore, Naaman’s skin disease will cling to you and your descendants forever.” So Gehazi went out from his presence diseased—white as snow.

10655

Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you have returned to us at Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and evil city, finishing its walls, and repairing its foundations.

10656

She came to Jerusalem with a very large entourage, with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. She came to Solomon and spoke to him about everything that was on her mind.

10657

Harim’s descendants: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

10658

However, Abijah grew strong, acquired 14 wives, and fathered 22 sons and 16 daughters.

10659

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

10660

All of them were registered in the genealogies during the reigns of Judah’s King Jotham and Israel’s King Jeroboam.

10661

Samuel said, “Gather all Israel at Mizpah, and I will pray to the Lord on your behalf.”

10662

But he said, “Why go to him today? It’s not a New Moon or a Sabbath.”

She replied, “Everything is all right.”

10663

King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.

10664

When they returned to him in Jericho where he was staying, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

10665

Why harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened theirs? When He afflicted them, didn’t they send Israel away, and Israel left?

10666

The length of Jeroboam’s reign was 22 years. He rested with his fathers, and his son Nadab became king in his place.

10667

Now you can see that the king is leading you. As for me, I’m old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have led you from my youth until today.

10668

You are to bring there your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tenths and personal contributions, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks.

10669

When Gideon heard the account of the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to Israel’s camp and said, “Get up, for the Lord has handed the Midianite camp over to you.”

10670

You must burn up the carved images of their gods. Don’t covet the silver and gold on the images and take it for yourself, or else you will be ensnared by it, for it is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

10671

They sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down and get it.”

10672

Then his brothers and his father’s family came down, carried him back, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of his father Manoah. So he judged Israel 20 years.

10673

The Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan leading to Ephraim. Whenever a fugitive from Ephraim said, “Let me cross over,” the Gileadites asked him, “Are you an Ephraimite?” If he answered, “No,”

10674

Whenever the Israelites planted crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the Qedemites came and attacked them.

10675

After the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city.

10676

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don’t hide anything from me.”

10677

The men said to her, “We will be free from this oath you made us swear,

10678

“If his offering is a fellowship sacrifice, and he is presenting an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present one without blemish before the Lord.

10679

Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire—its head as well as its legs and inner organs.

10680

Please don’t let her be like a dead baby whose flesh is half eaten away when he comes out of his mother’s womb.”

10681

“If a foreigner resides with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreign resident and the native of the land.”

10682

“Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!”

10683

The Israelites traveled from Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. Aaron died and was buried there, and Eleazar his son became priest in his place.

10684

If your gift is a grain offering prepared in a pan, it must be made of fine flour with oil.

10685

“This is the finger of God,” the magicians said to Pharaoh. But Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

10686

Parthians, Medes, Elamites; those who live in Mesopotamia, in Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,

10688

“When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox must be stoned, and its meat may not be eaten, but the ox’s owner is innocent.

10689

After 40 days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made,

10690

a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.

10691

For you can all prophesy one by one, so that everyone may learn and everyone may be encouraged.

10694

The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, “You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks.”

10695

Methuselah was 187 years old when he fathered Lamech.

10696

to keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.

10697

Then those in front told him to keep quiet, but he kept crying out all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!”

10698

So the king, the governor, Bernice, and those sitting with them got up,

10699

Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you and your nobles, wives, and concubines drank wine from them, you praised the gods made of silver and gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or understand. But you have not glorified the God who holds your life-breath in His hand and who controls the whole course of your life.

10700

And He said: “How can we illustrate the kingdom of God, or what parable can we use to describe it?

10701

Then the male goat became very great, but when he became powerful, the large horn was shattered. Four conspicuous horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

10702

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

10703

For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

10704

what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of 20 measures, it only amounted to 10; when one came to the winepress to dip 50 measures from the vat, it only amounted to 20.

10705

That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,

10706

“This is the end of the interpretation. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts terrified me greatly, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”

10707

So Daniel prospered during the reign of Darius and the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

10708

So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away. I left in bitterness and in an angry spirit, and the Lord’s hand was on me powerfully.

10709

כ KafMy eyes are worn out from weeping;
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.

10712

to those who say:
“Let Him hurry up and do His work quickly
so that we can see it!
Let the plan of the Holy One of Israel take place
so that we can know it!”

10713

Roam through the streets of Jerusalem.
Look and take note;
search in her squares.
If you find one person,
any who acts justly,
who seeks to be faithful,
then I will forgive her.

10714

We hoped for peace, but there was nothing good;
for a time of healing, but there was only terror.

10715

I was born
when there were no watery depths
and no springs filled with water.

10716

When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because He does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow.

10717

I will rejoice and boast about You;
I will sing about Your name, Most High.

10719

All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshiped and praised the Lord:

For He is good,
for His faithful love endures forever.

10720

You put my feet in the stocks
and stand watch over all my paths,
setting a limit for the soles of my feet.

10721

Once or twice the merchants and those who sell all kinds of goods camped outside Jerusalem,

10722

“Now, you see, the Lord has put a lying spirit into the mouth of these prophets of yours, and the Lord has pronounced disaster against you.”

10723

Then the Israelites, including the priests, the Levites, and the rest of the exiles, celebrated the dedication of the house of God with joy.

10724

Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:

10725

They were archers who could use either the right or left hand, both to sling stones and shoot arrows from a bow. They were Saul’s relatives from Benjamin:

10726

Zattu’s descendants: Elioenai, Eliashib, Mattaniah, Jeremoth, Zabad, and Aziza;

10727

Rehoboam appointed Abijah son of Maacah as chief, leader among his brothers, intending to make him king.

10728

Aram had gone on raids and brought back from the land of Israel a young girl who served Naaman’s wife.

10729

Then Solomon said:

The Lord said He would dwell in thick darkness,

10730

Let Your name be confirmed and magnified forever in the saying, “Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.” May the house of Your servant David be established before You.

10731

You are to strike down the house of your master Ahab so that I may avenge the blood shed by the hand of Jezebel—the blood of My servants the prophets and of all the servants of the Lord.

10732

Zebadiah, Meshullam, Hizki, Heber,

10733

These were the heads of their ancestral houses: Epher, Ishi, Eliel, Azriel, Jeremiah, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel. They were brave warriors, famous men, and heads of their ancestral houses.

10734

Elisha replied, “Don’t kill them. Do you kill those you have captured with your sword or your bow? Set food and water in front of them so they can eat and drink and go to their master.”

10735

his son Ahaz,
his son Hezekiah, his son Manasseh,

10736

For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter. There was no one to help Israel, neither bond nor free.

10737

They went to Ophir and acquired gold there—16 tons—and delivered it to Solomon.

10738

So Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the temple’s construction.

10739

Nethanel fourth, Raddai fifth,

10741

Instead, he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the wadi and put them in the pouch, in his shepherd’s bag. Then, with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.

10742

All Moab had heard that the kings had come up to fight against them. So all who could bear arms, from the youngest to the oldest, were summoned and took their stand at the border.

10743

Now, Lord God, fulfill the promise forever that You have made to Your servant and his house. Do as You have promised,

10744

Jehoshaphat son of Paruah, in Issachar;

10745

Absalom resided in Jerusalem two years but never saw the king.

10746

When they said, “Give us a king to judge us,” Samuel considered their demand sinful, so he prayed to the Lord.

10747

brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.

10748

When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel 40 years.

10749

So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelite and Abigail, the widow of Nabal the Carmelite.

10750

That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and everyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on Dagon’s threshold.

10751

Then he divided the 300 men into three companies and gave each of the men a trumpet in one hand and an empty pitcher with a torch inside it in the other.

10752

Ruth the Moabitess said, “He also told me, ‘Stay with my young men until they have finished all of my harvest.’”

10753

So Naomi said to her daughter-in-law Ruth, “My daughter, it is good for you to work with his female servants, so that nothing will happen to you in another field.”

10754

Gilead’s wife bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

10755

So the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera who lived in Harosheth of the Nations.

10756

and brought the tribute to Eglon king of Moab, who was an extremely fat man.

10757

After him came Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel 22 years.

10758

The Israelites were pleased with the report, and they praised God. They spoke no more about going to war against them to ravage the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived.

10759

Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against Him. As a result, you have delivered the Israelites from the Lord’s power.”

10760

The Lord will indeed vindicate His people
and have compassion on His servants
when He sees that their strength is gone
and no one is left—slave or free.

10761

But the land you are entering to possess is a land of mountains and valleys, watered by rain from the sky.

10762

“If one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.

10763

Isn’t this what we told you in Egypt: Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

10764

and purify the most holy place. He will purify the tent of meeting and the altar and will make atonement for the priests and all the people of the assembly.

10766

He then had Zabdi’s family come forward man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

10767

He will hand their kings over to you, and you will wipe out their names under heaven. No one will be able to stand against you; you will annihilate them.

10768

Those who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away because of their sin; they will also waste away because of their fathers’ sins along with theirs.

10769

When the words of her older son Esau were reported to Rebekah, she summoned her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Listen, your brother Esau is consoling himself by planning to kill you.

10770

With these things set up this way, the priests enter the first room repeatedly, performing their ministry.

10773

And Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines for many days.

10774

and he cried out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their voices.

10775

But you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out over the earth and multiply on it.”

10776

After the uproar was over, Paul sent for the disciples, encouraged them, and after saying good-bye, departed to go to Macedonia.

10777

Look at what is obvious. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself of this: Just as he belongs to Christ, so do we.

10778

He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over the kingdom of men and sets anyone He wants over it.

10779

“How many loaves do you have?” He asked them.

“Seven,” they said.

10780

As I was observing, a male goat appeared, coming from the west across the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground. The goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.

10781

Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

10782

The word of the Lord came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:

10783

You built your elevated place at the head of every street and turned your beauty into a detestable thing. You spread your legs to everyone who passed by and increased your prostitution.

10784

“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!”
There is no end to the treasure,
an abundance of every precious thing.

10785

I continually remember them
and have become depressed.

10786

I heard the words he said, and when I heard them I fell into a deep sleep, with my face to the ground.

10787

Some of the elders of Israel came to me and sat down in front of me.

10788

“Therefore, as I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“I am going to cut you off and show you no pity, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable practices and abominations. Yes, I will not spare you.

10789

For to the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

10792

י YodThe hands of compassionate women
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.

10793

Listen, for I speak of noble things,
and what my lips say is right.

10794

My brothers are as treacherous as a wadi,
as seasonal streams that overflow

10795

A large population is a king’s splendor,
but a shortage of people is a ruler’s devastation.

10796

If my land cries out against me
and its furrows join in weeping,

10797

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?
Your answers are deceptive.

10798

Why do You hide Your face
and consider me Your enemy?

10799

Surely this is the joy of his way of life;
yet others will sprout from the dust.

10800

Didn’t King Solomon of Israel sin in matters like this? There was not a king like him among many nations. He was loved by his God and God made him king over all Israel, yet foreign women drew him into sin.

10801

You will know that your tent is secure,
and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.

10802

You are also to bring the silver and gold the king and his counselors have willingly given to the God of Israel, whose dwelling is in Jerusalem,

10803

This is the text of the letter they sent to him:

To King Artaxerxes from your servants, the men from the region west of the Euphrates River:

10804

All of King Solomon’s drinking cups were gold, and all the utensils of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were pure gold. There was no silver, since it was considered as nothing in Solomon’s time,

10805

Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives. He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.

10806

He had made chainwork in the inner sanctuary and also put it on top of the pillars. He made 100 pomegranates and fastened them into the chainwork.

10807

Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

10808

in addition to Jehoiada, leader of the house of Aaron, with 3,700 men;

10809

Zechariah son of Meshelemiah was the gatekeeper at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

10810

His sister Hammolecheth gave birth to Ishhod, Abiezer, and Mahlah.

10811

And the capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were shaped like lilies, six feet high.

10812

So the God of Israel put it into the mind of Pul (that is, Tiglath-pileser) king of Assyria to take the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh into exile. He took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan’s river, where they are until today.

10813

They received help against these enemies because they cried out to God in battle, and the Hagrites and all their allies were handed over to them. He granted their request because they trusted in Him.

10815

They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish, and Nodab.

10816

The sons of Caleb son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam.
Elah’s son: Kenaz.

10817

When the king of Israel saw them, he said to Elisha, “My father, should I kill them? I will kill them.”

10818

So he added the gold overlay to the entire temple until everything was completely finished, including the entire altar that belongs to the inner sanctuary.

10819

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and did not turn away from the sins Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit.

10820

David replied to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord who chose me over your father and his whole family to appoint me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the Lord,

10821

David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent Uriah to David.

10822

They asked, “What restitution offering should we send back to Him?”

And they answered, “Five gold tumors and five gold mice corresponding to the number of Philistine rulers, since there was one plague for both you and your rulers.

10823

But Asahel refused to turn away, so Abner hit him in the stomach with the end of his spear. The spear went through his body, and he fell and died right there. When all who came to the place where Asahel had fallen and died, they stopped,

10824

The Angel of the Lord extended the tip of the staff that was in His hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. Fire came up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the Angel of the Lord vanished from his sight.

10825

The king also said to Zadok the priest, “Look, return to the city in peace and your two sons with you: your son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan.

10826

They ran and got him from there. When he stood among the people, he stood a head taller than anyone else.

10827

Make images of your tumors and of your mice that are destroying the land. Give glory to Israel’s God, and perhaps He will stop oppressing you, your gods, and your land.

10828

Lord, may all your enemies perish as Sisera did.
But may those who love Him
be like the rising of the sun in its strength.


And the land was peaceful 40 years.

10829

Eli heard the outcry and asked, “Why this commotion?” The man quickly came and reported to Eli.

10830

This is to be a permanent statute for you, to make atonement for the Israelites once a year because of all their sins.” And all this was done as the Lord commanded Moses.

10831

You must understand today that it is not your children who experienced or saw the discipline of the Lord your God:

His greatness, strong hand, and outstretched arm;

10832

The priests carrying the ark continued standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people, in keeping with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried across,

10833

“Now if the whole community of Israel errs, and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly, so that they violate any of the Lord’s commands and incur guilt by doing what is prohibited,

10834

but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.

10835

the king of Taanachone the king of Megiddo one

10836

the king of Madonone the king of Hazor one

10837

When the Lord had finished speaking with Abraham, He departed, and Abraham returned to his place.

10838

Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, lived in Ashtaroth and Edrei.

10839

The Lord replied to Moses: “I will erase whoever has sinned against Me from My book.

10840

Then the Lord spoke to Moses:

10841

The Lord your God will give them over to you and throw them into great confusion until they are destroyed.

10842

And they did this. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff, and when he struck the dust of the earth, gnats were on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats throughout the land of Egypt.

10843

“Register the Levites by their ancestral houses and their clans. You are to register every male one month old or more.”

10844

Shouldn’t you also have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I had mercy on you?’

10845

The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.

10846

Then I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter.

10847

Then I saw the seven angels who stand in the presence of God; seven trumpets were given to them.

10848

So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

10849

The king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your work!”

10850

My master put me under this oath: ‘You will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live

10851

Therefore, welcome him in the Lord with all joy and hold men like him in honor,

10853

A voice of one crying out in the wilderness:
Prepare the way for the Lord;
make His paths straight!

10854

When these events were over, Paul resolved in the Spirit to pass through Macedonia and Achaia and go to Jerusalem. “After I’ve been there,” he said, “I must see Rome as well!”

10855

And we are ready to punish any disobedience, once your obedience has been confirmed.

10856

So they went out and started running from the tomb, because trembling and astonishment overwhelmed them. And they said nothing to anyone, since they were afraid.

10857

The more they called them,
the more they departed from Me.
They kept sacrificing to the Baals
and burning offerings to idols.

10858

Yet I must travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem!

10859

Then Jesus went out again beside the sea. The whole crowd was coming to Him, and He taught them.

10860

When the centurion, who was standing opposite Him, saw the way He breathed His last, he said, “This man really was God’s Son!”

10861

Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but this day public shame belongs to us: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel—those who are near and those who are far, in all the countries where You have dispersed them because of the disloyalty they have shown toward You.

10863

Open your gates, Lebanon,
and fire will consume your cedars.

10864

The Lord of Hosts says this: “Peoples will yet come, the residents of many cities;

10865

“These are the two anointed ones,” he said, “who stand by the Lord of the whole earth.”

10866

When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and when they lifted their wings to rise from the earth, even then the wheels did not veer away from them.

10867

They will be roused like birds from Egypt
and like doves from the land of Assyria.
Then I will settle them in their homes.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

10868

I looked up, and there was a ram standing beside the canal. He had two horns. The two horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up last.

10869

The word of the Lord of Hosts came:

10870

He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with wormwood.

10871

מ MemWhat can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?

10872

“Then you are to say to them: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, as a result of the sword I am sending among you.

10873

Slaves rule over us;
no one rescues us from their hands.

10874

Therefore, hand their children over to famine,
and pour the sword’s power on them.
Let their wives become childless and widowed,
their husbands slain by deadly disease,
their young men struck down by the sword in battle.

10875

Therefore, this is what the Lord God of Hosts says:

Because you have spoken this word,
I am going to make My words
become fire in your mouth.
These people are the wood,
and the fire will consume them.

10877

a wind too strong for this comes at My call. Now I will also pronounce judgments against them.’”

10878

Light is sweet,
and it is pleasing for the eyes to see the sun.

10879

All the words of my mouth are righteous;
none of them are deceptive or perverse.

10880

For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes,
and He considers all his paths.

10881

Did You not pour me out like milk
and curdle me like cheese?

10882

You are absolutely beautiful, my darling,
with no imperfection in you.

10883

giving wealth as an inheritance to those who love me,
and filling their treasuries.

10884

Ezra then went from the house of God and walked to the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib, where he spent the night. He did not eat food or drink water, because he was mourning over the unfaithfulness of the exiles.

10885

If He passes by and throws someone in prison
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

10886

Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

10887

So I stationed people behind the lowest sections of the wall, at the vulnerable areas. I stationed them by families with their swords, spears, and bows.

10888

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horsemen. He stationed them in the chariot cities and with the king in Jerusalem.

10889

Solomon made 70,000 of them porters, 80,000 stonecutters in the mountains, and 3,600 supervisors to make the people work.

10890

So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who gave you the order to rebuild this temple and finish this structure?”

10891

his son Eliab,
his son Jeroham, and his son Elkanah.

10892

Amram’s children: Aaron, Moses, and Miriam.
Aaron’s sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

10893

Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow there
or come before it with a shield
or build up an assault ramp against it.

10894

They are still practicing the former customs to this day. None of them fear the Lord or observe their statutes and ordinances, the law and commandments the Lord commanded the descendants of Jacob. He had renamed him Israel.

10895

I will cut off Israel from the land I gave them, and I will reject the temple I have sanctified for My name. Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples.

10896

Pedaiah’s sons: Zerubbabel and Shimei.
Zerubbabel’s sons: Meshullam and Hananiah, with their sister Shelomith;

10897

But the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself and go into battle, but you wear your royal attire.” So the king of Israel disguised himself and went into battle.

10898

When Shaul died, Baal-hanan son of Achbor ruled in his place.

10899

Because he has done this thing and shown no pity, he must pay four lambs for that lamb.”

10900

10 fattened oxen, 20 range oxen, and 100 sheep, besides deer, gazelles, roebucks, and pen-fed poultry,

10901

Then David said, “I’ll show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.”

So David sent his emissaries to console Hanun concerning his father. However, when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,

10902

The king had appointed the captain, his right-hand man, to be in charge of the gate, but the people trampled him in the gateway. He died, just as the man of God had predicted when the king came to him.

10903

They set the ark of God on a new cart and transported it from Abinadab’s house, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, sons of Abinadab, were guiding the cart

10904

But Ahab son of Omri did what was evil in the Lord’s sight more than all who were before him.

10905

King Rehoboam made bronze shields in their place and committed them into the care of the captains of the royal escorts who guarded the entrance to the king’s palace.

10906

Elihoreph and Ahijah the sons of Shisha, secretaries;
Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud, court historian;

10907

But Absalom urged him, so he sent Amnon and all the king’s sons.

10908

David said to him, “If you go away with me, you’ll be a burden to me,

10909

The messenger answered, “Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

10910

When Gideon realized that He was the Angel of the Lord, he said, “Oh no, Lord God! I have seen the Angel of the Lord face to face!”

10912

At that time Eli was 98 years old, and his gaze was fixed because he couldn’t see.

10913

He must not go near a dead body during the time he consecrates himself to the Lord.

10914

Out of all the tribes of Israel, I selected your house to be priests, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave your house all the Israelite fire offerings.

10915

Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Didn’t you hate me and drive me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now when you’re in trouble?”

10916

Then fire came from the Lord and burned them to death before the Lord.

10917

The border of the Reubenites was the Jordan and its plain. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites by their clans, with the cities and their villages.

10918

tasted God’s good word and the powers of the coming age,

10919

In the Judean foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

10920

The Lord spoke to Moses:

10921

and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

10922

the king of Dor in Naphath-dorone the king of Goiim in Gilgal one

10923

You are to have the same law for the person who acts in error, whether he is an Israelite or a foreigner who lives among you.

10924

the king of Kedeshone the king of Jokneam in Carmel one

10925

You will not incur guilt because of it once you have presented the best part of it, but you must not defile the Israelites’ holy offerings, so that you will not die.”

10926

“Understand that I am confirming My covenant with you and your descendants after you,

10927

There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

10928

The next day we left and came to Caesarea, where we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven, and stayed with him.

10929

He went into the temple complex and began to throw out those who were selling,

10930

You may present them to the Lord as an offering of firstfruits, but they are not to be offered on the altar as a pleasing aroma.

10931

This expression, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what is not shaken might remain.

10932

And the second son he named Ephraim, meaning, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

10933

He also said:

Praise the Lord, the God of Shem;
Canaan will be his slave.

10934

So he went out and followed, and he did not know that what took place through the angel was real, but thought he was seeing a vision.

10935

They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

10936

The Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?

10937

So Judas took a company of soldiers and some temple police from the chief priests and the Pharisees and came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

10939

See, your house is abandoned to you. And I tell you, you will not see Me until the time comes when you say, ‘He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One’!”

10941

The Lord said to Satan: “The Lord rebuke you, Satan! May the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn’t this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?”

10942

Moving on from there, He entered their synagogue.

10943

There is no remedy for your injury;
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?

10944

He asked me, “What do you see, Amos?”

I replied, “A basket of summer fruit.”

The Lord said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.

10945

Yahweh my God says this: “Shepherd the flock intended for slaughter.

10946

The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed
and strangled prey for its lionesses.
It filled up its dens with the kill,
and its lairs with mauled prey.

10947

In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”

10948

A sound is heard on the barren heights,
the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy,
for they have perverted their way;
they have forgotten the Lord their God.

10949

Woe because of that day!
For the Day of the Lord is near
and will come as devastation from the Almighty.

10950

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

10951

Since Gilead is full of evil,
they will certainly come to nothing.
They sacrifice bulls in Gilgal;
even their altars will be like heaps of rocks
on the furrows of a field.

10952

Blessings are on the head of the righteous,
but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.

10953

You must not carry a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day or do any work, but you must consecrate the Sabbath day, just as I commanded your ancestors.

10955

Avoid it; don’t travel on it.
Turn away from it, and pass it by.

10956

The mandrakes give off a fragrance,
and at our doors is every delicacy—
new as well as old.
I have treasured them up for you, my love.


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10957

None return who go to her;
none reach the paths of life.

10958

Now David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the music leader of the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.

10959

King Ahasuerus imposed a tax throughout the land even to the farthest shores.

10960

On the third day, Esther dressed up in her royal clothing and stood in the inner courtyard of the palace facing it. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal courtroom, facing its entrance.

10962

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. So I drove him away from me.

10963

Elam’s descendants: Mattaniah, Zechariah, Jehiel, Abdi, Jeremoth, and Elijah;

10964

Some Gadites defected to David at his stronghold in the desert. They were fighting men, trained for battle, expert with shield and spear. Their faces were like the faces of lions, and they were as swift as gazelles on the mountains.

10965

Now the construction of God’s house in Jerusalem had stopped and remained at a standstill until the second year of the reign of King Darius of Persia.

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10966

When they gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out in the Lord’s presence. They fasted that day, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the Lord.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

10967

This is the list of David’s warriors:

Jashobeam son of Hachmoni was chief of the Thirty; he wielded his spear against 300 and killed them at one time.

10968

The following were the chiefs of David’s warriors who, together with all Israel, strongly supported him in his reign to make him king according to the Lord’s word about Israel.

10969

So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron. King David made a covenant with them at Hebron in the Lord’s presence, and they anointed David king over Israel.

10970

Benjamin fathered Bela, his firstborn; Ashbel was born second, Aharah third,

10971

his son Elkanah, his son Zophai,
his son Nahath,

10972

so that Your eyes may watch over this temple night and day,
toward the place where You said:
My name will be there,
and so that You may hear the prayer
that Your servant prays toward this place.

10973

The sons of Shelah son of Judah: Er the father of Lecah, Laadah the father of Mareshah, the families of the guild of linen workers at Beth-ashbea,

10974

When Bela died, Jobab son of Zerah from Bozrah ruled in his place.

10975

They carried him back on horses, and he was buried in Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.

10976

The rest of the events of Rehoboam’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written about in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

10977

So after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk, the old prophet saddled the donkey for the prophet he had brought back.

10978

Then Absalom sent for Joab in order to send him to the king, but Joab was unwilling to come. So he sent again, a second time, but he still wouldn’t come.

10979

She said, “He gave me these six measures of barley, because he said, ‘Don’t go back to your mother-in-law empty-handed.’”

10980

Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in his room upstairs where it was cool. Ehud said, “I have a word from God for you,” and the king stood up from his throne.

10981

at this point the priest must make the woman take the oath with the sworn curse, and he is to say to her—‘May the Lord make you into an object of your people’s cursing and swearing when He makes your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

10982

Then Jephthah gathered all of the men of Gilead. They fought and defeated Ephraim, because Ephraim had said, “You Gileadites are Ephraimite fugitives in the territories of Ephraim and Manasseh.”

10983

this as their territory:

Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites to Aroer, near Rabbah;

10984

So the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt—over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs—and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers.”

10985

the king of Tirzahone the total number of all kings: 31.

10986

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took over the entire region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He called Bashan by his own name, Jair’s Villages, as it is today.

10987

Your offering will be credited to you as if it were your grain from the threshing floor or the full harvest from the winepress.

10988

“When all the fighting men had died among the people,

10989

and every firstborn male in the land of Egypt will die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the servant girl who is behind the millstones, as well as every firstborn of the livestock.

10990

About three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

10991

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

10992

And he named him Noah, saying, “This one will bring us relief from the agonizing labor of our hands, caused by the ground the Lord has cursed.”

10993

Kohath’s sons by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

10994

What is left of the oil in the priest’s palm he is to put on the head of the one to be cleansed to make atonement for him before the Lord.

10995

But against all the Israelites, whether man or beast, not even a dog will snarl, so that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

10996

The Lord spoke to Moses:

10997

Then one of them, named Agabus, stood up and predicted by the Spirit that there would be a severe famine throughout the Roman world. This took place during the time of Claudius.

10998

“So where is he?” he asked his daughters. “Why then did you leave the man behind? Invite him to eat dinner.”

10999

So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”

11000

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him: This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.

11001

Then they went out from the presence of the Sanhedrin, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to be dishonored on behalf of the Name.