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The people quarreled with Moses and said, “If only we had perished when our brothers perished before the Lord.
Then Saul said, “Listen, son of Ahitub!”
“I’m at your service,
See, I have allotted these remaining nations to you as an inheritance for your tribes, including all the nations I have destroyed, from the Jordan westward to the Mediterranean Sea.
The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
But his master replied to him, “We will not stop at a foreign city where there are no Israelites. Let’s move on to Gibeah.”
So Moses took the staff from the Lord’s presence
He must take two turtledoves or two young pigeons on the eighth day, come before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting, and give them to the priest.
the Seredite clan from Sered;
the Elonite clan from Elon;
the Jahleelite clan from Jahleel.
place fire in them and put incense on them before the Lord.
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
You can settle in the land of Goshen
The Lord commanded what has been done today in order to make atonement for you.
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans; Pekod, Shoa, and Koa;
Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
Jeremiah therefore said to Zedekiah, “This is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If indeed you surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon,
“I will ordain four kinds
my stronghold and my deliverer.
He is my shield,
He subdues my people
and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag.
This is the Lord’s declaration—whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
we will play stringed instruments
all the days of our lives
at the house of the Lord.
prisoners in cruel chains
they are a burden too heavy for me to bear.
and the ears of those who hear will listen.
be a refuge for Moab
destruction has ended,
and marauders have vanished from the land.
teach me Your statutes.
look on us with favor,
and we will be saved.
they huddle against
when I learn Your righteous judgments.
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”
and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
Now determine in your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God.
So the king of Israel gathered the prophets, 400 men, and asked them, “Should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war or should I refrain?”
They replied, “March up, and God will hand it over to the king.”
These are their numbers according to their ancestral families. For Judah, the commanders of thousands:
While Elisha was still speaking with them, the messenger
So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster?”
But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your house,
He said to his men, “All of you, put on your swords!” So David and all his men put on their swords. About 400 men followed David while 200 stayed with the supplies.
he said, “Return to your homes with great wealth: a huge number of cattle, and silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a large quantity of clothing. Share the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”
remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
Now the western border was the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.
This was the boundary of the descendants of Judah around their clans.
He fought bravely, defeated the Amalekites,
This was the territory of the descendants of Ephraim by their clans:
The border of their inheritance went from Ataroth-addar
Finally, Joshua turned toward Debir
“Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent of meeting and wash them with water.
All your assessed values will be measured by the standard sanctuary shekel, 20 gerahs to the shekel.
and their fury, for it is cruel!
I will disperse them throughout Jacob
and scatter them throughout Israel.
Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.
When the Canaanite inhabitants of the land saw the mourning at the threshing floor of Atad, they said, “This is a solemn mourning on the part of the Egyptians.” Therefore the place is named Abel-mizraim.
she called the household servants. “Look,” she said to them, “my husband brought a Hebrew man to make fools of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, and I screamed as loud as I could.
I will bring them out from the peoples, gather them from the countries, and bring them into their own land. I will shepherd them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines, and in all the inhabited places of the land.
But he denied it in front of everyone: “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah from Shechem’s house, and went away.
Yes, to them you are like a singer of love songs who has a beautiful voice and plays skillfully on an instrument. They hear your words, but they don’t obey them.
These are the family records of Esau, father of the Edomites in the mountains of Seir.
and complete the days of purification. Then on the eighth day
your gates out of sparkling stones,
and all your walls out of precious stones.
so the king of Assyria will lead the captives of Egypt
I meditate on all You have done;
I reflect on the work of Your hands.
For this is what the Lord says:
your wound most severe.
For if you conscientiously carry out this word, then kings sitting on David’s throne will enter through the gates of this palace
Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies took the whole remnant of Judah,
Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
Who has heard things like these?
Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
gladness for the upright in heart.
you who are near,
my only life
and I will not respond to him with your arguments.
The following
Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismachiah, Mahath, and Benaiah were deputies under the authority of Conaniah and his brother Shimei by appointment of King Hezekiah and of Azariah the chief official of God’s temple.
They taught throughout Judah, having the book of the Lord’s instruction with them.
I will appoint him over My house and My kingdom forever, and his throne will be established forever.’”
His relative through Eliezer: his son Rehabiah, his son Jeshaiah, his son Joram, his son Zichri, and his son Shelomith.
The men of Israel and Judah rallied, shouting their battle cry, and chased the Philistines to the entrance of the valley and to the gates of Ekron.
Then he and his children are to be released from you, and he may return to his clan and his ancestral property.
He captured it—its king and all its villages. They struck them down with the sword and completely destroyed everyone in it, leaving no survivors. He treated Debir and its king as he had treated Hebron and as he had treated Libnah and its king.
The south side began at the edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border extended westward; it went to the spring at the Waters of Nephtoah.
Her husband may confirm or cancel any vow or any sworn obligation to deny herself.
Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four cities.
Make its pots for removing ashes, and its shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; make all its utensils of bronze.
Remember what the Lord your God did to Miriam on the journey after you left Egypt.
“Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld,
Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the Lord’s temple,
Joseph and Benjamin.
They keep on saying to those who despise Me, ‘The Lord has said: You will have peace.’
But if you do not obey these words, then I swear by Myself”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that this house will become a ruin.”
and ostriches will also live in her.
It will never again be inhabited
or lived in through all generations.
All those who cast hooks into the Nile will lament,
and those who spread nets on the water will shrivel up.
the praise
What a horror Babylon has become
among the nations!
an inaccessible city.
He brings it down; He brings it down to the ground;
He throws it to the dust.
This is the word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah the prophet about Elam
and horsemen were positioned at the gates.
He hurled
Let the godly celebrate in triumphal glory;
let them shout for joy on their beds.
He told the people who lived in Jerusalem to give a contribution
They proclaimed a fast and seated Naboth at the head of the people.
Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites to the king’s overseers, and when they saw that there was a large amount of money, the king’s secretary and the high priest’s deputy came and emptied the chest, picked it up, and returned it to its place. They did this daily and gathered the money in abundance.
Eden,
And that is what happened. When he got up early in the morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung dew out of it, filling a bowl with water.
The rest of the deeds of Jehoiakim,
Our fathers fell by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
the weight of the gold lampstands
Then the whole assembly made a covenant with the king in God’s temple. Jehoiada said to them, “Here is the king’s son! He must reign, just as the Lord promised
No such Passover had ever been kept from the time of the judges who judged Israel through the entire time of the kings of Israel and Judah.
because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’”
The rest of the events of Elah’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.
Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in Solomon’s hand.
So they returned to the city quietly that day like people come in when they are humiliated after fleeing in battle.
When he taunted Israel, Jonathan, son of David’s brother Shimei, killed him.
Take note: their two sons, Zadok’s son Ahimaaz and Abiathar’s son Jonathan, are there with them. Send me everything you hear through them.”
And when many troubles and afflictions come to them, this song will testify against them, because
Present a burnt offering, a fire offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: 13 young bulls, two rams, and 14 male lambs a year old. They are to be unblemished.
He sent gifts to those in Bethel,
Then it went north to the slope opposite the Jordan Valley
When the Jubilee
If her husband says nothing at all to her from day to day, he confirms all her vows and obligations, which are binding. He has confirmed them because he said nothing to her when he heard about them.
Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, but whoever kills a person is to be put to death.
Any bed the man with the discharge lies on will be unclean, and any furniture he sits on will be unclean.
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
He must continually tend the lamps on the pure gold lampstand in the Lord’s presence.
‘Look, a people has come out of Egypt, and they cover the surface of the land. Now come and put a curse on them for me. I may be able to fight against them and drive them away.’”
He is to remove all its fat just as the fat of the lamb is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest will burn it on the altar along with the fire offerings to the Lord. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.
and the specially woven
I will save you from all your uncleanness. I will summon the grain and make it plentiful, and will not bring famine on you.
These are the chiefs of the Horites,
according to their divisions, in the land of Seir.
because of their rebellious ways and their sins.
Praise the Lord,
for He rescues the life of the needy
from the hand of evil people.
and those who grumble will accept instruction.
I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority into his hand, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah.
and
help the poor,
and crush the oppressor.
He said to the Levites who taught all Israel
he will be blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his enemies.
The God of my salvation is exalted.
let those who love Your salvation continually say,
“The Lord is great!”
Hezekiah did this throughout all Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the Lord his God.
So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces and killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.
An Ephraimite warrior named Zichri killed the king’s son Maaseiah, Azrikam governor of the palace, and Elkanah who was second to the king.
The messenger who went to call Micaiah instructed him, “Look, the words of the prophets are unanimously favorable for the king. So let your words be like theirs, and speak favorably.”
Elisha called Gehazi and said, “Call the Shunammite woman.” He called her and she came. Then Elisha said, “Pick up your son.”
Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger
from all the people on earth,
as You spoke through Your servant Moses
when You brought their ancestors out of Egypt.
He answered him, “We’re traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I’m going to the house of the Lord.
Then all the people left for their homes, and David returned home to bless his household.
Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old—all unblemished—
Whenever they enter the tent of meeting or approach the altar to minister by burning up an offering to the Lord, they must wash with water so that they will not die.
The conflict with the Philistines was fierce all of Saul’s days, so whenever Saul noticed any strong or brave man, he enlisted him.
Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
On that day they captured it and struck it down, putting everyone in it to the sword. He completely destroyed it that day, just as he had done to Lachish.
then I will act with hostility toward you; I also will strike you seven times for your sins.
As she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand, and the midwife took it and tied a scarlet thread around it, announcing, “This one came out first.”
because Moses had given the inheritance to the two and a half tribes beyond the Jordan.
Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.
He also made the holy anointing oil and the pure, fragrant, and expertly blended incense.
Your right hand will hold on to me.
On that day I swore
Make two other gold rings and put them at the two other corners of the breastpiece on the edge that is next to the inner border of the ephod.
yet it lives in kings’ palaces.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for I will be with you.
I will bring destruction on all the nations
where I have banished you,
but I will not bring destruction on you.
I will discipline you with justice,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
I will pursue them with sword, famine, and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse and a desolation, an object of scorn and a disgrace among all the nations where I have banished them.
nurtured in their youth,
our daughters, like corner pillars
that are carved in the palace style.
she breathed her last breath.
Her sun set while it was still day;
she was ashamed and humiliated.
The rest of them I will give over to the sword
in the presence of their enemies.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
is like binding a stone in a sling.
What can man do to me?
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile
So they went to Hilkiah
Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he chopped down the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved images, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered
and He does not pay attention to transgression,
Those were the divisions of the gatekeepers from the sons of the Korahites and Merarites.
must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear.
They will be completely burned up on the spot.
the fifth to Nethaniah, his sons, and his brothers—12
But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was observed to the Lord in Jerusalem.
These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them,
and single him out for harm from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the law.
and David asked the Lord:
The Lord replied to him, “Pursue them, for you will certainly overtake them and rescue the people.”
On the fifteenth day of this month there will be a festival; unleavened bread is to be eaten for seven days.
Now one day he went into the house to do his work, and none of the household servants were there.
to the descendants of Aaron from the Kohathite clans of the Levites, because they received the first lot.
the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening
The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.
The Lord told Moses: “Register every firstborn male of the Israelites
Then Israel said to him, “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are doing, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron,
Then he spread the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
turning their faces to this road.
They will come and join themselves
in an everlasting covenant
I will call for a sword against him on all My mountains”—the declaration of the Lord God—“and every man’s sword will be against his brother.
He took one of the royal family
“As for you, house of Israel, this is what the Lord God says: Go and serve your idols, each of you. But afterward you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
and the worm will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will last forever,
and My salvation for all generations.
and Oholibamah bore Jeush, Jalam, and Korah. These were Esau’s sons, who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
“Son of man, how does the wood of the vine,
they plan harm against her in Heshbon:
Come, let’s cut her off from nationhood.
Also, Madmen,
the sword will pursue you.
but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north
and the year of My redemption
Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor.
I am too perplexed to hear,
too dismayed to see.
and warned him, “Don’t you realize that Baalis, king of the Ammonites, has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah
The prophet Jeremiah spoke concerning all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:
the foundations of the world were exposed,
at Your rebuke, Lord,
at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
He has only human strength,
it will carry you away;
it will pass through every morning—
every day and every night.
Only terror
to understand the message.
and since the day I was born
the gold for the gold work and the silver for the silver, for all the work to be done by the craftsmen. Now who will volunteer to consecrate himself to the Lord today?”
The land of Judah will terrify Egypt; whenever Judah is mentioned, Egypt will tremble because of what the Lord of Hosts has planned
because You have seen my affliction.
You have known the troubles of my life
and have not denied the request of his lips.
and the innocent will divide up his silver.
“Who is there who has not had enough to eat at Job’s table?”
Akkub’s descendants,
provided you keep every one of these commands I am giving you today and follow them, loving the Lord your God and walking in His ways at all times—you are to add three more cities to these three.
And all the prophets were prophesying the same, saying, “March up to Ramoth-gilead and succeed, for the Lord will hand it over to the king.”
So when Jehu executed judgment on the house of Ahab,
You did not obey the Lord and did not carry out His burning anger against Amalek;
So they sat down and the two of them ate and drank together. Then the girl’s father said to the man, “Please agree to stay overnight and enjoy yourself.”
Afterward, Joab blew the ram’s horn, and the troops broke off their pursuit of Israel because Joab restrained them.
Then I took my concubine and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout Israel’s territory, because they committed a horrible shame
a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here and let me speak with him.”
No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect is to come near to present the fire offerings to the Lord. He has a defect and is not to come near to present the food of his God.
Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
Bezalel
Let Pharaoh do this: Let him appoint overseers over the land and take a fifth of the harvest of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
Do the same for his donkey, his garment, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
The priest will examine the scaly outbreak on the seventh day, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce the person clean. He is to wash his clothes, and he will be clean.
and the land is subdued before the Lord—afterward you may return and be free from obligation to the Lord and to Israel. And this land will belong to you as a possession before the Lord.
Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have everything I need.” So Jacob urged him until he accepted.
He turned away from them and wept. Then he turned back and spoke to them. He took Simeon from them and had him bound before their eyes.
On that same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions.
“Do you know Laban grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked them.
They answered, “We know him.”
When My sanctuary is among them forever, the nations will know that I, Yahweh, sanctify Israel.”
I could do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me: ‘Watch yourself. Don’t say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says: A city that sheds blood
Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.
You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters,
let’s guzzle some beer;
and tomorrow will be like today,
only far better!”
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He announced, ‘Turn, each of you, from your
“Now you, son of man, mark out two roads that the sword of Babylon’s king can take. Both of them should originate from the same land. And make a signpost at the fork in the road to each city.
The word of the Lord came to me:
rich in treasures,
your end has come,
your life thread is cut.
You have said, “With my many chariots
I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon.
I cut down its tallest cedars,
its choice cypress trees.
I came to its distant heights,
its densest forest.
the scorner will disappear,
and all those who lie in wait with evil intent
will be killed—
and they will be dried up.
For it is a land of carved images,
and they go mad because of terrifying things.
To Shemaiah the Nehelamite you are to say,
You did more evil than your fathers.
on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails,
falling down and weeping.
What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?
“Why have You forgotten me?
Why must I go about in sorrow
because of the enemy’s oppression?”
They said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace,
and I will obey it
and follow it with all my heart.
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
His hands formed the dry land.
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and amen.
and the dew will rest on my branches all night.
I will delight in His deliverance.
but have walked in the way of the kings of Israel,
As for the rest of the events
Ibhar, Elishua, Elpelet,
Mibhar son of Hagri,
Kedesh, Edrei, En-hazor,
But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, he will bear his punishment.”
“Or if the offering that he brings as a sin offering is a lamb,
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
“When a skin disease develops on a person, he is to be brought to the priest.
He
Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are weak, and I have nursing sheep and cattle. If they are driven hard for one day, the whole herd will die.
“Take the breast from the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it as a presentation offering before the Lord; it is to be your portion.
against the walls of Babylon;
fortify the watch post;
set the watchmen in place;
prepare the ambush.
For the Lord has both planned and accomplished
what He has threatened
against those who live in Babylon.
gives birth and abandons her fawn
since there is no grass.
powerful wind that executes His command,
“This is what the Lord God says: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, may enter My sanctuary, not even a foreigner who is among the Israelites.
raise your voice in Bashan;
cry out from Abarim,
for all your lovers
A voice from the temple—
the voice of the Lord,
paying back His enemies what they deserve!
the whole earth is filled with His glory.
Amen and amen.
seek Your servant,
for I do not forget Your commands.
throughout the territory of Moab.
Their wailing reaches Eglaim;
their wailing reaches Beer-elim.
let Your glory be over the whole earth.
You covered all their sin.
whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on Your altar.
At the king’s command a chest was made and placed outside the gate of the Lord’s temple.
Then the prophet went and waited for the king on the road. He disguised
Shephatiah’s descendants, Hattil’s descendants, Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, and Ami’s descendants.
He stationed gatekeepers
“As for you, get up and go to your house. When your feet enter the city, the boy will die.
Then Jehoiada the priest sent out the commanders of hundreds, those in charge of the army, saying, “Take her out between the ranks, and put anyone who follows her to death by the sword,” for the priest had said, “Don’t put her to death in the Lord’s temple.”
When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb. All the people wept,
along with two quarts
So Achish summoned David and told him, “As the Lord lives, you are an honorable man. I think it is good
Now, may my lord the king please hear the words of his servant: If it is the Lord who has incited you against me,
there they offer acceptable sacrifices.
For they draw from the wealth of the seas
and the hidden treasures of the sand.
The Lord commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will bring the Israelites into the land I swore to them, and I will be with you.”
and her husband hears about it, says nothing to her, and does not prohibit her, all her vows are binding, and every obligation she put herself under is binding.
“Take a census of those 20 years old or more, as the Lord had commanded Moses and the Israelites who came out of the land of Egypt.”
the Jahzeelite clan from Jahzeel;
the Gunite clan from Guni;
He is to purify himself with the water
Whoever enters the house during any of the days the priest quarantines it will be unclean until evening.
We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress.
and the Lord said to Moses,
Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,
Get your father and your families, and come back to me. I will give you the best of the land of Egypt, and you can eat from the richness of the land.’
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau; he is coming to meet you—and he has 400 men with him.”
She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.
Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah.
These were the sons of Esau’s wife Basemath.
The best of all the firstfruits of every kind and contribution of every kind from all your gifts will belong to the priests.
“Now look, I clap My hands together against the dishonest profit you have made
She put it out on the bare rock;
she didn’t pour it on the ground
to cover it with dust.
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.
He will fervently plead their case
so that He might bring rest to the earth
but turmoil to those who live in Babylon.
“Go to the house of the Rechabites, speak to them,
forget what is decreed,
and pervert justice for all the oppressed.
so I struck him; I was angry and hid;
but he went on turning back to the desires of his heart.
As when Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown along with their neighbors,”
and all your adversaries—all of them—
will go off into exile.
Those who plunder you will be plundered,
and all who raid you will be raided.
their arm did not bring them victory—
but by Your right hand, Your arm,
and the light of Your face,
for You were pleased with them.
I water it regularly.
I guard it night and day
so that no one disturbs it.
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish,
and the hills, righteousness.
with musicians following;
among them are young women
playing tambourines.
Hezekiah had abundant riches and glory, and he made himself treasuries for silver, gold, precious stones, spices, shields, and every desirable item.
and one whose way is upright
is detestable to the wicked.
and if
and Your righteousness over the upright in heart.
The length of his reign over Israel was 40 years; he reigned in Hebron for seven years and in Jerusalem for 33.
Jehoahaz
David said, “Lord, I would never do such a thing! Is this not the blood of men who risked their lives?” So he refused to drink it. Such were the exploits of the three warriors.
“Come here,” the Philistine called to David, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts!”
Now consider carefully what you must do, because there is certain to be trouble for our master and his entire family. He is such a worthless fool nobody can talk to him!”
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, the king, and the people that they would be the Lord’s people.
Then Hiram made
So Hiram finished all the work that he was doing for King Solomon on the Lord’s temple:
Saul asked him, “Why did you and Jesse’s son conspire against me? You gave him bread and a sword and inquired of God for him, so he could rise up against me and wait in ambush, as is the case today.”
When the Arameans realized that they had been defeated by Israel, they sent messengers to summon the Arameans who were across the Euphrates. They were led by Shophach, the commander of Hadadezer’s army.
For the Lord our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery,
“The Lord has driven out great and powerful nations before you,
to those in Hormah,
Moses brought their case before the Lord,
Any clay pot that the man with the discharge touches must be broken, while any wooden utensil must be rinsed with water.
Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
Let him live among you wherever he wants within your gates. Do not mistreat him.
Moses replied to them, “If you do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,
They are to perform duties for you and for the whole tent. They must not come near the sanctuary equipment or the altar; otherwise, both they and you will die.
and said to Moses, “The people are bringing more than is needed
Then
Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end. At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat.
So Moses did as the Lord commanded him.
Abraham’s possession in the presence of all the Hittites who came to the gate of his city.
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city
Then Rebekah and her female servants got up, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.
a sound of celebration.
I will multiply them, and they will not decrease;
I will honor them, and they will not be insignificant.
And His sisters, aren’t they all with us? So where does He get all these things?”
then you will gnaw its broken pieces,
and tear your breasts.
For I have spoken.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
So now, correct your ways and deeds
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
“This is what the Lord God says: Are you the one I spoke about in former times through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who for years prophesied in those times that I would bring you against them?
Who have you raised your voice against
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
“Son of man, prophesy: This is what the Lord says! You are to proclaim:
and also polished.
“As for the nation or kingdom that does not serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and does not place its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I will punish by sword, famine, and plague”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“until through him I have destroyed it.
I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah
the just cause of the poor,
justice for the needy.
and I am in despair.
I waited for sympathy,
but there was none;
for comforters, but found no one.
than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
for Your righteous judgments.
for the glory of Your name.
Deliver us and atone for
because of Your name.
since He knows the secrets of the heart?
my shame and disgrace.
You are aware of all my adversaries.
for You judge the peoples with fairness
and lead the nations on earth.
it is wonderful in our eyes.
Azariah
Be quiet, and I will speak.
they contribute to my destruction,
without anyone to help them.
the elders of his city must send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.
You brought them out of Egypt,
out of the middle of an iron furnace.
When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may come inside the camp.
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of Yahweh?”
Zabad son of Ahlai,
He was the most honored of the Thirty, but he did not become one of the Three. David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
He has also given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.
On that day the Benjaminites rallied 26,000 armed men
The drink offering is to be a quart
In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
Then all the people will hear about it, be afraid, and no longer behave arrogantly.
Moses, Aaron, and his sons, who performed the duties of
This will belong to Aaron and his sons as a regular portion from the Israelites, for it is a contribution. It will be the Israelites’ contribution from their fellowship sacrifices, their contribution to the Lord.
Construct a grate for it of bronze mesh, and make four bronze rings on the mesh at its four corners.
On the fifth day Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai,
When she had finished giving him a drink, she said, “I’ll also draw water for your camels until they have had enough to drink.”
The warden did not bother with anything under Joseph’s authority,
“This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against the shepherds.
The recesses and their pilasters had beveled windows all around the inside of the gateway.
I, Yahweh, will be their God, and My servant David
You are guilty of the blood you have shed,
this is the Lord’s declaration—
one will search for Israel’s guilt,
but there will be none,
and for Judah’s sins,
but they will not be found,
for I will forgive
depart from the Chaldeans’ land.
Be like the rams that lead the flock.
You made a reservoir between the walls
“There is a cry from Heshbon to Elealeh; they raise their voices as far as Jahaz
‘Some of your descendants who come from you will be taken away, and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.’”
and the waves of the sea
settled like wine on its dregs.
He hasn’t been poured from one container to another
or gone into exile.
So his taste has remained the same,
and his aroma hasn’t changed.
as a swimmer spreads out his arms to swim.
His pride will be brought low,
along with the trickery of his hands.
who said to them, “Tell your master this, ‘The Lord says: Don’t be afraid
our secret sins in the light of Your presence.
for I would have denied God above.
and his throne will be established in righteousness.
with the son of man
You have made strong for Yourself.
and Sirion,
and my counselors.
while the sea declares, “I don’t have it.”
and overthrows them by night, and they are crushed.
Mehida’s descendants, Harsha’s descendants,
When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before
When Athaliah heard the noise from the troops, the guards, and those praising the king, she went to the troops in the Lord’s temple.
So the Lord’s anger was against Amaziah, and He sent a prophet to him, who said, “Why have you sought a people’s gods that could not deliver their own people from your hand?”
Then he made 10 bronze basins
The two doors
So Amaziah released the division that came to him from Ephraim to go home. But they got very angry with Judah and returned home in a fierce rage.
son of Mahath, son of Amasai,
They went to the entrance of Gedor, to the east side of the valley to seek pasture for their flocks.
As for the rest of the events of Zechariah’s reign, they are written in the Historical Record of Israel’s Kings.
“Now get up! Go out and encourage
and your land’s produce,
the young of your herds,
and the newborn of your flocks.
Appoint for yourselves three men from each tribe, and I will send them out. They are to go and survey the land, write a description of it for the purpose of their inheritance, and return to me.
From Janoah it descended to Ataroth and Naarah,
But if he cancels them after he hears about them, he will be responsible for her
We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and are not among the cities of these nations.
Look, I have selected your fellow Levites from the Israelites as a gift for you,
The priest is to reexamine the contamination on the seventh day. If it has spread in the fabric, the warp, the woof, or the leather, regardless of how it is used, the contamination is harmful mildew; it is unclean.
He is to remove all its fat just as the fat is removed from the fellowship sacrifice. The priest is to burn it on the altar as a pleasing aroma to the Lord. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf, and he will be forgiven.
it is a chronic disease on the skin of his body, and the priest must pronounce him unclean.
So Jacob said to him, “You know what I have done for you and your herds.
“You must have honest scales, an honest dry measure,
I will fill you with people and animals,
So Abimelech warned all the people with these words: “Whoever harms this man or his wife will certainly die.”
“Be prepared and get yourself ready, you and all your company who have been mobilized around you; you will be their guard.
The sound of a carefree crowd was there. Drunkards
I will fight against you
“Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt and to his hordes:
Proclaim it in Memphis and in Tahpanhes!
Say: Take positions! Prepare yourself,
for the sword devours all around you.
Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah at Tahpanhes:
“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Go, speak to Zedekiah, king of Judah, and tell him: This is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the king of Babylon,
As for you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, you will go into captivity. You will go to Babylon. There you will die, and there you will be buried, you and all your friends that you prophesied falsely
and their posterity among the peoples.
All who see them will recognize
that they are a people the Lord has blessed.
fire burns them up.
They cannot deliver themselves
from the power
This is not a coal for warming themselves,
or a fire to sit beside!
I profaned My possession,
and I placed them under your control.
You showed them no mercy;
you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
and all the cultivated areas of the Nile
will wither, blow away, and vanish.
that you have been deprived of will say,
‘This place is too small for me;
make room for me so that I may settle.’
fury, indignation, and calamity—
a band of deadly messengers.
and a strong king will rule it.
This is the declaration of the Lord God of Hosts.
who seek the face of the God of Jacob.
captured without a bow.
All your fugitives were captured together;
they had fled far away.
people shouted at them as if they were thieves.
He took all the gold, silver, all the utensils that were found with Obed-edom
Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the Lord’s house under the care of Jehiel
Note that the events
but when they turned to the Lord God of Israel in their distress and sought Him, He was found by them.
Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than Ithamar’s, they were divided accordingly: 16 heads of ancestral houses were from Eleazar’s descendants, and eight heads of ancestral houses were from Ithamar’s.
“Don’t be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.
Then he said to his sons, “Saddle the donkey for me.” So they saddled the donkey for him, and he got on it.
On the west side, from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south, the border curved, turning southward, and ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the descendants of Judah. This was the west side of their border.
Ziklag, Beth-marcaboth, Hazar-susah,
After Moses spoke to the Israelites, they brought the one who had cursed to the outside of the camp and stoned him. So the Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
the priest is to examine the person. If the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest does not need to look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
He himself went on ahead and bowed to the ground
You, all your troops, and the peoples who are with you will fall on the mountains of Israel. I will give you as food to every kind of predatory bird and to the wild animals.
and there will be anguish in Cush
when the slain fall in Egypt,
and its wealth is taken away,
and its foundations are torn down.
Damascus was also your trading partner because of your numerous products and your great wealth of every kind, trading in wine from Helbon and white wool.
Then the steward said, “May you be well. Don’t be afraid. Your God and the God of your father must have put treasure in your bags. I received your money.” Then he brought Simeon out to them.
horror terrifies me.
He has turned my last glimmer of hope
into sheer terror.
will fall by the sword,
and those cities
At the sight of them
Praise Him, sun and moon;
praise Him, all you shining stars.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
and your children will return to their own territory.
we went through fire and water,
but You brought us out to abundance.
The word of the Lord came to me:
and Israel to the plunderers?
Was it not the Lord?
Have we not sinned against Him?
They were not willing to walk in His ways,
and they would not listen to His instruction.
those who trust in idols
and say to metal-plated images:
You are our gods!
he is like the animals that perish.
for You will answer me.
He has revealed His righteousness
in the sight of the nations.
Saul responded, “I have sinned.
“But if anyone suddenly pushes a person without hostility or throws any object at him without malicious intent
When the Philistines saw him, they brought 30 men to accompany him.
and uphold their cause.
Write all the words of this law on the stones after you cross to enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey,
you are to cut off her hand. You must not show pity.
Measure 1,000 yards
But you did not go near the Ammonites’ land, all along the bank of the Jabbok River,
This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;
Clothe Aaron with the holy garments,
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.
the Shaulite clan from Shaul.
He said to them, “Spend the night here, and I will give you the answer the Lord tells me.” So the officials of Moab stayed with Balaam.
He said to me, ‘I will make you fruitful and numerous; I will make many nations come from you, and I will give this land as an eternal possession
The Lord met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth. Then He said, “Return to Balak and say what I tell you.”
But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?”
He replied, “Because the Lord your God worked it out for me.”
This is the portion from the fire offerings to the Lord for Aaron and his sons
you will be captured also.
Chemosh
with his priests and officials.
Isn’t this the cup that my master drinks from and uses for divination?
Then I said concerning this woman worn out by adultery: Will they now have illicit sex with her, even her?
against those who do what is evil,
to erase
each with his weapons.
They will cut down the choicest of your cedars
and throw them into the fire.
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live. He will keep his life like the spoils of war and will live.’
their works are nonexistent;
their images are wind and emptiness.
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel
so you can know the time they give birth?
while older men stood to their feet.
Don’t become obstinate
For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph,
But some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
Manasseh rested with his fathers, and he was buried in his own house. His son Amon became king in his place.
A third are to be at the king’s palace, and a third are to be at the Foundation Gate, and all the troops will be in the courtyards of the Lord’s temple.
Here are the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of God’s house.
So Jotham strengthened himself because he did not waver in obeying
Wasn’t the sin of Peor, which brought a plague on the Lord’s community, enough for us, so that we have not cleansed ourselves from it even to this day,
So he did what was evil in the Lord’s sight like the house of Ahab, for they were his advisers after the death of his father, to his destruction.
As for Moses the man of God,
his son Zerahiah,
Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, because a Levite has become my priest.”
When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea,
As all the people saw the pillar of cloud remaining at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up, then bow in worship, each one at the door of his tent.
“The firstborn
Dilan, Mizpeh, Jokthe-el,
Be prepared by morning. Come up Mount Sinai in the morning and stand before Me on the mountaintop.
He bows down to it and worships;
He prays to it,
and all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Dead Sea below the slopes of Pisgah.
Jacob’s other sons came to the slaughter and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.
When Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to his steward,
This city will bear on My behalf a name of joy, praise, and glory
They must wear linen turbans on their heads and linen undergarments around their waists.
When she flaunted her promiscuity and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust just as I turned away from her sister.
the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men in order to give to each person according to his ways and the result of his deeds.
“As for his father, he will die for his own iniquity because he practiced fraud, robbed his brother, and did what was wrong among his people.
all who string the bow;
camp all around her; let none escape.
Repay her according to her deeds;
just as she has done, do the same to her,
for she has acted arrogantly against the Lord,
against the Holy One of Israel.
Look! It will be like an eagle soaring upward, then swooping down and spreading its wings over Bozrah. In that day the hearts of Edom’s warriors will be like the heart of a woman with contractions.
and Leviathan, which You formed to play there.
the significance of Your wonderful works
or remember Your many acts of faithful love;
instead, they rebelled by the sea—the Red Sea.
Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, famine, and plague, but whoever goes out and surrenders to the Chaldeans who are besieging you will live and will retain his life like the spoils of war.
bring an offering and enter His courts.
and call on the name of Yahweh.
for I take pleasure in it.
I will besiege you with earth ramps,
and I will set up my siege towers against you.
is like a stick with thorns,
brandished by
or associate with hypocrites.
You who have done great things;
God, who is like You?
Nevertheless, He sent them prophets
He chokes me by the neck of my garment.
If you break the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and worship other gods, and bow down to them, the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly disappear from this good land He has given you.”
Then they said to him, “Please inquire of God so we will know if we will have a successful journey.”
The Levite, the husband of the murdered woman, answered: “I went to Gibeah in Benjamin with my concubine to spend the night.
So Abimelech and all the people who were with him went up to Mount Zalmon. Abimelech took his ax in his hand and cut a branch from the trees. He picked up the branch, put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, “Hurry and do what you have seen me do.”
Then you will say in the presence of the Lord your God:
I have taken the consecrated portion out of my house; I have also given it to the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, according to all the commands You gave me. I have not violated or forgotten Your commands.
Then he said, “Let the Lord not be angry, and I will speak further. Suppose 30 are found there?”
He answered, “I will not do it if I find 30 there.”
So the Israelites, by the Lord’s command, gave the Levites these cities with their pasturelands from their inheritance.
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they imposed forced labor on the Canaanites but did not drive them out completely.
Hazar-shual, Balah, Ezem,
He said about Gad:
will be blessed.
He lies down like a lion
and tears off an arm or even a head.
Each man who is registered, 20 years old or more, must give this contribution to the Lord.
All the gold of the presentation offering that was used for the project in all the work on the sanctuary, was 2,193 pounds,
So Balaam got up the next morning and said to Balak’s officials, “Go back to your land, because the Lord has refused to let me go with you.”
He made a three-inch
When the people heard this bad news, they mourned and didn’t put on their jewelry.
Joseph hitched the horses to his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel. Joseph presented himself to him, threw his arms around him, and wept for a long time.
Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”
So Pharaoh said to Joseph: “In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile,
“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed your servants’ iniquity. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one in whose possession the cup was found.”
and who responds to me, ‘Drink, and I’ll draw water for your camels also’—let her be the woman the Lord has appointed for my master’s son.
and put it in a fertile field;
he set it like a willow,
a plant
These are the chiefs of the Horites,
the sons of Seir, in the land of Edom.
So the servant placed his hand under his master Abraham’s thigh and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.
The Lord said to me: “This gate will remain closed. It will not be opened, and no one will enter through it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has entered through it.
I will restore the fortunes of Egypt and bring them back to the land of Pathros, the land of their origin. There they will be a lowly kingdom.
but she could not be healed.
Abandon her!
Let each of us go to his own land,
for her judgment extends to the sky
and reaches as far as the clouds.
You
with more than the weeping for Jazer.
Your tendrils have extended to the sea;
they have reached to the sea and to Jazer.
The destroyer has fallen on your summer fruit and grape harvest.
to be at Moses’ right hand,
divided the waters before them
to obtain eternal fame for Himself,
“Son of man, face the south and preach against it. Prophesy against the forest land in the Negev,
the Lord’s Redeemed;
and you will be called Cared For,
A City Not Deserted.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
The night shines like the day;
darkness and light are alike to You.
we grope like those without eyes.
We stumble at noon as though it were twilight;
we are like the dead among those who are healthy.
one from the east
He will march over rulers as if they were mud,
like a potter who treads the clay.
Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape from the Chaldeans; indeed, he will certainly be handed over to Babylon’s king. They will speak face to face
King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance of the Lord’s temple. The king said to Jeremiah, “I am going to ask you something; don’t hide anything from me.”
and the blossom becomes a ripening grape,
He will cut off the shoots with a pruning knife,
and tear away and remove the branches.
for He is coming to judge the earth.
He will judge the world righteously
and the peoples fairly.
beside abundant waters;
they let ox and donkey range freely.
who is strong like You, Lord?
Your faithfulness surrounds You.
and dwell there
However, because his heart was proud,
Ornan was threshing wheat when he turned and saw the angel. His four sons, who were with him, hid themselves.
Then he placed garrisons
The rest of the events of Jehoiakim’s reign, along with all his accomplishments, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.
Then the king of Israel answered, “Just as you say, my lord the king: I am yours, along with all that I have.”
He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight as his father Manasseh had done.
The cow must be burned in his sight. Its hide, flesh, and blood, are to be burned along with its dung.
So he said to Ben-hadad’s messengers, “Say to my lord the king, ‘Everything you demanded of your servant the first time, I will do, but this thing I cannot do.’” So the messengers left and took word back to him.
When they entered Micah’s house and took the carved image overlaid with silver,
Also present a third of a gallon
The Philistine commanders, however, were enraged with Achish and told him, “Send that man back and let him return to the place you assigned him.
If he is a poor man, you must not sleep in the garment he has given as security.
They found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young women, who had not had sexual relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
The allotted cities to the remaining clans of Kohath’s descendants, who were Levites, came from the tribe of Ephraim.
Now go to your home! I said I would reward you richly,
As the redemption price for the 273 firstborn Israelites who outnumber the Levites,
Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,
If it was actually torn apart by a wild animal, he is to bring it as evidence; he does not have to make restitution for the torn carcass.
They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. Since they executed judgment against her, she became notorious among women.
But the Levites were not registered among the Israelites, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
choosing wood that does not rot?
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.
However, this king revolted against him
I am Yahweh your God. Follow My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them.
and say:
She lay down among the lions;
she reared her cubs among the young lions.
He said, “Please, Lord, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and wholeheartedly,
and you
then the Lord’s power will be revealed to His servants,
but He will show His wrath against His enemies.
And I will restore to this place Jeconiah
Then you will answer them: Because your fathers abandoned Me”
which is on the summit above the rich valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.
Whoever sees it will swallow it
while it is still in his hand.
the meaning of Your precepts
so that I can meditate on Your wonders.
we gave birth to wind.
We have won no victories on earth,
and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.
So the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “Didn’t I tell you he never prophesies good about me, but only disaster?”
The foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid in Solomon’s fourth year in the month of Ziv.
Then Delilah said to Samson, “You have mocked me and told me lies! Won’t you please tell me how you can be tied up?”
but Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the Lord brought about a great victory.
He said about Naphtali:
full of the Lord’s blessing,
take
Holon with its pasturelands, Debir with its pasturelands,
They came before Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, saying, “The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our male relatives.”
and her husband hears about it and says nothing to her when he finds out, her vows are binding, and the obligations she put herself under are binding.
All the nations will ask, ‘Why has the Lord done this to this land? Why this great outburst of anger?’
If the one who brought it decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the
They took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two Amorite kings who were across the Jordan to the east,
In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head
On the eighth day Gamaliel son of Pedahzur,
But if the spot has remained where it was and has not spread on the skin but is faded, it is the swelling from the burn. The priest is to pronounce him clean, for it is only the scar from the burn.
and put all of them in the hands of Aaron and his
He
Moses did everything just as the Lord had commanded him.
So Joseph sent his brothers on their way, and as they were leaving, he said to them, “Don’t argue on the way.”
when I break the yoke of Egypt there
and its proud strength
comes to an end in the city.
A cloud
and its villages will go into captivity.
‘Say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
“This is what the Lord God says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young, unblemished bull and purify the sanctuary.
I will make you an object of horror, and you will no longer exist.
There are men within you who slander in order to shed blood.
who will condemn Me?
Indeed, all of them will wear out like a garment;
a moth will devour them.
from the four corners of the heavens,
and I will scatter them to all these winds.
There will not be a nation
to which Elam’s banished ones will not go.
“I will repay Babylon and all the residents of Chaldea for all their evil they have done in Zion before your very eyes.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
that we did not expect,
You came down,
and the mountains quaked at Your presence.
The Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to punish Amon, god of Thebes,
you who sit above the valley,
you atop the rocky plateau—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
you who say, “Who can come down against us?
Who can enter our hiding places?”
among the nations:
like a harvested olive tree,
like a gleaning after a grape harvest.
But Ahikam
Yahweh, even your God,
who defends His people
“Look, I have removed
the cup of staggering from your hand;
that goblet, the cup of My fury.
You will never drink it again.
you will help them to grow,
and in the morning
you will help your seed to sprout,
but the harvest will vanish
on the day of disease and incurable pain.
and set Jacob apart for destruction
and Israel for abuse.
but a man receives justice from the Lord.
there will be ranting and raving but no resolution.
and turned my steps back to Your decrees.
and shame has covered my face.
But if you go with them, do it! Be strong for battle! But God will make you stumble before the enemy,
So they arrested her, and she went by the entrance of the Horses’ Gate
Then King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it.
in the land where they were deported
and repent and petition You in their captors’ land,
saying: “We have sinned and done wrong;
we have been wicked,”
Saul sent the agents back to see David and said, “Bring him on his bed so I can kill him.”
You must not have two differing dry measures in your house, a larger and a smaller.
When I bring them into the land I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey,
Consecrate them and they will be especially holy. Whatever touches them will be consecrated.
The king also said, “You yourself know all the evil that you did to my father David.
Then Gaal spoke again, “Look, people are coming down from the central part of the land,
When you have written a description of the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the Lord our God.
Next, Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron
the Carmite clan from Carmi.
but does not bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting to sacrifice it to the Lord, that person must be cut off from his people.
Slaughter the ram, take some of its blood, and put it on Aaron’s right earlobe, on his sons’ right earlobes, on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the big toes of their right feet. Sprinkle the remaining blood on all sides of the altar.
And they will know that I am Yahweh their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might dwell among them. I am Yahweh their God.
On the seventh day Elishama son of Ammihud,
They also made the turban and the ornate headbands
As the man went out east with a measuring line in his hand,
Construct the altar with boards so that it is hollow. They are to make it just as it was shown to you on the mountain.
and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age.
So Rachel gave her slave Bilhah to Jacob as a wife, and he slept with her.
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards,
since I tried to purify you,
but you would not be purified from your uncleanness—
you will not be pure again
until I have satisfied My wrath on you.
so that it becomes hot and its copper glows.
Then its impurity will melt inside it;
its rust will be consumed.
She gave birth to another son and named him Shelah. It was at Chezib that
This is what the Lord God says to Tyre: “Won’t the coasts and islands quake at the sound of your downfall,
In the twenty-seventh year in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil—and all his armory, and everything that was found in his treasuries.
I am like parched land before You.
those Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon did not take when he deported Jeconiah
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.
For I have turned
But Jeremiah answered, “This is what you are to say to Zedekiah:
but Your command is without limit.
by banishing and driving her away.
He removed her with His severe storm
on the day of the east wind.
His deeds to the people of Israel.
He atoned for
and did not destroy them.
He often turned His anger aside
and did not unleash
for they did not keep His decrees.
and stay in their dens.
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
for that is why you have been tested by
Shalmai’s
Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the utensils of the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.
for every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities—whether it regards differences of bloodguilt, law, commandment, statutes, or judgments
But if the land you possess is defiled, cross over to the land the Lord possesses where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But don’t rebel against the Lord or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.
When you knock down the fruit from your olive tree, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
Then you will succeed if you carefully follow the statutes and ordinances the Lord commanded Moses for Israel.
But Jehoshaphat asked, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here anymore? Let’s ask him.”
David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem
David went up at Gad’s command spoken in the name of the Lord.
You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.
David and the 600 men with him
When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.
“May you be blessed by the Lord,” replied Saul, “for you have taken pity on me.
So Aaron took his firepan as Moses had ordered, ran into the middle of the assembly, and saw that the plague had begun among the people. After he added incense, he made atonement for the people.
These are the statutes that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the relationship between a man and his wife, or between a father and his daughter in his house during her youth.
the Hezronite clan from Hezron;
the Hamulite clan from Hamul.
“If the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the Lord, the animal must be presented before the priest.
Then he is to release the live bird into the open countryside
The men took this gift, double the amount of money, and Benjamin. They made their way down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
He said to them, “I can see from your father’s face that his attitude toward me is not the same, but the God of my father has been with me.
are appalled at you.
You have become an object of horror
and will never exist again.”
Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not lament or weep
The officials were angry at Jeremiah and beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan
“Son of man, because Tyre
so that I may take hold of the house of Israel by their hearts. They are all estranged from Me because of their idols.
consider and understand,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
the Holy One of Israel has created
I will bring on that land all My words I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations.
And I will deliver you and this city from the power of the king of Assyria; I will defend this city.
You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David.
Those who made Cush their hope and Egypt their boast will be dismayed and ashamed.
and in all of them is the life of my spirit as well;
You have restored me to health
and let me live.
when its waves surge, You still them.
but the Lord is his refuge.
like the abandoned woods and mountaintops
that were abandoned because of the Israelites;
there will be desolation.
They numbered 288 together with their relatives who were all trained and skillful in music for the Lord.
and what benefit comes to me, if I do not sin?”
Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come and that he planned
He was buried in the city of David with the kings
The workmen did their work, and through them the repairs progressed. They restored God’s temple to its specifications and reinforced it.
David feared God that day and said, “How can I ever bring the ark of God to me?”
She stood up, then bowed her face to the ground
Then their father said to them, “Which way did he go?” His sons had seen
She said, “In the past they used to say, ‘Seek counsel in Abel,’ and that’s how they settled disputes.
The men of Israel had a prearranged signal with the men in ambush: when they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,
Delilah took new ropes, tied him up with them, and shouted, “Samson, the Philistines are here!”
The king replied, “Chimham will cross over with me, and I will do for him what seems good to you,
The people of Israel were defeated by David’s soldiers, and the slaughter there was vast that day—20,000 casualties.
“You are to remain outside the camp for seven days. All of you and your prisoners who have killed a person or touched the dead are to purify yourselves on the third day and the seventh day.
But we can’t give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Anyone who gives a wife to a Benjaminite is cursed.”
Now this is what we will do to Gibeah: we will go against it by lot.
The priest told them, “Go in peace. The Lord is watching over the journey you are going on.”
If they marry any of the men from the other Israelite tribes, their inheritance will be taken away from our fathers’ inheritance and added to that of the tribe into which they marry. Therefore, part of our allotted inheritance would be taken away.
That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua, had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire community,
but Nadab and Abihu died when they presented unauthorized fire before the Lord.
But they dared to go up the ridge of the hill country, even though the ark of the Lord’s covenant and Moses did not leave the camp.
On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you are not to do any daily work.
the Shuhamite clan from Shuham.
These were the clans of Dan by their clans.
So Moses and Eleazar the priest said to them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,
With him was Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, a gem cutter, a designer, and an embroiderer with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and fine linen.
“All the creatures that swarm on the earth are detestable; they must not be eaten.
You are to take the Levites for Me—I am Yahweh—in place of every firstborn among the Israelites, and the Levites’ cattle in place of every firstborn among the Israelites’ cattle.”
Therefore, I handed her over to her lovers,
polished to flash like lightning!
Should we rejoice?
The scepter of My son,
the sword despises every tree.
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped;
He takes some of it and warms himself;
also he kindles a fire and bakes bread;
he even makes it into a god and worships it;
he makes an idol from it and bows down to it.
were Gad and Asher.
These are the sons of Jacob, who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Afterward’”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“‘King Zedekiah of Judah, his officers, and the people—those in this city who survive the plague, the sword, and the famine—I will hand over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
let your widows trust in Me.
a desolation forever.
No one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it as a temporary resident.
to see only struggle and sorrow,
to end my life in shame?
I will play on a ten-stringed harp for You
‘If you will indeed stay in this land, then I will rebuild and not demolish you,
for His name alone is exalted.
His majesty covers heaven and earth.
well-rooted
by the word of Your lips
I have avoided the ways of the violent.
he makes the sea like an ointment jar.
My sons, don’t be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand in His presence, to serve Him, and to be His ministers and burners of incense.”
Temah’s descendants,
David had the bones brought from there. They gathered up the bones of Saul’s family who had been hung
The most sensitive and refined man among you will look grudgingly
But at this time tomorrow I will send my servants to you, and they will search your palace and your servants’ houses. They will lay their hands on and take away whatever is precious to you.’”
Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places.
He got up early in the morning of the fifth day to leave, but the girl’s father said to him, “Please keep up your strength.” So they waited until late afternoon and the two of them ate.
The men of Israel turned back against the other Benjaminites and killed them with their swords—the entire city, the animals, and everything that remained. They also burned down all the cities that remained.
They also had kidnapped the women and everyone
Then all the people stood united and said, “None of us will go to his tent or return to his house.
Why have you brought the Lord’s assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here?
Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh—19 cities, with their villages.
They must wash their hands and feet so that they will not die; this is to be a permanent statute
So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community and said:
You are to give the right thigh
The cave is in the field of Machpelah near Mamre, in the land of Canaan. This is the field Abraham purchased from Ephron the Hittite as a burial site.
Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
Next Moses set up the surrounding courtyard for the tabernacle and the altar and hung a screen for the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.
But when they told Jacob all that Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the wagons that Joseph had sent to transport him, the spirit of their father Jacob revived.
But when all goes well for you, remember that I was with you. Please show kindness to me by mentioning me to Pharaoh, and get me out of this prison.
As she was being brought out, she sent her father-in-law this message: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Examine them. Whose signet ring, cord, and staff are these?”
Then the Spirit lifted me up
Hemdan, Eshban, Ithran, and Cheran.
Therefore, My heart moans like flutes for Moab,
Give me my wives and my children that I have worked for, and let me go.
You sat on a luxurious couch with a table spread before it,
So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, everyone the Lord sent me to.
on the mountains of Samaria;
the planters will plant and will enjoy the fruit.
the stronghold of Egypt,
and will wipe out the crowds
I will show them
on the day of their calamity.
and I was amazed that no one assisted;
so My arm accomplished victory for Me,
and My wrath assisted Me.
Who among the idols
The Lord loves him;
he will accomplish His will against Babylon,
and His arm will be against the Chaldeans.
stroll through the city,
prostitute forgotten by men.
Play skillfully,
sing many a song,
and you will be thought of again.
You established the earth, and it stands firm.
“Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
or shoot an arrow there
or come before it with a shield
or build up an assault ramp against it.
Joseph, who was sold as a slave.
He brings down one and exalts another.
so that glory may dwell in our land.
You have become enraged with Your anointed.
Then the king and Jehoiada gave it to those in charge of the labor on the Lord’s temple, who were hiring stonecutters and carpenters to renovate the Lord’s temple, also blacksmiths and coppersmiths to repair the Lord’s temple.
He commanded them, saying, “In the fear of the Lord, with integrity, and with a whole heart, you are to do the following:
along with the wise men who hear me,
He strikes them for their wickedness,
Nekoda’s descendants, Gazzam’s descendants,
Yet no one proved Job wrong;
not one of you refuted his arguments.
When they finished, they presented the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, who made articles for the Lord’s temple with it—articles for ministry and for making burnt offerings, and ladles
There were six Levites each day
So the king of Israel called an officer and said, “Hurry and get Micaiah son of Imlah!”
May the Lord repay every man for his righteousness
from Rehabiah’s sons: Isshiah was the first.
his son Phinehas, his son Abishua,
You will have the cities as a refuge from the avenger, so that the one who kills someone will not die until he stands trial before the assembly.
Suddenly, all the men of Israel came to the king. They asked him, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and transport the king and his household across the Jordan, along with all of David’s men?”
I will certainly hide My face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
While they were near Micah’s home, they recognized the speech of the young Levite. So they went over to him and asked, “Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is keeping you here?”
Saul said to him, “Whose son are you, young man?”
“The son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,”
But the Levites among you do not get a portion, because their inheritance is the priesthood of the Lord.
and her father hears about her vow or the obligation she put herself under, and he says nothing to her, all her vows and every obligation she put herself under are binding.
“However, you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as a fire offering for a pleasing aroma to the Lord.
From there the border descended to the Brook of Kanah; south of the brook, cities belonged to Ephraim among Manasseh’s cities. Manasseh’s border was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,
They said, “Yahweh commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance by lot to the Israelites. My lord was further commanded by Yahweh to give our brother Zelophehad’s inheritance to his daughters.
Then Eleazar the priest said to the soldiers who had gone to battle, “This is the legal statute the Lord commanded Moses:
Now his eyesight was poor because of old age; he could hardly
the priest must order that the stones with the contamination be pulled out and thrown into an unclean place outside the city.
These were the ones registered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they registered the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.
There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and petals, on the first branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and petals, on the next branch. It was this way for the six branches that extended from the lampstand.
At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his money there at the top of the bag.
and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows his trumpet
its height towered among the clouds.
So it was conspicuous for its height
as well as its many branches.
Then the man led me out by way of the north gate into the outer court.
“Who then are you like in glory and greatness among Eden’s trees? You also will be brought down to the underworld to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised with those slain by the sword.
He doesn’t oppress anyone, hold collateral, or commit robbery. He gives his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with clothing.
and I will make them drunk so that they revel.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I set jars filled with wine and some cups before the sons of the house of the Rechabites and said to them, “Drink wine!”
For Yahweh has chosen Jacob for Himself,
Israel as His treasured possession.
and their neighboring towns
this is the Lord’s declaration—
so no one will live there;
no human being will even stay in it
as a temporary resident.
When all the Judeans in Moab
pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
When Micaiah son of Gemariah, son of Shaphan, heard all the words of the Lord from the scroll,
Bind the festival sacrifice with cords
to the horns of the altar.
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.