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6004

But King Joram had returned to Jezreel to recover from the wounds that the Arameans had inflicted on him when he fought against Aram’s King Hazael. Jehu said, “If you commanders wish to make me king, then don’t let anyone escape from the city to go tell about it in Jezreel.”

6005

However, Pharaoh’s heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.

6006

In fact, what had been glorious is not glorious now by comparison because of the glory that surpasses it.

6007

So if you consider me a partner, accept him as you would me.

6008

They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, an upright and God-fearing man, who has a good reputation with the whole Jewish nation, was divinely directed by a holy angel to call you to his house and to hear a message from you.”

6010

The exiles did what had been proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family leaders, all identified by name, to represent their ancestral houses. They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter,

6011

At this time Moses was born, and he was beautiful in God’s sight. He was cared for in his father’s home three months,

6012

Because of this, put on sackcloth;
mourn and wail,
for the Lord’s burning anger
has not turned away from us.

6013

When they had mocked Him, they stripped Him of the purple robe, put His clothes on Him, and led Him out to crucify Him.

6014

They came to Jesus and saw the man who had been demon-possessed by the legion, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid.

6015

Listen, my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city called by Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You based on our righteous acts, but based on Your abundant compassion.

6017

Then Saul dispatched messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.”

6018

But if you are afraid to go to the camp, go with Purah your servant.

6019

Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech.

6020

The Lord answered His people:

Look, I am about to send you
grain, new wine, and olive oil.
You will be satiated with them,
and I will no longer make you
a disgrace among the nations.

6021

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not telling you that I will make requests to the Father on your behalf.

6022

I went in and looked, and there engraved all around the wall was every form of detestable thing, crawling creatures and beasts, as well as all the idols of the house of Israel.

6024

For the One who seeks an accounting
for bloodshed remembers them;
He does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

6026

Put terror in them, Lord;
let the nations know they are only men.Selah

6027

This is the text of the letter King Artaxerxes gave to Ezra the priest and scribe, an expert in matters of the Lord’s commands and statutes for Israel:

6028

Indeed, we groan in this body, desiring to put on our dwelling from heaven,

6029

That whole generation was also gathered to their ancestors. After them another generation rose up who did not know the Lord or the works He had done for Israel.

6030

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

6031

Each man quickly took his garment and put it under Jehu on the bare steps. They blew the ram’s horn and proclaimed, “Jehu is king!”

6032

So they got rid of the foreign gods among them and worshiped the Lord, and He became weary of Israel’s misery.

6033

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight; they forgot the Lord their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.

6034

tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

6035

Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets that Moses had put in it at Horeb, where the Lord had made a covenant with the Israelites when they came out of Egypt.

6036

For some have already turned away to follow Satan.

6037

Shuppim and Huppim were sons of Ir, and the Hushim were the sons of Aher.

6038

those registered for the tribe of Zebulun numbered 57,400.

6039

Lamech said to his wives:

Adah and Zillah, hear my voice;
wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words.
For I killed a man for wounding me,
a young man for striking me.

6040

I sank to the foundations of the mountains;
the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever!
But You raised my life from the Pit, Lord my God!

6041

He was told, “Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see You.”

6043

ד DaletHe has bent His bow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.

6044

Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

6045

Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs, said: “There is a gallows 75 feet tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.”

The king commanded, “Hang him on it.”

6046

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Shechem to make him king.

6047

Because we have heard that some without our authorization went out from us and troubled you with their words and unsettled your hearts,

6048

Lord, You have done all this greatness, making known all these great promises because of Your servant and according to Your will.

6049

“Come!” He said.

And climbing out of the boat, Peter started walking on the water and came toward Jesus.

6050

Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.
These were Ishmael’s sons.

6051

So the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the Lord and took it to Abinadab’s house on the hill. They consecrated his son Eleazar to take care of it.

6052

Such is the destiny of all who forget God;
the hope of the godless will perish.

6053

Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

6054

Then he spoke to Him again, “Suppose 40 are found there?”

He answered, “I will not do it on account of 40.”

6055

During the war between the house of Saul and the house of David, Abner kept acquiring more power in the house of Saul.

6056

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

6057

They refused to listen
and did not remember Your wonders
You performed among them.
They became stiff-necked and appointed a leader
to return to their slavery in Egypt.
But You are a forgiving God,
gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in faithful love,
and You did not abandon them.

6058

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses won’t be broken, are you angry at Me because I made a man entirely well on the Sabbath?

6059

and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds said to them.

6062

Proclaim on the citadels in Ashdod
and on the citadels in the land of Egypt:
Assemble on the mountains of Samaria
and see the great turmoil in the city
and the acts of oppression within it.

6063

Therefore, when all the people heard the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, and every kind of music, people of every nation and language fell down and worshiped the gold statue that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.

6064

Even though they hire lovers among the nations,
I will now round them up,
and they will begin to decrease in number
under the burden of the king and leaders.

6066

so that they can offer sacrifices of pleasing aroma to the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.

6067

So give Your servant an obedient heart to judge Your people and to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

6069

M Like a lily among thorns,
so is my darling among the young women.

6070

“Look, I have given the Levites every tenth in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the work of the tent of meeting.

6071

Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and station men by it to guard the kings.

6072

It was reported to Joshua: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

6073

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

6074

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and I may not be found by you to be what you want; there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

6075

Jesus answered them, “Haven’t you read what David and those who were with him did when he was hungry—

6076

“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.”

Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked Him, “What does my Lord want to say to His servant?”

6077

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave—as a dearly loved brother. He is especially so to me, but even more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

6078

But the farmers took his slaves, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

6079

and the men of Judah raised the battle cry. When the men of Judah raised the battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

6080

When Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to annihilate all the royal heirs.

6081

Then the king of the North will come, build up an assault ramp, and capture a well-fortified city. The forces of the South will not stand; even their select troops will not be able to resist.

6083

Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took Saul’s son Ish-bosheth and moved him to Mahanaim.

6084

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

6085

So He led the people around toward the Red Sea along the road of the wilderness. And the Israelites left the land of Egypt in battle formation.

6087

It is written in the law:

I will speak to these people
by people of other languages
and by the lips of foreigners,
and even then, they will not listen to Me,


says the Lord.

6088

ק QofI called to my lovers,
but they betrayed me.
My priests and elders
perished in the city
while searching for food
to keep themselves alive.

6089

You are to regard only the Lord of Hosts as holy.
Only He should be feared;
only He should be held in awe.

6091

The same judgment will happen
to both people and priests.
I will punish them for their ways
and repay them for their deeds.

6092

For it is clear that He does not reach out to help angels, but to help Abraham’s offspring.

6093

So he said, “What are these towns you’ve given me, my brother?” So he called them the Land of Cabul, as they are still called today.

6094

After the entire nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in the camp until they recovered.

6095

Even some of the provincial officials of Asia, who were his friends, sent word to him, pleading with him not to take a chance by going into the amphitheater.

6098

But You Yourself have seen trouble and grief,
observing it in order to take the matter into Your hands.
The helpless entrusts himself to You;
You are a helper of the fatherless.

6099

I will provide rain for your land in the proper time, the autumn and spring rains, and you will harvest your grain, new wine, and oil.

6100

And when the crowds heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.

6101

The Lord says:

As the shepherd snatches two legs
or a piece of an ear
from the lion’s mouth,
so the Israelites who live in Samaria
will be rescued
with only the corner of a bed
or the cushion of a couch.

6102

In the visions of my mind as I was lying in bed, I saw this:

There was a tree in the middle of the earth,
and its height was great.

6104

While still uncut shoots,
they would dry up quicker than any other plant.

6105

But he answered, “I cannot go back with you, eat bread, or drink water with you in this place,

6106

Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites

6107

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

6108

until a different king who did not know Joseph ruled over Egypt.

6109

When Jesus saw that a crowd was rapidly coming together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to it, “You mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”

6110

Then Jehu son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. Joram and all Israel had been at Ramoth-gilead on guard against Hazael king of Aram.

6111

After I exhaust My wrath against the wall and against those who plaster it with whitewash, I will say to you: The wall is no more and neither are those who plastered it—

6112

As for all the peoples who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, who were not Israelites—

6113

Then he said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord!” So he let him ride with him in his chariot.

6114

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a brief time, so that you might get him back permanently,

6115

Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame—altars to burn incense to Baal—as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.

6116

“I tell you: get up, pick up your mat, and go home.”

6117

From there they sailed back to Antioch where they had been entrusted to the grace of God for the work they had now completed.

6118

My tent is destroyed;
all my tent cords are snapped.
My sons have departed from me and are no more.
I have no one to pitch my tent again
or to hang up my curtains.

6119

Who is the man wise enough to understand this? Who has the Lord spoken to, that he may explain it? Why is the land destroyed and scorched like a wilderness, so no one can pass through?

6120

The cities from Ekron to Gath, which they had taken from Israel, were restored; Israel even rescued their surrounding territories from Philistine control. There was also peace between Israel and the Amorites.

6121

These were the names of the men Moses sent to scout out the land, and Moses renamed Hoshea son of Nun, Joshua.

6122

Consider the work of God,
for who can straighten out
what He has made crooked?

6123

The Tyrians living there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

6124

David went out to meet them and said to them, “If you have come in peace to help me, my heart will be united with you, but if you have come to betray me to my enemies even though my hands have done no wrong, may the God of our ancestors look on it and judge.”

6125

Behind your veil,
your brow is like a slice of pomegranate.

6126

Then King Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was in charge of forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. King Rehoboam managed to get into the chariot and flee to Jerusalem.

6127

And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you traveled until you reached this place.

6129

The people of Beth-shemesh were harvesting wheat in the valley, and when they looked up and saw the ark, they were overjoyed to see it.

6130

The churches of Asia greet you. Aquila and Priscilla greet you warmly in the Lord, along with the church that meets in their home.

6131

When that day comes, you will cry out because of the king you’ve chosen for yourselves, but the Lord won’t answer you on that day.”

6132

Hadad and his men set out from Midian and went to Paran. They took men with them from Paran and went to Egypt, to Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave Hadad a house, ordered that he be given food, and gave him land.

6133

After he fathered Terah, Nahor lived 119 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

6134

That is why even the first covenant was inaugurated with blood.

6135

We know that God’s judgment on those who do such things is based on the truth.

6136

“You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts.

6138

and your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold multiply, and everything else you have increases,

6139

The next day, since he wanted to find out exactly why Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and instructed the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to convene. Then he brought Paul down and placed him before them.

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6140

Cross over to Cyprus and take a look.
Send someone to Kedar and consider carefully;
see if there has ever been anything like this:

6141

Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali,
along the sea road, beyond the Jordan,
Galilee of the Gentiles!

6142

The four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders fell down and worshiped.

6143

For even in Thessalonica you sent gifts for my need several times.

6144

But the Lord said to my father David,
“Since it was your desire to build a temple for My name,
you have done well to have this desire.

6145

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

6146

The inexperienced inherit foolishness,
but the sensible are crowned with knowledge.

6147

Even if I were in the right, I could not answer.
I could only beg my Judge for mercy.

6148

The Levites removed the ark of the Lord, along with the box containing the gold objects, and placed them on the large rock. That day the men of Beth-shemesh offered burnt offerings and made sacrifices to the Lord.

6149

He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife. He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

6150

and Saul and his men went to look for him. When David was told about it, he went down to the rock and stayed in the Wilderness of Maon. Saul heard of this and pursued David there.

6151

Now concerning the resurrection of the dead, haven’t you read what was spoken to you by God:

6152

I assure you: It will be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah than for that town.

6153

But Naaman got angry and left, saying, “I was telling myself: He will surely come out, stand and call on the name of Yahweh his God, and will wave his hand over the spot and cure the skin disease.

6154

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked.

6155

Then the seers will be ashamed
and the diviners disappointed.
They will all cover their mouths
because there will be no answer from God.

6156

If you don’t tell me the dream, there is one decree for you. You have conspired to tell me something false or fraudulent until the situation changes. So tell me the dream and I will know you can give me its interpretation.”

6157

He and the whole house of Israel were bringing up the ark of the Lord with shouts and the sound of the ram’s horn.

6158

Blow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah;
raise the war cry in Beth-aven:
After you, Benjamin!

6161

After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,

6162

Each day its gates will never close because it will never be night there.

6163

He releases the bonds put on by kings
and fastens a belt around their waists.

6164

For Solomon had made a bronze platform 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high and put it in the court. He stood on it, knelt down in front of the entire congregation of Israel, and spread out his hands toward heaven.

6165

so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

6167

When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without pivoting as they moved. But wherever the head faced, they would go in that direction, without pivoting as they went.

6168

Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.

6170

And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised.

6171

I am sending him to you for this very reason, to let you know how we are and to encourage your hearts.

6172

For the churning of milk produces butter,
and twisting a nose draws blood,
and stirring up anger produces strife.

6173

They trample the heads of the poor
on the dust of the ground
and block the path of the needy.
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning My holy name.

6174

“Son of man, say to her: You are a land that has not been cleansed, that has not received rain in the day of indignation.

6175

Let those who curse certain days
cast a spell on it,
those who are skilled in rousing Leviathan.

6176

You will be confident, because there is hope.
You will look carefully about and lie down in safety.

6177

the light of a lamp
will never shine in you again;
and the voice of a groom and bride
will never be heard in you again.
All this will happen
because your merchants
were the nobility of the earth,
because all the nations were deceived
by your sorcery,

6178

“When a man has an emission of semen, he is to bathe himself completely with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

6179

Tell me, you, the one I love:
Where do you pasture your sheep?
Where do you let them rest at noon?
Why should I be like one who veils herself
beside the flocks of your companions?

6180

I know where you live—where Satan’s throne is! And you are holding on to My name and did not deny your faith in Me, even in the days of Antipas, My faithful witness who was killed among you, where Satan lives.

6181

He was with David at Pas-dammim when the Philistines had gathered there for battle. There was a portion of a field full of barley, where the troops had fled from the Philistines.

6182

Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn, then Heth,

6183

After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, who was from Pirathon, judged Israel.

6184

The demons begged Him, “Send us to the pigs, so we may enter them.”

6185

“Then he became angry and didn’t want to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

6186

So they approached the king and asked about his edict: “Didn’t you sign an edict that for 30 days any man who petitions any god or man except you, the king, will be thrown into the lions’ den?”

The king answered, “As a law of the Medes and Persians, the order stands and is irrevocable.”

6187

When the Messiah came, He proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

6188

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

6189

The land is scorched
by the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and the people are like fuel for the fire.
No one has compassion on his brother.

6190

When those carrying the ark of the Lord advanced six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

6191

When David came to Saul and entered his service, Saul admired him greatly, and David became his armor-bearer.

6192

When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, they all went in search of David, but he heard about it and went down to the stronghold.

6193

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

6194

So the king said, “Go and see where he is, so I can send men to capture him.”

When he was told, “Elisha is in Dothan,”

6196

if the king’s anger gets stirred up and he asks you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Didn’t you realize they would shoot from the top of the wall?

6197

So Joshua and the Israelites finished inflicting a terrible slaughter on them until they were destroyed, although a few survivors ran away to the fortified cities.

6198

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

6199

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

6200

Indifferent to her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

6201

“Your words against Me are harsh,” says the Lord.

Yet you ask: “What have we spoken against You?”

6202

Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?

6203

but received a rebuke for his transgression: A donkey that could not talk spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s irrationality.

6205

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer pays attention to warnings.

6206

Again, I observed all the acts of oppression being done under the sun. Look at the tears of those who are oppressed; they have no one to comfort them. Power is with those who oppress them; they have no one to comfort them.

6207

and spoke to them according to the young men’s advice, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I, with barbed whips.”

6208

The elders and all the people who were at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah, who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

6210

She will place a garland of grace on your head;
she will give you a crown of beauty.”

6211

These were the ones who served the king, besides those he stationed in the fortified cities throughout all Judah.

6212

As for the donkeys that wandered away from you three days ago, don’t worry about them because they’ve been found. And who does all Israel desire but you and all your father’s family?”

6213

The priest must apply some of the blood to the horns of the altar of fragrant incense that is before the Lord in the tent of meeting. He must pour out the rest of the bull’s blood at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

6215

You must eat it in a holy place because it is your portion and your sons’ from the fire offerings to the Lord, for this is what I was commanded.

6216

How long will this continue in the minds of the prophets prophesying lies, prophets of the deceit of their own minds?

6217

“If someone suddenly dies near him, defiling his consecrated head of hair, he must shave his head on the day of his purification; he is to shave it on the seventh day.

6219

A harvest is also appointed for you, Judah.

When I return My people from captivity,

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6220

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He then burned it down, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and gave it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

6221

As they stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing by, “Is it legal for you to scourge a man who is a Roman citizen and is uncondemned?”

6222

God does not hold back His anger;
Rahab’s assistants cringe in fear beneath Him!

6223

Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?”

They answered, “We’re Ahaziah’s relatives. We’ve come down to greet the king’s sons and the queen mother’s sons.”

6224

When He went into the house away from the crowd, the disciples asked Him about the parable.

6225

But when he saw the strength of the wind, he was afraid. And beginning to sink he cried out, “Lord, save me!”

6226

shouting, “Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place. What’s more, he also brought Greeks into the temple and has profaned this holy place.”

6227

Pharaoh liked Hadad so much that he gave him a wife, the sister of his own wife, Queen Tahpenes.

6228

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

6229

Now the day before Saul’s arrival, the Lord had informed Samuel,

6230

‘What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. And he will bring out the capstone accompanied by shouts of: Grace, grace to it!’”

6231

You grumbled in your tents and said, ‘The Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites so they would destroy us, because He hated us.

6233

The king of the North who comes against him will do whatever he wants, and no one can oppose him. He will establish himself in the beautiful land with total destruction in his hand.

6234

Shallum fathered Hilkiah;
Hilkiah fathered Azariah;

6235

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

6237

“He will completely destroy those terrible men,” they told Him, “and lease his vineyard to other farmers who will give him his produce at the harvest.”

6238

Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God and against you.

6239

You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them,
and gave them commands, statutes, and instruction
through Your servant Moses.

6240

No accounting was required from the men who received the money to pay those doing the work, since they worked with integrity.

6242

Now the watchman was standing on the tower in Jezreel. He saw Jehu’s troops approaching and shouted, “I see troops!”

Joram responded, “Choose a rider and send him to meet them and have him ask, ‘Do you come in peace?’”

6243

So Samson’s wife came to him, weeping, and said, “You hate me and don’t love me! You told my people the riddle, but haven’t explained it to me.”

“Look,” he said, “I haven’t even explained it to my father or mother, so why should I explain it to you?”

6244

Johanan son of Hakkatan
from Azgad’s descendants,
and 110 men with him;

6245

His servants asked him, “What did you just do? While the baby was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate food.”

6246

But even if I am poured out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you.

6247

Naphtali’s sons: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum—Bilhah’s sons.

6248

On that day you will not be put to shame
because of everything you have done
in rebelling against Me.
For then I will remove
your proud, arrogant people from among you,
and you will never again be haughty
on My holy mountain.

6249

I struck you with blight and mildew;
the locust devoured
your many gardens and vineyards,
your fig trees and olive trees,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

6250

Israel chose new gods,
then war was in the gates.
Not a shield or spear was seen
among 40,000 in Israel.

6251

Joab sent someone to report to David all the details of the battle.

6252

For by uttering boastful, empty words, they seduce, with fleshly desires and debauchery, people who have barely escaped from those who live in error.

6253

I will drive the northerner far from you
and banish him to a dry and desolate land,
his front ranks into the Dead Sea,
and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.
His stench will rise;
yes, his rotten smell will rise,
for he has done catastrophic things.

6254

Brothers, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

6255

For the turning away of the inexperienced will kill them,
and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

6256

“At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin. Anoint him ruler over My people Israel. He will save them from the hand of the Philistines because I have seen the affliction of My people, for their cry has come to Me.”

6257

They are to place over this a covering made of manatee skin, spread a solid blue cloth on top, and insert its poles.

6258

“So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as You have spoken:

6259

He told them, “Don’t collect any more than what you have been authorized.”

6260

Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

6261

Then Manoah said to Him, “What is Your name, so that we may honor You when Your words come true?”

6262

Therefore Yahweh, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

There will be wailing in all the public squares;
they will cry out in anguish in all the streets.
The farmer will be called on to mourn,
and professional mourners to wail.

6263

Abram passed through the land to the site of Shechem, at the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

6264

For I testify about him that he works hard for you, for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

6265

ר ReshLord, see how I am in distress.
I am churning within;
my heart is broken,
for I have been very rebellious.
Outside, the sword takes the children;
inside, there is death.

6266

His source of confidence is fragile;
what he trusts in is a spider’s web.

6267

Humanity is brought low, man is humbled,
and haughty eyes are humbled.

6269

Your silver and gold are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You stored up treasure in the last days!

6270

The king made the algum wood into walkways for the Lord’s temple and for the king’s palace and into lyres and harps for the singers. Never before had anything like them been seen in the land of Judah.

6271

David was extremely thirsty and said, “If only someone would bring me water to drink from the well at the city gate of Bethlehem!”

6272

Samuel lay down until the morning; then he opened the doors of the Lord’s house. He was afraid to tell Eli the vision,

6273

What is desirable in a man is his fidelity;
better to be a poor man than a liar.

6274

Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put the things with their own belongings.

6275

know His will, and approve the things that are superior, being instructed from the law,

6276

He commanded the messenger, “When you’ve finished telling the king all the details of the battle—

6277

The Lord your God who goes before you will fight for you, just as you saw Him do for you in Egypt.

6278

Jesus replied, “He’s the one I give the piece of bread to after I have dipped it.” When He had dipped the bread, He gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son.

6279

Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved garment she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away crying out.

6280

You will eat, not for one day, or two days, or five days, or 10 days, or 20 days,

6281

Please forgive my sin once more and make an appeal to Yahweh your God, so that He will take this death away from me.”

6282

Because they knew He had said this parable against them, they were looking for a way to arrest Him, but they were afraid of the crowd. So they left Him and went away.

6283

After leaving the jail, they came to Lydia’s house where they saw and encouraged the brothers, and departed.

6284

I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like clusters of grapes,
and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.

6285

Yet the fool multiplies words.
No one knows what will happen,
and who can tell anyone what will happen after him?

6286

Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

6287

Esther answered, “This is my petition and my request:

6288

Hodiah, Bani, and Beninu.

6289

Benaiah son of Jehoiada was over
the Cherethites and the Pelethites;
and David’s sons were chief officials.

6290

After he arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.

6291

He is with Onesimus, a faithful and dearly loved brother, who is one of you. They will tell you about everything here.

6292

God struck down the men of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the Lord. He struck down 70 men out of 50,000 men. The people mourned because the Lord struck them with a great slaughter.

6294

In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone devours you, if someone captures you, if someone dominates you, or if someone hits you in the face.

6295

Then Peter went down to the men and said, “Here I am, the one you’re looking for. What is the reason you’re here?”

6296

I am against you.
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
I will lift your skirts over your face
and display your nakedness to nations,
your shame to kingdoms.

6297

Their children will be smashed to death before their eyes;
their houses will be looted,
and their wives raped.

6298

So Hiram provided Solomon with all the cedar and cypress timber he wanted,

6299

At that time David was in the stronghold, and a Philistine garrison was at Bethlehem.

6300

He pours out contempt on nobles
and disarms the strong.

6301

But a person who is unclean and does not purify himself, that person will be cut off from the assembly because he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. The water for impurity has not been sprinkled on him; he is unclean.

6302

Listen to what they say, and then you will be strengthened to go to the camp.” So he went with Purah his servant to the outpost of the troops who were in the camp.

6303

Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaim,

6304

If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

6305

I will indeed bless you,
and I will greatly multiply you.

6306

I will kill her children with the plague. Then all the churches will know that I am the One who examines minds and hearts, and I will give to each of you according to your works.

6308

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

6309

Then, along with many other exhortations, he proclaimed good news to the people.

6311

So the king sought advice.

Then he made two golden calves, and he said to the people, “Going to Jerusalem is too difficult for you. Israel, here is your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.”

6312

He made 300 small shields of hammered gold; about four pounds of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

6314

So King Joash of Judah took all the consecrated items that his ancestors—Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah—had consecrated, along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

6315

So all the people of the land went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They broke its altars and images into pieces, and they killed Mattan, the priest of Baal, at the altars.

Then Jehoiada the priest appointed guards for the Lord’s temple.

6316

Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing.

6317

Again the watchman reported, “He reached them but hasn’t started back. Also, the driving is like that of Jehu son of Nimshi—he drives like a madman.”

6318

The ark of the Lord remained in his house three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and his whole family.

6319

So Solomon finished the Lord’s temple and the royal palace. Everything that had entered Solomon’s heart to do for the Lord’s temple and for his own palace succeeded.

6320

Then Solomon woke up and realized it had been a dream. He went to Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he held a feast for all his servants.

6321

In the same way, he sprinkled the tabernacle and all the articles of worship with blood.

6322

Then present the Levites before the Lord, and have the Israelites lay their hands on them.

6324

Who can I speak to and give such a warning
that they will listen?
Look, their ear is uncircumcised,
so they cannot pay attention.
See, the word of the Lord has become contemptible to them—
they find no pleasure in it.

6325

The Ammonites were called together, and they camped in Gilead. So the Israelites assembled and camped at Mizpah.

6326

I heard a human voice calling from the middle of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”

6328

Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,

6329

Gaius, who is host to me and to the whole church, greets you. Erastus, the city treasurer, and our brother Quartus greet you.

6330

ח KhetNow they appear darker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.

6331

but He became a priest with an oath made by the One who said to Him:

The Lord has sworn,
and He will not change His mind,
You are a priest forever.

6333

May its morning stars grow dark.
May it wait for daylight but have none;
may it not see the breaking of dawn.

6334

You will lie down without fear,
and many will seek your favor.

6335

“You also know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me and what he did to the two commanders of Israel’s army, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. He murdered them in a time of peace to avenge blood shed in war. He spilled that blood on his own waistband and on the sandals of his feet.

6336

But a revelation from God came to Shemaiah, the man of God:

6337

Then Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,

6338

Then he sent a message to King Jehoshaphat of Judah: “The king of Moab has rebelled against me. Will you go with me to fight against Moab?”

Jehoshaphat said, “I will go. I am as you are, my people as your people, my horses as your horses.”

6339

For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.

6340

How could this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

6341

After seeing them, they reported the message they were told about this child,

6342

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

6343

The troops took sheep and cattle from the plunder—the best of what was set apart for destruction—to sacrifice to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”

6344

The countryside shakes
at the sound of your sailors’ cries.

6345

A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.

6349

The one who searches for what is good finds favor,
but if someone looks for trouble, it will come to him.

6350

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

6351

And who is the one who conquers the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

6352

before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,
never to return.

6353

Those who have believing masters should not be disrespectful to them because they are brothers, but should serve them better, since those who benefit from their service are believers and dearly loved.

Teach and encourage these things.

6354

At that time Manasseh failed to take possession of Beth-shean and its villages, or Taanach and its villages, or the residents of Dor and its villages, or the residents of Ibleam and its villages, or the residents of Megiddo and its villages; the Canaanites refused to leave this land.

6355

The appearance was so terrifying that Moses said, I am terrified and trembling.)

6356

God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?

6357

We have also sent with them our brother. We have often tested him in many circumstances and found him to be diligent—and now even more diligent because of his great confidence in you.

6358

Aaron will lay both his hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the Israelites’ wrongdoings and rebellious acts—all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the wilderness by the man appointed for the task.

6360

For the residents of Jerusalem and their rulers, since they did not recognize Him or the voices of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, have fulfilled their words by condemning Him.

6361

I will plant them on their land,
and they will never again be uprooted
from the land I have given them.
Yahweh your God has spoken.

6362

Deceit is in the hearts of those who plot evil,
but those who promote peace have joy.

6363

The mouth of the righteous produces wisdom,
but a perverse tongue will be cut out.

6364

strangers will drain your resources,
and your earnings will end up in a foreigner’s house.

6365

This is what the Lord says: Watch yourselves; do not pick up a load and bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

6368

The priests and Levites from all their regions throughout Israel took their stand with Rehoboam,

6369

So the Lord listened to Elijah’s voice, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

6371

Azariah son of Hilkiah, son of Meshullam, son of Zadok, son of Meraioth, son of Ahitub, the chief official of God’s temple;

6372

Then Elisha said to the king of Israel, “Put your hand on the bow.” So the king put his hand on it, and Elisha put his hands on the king’s hands.

6373

Saul’s son Ish-bosheth was 40 years old when he began his reign over Israel; he ruled for two years. The house of Judah, however, followed David.

6374

those registered for the tribe of Judah numbered 74,600.

6375

He replied to them, “What did Moses command you?”

6376

Yes, may that night be barren;
may no joyful shout be heard in it.

6377

King Hiram of Tyre sent envoys to David; he also sent cedar logs, carpenters, and stonemasons, and they built a palace for David.

6378

Now a mediator is not for just one person, but God is one.

6380

On that day he will cry out, saying:
“I’m not a healer.
I don’t even have food or clothing in my house.
Don’t make me the leader of the people!”

6381

She does not recognize
that it is I who gave her the grain,
the new wine, and the oil.
I lavished silver and gold on her,
which they used for Baal.

6384

Zichriof Abijah, Piltai of Moadiah, of Miniamin,

6385

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the Lord, and He did a wonderful thing while Manoah and his wife were watching.

6386

He took the commanders of hundreds, the Carites, the guards, and all the people of the land, and they brought the king from the Lord’s temple. They entered the king’s palace by way of the guards’ gate. Then Joash sat on the throne of the kings.

6387

For if the inheritance is from the law, it is no longer from the promise; but God granted it to Abraham through the promise.

6388

On that day people will come to you
from Assyria and the cities of Egypt,
even from Egypt to the Euphrates River
and from sea to sea
and mountain to mountain.

6389

What the wicked dreads will come to him,
but what the righteous desire will be given to them.

6391

The temple that I am building will be great, for our God is greater than any of the gods.

6392

“‘Son of man, know that on the day I take their stronghold from them, their pride and joy, the delight of their eyes and the longing of their hearts, as well as their sons and daughters,

6393

When the ark of the Lord had been in the land of the Philistines for seven months,

6394

When Hadad heard in Egypt that David rested with his fathers and that Joab, the commander of the army, was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, “Let me leave, so I can go to my own country.”

6395

Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let’s go to Gilgal, so we can renew the kingship there.”

6396

What you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you have heard from the beginning remains in you, then you will remain in the Son and in the Father.

6397

“What was the message He gave you?” Eli asked. “Don’t hide it from me. May God punish you and do so severely if you hide anything from me that He told you.”

6399

But the Lord hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the Israelites go.

6400

Pharaoh summoned Moses and said, “Go, worship Yahweh. Even your families may go with you; only your flocks and herds must stay behind.”

6401

Promiscuity, wine, and new wine
take away one’s understanding.

6403

As they were meeting in Galilee, Jesus told them, “The Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men.

6404

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

6405

Woe, inhabitants of the seacoast,
nation of the Cherethites!
The word of the Lord is against you,
Canaan, land of the Philistines:
I will destroy you until there is no one left.

6406

Therefore I will not restrain my mouth.
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

6407

[The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.]

6408

The land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

6409

and was sitting in his chariot on his way home, reading the prophet Isaiah aloud.

6410

I will live among the Israelites and not abandon My people Israel.”

6411

Then the Spirit took control of Amasai, chief of the Thirty, and he said:

We are yours, David,
we are with you, son of Jesse!
Peace, peace to you,
and peace to him who helps you,
for your God helps you.


So David received them and made them leaders of his troops.

6412

those registered for the tribe of Issachar numbered 54,400.

6413

“Now if the wicked person turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will certainly live; he will not die.

6414

For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is coming
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—

6415

They sacrifice on the mountaintops,
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

6416

And if he has wronged you in any way, or owes you anything, charge that to my account.

6417

and when they had left they talked with each other and said, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or chains.”

6418

So they proclaimed and spread this news throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, saying, “Go out to the hill country and bring back branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, just as it is written.”

6419

Therefore, I will bring a case against you again.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will bring a case against your children’s children.

6420

When I say: My bed will comfort me,
and my couch will ease my complaint,

6421

He will resolve to come with the force of his whole kingdom and will reach an agreement with him. He will give him a daughter in marriage to destroy it, but she will not stand with him or support him.

6422

When you look to the heavens and see the sun, moon, and stars—all the array of heaven—do not be led astray to bow down and worship them. The Lord your God has provided them for all people everywhere under heaven.

6423

Whatever is, has already been, and whatever will be, already is. God repeats what has passed.

6424

Then everyone else will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything evil like this among you.

6426

They also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and captured many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.

6427

Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. From there he went out and built Penuel.

6428

winking his eyes, signaling with his feet,
and gesturing with his fingers.

6429

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah had died, she mourned for him.

6430

After John’s messengers left, He began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed swaying in the wind?

6431

The Lord spoke to Moses:

6432

Philip went and told Andrew; then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.

6433

He deprives trusted advisers of speech
and takes away the elders’ good judgment.

6434

I issue a decree that any of the Israelites in my kingdom, including their priests and Levites, who want to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.

6435

The foundation was made of large, costly stones 12 and 15 feet long.

6436

“‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.

6437

the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites,

6438

For if the message spoken through angels was legally binding and every transgression and disobedience received a just punishment,

6439

Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died at the age of 110.

6440

Yet He did not say a word to her. So His disciples approached Him and urged Him, “Send her away because she cries out after us.”

6441

Jediael’s son: Bilhan.
Bilhan’s sons: Jeush, Benjamin, Ehud, Chenaanah, Zethan, Tarshish, and Ahishahar.

6442

Seir’s sons: Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah, Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan.

6443

For you, brothers, became imitators of God’s churches in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, since you have also suffered the same things from people of your own country, just as they did from the Jews

6444

Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and took care of him.

6445

but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.

6447

You will have plenty to eat and be satisfied.
You will praise the name of Yahweh your God,
who has dealt wondrously with you.
My people will never again be put to shame.

6448

Moses left Pharaoh’s presence and appealed to the Lord.

6449

They began to be distressed and to say to Him one by one, “Surely not I?”

6451

Lord God of Israel, You are righteous, for we survive as a remnant today. Here we are before You with our guilt, though no one can stand in Your presence because of this.

6453

Those from every tribe of Israel who had determined in their hearts to seek Yahweh their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their ancestors.

6454

the little owl, the long-eared owl,
the white owl,

6455

Elpaal’s sons: Eber, Misham, and Shemed who built Ono and Lod and its villages,

6456

These three were Noah’s sons, and from them the whole earth was populated.

6457

Johanan fathered Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem;

6458

“Then, after he had summoned him, his master said to him, ‘You wicked slave! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me.

6459

These are Shem’s sons by their clans, according to their languages, in their lands and their nations.

6461

The lips of the righteous feed many,
but fools die for lack of sense.

6462

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Because you have been more insubordinate than the nations around you—you have not walked in My statutes or kept My ordinances; you have not even kept the ordinances of the nations around you—

6463

Therefore, the Lord God says:

An enemy will surround the land;
he will destroy your strongholds
and plunder your citadels.

6465

His body is well fed,
and his bones are full of marrow.

6466

Ater, Hezekiah, Azzur,

6468

these are the last ones, from Adonikam’s descendants,
and their names are:
Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah,
and 60 men with them;

6469

assuming you heard about Him and were taught by Him, because the truth is in Jesus.

6470

Some Manassites defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. However, they did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers sent David away after a discussion. They said, “It will be our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”

6471

After this, David defeated the Philistines, subdued them, and took Metheg-ammah from Philistine control.

6472

I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust of the earth, then your offspring could be counted.

6474

Consequently, the king of Israel sent word to the place the man of God had told him about. The man of God repeatedly warned the king, so the king would be on his guard.

6475

while all his servants marched past him. Then all the Cherethites, the Pelethites, and the Gittites—600 men who came with him from Gath—marched past the king.

6476

Now Solomon’s servant, Jeroboam son of Nebat, was an Ephraimite from Zeredah. His widowed mother’s name was Zeruah. Jeroboam rebelled against Solomon,

6477

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

6478

At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!”

6480

“Listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring My servant, the Branch.

6481

Let the nations be roused
and come to the Valley of Jehoshaphat,
for there I will sit down
to judge all the surrounding nations.

6482

For I will bend Judah as My bow;
I will fill that bow with Ephraim.
I will rouse your sons, Zion,
against your sons, Greece.
I will make you like a warrior’s sword.

6484

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and look, there’s a log in your eye?

6485

It is to remain with him, and he is to read from it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to observe all the words of this instruction, and to do these statutes.

6486

Come quickly, all you surrounding nations;
gather yourselves.
Bring down Your warriors there, Lord.

6487

The Lord has revealed Himself;
He has executed justice,
striking down the wicked
by the work of their hands.Higgaion. Selah

6488

When Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized 180,000 choice warriors from the entire house of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin to fight against the house of Israel to restore the kingdom to Rehoboam son of Solomon.

6489

So they strengthened the kingdom of Judah and supported Rehoboam son of Solomon for three years, because they walked in the way of David and Solomon for three years.

6490

Then they put the ark of the Lord on the cart, along with the box containing the gold mice and the images of their tumors.

6491

and to offer a sacrifice (according to what is stated in the law of the Lord: a pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons).

6492

Perez’s sons: Hezron and Hamul.

6493

Then Saul himself went to Ramah. He came to the large cistern at Secu, looked around, and asked, “Where are Samuel and David?”

“At Naioth in Ramah,” someone said.

6494

Enormous hailstones, each weighing about 100 pounds, fell from the sky on people, and they blasphemed God for the plague of hail because that plague was extremely severe.

6495

He captured a youth from the men of Succoth and interrogated him. The youth wrote down for him the names of the 77 princes and elders of Succoth.

6496

So many people gathered together that there was no more room, not even in the doorway, and He was speaking the message to them.

6497

Now we know that You know everything and don’t need anyone to question You. By this we believe that You came from God.”

6498

“This is what the Lord says, ‘I am going to bring disaster on you from your own family: I will take your wives and give them to another before your very eyes, and he will sleep with them publicly.

6499

Then King Belshazzar became even more terrified, his face turned pale, and his nobles were bewildered.

6501

In the seventh year of Jehu, Joash became king and reigned 40 years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Zibiah, who was from Beer-sheba.

6502

“Quit your preaching,” they preach.
“They should not preach these things;
shame will not overtake us.”

6503

Then he will turn his attention to the coasts and islands and capture many. But a commander will put an end to his taunting; instead, he will turn his taunts against him.

6504

Woe to me because of my brokenness—
I am severely wounded!
I exclaimed, “This is my intense suffering,
but I must bear it.”

6505

So Yahweh has fulfilled what He promised.
I have taken the place of my father David
and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised.
I have built the temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

6506

All the four-footed animals that walk on their paws are unclean for you. Whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean until evening,

6507

So Othniel son of Caleb’s brother, Kenaz, captured it, and Caleb gave his daughter Achsah to him as a wife.

6508

In the same way, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans.

6509

None of you, however, should suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or a meddler.

6510

So Samuel told him everything and did not hide anything from him. Eli responded, “He is the Lord. He will do what He thinks is good.”

6511

Tahpenes’ sister gave birth to Hadad’s son Genubath. Tahpenes herself weaned him in Pharaoh’s palace, and Genubath lived there along with Pharaoh’s sons.

6512

Shammah the Harodite,
Elika the Harodite,

6513

“Learn this parable from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near.

6514

So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two female slaves, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s.

6515

and so does Jesus who is called Justus. These alone of the circumcision are my coworkers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

6516

Are they Hebrews? So am I.
Are they Israelites? So am I.
Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.

6517

He dealt deceitfully with our race and oppressed our ancestors by making them leave their infants outside, so they wouldn’t survive.

6519

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription does it have?”

“Caesar’s,” they said.

6520

Before He came to public attention, John had previously proclaimed a baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.

6521

Even when I cry out and plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.

6522

The number of gold mice also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities of the five rulers, the fortified cities and the outlying villages. The large rock on which the ark of the Lord was placed is in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh to this day.

6523

The priest will dip his right finger into the oil in his left palm and sprinkle some of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.

6524

saying, “Give me this power too, so that anyone I lay hands on may receive the Holy Spirit.”

6525

None of those reclining at the table knew why He told him this.

6526

“Yet You concealed these thoughts in Your heart;
I know that this was Your hidden plan:

6527

And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.

6528

Then the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the Lord will take your master away from you today?”

He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”

6529

The sixth angel blew his trumpet. From the four horns of the gold altar that is before God, I heard a voice

6530

Swing the sickle
because the harvest is ripe.
Come and trample the grapes
because the winepress is full;
the wine vats overflow
because the wickedness of the nations is great.

6531

On that day the number of people killed in the fortress of Susa was reported to the king.

6532

Writhe and cry out, Daughter Zion,
like a woman in labor,
for now you will leave the city
and camp in the open fields.
You will go to Babylon;
there you will be rescued;
there the Lord will redeem you
from the power of your enemies!

6533

The threshing floors will be full of grain,
and the vats will overflow
with new wine and olive oil.

6534

I will remove sorceries from your hands,
and you will not have any more fortune-tellers.

6535

Now while I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out with a loud voice: “Oh, Lord God! Will You bring to an end the remnant of Israel?”

6536

So human pride will be brought low,
and the loftiness of men will be humbled;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

6537

The punishment inflicted by the majority is sufficient for that person.

6538

Jehu got into his chariot and went to Jezreel since Joram was laid up there and Ahaziah king of Judah had gone down to visit Joram.

6539

each one’s work will become obvious, for the day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire; the fire will test the quality of each one’s work.

6540

He batters me with a whirlwind
and multiplies my wounds without cause.

6541

So the Philistines were subdued and did not invade Israel’s territory again. The Lord’s hand was against the Philistines all of Samuel’s life.

6542

Within your gates you may not eat: the tenth of your grain, new wine, or oil; the firstborn of your herd or flock; any of your vow offerings that you pledge; your freewill offerings; or your personal contributions.

6543

I have not written to you because you don’t know the truth, but because you do know it, and because no lie comes from the truth.

6544

Is the land they live in good or bad? Are the cities they live in encampments or fortifications?

6545

Since you have plundered many nations,
all the peoples who remain will plunder you—
because of human bloodshed
and violence against lands, cities,
and all who live in them.

6546

The word of the Lord that came to Micah the Moreshite—what he saw regarding Samaria and Jerusalem in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

6547

The people are incapable of doing right
this is the Lord’s declaration—
those who store up violence and destruction
in their citadels.

6548

Yet I destroyed the Amorite as Israel advanced;
his height was like the cedars,
and he was as sturdy as the oaks;
I destroyed his fruit above and his roots beneath.

6549

He built the chambers along the entire temple, joined to the temple with cedar beams; each story was 7½ feet high.

6550

Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi everything that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.

6551

If the king approves of me and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and perform my request, may the king and Haman come to the banquet I will prepare for them. Tomorrow I will do what the king has asked.”

6552

Uthai and Zaccur
from Bigvai’s descendants,
and 70 men with them.

6553

Joash was seven years old when he became king.

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6554

When all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites.

6555

So the four angels who were prepared for the hour, day, month, and year were released to kill a third of the human race.

6556

For He will be handed over to the Gentiles, and He will be mocked, insulted, spit on;

6557

The rulers of Gilead said to one another, “Which man will lead the fight against the Ammonites? He will be the leader of all the inhabitants of Gilead.”

6558

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice;
you have eaten the fruit of lies.
Because you have trusted in your own way
and in your large number of soldiers,

6559

Then Moses presented Aaron’s sons, clothed them with tunics, wrapped sashes around them, and fastened headbands on them, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

6560

I Tertius, who wrote this letter, greet you in the Lord.

6562

Your servant is among Your people You have chosen, a people too numerous to be numbered or counted.

6563

Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my coworkers.

6564

So when I have finished this and safely delivered the funds to them, I will visit you on the way to Spain.

6565

And He went into Jerusalem and into the temple complex. After looking around at everything, since it was already late, He went out to Bethany with the Twelve.

6566

You have mocked the Lord through your messengers.
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 farthest outpost,
its densest forest.

6567

Still other seed fell on good ground; when it sprang up, it produced a crop: 100 times what was sown.” As He said this, He called out, “Anyone who has ears to hear should listen!”

6568

It was reported to King David: “The Lord has blessed Obed-edom’s family and all that belongs to him because of the ark of God.” So David went and had the ark of God brought up from Obed-edom’s house to the city of David with rejoicing.

6569

He leans on his web, but it doesn’t stand firm.
He grabs it, but it does not hold up.

6570

You must turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared, and prophesy against it.

6571

“I’ll give her to him,” Saul thought. “She’ll be a trap for him, and the hand of the Philistines will be against him.” So Saul said to David a second time, “You can now be my son-in-law.”

6572

All Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood.

6574

The Teacher sought to find delightful sayings and write words of truth accurately.

6575

Once again, for the third time, the Lord called Samuel. He got up, went to Eli, and said, “Here I am; you called me.”

Then Eli understood that the Lord was calling the boy.

6576

You are not to have sexual intercourse with any animal, defiling yourself with it; a woman is not to present herself to an animal to mate with it; it is a perversion.

6577

So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and through the night. By morning the east wind had brought in the locusts.

6578

I overthrew some of you
as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,
and you were like a burning stick
snatched from a fire,
yet you did not return to Me
this is the Lord’s declaration.

6580

Be aware that our brother Timothy has been released. If he comes soon enough, he will be with me when I see you.

6581

As they are going, I will spread My net over them;
I will bring them down like birds of the sky.
I will discipline them in accordance
with the news that reaches their assembly.

6582

They found Him and said, “Everyone’s looking for You!”

6583

Whenever the spirit from God troubled Saul, David would pick up his lyre and play, and Saul would then be relieved, feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

6584

(W) Catch the foxes for us
the little foxes that ruin the vineyards—
for our vineyards are in bloom.

6585

Shammuaof Bilgah, Jehonathan of Shemaiah,

6587

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

6588

Then I summoned the leaders: Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, as well as the teachers Joiarib and Elnathan.

6589

Now Hiram had sent the king 9,000 pounds of gold.

6591

how he entered the house of God, and took and ate the sacred bread, which is not lawful for any but the priests to eat? He even gave some to those who were with him.”

6592

Notice the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. I will engrave an inscription on it”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will take away the guilt of this land in a single day.

6594

The Lord also said to me: “Take the equipment of a foolish shepherd.

6595

Then the Angel of the Lord charged Joshua:

6596

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”
they will fall, never to rise again.

6597

Many will stumble over these;
they will fall and be broken;
they will be snared and captured.

6598

Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.

6599

Listen, my son. Accept my words,
and you will live many years.

6600

Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he delivered the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.

6601

Jeroboam said to himself, “The way things are going now, the kingdom might return to the house of David.

6602

Haman told the king, “For the man the king wants to honor:

6603

This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

6604

I have written these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.

6605

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

6606

Boaz asked his servant who was in charge of the harvesters, “Whose young woman is this?”

6607

“So I said to you: Don’t be terrified or afraid of them!

6608

Then he said, “Since I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose 20 are found there?”

He replied, “I will not destroy it on account of 20.”

6609

Yes, brother, may I have joy from you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

6610

When the men reached Him, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask You, ‘Are You the One who is to come, or should we look for someone else?’”

6611

As you once disobeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience,

6613

For they were all trying to intimidate us, saying, “They will become discouraged in the work, and it will never be finished.”

But now, my God, strengthen me.

6614

They gave money to the stonecutters and artisans, and gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so they could bring cedar wood from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, according to the authorization given them by King Cyrus of Persia.

6615

Then he stretched himself out over the boy three times. He cried out to the Lord and said, “My Lord God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”

6616

The slain will fall among you, and you will know that I am Yahweh.

6617

Maintain your competence and discretion.
My son, don’t lose sight of them.

6618

I said to myself, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.”

6619

You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.

6620

All those who were with him went up and approached the city, arriving opposite Ai, and camped to the north of it, with a valley between them and the city.

6621

Now we command and exhort such people by the Lord Jesus Christ that quietly working, they may eat their own food.

6622

Then Tattenai governor of the region west of the Euphrates River, Shethar-bozenai, and their colleagues diligently carried out what King Darius had decreed.

6624

Let their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
and their backs be bent continually.

6625

Raiding parties went out from the Philistine camp in three divisions. One division headed toward the Ophrah road leading to the land of Shual.

6626

Therefore, I will take back My grain in its time
and My new wine in its season;
I will take away My wool and linen,
which were to cover her nakedness.

6627

Asher failed to drive out the residents of Acco or of Sidon, or Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik, or Rehob.

6628

When the centurion heard this, he went and reported to the commander, saying, “What are you going to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

6629

By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating butter and honey.

6630

The tree grew large and strong;
its top reached to the sky,
and it was visible to the ends of the earth.

6631

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.

6632

They have treated superficially the brokenness
of My dear people,
claiming, ‘Peace, peace,’
when there is no peace.

6633

So Gideon went and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread from a half bushel of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot. He brought them out and offered them to Him under the oak.

6634

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

6635

Discipline me, Lord, but with justice—
not in Your anger,
or You will reduce me to nothing.

6636

Twelve lions were standing there on the six steps, one at each end. Nothing like it had ever been made in any other kingdom.

6637

At that time Solomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord on the Lord’s altar he had made in front of the portico.

6638

Although a sinner commits crime a hundred times and prolongs his life, yet I also know that it will go well with God-fearing people, for they are reverent before Him.

6639

and anyone who carries their carcasses must wash his clothes and will be unclean until evening. They are unclean for you.

6640

When Jehu came to Samaria, he struck down all who remained from the house of Ahab in Samaria until he had annihilated his house, according to the word of the Lord spoken to Elijah.

6641

Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

6642

“I am the seer,” Samuel answered. “Go up ahead of me to the high place and eat with me today. When I send you off in the morning, I’ll tell you everything that’s in your heart.

6643

Later, Moses inquired about the male goat of the sin offering, but it had already been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s surviving sons, and asked,

6644

But you and your sons and your daughters may eat the breast of the presentation offering and the thigh of the contribution in any ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the Israelites’ fellowship sacrifices.

6645

and if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light to those in darkness,

6646

“Tell the people: Purify yourselves in readiness for tomorrow, and you will eat meat because you cried before the Lord: ‘Who will feed us meat? We really had it good in Egypt.’ The Lord will give you meat and you will eat.

6647

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

6648

“‘Master,’ the slave said, ‘what you ordered has been done, and there’s still room.’

6649

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

6650

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;
she will seek them but not find them.
Then she will think,
“I will go back to my former husband,
for then it was better for me than now.”

6651

“As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided to visit his brothers, the Israelites.

6652

Those who cling to worthless idols
forsake faithful love,

6653

Woe to you who are now full,
for you will be hungry.
Woe to you who are now laughing,
for you will mourn and weep.

6654

“Get up! Leave the land of the north”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“for I have scattered you like the four winds of heaven”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

6655

When the servant of the man of God got up early and went out, he discovered an army with horses and chariots surrounding the city. So he asked Elisha, “Oh, my master, what are we to do?”

6656

People will curse anyone who hoards grain,
but a blessing will come to the one who sells it.

6657

So humanity is brought low,
and man is humbled.
Do not forgive them!

6658

I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

6659

but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the Lord’s commands. They did not do as their fathers did.

6660

Are my days not few? Stop it!
Leave me alone, so that I can smile a little

6661

In Judah, it was said:

The strength of the laborer fails,
since there is so much rubble.
We will never be able
to rebuild the wall.

6662

the sky separated like a scroll being rolled up; and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

6663

For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed, and many who were paralyzed and lame were healed.

6664

When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had come back, they summoned him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. No one followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.

6665

Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, worship, and bow down to other gods.

6666

Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.

6668

Then the messenger left.

When he arrived, he reported to David all that Joab had sent him to tell.

6669

On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

6670

The number of mounted troops was 200 million; I heard their number.

6671

Then he brought the bull near for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull for the sin offering.

6672

along with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers coated with oil.

6673

I speak as to my children. As a proper response, you should also be open to us.

6674

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

6675

for this sign of healing had been performed on a man over 40 years old.

6677

Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His burning anger so that we will not perish.

6678

Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes grow weary looking for them every day. But you will be powerless to do anything.

6679

This report about Him went throughout Judea and all the vicinity.

6680

He told Samuel, “Go and lie down. If He calls you, say, ‘Speak, Lord, for Your servant is listening.’” So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

6681

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

6682

We made a treaty with Egypt
and with Assyria, to get enough food.

6683

After he had waited another seven days, he sent out the dove, but she did not return to him again.

6684

Then people will come from the cities of Judah and from the area around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin and from the Judean foothills, from the hill country and from the Negev bringing burnt offerings and sacrifice, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the Lord.

6685

David answered, “Sons of Zeruiah, do we agree on anything? Have you become my adversary today? Should any man be killed in Israel today? Am I not aware that today I’m king over Israel?”

6686

Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah daughter of Aiah, and Ish-bosheth questioned Abner, “Why did you sleep with my father’s concubine?”

6688

Then He told them, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

6689

In the same way you should also be glad and rejoice with me.

6690

Human pride will be humbled,
and the loftiness of men will be brought low;
the Lord alone will be exalted on that day.

6691

Be aware that I will put cords on you so you cannot turn from side to side until you have finished the days of your siege.

6692

The Israelites persisted in all the sins that Jeroboam committed and did not turn away from them.

6693

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

6694

The Lord raised up judges, who saved them from the power of their marauders,

6695

We will make gold jewelry for you,
accented with silver.

6696

They grope around in darkness without light;
He makes them stagger like drunken men.


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6697

Woe to us, who will rescue us from the hand of these magnificent gods? These are the gods that slaughtered the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.

6698

So the Israelites fled before Judah, and God handed them over to them.

6699

Then he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

6700

Saul’s uncle asked him and his attendant, “Where did you go?”

“To look for the donkeys,” Saul answered. “When we saw they weren’t there, we went to Samuel.”

6701

Then Saul finished prophesying and went to the high place.

6702

While the Israelites camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

6703

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

6704

They will come against you with an alliance of nations and with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will set themselves against you on every side with shields, bucklers, and helmets. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will judge you by their own standards.

6705

I will demolish the winter house
and the summer house;
the houses inlaid with ivory will be destroyed,
and the great houses will come to an end.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

6706

And his affection toward you is even greater as he remembers the obedience of all of you, and how you received him with fear and trembling.

6707

Eat everything that is sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake,

6708

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.

6709

The children are obstinate and hardhearted. I am sending you to them, and you must say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’

6710

For if either falls, his companion can lift him up; but pity the one who falls without another to lift him up.

6711

There will be wailing in all the vineyards,
for I will pass among you.
The Lord has spoken.

6712

However, he kept back part of the proceeds with his wife’s knowledge, and brought a portion of it and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

6713

But the Lord said to me, “These prophets are prophesying a lie in My name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, worthless divination, the deceit of their own minds.

6714

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

6715

So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions with you for the journey; go and meet them and say, “We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.”’

6716

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

6718

In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the leaders of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded while Darius the Persian ruled.

6720

These are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua:

Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,

6721

Mattaniah son of Mica, son of Zabdi, son of Asaph, the leader who began the thanksgiving in prayer; Bakbukiah, second among his relatives; and Abda son of Shammua, son of Galal, son of Jeduthun.

6722

I gathered them at the river that flows to Ahava, and we camped there for three days. I searched among the people and priests, but found no Levites there.

6723

Beriah and Shema, who were the heads of families of Aijalon’s residents and who drove out the residents of Gath,

6724

you then, who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach, “You must not steal”—do you steal?

6725

and gathered men to himself. He became captain of a raiding party when David killed the Zobaites. He went to Damascus, lived there, and became king in Damascus.

6726

Therefore, be strong and courageous, for though Saul your lord is dead, the house of Judah has anointed me king over them.”

6727

When Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

6728

The people returned safely to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. And no one dared to threaten the Israelites.

6729

Then the scribes and the Pharisees began to think: “Who is this man who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?”

6730

The military divisions of the camp of Judah with their banner set out first, and Nahshon son of Amminadab was over Judah’s divisions.

6731

“Go,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. So the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

6732

People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage until the day Noah boarded the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.

6733

Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

6735

Then Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.

6736

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

6737

He is a well-watered plant in the sunshine;
his shoots spread out over his garden.

6738

Listen and pay attention. Do not be proud,
for the Lord has spoken.

6739

for Macedonia and Achaia were pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem.

6740

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

6741

They did this, sending it to the elders by means of Barnabas and Saul.

6742

Jeshua with his sons and brothers, Kadmiel with his sons, and the sons of Judah and of Henadad, with their sons and brothers, the Levites, joined together to supervise those working on the house of God.

6744

I compare you, my darling,
to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots.

6745

The diseased men went and called to the city’s gatekeepers and told them, “We went to the Aramean camp and no one was there—no human sounds. There was nothing but tethered horses and donkeys, and the tents were intact.”

6746

After they had moved it, the Lord’s hand was against the city of Gath, causing a great panic. He afflicted the men of the city, from the youngest to the oldest, with an outbreak of tumors.

6748

The one who presented his offering on the first day was Nahshon son of Amminadab from the tribe of Judah.

6749

Now in the street, now in the squares,
she lurks at every corner.

6750

“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

“Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you,” Jesus answered.

6751

Your house and kingdom will endure before Me forever, and your throne will be established forever.’”

6752

Grace be with all of you.

6753

The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had seen and heard, just as they had been told.

6755

and Solomon provided Hiram with 100,000 bushels of wheat as food for his household and 110,000 gallons of oil from crushed olives. Solomon did this for Hiram year after year.

6756

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they closed their ears so they could not hear.

6757

Pahath-moab’s descendants: Jeshua’s and Joab’s descendants 2,812

6758

The military force was stationed in this way: the main camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

6760

Zechariahof Iddo, Meshullam of Ginnethon,

6761

May God punish Abner and do so severely if I don’t do for David what the Lord swore to him:

6764

So Ish-bosheth sent someone to take her away from her husband, Paltiel son of Laish.

6765

You who say, “You must not commit adultery”—do you commit adultery? You who detest idols, do you rob their temples?

6766

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

6767

When Samuel saw Saul, the Lord told him, “Here is the man I told you about; he will rule over My people.”

6768

Do not tear down God’s work because of food. Everything is clean, but it is wrong for a man to cause stumbling by what he eats.

6770

Claudius Lysias,

To the most excellent governor Felix:

Greetings.

6771

Be horrified at this, heavens;
be shocked and utterly appalled.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

6772

The king also made a large ivory throne and overlaid it with fine gold.

6773

W My love is mine and I am his;
he feeds among the lilies.

6774

Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women. Then all the people left, each to his own home.

6775

Your cheeks are beautiful with jewelry,
your neck with its necklace.

6776

Whenever the Lord raised up a judge for the Israelites, the Lord was with him and saved the people from the power of their enemies while the judge was still alive. The Lord was moved to pity whenever they groaned because of those who were oppressing and afflicting them.

6777

The king said to Queen Esther, “In the fortress of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men, including Haman’s 10 sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek will also be done.”

6778

The following were found to have married foreign women from the descendants of the priests:

from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

6779

It’s like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.”

6780

and Shabbethai and Jozabad, from the leaders of the Levites, who supervised the work outside the house of God;

6781

“Lord,” the centurion replied, “I am not worthy to have You come under my roof. But only say the word, and my servant will be cured.

6782

His servants Jozabad son of Shimeath and Jehozabad son of Shomer struck him down, and he died. Then they buried him with his fathers in the city of David, and his son Amaziah became king in his place.

6783

Ben-deker, in Makaz, Shaalbim, Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;

6785

Sisera summoned all his 900 iron chariots and all the people who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

6787

Abner son of Ner and soldiers of Ish-bosheth son of Saul marched out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

6788

Peleg lived 30 years and fathered Reu.

6789

He must prepare the second bird as a burnt offering according to the regulation. In this way the priest will make atonement on his behalf for the sin he has committed, and he will be forgiven.

6790

Again, I will trust in Him. And again, Here I am with the children God gave Me.

6791

He said to Him, “Please, Lord, how can I deliver Israel? Look, my family is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

6792

It has happened to them according to the true proverb: A dog returns to its own vomit, and, “a sow, after washing itself, wallows in the mud.”

6793

Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh?
Do reeds flourish without water?

6794

The answer marked Jerusalem appears in his right hand, indicating that he should set up battering rams, give the order to slaughter, raise a battle cry, set battering rams against the gates, build a ramp, and construct a siege wall.

6795

and the seven priests carrying seven trumpets marched in front of the ark of the Lord. While the trumpets were blowing, the armed troops went in front of them, and the rear guard went behind the ark of the Lord.

6796

Should I not punish them for these things?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Should I not avenge Myself
on such a nation as this?

6799

W While the king is on his couch,
my perfume releases its fragrance.

6800

The profit from the land is taken by all; the king is served by the field.

6801

They pleaded with Samuel, “Pray to the Lord your God for your servants, so we won’t die! For we have added to all our sins the evil of requesting a king for ourselves.”

6802

Even if I were in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;
if I were blameless, my mouth would declare me guilty.

6803

So they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, since it was already evening.

6804

These served in the days of Joiakim son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and Ezra the priest and scribe.

6805

where she entered Zechariah’s house and greeted Elizabeth.

6806

The Lord is King forever and ever;
the nations will perish from His land.

6808

The fig tree ripens its figs;
the blossoming vines give off their fragrance.
Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.

6809

He deprives the world’s leaders of reason,
and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

6810

But while people were sleeping, his enemy came, sowed weeds among the wheat, and left.

6811

He followed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths.

6812

Then she said to her husband, “I know that the one who often passes by here is a holy man of God,

6813

Then the young woman who pleases the king will become queen instead of Vashti.” This suggestion pleased the king, and he did accordingly.

6814

The leader of the Levites in Jerusalem was Uzzi son of Bani, son of Hashabiah, son of Mattaniah, son of Mica, of the descendants of Asaph, who were singers for the service of God’s house.

6815

They sent him a report, written as follows:

To King Darius:

All greetings.

6816

Then Jehu brought all the people together and said to them, “Ahab served Baal a little, but Jehu will serve him a lot.

6817

But as for the Israelites living in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.

6818

All the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet, for they had put Athaliah to death by the sword in the king’s palace.

6819

They told him, “Be quiet. Keep your mouth shut. Come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or for you to be a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”

6820

Then the Lord God of Israel handed over Sihon and all his people to Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of the entire land of the Amorites who lived in that country.

6821

The men who tended them ran off and reported it in the town and the countryside, and people went to see what had happened.

6822

A close relative and burner will remove his corpse from the house. He will call to someone in the inner recesses of the house, “Any more with you?”

That person will reply, “None.”

Then he will say, “Silence, because Yahweh’s name must not be invoked.”

6825

Then the earth will become a wasteland
because of its inhabitants
and as a result of their actions.

6826

The vision of Obadiah.

This is what the Lord God has said about Edom:

We have heard a message from the Lord;
a messenger has been sent among the nations:
“Rise up, and let us go to war against her.”

6827

But there are many people, and it is the rainy season. We don’t have the stamina to stay out in the open. This isn’t something that can be done in a day or two, for we have rebelled terribly in this matter.

6828

Do not curse the king even in your thoughts,
and do not curse a rich person even in your bedroom,
for a bird of the sky may carry the message,
and a winged creature may report the matter.

6829

Instead, he called to the servant who waited on him: “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”

6830

If I summoned Him and He answered me,
I do not believe He would pay attention to what I said.

6831

But in response, Ittai vowed to the king, “As the Lord lives and as my lord the king lives, wherever my lord the king is, whether it means life or death, your servant will be there!”

6832

They also settled in the east as far as the edge of the desert that extends to the Euphrates River, because their herds had increased in the land of Gilead.

6833

He made him king over Gilead, Asher, Jezreel, Ephraim, Benjamin—over all Israel.

6834

“So I went back down the mountain, while it was blazing with fire, and the two tablets of the covenant were in my hands.

6835

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

6836

I say the following as a concession, not as a command.

6837

Like the nations the Lord is about to destroy before you, you will perish if you do not obey the Lord your God.

6838

After he fathered Reu, Peleg lived 209 years and fathered other sons and daughters.

6839

Shepherd Your people with Your staff,
the flock that is Your possession.
They live alone in a woodland
surrounded by pastures.
Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead
as in ancient times.

6840

Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.

6841

the roar of battle will rise against your people,
and all your fortifications will be demolished
in a day of war,
like Shalman’s destruction of Beth-arbel.
Mothers will be dashed to pieces
along with their children.

6842

The great city split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the Great was remembered in God’s presence; He gave her the cup filled with the wine of His fierce anger.

6843

I went up according to a revelation and presented to them the gospel I preach among the Gentiles—but privately to those recognized as leaders—so that I might not be running, or have run the race, in vain.

6844

The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.

6845

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

6846

When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Hosts.

6847

According to the ordinances of his father David, he appointed the divisions of the priests over their service, of the Levites over their responsibilities to offer praise and to minister before the priests following the daily requirement, and of the gatekeepers by their divisions with respect to each gate, for this had been the command of David, the man of God.

6848

Zechariah son of Bebai
from Bebai’s descendants,
and 28 men with him;

6849

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

6850

Merari’s sons: Mahli and Mushi.
These are the Levites’ families according to their fathers:

6851

No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. Otherwise, the new patch pulls away from the old cloth, and a worse tear is made.

6852

But Pharaoh asked him, “What do you lack here with me for you to want to go back to your own country?”

“Nothing,” he replied, “but please let me leave.”

6853

They stretch out beside every altar
on garments taken as collateral,
and in the house of their God,
they drink wine obtained through fines.

6854

Zebah and Zalmunna fled, and he pursued them. He captured these two kings of Midian and routed the entire army.

6855

added this to everything else—he locked John up in prison.

6857

Blessed are you, land, when your king is a son of nobles
and your princes feast at the proper time—
for strength and not for drunkenness.

6858

One with a twisted mind will not succeed,
and one with deceitful speech will fall into ruin.

6859

The nations have fallen into the pit they made;
their foot is caught in the net they have concealed.

6860

But I have received everything in full, and I have an abundance. I am fully supplied, having received from Epaphroditus what you provided—a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God.

6861

For the Lord says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the wadi will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’

6862

On the eighth day he is to bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting.

6863

When you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then march out to battle, for God will have marched out ahead of you to attack the camp of the Philistines.”

6864

Let two bulls be given to us. They are to choose one bull for themselves, cut it in pieces, and place it on the wood but not light the fire. I will prepare the other bull and place it on the wood but not light the fire.

6865

the beams of our house are cedars,
and our rafters are cypresses.


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6866

This is easy in the Lord’s sight. He will also hand Moab over to you.

6867

adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

6868

Hanani and Zebadiah from Immer’s descendants;

6869

Ahithophel replied to Absalom, “Sleep with your father’s concubines he left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.”

6872

“Why do you ask My name,” the Angel of the Lord asked him, “since it is wonderful.”

6873

Moses said to them, “No one is to let any of it remain until morning.”

6874

Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot fast while the groom is with them, can they? As long as they have the groom with them, they cannot fast.

6875

Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words.”

6876

But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

6878

There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the days of your predecessor he was found to have insight, intelligence, and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods. Your predecessor, King Nebuchadnezzar, appointed him chief of the diviners, mediums, Chaldeans, and astrologers. Your own predecessor, the king,

6879

[So the Scripture was fulfilled that says: And He was counted among outlaws.]

6880

When they came to a place called Golgotha (which means Skull Place),

6881

On that day
the Lord will whistle to the fly
that is at the farthest streams of the Nile
and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

6882

for she is more profitable than silver,
and her revenue is better than gold.

6883

I will not look on you with pity or spare you.
I will punish you for your ways
and for your detestable practices within you.
Then you will know
that it is I, Yahweh, who strikes.

6886

My love is a sachet of myrrh to me,
spending the night between my breasts.

6887

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and those from masters of collections are like firmly embedded nails. The sayings are given by one Shepherd.

6888

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the activity that is done on the earth (even though one’s eyes do not close in sleep day or night),

6889

The men did this: They took two milk cows, hitched them to the cart, and confined their calves in the pen.

6890

As for this temple, which was exalted, everyone who passes by will be appalled and will say: Why did the Lord do this to this land and this temple?

6891

Joab then said to the Cushite, “Go tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.

6892

Abner conferred with the elders of Israel: “In the past you wanted David to be king over you.

6893

So they went up and scouted out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob near the entrance to Hamath.

6894

“Command Aaron and his sons: This is the law of the burnt offering; the burnt offering itself must remain on the altar’s hearth all night until morning, while the fire of the altar is kept burning on it.

6895

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being encircled by the Israelites for seven days.

6896

When you come, bring the cloak I left in Troas with Carpus, as well as the scrolls, especially the parchments.

6897

Then he went to the men of Succoth and said, “Here are Zebah and Zalmunna. You taunted me about them, saying, ‘Are Zebah and Zalmunna now in your power that we should give bread to your exhausted men?’”

6899

In the resurrection, when they rise, whose wife will she be, since the seven had married her?”

6900

So God said to him, “Because you have requested this and did not ask for long life or riches for yourself, or the death of your enemies, but you asked discernment for yourself to understand justice,

6901

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—not to mention to you that you owe me even your own self.

6902

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves,

6904

“So now make a bargain with my master the king of Assyria. I’ll give you 2,000 horses if you’re able to supply riders for them!

6905

If anyone does not repent,
God will sharpen His sword;
He has strung His bow and made it ready.

6906

After all that has happened to us because of our evil deeds and terrible guilt—though You, our God, have punished us less than our sins deserve and have allowed us to survive

6907

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: “As I live, I will bring down on his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.

6908

The Lord will make Himself known to Egypt, and Egypt will know the Lord on that day. They will offer sacrifices and offerings; they will make vows to the Lord and fulfill them.

6909

Jehu commanded, “Consecrate a solemn assembly for Baal.” So they called one.

6910

Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but it is the sin that lives in me.

6911

Do this so that you may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life by keeping all His statutes and commands I am giving you, your son, and your grandson, and so that you may have a long life.

6912

“The Nazirite is to shave his consecrated head at the entrance to the tent of meeting, take the hair from his head, and put it on the fire under the fellowship sacrifice.

6914

But if I say this to the youth: ‘Look, the arrows are beyond you!’ then go, for the Lord is sending you away.

6915

but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes nauseating to you—because you have rejected the Lord who is among you, and cried to Him: ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”

6917

When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.

6918

Go, proclaim these words to the north, and say:

Return, unfaithful Israel.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not look on you with anger,
for I am unfailing in My love.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will not be angry forever.

6919

Then Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.

6920

Any grain offering that is baked in an oven or prepared in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it; it is his.

6921

As soon as they put out leaves you can see for yourselves and recognize that summer is already near.

6922

“Which of the two did his father’s will?”

“The first,” they said.

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you!

6923

the frogs will go away from you, your houses, your officials, and your people. The frogs will remain only in the Nile.”

6924

Seventy elders from the house of Israel were standing before them, with Jaazaniah son of Shaphan standing among them. Each had a firepan in his hand, and a fragrant cloud of incense was rising up.

6926

Others are sown among thorns; these are the ones who hear the word,

6928

My love is a cluster of henna blossoms to me,
in the vineyards of En-gedi.

6929

When all Israel saw that the king had not listened to them, the people answered the king:

What portion do we have in David?
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
Israel, each man to your tent;
David, look after your own house now!


So all Israel went to their tents.

6930

and Zadok, a young brave warrior, with 22 commanders from his own ancestral house.

6931

Before him there was no king like him who turned to the Lord with all his mind and with all his heart and with all his strength according to all the law of Moses, and no one like him arose after him.

6933

and He sent a message through Nathan the prophet, who named him Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

6934

At that time, men came day after day to help David until there was a great army, like an army of God.

6935

Then Samson said:

With the jawbone of a donkey
I have piled them in a heap.
With the jawbone of a donkey
I have killed 1,000 men.

6936

When David went to Ziklag, some men from Manasseh defected to him: Adnah, Jozabad, Jediael, Michael, Jozabad, Elihu, and Zillethai, chiefs of thousands in Manasseh.

6937

A scribe approached Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go!”

6938

They set out for the first time according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

6939

“Bring the tribe of Levi near and present them to Aaron the priest to assist him.

6940

In the fourth year all its fruit must be consecrated as a praise offering to the Lord.

6941

He looked up and said, “I see people—they look to me like trees walking.”

6942

Yes, He will build the Lord’s temple; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. There will also be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two of them.

6943

Remember Lot’s wife!

6944

And if the people of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the Lord inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Booths.

6945

Does an ax exalt itself
above the one who chops with it?
Does a saw magnify itself
above the one who saws with it?
It would be like a staff waving the one who lifts it!
It would be like a rod lifting a man who isn’t wood!

6946

Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah onto dry land.

6947

Through their dreams that they tell one another, they plan to cause My people to forget My name as their fathers forgot My name through Baal worship.

6948

All their evil appears at Gilgal,
for there I came to hate them.
I will drive them from My house
because of their evil, wicked actions.
I will no longer love them;
all their leaders are rebellious.

6949

The Lord came, stood there, and called as before, “Samuel, Samuel!”

Samuel responded, “Speak, for Your servant is listening.”

6950

My love calls to me:

M Arise, my darling.
Come away, my beautiful one.

6951

He answered, “While the baby was alive, I fasted and wept because I thought, ‘Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let him live.’

6952

Saul responded, “Am I not a Benjaminite from the smallest of Israel’s tribes and isn’t my clan the least important of all the clans of the Benjaminite tribe? So why have you said something like this to me?”

6953

My love is like a gazelle
or a young stag.
Look, he is standing behind our wall,
gazing through the windows,
peering through the lattice.

6954

The singers:

Eliashib.

The gatekeepers:

Shallum, Telem, and Uri.

6955

Pay close attention to my words;
let my declaration ring in your ears.

6956

Maaseiah, Elijah, Shemaiah, Jehiel, and Uzziah from Harim’s descendants;

6957

And those parts of the body that we think to be less honorable, we clothe these with greater honor, and our unpresentable parts have a better presentation.

6958

The Devil said to Him, “If You are the Son of God, tell this stone to become bread.”

6959

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.

6960

When the time of mourning ended, David had her brought to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son. However, the Lord considered what David had done to be evil.

6961

After the disciples surrounded him, he got up and went into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

6962

So he got up, took the child and His mother during the night, and escaped to Egypt.

6963

And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone—it will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God.”

6964

Ezra read out of the book of the law of God every day, from the first day to the last. The Israelites celebrated the festival for seven days, and on the eighth day there was an assembly, according to the ordinance.

6965

These now are the people of the province who came from those captive exiles King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had deported to Babylon. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his own town.

6967

They are worthless, a work to be mocked.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.

6968

The bramble said to the trees,
“If you really are anointing me
as king over you,
come and find refuge in my shade.
But if not,
may fire come out from the bramble
and consume the cedars of Lebanon.”

6969

There is a futility that is done on the earth: there are righteous people who get what the actions of the wicked deserve, and there are wicked people who get what the actions of the righteous deserve. I say that this too is futile.

6970

What advantage then does the wise man have over the fool? What advantage is there for the poor person who knows how to conduct himself before others?

6971

From half the tribe of Manasseh: 18,000 designated by name to come and make David king.

6972

all the storage cities that belonged to Solomon, the chariot cities, the cavalry cities, and whatever Solomon desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, or anywhere else in the land of his dominion.

6973

If anyone’s work that he has built survives, he will receive a reward.

6974

Above were also costly stones, cut to size, as well as cedar wood.

6975

It was in the desire of my father David
to build a temple for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

6976

Michael, Ishpah, and Joha were Beriah’s sons.

6977

his son Zabad,
his son Shuthelah, also Ezer, and Elead.


The men of Gath, born in the land, killed them because they went down to raid their cattle.

6978

Then the Lord spoke to you from the fire. You kept hearing the sound of the words, but didn’t see a form; there was only a voice.

6979

And if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.

6980

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on Him.

6981

All animals that have hooves but do not have a divided hoof and do not chew the cud are unclean for you. Whoever touches them becomes unclean.

6983

Yet the Lord was devoted to your fathers and loved them. He chose their descendants after them—He chose you out of all the peoples, as it is today.

6984

You must eat them in the presence of the Lord your God at the place the Lord your God chooses—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, and the Levite who is within your gates. Rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you do,

6986

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul. This is a sign in every letter; this is how I write.

6987

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost as well as the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”

6988

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

6989

When Herod heard of it, he said, “John, the one I beheaded, has been raised!”

6990

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,

6992

Indeed, we groan while we are in this tent, burdened as we are, because we do not want to be unclothed but clothed, so that mortality may be swallowed up by life.

6993

Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the Lord’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate.

6994

In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year, Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month, the month Adar.

6996

Samuel called on the Lord, and on that day the Lord sent thunder and rain. As a result, all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

6997

One woman said, “Please my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I had a baby while she was in the house.

6999

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know what a beautiful woman you are.

7001

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

7002

Listen to Your servant’s prayer and his petition,
Lord my God,
so that You may hear the cry and the prayer
that Your servant prays before You,