And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the LORD.

And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.

He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, As soon as ye hear the sound of the trumpet, then ye shall say, Absalom reigneth in Hebron.

He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.

As the valleys are they spread forth, as gardens by the river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted, and as cedar trees beside the waters.

But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.

Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father's house.

And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.

And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.

Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

But the Levites shall pitch round about the tabernacle of testimony, that there be no wrath upon the congregation of the children of Israel: and the Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle of testimony.

Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked.

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

Against Moab thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled: Kiriathaim is confounded and taken: Misgab is confounded and dismayed.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.

And that we should bring the firstfruits of our dough, and our offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites, that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.

They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.

And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.

He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.

And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth that the keeper maketh.

Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:

For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the LORD reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

And for Aaron's sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.

Thus saith the LORD; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.

Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.

Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Koz, the children of Barzillai; which took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name:

Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria; and they smote him, and carried away a great multitude of them captives, and brought them to Damascus. And he was also delivered into the hand of the king of Israel, who smote him with a great slaughter.

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

And it came to pass, when Benhadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai of the brooks of Gaash,

Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God.

Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Bethmaachah, and all the Berites: and they were gathered together, and went also after him.

But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen.

He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and prospered.

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,

My people hath been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their restingplace.

And when Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning, it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a place, and is gone about, and passed on, and gone down to Gilgal.

The two and twentieth to Giddalti, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

And Elijah said, As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, I will surely shew myself unto him to day.

And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host: and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.

Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.

For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right.

Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.

And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.

Moreover the sons of Obededom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,

And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.

And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

And Joab said unto the king, Now the LORD thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.

One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.

And this shall be a sign unto thee, that shall come upon thy two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas; in one day they shall die both of them.

And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD'S release.

When Saul heard that David was discovered, and the men that were with him, (now Saul abode in Gibeah under a tree in Ramah, having his spear in his hand, and all his servants were standing about him;)

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

And they set them up Micah's graven image, which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified.

He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth; he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.

And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.

And the sons of Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted; therefore have they forgotten me.

Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying, Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet out of the dungeon, before he die.

That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.

For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.

The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.

But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

Of a truth I say unto you, that he will make him ruler over all that he hath.

She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

And Absalom, and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.

Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief of the Levites, and have the oversight of them that keep the charge of the sanctuary.

My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.

Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.

The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him.

And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

And these were they which went up from Telmelah, Telharsa, Cherub, Addan, and Immer: but they could not shew their father's house, and their seed, whether they were of Israel:

But if the owner thereof be with it, he shall not make it good: if it be an hired thing, it came for his hire.

But the people answered, Thou shalt not go forth: for if we flee away, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us: but now thou art worth ten thousand of us: therefore now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.

And Joab returned from following Abner: and when he had gathered all the people together, there lacked of David's servants nineteen men and Asahel.

And the high priest stood up in the midst, and asked Jesus, saying, Answerest thou nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?

Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel the son of Gemalli.

And it shall come to pass, if they say unto thee, Whither shall we go forth? then thou shalt tell them, Thus saith the LORD; Such as are for death, to death; and such as are for the sword, to the sword; and such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for the captivity, to the captivity.

Praise ye him, all his angels: praise ye him, all his hosts.

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly: but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be against me, and against my father's house.

I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

VAU. Let thy mercies come also unto me, O LORD, even thy salvation, according to thy word.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Benhadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

And among the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites there shall be six cities for refuge, which ye shall appoint for the manslayer, that he may flee thither: and to them ye shall add forty and two cities.

And he walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.

Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

And Saul gathered the people together, and numbered them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;

There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.

And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

CHETH. Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep thy words.

Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very tempestuous round about him.

And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister:

And at the season he sent a servant to the husbandmen, that they should give him of the fruit of the vineyard: but the husbandmen beat him, and sent him away empty.

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

So Job died, being old and full of days.

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man's life to pledge.

And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the LORD.

And it came to pass, as soon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand, that he slew his servants which had slain the king his father.

(For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we came through the nations which ye passed by;

And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled!

Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.

And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

Zedekiah was one and twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

Gird up thy loins now like a man: I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.

And there was yet a battle in Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight of the LORD.

And they delivered the king's commissions unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before the LORD; and his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the chiefest of the herdmen that belonged to Saul.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness.

Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal the son of Joseph.

If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office.

And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: therefore he said to his chariot man, Turn thine hand, that thou mayest carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near;

But a prophet of the LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.

And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?

And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

And with them he sent Levites, even Shemaiah, and Nethaniah, and Zebadiah, and Asahel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehonathan, and Adonijah, and Tobijah, and Tobadonijah, Levites; and with them Elishama and Jehoram, priests.

From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

And he looked on the Kenites, and took up his parable, and said, Strong is thy dwellingplace, and thou puttest thy nest in a rock.

And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me.

Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.

He hath forsaken his covert, as the lion: for their land is desolate because of the fierceness of the oppressor, and because of his fierce anger.

LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.

And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti the son of Raphu.

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.

His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Over the first course for the first month was Jashobeam the son of Zabdiel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.

And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the LORD hath bidden him.

And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,

Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist.

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:

Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.

Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for thou art a gracious and merciful God.

And I gave them my statutes, and shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them.

And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison,

Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.

Let all the earth fear the LORD: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

And said, I pray you, brethren, do not so wickedly.

And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am I, O LORD God, and what is mine house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?

And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.

And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?

Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and they fell upon their faces: and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them.

And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

Was he not most honourable of three? therefore he was their captain: howbeit he attained not unto the first three.

And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

And the prophet Gad said unto David, Abide not in the hold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah. Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hareth.

And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.

And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.

Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

Hath not my hand made all these things?

God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!

Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

And it came to pass, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.

For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.

Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel:

For they served idols, whereof the LORD had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing.

And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

And Samuel said, What hast thou done? And Saul said, Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash;

These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and the goat,

Fulfil her week, and we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me yet seven other years.

But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

But ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

And the fruits that thy soul lusted after are departed from thee, and all things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee, and thou shalt find them no more at all.

And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:

Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.

Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:

Rise up, ye women that are at ease; hear my voice, ye careless daughters; give ear unto my speech.

For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure house.

And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.

For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him.

Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

Wherefore the LORD brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which was of Bahurim, hasted and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.

Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.

And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the LORD by thy estimation.

And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.

And Rachel and Leah answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?

Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.

A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

Then all the captains of the forces, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Jezaniah the son of Hoshaiah, and all the people from the least even unto the greatest, came near,

A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish.

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.

{To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him.} Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their instruction,

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:

And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the LORD.

And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day.

And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.

And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.

And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.

And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.

Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.

Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.

And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the LORD.

And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest.

Duke Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.

Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.

His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone.

When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it: Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.

The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.