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You revived Your inheritance when it languished.
So Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies did not obey the voice of the Lord to stay in the land of Judah.
You said, “I will not listen.”
This has been your way since youth;
indeed, you have never listened to Me.
They left, stopping in Geruth Chimham,
Judah and all its cities will live in it together—also farmers and those who move
and says, “I was only joking!”
You drove out the nations with Your hand;
to settle them,
You crushed the peoples.
Jaalah’s descendants, Darkon’s descendants, Giddel’s descendants,
You must completely surround the king with weapons in hand. Anyone who enters the temple is to be put to death. You must be with the king in all his daily tasks.”
These had their assigned duties for service when they entered the Lord’s temple, according to their regulations, which they received from their ancestor Aaron, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.
“If the one who kills someone ever goes outside the border of the city of refuge he fled to,
So Benaiah went to the tabernacle and said to Joab, “This is what the king says: ‘Come out!’”
But Joab said, “No, for I will die here.”
So Benaiah took a message back to the king, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”
So Moses wrote down this song on that day and taught it to the Israelites.
Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
The Lord will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
“If a person consecrates to the Lord a field he has purchased that is not part of his inherited landholding,
Afterward all the Israelites came near, and he commanded them to do everything the Lord had told him on Mount Sinai.
So he returned to Balak, who was standing there by his burnt offering with the officials of Moab. Balak asked him, “What did the Lord say?”
The craftsmen are to tie the breastpiece from its rings to the rings of the ephod with a cord of blue yarn, so that the breastpiece is above the ephod’s waistband and does not come loose from the ephod.
As I live”—the declaration of the Lord God—“because My flock has become prey and food for every wild animal since they lack a shepherd, for My shepherds do not search for My flock, and because the shepherds feed themselves rather than My flock,
Look! I am on your side; I will turn toward you,
When the money from the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan was gone, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die here in front of you? The money is gone!”
“This is what the Lord God says: If the prince gives a gift to each of his sons as their inheritance, it will belong to his sons. It will become their property by inheritance.
And He said, ‘Look up and see: all the males that are mating with the flocks are streaked, spotted, and speckled, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.
Every goldsmith is put to shame by his carved image,
for his cast images are a lie;
there is no breath in them.
the rumbling of his chariots,
and the clatter of their wheels,
fathers will not turn back for their sons,
because they will be utterly helpless
And what if the sword despises even the scepter?
The scepter will not continue.
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
because of the destruction of my dear people.
I
Do not follow other gods to serve them and to worship them,
“Go say to Hananiah: This is what the Lord says, ‘You broke a wooden yoke bar, but in its place you will make an iron yoke bar.’
and seeing the heart
let me see Your vengeance on them,
for I have presented my case to You.
Now the cistern where Ishmael had thrown all the corpses of the men he had struck down was a large one
Ishmael also struck down all the Judeans who were with Gedaliah at Mizpah, as well as the Chaldean soldiers who were there.
terrors of death sweep over me.
and your arrogance have reached My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
and My bit in your mouth;
I will make you go back
the way you came.
Let them tell you and reveal
what the Lord of Hosts has planned against Egypt.
on a high and lofty mountain;
you also went up there to offer sacrifice.
and announce His works with shouts of joy.
deal kindly with me because of Your name;
deliver me because of the goodness of Your faithful love.
The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it.
and Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds.
He built
so they affirmed the proposal and spread the message throughout all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan,
Hezekiah told them to prepare chambers
You have said, ‘Look, I
for Naphtali, Jerimoth son of Azriel;
Isn’t this the David they sing about during their dances:
but David his tens of thousands?”
the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons, and his brothers—12
the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the basin with its stand.
These instructions will be a statutory ordinance for you throughout your generations wherever you live.
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” he replied.
But she said, “Only if you leave something with me until you send it.”
“If the vow involves one of the animals that may be brought as an offering to the Lord, any of these he gives to the Lord will be holy.
He is to take two birds, cedar wood, scarlet yarn, and hyssop to purify the house,
When the field is released in the Jubilee, it will be holy to the Lord like a field permanently set apart; it becomes the priest’s property.
Make 50 loops on the edge of the one curtain, the outermost in the first set, and make 50 loops on the edge of the corresponding curtain of the second set.
He measured the temple complex on all four sides. It had a wall all around it,
Pelusium will writhe in anguish,
Thebes will be breached,
and Memphis will face foes in broad daylight.
One pillar was 27 feet
And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
There will even be a city named Hamonah
to be grasped in the hand.
It is sharpened, and it is polished,
to be put in the hand of the slayer.
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I am going to give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon,
As for your sisters, Sodom and her daughters and Samaria and her daughters will return to their former state. You and your daughters will also return to your former state.
Then he blinded Zedekiah and put him in bronze chains to take him to Babylon.
I will make this city desolate, an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by it will be horrified and scoff because of all its wounds.
more than watchmen for the morning—
more than watchmen for the morning.
had Jeremiah brought from the guard’s courtyard
food for your household
and nourishment for your female servants.
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“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: This is what you will say to Judah’s king,
indeed, they are your lot.
You have even poured out a drink offering to them;
you have offered a grain offering;
should I be satisfied with these?
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good,” for he thought: There will be peace and security during my lifetime.
“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God, whom you trust, deceive you
so that I can praise Your name.
The righteous will gather around me
because You deal generously with me.
The Lord is gracious and compassionate.
from everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say, “Amen!”
Hallelujah!
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.
and with a fiery light throughout the night.
we have done wrong and have acted wickedly.
foolish and stupid men also pass away.
Then they leave their wealth to others.
for Your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing to You with a lyre,
Holy One of Israel.
Yahweh is great in Zion;
He is exalted above all the peoples.
These searched for their entries in the genealogical records, but they could not be found, so they were disqualified from the priesthood.
He did what was right in the Lord’s sight and walked in the ways of his ancestor David;
They will eat the offspring of your livestock and your land’s produce until you are destroyed. They will leave you no grain, new wine, oil, young of your herds, or newborn of your flocks until they cause you to perish.
and the abundant yield of the seasons;
He sacrificed to the gods of Damascus which had defeated him; he said, “Since the gods of the kings of Aram are helping them, I will sacrifice to them so that they will help me.”
and carried out great works in the towns of Judah. He had fighting men, brave warriors, in Jerusalem.
They have lived in the land and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name and have said,
This Shelomith
Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,
These are the decrees, statutes, and ordinances Moses proclaimed to them after they came out of Egypt,
The total number of cities you give the Levites will be 48, along with their pasturelands.
He is to have the inside of the house completely scraped, and the plaster
Joseph hurried out because he was overcome with emotion for his brother, and he was about to weep. He went into an inner room to weep.
The priests must not profane the holy offerings the Israelites give to the Lord
“You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons must lay their hands on the ram’s head.
The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.
He led me all around them. There were a great many of them on the surface of the valley, and they were very dry.
Now please let your servant remain here as my lord’s slave, in place of the boy. Let him go back with his brothers.
When Leah’s slave Zilpah bore Jacob a second son,
The altar hearth
Therefore say to them: This is what the Lord God says: You eat meat with blood in it,
nested in its branches,
and all the animals of the field
gave birth beneath its boughs;
all the great nations lived in its shade.
As for his allowance, a regular allowance was given to him by the king of Babylon, a portion for each day until the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
against those who live in Babylon,
against her officials, and against her sages.
They will drink, stagger,
For this is what the Lord says:
and spread his wings against Moab.
“Make him drunk, because he has exalted himself against the Lord.
Virgin Daughter Egypt!
You have multiplied remedies in vain;
there is no healing for you.
Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the Lord.
and do not be discouraged, Israel,
for without fail I will save you from far away
and your descendants, from the land of their captivity!
Jacob will return and have calm and quiet
with no one to frighten him.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.
“Go tell Ebed-melech the Cushite:
the generation of the upright will be blessed.
because You have answered me
and have become my salvation.
terror like no other
because God will scatter
the bones of those who besiege you.
You will put them to shame,
for God has rejected them.
we will praise Your name forever.
“I am cut off from Your sight.”
But You heard the sound of my pleading
when I cried to You for help.
Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the wild animals of the land, with no one to scare them away.
and my foes will rejoice because I am shaken.
Then Ahaz gathered up the utensils of God’s temple, cut them into pieces,
Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs
They stopped because they were too exhausted to cross the Wadi Besor. David and 400 of the men continued in pursuit.
The Lord will also afflict you with every sickness and plague not recorded in the book of this law, until you are destroyed.
When David came to the 200 men who had been too exhausted to go with him and had been left at the Wadi Besor,
the priest must come and examine it. If the contamination has spread in the house, it is harmful mildew; the house is unclean.
Then they must take different stones to replace the former ones and take additional plaster
“If one of the animals that you use for food dies,
Saul commanded him, “Tell me what you did.”
Jonathan told him, “I tasted a little honey
the Heberite clan from Heber;
the Malchielite clan from Malchiel.
We took only the livestock and the spoil from the cities we captured as plunder for ourselves.
Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work for the sanctuary came one by one from the work they were doing
Make the hangings on one side of the gate 22½ feet,
I will be responsible for him. You can hold me personally accountable!
Just as you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it became a desolation, so I will deal with you: you will become a desolation, Mount Seir, and so will all Edom in its entirety. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time.
Because of the oppressor’s sword,
each will turn to his own people,
each will flee to his own land.
I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey for you. I will judge between one sheep and another.
for they are prophesying falsely to you in My name. I have not sent them.”
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
“Therefore, hear the word of the Lord, all you Judeans who live in the land of Egypt: ‘I have sworn by My great name,
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the Rabshakeh.
and the stammering tongue
and his righteousness endures forever.
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.
He has accused her of shameful conduct, saying: “I didn’t find any evidence of your daughter’s virginity,” but here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ They will spread out the cloth before the city elders.
are the Most High over all the earth;
You are exalted above all the gods.
the future
because He sees that his day is coming.
bring me out of my sufferings.
through the faithful love of the Most High
he is not shaken.
and the bounty of the eternal hills;
‘This is what Yahweh says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants,
He told them what Micah had done for him and that he had hired him as his priest.
Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our dependents will remain in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
But if the one who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the
Why are you discouraging
The prince should enter from the outside by way of the gate’s portico and stand at the doorpost of the gate while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He will bow in worship at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be closed until evening.
when he sees that the boy is not with us, he will die. Then your servants will have brought the gray hairs of your servant our father down to Sheol in sorrow.
The young man did not delay doing this, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most important in all his father’s house.
Dishon and Oholibamah daughter of Anah.
and they will be ashamed of all that they have done. Reveal
This is the law of the temple: all its surrounding territory on top of the mountain
This is what the Lord of Hosts says:
All their captors hold them fast;
they refuse to release them.
This is what the Lord God says:
by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
So I took Jaazaniah son of Jeremiah, son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons—the entire house of the Rechabites—
But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am worried about the Judeans who have deserted to the Chaldeans. They may hand me over to the Judeans to abuse me.”
The flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them
Within two years I will restore to this place all the articles of the Lord’s temple
Then the priests and prophets said to the officials and all the people, “This man deserves the death sentence because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
and make sackcloth their clothing.
in the tents of the righteous:
“The Lord’s right hand performs valiantly!
Look! Here they are!
And I gave a herald of good news to Jerusalem.
to the one who sits in judgment,
and strength
to those who turn back the battle at the gate.
You must not enter the house where feasting is taking place to sit with them to eat and drink.
and adopted their ways.
Sing to Him, sing praise to Him;
tell about all His wonderful works!
all the peoples see His glory.
Your reputation, Yahweh,
through all generations.
save me by Your faithful love.
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
and again display Your miraculous power against me.
You have set over us,
because of our sins.
They rule over our bodies
and our livestock as they please.
We are in great distress.
They found an Egyptian in the open country and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and water to drink.
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But the Egyptians mistreated and afflicted us, and forced us to do hard labor.
On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley,
When David and his men arrived at the town, they found it burned down. Their wives, sons, and daughters had been kidnapped.
Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
The Lord spoke to Moses,
and one male goat for a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
the owner of the house is to come and tell the priest: Something like mildew contamination has appeared
The length of the courtyard is to be 150 feet, the width 75 feet at each end, and the height 7½ feet,
Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.
Whenever Moses went out to the tent, all the people would stand up, each one at the door of his tent, and they would watch Moses until he entered the tent.
my father made me take an oath,
In whatever tribe the foreigner lives, you will assign his inheritance there.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
the underground springs made it tall,
directing their rivers all around
the place where the tree was planted
and sending their channels
to all the trees of the field.
From the city he took a court official who had been appointed over the warriors; seven trusted royal aides
I will make the land of Egypt a desolation among
So the border will run from the sea to Hazar-enon at the border
and they will act foolishly.
A sword is against her heroic warriors,
and they will be terrified.
“Let the violence done to me and my family be done to Babylon.
Let my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea,”
says Jerusalem.
residents of Moab!
Be like a dove
that nests inside the mouth of a cave.
all you archers!
Shoot at her! Do not spare an arrow,
for she has sinned against the Lord.
How long will you be restless?
Go back to your sheath;
be still; be silent!
so each man would free his male and female Hebrew slaves and no one would enslave his Judean brother.
and the power of war.
It surrounded him with fire, but he did not know it;
it burned him, but he paid no attention.
After the king had burned the scroll with the words Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation,
you offspring of Abraham His servant,
Jacob’s descendants—His chosen ones.
going out to battle against Ariel—
all the attackers, the siege works against her,
and those who oppress her—
will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.
his evil will be revealed in the assembly.
Greater than the roar of many waters—
the mighty breakers of the sea—
the Lord on high is majestic.
Praise Yahweh, for Yahweh is good;
sing praise to His name, for it is delightful.
So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah,
Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.
The God of Israel gives power and strength to His people.
May God be praised!
But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What is the issue between you and me, king of Judah?
Tomorrow, go down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
In the same way, he made four-sided
I will proclaim Your righteousness, Yours alone.
Then they called out loudly in Hebrew
When the woman saw Samuel, she screamed, and then she asked Saul, “Why did you deceive me? You are Saul!”
Now tonight, you and the people with you are to come wait in ambush in the countryside.
Then people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, which He had made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
He is to burn the fabric, the warp or woof in wool or linen, or any leather article, which is contaminated. Since it is harmful mildew it must be burned up.
In this way, Joseph acquired all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh, because every Egyptian sold his field since the famine was so severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,
and two bulls, five rams, five male breeding goats, and five male lambs a year old, for the fellowship sacrifice. This was the offering of Elizur son of Shedeur.
The seven thin, ugly cows that came up after them are seven years, and the seven worthless, scorched heads of grain are seven years of famine.
He made all the altar’s utensils: the pots, shovels, basins, meat forks, and firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.
which the Lord commanded Moses on Mount Sinai
Make two more gold rings and attach them to the bottom of the ephod’s two shoulder pieces on its front, close to its seam,
Then Israel said, “Enough! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go to see him before I die.”
but you didn’t even let me kiss my grandchildren and my daughters. You have acted foolishly.
Then Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many years have you lived?”
He thought, “If Esau comes to one camp and attacks it, the remaining one can escape.”
The portico was 35 feet
For this is what the Lord God says: “Because you clapped your hands,
Say to it: This is what the Lord God says:
I will stretch out My hand against you
and make you a desolate waste.
You have not forgiven.
noses, but cannot smell.
I will cry out for Moab, all of it;
he will moan for the men of Kir-heres.
just as the house of Israel was put to shame
because of Bethel
This is what the Lord says:
and becoming an overflowing wadi.
They will overflow the land and everything in it,
the cities and their inhabitants.
The people will cry out,
and every inhabitant of the land will wail.
Now pay attention: Today I am setting you free from the chains that were on your hands.
The people coming to fight the Chaldeans will fill the houses with the corpses of their own men that I strike down in My wrath and rage. I have hidden My face
I will give away all the wealth of this city, all its products
Who is it you are opening your mouth
and sticking out your tongue at?
Isn’t it you, you rebellious children,
you race of liars,
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: I am about to hand this city over to the Chaldeans,
Yet You, Lord God, have said to me: Buy the field with silver and call in witnesses—even though the city has been handed over to the Chaldeans!”
they conspire against Your treasured ones.
for they have violated Your instruction.
but you did not say, “I give up!”
You found a renewal of your strength;
therefore you did not grow weak.
the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
because God is my stronghold.
I am restless and in turmoil with my complaint,
As for the Israelites and Judahites who lived in the cities of Judah, they also brought a tenth of the cattle and sheep, and a tenth of the dedicated things that were consecrated to the Lord their God.
Then the priests and the Levites
Harhur’s descendants,
for there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves, and so the Levites were in charge of slaughtering the Passover lambs for every unclean person to consecrate the lambs to the Lord.
Under their authority was an army of 307,500 equipped for combat, a powerful force to help the king against the enemy.
When the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they likewise fled before Joab’s brother Abishai and entered the city. Then Joab went to Jerusalem.
The Ammonites marched out and lined up in battle formation at the entrance of the city while the kings who had come were in the field by themselves.
Salma’s sons: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites,
Saul said, “All you leaders of the troops, come here. Let us investigate how this sin has occurred today.
All the men of Judah responded to the men of Israel, “Because the king is our relative. Why does this make you angry? Have we ever eaten anything of the king’s or been honored at all?”
Saul said to him, “You are blessed, my son David. You will certainly do great things and will also prevail.”
Offer one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.
Their drink offerings are to be two quarts
After they went up as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.
Gershon’s descendants received 13 cities by lot from the clans of the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and half the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
He will purify the house with the blood of the bird, the fresh water, the live bird, the cedar wood, the hyssop, and the scarlet yarn.
All of its growth may serve as food for your livestock and the wild animals in your land.
Make two gold rings for it under the molding on two of its sides; put these on opposite sides of it to be holders for the poles to carry it with.
You must also bring his sons and clothe them with tunics.
They made the tunics of fine woven linen for Aaron and his sons.
When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.
I took the purchase agreement—the sealed copy with its terms and conditions and the open copy—
But he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it, and also Pharaoh’s household heard it.
Next to the territory of Gad toward the south side, the border will run from Tamar to the waters
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Look! I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
Therefore, this is what the Lord says:
and take vengeance on your behalf;
I will dry up her sea
and make her fountain run dry.
and the young ravens, what they cry for.
residents of Dedan,
for I will bring Esau’s calamity on him
at the time I punish him.
You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt
all the kings of Elam,
and all the kings of Media;
He remembers His covenant forever.
and moan like doves.
We hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
I am about to put a spirit
the sea and everything in them.
He remains faithful forever,
“Where is the accountant?
Where is the tribute collector?
Where is the one who spied out our defenses?”
for I hope in Your judgments.
shout triumphantly
in the presence of the Lord, our King.
Samuel also was among those calling on His name.
They called to Yahweh and He answered them.
They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to spread the good news
Show Your strength, God,
You who have acted on our behalf.
so that I may be cheered up
before I die and am gone.”
The king of Babylon also brought captive into Babylon all 7,000 fighting men and 1,000 craftsmen and metalsmiths—all strong and fit for war.
and telling about Your wonderful works.
What you have done is not good. As the Lord lives, all of you deserve to die since you didn’t protect your lord, the Lord’s anointed.
Arab, Dumah,
which the Lord struck down
in the warp or woof of linen or wool, or in leather or anything made of leather—
The firstfruits of all that is in their land, which they bring to the Lord, belong to you. Every clean person in your house may eat them.
You are to eat it as a most holy offering.
When I rest with my fathers, carry me away from Egypt and bury me in their burial place.”
Joseph answered, “I will do what you have asked.”
They made bells of pure gold and attached the bells between the pomegranates, all around the hem of the robe between the pomegranates,
I will tend them with good pasture, and their grazing place will be on Israel’s lofty mountains. There they will lie down in a good grazing place; they will feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
So they went up from Egypt and came to their father Jacob in the land of Canaan.
“This is what happened when we went back to your servant my father: We reported your words to him.
Then Reuben said to his father, “You can kill my two sons if I don’t bring him back to you. Put him in my care,
When they enter the gates of the inner court they must wear linen garments;
But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl stay with us for about 10 days.
No human foot will pass through it, and no animal foot will pass through it.
but from the time we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to offer her drink offerings, we have lacked everything, and through sword and famine we have met our end.”
“for this city has caused My wrath and fury from the day it was built until now. I will therefore remove it from My presence,
and your treasures as plunder,
without cost,
in all your borders.
like those not called by Your name.
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they cannot hold the base of the mast
or spread out the flag.
Then abundant spoil will be divided,
the lame will plunder it,
for the sea has spoken:
“I have not been in labor or given birth.
I have not raised young men
or brought up young women.”
“May the Lord’s blessing be on you.”
He will bless the house of Israel;
He will bless the house of Aaron;
Then all the trees of the forest will shout for joy
in the middle of my life!
Your years continue through all generations.
and as long as the moon, throughout all generations.
let Your salvation protect me, God.
Let me be rescued from those who hate me
and from the deep waters.
He puts the depths into storehouses.
with the evildoers,
who speak in friendly ways with their neighbors
while malice is in their hearts.
So we called out to Yahweh, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our misery, hardship, and oppression.
Gaal son of Ebed went out and stood at the entrance of the city gate. Then Abimelech and the people who were with him got up from their ambush.
The Lord your God will force them back on your account and drive them out before you so that you can take possession of their land,
Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
If you turn back from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will destroy all of them.”
from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, with their villages;
Make 50 bronze clasps; put the clasps through the loops and join the tent together so that it is a single unit.
Then his brothers also came to him, bowed down before him, and said, “We are your slaves!”
You know that I’ve worked hard
He set the basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.
were stationed on your walls all around,
and Gammadites were in your towers.
They hung their shields
they perfected your beauty.
Now when the wall has fallen, will you not be asked, ‘Where is the coat of whitewash that you put on it?’
I will turn against them.
I will make Rabbah a pasture
dismayed, and ashamed.
They are plants of the field,
tender grass,
grass on the rooftops,
blasted by the east wind.
and I will satisfy My wrath.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.”
then I might also reject the seed of Jacob and of My servant David—not taking from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Instead, I will restore their fortunes
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
Assemble yourselves to come against her.
Rise up for war!
but brings the wicked to the ground.
This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘As for you and your wives, you women have spoken with your mouths, and you men fulfilled it by your deeds, saying, “We will keep our vows that we have made to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to pour out drink offerings for her.” Go ahead, confirm your vows! Pay your vows!’
there is no counselor among them;
when I ask them, they have nothing to say.
and He brought them out of their distress.
I have prepared a lamp for My anointed one.
You are my God; I will exalt You.
be disgraced because of me,
Lord God of Hosts;
do not let those who seek You
be humiliated because of me,
God of Israel.
Your faithfulness reaches the clouds.
they will be satisfied in days of hunger.
therefore the peoples will praise you forever and ever.
David added, “As the Lord lives, the Lord will certainly strike him down:
refusing to share with any of them his children’s flesh that he will eat because he has nothing left during the siege and hardship your enemy imposes on you in all your towns.
Confront him; bring him down.
With Your sword, save me from the wicked.
we cannot prepare our case because of our darkness.
the thirteenth to Shubael, his sons, and his brothers—12
They captured it and struck down its king, all its villages, and everyone in it with the sword. He left no survivors, just as he had done at Eglon. He completely destroyed Hebron and everyone in it.
and cried out, “Why, Lord God of Israel, has it occurred
All the tools of the tabernacle for every use and all its tent pegs as well as all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze.
“When the prince makes a freewill offering, whether a burnt offering or a fellowship offering as a freewill offering to the Lord,
And he told the first one: “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘Who do you belong to? Where are you going? And whose animals are these ahead of you?’
The vision I saw
Then Pharaoh asked his brothers, “What is your occupation?”
And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants, both we and our fathers, are shepherds.”
you and all the fish of your streams.
You will fall on the open ground
and will not be taken away
or gathered for burial.
I have given you
to the beasts of the earth
and the birds of the sky as food.
ruthless men from the nations.
They will draw their swords
against your magnificent wisdom
and will defile your splendor.
For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
he was caught in their pit.
Then they led him away with hooks
to the land of Egypt.
“Judgment has come to the land of the plateau
The Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs! The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are extremely bad, so bad they are inedible.”
and remember his trouble no more.
away from the Chaldeans. For they feared them because Ishmael son of Nethaniah had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon had appointed in the land.
Your pain has no cure!
I have done these things to you
because of your enormous guilt
and your innumerable sins.
He gives food to every creature.
His love is eternal.
For this is what the Lord says concerning sons and daughters born in this place as well as concerning the mothers who bear them and the fathers who father them in this land:
the Lord in the land of the living;
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.
Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah?’”
Sisera’s descendants, Temah’s descendants,
Now here are the Ammonites, Moabites, and the inhabitants of Mount Seir.
son of Amaziah, son of Hilkiah,
Then David said to him, “Who do you belong to? Where are you from?”
“I’m an Egyptian, the slave of an Amalekite man,” he said. “My master abandoned me when I got sick three days ago.
but King Solomon will be blessed, and David’s throne will remain established before the Lord forever.”
So the king summoned Shimei and said to him, “Didn’t I make you swear by the Lord and warn you, saying, ‘On the day you leave and go anywhere else, know for sure that you will certainly die’? And you said to me, ‘The sentence is fair; I will obey.’
but all the corrupt and worthless men among those who had gone with David argued, “Because they didn’t go with us, we will not give any of the plunder we recovered to them except for each man’s wife and children. They may take them and go.”
Saul recognized David’s voice and asked, “Is that your voice, my son David?”
“It is my voice, my lord and king,” David said.
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on a feast
and the avenger of blood finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills him, the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed,
All the Benjaminites who died that day were 25,000 armed men; all were warriors.
Benjamin returned at that time, and Israel gave them the women they had kept alive from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough for them.
When you get there, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has handed it over to you. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
It is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.
I will appoint My blessing for you in the sixth year, so that it will produce a crop sufficient for three years.
Overlay its top, all around its sides, and its horns with pure gold; make a gold molding all around it.
“Tell them this: This is what the Lord God says: As surely as I live, those who are in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I have given to wild animals to be devoured, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
Moses also installed the gold altar in the tent of meeting, in front of the veil,
Moses placed the table in the tent of meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
When Joseph came home, they brought him the gift they had carried into the house, and they bowed to the ground before him.
Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys: This is what the Lord God says: Look, I speak in My burning zeal
“The man who is the lord of the country spoke harshly to us and accused us of spying on the country.
As silver is melted inside a furnace, so you will be melted inside the city. Then you will know that I, Yahweh, have poured out My wrath on you.”
Jacob answered, “I was afraid, for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
and make the fish of your streams
cling to your scales.
I will haul you up
from the middle of your Nile,
and all the fish of your streams
will cling to your scales.
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds
to rise from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
I will make the land desolate because they have acted unfaithfully.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
The Lord of Hosts has sworn by Himself:
and they will sing the victory song over you.
by their God, the Lord of Hosts,
though their land is full of guilt
against the Holy One of Israel.
“Edom will become a desolation. Everyone who passes by her will be horrified and scoff because of all her wounds.
residents of Hazor—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
has drawn up a plan against you;
he has devised a strategy against you.
‘This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these scrolls—this purchase agreement with the sealed copy and this open copy—and put them in an earthen storage jar so they will last a long time.
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
the rest began to seek Him;
they repented and searched for God.
As for me, I am going to live in Mizpah to represent
he will not die and go to the Pit,
and his food will not be lacking.
or I will tear you apart,
and there will be no one to rescue you.
You were a forgiving God to them,
an avenger of their sinful actions.
Whenever David attacked the land, he did not leave a single person alive, either man or woman, but he took flocks, herds, donkeys, camels, and clothing.
Gareb the Ithrite,
Naharai the Beerothite, the armor-bearer for Joab son of Zeruiah,
Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),
If he is not redeemed in any of these ways, he and his children are to be released at the Year of Jubilee.
Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish,
If the one who consecrated the field decides to redeem it, he must add a fifth to the
They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”
The hangings on the west side were 75 feet in length,
the bronze altar with its bronze grate, its poles, and all its utensils; the basin with its stand;
So Aaron and his sons did everything the Lord had commanded through Moses.
When Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get back the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
He also made the utensils that would be on the table out of pure gold: its plates and cups, as well as its bowls and pitchers for pouring drink offerings.
They had not gone very far from the city when Joseph said to his steward, “Get up. Pursue the men, and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?
The thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this to the magicians, but no one can tell me what it means.”
It turned out just the way he interpreted them to us: I was restored to my position, and the other man was hanged.”
They were your merchants in choice garments, cloaks of blue and embroidered materials, and multicolored carpets,
We will agree with you only on this condition: if all your males are circumcised as we are.
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor,
Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night.
When they got up in the morning, he said, “Send me to my master.”
As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts that King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
“You must take some of its blood and apply it to the four horns
A great nation and many kings will be stirred up
from the remote regions of the earth.
this is the declaration of
the Lord God of Hosts—
because your day has come,
the time when I will punish you.
you will die peacefully. There will be a burning ceremony for you just like the burning ceremonies for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you.
The captain of the guard took Jeremiah and said to him, “The Lord your God decreed this disaster on this place,
Jeremiah remained in the guard’s courtyard until the day Jerusalem was captured, and he was there when it happened.
“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: In this desolate place—without man or beast—and in all its cities there will once more be a grazing land where shepherds may rest flocks.
until He establishes and makes Jerusalem
the praise of the earth.
From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in My sight! They have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands”
lead me in the everlasting way.
In the presence of all the people Hananiah proclaimed, “This is what the Lord says: ‘In this way, within two years I will break the yoke of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon from the neck of all the nations.’” Jeremiah the prophet then went on his way.
He will break all my bones like a lion;
You make an end of me day and night.
his days are like a passing shadow.
for I call to You all day long.
You have set my feet in a spacious place.
They performed the service of their God and the service of purification, along with the singers and gatekeepers,
“Go and say to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I am offering you three choices. Choose one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you.’”
Whirring insects will take possession of all your trees and your land’s produce.
Aijalon and its pasturelands, and Gath-rimmon and its pasturelands.
Achish answered David, “I’m convinced that you are as reliable as the Angel of God.
The people had compassion on Benjamin, because the Lord had made this gap in the tribes of Israel.
and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven His enemies from His presence,
So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the family leaders of the Israelite tribes.
and the specially woven
He also put the lampstand in the tent of meeting opposite the table on the south side of the tabernacle
Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face again, but now God has even let me see your offspring.”
Why should we die here in front of you—both us and our land? Buy us and our land in exchange for food. Then we with our land will become Pharaoh’s slaves. Give us seed so that we can live and not die, and so that the land won’t become desolate.”
When he looked up and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother’s son, he asked, “Is this your youngest brother that you told me about?” Then he said, “May God be gracious to you, my son.”
He said to his brothers, “My money has been returned! It’s here in my bag.” Their hearts sank. Trembling, they turned to one another and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”
But the men were afraid because they were taken to Joseph’s house. They said, “We have been brought here because of the money that was returned in our bags the first time. They intend to overpower us, seize us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys.”
When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them:
The sons of Israel were among those who came to buy grain, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Now a young Hebrew, a slave of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, he interpreted our dreams for us, and each had its own interpretation.
As for the weaklings of the flocks, he did not put out the branches. So it turned out that the weak sheep belonged to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
So I poured out My wrath
and all the trees of Eden,
which were in God’s garden, envied it.
At the end of seven years, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who sold himself
“The remaining area, 1⅔ of a mile
because the Lord’s intentions against Babylon stand:
to make the land of Babylon an uninhabited desolation.
when the Lord has given it a command?
He has assigned it
against Ashkelon and the shore of the sea.
Today you repented and did what pleased Me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me
until He has completely fulfilled the purposes of His heart.
In time to come you will understand it.
I will do this because they have not listened to My words”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“that I sent to them with My servants the prophets time and time again.
or remember our iniquity forever.
Please look—all of us are Your people!
They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods
Hear the word of the Lord, all you exiles I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon.
You and Your powerful ark.
and not forget God’s works,
but keep His commands.
a fool when he is stuffed with food,
and drunkards make up songs about me.
because of a people who can’t help.
They are of no benefit, they are no help;
they are good for nothing but shame and reproach.
Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
I say, “You are my shelter,
my portion in the land of the living.”
and takes refuge in Him;
all those who are upright in heart
will offer praise.
You have given us wine to drink
that made us stagger.
and even the light of my eyes has faded.
Your praise all day long.
He built altars
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
From the tribe of Naphtali they received Kedesh in Galilee and its pasturelands, Hammon and its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim and its pasturelands.
There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
The Merarites were assigned by lot 12 towns from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun according to their families.
David’s young men went and said all these things to Nabal on David’s behalf,
They found rich, good pasture, and the land was broad, peaceful, and quiet,
Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “What the Lord has spoken to your servants is what we will do.
Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. These are in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain and drink offerings.
Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
the tent of meeting, the ark of the testimony, the mercy seat that is on top of it, and all the other furnishings of the tent
Pharaoh restored the chief cupbearer to his position as cupbearer, and he placed the cup in Pharaoh’s hand.
So he went and got the goats and brought them to his mother, and his mother made the delicious food his father loved.
to determine when something is unclean or clean. This is the law regarding skin disease and mildew.”
They also took their cattle and possessions they had acquired in the land of Canaan. Then Jacob and all his children went with him to Egypt.
onto the high seas,
but the east wind has shattered you
in the heart of the sea.
He also told the second one, the third, and everyone who was walking behind the animals, “Say the same thing to Esau when you find him.
and bloodshed in her streets;
the slain will fall within her,
while the sword is against her
Then they will know that I am Yahweh.
mount the steeds;
take your positions with helmets on!
Polish the lances;
put on armor!
Yet when it comes
who will scatter her and strip her land bare,
for they will come against her
from every side in the day of disaster.
that stirred up the waves of the sea.
The king sent Jehudi to get the scroll, and he took it from the chamber of Elishama the scribe. Jehudi then read it in the hearing of the king and all the officials who were standing by the king.
I dried up all the streams of Egypt
with the soles of my feet.”
“For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and fury were poured out on Jerusalem’s residents,
But Ishmael son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.
the army and the mighty one together
(they lie down, they do not rise again;
they are extinguished, quenched like a wick
Listen closely, Lord, and hear;
this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to always stand before Me.’”
or be angry forever.
if Moses His chosen one
had not stood before Him in the breach
to turn His wrath away from destroying them.
He is my rock,
and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
a wind that passes and does not return.
He took everything to Babylon—all the articles of God’s temple, large and small, the treasures of the Lord’s temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials.
before God, the God of Sinai,
before God, the God of Israel.
and take refuge under the shelter of Your wings.
Shalmai’s descendants,
Jeribai and Joshaviah, the sons of Elnaam,
Ithmah the Moabite,
Then the king said to his soldiers, “You must know that a great leader has fallen in Israel today.
Now David said to Achish, “If I have found favor with you, let me be given a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. Why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
the Arelite clan from Areli.
Everyone who had in his possession blue, purple, or scarlet yarn,
Let them gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. Under Pharaoh’s authority, store the grain in the cities, so they may preserve it as food.
Each person also cut his own branch and followed Abimelech. They put the branches against the inner chamber and set it on fire around the people, and all the people in the Tower of Shechem died—about 1,000 men and women.
Balaam answered Balak, “Didn’t I previously tell the messengers you sent me:
and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were surrounded with gold filigree in their settings.
On the eleventh day Pagiel son of Ochran,
“Take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram’s head.
Five of the curtains should be joined together, and the other five curtains joined together.
Attach the other ends of the two cords to the two filigree settings, and in this way attach them to the ephod’s shoulder pieces in the front.
Jacob heard that Shechem had defiled his daughter Dinah, but since his sons were with his livestock in the field, he remained silent until they returned.
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought to us came to make a fool of me,
They captured all their possessions, children, and wives and plundered everything in the houses.
Rebekah is here in front of you. Take her and go, and let her be a wife for your master’s son, just as the Lord has spoken.”
No priest may drink wine before he enters the inner court.
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him at Mount Gilead.
Yes, it is coming, and it will happen.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “This is the day I have spoken about.
in a good field by abundant waters
in order to produce branches,
bear fruit, and become a splendid vine.
For this is what the Lord God says:
will come against you!
and sell the land into the hands of evil men.
I will bring desolation
on the land and everything in it
by the hands of foreigners.
I, Yahweh, have spoken.
On that day, messengers will go out from Me in ships
and fill the valleys with your carcass.
The land of Egypt will be a desolate ruin.
Even when it was whole it could not be made into a useful object. How much less can it ever be made into anything useful when the fire has devoured it and it is charred!
Then I said, “Oh, Lord God, they are saying of me, ‘Isn’t he just posing riddles?’”
However, there were 10 men among them who said to Ishmael, “Don’t kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he stopped and did not kill them along with their companions.
Dibon, Nebo, Beth-diblathaim,
King Zedekiah said, “Here he is; he’s in your hands since the king can’t do anything against you.”
For this is what the Lord of Hosts says about the pillars, the sea, the water carts,
Look! Siege ramps
who said to you:
Lie down, so we can walk over you.
You made your back like the ground,
and like a street for those who walk on it.
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beer is bitter to those who drink it.
Then the word of the Lord came to me:
the makers of idols go in humiliation together.
And the inhabitants of this coastland will say on that day, ‘Look, this is what has happened to those we relied on and fled to for help to rescue us from the king of Assyria! Now, how will we escape?’”
the Lord gazed out from heaven to earth
and that our fathers have passed down to us.
at the presence of the Lord—
at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.
the wings of a dove are covered with silver,
and its feathers with glistening gold.
reaches to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is filled with justice.
and spread out our hands to a foreign god,
the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons, and his brothers—12
So Esther’s command confirmed these customs of Purim, which were then written into the record.
Jokmeam and its pasturelands, Beth-horon and its pasturelands,
These were the descendants of Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim: Haroeh, half of the Manahathites,
Then David shouted to the troops and to Abner son of Ner: “Aren’t you going to answer, Abner?”
“Who are you who calls to the king?” Abner asked.
He took all the sheep and cattle, which were driven ahead of the other livestock, and the people shouted, “This is David’s plunder!”
Instead, the Benjaminites gathered together from their cities to Gibeah to go out and fight against the Israelites.
Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as a contribution for the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Take the tribute from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as a contribution to the Lord.
If it is one of the unclean livestock, it must be ransomed according to your assessment by adding a fifth of its value to it. If it is not redeemed, it can be sold according to your assessment.
Position the altar of burnt offering in front of the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting.
Six branches extended from its sides, three branches of the lampstand from one side and three branches of the lampstand from the other side.
And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food for their dependents.
Then Abimelech called Abraham in and said to him, “What have you done to us? How did I sin against you that you have brought such enormous guilt on me and on my kingdom? You have done things to me that should never be done.”
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.
He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”
Then he blinded Zedekiah and bound him with bronze chains. The king of Babylon brought Zedekiah to Babylon, where he kept him in custody
At My table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am Yahweh their God.
When they pass through the land and one of them sees a human bone, he will set up a marker next to it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.
I will make Mount Seir a desolate waste and will cut off from it those who come and go.
However, when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land,
Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your ancestor Jonadab and have kept all his commands and have done all that he commanded you,
The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah:
For this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have put an iron yoke on the neck of all these nations that they might serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,
When the officials of Judah heard these things, they went from the king’s palace to the Lord’s temple and sat at the entrance of the New Gate.
The prophet Jeremiah said, “Amen!
Command them to go to their masters, saying: This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: This is what you must say to your masters:
the net is torn, and we have escaped.
A long time later the Lord said to me, “Go at once to the Euphrates and get the underwear that I commanded you to hide there.”
for the image of a grass-eating ox.
soaking its furrows and leveling its ridges.
His glory above the heavens.
devastation and destruction,
famine and sword.
Who will grieve for you?
How can I
and will not despise their prayer.
and call on the name of Yahweh.
will live in my palace;
no one who tells lies
will remain in my presence.
a fool does not understand this:
So now,
Then their children
you will make them princes throughout the land.
435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
But Aaron and his sons did all the work of the most holy place. They presented the offerings on the altar of burnt offerings
and the families of Kiriath-jearim—the Ithrites, Puthites, Shumathites, and Mishraites. The Zorathites and Eshtaolites descended from these.
the Lord appeared at the tent in a pillar of cloud, and the cloud stood at the entrance to the tent.
Use uncut stones to build the altar of the Lord your God and offer burnt offerings to the Lord your God on it.
In this way, God turned back on Abimelech the evil that he had done against his father, by killing his 70 brothers.
Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah—two cities, with their villages.
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed
There are to be eight planks with their silver bases: 16 bases; two bases under the first plank and two bases under each plank.
Moses then brought out all the staffs from the Lord’s presence to all the Israelites. They saw them, and each man took his own staff.
The half yard
He brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and screened off the ark of the testimony, just as the Lord had commanded him.
With the remaining 44 pounds
Then Laban said, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
and these are their chiefs.
Then join them together into a single stick so that they become one in your hand.
You will inherit it in equal portions, since I swore
The prince must not take any of the people’s inheritance, evicting them from their property.
He spoke to me: “Son of man, look with your eyes, listen with your ears,
They will know that I am Yahweh their God when I regather them to their own land after having exiled them among the nations. I will leave none of them behind.
You must not build a house or sow seed or plant a vineyard. Those things are not for you. Rather, you must live in tents your whole life, so you may live a long time on the soil where you stay as a temporary resident.’
Therefore this is what the Lord God says: I swear
Jeremiah told Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud.
therefore, mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God. This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become plunder
By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that the people of the land had no food.
“Pick up some large stones and set them in the mortar of the brick pavement that is at the opening of Pharaoh’s palace at Tahpanhes. Do this in the sight of the Judean men
my strength was drained
as in the summer’s heat.
all Babylon’s plunderers will be fully satisfied.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
the Lord demolished without compassion.
Let him hear an outcry in the morning
and a war cry at noontime
You have led your own selves astray because you are the ones who sent me to the Lord your God, saying, ‘Pray to the Lord our God on our behalf, and as for all that the Lord our God says, tell it to us, and we’ll act accordingly.’
Therefore, this is what the Lord says: ‘I am about to send you off the face of the earth. You will die this year because you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.’”
Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew:
Listen to the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
and wash my hands in innocence for nothing?
‘I have not sent them’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘and they are prophesying falsely in My name; therefore, I will banish you, and you will perish—you and the prophets who are prophesying to you.’”
resulting in praise to all His godly ones,
to the Israelites, the people close to Him.
Hallelujah!
thrown to the ground, to the dust.
and praise His holy name.
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.
the seas and everything that moves in them,
Your enemies will cringe before You
because of Your great strength.
By Your power, make them homeless wanderers
and bring them down,
Lord, our shield.
They proceeded to take away the altars that were in Jerusalem,
your right hand will seize those who hate you.
Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart—he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem—so the Lord’s wrath didn’t come
Consequently,
So David took the spear and the water jug by Saul’s head, and they went their way. No one saw them, no one knew, and no one woke up; they all remained asleep because a deep sleep from the Lord
these mentioned by name were leaders in their families. Their ancestral houses increased greatly.
Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,
Please stay here overnight as the others did, so that I may find out what else the Lord has to tell me.”
Place the gold altar for incense in front of the ark of the testimony. Put up the screen for the entrance to the tabernacle.
Joseph said to his father, “Not that way, my father! This one is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.”
On the ninth day Abidan son of Gideoni,
He put up the screen at the entrance to the tabernacle.
the lampstand for light with its utensils and lamps as well as the oil for the light;
The length of each curtain should be 45 feet
He fell asleep and dreamed a second time: Seven heads of grain, plump and ripe, came up on one stalk.
After them, seven other cows, sickly and thin, came up from the Nile and stood beside those cows along the bank of the Nile.
when seven well-fed, healthy-looking cows came up from the Nile and began to graze among the reeds.
He did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.
He asked me, “Do you see this, son of man?” Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles.
When they had used up the grain they had brought back from Egypt, their father said to them, “Go back and buy us some food.”
Therefore this is what the Lord God says:
Then say, ‘In the same way, Babylon will sink and never rise again because of the disaster I am bringing on her. They will grow weary.’”
The words of Jeremiah end here.
and he roasts meat on that half.
He eats the roast and is satisfied.
He warms himself and says, “Ah!
I am warm, I see the blaze.”
Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
I Myself will make the pile of kindling large.
Beware that Hezekiah does not mislead you by saying, ‘The Lord will deliver us.’
But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood
The people of Chemosh have perished
because your sons have been taken captive
and your daughters have gone into captivity.
They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or live according to Your instructions.
We will escape on horses”—
therefore you will escape!—
and, “We will ride on fast horses”—
but those who pursue you will be faster.
King Jehoiakim, all his warriors, and all the officials heard his words, and the king tried to put him to death. When Uriah heard, he fled in fear and went to Egypt.
or perform wicked acts
with men who commit sin.
Do not let me feast on their delicacies.
and the mountains quake with its turmoil.
among all the children she has raised;
there is no one to take hold of her hand
among all the offspring she has brought up.
and His wonders in the region of Zoan.
for I trust in Your word.
They are always at ease,
and they increase their wealth.
which You purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for Your own possession.
Remember Mount Zion where You dwell.
I throw My sandal on Edom;
I shout in triumph over Philistia.”
You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
Sia’s descendants, Padon’s descendants,
So the service was established; the priests stood at their posts and the Levites in their divisions according to the king’s command.
because they have abandoned Me
Those were the leaders of the tribes of Israel.
He also made a covering for the tent from ram skins dyed red and a covering of manatee skins
Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the Lord.
To the rest of the Kohathites, 10 towns from half the tribe of Manasseh were assigned by lot.
All the people took note of this, and it pleased them. In fact, everything the king did pleased them.
“All the posts around the courtyard are to be banded with silver and have silver hooks and bronze bases.
The cities will be for them to live in, and their pasturelands will be for their herds, flocks, and all their other animals.
No one may go up with you; in fact, no one must be seen anywhere on the mountain. Even the flocks and herds are not to graze in front of that mountain.”
with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts
Joseph kissed each of his brothers as he wept,
So Joseph made it a law, still in effect today in the land of Egypt, that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh. Only the priests’ land does not belong to Pharaoh.
Esau said, “Let me leave some of my people with you.”
But he replied, “Why do that? Please indulge me,
you have acquired wealth for yourself.
You have acquired gold and silver
for your treasuries.
Yet they will occupy My sanctuary, serving as guards at the temple gates
it
“They are the ones who may enter My sanctuary
Yet you say, ‘The Lord’s way isn’t fair.’ I will judge each of you according to his ways, house of Israel.”
your sailors and captains,
those who repair your leaks,
those who barter for your goods,
and all the warriors within you,
with all the other people on board,
sink into the heart of the sea
on the day of your downfall.
and her company is all around her burial place.
All of them are slain, fallen by the sword—
those who once spread terror
in the land of the living.
at all their gates,
so that their hearts may melt
and many may stumble.
Yes! It is ready to flash like lightning;
it is drawn
and destroyed their cities.
The land and everything in it shuddered
at the sound of his roaring.
The Chaldean army pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.
He made the heavens skillfully.
His love is eternal.
I will uncover his secret places.
He will try to hide himself, but he will be unable.
His descendants will be destroyed
along with his relatives and neighbors.
He will exist no longer.
She has thrown up her hands in surrender;
her defense towers have fallen;
her walls are demolished.
Since this is the Lord’s vengeance,
take out your vengeance on her;
as she has done, do the same to her.
“For this is what the Lord says: If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not remain unpunished, for you must drink it too.
He rescued them from their distress.
But when they came into the city, Ishmael son of Nethaniah and the men with him slaughtered them and threw them into
I
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands.
the earth is satisfied by the fruit of Your labor.
All your wives and sons will be brought out to the Chaldeans.
over the land allotted to the righteous,
so that the righteous will not apply their hands to injustice.
for their deceit is a lie.
like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,
The waters saw You; they trembled.
Even the depths shook.
and a foolish people has insulted Your name.
so that they may sit down with me.
The one who follows the way of integrity
may serve me.
You are my God; save Your servant who trusts in You.
He has paid attention to the sound of my prayer.
he stores up evil in his heart;
he goes out and talks.
they speak arrogantly against the righteous
with pride and contempt.
will hear and will humiliate themSelah
because they do not change
and do not fear God.
I will praise Your name, Yahweh,
because it is good.
Solomon left all the utensils unweighed because there were so many; the weight of the bronze was not determined.
and Hareph fathered Beth-gader.
two pillars;
David called to Abner, “You’re a man, aren’t you? Who in Israel is your equal? So why didn’t you protect your lord the king when one of the people came to destroy him?
David’s men retraced their steps. When they returned to him, they reported all these words.
But 600 men escaped into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon and stayed there four months.
Saul camped beside the road at the hill of Hachilah
Neither should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to his city of refuge, allowing him to return and live in the land before the death of the high priest.
He took the people, divided them into three companies, and waited in ambush in the countryside. He looked, and the people were coming out of the city, so he arose against them and struck them down.
After them, seven heads of grain, thin and scorched by the east wind, sprouted up.
and took away all the spoils of war and the captives, both man and beast.
Those registered were 23,000, every male one month old or more; they were not registered among the other Israelites, because no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.
put them in a basket, and bring them in the basket, along with the bull and two rams.
When morning came, there was Leah! So he said to Laban, “What is this you have done to me? Wasn’t it for Rachel that I worked for you? Why have you deceived me?”
After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine the contamination. If the appearance of the contaminated article has not changed, it is unclean. Even though the contamination has not spread, you must burn up the fabric. It is a fungus
He made four posts of acacia wood for it and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold. And he cast four silver bases for the posts.
Offer these with the morning burnt offering that is part of the regular burnt offering.
The 12 stones corresponded to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone was engraved like a seal with one of the names of the 12 tribes.
They will not gather wood from the countryside or cut it down from the forests, for they will use the weapons to make fires. They will take the loot from those who looted them and plunder those who plundered them.”
Chiefs Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,
When I bring them back from the peoples and gather them from the countries of their enemies, I will demonstrate My holiness through them in the sight of many nations.
Can wood be taken from it to make something useful? Or can anyone make a peg from it to hang things on?
in the land of the living,
so Pharaoh and all his hordes
will be laid to rest among the uncircumcised,
with those slain by the sword.”
This is the declaration of the Lord God.
with all their hordes.
Their graves are all around them.
All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword,
although their terror was once spread
in the land of the living.
Now make a deal with my master, the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!
I have given him the land of Egypt as the pay he labored for, since they worked for Me.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Be like a juniper bush
Ishmael son of Nethaniah came out of Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he came. When he encountered them, he said: “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam!”
Then I spoke to the priests and all these people, saying, “This is what the Lord says: ‘Do not listen to the words of your prophets. They are prophesying to you, claiming, “Look, very soon now the articles of the Lord’s temple will be brought back from Babylon.”
because of Me
and because of My servant David.”
so that I may obey my God’s commands.
a people whose speech is difficult to comprehend—
who stammer in a language that is not understood.
when he tires
and comes to his sanctuary to pray,
it will do him no good.
and graciously give me Your instruction.
and those who want to harm me threaten to destroy me;
they plot treachery all day long.
the ones under a curse,
who wander from Your commands.
and witness the punishment of the wicked.
Israel, if you would only listen to Me!
Pochereth-hazzebaim’s descendants, Amon’s descendants.
and two quarts
From half the tribe of Manasseh, Aner and its pasturelands, and Bileam and its pasturelands were given to the rest of the families of the Kohathites.
Place the basin
the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense for the sanctuary. They must make them according to all that I have commanded you.”
When I had returned, I saw a very large number of trees along both sides of the riverbank.
and Joseph moved the people to the cities
Then he washed his face and came out. Regaining his composure,
But they replied, “We, your servants, were 12 brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now
He asked if they were well, and he said, “How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive?”
So Esau said, “What do you mean by this whole procession
“To find favor with you, my lord,”
On the west side the Mediterranean Sea will be the border, from the southern border up to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This will be the western side.
The people of the land will also bow in worship before the Lord at the entrance of that gate on the Sabbaths and New Moons.
The altar was
While the man was standing beside me, I heard someone speaking to me from the temple.
The desolate land will be cultivated instead of lying desolate in the sight of everyone who passes by.
therefore I am about to stretch out My hand against you
I will give it along with Ammon to the people of the east as a possession, so that Ammon will not be remembered among the nations.
with no one to pick him up.
I will set fire to his cities,
and it will consume everything around him.”
she will not be inhabited;
she will become a desolation, every bit of her.
Everyone who passes through Babylon
will be horrified
and scoff because of all her wounds.
Open her granaries;
pile her up like mounds of grain
and completely destroy her.
Leave her no survivors.
for they prophesy a lie to you so that you will be removed from your land. I will banish you, and you will perish.
Kiriathaim, Beth-gamul, Beth-meon,
How dare you prophesy in the name of Yahweh, ‘This temple will become like Shiloh and this city will become an uninhabited ruin’!” Then all the people assembled against Jeremiah at the Lord’s temple.
Indeed, each falls over the other.
They say, “Get up! Let’s return to our people
and to the land of our birth,
away from the sword that oppresses.”
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
“Many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why did the Lord do such a thing to this great city?’
and your work is worthless.
Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
finding no way to a city where they could live.
He made kingdoms tremble.
The Lord has commanded
that the Canaanite fortresses be destroyed.
and for the wild animals of the land.
The birds will spend the summer on them,
and all the animals, the winter on them.
than to trust in nobles.
as are all who trust in them.
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
small and great alike.