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a delightful child?
Whenever I speak against him,
I certainly still think about him.
Therefore, My inner being yearns for him;
I will truly have compassion on him.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
He said about Asher:
may he be the most favored among his brothers
and dip his foot in olive oil.
the priest must examine the infection. If it appears to be deeper than the skin,
the earth is full of the Lord’s unfailing love.
Then Absalom sent messengers throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom has become king in Hebron!’”
That man will see His face
and God will restore his righteousness to him.
Since they stayed there many days, Festus presented Paul’s case to the king, saying, “There’s a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.
While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.
“Therefore,” he said, “let the men of authority among you go down with me and accuse him, if there is any wrong in this man.”
and silver cannot be weighed out for its price.
However, so that I will not burden you any further, I beg you in your graciousness to give us a brief hearing.
Who is like you,
a people saved by the Lord?
He is the shield that protects you,
the sword you boast in.
Your enemies will cringe before you,
and you will tread on their backs.
like gardens beside a stream,
like aloes the Lord has planted,
like cedars beside the water.
for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the Lord, that the Lord has sent us to destroy it.”
Therefore swear to me by the Lord that you will not cut off my descendants or wipe out my name from my father’s family.”
He said to the people, “Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women.”
Ephron was sitting among the Hittites. So in the presence
and will also rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the Lord,
the splendor of our God.
or a lioness—who dares to rouse him?
Those who bless you will be blessed,
and those who curse you will be cursed.
and My right hand spread out the heavens;
when I summoned them,
they stood up together.
The Levites are to camp around the tabernacle of the testimony and watch over it, so that no wrath will fall on the Israelite community.”
The demons came out of the man and entered the pigs, and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the lake and drowned.
the Lord of Hosts will become a crown of beauty
and a diadem of splendor
to the remnant of His people,
About Moab,
Kiriathaim will be put to shame;
The fortress will be put to shame and dismayed!
from the east, the west, or the desert,
and take away a king in My wrath.
When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not bring themselves to speak peaceably to him.
don’t ignore it.
He thwarts the plans of the peoples.
We will bring a loaf from our first batch of dough
but those who keep the law battle against them.
my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time is completed. I want to sleep with
The king of Israel answered, “Say this: ‘Don’t let the one who puts on his armor boast
or a booth set up by a watchman.
He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
They crossed the Jordan and camped in Aroer,
When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go unharmed?
Make tunics, sashes, and headbands for Aaron’s sons to give them glory and beauty.
the poor go out to their task of foraging for food;
the wilderness provides nourishment for their children.
This is what the Lord says:
and your eyes from tears,
for the reward for your work will come—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and your children will return from the enemy’s land.
from the north and from the west,
and from the land of Sinim.
I asked them, “Have you seen the one I love?”
I say, “You are my God.”
for themselves will multiply;
I will not pour out their drink offerings of blood,
and I will not speak their names with my lips.
and from the descendants of the priests: the descendants of Hobaiah, the descendants of Hakkoz, the descendants of Barzillai—who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name.
So the Lord his God handed Ahaz over
Ahaz was also handed over to the king of Israel, who struck him with great force:
or argue the case in His defense?
There on the stones, Joshua copied the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the Israelites.
God sent me ahead of you to establish you as a remnant within the land and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.
When Ben-hadad heard this response, while he and the kings were drinking
because of Jacob My servant
and Israel My chosen one.
I give a name to you,
though you do not know Me.
Hiddai from the wadis of Gaash,
You are not to cheat one another, but fear your God, for I am Yahweh your God.
and nurse at the breast of kings;
you will know that I, Yahweh, am your Savior
and Redeemer,
Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel of Beth-maacah. All the Berites
my clothing was sackcloth;
I humbled myself with fasting,
and my prayer was genuine.
his heart is confident, trusting in the Lord.
through the streets and the plazas.
I will seek the one I love.
I sought him, but did not find him.
so that I can answer anyone who taunts me.
but a poor man is separated from his friend.
and think about Your ways.
They are not to be sold as slaves,
I have become a man people spit at.
So he said to the people of Judah, “Let’s build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars.
therefore You will not honor them.
because You have acted faithfully,
while we have acted wickedly.
Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation,
their shepherds have led them astray,
guiding them the wrong way in the mountains.
They have wandered from mountain to hill;
they have forgotten their resting place.
Early in the morning Samuel got up to confront Saul, but it was reported to Samuel, “Saul went to Carmel
the twenty-second to Giddalti, his sons, and his brothers—12
Then Elijah said, “As the Lord of Hosts lives,
Then the king appointed Benaiah son of Jehoiada in Joab’s place over the army,
That is why, to this day, the Israelites don’t eat the thigh muscle that is at the hip socket: because He struck Jacob’s hip socket at the thigh muscle.
the land mourns because of the curse,
and the grazing lands in the wilderness have dried up.
Their way of life
and their power is not rightly used
he does not learn righteousness.
In a righteous land he acts unjustly
and does not see the majesty of the Lord.
it rejoices like an athlete running a course.
On the seventh
Then Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Get your chariot ready and go down so the rain doesn’t stop you.’”
Those who know
and “What can the Almighty do to us?”
He brought out the people who were in it and put them to work with saws,
Together with Zadok
Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant and said, ‘Hand over the one who killed his brother so we may put him to death for the life of the brother he murdered. We will destroy the heir!’ They would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on earth.”
Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second,
Joah the third, Sachar the fourth,
Nethanel the fifth,
and reigned 41 years in Jerusalem. His grandmother’s
Joab replied to the king, “May the Lord your God multiply the troops 100 times more than they are
Then the king responded to the man of God, “Plead for the favor of the Lord your God and pray for me
One of you routed a thousand
This will be the sign that will come to you concerning your two sons Hophni and Phinehas:
This is how to cancel debt: Every creditor
Saul heard that David and his men had been discovered. At that time Saul was in Gibeah, sitting under the tamarisk tree
“Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
Unleavened bread is to be eaten for those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, and no yeast may be found among you in all your territory.
So they set up for themselves Micah’s carved image that he had made, and it was there as long as the house of God was in Shiloh.
Then he said, “Why? What has He done wrong?”
But they kept shouting, “Crucify Him!” all the more.
He shatters bows and cuts spears to pieces;
He burns up the chariots.
When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove,
they became satisfied;
they were satisfied,
and their hearts became proud.
Therefore they forgot Me.
So the king commanded Ebed-melech, the Cushite, “Take from here 30 men under your authority and pull Jeremiah the prophet up from the cistern before he dies.”
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands; they have committed adultery with their idols. They have even made the children they bore to Me pass through the fire as food for the idols.
therefore, I call her:
Rahab Who Just Sits.
its streams delight the city of God,
the holy dwelling place of the Most High.
When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on.
At Abinadab’s house
Instead, you must kill him. Your hand is to be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
and her hands hold the spindle.
Every kind of living creature that swarms will live wherever the river flows,
Hushai then told the priests Zadok and Abiathar, “This is what
Now Absalom and all the Israelites came to Jerusalem. Ahithophel was also with him.
If anyone is hungry, he should eat at home, so that when you gather together you will not come under judgment. And I will give instructions about the other matters whenever I come.
Please come and put a curse on these people for me because they are more powerful than I am. I may be able to defeat them and drive them out of the land, for I know that those you bless are blessed and those you curse are cursed.”
Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.
The chief of the Levite leaders was Eleazar
My salvation appears,
and My arms will bring justice to the nations.
The coastlands
and they will look to My strength.
Over and above what I am giving your brothers, I am giving you the one mountain slope
and I will restrain Myself for your benefit and for My praise,
so that you will not be destroyed.
and teach from Your law
and you have failed to remember
the rock of your strength;
therefore you will plant beautiful plants
and set out cuttings from exotic vines.
As for the prophet who prophesies peace—only when the word of the prophet comes true will the prophet be recognized as one the Lord has truly sent.”
soaring on the wings of the wind.
you thought I was just like you.
But I will rebuke you
and lay out the case before you.
The power of the Lord
Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
The following are those who came from Tel-melah, Tel-harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer but were unable to prove that their families and ancestry were Israelite:
If its owner is there with it, the man does not have to make restitution. If it was rented, the loss is covered by
“You must not go!”
Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven
When Joab had turned back from pursuing Abner, he gathered all the troops. In addition to Asahel, 19 of David’s soldiers were missing,
Then the high priest stood up before them all and questioned Jesus, “Don’t You have an answer to what these men are testifying against You?”
If they ask you, ‘Where will we go?’ you must tell them: This is what the Lord says:
those destined for the sword, to the sword.
Those destined for famine, to famine;
those destined for captivity, to captivity.
Praise Him, all His angels;
praise Him, all His hosts.
your breasts are clusters of fruit.
many troubles and misfortunes,
but You will revive me again.
You will bring me up again,
even from the depths of the earth.
over the Wadi of the Willows.
When David saw the angel striking the people, he said to the Lord, “Look, I am the one who has sinned; I am the one
I clothed you in embroidered cloth and provided you with leather sandals. I also wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.
and gracious lips—the king is his friend.
closely sealed together.
Do they report to you: “Here we are”?
He sacrificed and burned incense
The messengers then returned and said, “This is what Ben-hadad says: ‘I have sent messengers to you, saying: You are to give me your silver, your gold, your wives, and your children.
“The cities you give the Levites will include six cities of refuge,
Abijam walked in all the sins his father before him had committed,
and your lips from deceitful speech.
Then Saul summoned the troops and counted them at Telaim: 200,000 foot soldiers and 10,000 men from Judah.
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech
If they fast, I will not hear their cry of despair. If they offer burnt offering and grain offering, I will not accept them. Rather, I will finish them off by sword, famine, and plague.”
With the other half of the tribe, the Reubenites and Gadites had received the inheritance Moses gave them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the Lord’s servant had given them:
None of the good promises the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed. Everything was fulfilled.
like that of a mighty people!
Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms,
like nations being gathered together!
The Lord of Hosts is mobilizing an army for war.
a memorial and a name
better than sons and daughters.
I will give each of them an everlasting name
that will never be cut off.
along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (because Moses had said, “I have been a foreigner in a foreign land”)
Devouring fire precedes Him,
and a storm rages around Him.
At the time you cross the Jordan into the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must set up large stones and cover them with plaster.
Then Job died, old and full of days.
“Do not take a pair of millstones or an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that is like taking a life as security.
And tell the Israelites: If anyone curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.
That night God spoke to Israel in a vision:
And Jacob replied, “Here I am.”
Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the Lord.
As soon as the kingdom was firmly in his grasp, Amaziah killed his servants who had murdered his father the king.
“Indeed, you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and passed through the nations where you traveled.
Meanwhile, the cloud of the Lord was over them by day when they set out from the camp.
in reed vessels on the waters.
to a nation tall and smooth-skinned,
to a people feared far and near,
a powerful nation with a strange language,
whose land is divided by rivers.
Otherwise, what will you do afterward
if your opponent
and Your instruction is true.
made by human hands.
The God of glory thunders—
the Lord, above vast waters,
In the eleventh year,
Zedekiah was 21 years old when he became king and reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
whose fugitives flee as far as Zoar,
to Eglath-shelishiyah;
they go up the slope of Luhith weeping;
they raise a cry of destruction
on the road to Horonaim.
My conscience
I appointed as treasurers over the storehouses Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, son of Mattaniah to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy.
but those who died in the plague numbered 24,000.
So he went out and caught 300 foxes.
At Gath there was still another battle. A huge man was there with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—24 in all. He, too, was descended from the giant.
Meanwhile, Abraham ran to the herd and got a tender, choice calf. He gave it to a young man, who hurried to prepare it.
He walked in the way of Asa his father; he did not turn away from it but did what was right in the Lord’s sight.
They also delivered the king’s edicts to the royal satraps and governors of the region west of the Euphrates,
One of Saul’s servants, detained before the Lord, was there that day. His name was Doeg the Edomite,
The Lord told Moses, “Put Aaron’s staff back in front of the testimony to be kept as a sign
No man who has any defect is to come near: no man who is blind, lame, facially disfigured, or deformed;
How will it be known that I and Your people have found favor in Your sight unless You go with us? I and Your people will be distinguished by this from all the other people on the face of the earth.”
The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the Lord because of her unclean discharge.
if he can later get up and walk around outside leaning on his staff, then the one who struck him will be exempt from punishment. Nevertheless, he must pay for his lost work time
Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or
Why was there no one to answer when I called?
Is My hand too short to redeem?
Or do I have no power to deliver?
Look, I dry up the sea by My rebuke;
I turn the rivers into a wilderness;
their fish rot because of lack of water
and die of thirst.
After this, he built the outer wall of the city of David from west of Gihon
Anoint Aaron and his sons and consecrate
But a man drew his bow without taking special aim and struck the king of Israel through the joints of his armor. So he said to the charioteer, “Turn around and take me out of the battle,
for there is no one who does not sin
and You are angry with them
and hand them over to the enemy,
and their captors deport them
to a distant or nearby country,
A prophet of the Lord named Oded was there. He went out to meet the army that came to Samaria and said to them, “Look, the Lord God of your ancestors handed them over to you because of His wrath against Judah,
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight as his father Uzziah had done. In addition, he didn’t enter the Lord’s sanctuary,
After Amaziah came from the attack on the Edomites, he brought the gods of the Seirites
But the Lord asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Can I really have a baby when I’m old?’
I will bring a bit of bread so that you may strengthen yourselves.
“Yes,” they replied, “do as you have said.”
For your servant made a vow when I lived in Geshur of Aram,
Take with you 10 loaves of bread, some cakes, and a jar of honey,
The Levites with them were Shemaiah, Nethaniah, Zebadiah,
from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead—the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites—from Aroer
But if this happens after sunrise,
Next he saw the Kenites and proclaimed his poem:
your nest is set in the cliffs.
and blasphemed the God of heaven
When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.
Your promise has given me life.
Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we proclaim and so you have believed.
who stretched out the heavens
and laid the foundations of the earth.
You are in constant dread all day long
because of the fury of the oppressor,
who has set himself to destroy.
But where is the fury of the oppressor?
don’t let any sin dominate me.
He observes everyone.
for their land has become a desolation
because of the sword
because of His burning anger.
Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, Lord, and see.
The Philistine leaders
You are to offer the second lamb at twilight. Offer a grain offering and a drink offering with it, like the one in the morning, as a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.
for he has put up security for a stranger;
get collateral if it is for foreigners.
I will bring a sword against you
for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and flesh cry out for
and forgive the sin of Your servants
and Your people Israel,
so that You may teach them the good way
they should walk in.
May You send rain on Your land
that You gave Your people for an inheritance.
and flames pour out of his mouth.
When he became king, as soon as he was seated on his throne, Zimri struck down the entire house of Baasha. He did not leave a single male,
Then David said to Abishai and all his servants, “Look, my own son, my own flesh and blood,
Put the mercy seat on the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
He returned the 1,100 pieces of silver to his mother, and his mother said, “I personally consecrate
The Lord again spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
The upper chambers were narrower because the galleries took away more space from them than from the lower and middle stories of the building.
His anger burning and heavy with smoke.
His lips are full of fury,
and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
a leader and commander for the peoples,
and called you from its farthest corners.
I said to you: You are My servant;
I have chosen you and not rejected you.
You did not destroy them or abandon them,
for You are a gracious and compassionate God.
Then I gave them My statutes and explained My ordinances to them—the person who does them will live by them.
On the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Judah’s King Jehoiachin, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, pardoned King Jehoiachin of Judah and released him from prison.
and righteousness the mason’s level.”
Hail will sweep away the false refuge,
and water will flood your hiding place.
and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.
let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.
when I stand up, You merely look at me.
David
He said, “Don’t do this evil, my brothers.
Then
Who am I, Lord God, and what is my house that You have brought me this far?
Elishama, Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here anymore?
the first husband who sent her away may not marry her again after she has been defiled, because that would be detestable to the Lord. You must not bring guilt on the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.
When morning came, he was troubled,
Bani the Gadite,
Was he not more honored than the Three? He became their commander even though he did not become one of the Three.
On the third day, when they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi,
David was in the Wilderness of Ziph in Horesh when he saw that Saul had come out to take his life.
Then the prophet Gad
So he sent messengers secretly to Abimelech, saying, “Look, Gaal son of Ebed, with his brothers, have come to Shechem and are turning the city against you.
He made the camels kneel beside a well of water outside the town at evening. This was the time when the women went out to draw water.
His head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, who carried it to her mother.
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
They didn’t find me disputing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple complex or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.
more awe-inspiring than
The man’s name was Nabal, and his wife’s name, Abigail. The woman was intelligent and beautiful, but the man, a Calebite,
“Son of man, lament
but
You thrash about in your rivers,
churn up the waters with your feet,
and muddy the
So Jeremiah summoned Baruch
to kill the poor and needy,
and by night he becomes a thief.
saying:
dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet,
adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls,
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,”
the mortally wounded cry for help,
yet God pays no attention to this crime.
If she is displeasing to her master, who chose her for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners because he has acted treacherously toward her.
They struck the men who were at the entrance of the house, both young and old, with a blinding light so that they were unable to find the entrance.
from ivory palaces harps bring you joy.
When the Lord your God hands it over to you, you must strike down all its males with the sword.
“In addition, they sent for men who came from far away when a messenger was dispatched to them. And look how they came! You bathed, painted your eyes,
Abiathar son of Ahimelech fled to David at Keilah, and he brought an ephod with him.
a great King over all the earth.
and let it be a trap for their allies.
You do not have to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord.
However, all the men who knew that their wives were burning incense to other gods, all the women standing by—a great assembly—and all the people who were living in the land of Egypt at Pathros answered Jeremiah,
You and Your powerful ark.
May Your priests, Lord God, be clothed with salvation,
and may Your godly people rejoice in goodness.
“Now this is what you will say to My servant David: ‘This is what the Lord of Hosts says: I took you from the pasture and from following the sheep to be ruler over My people Israel.
and Samuel asked, “What have you done?”
Saul answered, “When I saw that the troops were deserting me and you didn’t come within the appointed days and the Philistines were gathering at Michmash,
Complete this week of wedding celebration, and we will also give you this younger one in return for working yet another seven years for me.”
In the seventh month, however, Ishmael son of Nethaniah, son of Elishama, of the royal family, came with 10 men and struck down Gedaliah, and he died. Also, they killed the Judeans and the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
but keep alive for yourselves all the young females who have not had sexual relations.
Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—
All your splendid and glamorous things are gone;
they will never find them again.
So when God had me wander from my father’s house,
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre
In the same way, unless you use your tongue for intelligible speech, how will what is spoken be known? For you will be speaking into the air.
This is what the Lord God says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will live.
or about this one statement I cried out while standing among them, ‘Today I am being judged before you concerning the resurrection of the dead.’”
who sits securely,
who says to herself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.
I will never be a widow
or know the loss of children.’
He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,
I will raise up shepherds over them who will shepherd them.
yet they store up their food in the summer;
Another man was also prophesying in the name of Yahweh—Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-jearim.
listen to me.
Pay attention to what I say,
you overconfident daughters.
furious with all their armies.
He will set them apart for destruction,
giving them over to slaughter.
is like a roaring lion or a charging bear.
His statutes and judgments to Israel.
A priest of Aaronic descent must accompany the Levites when they collect the tenth,
Prepare from these a holy anointing oil, a scented blend, the work of a perfumer; it will be holy anointing oil.
God will force it from his stomach.
Because she nagged him day after day and pleaded with him until she wore him out,
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
You have rescued
from the horns of the wild oxen.
and He has many more things like these in mind.
who sees a vision from the Almighty,
who falls into a trance with his eyes uncovered:
So He brought against them the military commanders of the king of Assyria. They captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.
He is to take the live bird together with the cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop, and dip them all into the blood of the bird that was slaughtered over the fresh water.
Benaiah son of Jehoiada
Shimei son of Gera,
Sometimes you were publicly exposed to taunts and afflictions, and at other times you were companions of those who were treated that way.
But half of Gilead, and Og’s royal cities in Bashan—Ashtaroth and Edrei—are for the descendants of Machir son of Manasseh, that is, half the descendants of Machir by their clans.
You must abide by the instruction they give you and the verdict they announce to you. Do not turn to the right or the left from the decision they declare to you.
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When someone makes a special vow
One of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven gold bowls filled with the wrath of God who lives forever and ever.
and whoever turns from evil is plundered.
and He was offended.
Then Rachel and Leah answered him, “Do we have any portion or inheritance in our father’s household?
They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary
for I satisfy the thirsty person and feed all those who are weak.”
and filled the hungry with good things.
sifts out all evil with his eyes.
Then all the commanders of the armies, along with Johanan son of Kareah,
“The treacherous one acts treacherously,
and the destroyer destroys.
Advance, Elam! Lay siege, you Medes!
I will put an end to all her groaning.”
but the tent of the upright will stand.
and ten thousand at your right hand,
the pestilence will not reach you.
because I seek Your precepts.
Were not the Cushites and Libyans a vast army with many chariots and horsemen?
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
protect me from those who rise up against me.
in pleasant places;
indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.
You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Ask, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
Then the priest will order that one of the birds be slaughtered over fresh water in a clay pot.
When David had finished offering the burnt offerings and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh.
But Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “First, please ask what the Lord’s will is.”
But Samson stayed in bed until midnight when he got up, took hold of the doors of the city gate along with the two gateposts, and pulled them out, bar and all. He put them on his shoulders and took them to the top of the mountain overlooking Hebron.
instead of bringing it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before His tabernacle—that person will be considered guilty.
they will afflict Asshur and Eber,
but they too will come to destruction.
“Take the anointing oil and anoint
“Execute vengeance for the Israelites against the Midianites. After that, you will be gathered to your people.”
However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, then the spiritual.
For many were giving false testimony
Place the table outside the veil and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle, opposite the table; put the table on the north side.
When Pharaoh saw that the rain, hail, and thunder had ceased, he sinned again and hardened his heart, he and his officials.
both are detestable to the Lord.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I replied, “Lord God, only You know.”
These are Edom’s chiefs,
according to their settlements in the land they possessed.
Esau
But the jar that he was making from the clay became flawed in the potter’s hand, so he made it into another jar, as it seemed right for him to do.
and nations who do not know you will run to you.
For the Lord your God,
even the Holy One of Israel,
has glorified you.”
and mankind more rare than the gold of Ophir.
they withdraw because of his thrashing.
but He seats them forever with enthroned kings,
and they are exalted.
your defenses are made of clay.
They divided the land between them in order to cover it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went the other way by himself.
In those days the Lord began sending Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.
“Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You are to eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight and followed the example of Jeroboam and the sin he had caused Israel to commit.
I will appoint you,
Three times a year
Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses’ wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.
Then the sanctuary was filled with smoke from God’s glory and from His power,
So Balak did as Balaam directed, and they offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
The chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok,
or settle at the western limits,
“As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel,
You increased strength within me.
When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die on account of this.
and they cried out, “Disgrace is their portion,”
therefore, they will possess double in their land,
and eternal joy will be theirs.
Nevertheless, King Zedekiah sent Jehucal
at a time that You may be found.
When great floodwaters come,
they will not reach him.
for he will despise the insight of your words.
you righteous ones;
shout for joy,
all you upright in heart.
and not be recorded with the righteous.
When He hides His face, who can see Him?
Yet He watches over both individuals and nations,
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.
So the king said to Doeg, “Go and execute the priests!” So Doeg the Edomite went and executed the priests himself. On that day, he killed 85 men
Ahimelech replied to the king: “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David?
the eyes of his children will fail.
Five of you will pursue 100, and 100 of you will pursue 10,000; your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
I also arranged for the donation of wood at the appointed times and for the firstfruits.
Remember me, my God, with favor.
Then he gathered all the leaders of Israel, the priests, and the Levites.
He moved from there and dug another, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Open Spaces
Early in the morning Abimelech got up, called all his servants together, and personally
I sent the hornet
“You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened. The fat of My festival offering must not remain until morning.
But Ebed-melech, a Cushite court official employed in the king’s palace, heard Jeremiah had been put into the cistern. While the king was sitting at the Benjamin Gate,
When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews presented their case and asked for a judgment against him.
And stretching out His hand toward His disciples,
and the cold from the driving north winds.
I will gather them from remote regions of the earth
the blind and the lame will be with them,
along with those who are pregnant and those about to give birth.
They will return here as a great assembly!
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.
even when God binds them, they do not cry for help.
So Amnon lay down and pretended to be sick. When the king came to see him, Amnon said to him, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my presence so I can eat from her hand.”
A psalm of the sons of Korah. A song.
They are also to stand every morning to give thanks and praise to the Lord, and likewise in the evening.
“Bring the meal to the bedroom,” Amnon told Tamar, “so I can eat from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
I was also pinched off from a piece of clay.
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.
All the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, imitating all the detestable practices of the nations, and they defiled the Lord’s temple that He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
and so that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh is God. There is no other!
“When a man presents a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or flock, it has to be unblemished to be acceptable; there must be no defect in it.
Uzziah went out to wage war against the Philistines,
The priest told him, “There is no ordinary bread on hand. However, there is consecrated bread,
and Ahimelech
Shavsha was court secretary;
“My lord the king,” he replied, “my servant Ziba betrayed me. Actually your servant said: ‘I’ll saddle the donkey for myself
and the families of scribes who lived in Jabez—the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of Rechab’s family.
Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, descendants of Anak.
the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope,
and the mountain sheep.
your presumptuous heart has deceived you.
You who live in the clefts of the rock,
you who occupy the mountain summit,
though you elevate your nest like the eagle,
even from there I will bring you down.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
At that time Jesus said to the crowds,
this is the Lord’s declaration—
the Israelites and Judeans will come together,
weeping as they come,
and will seek the Lord their God.
Then you will be free from my oath if you go to my family and they do not give her to you—you will be free from my oath.’
“But if the prophet is deceived and speaks a message, it was I, Yahweh, who deceived that prophet.
and say: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
Restore brightness to my eyes;
otherwise, I will sleep in death.
is like a driving rain that leaves no food.
For this is what the Lord says concerning Shallum
but a terror to those who practice iniquity.
and multiply my days as the sand.
or he’ll become wise in his own eyes.
They ate and drank with great joy in the Lord’s presence that day.
Then, for a second time,
when the number of his months has run out?
So the angel of the Lord ordered Gad
He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.
Now the prophet Isaiah
When the chariot commanders saw that he was not the king of Israel, they turned back from pursuing him.
When the chariot commanders saw Jehoshaphat, they shouted, “He must be the king of Israel!” So they turned to attack him, but Jehoshaphat cried out
For the Lord your God is the One who goes with you to fight for you
He went back and told his father and his mother: “I have seen a young Philistine woman in Timnah. Now get her for me as a wife.”
David went up in obedience to Gad’s command, just as the Lord had commanded.
jackals and ostriches,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,
to give drink to My chosen people.
So I went down to the potter’s house, and there he was, working away at the wheel.
For the choir director. A Davidic psalm.
Keep me safe from violent men
When a Levite leaves one of your towns where he lives in Israel and wants to go to the place the Lord chooses,
The Israelites did everything the Lord commanded Moses; they camped by their banners in this way and moved out the same way, each man by his clan and by his ancestral house.
and my mouth will declare Your praise.
Then Jacob got up and put his children and wives on the camels.
is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
will come and bow down before You, Lord,
and will honor Your name.
and gnashes his teeth at him.
so that we may shout with joy and be glad all our days.
You drove out the nations and planted it.
and watery expanses are frozen.
those who boast in idols, will be put to shame.
All the gods
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance with their brothers.
He has veiled my paths with darkness.
When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt,
Absalom did this to all the Israelites who came to the king for a settlement. So Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.
since God is greater than man.
Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate,
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. Not even one will be left of all the men with him.
from Geba,
and Bethel
Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.
Do I have such a shortage of crazy people that you brought this one to act crazy around me? Is this one going to come into my house?”
they never have enough.
And they are shepherds
who have no discernment;
all of them turn to their own way,
every last one for his own gain.
Then Moses recited aloud every single word
and that the toes of the feet were partly iron and partly fired clay—part of the kingdom will be strong, and part will be brittle.
The Lord spoke to Moses,
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in it to other gods that they, their fathers, and the kings of Judah have never known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.
Perez’s sons:
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld children
At Daniel’s request, the king appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
One basket contained very good figs, like early figs,
Your eyes will see Jerusalem,
a peaceful pasture,
its tent pegs will not be pulled up
nor will any of its cords be loosened.
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your father’s sister;
examine my heart and mind.
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, Josiah began to seek the God of his ancestor David,
4,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments that I have made for worship.”
twins of a gazelle.
and I will continue to see the light.”
Tell the Israelites: When a man dies without having a son, transfer his inheritance to his daughter.
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
There was a young man, a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who resided within the clan of Judah.
Then Moses and Aaron fell down with their faces to the ground in front of the whole assembly of the Israelite community.
for the Lord had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household on account of Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
making the whole earth drunk.
The nations drank her wine;
therefore, the nations go mad.
as one of the tribes of Israel.
Everyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable things.
They burn incense to false idols
that make them stumble in their ways
on the ancient roads
and walk on new paths, not the highway.
is like taking off clothing on a cold day
or like pouring vinegar on soda.
and your agreement with Sheol will not last.
When the overwhelming scourge passes through,
you will be trampled.
and giving food to the hungry.
The Lord frees prisoners.
and when they saw me, they spoke well of me.
Then the people rejoiced because of their leaders’ willingness to give, for they had given to the Lord with a whole heart.
“Be very strong
I called to my God.
From His temple He heard my voice,
and my cry for help reached His ears.
Does His light not shine on everyone?
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.
Then the high priest
Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.
The rest
He said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?”
She replied, “I’m running away from my mistress Sarai.”
King David sent word to the priests, Zadok and Abiathar:
stated, “This man said, ‘I can demolish God’s sanctuary
but he left the linen cloth behind and ran away naked.
but the one who trusts in the Lord
will have faithful love surrounding him.
“This is what the Lord God says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.
For the choir director: according to “The Lily of Testimony.”
You have broken out
You have been angry. Restore us!
to those who keep His covenant and decrees.
in the place where you were created,
in the land of your origin.
Happy are the people whose God is Yahweh.
but will lie down with him in the grave.
While Obadiah was walking along the road, Elijah suddenly met him.
Araunah looked down and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, so he went out and bowed to the king with his face to the ground.
What provokes you that you continue testifying?
who said to them, “Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don’t be afraid
And say to them: This is the fire offering you are to present to the Lord:
“Each day present two unblemished year-old male lambs as a regular burnt offering.
Then the border ascended to Debir from the Valley of Achor, turning north to the Gilgal that is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the ravine. The border proceeded to the waters of En-shemesh and ended at En-rogel.
The leaders
the whole kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei; he was one of the remaining Rephaim.
Moses struck them down and drove them out,
Your southern side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along the boundary of Edom. Your southern border on the east will begin at the east end of the Dead Sea.
Now Zelophehad son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Machir, son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
The Levites did as Moses commanded, and about 3,000 men fell dead that day among the people.
So Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath: “When God comes to your aid, you are to carry my bones up from here.”
the blessings of my ancestors
and
May they rest on the head of Joseph,
on the crown of the prince of his brothers.
I am going to make the sun’s shadow that goes down on Ahaz’s stairway go back by 10 steps.”
For this is what the Lord says:
and the wealth
you will nurse and be carried on her hip
and bounced on her lap.
and go out to the Valley of Hinnom
It drips with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
About our brother Apollos:
I will sing praise to my God while I live.
yes, I will remember Your ancient wonders.
and everyone is a friend of one who gives gifts.
These nations feared the Lord but also served their idols. Their children and grandchildren continue doing as their fathers did until today.
“Here is the law concerning a case of someone who kills a person and flees there to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally without previously hating him:
When the ambassadors of Babylon’s rulers
Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders
Then Elihu continued, saying:
They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him.
So David set out with his 600 men
“All these curses will come, pursue, and overtake you until you are destroyed, since you did not obey the Lord your God and keep the commands and statutes He gave you.
Because we were being severely battered by the storm, they began to jettison the cargo the next day.
Micah replied,
Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where Yahweh your God chooses to have His name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.
with their grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in proportion to their number.
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze firepans that those who were burned had presented, and they were hammered into plating for the altar,
I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
to hide their plans from the Lord.
They do their works in darkness,
and say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
So now, say to the men of Judah and to the residents of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring harm to you and make plans against you. Turn now, each from your evil way, and correct your ways and your deeds.
at Your name, I will lift up my hands.
“Now on that day I will give Gog a burial place there in Israel—the Valley of the Travelers
and a man for the words of his praise.
Cush will stretch out its hands
I will give up your wealth
and all your treasures as plunder
because of the sin of your high places
in all your borders.
When he was in distress, he sought the favor of Yahweh his God and earnestly humbled himself
These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.
The gatekeepers’
Shallum’s descendants, Ater’s descendants, Talmon’s descendants, Akkub’s descendants,
Hatita’s descendants, Shobai’s descendants, in all
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The Lord’s anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness 40 years until the whole generation that had done what was evil in the Lord’s sight was gone.
They gathered their brothers together, consecrated themselves,
When Jehoram had established himself over his father’s kingdom, he strengthened his position by killing with the sword all his brothers as well as some of the princes of Israel.
Then the Levites from the sons of the Kohathites and the Korahites
You are not to present any animal to the Lord that is blind, injured, maimed, or has a running sore, festering rash,
And out of all my sons
But the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised.”
When a foreigner resides with you or someone else is among you and wants to prepare a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord, he is to do exactly as you do throughout your generations.
Then Abigail got up quickly, and with her five female servants accompanying her, rode on the donkey following David’s messengers.
When he came from Jerusalem to meet the king, the king asked him, “Mephibosheth, why didn’t you come with me?”
Because He loved
When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice, sent an angel,
came and stood by me and said, ‘Brother Saul, regain your sight.’ And in that very hour I looked up and saw him.
The tribe of Asher will camp next to it. The leader of the Asherites is Pagiel son of Ochran.
When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way,
You did not go up to the gaps
conducting trade on the vast waters.
Meanwhile, Peter was following Him at a distance right to the high priest’s courtyard.
People will live there, and never again will there be a curse of complete destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell in security.
So King Uzziah was diseased to the time of his death.
and your heart will tremble and rejoice,
because the riches of the sea will become yours
and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
The officials then said to the king, “This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”
The corpses of these people will become food for the birds of the sky and for the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
For there is faithful love with the Lord,
and with Him is redemption in abundance.
forget your people and your father’s house,
Then the angel of the Lord
Since he had many cattle both in the Judean foothills
Look, God and His priests are with us at our head. The trumpets are ready to sound the charge against you. Israelites, don’t fight against the Lord God of your ancestors, for you will not succeed.”
those who put their hope in His faithful love.
But Micaiah said, “If you ever return safely, the Lord has not spoken through me.” Then he said, “Listen, all you people!”
Nebuchadnezzar deported Jehoiachin to Babylon. Also, he took the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
From the Levites, Ahijah was in charge of the treasuries of God’s temple and the treasuries of what had been dedicated.
“My son,” David said to Solomon, “It was in my heart to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God,
But the centurion kept them from carrying out their plan because he wanted to save Paul, so he ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and get to land.
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites and spared the best sheep and cattle in order to offer a sacrifice to the Lord your God,
So the entire community brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
For the land abandoned by them will make up for its Sabbaths by lying desolate without the people, while they pay the penalty for their sin, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
They see false visions and speak lying divinations.
“You are to keep My statutes and ordinances and carefully observe them, so that you may live securely in the land.
and told them, “You have done everything Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you
He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
a great King above all gods.
so that Your people may rejoice in You?
He deported those who escaped from the sword to Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the rise of the Persian
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”
Do you judge people fairly?
the humble will hear and be glad.
I will not find a wise man among you.
But Achish’s servants said to him, “Isn’t this David, the king of the land? Don’t they sing about him during their dances:
but David his tens of thousands?”
You are not to have sexual intercourse with your son’s daughter or your daughter’s daughter, because it will shame your family.
In the spring
Naarai son of Ezbai,
Abishai, Joab’s brother and son of Zeruiah,
“The Lord will afflict you with the boils of Egypt, tumors, a festering rash, and scabies, from which you cannot be cured.
a grain offering of six quarts
Watch, and when you see the young women of Shiloh come out to perform the dances,
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost.
Then the two of them made a covenant in the Lord’s presence.
That day, Gideon’s father called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead his case with him,” because he tore down his altar.
The congregation sent 12,000 brave warriors
from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands
If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not restrained it, he must compensate fully, ox for ox; the dead animal will become his.
“When there is a burn on the skin of one’s body produced by fire, and the patch made raw by the burn becomes reddish-white or white,
I will make them and the area around My hill
and gave the purchase agreement to Baruch
So Esau (that is, Edom) lived in the mountains of Seir.
The older one was named Oholah,
When he saw them, Jacob said, “This is God’s camp.” So he called that place Mahanaim.
you said, ‘No one sees me.’
Your wisdom and knowledge
led you astray.
You said to yourself,
‘I exist, and there is no one else.’
“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of bread,
This was after King Jeconiah,
and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up,
so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise
to spring up before all the nations.
and delight to know My ways,
like a nation that does what is right
and does not abandon the justice of their God.
They ask Me for righteous judgments;
they delight in the nearness of God.”
and I was not rebellious;
I did not turn back.
from looking at what is worthless;
give me life in Your ways.
Be a rock of refuge for me,
a mountain fortress to save me.
the rams of Nebaioth will serve you
and go up on My altar as an acceptable sacrifice.
I will glorify My beautiful house.
The Lord put it into the mind of the Philistines and the Arabs
“Note that Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all matters related to the Lord, and Zebadiah son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all matters related to the king, and the Levites are officers in your presence. Be strong; may the Lord be with those who do what is good.”
He removed the pagan altars and the high places. He shattered their sacred pillars and chopped down their Asherah poles.
Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar.
He also defeated the Moabites, and they became David’s subjects and brought tribute.
There were 1,000 men from Benjamin with him. Ziba, an attendant from the house of Saul,
Mahli’s sons: Eleazar and Kish.
When David came to his palace in Jerusalem, he took the 10 concubines he had left to take care of the palace and placed them under guard.
The Lord will also hand Israel over to the Philistines along with you. Tomorrow you and your sons will be with me,
He defeated the Philistines as far as Gaza and its borders,
God did not harm
From there he marched against the inhabitants of Debir whose name used to be Kiriath-sepher,
The Lord will make you prosper abundantly with children,
“Go up Mount Nebo in the Abarim range in the land of Moab, across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan I am giving the Israelites as a possession.
But they kept ridiculing God’s messengers,
the Lord is a shelter right by your side.
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she took her slave Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
After dismissing the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the region of Magadan.
The leaders have made Egypt stagger in all she does,
as a drunkard staggers in his vomit.
The word the Lord spoke about Babylon,
He is not a wise son;
when the time comes,
he will not be born.
the smallest a mighty nation.
I am Yahweh;
I will accomplish it quickly in its time.
Look, you blind, so that you may see.
righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.
A Davidic Maskil. When he was in the cave.
I plead aloud to the Lord for mercy.
שׂ Sin/ שׁ Shin
but my heart fears only Your word.
hiding in the protection
When the Ammonites realized
He built altars in the Lord’s temple,
Isaiah had not yet gone out of the inner courtyard when the word of the Lord came to him:
From the time I brought Israel out of Egypt until today I have not lived in a house; instead, I have moved from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle.
His father went to visit the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, as young men were accustomed to do.
Ahaziah’s downfall came from God when he went to Joram.
Joab said, “I’m not going to waste time with you!” He then took three spears in his hand and thrust them into Absalom’s heart while he was still alive in the oak tree,
“Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites and tell them: Any man of the house of Israel or of the foreign residents
He took all the gold and silver, all the articles found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and some hostages.
Once again, David inquired of the Lord, and the Lord answered him: “Go at once to Keilah, for I will hand the Philistines over to you.”
Every day Jesse’s son lives on earth you and your kingship are not secure. Now send for him and bring him to me—he deserves to die.”
If he arrives alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrives with
the priest is to examine it. If the hair in the spot has turned white and the spot appears to be deeper than the skin, it is a skin disease that has broken out in the burn. The priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a skin disease.
Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the Lord for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.
though the earth trembles
and the mountains topple
into the depths of the seas,
They were subject to Chedorlaomer for 12 years, but in the thirteenth year they rebelled.
Uzziah, with a firepan in his hand to offer incense, was enraged. But when he became enraged with the priests, in the presence of the priests in the Lord’s temple beside the altar of incense, a skin disease
yet is not washed from its filth.
teeming with creatures beyond number—
living things both large and small.
“This is what the Lord God says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the ruins will be rebuilt.
He will deal with the strongest fortresses with the help of a foreign god. He will greatly honor those who acknowledge him,
and will not abandon His faithful ones.
They are kept safe forever,
but the children of the wicked will be destroyed.
and He will exalt you to inherit the land.
You will watch when the wicked are destroyed.
Who among the heavenly beings
They had lived according to the customs of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites
when the breath
indeed, the people are grass.
The Amalekites and Canaanites are right in front of you, and you will fall by the sword. The Lord won’t be with you, since you have turned from following Him.”
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 they went into battle.
But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, Benjamin looked behind them, and the whole city was going up in smoke.
“When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.
You must abide by the verdict they give you at the place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do exactly as they instruct you.
the nobles of the people hollowed it out
with a scepter and with their staffs.
They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.
and draw near, you fugitives of the nations.
Those who carry their wooden idols,
and pray to a god who cannot save,
have no knowledge.
Then they said to each other, “Obviously, we are being punished for what we did to our brother. We saw his deep distress when he pleaded with us, but we would not listen. That is why this trouble has come to us.”
Then she went and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I can’t bear to watch the boy die!” So as she sat nearby, she
You prove Yourself pure,
but with the crooked
You prove Yourself shrewd.
A Davidic psalm.
I will sing praise to You, Lord.
Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei,
because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord their God but violated His covenant—all He had commanded Moses the servant of the Lord. They did not listen, and they did not obey.
The Philistines also raided the cities of the Judean foothills
The high places were not taken away;
although we have both straw and feed for our donkeys, and bread and wine for me, your female servant, and the young man with your servant.
Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beer-sheba to the hill country of Ephraim and brought them back to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.
they can never be picked up by hand.
He did what was evil
So David and his men proceeded along the road as Shimei was going along the ridge of the hill opposite him. As Shimei went, he cursed David, and threw stones and dirt at him.
Its grain offering is to be four quarts
That night they again got their father to drink wine, and the younger went and slept with him; he did not know when she lay down or when she got up.
The king said to him, “Why keep on speaking about these matters of yours? I hereby declare: you and Ziba are to divide the land.”
But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Would you plead Baal’s case for him? Would you save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If he is a god, let him plead his own case because someone tore down his altar.”
“When you make a loan of any kind to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect what he offers as security.
“You may eat everything from the water that has fins and scales,
On the eighth day she must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
and take the widow’s ox as collateral.
the Imnite clan from Imnah;
the Ishvite clan from Ishvi;
the Beriite clan from Beriah.
After a little while those standing there approached and said to Peter, “You certainly are one of them, since even your accent
is like the coolness of snow on a harvest day;
he refreshes the life of his masters.
Then the Lord said to him, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your family, and I will be with you.”
all nations serve him.
“Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
nor will a spear, dart, or arrow.
So they went back and told him, and he said, “This fulfills the Lord’s word that He spoke through His servant Elijah the Tishbite: ‘In the plot of land at Jezreel, the dogs will eat Jezebel’s flesh.
“Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field with no one to separate them, and one struck the other and killed him.
The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Anyone who touches a body of a person who has died, and does not purify himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord. That person will be cut off from Israel. He remains unclean because the water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him, and his uncleanness is still on him.
“You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can’t do it alone.
David left Zadok the priest and his fellow priests before the tabernacle of the Lord at the high place in Gibeon
So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God
Therefore it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, they lamented and wept loudly, and Joseph mourned seven days for his father.
Seven tribes among the Israelites were left who had not divided up their inheritance.
Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”
Then he said, “My Lord, if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Even though this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wrongdoing and sin, and accept us as Your own possession.”
My dwelling place will be with them;
As soon as Jacob saw his uncle Laban’s daughter Rachel with his sheep,
also to submit to such people, and to everyone who works and labors with them.
his arm harvesting the heads of grain—
and as if one had gleaned heads of grain
in the Valley of Rephaim.
and be glad in My people.
The sound of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.
the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;
for their compassionate One will guide them,
and lead them to springs of water.
As I live”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“you will no longer use this proverb in Israel.
Your comfort brings me joy.
The sound of great destruction
from the land of the Chaldeans!
and a kingdom from Damascus.
The remnant of Aram will be
like the splendor of the Israelites.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
and this whole assembly will know that it is not by sword or by spear that the Lord saves,
He smells the battle from a distance;
he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.
and trapped by the cords of affliction,
The gate of the courtyard is to have a thirty-foot
Then Benjamin turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon,
The Benjaminites said, “We are defeating them as before.”
But the Israelites said, “Let’s flee and draw them away from the city to the highways.”
“These are the Lord’s appointed times that you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for presenting fire offerings to the Lord, burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its designated day.
I will dwell
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.”
Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wished to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these matters.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
You have turned your back,
so I have stretched out My hand against you
and destroyed you.
I am tired of showing compassion.
This is the length
“Now these are the names of the tribes:
The chief priests
they lift up their voices,
shouting for joy together;
for every eye will see
when the Lord returns to Zion.
It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.
do not mourn for him.
Weep bitterly for the one
for he will never return again
and see his native land.
are more numerous than the hairs of my head;
my deceitful enemies, who would destroy me,
are powerful.
Though I did not steal, I must repay.
and the torrential rains, His mighty torrential rains,
how much less for a slave to rule over princes!
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I will obey Your statutes.
for false witnesses rise up against me,
breathing violence.
His lightning to the ends
or the elderly who understand how to judge.
The prophet said to him, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Because you released from your hand the man I had set apart for destruction,
and produce twigs like a sapling.
In a little while, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and there was a downpour. So Ahab got in his chariot and went to Jezreel.
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
In the eighteenth year of his reign,
Zedekiah was 21 years old
The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.
But while your servant was busy here and there, he disappeared.”
The king of Israel said to him, “That will be your sentence; you yourself have decided it.”
so Saul’s servants said to him, “You see that an evil spirit from God is tormenting you.
Jesse called Abinadab
So Saul said, “Bring me the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings.” Then he offered the burnt offering.
But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce food. You may cut them down to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
Saul said to his servants, “Listen, men of Benjamin: Is Jesse’s son going to give all of you fields and vineyards? Do you think he’ll make all of you commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
as they watched the smoke from her burning and kept crying out: “Who is like the great city?”
Then the border reached to the slope north of Ekron, curved to Shikkeron, proceeded to Mount Baalah, went to Jabneel, and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
But when the priest examines it, if there is no white hair in the spot and it is not beneath the skin but is faded, the priest must quarantine him seven days.
Put these on your brother Aaron and his sons; then anoint,
In the tent of meeting outside the veil that is in front of the testimony,
So Moses spoke to the people, “Equip some of your men for war. They will go against Midian to inflict the Lord’s vengeance
God came to Balaam at night and said to him, “Since these men have come to summon you, get up and go with them, but you must only do what I tell you.”
And I will also purge you of those who rebel and transgress against Me.
let Him rescue him;
let the Lord
since He takes pleasure in him.”
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death.
but one who distorts right and wrong
will suddenly fall.
but trouble accompanies the income of the wicked.
You lead and guide me
because of Your name.
my heart will indeed rejoice.
the foundations of the world were exposed
at the rebuke of the Lord,
at the blast of the breath
The messenger
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
I led you 40 years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;
“When Aaron presents the bull for his sin offering and makes atonement for himself and his household, he will slaughter the bull for his sin offering.
Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will let you know what you are to do.
Whoever touches anything that was under him will be unclean until evening, and whoever carries such things is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.
Then Tiglath-pileser
Just as the Lord was glad to cause you to prosper and to multiply you, so He will also be glad to cause you to perish and to destroy you. You will be deported from the land you are entering to possess.
If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, though no one is with us, understand that God will be a witness between you and me.”
From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley,
Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am Joseph! Is my father still living?” But they could not answer him because they were terrified in his presence.
in the land of drought.
Eat and drink!
Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
“You were sold for nothing,
and you will be redeemed without silver.”
Then Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite went and did as the Lord had told them, and the Lord accepted Job’s prayer.
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
if you reject My statutes and despise My ordinances, and do not observe all My commands—and break My covenant,
when God’s friendship
Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord.
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
For the Lord your God walks throughout your camp to protect you and deliver your enemies to you; so your encampments must be holy. He must not see anything improper among you or He will turn away from you.
They made a circuit throughout Judah. They gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel, and they came to Jerusalem.
These are the men who served with their sons.
son of Joel, son of Samuel,
“I will do whatever you think is best,” the king replied to them. So he stood beside the gate while all the troops marched out by hundreds and thousands.
“Every Israelite is to prepare these things in this way when he presents a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
For their sake I will remember the covenant with their fathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations to be their God; I am Yahweh.”
Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab,
When I arrive, I will send with letters
They gave them Kiriath-arba
“Say to them: Anyone from the house of Israel or from the foreigners
Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were your business
But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night. “Watch yourself!” God warned him. “Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
a sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the groom and the bride,
for the Lord is good;
His faithful love endures forever
as they bring thank offerings to the temple of the Lord. For I will restore the fortunes
“Therefore, say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: Repent and turn away
For You are my hope, Lord God,
my confidence from my youth.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
a day of vengeance to avenge Himself
against His adversaries.
The sword will devour and be satisfied;
it will drink its fill of their blood,
because it will be a sacrifice
in the northern land by the Euphrates River.
and a mocker is detestable to people.
a lion in the public square!”
they came out of My mouth; I proclaimed them.
Suddenly I acted, and they occurred.
you will speak from the ground,
and your words will come from low in the dust.
Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground;
your speech will whisper from the dust.
Then the leaders of the households, the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds,
Hezekiah reestablished the divisions
and my lips speak with sincerity what they know.
above the Gate of Ephraim,
“All of you are standing today before the Lord your God—your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,
Does He profit if you perfect your behavior?
You are not to have sexual intercourse with a woman and her daughter.
If my father intends to bring evil on you, may God punish Jonathan and do so severely
When all the lords of the Tower of Shechem heard, they entered the inner chamber
So Lot chose the entire Jordan Valley for himself. Then Lot journeyed eastward, and they separated from each other.
Then the Lord put a message in Balaam’s mouth and said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
“If in spite of these things you do not accept My discipline, but act with hostility toward Me,
They gave to the descendants of Aaron the priest:
Hebron, the city of refuge for the one who commits manslaughter, with its pasturelands, Libnah with its pasturelands,
Judah recognized them and said, “She is more in the right
“Listen to us, lord.
Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.
These are Ishmael’s sons, and these are their names by their villages and encampments: 12 leaders
This was the field that Abraham bought from the Hittites.
to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity.
The earth will reveal the blood shed on it
and will no longer conceal her slain.
“Now, son of man, say to your people: The righteousness of the righteous person will not save him on the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked person cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. The righteous person won’t be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.
At that time, the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the guard’s courtyard
its Savior in time of distress,
why are You like a foreigner in the land,
like a traveler stopping only for the night?
He raises up all who are oppressed.
their faces will never be ashamed.
The Lord will send against you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything you do