Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.

The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you. They exchanged gold, the best of all spices, and all kinds of precious stones for your merchandise.

Then Balak became furious with Balaam, struck his hands together, and said to him, “I summoned you to put a curse on my enemies, but instead, you have blessed them these three times.

Naphtali is a doe set free
that bears beautiful fawns.

While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess.

These are Zibeon’s sons: Aiah and Anah.
This was the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness
while he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.

I will turn you around, drive you on, and lead you up from the remotest parts of the north. I will bring you against the mountains of Israel.

“So when I tell the wicked person, ‘You will surely die,’ but he repents of his sin and does what is just and right—

I, Yahweh, have spoken.
It is coming, and I will do it!
I will not refrain, I will not show pity,
and I will not relent.
I will judge you
according to your ways and deeds.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Turn Your face away from my sins
and blot out all my guilt.

For Your arrows have sunk into me,
and Your hand has pressed down on me.

then you will delight yourself in the Lord,
and I will make you ride over the heights of the land,
and let you enjoy the heritage of your father Jacob.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the nations:

When all the commanders of the armies in the field—they and their men—heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam over the land and that he had put him in charge of the men, women, and children from the poorest of the land who had not been deported to Babylon,

Mockers inflame a city,
but the wise turn away anger.

The letter was sent by Elasah son of Shaphan and Gemariah son of Hilkiah whom Zedekiah king of Judah had sent to Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. The letter stated:

My eyes are always on the Lord,
for He will pull my feet out of the net.

I believed, even when I said,
“I am severely afflicted.”

The men were doing the work with integrity. Their overseers were Jahath and Obadiah, Levites from the Merarites, and Zechariah and Meshullam from the Kohathites as supervisors. The Levites were all skilled with musical instruments.

You have tested my heart;
You have examined me at night.
You have tried me and found nothing evil;
I have determined that my mouth will not sin.

A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—were ritually unclean, yet they had eaten the Passover contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah had interceded for them, saying, “May the good Lord provide atonement on behalf of

My eyes have grown dim from grief,
and my whole body has become but a shadow.

For that would be a disgrace;
it would be a crime deserving punishment.

For our fathers were unfaithful and did what is evil in the sight of the Lord our God. They abandoned Him, turned their faces away from the Lord’s tabernacle, and turned their backs on Him.

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight as his father Amaziah had done.

Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

He assigned Obed-edom and his 68 relatives. Obed-edom son of Jeduthun and Hosah were to be gatekeepers.

He built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams.

Then the earth shook and quaked;
the foundations of the heavens trembled;
they shook because He burned with anger.

May God punish me and do so severely if I let any of his men survive until morning.”

Then David responded, “Who am I, and what is my family or my father’s clan in Israel that I should become the king’s son-in-law?”

Jonathan’s son was Merib-baal, and Merib-baal fathered Micah.

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

The man replied to Joab, “Even if I had the weight of 1,000 pieces of silver in my hand, I would not raise my hand against the king’s son. For we heard the king command you, Abishai, and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for me.’

When Saul sent agents to seize David, Michal said, “He’s sick.”

The border descended to the foot of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim. It ran down the Valley of Hinnom toward the south Jebusite slope and downward to En-rogel.

Build an altar of stones there to the Lord your God—you must not use any iron tool on them.

but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites and Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath live in Israel to this day.

“The one who is clean is to sprinkle the unclean person on the third day and the seventh day. After he purifies the unclean person on the seventh day, the one being purified must wash his clothes and bathe in water, and he will be clean by evening.

“The contribution of their gifts also belongs to you. I have given all the Israelites’ presentation offerings to you and to your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your house may eat it.

All Israel will hear and be afraid, and they will no longer do anything evil like this among you.

Make five posts of acacia wood for the screen and overlay them with gold; their hooks are to be gold, and you are to cast five bronze bases for them.

They departed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.

Each inheritance will be divided by lot among the larger and smaller tribes.”

If one of their carcasses falls on any seed that is to be sown, it is clean;

Then his brother, who had the scarlet thread tied to his hand, came out, and was named Zerah.

For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers, with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.

The four kings took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food and went on.

If this reaches the governor’s ears, we will deal with him and keep you out of trouble.”

As for those who disobeyed My covenant, not keeping the terms of the covenant they made before Me, I will treat them like the calf they cut in two in order to pass between its pieces.

If the woman is unwilling to follow you, then you are free from this oath to me, but don’t let my son go back there.”

we said good-bye to one another. Then we boarded the ship, and they returned home.

Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
her soil into sulfur;
her land will become burning pitch.

The word of the Lord came to me:

So I swore in My anger,
“They will not enter My rest.”

How unstable you are,
constantly changing your ways!
You will be put to shame by Egypt
just as you were put to shame by Assyria.

For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain.

But Moab will be trampled in his place
as straw is trampled in a dung pile.

saying to the prisoners: Come out,
and to those who are in darkness: Show yourselves.
They will feed along the pathways,
and their pastures will be on all the barren heights.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
The Splendor of the Righteous One.

But I said, “I waste away! I waste away!
Woe is me.”
The treacherous act treacherously;
the treacherous deal very treacherously.

Therefore I moan like the sound of a lyre for Moab,
as does my innermost being for Kir-heres.

Still, if caught, he must pay seven times as much;
he must give up all the wealth in his house.

The one who hires a fool or who hires those passing by
is like an archer who wounds everyone.

He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father,
my God, the rock of my salvation.’

I will sing to the Lord
because He has treated me generously.

He draws near to the Pit,
and his life to the executioners.

so that a person who kills someone unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

Do you think it is just when you say,
“I am righteous before God”?

But David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can lift a hand against the Lord’s anointed and be blameless?”

Does He correct you and take you to court
because of your piety?

“And now you are saying you can assert yourselves against the Lord’s kingdom, which is in the hand of one of David’s sons. You are a vast number and have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made for you as gods.

the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah,

“Go and say to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three choices. Choose one of them, and I will do it to you.’”

You will plant and cultivate vineyards but not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

I will never again cause the feet of the Israelites to wander from the land I gave to their ancestors if only they will be careful to do all I have commanded them—the whole law that My servant Moses commanded them.”

Now send someone quickly and tell David, ‘Don’t spend the night at the wilderness ford of the Jordan, but be sure to cross over, or the king and all the people with him will be destroyed.’”

If your father misses me at all, say, ‘David urgently requested my permission to quickly go to his town Bethlehem for an annual sacrifice there involving the whole clan.’

But Saul gave his daughter Michal, David’s wife, to Palti son of Laish, who was from Gallim.

The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth,

So He became King in Jeshurun
when the leaders of the people gathered
with the tribes of Israel.

He said about Zebulun:

Rejoice, Zebulun, in your journeys,
and Issachar, in your tents.

Moses replied to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Anoint them just as you anointed their father, so that they may also serve Me as priests. Their anointing will serve to inaugurate a permanent priesthood for them throughout their generations.”

The sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram.
(It was Dathan and Abiram, chosen by the community, who fought against Moses and Aaron; they and Korah’s followers fought against the Lord.

And the man became very rich. He had many flocks, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

The Mahlite clan and the Mushite clan came from Merari; these were the Merarite clans.

His military division numbers 62,700.

“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”

He doesn’t oppress anyone but returns his collateral to the debtor. He does not commit robbery, but gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.

Joseph was in charge of the country; he sold grain to all its people. His brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

to give me the cave of Machpelah that belongs to him; it is at the end of his field. Let him give it to me in your presence, for the full price, as a burial place.”

Gad’s sons: Ziphion, Haggi, Shuni, Ezbon, Eri, Arodi, and Areli.

They set out to go down to Egypt
without asking My advice,
in order to seek shelter under Pharaoh’s protection
and take refuge in Egypt’s shadow.

For I envied the arrogant;
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

He will extend his power against the countries, and not even the land of Egypt will escape.

for when you return to Yahweh, your brothers and your sons will receive mercy in the presence of their captors and will return to this land. For Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful; He will not turn His face away from you if you return to Him.”

Look, riders come—
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen, has fallen.
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”

I will delight in Your statutes;
I will not forget Your word.

This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about the Philistines before Pharaoh defeated Gaza.

The earth staggers like a drunkard
and sways like a hut.
Earth’s rebellion weighs it down,
and it falls, never to rise again.

The one who leads the upright into an evil way
will fall into his own pit,
but the blameless will inherit what is good.

he went down to the scribe’s chamber in the king’s palace. All the officials were sitting there—Elishama the scribe, Delaiah son of Shemaiah, Elnathan son of Achbor, Gemariah son of Shaphan, Zedekiah son of Hananiah, and all the other officials.

Be a rock of refuge for me,
where I can always go.
Give the command to save me,
for You are my rock and fortress.

I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.

Now therefore, our God, we give You thanks and praise Your glorious name.

In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”

For the choir director. Davidic. To bring remembrance.God, deliver me.
Hurry to help me, Lord!

King Jehoash of Israel captured Judah’s King Amaziah son of Joash, son of Jehoahaz, at Beth-shemesh. Then Jehoash took him to Jerusalem and broke down 200 yards of Jerusalem’s wall from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate.

Men listened to me with expectation,
waiting silently for my advice.

For the Lord our God burst out in anger against us because you Levites were not with us the first time, for we didn’t inquire of Him about the proper procedures.”

If after leaving his house she goes and becomes another man’s wife,

So he said to all Israel, “You will be on one side, and I and my son Jonathan will be on the other side.”

And the troops replied, “Do whatever you want.”

Then they approached him and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our dependents.

So Moses summoned Bezalel, Oholiab, and every skilled person in whose heart the Lord had placed wisdom, everyone whose heart moved him, to come to the work and do it.

“When you offer a fellowship sacrifice to the Lord, sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.

He does not eat at the mountain shrines or raise his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel. He does not defile his neighbor’s wife or come near a woman during her menstrual impurity.

Asher’s sons: Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah.
Beriah’s sons were Heber and Malchiel.

They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.

“They may not shave their heads or let their hair grow long, but must carefully trim their hair.

Then Jacob kissed Rachel and wept loudly.

He had flocks of sheep, herds of cattle, and many slaves, and the Philistines were envious of him.

They make their tongues
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

So then he who marries his virgin does well, but he who does not marry will do better.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes,
but a poor man who has discernment sees through him.

He made the earth by His power,
established the world by His wisdom,
and spread out the heavens by His understanding.

For the Lord is great and is highly praised;
He is feared above all gods.

They took their stand against King Uzziah and said, “Uzziah, you have no right to offer incense to the Lord—only the consecrated priests, the descendants of Aaron, have the right to offer incense. Leave the sanctuary, for you have acted unfaithfully! You will not receive honor from the Lord God.”

You return mankind to the dust,
saying, “Return, descendants of Adam.”

Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,
and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

Lord, You brought me up from Sheol;
You spared me from among those
going down to the Pit.

A poem by Hezekiah king of Judah after he had been sick and had recovered from his illness:

“What gain is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise You?
Will it proclaim Your truth?

The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom;
his tongue speaks what is just.

For God has deprived her of wisdom;
He has not endowed her with understanding.

Who is this King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle.

Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, our ancestors, keep this desire forever in the thoughts of the hearts of Your people, and confirm their hearts toward You.

Look at the heavens and see;
gaze at the clouds high above you.

So the Lord routed the Cushites before Asa and before Judah, and the Cushites fled.

For the Israelites are My slaves. They are My slaves that I brought out of the land of Egypt; I am Yahweh your God.

But the king said, “You will die, Ahimelech—you and your father’s whole family!”

Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, and Zechariah the fourth. The sons and brothers of Hosah were 13 in all.

Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the field in the plot of land at Jezreel so that no one will be able to say: This is Jezebel.’”

Anything one of their carcasses falls on will become unclean. If it is an oven or stove, it must be smashed; it is unclean and will remain unclean for you.

Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susim, Beth-biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until David became king.

On the third day, they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

“When a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any other animal to care for, but it dies, is injured, or is stolen, while no one is watching,

He commanded his servants who were physicians to embalm his father. So they embalmed Israel.

in the south; all the land of the Canaanites: from Arah of the Sidonians to Aphek and as far as the border of the Amorites;

“What have you done to me?” Balak asked Balaam. “I brought you to curse my enemies, but look, you have only blessed them!”

“Do not present the blood for My sacrifice with anything leavened. The sacrifice of the Passover Festival must not remain until morning.

Please rescue me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid of him; otherwise, he may come and attack me, the mothers, and their children.

When the men of that place recognized Him, they alerted the whole vicinity and brought to Him all who were sick.

Say: Hear the word of the Lord, kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that everyone who hears about it will shudder

“From the thirteenth year of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until this very day—23 years—the word of the Lord has come to me, and I have spoken to you time and time again, but you have not obeyed.

Just as underwear clings to one’s waist, so I fastened the whole house of Israel and of Judah to Me”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“so that they might be My people for My fame, praise, and glory, but they would not obey.

they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah. The commanders included Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.

but, ‘As the Lord lives, who brought and led the descendants of the house of Israel from the land of the north and from all the other countries where I had banished them.’ They will dwell once more in their own land.”

The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.

Will he make a covenant with you
so that you can take him as a slave forever?

“Let them come and tell us
what will happen.
Tell us the past events,
so that we may reflect on them
and know the outcome,
or tell us the future.

Lotus plants cover him with their shade;
the willows by the brook surround him.

On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.

Remove impurities from silver,
and a vessel will be produced for a silversmith.

The singers, the descendants of Asaph, were at their stations according to the command of David, Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer. Also, the gatekeepers were at each gate. None of them left their tasks because their Levite brothers had made preparations for them.

I will put a fleece of wool here on the threshing floor. If dew is only on the fleece, and all the ground is dry, I will know that You will deliver Israel by my strength, as You said.”

Will God hear his cry
when distress comes on him?

For the morning is like darkness to them.
Surely they are familiar with the terrors of darkness!

Once again the Philistines raided in the valley.

the pure gold lampstands in front of the inner sanctuary, five on the right and five on the left; the gold flowers, lamps, and tongs;

King Amaziah of Judah took counsel and sent word to Jehoash son of Jehoahaz, son of Jehu, king of Israel, saying, “Come, let us meet face to face.”

Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”

Jehoram was 32 years old when he became king and reigned eight years in Jerusalem.

Deal faithfully with your servant, for you have brought me into a covenant with you before the Lord. If I have done anything wrong, then kill me yourself; why take me to your father?”

So Saul said to the Lord, “God of Israel, give us the right decision.” Jonathan and Saul were selected, and the troops were cleared of the charge.

Jeiel fathered Gibeon and lived in Gibeon. His wife’s name was Maacah.

Will the citizens of Keilah hand me over to him? Will Saul come down as Your servant has heard? Lord God of Israel, please tell Your servant.”

The Lord answered, “He will come down.”

Jotham rested with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of his ancestor David. His son Ahaz became king in his place.

But if the people of the country look the other way when that man gives any of his children to Molech, and do not put him to death,

I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then.

“Everything in Israel that is permanently dedicated to the Lord belongs to you.

And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile on account of their iniquity, because they dealt unfaithfully with Me. Therefore, I hid My face from them and handed them over to their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.

The name of the slain Midianite woman was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur, a tribal head of an ancestral house in Midian.

So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out to him the money—17 shekels of silver.

May God Almighty cause the man to be merciful to you so that he will release your other brother and Benjamin to you. As for me, if I am deprived of my sons, then I am deprived.”

Her parents were astounded, but He instructed them to tell no one what had happened.

“God has given me a good gift,” Leah said. “This time my husband will honor me because I have borne six sons for him,” and she named him Zebulun.

But they will say, ‘It’s hopeless. We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”

So I will choose their punishment,
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they didn’t hear;
they did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I didn’t delight in.

Then at the Lord’s temple, in the chamber of Gemariah son of Shaphan the scribe, in the upper courtyard at the opening of the New Gate of the Lord’s temple, in the hearing of all the people, Baruch read Jeremiah’s words from the scroll.

Then the word of the Lord came to me:

while the king of Babylon’s army was attacking Jerusalem and all of Judah’s remaining cities—against Lachish and Azekah, for they were the only ones left of Judah’s fortified cities.

For I will not accuse you forever,
and I will not always be angry;
for then the spirit would grow weak before Me,
even the breath of man, which I have made.

Hear the sound of the shepherds’ cry,
the wail of the leaders of the flock,
for the Lord is destroying their pasture.

A stone is heavy and sand, a burden,
but aggravation from a fool outweighs them both.

Lord, they went to You in their distress;
they poured out whispered prayers
because Your discipline fell on them.

Wicked man, don’t set an ambush,
at the camp of the righteous man;
don’t destroy his dwelling.

Strength resides in his neck,
and dismay dances before him.

They are joined to one another,
so closely connected they cannot be separated.

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One of Nabal’s young men informed Abigail, Nabal’s wife: “Look, David sent messengers from the wilderness to greet our master, but he yelled at them.

The righteous see this and rejoice;
the innocent mock them, saying,

And all the prophets were prophesying the same: “March up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, for the Lord will hand it over to the king.”

From Uzziel’s sons: Micah;
from Micah’s sons: Shamir.

then his sister-in-law will go up to him in the sight of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. Then she will declare, ‘This is what is done to a man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

Hebron’s sons:
Jeriah the first, Amariah the second,
Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

David took more wives in Jerusalem, and he became the father of more sons and daughters.

So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me, where does your great strength come from? How could someone tie you up and make you helpless?”

But Abishai son of Zeruiah came to his aid, struck the Philistine, and killed him. Then David’s men swore to him: “You must never again go out with us to battle. You must not extinguish the lamp of Israel.”

Joab’s troops came and besieged Sheba in Abel of Beth-maacah. They built an assault ramp against the outer wall of the city. While all the troops with Joab were battering the wall to make it collapse,

It ascended to Beth-hoglah, proceeded north of Beth-arabah, and ascended to the Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

But a married man is concerned about the things of the world—how he may please his wife—

don’t ever withdraw your faithful love from my household—not even when the Lord cuts off every one of David’s enemies from the face of the earth.”

who will go out before them and come back in before them, and who will bring them out and bring them in, so that the Lord’s community won’t be like sheep without a shepherd.”

He doesn’t lend at interest or for profit but keeps his hand from wrongdoing and carries out true justice between men.

“Command the Israelites to give cities out of their hereditary property for the Levites to live in and pastureland around the cities.

“But no one can consecrate a firstborn of the livestock, whether an animal from the herd or flock, to the Lord, because a firstborn already belongs to the Lord.

He said to them, “If you are willing for me to bury my dead, listen to me and ask Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf

Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor, which I had bestowed on you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

These are Shobal’s sons:
Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

Gideon then said to God, “Don’t be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me to make one more test with the fleece. Let it remain dry, and the dew be all over the ground.”

and all the mixed peoples;
all the kings of the land of Uz;
all the kings of the land of the Philistines—Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

Then the Pharisees responded to them: “Are you fooled too?

You are to say: Hear the word of the Lord, king of Judah, you who sit on the throne of David—you, your officers, and your people who enter these gates.

Teach me what I cannot see;
if I have done wrong, I won’t do it again.”

Like a bird fleeing,
forced from the nest,
the daughters of Moab
will be at the fords of the Arnon.

let my own wife grind grain for another man,
and let other men sleep with her.

Their children are established while they are still alive,
and their descendants, before their eyes.

Because the land experienced peace, Asa built fortified cities in Judah. No one made war with him in those days because the Lord gave him rest.

Azmaveth son of Adiel was in charge of the king’s storehouses.
Jonathan son of Uzziah was in charge of the storehouses in the country, in the cities, in the villages, and in the fortresses.

But the descendants of Joseph said, “The hill country is not enough for us, and all the Canaanites who inhabit the valley area have iron chariots, both at Beth-shean with its towns and in the Jezreel Valley.”

Joab son of Zeruiah began to count them, but he didn’t complete it. There was wrath against Israel because of this census, and the number was not entered in the Historical Record of King David.

Then 10,000 choice men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce, but the Benjaminites did not know that disaster was about to strike them.

Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.

Then the king declared to the man of God, “Come home with me, refresh yourself, and I’ll give you a reward.”

So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took five pounds of silver and gave it to a silversmith. He made it into a carved image overlaid with silver, and it was in Micah’s house.

You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place He chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, and you will have abundant joy.

You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

For the Lord said to Moses: “Tell the Israelites: You are a stiff-necked people. If I went with you for a single moment, I would destroy you. Now take off your jewelry, and I will decide what to do with you.”

against Chedorlaomer king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar—four kings against five.

The priest who performs the cleansing will place the person who is to be cleansed, together with these offerings, before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

The tabernacle was set up in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month.

On that day a great panic from the Lord will be among them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.

The glory of Lebanon will come to you—
its pine, fir, and cypress together—
to beautify the place of My sanctuary,
and I will glorify My dwelling place.

You went to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.

We have heard of Moab’s pride—
how very proud he is—
his haughtiness, his pride, his arrogance,
and his empty boasting.

Tell us the coming events,
then we will know that you are gods.
Indeed, do something good or bad,
then we will be in awe and perceive.

As charcoal for embers and wood for fire,
so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.

Warrior leaders will speak
from the middle of Sheol
about him and his allies:
They have come down;
the uncircumcised lie
slain by the sword.

Don’t become a terror to me.
You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

But You have rejected and humiliated us;
You do not march out with our armies.

In those days Hezekiah became sick to the point of death, so he prayed to the Lord, and He spoke to him and gave him a miraculous sign.

When a king’s face lights up, there is life;
his favor is like a cloud with spring rain.

The heavens proclaim His righteousness,
for God is the Judge.Selah

Light is withheld from the wicked,
and the arm raised in violence is broken.

“I am pure, without transgression;
I am clean and have no guilt.

What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigor had left them.

So David left Asaph and his relatives there before the ark of the Lord’s covenant to minister regularly before the ark according to the daily requirements.

and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

Uzziah had an army equipped for combat that went out to war by division according to their assignments, as recorded by Jeiel the court secretary and Maaseiah the officer under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king’s commanders.

As for the rest of Levi’s sons:
from Amram’s sons: Shubael;
from Shubael’s sons: Jehdeiah.

Azmaveth the Baharumite,
Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

These six cities will serve as a refuge for the Israelites and for the foreigner or temporary resident among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there.

At that time, Ahaziah son of Ahab said to Jehoshaphat, “Let my servants go with your servants in the ships,” but Jehoshaphat was not willing.

Jehu rested with his fathers and was buried in Samaria. His son Jehoahaz became king in his place.

So he won over all the men of Judah, and they sent word to the king: “Come back, you and all your servants.”

When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, “What is this thing you’re doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

If only they were wise, they would figure it out;
they would understand their fate.

Now, whenever the king wants to come down, let him come down. Our part will be to hand him over to the king.”

When war broke out again, David went out and fought against the Philistines. He defeated them with such a great force that they fled from him.

Therefore, Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he remained loyal to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Then he turned from those beside him to others in front of him and asked about the offer. The people gave him the same answer as before.

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, married cousins on their father’s side.

Make horns for it on its four corners; the horns are to be of one piece. Overlay it with bronze.

If you wonder: ‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we don’t sow or gather our produce?’

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

So Moses spoke to the Israelites, and each of their leaders gave him a staff, one for each of the leaders of their ancestral houses, 12 staffs in all. Aaron’s staff was among them.

When he came to his father, he said, “My father.”

And he answered, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

but the wheat and the spelt were not destroyed since they are later crops.

“For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Suddenly Babylon fell and was shattered.
Wail for her;
get balm for her wound—
perhaps she can be healed.

When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

“When you divide the land by lot as an inheritance, you must set aside a donation to the Lord, a holy portion of the land, 8⅓ miles long and 6⅔ miles wide. This entire tract of land will be holy.

A fool’s mouth is his devastation,
and his lips are a trap for his life.

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:

My servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
My servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty;
My servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.

A door turns on its hinges,
and a slacker, on his bed.

Its rocks are a source of sapphire,
containing flecks of gold.

All of them wait for You
to give them their food at the right time.

“When you tell these people all these things, they will say to you, ‘Why has the Lord declared all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?’

When they heard the law, they separated all those of mixed descent from Israel.

Elisha got up, went into the house, and paced back and forth. Then he went up and bent down over him again. The boy sneezed seven times and opened his eyes.

Yet God drags away the mighty by His power;
when He rises up, they have no assurance of life.

In the first year of his reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the Lord’s temple and repaired them.

Even for the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel
but has come from a distant land
because of Your great name
and Your mighty hand and outstretched arm:
when he comes and prays toward this temple,

Indeed, this happened to Judah at the Lord’s command to remove them from His sight. It was because of the sins of Manasseh, according to all he had done,

‘The time will certainly come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.

The Lord alone led him,
with no help from a foreign god.

However, after Jehoiada died, the rulers of Judah came and paid homage to the king. Then the king listened to them,

Azariah did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Amaziah had done.

Though you were as numerous as the stars of the sky, you will be left with only a few people, because you did not obey the Lord your God.

So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: “This evening you will know that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt;

He said to me, “This water flows out to the eastern region and goes down to the Arabah. When it enters the sea, the sea of foul water, the water of the sea becomes fresh.

He sent messengers throughout all of Manasseh, who rallied behind him. He also sent messengers throughout Asher, Zebulun, and Naphtali, who also came to meet him.

Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob placed the branches in the troughs, in full view of the flocks, and they would breed in front of the branches.

“This is what the Lord God says: You have gone too far, princes of Israel! Put away violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of My people.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

So I prophesied as I had been commanded. While I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone.

They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east.

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”

Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me.

I will keep My eyes on them for their good and will return them to this land. I will build them up and not demolish them; I will plant them and not uproot them.

“Son of man, speak to your people and tell them: Suppose I bring the sword against a land, and the people of that land select a man from among them, appointing him as their watchman,

“Therefore, speak to them and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: When anyone from the house of Israel sets up idols in his heart, puts a sinful stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I, Yahweh, will answer him appropriately. I will answer him according to his many idols,

Joy and rejoicing have been removed from the orchard;
no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards.
No one tramples grapes in the winepresses.
I have put an end to the shouting.

You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.

“Go against the land of Merathaim,
and against those living in Pekod.
Put them to the sword;
completely destroy them—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
do everything I have commanded you.

This is the word the Lord spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to defeat the land of Egypt:

Your word is completely pure,
and Your servant loves it.

But no accounting is to be required from them for the money put into their hands since they work with integrity.”

A guilty man’s conduct is crooked,
but the behavior of the innocent is upright.

Lord, the heavens praise Your wonders—
Your faithfulness also—
in the assembly of the holy ones.

Sing praise to God, sing praise;
sing praise to our King, sing praise!

Let your heart be completely devoted to the Lord our God to walk in His statutes and to keep His commands, as it is today.”

My lord should pay no attention to this worthless man Nabal, for he lives up to his name: His name is Nabal, and stupidity is all he knows. I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

I thought: The Philistines will now descend on me at Gilgal, and I haven’t sought the Lord’s favor. So I forced myself to offer the burnt offering.”

So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests received the blood and sprinkled it on the altar. They slaughtered the rams and sprinkled the blood on the altar. They slaughtered the lambs and sprinkled the blood on the altar.

followed the Israelite man into the tent, and drove it through both the Israelite man and the woman—through her belly. Then the plague on the Israelites was stopped,

the kite,
any kind of falcon,

They float on the surface of the water.
Their section of the land is cursed,
so that they never go to their vineyards.

When I think about it, I am terrified
and my body trembles in horror.

Come, let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay a hand on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh,” and they agreed.

Fishermen will stand beside it from En-gedi to En-eglaim. These will become places where nets are spread out to dry. Their fish will consist of many different kinds, like the fish of the Mediterranean Sea.

The priest is to take some of the blood from the restitution offering and put it on the lobe of the right ear of the one to be cleansed, on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

and your poverty will come like a robber,
your need, like a bandit.

They departed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.

So the Israelites brought a freewill offering to the Lord, all the men and women whose hearts prompted them to bring something for all the work that the Lord, through Moses, had commanded to be done.

“Praise the Lord,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from Pharaoh and the power of the Egyptians and snatched the people from the power of the Egyptians.

Now there was a wall surrounding the outside of the temple. The measuring rod in the man’s hand was six units of 21 inches; each unit was the standard length plus three inches. He measured the thickness of the wall structure; it was about 10 feet, and its height was the same.

I will bring gold instead of bronze;
I will bring silver instead of iron,
bronze instead of wood,
and iron instead of stones.
I will appoint peace as your guard
and righteousness as your ruler.

There is a generation whose teeth are swords,
whose fangs are knives,
devouring the oppressed from the land
and the needy from among mankind.

Praise the Lord from the earth,
all sea monsters and ocean depths,

Mishma, Dumah, Massa,

I have become a stranger to my brothers
and a foreigner to my mother’s sons

Listen to the sound of my pleading
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands
toward Your holy sanctuary.

to bring rain on an uninhabited land,
on a desert with no human life,

so that I can sing to You and not be silent.
Lord my God, I will praise You forever.

Lord, don’t I hate those who hate You,
and detest those who rebel against You?

Will evildoers never understand?
They consume My people as they consume bread;
they do not call on the Lord.

He saturates clouds with moisture;
He scatters His lightning through them.

Because of Your name, Yahweh,
forgive my sin, for it is great.

Moreover, because of my delight in the house of my God, I now give my personal treasures of gold and silver for the house of my God over and above all that I’ve provided for the holy house:

They die suddenly in the middle of the night;
people shudder, then pass away.
Even the mighty are removed without effort.

Foolish men, without even a name.
They were forced to leave the land.

So he gathered the priests and Levites and said, “Go out to the cities of Judah and collect money from all Israel to repair the temple of your God as needed year by year, and do it quickly.”

However, the Levites did not hurry.

while the land belonged to a powerful man
and an influential man lived on it.

The whole combined assembly numbered42,360

You yourself will be struck with many illnesses, including a disease of the intestines, until your intestines come out day after day because of the disease.”

“Notice I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the Lord—3,775 tons of gold, 37,750 tons of silver, and bronze and iron that can’t be weighed because there is so much of it. I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more to them.

It is to be put into the hands of those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple. They in turn are to give it to the workmen in the Lord’s temple to repair the damage.

God helped him against the Philistines, the Arabs that live in Gur-baal, and the Meunites.

The two doors were made of olive wood. He carved cherubim, palm trees, and flower blossoms on them and overlaid them with gold, hammering gold over the cherubim and palm trees.

Nation was crushed by nation and city by city, for God troubled them with every possible distress.

But the commander of the guards left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and farmers.

Solomon offered a sacrifice of fellowship offerings to the Lord: 22,000 cattle and 120,000 sheep. In this manner the king and all the Israelites dedicated the Lord’s temple.

But Jeroboam son of Nebat, a servant of Solomon son of David, rose up and rebelled against his lord.

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber, and his hand swings the ax to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies, that person may flee to one of these cities and live.

From the Amramites, the Izharites, the Hebronites, and the Uzzielites:

Shimei’s sons: Jahath, Zizah, Jeush, and Beriah. Those were Shimei’s sons—four.

From the Kohathites, Uriel the leader and 120 of his relatives;

People came from everywhere, sent by every king on earth who had heard of his wisdom, to listen to Solomon’s wisdom.