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Then the police reported these words to the magistrates. They were afraid when they heard that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens.
tremble before Him, all the earth.
victory comes with many counselors.
and praise His holy name.
You will say, ‘I will go up against a land of open villages; I will come against a tranquil people who are living securely,
and seek Him with all their heart.
He commanded, and it came into existence.
and he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the king’s son, so miserable every morning? Won’t you tell me?”
Amnon replied, “I’m in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
Only don’t rebel against the Lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land, for we will devour them.
should the earth be abandoned on your account,
or a rock be removed from its place?
Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”
Abraham agreed with Ephron, and Abraham weighed out to Ephron the silver that he had agreed to in the presence
Then he said to the whole assembly of Israel, “If it seems good to you, and if this is from the Lord our God, let us spread out and send the message to the rest of our relatives in all the districts of Israel, including the priests and Levites in their cities with pasturelands,
So he left them in the care of the king of Moab, and they stayed with him the whole time David was in the stronghold.
When David’s servants came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David sent us to bring you to him as a wife.”
You must not eat bread, roasted grain, or any new grain
But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you’re talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed.
Although the king regretted it, he commanded that it be granted because of his oaths and his guests.
After a long time
“Future generations of your children who follow you and the foreigner who comes from a distant country will see the plagues of the land and the sicknesses the Lord has inflicted on it.
So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.
I gave a warning when I was present the second time, and now I give a warning
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”
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The man then brought me back toward the sanctuary’s outer gate that faced east, and it was closed.
Your blood will be spilled in the land.
You will not be remembered,
for I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
At that time
“Now prophesy, son of man, and say: This is what the Lord God says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt. You are to proclaim:
is drawn for slaughter,
polished to consume,
“Go and inquire of the Lord for me, the people, and all Judah about the instruction in this book that has been found. For great is the Lord’s wrath that is kindled against us because our ancestors have not obeyed the words of this book in order to do everything written about us.”
and his army into the sea;
the elite of his officers
were drowned in the Red Sea.
but the mouth of the wicked, only what is perverse.
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I did not bring you any of the flock torn by wild beasts; I myself bore the loss. You demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or by night.
But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, diviners,
and clothe yourself with honor and glory.
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the Lord.
Now I know that Yahweh is greater than all gods, because He did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”
Every nation came to Joseph in Egypt to buy grain, for the famine was severe in every land.
with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise,
storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.
but one who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
in the depths of the waters;
your goods and the people within you
have gone down.
You may sow your field for six years, and you may prune your vineyard and gather its produce for six years.
with a loud voice early in the morning,
it will be counted as a curse to him.
my plans have been ruined,
even the things dear to my heart.
When Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, he took courage and removed the detestable idols from the whole land of Judah and Benjamin and from the cities he had captured in the hill country of Ephraim.
such fabulous wealth was destroyed!
And every shipmaster, seafarer, the sailors, and all who do business by sea, stood far off
Now the Lord was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the former ways of his father David.
Then David gave his son Solomon the plans
and has gone to worship other gods by bowing down to the sun, moon, or all the stars in the sky—which I have forbidden—
Next he will take the two goats and place them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Any man from your family I do not cut off from My altar will bring grief
So Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but at Pharaoh’s command he taxed the land to give the money. He exacted the silver and the gold from the common people,
Then David accepted what she had brought him and said, “Go home in peace.
But Nadab and Abihu died before their father, and they had no sons, so Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests.
The firstborn of every living thing, man or animal, presented to the Lord belongs to you. But you must certainly redeem the firstborn of man,
and give you delight.
Gareb the Ithrite,
I will sing; I will sing praises.
Let him stay with you as a hired hand or temporary resident; he may work for you until the Year of Jubilee.
Then he will go out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on the horns on all sides of the altar.
won’t He who weighs hearts
Won’t He who protects your life
Won’t He repay a person according to his work?
When Ahijah heard the sound of her feet entering the door, he said, “Come in, wife of Jeroboam! Why are you disguised?
In the evening, an old man came in from his work in the field. He was from the hill country of Ephraim
and level the uneven places;
I will shatter the bronze doors
and cut the iron bars in two.
the One who hears prayer.
Manoah prayed
and speaks rightly,
who refuses gain from extortion,
whose hand never takes a bribe,
who stops his ears from listening to murderous plots
and shuts his eyes to avoid endorsing evil
Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and lined up for battle in the Valley of Siddim
but the righteous one is gracious and giving.
therefore I remember You from the land of Jordan
and the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before God with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
Israel will blossom and bloom
and fill the whole world with fruit.
the one who guards himself stays far from them.
you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity,
he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
“When a woman in her father’s house during her youth makes a vow to the Lord or puts herself under an obligation,
Take the anointing oil, pour it on his head, and anoint
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.
The Philistines were standing on one hill, and the Israelites were standing on another hill with a ravine between them.
These are the men David put in charge of the music in the Lord’s temple
The Lord listened to Israel’s request, the Canaanites were defeated, and Israel completely destroyed them and their cities. So they named the place Hormah.
“Tarshish
“When a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep, but they are stolen from that person’s house, the thief, if caught, must repay double.
Then God opened her eyes,
He said to me: “Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet,
This is what the Lord God says: Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness exposed by your acts of prostitution with your lovers, and because of all your detestable idols and the blood of your children that you gave to them,
If a man still prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will say to him: You cannot remain alive because you have spoken falsely in the name of Yahweh. When he prophesies, his father and his mother who bore him will pierce him through.
and you will not have to take flight;
because the Lord is going before you,
and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
the world wastes away and withers;
the exalted people of the earth waste away.
“Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine?’
but He holds up fools to dishonor.
I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
for His faithful love
and His wonderful works for all humanity.
his mouth should not give an unfair judgment.
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres
you must take some of the first of all the land’s produce that you harvest from the land Yahweh your God is giving you and put it in a container. Then go to the place where the Lord your God chooses to have His name dwell.
with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust,
“The officers are to address the army, ‘Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him leave and return home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.
the blood of the saints and the prophets,
You also gave them blood to drink;
they deserve it!
Then Menahem son of Gadi came up from Tirzah
The bread is to be set out before the Lord every Sabbath day as a perpetual covenant
“Bring the best firstfruits
“You must not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
in the sight of all the nations;
all the ends of the earth will see
the salvation of our God.
Then Festus said: “King Agrippa and all men present with us, you see this man about whom the whole Jewish community has appealed to me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he should not live any longer.
and eat the produce of the field.
He nourished him with honey from the rock
and oil from flint-like rock,
on a cloudless morning,
the glisten of rain on sprouting grass.”
He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.
While he was offering the sacrifices, Absalom sent for David’s adviser Ahithophel the Gilonite,
Asa did what was right in the Lord’s eyes, as his ancestor David had done.
“Bring the one who has cursed to the outside of the camp and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole community stone him.
His
If a woman comes near any animal and mates with it, you are to kill the woman and the animal.
Will You bring me into judgment against You?
He said to his mother, “The 1,100 pieces of silver taken from you, and that I heard you utter a curse about—here, I have the silver with me. I took it. So now I return it to you.”
Then his mother said, “My son, you are blessed by the Lord!”
Has a people heard God’s voice speaking from the fire as you have, and lived?
“When a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed in, and then allows his animals to go and graze in someone else’s field, he must repay
He made the bronze basin and its stand from the bronze mirrors of the women who served at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
Then Jacob asked Him, “Please tell me Your name.”
But He answered, “Why do you ask My name?”
The descendants of Machir
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor,
yet they ran with a message.
I did not speak to them,
yet they prophesied.
For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil.
and do not ignore
Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal
While he was still confined in the guard’s courtyard,
only his Maker can draw the sword against him.
Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.
for they captivate me.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
streaming down from Gilead.
and you choose the language of the crafty.
three years of famine, or three months of devastation by your foes with the sword of your enemy overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord—a plague on the land, the angel of the Lord bringing destruction to the whole territory of Israel.’ Now decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me.”
But Micaiah said, “As the Lord lives,
you are to present to the Lord every firstborn male of the womb. All firstborn offspring of the livestock you own that are males will be the Lord’s.
This was the inheritance of the tribe of Asher’s descendants by their clans, these cities with their villages.
I will make them one nation in the land,
The Lord spoke to Moses:
If Timothy comes, see that he has nothing to fear from you, because he is doing the Lord’s work,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
so that You may be revered.
Gather the people—men, women, children, and foreigners living within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear
Have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
one who disregards
when my heart is without strength.
Lead me to a rock that is high above me,
You are not to shame your father
he seized a house he did not build.
Moses came with Joshua
to a spacious and unconfined place.
Your table was spread with choice food.
So David fled and escaped and went to Samuel at Ramah
“May the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh,
He said, “Look, I am old and do not know the day of my death.
The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner
This is what the Lord God says:
which is deep and wide.
You will be an object of
for it holds so much.
Meanwhile, the eyewitnesses reported to them how the demon-possessed man was delivered.
more than a hundred lashes into a fool.
He will then sprinkle the blood seven times on the one who is to be cleansed from the skin disease. He is to pronounce him clean and release the live bird over the open countryside.
Tie the sashes on Aaron and his sons and fasten headbands on them. The priesthood is to be theirs by a permanent statute. This is the way you will ordain Aaron and
Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience.
This is what the Lord God says:
and raise My banner to the peoples.
They will bring your sons in their arms,
and your daughters will be carried on their shoulders.
Can He judge through thick darkness?
May the Lord be judge and decide between you and me. May He take notice and plead my case and deliver
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.
Zechariah the firstborn, Jediael the second,
Zebadiah the third, Jathniel the fourth,
He is to take some of the bull’s blood
But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people
Then Pilate said to Him, “Don’t You hear how much they are testifying against You?”
like a little weaned child with its mother;
I am like a little child.
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Then they came to the king at the courtyard, having deposited the scroll in the chamber of Elishama the scribe, and reported everything in the hearing of the king.
“Every person, whether the native or the foreigner,
In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah,
and awe-inspiring God who keeps His gracious covenant
do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us,
our kings and leaders,
our priests and prophets,
our ancestors and all Your people,
from the days of the Assyrian kings
and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine.
He washes his clothes in wine
and his robes in the blood of grapes.
All
David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of people who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’?
Anyone from the house of Israel who slaughters
But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger, and crossing his hands, put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.
for the word that he cried out by a revelation from the Lord against the altar in Bethel
The one who spoke with me had a gold measuring rod
Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life
merchandise of gold, silver, precious stones, and pearls; fine fabrics of linen, purple, silk, and scarlet; all kinds of fragrant wood products; objects of ivory; objects of expensive wood, brass,
they are terrified;
when You take away their breath,
they die and return to the dust.
“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”
and place His sayings
they enraged Him with detestable practices.
“For this is what the Lord says: David will never fail to have a man sitting on the throne of the house of Israel.
“This is what the Lord says: Stand in the courtyard of the Lord’s temple and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all Judah’s cities that are coming to worship there. Do not hold back a word.
Josiah observed the Lord’s Passover
my mistake concerns only
“In peace,” he replied. “I’ve come to sacrifice to the Lord. Consecrate yourselves
For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you
You must not have sexual intercourse with your mother’s sister or your father’s sister,
Bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
The five men who had gone to scout out the land of Laish told their brothers, “Did you know that there are an ephod, household gods, and a carved image overlaid with silver
since a throne is established through righteousness.
As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.
or harm My prophets.”
He will protect your life.
“When someone pursues you and attempts to take your life, my lord’s life will be tucked safely in the place
Early that morning, the woman made her way back, and as it was getting light, she collapsed at the doorway of the man’s house where her master was.
When Samuel came to him, Saul said, “May the Lord bless you.
Birds of prey came down on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
Then Jehoahaz sought the Lord’s favor, and the Lord heard him, for He saw the oppression the king of Aram inflicted on Israel.
When he was alive, Absalom had set up a pillar
When the woman saw that she was discovered,
I hate robbery and injustice;
I will faithfully reward them
and make an everlasting covenant
the inhabitants of the land:
Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
bore Amalek to Eliphaz.
These were the sons of Esau’s wife Adah.
After the voice had spoken, only Jesus was found. They kept silent, and in those days told no one what they had seen.
When we heard this, both we and the local people begged him not to go up to Jerusalem.
the Lord sits enthroned, King forever.
Then Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was in his house, holding a feast fit for a king.
but the lamp of the wicked is put out.
so You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
so the wicked are destroyed before God.
“Spare him from going down to the Pit;
I have found a ransom,”
When he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, “No! Not my daughter! You have devastated me! You have brought great misery on me.
Job lived 140 years after this and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.
He said to me, ‘You will conceive and give birth to a son. Therefore, do not drink wine or beer, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from birth until the day of his death.’”
or I have lurked at his door,
and he proclaimed his poem:
the oracle of the man whose eyes are opened,
Jehoiakim rested with his fathers, and his son Jehoiachin became king in his place.
Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the Lord will reveal who belongs to Him, who is set apart, and the one He will let come near
The priest will examine him. If there is a white swelling on the skin that has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,
There was no one to rescue them because it was far from Sidon and they had no alliance with anyone. It was in a valley that belonged to Beth-rehob. They rebuilt the city and lived in it.
Keep My statutes and do them; I am Yahweh who sets you apart.
But if you will carefully obey him and do everything I say, then I will be an enemy
Out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean, bright linen, with gold sashes wrapped around their chests.
Yet I will certainly bring health
Then his father Isaac answered him:
away from the richness of the land,
away from the dew of the sky above.
You, all of your troops, and many peoples with you will advance, coming like a thunderstorm; you will be like a cloud covering the land.
“Now suppose he has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, and though he sees them, he does not do likewise.
and your many sorceries,
which you have wearied yourself with from your youth.
Perhaps you will be able to succeed;
perhaps you will inspire terror!
I must go to the gates of Sheol;
I am deprived of the rest of my years.
Then someone washed the chariot at the pool of Samaria. The dogs licked up his blood, and the prostitutes bathed in it, according to the word of the Lord that He had spoken.
But Naboth said to Ahab, “I will never give my fathers’ inheritance
So Ahab went to eat and drink, but Elijah went up to the summit of Carmel.
Then his wife Jezebel said to him, “Now, exercise your royal power over Israel. Get up, eat some food, and be happy. For I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
After this,
He walked in all the ways of his father Asa;
Ahaziah
Araunah said to David, “My lord the king may take whatever he wants
Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest
and forgive the sin of Your people Israel.
May You restore them to the land
You gave their ancestors.
From there David went to Mizpeh of Moab where he said to the king of Moab, “Please let my father and mother stay with you until I know what God will do for me.”
Then the commander took him by the hand, led him aside, and inquired privately, “What is it you have to report to me?”
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke
will be blessed by the God of truth,
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from My sight.
The name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, a descendant of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. She bore to Amram: Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
At that, the whole town went out to meet Jesus. When they saw Him, they begged Him to leave their region.
“For the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths,
and choose what pleases Me,
and hold firmly to My covenant,
a throne will be established by faithful love.
A judge who seeks what is right
and is quick to execute justice
will sit on the throne forever.
and to the maggot: My mother or my sister,
departed spirits do not rise up.
Indeed, You have visited and destroyed them;
You have wiped out all memory of them.
but He loves the one who pursues righteousness.
to beds of spice,
to feed in the gardens
and gather lilies.
The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the most holy place to make atonement, must be brought outside the camp
if you rescue him, you’ll have to do it again.
“We have heard news of it with our ears.”
and had him thrown into prison,
When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite to take possession of it.
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me all along and told me lies! Tell me how you can be tied up.”
He told her, “If you weave the seven braids on my head with the web of a loom—”
The one who burns them is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may reenter the camp.
In his eleventh year in the eighth month, in the month of Bul,
even the words that deal gently with you?
Since the ship was caught and was unable to head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying at En-rogel, where a servant girl would come and pass along information to them. They in turn would go and inform King David, because they dared not be seen entering the city.
The tribe of Manasseh will be next to it. The leader of the Manassites is Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.
So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.
The third lot came up for Zebulun’s descendants by their clans.
The territory of their inheritance stretched as far as Sarid;
He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them.”
After Festus conferred with his council, he replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”
I will surely forget you
On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies; they will not put on a hairy cloak
You are able to determine that it is no more than 12 days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.
He stirs up His zeal like a soldier.
He shouts, He roars aloud,
He prevails over His enemies.
hear the word of the Lord:
“Your brothers who hate and exclude you
because of Me have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified
so that we can see your joy!’
But they will be put to shame.”
So he did what the Lord commanded. Elijah left and lived by the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.
But his father and mother said to him, “Can’t you find
But Samson told his father, “Get her for me, because I want her.”
When Solomon finished praying this entire prayer and petition to the Lord, he got up from kneeling before the altar of the Lord, with his hands spread out toward heaven,
and wore a bronze helmet
Now give me this hill country the Lord promised me on that day, because you heard then that the Anakim are there, as well as large fortified cities.
No hand may touch him; instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows. No animal or man will live. When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain.”
I have heard this twice:
strength belongs to God,
Simon answered, “I suppose the one he forgave more.”
Then he started to curse
They are to be holy to their God and not profane the name of their God.
Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb.
You must completely destroy them—the Hittite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite—as the Lord your God has commanded you,
But if the spot remains where it is and does not spread, it is only the scar from the boil. The priest is to pronounce him clean.
He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,
suddenly, in one day:
loss of children and widowhood.
They will happen to you in their entirety,
in spite of your many sorceries
and the potency of your spells.
but afterward his mouth is full of gravel.
For You repay each according to his works.
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
they will end their days in prosperity
and their years in happiness.
Three of the 30 leading warriors went down at harvest time and came to David at the cave of Adullam,
and you make a fire offering to the Lord from the herd or flock—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow,
When the demon had been driven out, the man
and the consolation from my lips would bring relief.
from the time man was placed on earth,
When the Gazites heard that Samson was there, they surrounded the place and waited in ambush for him all that night at the city gate. While they were waiting quietly,
Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah. His son Elah became king in his place.
and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have done what is good to me though I have done what is evil to you.
There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.
You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But concerning your brothers, the Israelites, you must not rule over one another harshly.
the Lord said, “As My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,
They also took Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions, for he was living in Sodom,
My weapons of war.
With you I will smash nations;
with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.
then it went well.
Is this not what it means to know Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The Lord spoke to Moses:
I have spent my strength for nothing and futility;
yet my vindication is with the Lord,
and my reward is with my God.
Then your peace would have been like a river,
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
The Lord will afflict you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, burning heat, drought,
I have kept to His way
Why this turmoil within me?
Put your hope in God, for I will still praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
You will have olive trees throughout your territory but not anoint yourself with oil, because your olives will drop off.
So Hilkiah and those the king had designated
He announced, “May God punish me and do so severely
Saul said, “Let’s go down after the Philistines tonight and plunder them until morning. Don’t let even one remain!”
“Do whatever you want,”
But the priest
Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David. His son Rehoboam
who has not set his mind
and who has not sworn deceitfully.
The priest replied, “The sword of Goliath the Philistine,
“There’s none like it!” David said. “Give it to me.”
He followed the example of Jeroboam son of Nebat and in his sins that he caused Israel to commit, provoking the Lord God of Israel with their worthless idols.
So Moses told Korah, “You and all your followers are to appear before the Lord tomorrow—you, they, and Aaron.
Though these nations you are about to drive out listen to fortune-tellers and diviners, the Lord your God has not permitted you to do this.
he blooms like a flower of the field;
I will send wild animals against you that will deprive you of your children, ravage your livestock, and reduce your numbers until your roads are deserted.
Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,
asking him to do them a favor against Paul,
You will preserve my life
from the anger of my enemies.
You will extend Your hand;
Your right hand will save me.
When the disciples saw it, they were amazed and said, “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?”
carrying the bag of seed,
he will surely come back with shouts of joy,
carrying his sheaves.
the torrents of destruction terrified me.
the one who hates correction will die.
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Write down on a scroll all the words that I have spoken to you,
I know, my God, that You test the heart
therefore, I will indeed gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace.
Then they reported
Then Isaiah said, “Bring a lump of pressed figs.” So they brought it and applied it to his infected skin, and he recovered.
she plants a vineyard with her earnings.
and chased from the inhabited world.
The Lord will establish you as His holy people,
they construct a ramp
and camp
Then Abishai son of Zeruiah said to the king, “Why should this dead dog
The Assyrians captured it at the end of three years. In the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Israel’s King Hoshea, Samaria was captured.
David’s uncle Jonathan was a counselor; he was a man of understanding and a scribe. Jehiel son of Hachmoni attended
But Jesus, knowing the thoughts of their hearts,
“He is to marry a woman who is a virgin.
Then Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find anyone like this, a man who has God’s spirit
When you offer your gifts, making your children pass through the fire,
and none can deliver from My hand.
I act, and who can reverse it?”
“When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your fathers, and gives it to you,
somewhere in a land of darkness.
I did not say to the descendants of Jacob:
Seek Me in a wasteland.
I, Yahweh, speak truthfully;
I say what is right.
and bring near to live in Your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your house,
the holiness of Your temple.
from the power of Sheol,
for He will take me.
and the honeycomb is sweet to your palate;
while his eyes are like the rays
They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”
Shimei said as he cursed: “Get out, get out, you worthless murderer!
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children belong to her master, and the man must leave alone.
So he brought all these to Him, split them down the middle, and laid the pieces opposite each other, but he did not cut up the birds.
So all the men of Israel deserted David and followed Sheba son of Bichri, but the men of Judah from the Jordan all the way to Jerusalem remained loyal to their king.
If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, do not cheat
They set out, went to Bethel, and inquired of God.
And the Lord answered, “Judah will be first.”
“If you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will multiply your plagues seven times for your sins.
Then Joseph settled his father and brothers in the land of Egypt and gave them property in the best part of the land, the land of Rameses,
Simeon, Levi, Judah,
Issachar, and Zebulun.
a refuge from the rain,
like streams of water
and the shade of a massive rock in an arid land.
They will serve the Lord their God and I will raise up David their king for them.”
and covered you in the shadow of My hand,
in order to plant
to found the earth,
and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”
for this is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘The flour jar will not become empty and the oil jug will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the surface of the land.”
Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah had urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
Then David said, “I’ll show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me.”
So David sent messengers to console him concerning his father. However, when David’s emissaries arrived in the land of the Ammonites to console him,
“I have sinned and perverted what was right;
yet I did not get what I deserved.
He pierces my kidneys without mercy
and pours my bile on the ground.
Do not forget the covenant that I have made with you.
Moses continued, “The Lord will give you meat to eat this evening and more than enough bread in the morning, for He has heard the complaints that you are raising against Him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the Lord.”
He instructs them by their torment.
in the morning you will see the Lord’s glory because He has heard your complaints about Him. For who are we that you complain about us?”
Manasseh set up the carved image of Asherah, which he made, in the temple that the Lord had spoken about to David and his son Solomon, “I will establish My name forever in this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel.
Then the Levites stood up:
Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel from the Merarites;
Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah from the Gershonites;
David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,
Then Saul’s son Jonathan came to David in Horesh and encouraged him in his faith in God,
The men of Israel saw that they were in trouble because the troops were in a difficult situation. They hid in caves, thickets, among rocks, and in holes and cisterns.
and your strength last as long as you live.
Lord of Hosts, God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim,
Therefore I say to the Israelites: None of you and no foreigner who lives among you may eat blood.
Then she said, “Here is my slave Bilhah. Go sleep with her, and she’ll bear children for me
So they continued on their journey, and the sun set as they neared Gibeah in Benjamin.
“The Jews,” he said, “have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the Sanhedrin tomorrow, as though they are going to hold a somewhat more careful inquiry about him.
The Philistines went up, camped in Judah, and raided Lehi.
a promise He will not abandon:
“I will set one of your descendants
on your throne.
This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother, ‘What has the Lord answered?’ or ‘What has the Lord spoken?’
with an everlasting salvation;
you will not be put to shame or humiliated
for all eternity.
than a rich man who distorts right and wrong.
The Lord says this:
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,
for there’s some good
so I will act because of My servants
and not destroy them all.
for no one alive is righteous in Your sight.
I put my hope in Your word.
A Maskil of Asaph.
Why does Your anger burn
against the sheep of Your pasture?
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.
As Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mountain. He sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar.
This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah
For the entrance of the inner sanctuary, he made olive wood doors.
and if I hold back, what have I lost?
When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, they all went in search of David; when David heard of this, he went out to face them.
But Amaziah would not listen, so King Jehoash of Israel advanced. He and King Amaziah of Judah faced off at Beth-shemesh
This is the length of Abraham’s life:
Within Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean with its towns, Ibleam with its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor with its towns;
especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. Therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
are like glaze on an earthen vessel.
Now on that day, the day when Gog comes against the land of Israel”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“My wrath will flare up.
Then certain ones said, “Come, let’s make plans against Jeremiah,
her gates languish.
Her people are on the ground in mourning;
Jerusalem’s cry rises up.
For you people will live on Zion in Jerusalem and will never cry again. He will show favor to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears, He will answer you.
each will fight against his brother
and each against his friend,
city against city, kingdom against kingdom.
but now I keep Your word.
a liar pays attention to a destructive tongue.
but the lips of the wise protect them.
He has ordained His covenant forever.
His name is holy and awe-inspiring.
deliver me from the power of my enemies
and from my persecutors.
Then Aaron replied to them, “Take off the gold rings
in the house of God;
I trust in God’s faithful love forever and ever.
from everlasting to everlasting.”
Then all the people said, “Amen” and “Praise the Lord.”
“May the Lord judge between you and me, and may the Lord take vengeance on you for me, but my hand will never be against you.
On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.
Then a letter came to Jehoram from Elijah the prophet, saying:
This is what Yahweh, the God of your ancestor David says: “Because you have not walked in the ways of your father Jehoshaphat
You may charge a foreigner interest, but you must not charge your brother interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in everything you do
As for the rest of the events of Pekah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.
They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.
just as the Lord commanded him through Moses. It was to be a reminder for the Israelites that no unauthorized person outside the lineage of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the Lord
From the tribe of Zebulun, they gave to the clans of the descendants of Merari,
Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,
So I will make My holy name known among My people Israel and will no longer allow it to be profaned. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
You are to slaughter the ram, take its blood, and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.
but you surpass them all!”
they will possess the land forever;
they are the branch I planted,
the work of My
so that I may be glorified.
Sheba
“The Lord who made the earth,
and does not bless its mother.
that four days each year the young women of Israel would commemorate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
When King Hezekiah heard their report,
If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime.
However, he did not put their children to death, because—as it is written in the Law, in the book of Moses,
Solomon rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of his father David.
This is the priests’ share from the people who offer a sacrifice, whether it is an ox, a sheep, or a goat; the priests are to be given the shoulder, jaws, and stomach.
Make them linen undergarments
If discharge is on the bed or the furniture she was sitting on, when he touches it he will be unclean until evening.
However, I will judge the nation they serve,
All 10 cities with their pasturelands were for the clans of Kohath’s other descendants.
Then the Angel of the Lord said to her, “You must go back to your mistress and submit to her mistreatment.”
But the land was unable to support them as long as they stayed together, for they had so many possessions that they could not stay together,
There the centurion found an Alexandrian ship sailing for Italy and put us on board.
Her spirit returned,
therefore He shows sinners the way.
Your wonderful works and Your plans for us;
none can compare with You.
If I were to report and speak of them,
they are more than can be told.
Therefore, when they had assembled here, I did not delay. The next day I sat at the judge’s bench and ordered the man to be brought in.
But Jesus said to them,
they remember You in Your ways.
But we have sinned, and You were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?
Whoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel would be put to death, young or old,
My frailty rises up against me and testifies to my face.
I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed. I will pour out torrential rain, hailstones, fire, and brimstone on him, as well as his troops and the many peoples who are with him.
and bring all the people back to you. When everyone returns except the man you’re seeking, all
He put a three-day journey between himself and Jacob. Jacob, meanwhile, was shepherding the rest of Laban’s flock.
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Then Joshua crossed from Lachish to Eglon and all Israel with him. They laid siege to it and attacked it.
From the tribe of Reuben they gave:
Bezer
The tribe of Benjamin will be next. The leader of the Benjaminites is Abidan son of Gideoni.
“But you were confident in your beauty and acted like a prostitute because of your fame.
what I have decreed for you—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
because you have forgotten Me
and trusted in Falsehood.
blind yourselves and be blind!
They are drunk,
they stagger,
or he will curse you,
shaking his fist at the mountain of Daughter Zion,
the hill of Jerusalem.
will come to rest
in the assembly of the departed spirits.
and strike my cheeks with contempt;
they join themselves together against me.
the inheritance the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
But if he didn’t intend any harm,
but a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.
I will give one tribe
No man of Aaron’s descendants who has a skin disease
All of these
The Lord spoke to Moses,
and the sea covered them.
They sank like lead
in the mighty waters.
But, they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer.
David replied to Achish, “Good, you will find out what your servant can do.”
So Achish said to David, “Very well, I will appoint you as my permanent bodyguard.”
This is what the Lord God says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen nothing.
When we had put out to sea from there, we sailed along the northern coast
love the Lord your God, obey Him, and remain faithful
for all Your commands are righteous.
and had prepared a large room for him where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the articles, and the tenths of grain, new wine, and oil
The governor
So David assembled all Israel,
When the territory of the Danites slipped out of their control,
Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.
It turned eastward to Beth-dagon, passed Zebulun and the Valley of Iphtah-el, north toward Beth-emek and Neiel, and went north to Cabul,
They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites.
and said to the entire Israelite community: “The land we passed through and explored is an extremely good land.
They will stumble over one another as if fleeing from a sword though no one is pursuing them. You will not be able to stand against your enemies.
Whoever lies down in the house is to wash his clothes, and whoever eats in it is to wash his clothes.
The appearance of the Lord’s glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire
So now you, along with the Sanhedrin, make a request to the commander that he bring him down to you
On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days.”
Then Moses said to the entire Israelite community, “This is what the Lord has commanded:
They blessed Rebekah, saying to her:
thousands upon ten thousands.
May your offspring possess
the gates of their
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.
These are the names of the Israelites, Jacob and his sons, who went to Egypt:
“So this is what the Lord God says: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob
studied by all who delight in them.
The word of the Lord came to me:
your eyes like pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
looking toward Damascus.
A song. A psalm of Asaph.
Do not be deaf, God; do not be idle.
and I examined the case of the stranger.
Will it plow the valleys behind you?
trample the wicked where they stand.
or what inheritance from the Almighty on high?
In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa developed a disease in his feet, and his disease became increasingly severe. Yet even in his disease he didn’t seek the Lord but only the physicians.
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob. I will also remember My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
Eliphal son of Ur,
Then Jehu will put to death whoever escapes the sword of Hazael,
The king replied, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything?
So Moses returned to the Lord and said, “Oh, these people have committed a grave sin; they have made a god of gold for themselves.
When Jobab died, Husham from the land of the Temanites
In the thirty-seventh year of Judah’s King Joash, Jehoash son of Jehoahaz became king over Israel in Samaria and reigned 16 years.
The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee; you are not to sow, reap what grows by itself, or harvest its untended vines.
Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel.
But Balaam responded to the servants of Balak, “If Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go against the command of the Lord my God to do anything small or great.
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:
and full plumage of many colors
came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
“Now I know for certain you will be king, and the kingdom of Israel will be established
When she is cured of her discharge, she is to count seven days, and after that she will be clean.
The God of Abraham, and the gods
Send them away, so they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”
“You are to weave the tunic from fine linen, make a turban of fine linen, and make an embroidered sash.
from the distant horizon—
the Lord and the weapons of His wrath—
to destroy the whole country.
and the coasts and islands bring tribute,
the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
and a rod for the backs of fools.
When the word spread, the Israelites gave liberally of the best of the grain, new wine, oil, honey, and of all the produce of the field, and they brought in an abundance, a tenth
and number all my steps?
Then Jesse presented Shammah,
However, one of the sons of Ahimelech son of Ahitub escaped. His name was Abiathar,
From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth.
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.
Everyone who touches them will be unclean; he must wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
I was 40 years old when Moses the Lord’s servant sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought back an honest report.
“The territory of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam,
So the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and who returned and incited the entire community to complain about him by spreading a negative report about the land—
For the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.
So when they had gathered together, Pilate said to them, “Who is it you want me to release for you—Barabbas,
When defeated, they will be helped by some, but many others will join them insincerely.
and no one from the nations was with Me.
I trampled them in My anger
and ground them underfoot in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
As for me, this mystery has been revealed to me,
is like clouds and wind without rain.
Then he looked, and there at his head was a loaf of bread baked over hot stones, and a jug of water.
or become excited when trouble came his way?
the place
and my close friends have forgotten me.
So Saul watched David jealously from that day forward.
David captured 1,000 chariots, 7,000 horsemen, and 20,000 foot soldiers from him, hamstrung all the horses, and kept 100 chariots.
and removed the crown from my head.
Job continued his discourse, saying:
Then Shaphan the court secretary told the king, “Hilkiah the priest has given me a book,” and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king.
“Yahweh is the God of gods! Yahweh is the God of gods!
“The Lord your God is commanding you this day to follow these statutes and ordinances. You must be careful to follow them with all your heart and all your soul.
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.
but if you return to the city and tell Absalom, ‘I will be your servant, my king! Previously, I was your father’s servant, but now I will be your servant,’ then you can counteract Ahithophel’s counsel for me.
So David swore to Saul. Then Saul went back home, and David and his men went up to the stronghold.
When the Lord your God blesses you as He has promised you, you will lend to many nations but not borrow; you will rule over many nations, but they will not rule over you.
“We had dreams,” they said to him, “but there is no one to interpret them.”
Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
In the morning he devours the prey,
and in the evening he divides the plunder.”
He gave her his hand and helped her stand up. Then he called the saints and widows and presented her alive.
for all in her household are doubly clothed.
You will advance against My people Israel like a cloud covering the land. It will happen in the last days, Gog, that I will bring you against My land so that the nations may know Me, when I show Myself holy through you in their sight.
praise Him with harp and lyre.
pay attention to the word of the Lord!
Have I been a wilderness to Israel
or a land of dense darkness?
Why do My people claim,
“We will go where we want;
we will no longer come to You”?
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?
come from the mouth of the Most High?
and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.
“This is what the Lord said to me: Make chains and yoke bars
it will then come down on Edom
and on the people I have set apart for destruction.
you traitor never betrayed!
When you have finished destroying,
you will be destroyed.
When you have finished betraying,
they will betray you.
you will see a vast land.
ס Samek
but I love Your instruction.
I will sing about Your name.
and your mouth
Behind your veil,
your brow
their cows calve and do not miscarry.
His armor-bearer responded, “Do what is in your heart. You choose. I’m right here with you whatever you decide.”
within your house,
your sons, like young olive trees
around your table.
the bread displayed before the Lord,
He set the peeled branches in the troughs in front of the sheep—in the water channels where the sheep came to drink. And the sheep bred when they came to drink.
So the Israelites went up to Baal-perazim, and David defeated the Philistines there. Then David said, “Like a bursting flood, God has used me to burst out against my enemies.” Therefore, they named that place the Lord Bursts Out.
The Lord said to Moses,
a man for My purpose from a far country.
Yes, I have spoken; so I will also bring it about.
I have planned it; I will also do it.
all Your breakers and Your billows have swept over me.
I will lead him and restore comfort
to him and his mourners,
He will get control over the hidden treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt. The Libyans and Cushites will also be in submission.
In the letters, she wrote:
Proclaim a fast
Now we pray to God that you do nothing wrong—not that we may appear to pass the test, but that you may do what is right,
Based on what they could give, they gave 61,000 gold coins,
Roll in the dust,
Because the days of your slaughter have come,
you will fall and become shattered like a precious vase.
Then Zedekiah
Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth.
He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.
let the fields and all that is in them exult.
250 prominent Israelite men who were leaders of the community and representatives in the assembly, and they rebelled against Moses.
Isn’t the whole land before you? Separate from me: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”
Since the Lord had decreed
This is why I am writing these things while absent, that when I am there I will not use severity, in keeping with the authority the Lord gave me for building up
So Ephron’s field
and I saw the glory of the God of Israel
This proposal seemed good to Absalom and all the elders of Israel.
Any bed she lies on during the days of her discharge will be like her bed during menstrual impurity; any furniture she sits on will be unclean as in her menstrual period.
He threw off his coat,
“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: This is what the Lord has commanded:
and wrap themselves in sackcloth.
They weep over you
with deep anguish and bitter mourning.
he doesn’t know that poverty will come to him.
So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face,
is the joy of the whole earth.
Mount Zion on the slopes of the north
is the city of the great King.
Your judgments, like the deepest sea.
Lord, You preserve man and beast.
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting them,
and provides food for her household
and portions
thinking: No eye will see me;
he covers his face.
“Take this book of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God so that it may remain there as a witness against you.
and went south of the Ascent of Akrabbim,
Then
After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the Lord had commanded him.
But Esau ran to meet him, hugged him, threw his arms around him, and kissed him. Then they wept.
It is to be eaten on the same day.
But He didn’t answer him on even one charge, so that the governor was greatly amazed.
“Micah the Moreshite
Jerusalem will become ruins,
and the temple mount a forested hill.’
blow a ram’s horn among the nations;
set apart the nations against her.
Summon kingdoms against her—
Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
Appoint a marshal against her;
bring up horses like a swarm
its hills stand out like the folds of a garment.
Hallelujah!
Praise the name of Yahweh.
Give praise, you servants of Yahweh
She grabbed him by his garment and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his garment in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
because they did not meet the Israelites with food and water. Instead, they hired Balaam against them to curse them,
When they came to Chidon’s threshing floor,
She said to them, “This is what the Lord God of Israel says, ‘Say to the man who sent you to Me:
Then Job answered:
So the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, temple singers, some of the people, temple servants, and all Israel settled in their towns.
When the seventh month
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David said to Ahimelech, “Do you have a spear or sword on hand? I didn’t even bring my sword or my weapons since the king’s mission was urgent.”
and blessed in the country.
Then Abijah stood on Mount Zemaraim,
Afterward, they carried Asahel to his father’s tomb in Bethlehem and buried him. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at dawn.
The family leaders from the clan of the descendants of Gilead—the son of Machir, son of Manasseh—who were from the clans of the sons of Joseph, approached and addressed Moses and the leaders who were over the Israelite families.
Reuben’s descendants:
the Hanochite clan from Hanoch;
the Palluite clan from Pallu;
Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord
Then Balaam saw Amalek and proclaimed his poem:
but his future is destruction.
That is why she named the spring, “A Well of the Living One Who Sees Me.”
There are doubtless many different kinds of languages in the world, and all have meaning.
“Since I couldn’t see because of the brightness of that light, I was led by the hand by those who were with me, and came into Damascus.
He understands all things.
He burned the Lord’s temple,
I have become an object of scorn to them.
and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?”
Burning sulfur
When Aaron saw this, he built an altar before it; then he made an announcement: “There will be a festival
Saul sent agents to David’s house to watch for him and kill him in the morning.
It will be a covenant of perpetual priesthood for him and his future descendants,
But Jonadab, son of David’s brother Shimeah,
Then King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, “Offer on the great altar the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, and the king’s burnt offering and his grain offering. Also offer the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of sacrifice. The bronze altar will be for me to seek guidance.”
For they are not meaningless words to you but they are your life, and by them you will live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
But the Lord was with Joseph and extended kindness to him.
But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become thorns in your eyes and in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.
he took 600 of the best chariots and all the rest of the chariots of Egypt, with officers in each one.
So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Don’t tell anyone that you have informed me about this.”
Jesus stopped and said,
So they called the blind man and said to him, “Have courage!
The high priest then stood up and said to Him, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?”
“Then the inhabitants of Israel’s cities will go out, kindle fires, and burn the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them to make fires.
They must teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and explain to them the difference between the clean and the unclean.
and a newly created people will praise the Lord:
to destroy all the Philistines,
to cut off from Tyre and Sidon
every remaining ally.
Indeed, the Lord is about to destroy the Philistines,
the remnant of the islands of Caphtor.
they will speak of you as ministers of our God;
you will eat the wealth of the nations,
and you will boast in their riches.
and a double-edged sword in their hands,
or your efforts on those who destroy kings.
or change what My lips have said.
A Davidic psalm for remembrance.
or discipline me in Your wrath.
and took hold of me;
He pulled me out of deep waters.
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
At that time David was in the stronghold,
So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah the king’s son, which was in the guard’s courtyard, lowering Jeremiah with ropes. There was no water in the cistern, only mud, and Jeremiah sank in the mud.
He defeated 20 of their cities with a great slaughter from Aroer all the way to the entrance of Minnith and to Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued
They camped opposite each other for seven days. On the seventh day,
When they brought out the money that had been deposited in the Lord’s temple, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of the Lord written by the hand of Moses.
“If a man consecrates to the Lord any part of a field that he possesses, your assessment of value will be proportional to the seed needed to sow it, at the rate of 50 silver shekels for every five bushels
Jehoshaphat rested with his fathers and was buried with them in the city of his ancestor David.
So Saul inquired of God,
After him, Eleazar son of Dodo son of an Ahohite was among the three warriors with David when they defied the Philistines. The men of Israel retreated in the place they had gathered for battle,
Then the Benjaminites came out against the people and were drawn away from the city.
and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
The Lord will grant you a blessing on your storehouses and on everything you do;
all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim,
I will drive them out before the Israelites, only distribute the land as an inheritance for Israel, as I have commanded you.
By My great strength and outstretched arm,
This is what the Lord God says: “Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah
About Damascus:
for they have heard a bad report and are agitated;
in the sea there is anxiety that cannot be calmed.
He calls righteousness to his feet.
The Lord hands nations over to him,
and he subdues kings.
He makes them like dust with his sword,
like wind-driven stubble with his bow.
From the rising of the sun to its setting,
let the name of Yahweh be praised.
This is what the Lord says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and announce this word there.
we were joyful.
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I put my hope in Your word.
nor any of those descending into the silence of death.
and said: “I have granted help to a warrior;
I have exalted one chosen
and He will recognize my integrity.
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, I crossed over this Jordan with my staff, and now I have become two camps.
People who live in you accept bribes in order to shed blood.
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,
Then he said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the matter of judgment.
“When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes will stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.
and reveals that her arms are strong.
You have said, ‘I will cause you to prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.’”
The rest of the events of Omri’s reign, along with his accomplishments and the might he exercised, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen down on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
But Moses became furious with the officers, the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds, who were returning from the military campaign.
On that same day the Lord spoke to Moses,
“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”
Your older sister was Samaria,
prepare a way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;
clear away the stones!
Raise a banner for the peoples.
In the seventh month, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family and one of the king’s chief officers, came with 10 men to Gedaliah son of Ahikam at Mizpah. They ate a meal together there in Mizpah,
and you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey Him with all your heart and all your soul by doing
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.
I call for help, but there is no justice.
he went and got the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the leaders of Jabesh-gilead. They had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies the day the Philistines killed Saul at Gilboa.
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations remaining among you,
they make it a source of springwater;
even the autumn rain will cover it with blessings.
by perverting the justice due the innocent.
“Get out of the way!” they said, adding, “This one came here as a foreigner, but he’s acting like a judge!
and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or a virgin is concerned about the things of the Lord,
Then David’s forces marched into the field to engage Israel in battle, which took place in the forest of Ephraim.
The fourth lot came out for the tribe of Issachar’s descendants by their clans.
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
These are the waters of Meribah,
Moses alone is to approach the Lord, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him.”
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
“Son of man, this is what the Lord God says: Tell every kind of bird and all the wild animals: Assemble and come! Gather from all around to My sacrificial feast that I am slaughtering for you, a great feast on the mountains of Israel;
He will show compassion
according to His abundant, faithful love.
and while I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar.
In the tenth year, in the tenth month on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
And I replied, “Oh no, Lord God! The prophets are telling them, ‘You won’t see sword or suffer famine. I will certainly give you true peace in this place.’”
in safe and secure dwellings.
So Ahab went to his palace resentful and angry
it never lacks mixed wine.
Your waist
surrounded by lilies.
it would destroy my entire harvest.
If there is a man among you who is unclean because of a bodily emission during the night, he must go outside the camp; he may not come anywhere inside the camp.
Asaph was the chief and Zechariah was second to him. Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel played the harps and lyres, while Asaph sounded the cymbals
The Levites included:
Jeshua’s and Kadmiel’s descendants
from Hodaviah’s descendants
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When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell with his face to the ground, and bowed three times.
But that night
Now his father and mother did not know this was from the Lord,
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Pharaoh’s dreams mean the same thing. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
Deeply distressed, each one began to say to Him, “Surely not I, Lord?”
The priest will reexamine him on the seventh day. If it has spread further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.
who acted like prostitutes in Egypt,
As for the incense you are making, you must not make any for yourselves using its formula. It is to be regarded by you as sacred to the Lord.
I will send an angel ahead of you and will drive out the Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites,
therefore this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Tyre!
“Look, everyone who uses proverbs will say this proverb about you:
who has put his trust in the Lord
and has not turned to the proud
or to those who run after lies!
You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ sins on their sons’ laps after them,
I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and they will eat each other’s flesh in the siege and distress that their enemies, those who want to take their life, inflict on them.
and don’t go to your brother’s house
in your time of calamity;
better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
in his imagination it is like a high wall.
About Egypt and the army of Pharaoh Neco, Egypt’s king,
A prayer of an afflicted person who is weak and pours out his lament before the Lord.
let my cry for help come before You.
and spread its wings to the south?
When David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, with his drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth,
and their foundations
A Levite called Mattithiah, the firstborn of Shallum the Korahite, was entrusted with baking the bread.
As a shepherd looks for his sheep on the day he is among his scattered flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered
Then the Lord said to me, ‘They have spoken well.
acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.
I will put juniper trees in the desert,
elms and cypress trees together,
Then Ishbi-benob, one of the descendants of the giant,
But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, stay. I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you.”
for the mass of people followed, yelling, “Take him away!”
But they would not listen. Instead they became obstinate like
and listen to Me, My nation;
for instruction will come from Me,
and My justice for a light to the nations.
I will bring it about quickly.
“I will send fire against Magog
“Why do we need any more testimony,” they said, “since we’ve heard it ourselves from His mouth?”
with the blood of the innocent poor.
You did not catch them breaking and entering.
But in spite of all these things
You refined us as silver is refined.
my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You put me into the dust of death.
take it to heart, you transgressors!
one who safeguards understanding finds success.
grace flows from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.
My king, Araunah gives everything here to the king.” Then he said to the king, “May the Lord your God accept you.”
Prepare a quart
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
I brought him to Your disciples, but they couldn’t heal him.”
he does not let anything he desires escape.
“As you see, the Lord has kept me alive these 45 years as He promised,
Therefore write down this song
do not be afraid—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and do not be dismayed, Israel,
for without fail I will save you from far away,
your descendants, from the land of their captivity!
Jacob will return and have calm and quiet
with no one to frighten him.
But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men who are sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own excrement and drink their own urine?”
A song of ascents.
and He answered me.
It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.
Then she said to him, “My father, you have given your word to the Lord. Do to me as you have said, for the Lord brought vengeance on your enemies, the Ammonites.”
He is to shave off all his hair again on the seventh day: his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He is to wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; he is clean.
than a fool in his foolishness.
and share an inheritance among brothers.
Bow down to him, for he is your lord.
but has come from a distant land
because of Your name—
Barzillai replied to the king, “How many years of my life are left that I should go up to Jerusalem with the king?
But as for you, be strong; don’t be discouraged,
May You judge Your servants,
condemning the wicked man by bringing
what he has done on his own head
and providing justice for the righteous
by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
“Lord, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “give me success today,
Balaam said to him, “Look, I have come to you, but can I say anything I want? I must speak only the message God puts in my mouth.”
“If Your presence does not go,” Moses responded to Him, “don’t make us go up from here.
These are the statutes, ordinances, and laws the Lord established between Himself and the Israelites through Moses on Mount Sinai.
the One who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God; I am Yahweh.”
The robe must be worn by Aaron whenever he ministers, and its sound will be heard when he enters the sanctuary before the Lord and when he exits, so that he does not die.
who blows on the charcoal fire
and produces a weapon suitable for its task;
and I have created the destroyer to cause havoc.
Then Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the commander, because he has something to report to him.”
Pharaoh will say of the Israelites: They are wandering around the land in confusion; the wilderness has boxed them in.
Search for the Lord and for His strength;
seek His face always.
is like a gold ring or an ornament of gold.
He is exalted in power!
He will not oppress justice and abundant righteousness,
Our God, will You not judge them?
Then the officials and all the people told the priests and prophets, “This man doesn’t deserve the death sentence, for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God!”
You will clothe Yourself
with their remaining wrath.
You let them drink from Your refreshing stream,
Vindicate me, God, and defend my cause
against an ungodly nation;
rescue me from the deceitful and unjust man.
“A man who is clean is to gather up the cow’s ashes and deposit them outside the camp in a ceremonially clean place. The ashes must be kept by the Israelite community for preparing the water to remove impurity; it is a sin offering.
Then David took the crown from the head of their king,
Anyone in the open field who touches a person who has been killed by the sword or has died, or who even touches a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
“At the beginning of each of your months present a burnt offering to the Lord: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—
As Jehu entered the gate, she said, “Do you come in peace, Zimri,
But whenever Moses went before the Lord to speak with Him, he would remove the veil until he came out. After he came out, he would tell the Israelites what he had been commanded,
by Your great majesty.
You unleashed Your burning wrath;
it consumed them like stubble.
When
But when Paul appealed to be held for trial by the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I could send him to Caesar.”
And He asked them,
When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.”
and My people will be satisfied with My goodness.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
For the choir director: according to “A Silent Dove Far Away.”
he fights and oppresses me all day long.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says concerning Jehoiakim
“Woe, my brother!” or “Woe, my sister!”
They will not mourn for him, saying,
“Woe, lord! Woe, his majesty!”
but wickedness undermines the sinner.
the hair of your head like purple cloth—
a king could be held captive
When your time comes to be with your fathers, I will raise up after you your descendant, who is one of your own sons, and I will establish his kingdom.
or were you brought forth before the hills?
The Lord said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute
Then he took the calf they had made, burned it up, and ground it to powder. He scattered the powder over the surface of the water and forced the Israelites to drink the water.
For the Lord humbled Judah because of King Ahaz of Judah,
he said to them, “Take to heart all these words I am giving as a warning to you today, so that you may command your children to carefully follow all the words of this law.
At their cries, all the people of Israel who were around them fled because they thought, “The earth may swallow us too!”
After he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, you must bury me in the grave where the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones,
Then Gideon son of Joash died at a ripe old age and was buried in the tomb of his father Joash in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me,
to the site where he had built the altar. And Abram called on the name of Yahweh there.
And they came out of the tombs after His resurrection, entered the holy city, and appeared to many.
So Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the Lord’s temple.
shout, depths of the earth.
Break out into singing, mountains,
forest, and every tree in it.
For the Lord has redeemed Jacob,
and glorifies Himself through Israel.
but the Lord made the heavens.
Ahab said to Elijah, “So, you have caught me, my enemy.”
He replied, “I have caught you because you devoted
When all this was completed, all Israel who had attended went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars
His spear shaft
you sons of a sorceress,
offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!
On that same day men were placed in charge of the rooms
I hid My face
but I will have compassion on you
with everlasting love,”
says the Lord your Redeemer.
“Aaron will present the bull for his sin offering and make atonement for himself and his household.
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn,
David also defeated King Hadadezer of Zobah at Hamath when he went to establish his control at the Euphrates River.
After him was Shammah son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines had assembled in formation where there was a field full of lentils. The troops fled from the Philistines,
In that first assault Jonathan and his armor-bearer struck down about 20 men in a half-acre field.
So Israel set up an ambush
so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”