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The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Should it be according to thy mind? he will recompense it, whether thou refuse, or whether thou choose; and not I: therefore speak what thou knowest.
And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the LORD God of Israel.
Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; let thine eyes behold the things that are equal.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
The children of Asnah, the children of Mehunim, the children of Nephusim,
Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither hath he covered the darkness from my face.
And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.
Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
Of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah: of the half tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah:
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house of the LORD.
The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Hepher the Mecherathite, Ahijah the Pelonite,
The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,
Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had the name among three mighty men.
And Micah said unto him, Whence comest thou? And he said unto him, I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah, and I go to sojourn where I may find a place.
But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
This is the law of the burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice of the peace offerings;
For the wave breast and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto Aaron the priest and unto his sons by a statute for ever from among the children of Israel.
And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the LORD hath put in my mouth?
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women: they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord GOD.
Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
It may be the LORD thy God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God, and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.
Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD.
And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
But thou hast fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
And at the fountain gate, which was over against them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the going up of the wall, above the house of David, even unto the water gate eastward.
This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
Behold, with a great plague will the LORD smite thy people, and thy children, and thy wives, and all thy goods:
And over them that did the work of the field for tillage of the ground was Ezri the son of Chelub:
Of the sons of Gershom, Shebuel was the chief.
And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his servants: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.
And he put garrisons in Edom; and all the Edomites became David's servants. Thus the LORD preserved David whithersoever he went.
And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.
These chief fathers of the Levites were chief throughout their generations; these dwelt at Jerusalem.
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And out of the tribe of Benjamin; Geba with her suburbs, and Alemeth with her suburbs, and Anathoth with her suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.
The son of Elkanah, the son of Joel, the son of Azariah, the son of Zephaniah,
Now the rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.
Only the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
And for his sister a virgin, that is nigh unto him, which hath had no husband; for her may he be defiled.
And Joseph said unto him, This is the interpretation of it: The three branches are three days:
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate: I the LORD have spoken it, and I will do it.
As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king, whose oath he despised, and whose covenant he brake, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die.
Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.
Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations!
If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth.
Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.
They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
My mouth shall shew forth thy righteousness and thy salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof.
Every one of them is gone back: they are altogether become filthy; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.
All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, were three hundred ninety and two.
And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under: because the LORD had said he would increase Israel like to the stars of the heavens.
The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
And the young men of the princes of the provinces went out first; and Benhadad sent out, and they told him, saying, There are men come out of Samaria.
And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto thy fathers;
And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.
And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
Of Ozni, the family of the Oznites: of Eri, the family of the Erites:
And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.
This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
The two tribes and the half tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan near Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.
And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:
So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that night in the company.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly broken, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the people shall labour in vain, and the folk in the fire, and they shall be weary.
So I spake unto the people in the morning: and at even my wife died; and I did in the morning as I was commanded.
When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them:
Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.
And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands;
For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.
Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Then there went certain, and told David how the men were served. And he sent to meet them: for the men were greatly ashamed. And the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have built for thy name:
Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.
Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Bethhoron, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.
Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;
And fell at his feet, and said, Upon me, my lord, upon me let this iniquity be: and let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak in thine audience, and hear the words of thine handmaid.
Of the Gershonites were, Laadan, and Shimei.
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.
Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel.
These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.
And he shall break down the house, the stones of it, and the timber thereof, and all the morter of the house; and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place.
And when thou hast seen it, thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people, as Aaron thy brother was gathered.
And those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers,
But if the scab spread much abroad in the skin, after that he hath been seen of the priest for his cleansing, he shall be seen of the priest again:
From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation:
A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.
He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the enemy hath said against you, Aha, even the ancient high places are ours in possession:
And they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but thou shalt be desolate for ever, saith the LORD.
Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.
And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon mount Ephraim and Gilead.
Then arose Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and the ten men that were with him, and smote Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan with the sword, and slew him, whom the king of Babylon had made governor over the land.
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
For thus saith the LORD unto the king's house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified.
Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;
Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.
The fourth captain for the fourth month was Asahel the brother of Joab, and Zebadiah his son after him: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.
Of the sons of Merari; Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty:
And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and smote Absalom, and slew him.
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.
And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.
Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.
This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or woof, or any thing of skins, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.
And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.
Of the firstborn of the children of Israel took he the money; a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:
And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,
And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me.
But she was plucked up in fury, she was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up her fruit: her strong rods were broken and withered; the fire consumed them.
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.
And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?
And joy and gladness is taken from the plentiful field, and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to fail from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; their shouting shall be no shouting.
Therefore, behold, I will open the side of Moab from the cities, from his cities which are on his frontiers, the glory of the country, Bethjeshimoth, Baalmeon, and Kiriathaim,
That the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand.
In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.
And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the LORD: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper?
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day.
Lord, where are thy former lovingkindnesses, which thou swarest unto David in thy truth?
O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, when thou didst march through the wilderness; Selah:
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,
He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him.
So the Edomites revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had forsaken the LORD God of his fathers.
And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.
The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of the LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of the LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
They were a wall unto us both by night and day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
Then she went in, and fell at his feet, and bowed herself to the ground, and took up her son, and went out.
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven green withs which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
For the battle was there scattered over the face of all the country: and the wood devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.
And Saul built an altar unto the LORD: the same was the first altar that he built unto the LORD.
Then said the princes of the Philistines, What do these Hebrews here? And Achish said unto the princes of the Philistines, Is not this David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these days, or these years, and I have found no fault in him since he fell unto me unto this day?
And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.
And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;
As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the people, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her: yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words of the LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
Then took Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, all the remnant of the people whom he had recovered from Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after that he had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, even mighty men of war, and the women, and the children, and the eunuchs, whom he had brought again from Gibeon:
Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of peace shall weep bitterly.
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.
The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.
Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
And the priests killed them, and they made reconciliation with their blood upon the altar, to make an atonement for all Israel: for the king commanded that the burnt offering and the sin offering should be made for all Israel.
Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
Wherefore the wrath of the LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.
And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
But there came a man of God to him, saying, O king, let not the army of Israel go with thee; for the LORD is not with Israel, to wit, with all the children of Ephraim.
And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.
But sought to the LORD God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not after the doings of Israel.
And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel.
And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.
And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.
Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
And the priest shall value it, whether it be good or bad: as thou valuest it, who art the priest, so shall it be.
Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,
Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Howl ye, Woe worth the day!
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him.
Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.
Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
But there the glorious LORD will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
And between the going up of the corner unto the sheep gate repaired the goldsmiths and the merchants.
And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.
That he may incline our hearts unto him, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and his statutes, and his judgments, which he commanded our fathers.
But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:
And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
The fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer,
So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.
The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.
And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,
And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not. And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.
And the children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
And the flesh of them shall be thine, as the wave breast and as the right shoulder are thine.
Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.
And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
I will go down with thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again: and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.
For I will promote thee unto very great honour, and I will do whatsoever thou sayest unto me: come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people.
And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
He is a leprous man, he is unclean: the priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean; his plague is in his head.
And the man brought the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their asses provender.
Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan.
And he put the handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.
And seven months shall the house of Israel be burying of them, that they may cleanse the land.
And I brought them into the house of the LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there:
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the LORD, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.
Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.
Therefore all the princes sent Jehudi the son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, unto Baruch, saying, Take in thine hand the roll wherein thou hast read in the ears of the people, and come. So Baruch the son of Neriah took the roll in his hand, and came unto them.
To hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I sent unto you, both rising up early, and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall burn upon you.
Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.
All the earth shall worship thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Concerning thy testimonies, I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Man that is in honour, and understandeth not, is like the beasts that perish.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar of the LORD.
So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold, Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who hath seen him there: for it is told me that he dealeth very subtilly.
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.
All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:
Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.
And of the children of Israel's half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.
And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit.
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the LORD: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.
Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this remnant; (for we are left but a few of many, as thine eyes do behold us:)
The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
The LORD hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?
The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And the firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away.
And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;
Then he numbered the young men of the princes of the provinces, and they were two hundred and thirty two: and after them he numbered all the people, even all the children of Israel, being seven thousand.
And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
On the eighth day he sent the people away: and they blessed the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the LORD had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.
So shall not the inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe: for every one of the children of Israel shall keep himself to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
And when he was come near unto her, the woman said, Art thou Joab? And he answered, I am he. Then she said unto him, Hear the words of thine handmaid. And he answered, I do hear.
And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
But if her husband disallowed her on the day that he heard it; then he shall make her vow which she vowed, and that which she uttered with her lips, wherewith she bound her soul, of none effect: and the LORD shall forgive her.
This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the LORD'S priests.
And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
He cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants.
These are the names of Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Bashemath the wife of Esau.
And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.
Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my face.
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.
With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Thou therefore, son of man, prophesy, and smite thine hands together, and let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the slain: it is the sword of the great men that are slain, which entereth into their privy chambers.
And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have wrought with you for my name's sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.
They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
And David assembled the children of Aaron, and the Levites:
Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.
And David sent out ten young men, and David said unto the young men, Get you up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name:
For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us: for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And I will sanctify the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar: I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office.
His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
If a man also or a woman have in the skin of their flesh bright spots, even white bright spots;
And those that were numbered of them by their families were two thousand seven hundred and fifty.
And Moses gave commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp, saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.
And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, even all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded:
If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and shew Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas.
And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the LORD, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.
And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.
Behold, the princes of Israel, every one were in thee to their power to shed blood.
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him.
It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.
The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will inquire, inquire ye: return, come.
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
But I am poor and needy: make haste unto me, O God: thou art my help and my deliverer; O LORD, make no tarrying.
Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Also the firstborn of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God:
I will praise thee for ever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name; for it is good before thy saints.
Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.
And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat land which thou gavest before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.
And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this is that king Ahaz.
But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
And there they were with David three days, eating and drinking: for their brethren had prepared for them.
These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand of David, and by the hand of his servants.
And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot wheel: their axletrees, and their naves, and their felloes, and their spokes, were all molten.
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan: this shall be your north border.
To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.
And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
This is the thing which I have spoken unto Pharaoh: What God is about to do he sheweth unto Pharaoh.
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall reckon the instruments of the charge of their burden.
Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;
Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat;
As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.
And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
And these are the sons of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.
In thee have they discovered their fathers' nakedness: in thee have they humbled her that was set apart for pollution.
Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the LORD'S house.
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.
And she brought up one of her whelps: it became a young lion, and it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it.
Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:
And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
That thou shouldest take it to the bound thereof, and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof?
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,
How hast thou counselled him that hath no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared the thing as it is?
The children of Solomon's servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,
Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not put out of Israel.
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
Now these are their dwelling places throughout their castles in their coasts, of the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites: for theirs was the lot.
And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking unto the people, that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the people.
Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
And they removed from Almondiblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.
And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmonparez.
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money. And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.
And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.
And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.
And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.
And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.
The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.
They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.
And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering.
They shall be carried to Babylon, and there shall they be until the day that I visit them, saith the LORD; then will I bring them up, and restore them to this place.
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Then came the word of the LORD unto Jeremiah, saying,
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the LORD, and besought the LORD, and the LORD repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.
The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anetothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
And he slew an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.
And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.
And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons' sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.
And Jonathan called David, and Jonathan shewed him all those things. And Jonathan brought David to Saul, and he was in his presence, as in times past.
And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab.
And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.
Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:
Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words.
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
They that fled stood under the shadow of Heshbon because of the force: but a fire shall come forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and shall devour the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me.
The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
So shall I keep thy law continually for ever and ever.
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?
And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshipped.
The children of Reaiah, the children of Rezin, the children of Nekoda,
And all the princes, and the mighty men, and all the sons likewise of king David, submitted themselves unto Solomon the king.
Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant to do my commandments and my judgments, as at this day.
Of the half tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner:
Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.
I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.
Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye feed not the flock.
The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Of Jezer, the family of the Jezerites: of Shillem, the family of the Shillemites.
And thou shalt cut the ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put them unto his pieces, and unto his head.
Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.
And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
And Moses took the redemption money of them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites:
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.
And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word of the LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land.
Then spake Jeremiah unto all the princes and to all the people, saying, The LORD sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that ye have heard.
Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?
Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;)
And the woman said unto him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul hath done, how he hath cut off those that have familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land: wherefore then layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?
The children of Besai, the children of Meunim, the children of Nephishesim,
The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.
The children of Uzza, the children of Paseah, the children of Besai,
And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them:
And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:
And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house of the LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of Israel.
He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.
And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters: as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou. And all the people wept again over him.
And the LORD hath done to him, as he spake by me: for the LORD hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand, and given it to thy neighbour, even to David:
And to the sons of Aaron they gave the cities of Judah, namely, Hebron, the city of refuge, and Libnah with her suburbs, and Jattir, and Eshtemoa, with their suburbs,
And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity, Peace be both to thee, and peace be to thine house, and peace be unto all that thou hast.
And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.
And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.
And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah.
These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
And they set in it four rows of stones: the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this was the first row.
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:
And Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses.
And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.
And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.
I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire devoureth both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned. Is it meet for any work?
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
But Baruch the son of Neriah setteth thee on against us, for to deliver us into the hand of the Chaldeans, that they might put us to death, and carry us away captives into Babylon.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
And your spoil shall be gathered like the gathering of the caterpiller: as the running to and fro of locusts shall he run upon them.
And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the LORD;
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword, and from the bent bow, and from the grievousness of war.
Ye are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
I will praise thee, O LORD, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations.
And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.
And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Bethshemesh, which belongeth to Judah.
And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.
And he said, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All the things that are in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.
For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the proportion of every one, and additions round about.
And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.
For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field.
And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.
And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites: of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.
And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.
And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
And he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second.
And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth.
And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them: and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.
And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau's wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.
The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
For out of the north there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.
The isles saw it, and feared; the ends of the earth were afraid, drew near, and came.
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
The king's favour is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.
Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.
If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.
So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
And over the vineyards was Shimei the Ramathite: over the increase of the vineyards for the wine cellars was Zabdi the Shiphmite:
Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:
Then Saul fell straightway all along on the earth, and was sore afraid, because of the words of Samuel: and there was no strength in him; for he had eaten no bread all the day, nor all the night.
And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
And he said, Whether they be come out for peace, take them alive; or whether they be come out for war, take them alive.
That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.
And they turned thitherward, and came to the house of the young man the Levite, even unto the house of Micah, and saluted him.
And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word of the LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
Take the Levites instead of all the firstborn among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am the LORD.
But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Or whosoever toucheth any creeping thing, whereby he may be made unclean, or a man of whom he may take uncleanness, whatsoever uncleanness he hath;
And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.
And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.
And the sons of Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.
Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on softly, according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
And he said, Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.
Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before.
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth, which caused their terror in the land of the living; yet have they borne their shame with them that go down to the pit.
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.
Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,
Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
For in thee, O LORD, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions.
Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.
And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver.
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
The children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.
And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
And many brought gifts unto the LORD to Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah: so that he was magnified in the sight of all nations from thenceforth.
And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.
(For they shall hear of thy great name, and of thy strong hand, and of thy stretched out arm;) when he shall come and pray toward this house;
And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad upon all the earth, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.
Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoureth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,
And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.
But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left certain of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.
And Bilhah Rachel's maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.
The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows were covered;
Because the LORD hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work of the Lord GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.
And upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.
Thou daughter that dost inhabit Dibon, come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst; for the spoiler of Moab shall come upon thee, and he shall destroy thy strong holds.
So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon's princes;
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the LORD in the LORD'S house.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands.
As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor laid it to thy heart? have not I held my peace even of old, and thou fearest me not?
There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture will give thee thanks for ever: we will shew forth thy praise to all generations.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,
Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.
Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.
Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.
And he brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the east street,
He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a cubit and half a cubit.
Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.
And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
And Mikloth begat Shimeah. And these also dwelt with their brethren in Jerusalem, over against them.
But if ye cannot declare it me, then shall ye give me thirty sheets and thirty change of garments. And they said unto him, Put forth thy riddle, that we may hear it.
And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean; then he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more right in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel.
And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
And the six hundred men appointed with their weapons of war, which were of the children of Dan, stood by the entering of the gate.
And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Every thing that may abide the fire, ye shall make it go through the fire, and it shall be clean: nevertheless it shall be purified with the water of separation: and all that abideth not the fire ye shall make go through the water.
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.
These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.
And thou shalt couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.
The altar of burnt offering, with his brasen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and his foot,
Then he asked the men of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the way side? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.
And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.
And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence be ye? And they said, Of Haran are we.
And that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbour's wife,
Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?
I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul.
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
As I live, saith the King, whose name is the LORD of hosts, Surely as Tabor is among the mountains, and as Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
As at the report concerning Egypt, so shall they be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.
His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven.
Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
If not, hearken unto me: hold thy peace, and I shall teach thee wisdom.
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations of the LORD, and the most holy things.
And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramothgilead to battle, or shall I forbear? And he said, Go ye up, and prosper, and they shall be delivered into your hand.
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
And Heber begat Japhlet, and Shomer, and Hotham, and Shua their sister.
And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
And Shimei arose, and saddled his ass, and went to Gath to Achish to seek his servants: and Shimei went, and brought his servants from Gath.
Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
And they burnt all their cities wherein they dwelt, and all their goodly castles, with fire.
Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
And he shall take the cedar wood, and the hyssop, and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the slain bird, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times:
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Ephraim, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.
Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the LORD.
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week: and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.
And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
She hath wearied herself with lies, and her great scum went not forth out of her: her scum shall be in the fire.
And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord GOD.
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the LORD.
But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they are a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
Kerioth is taken, and the strong holds are surprised, and the mighty men's hearts in Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
And they remembered that God was their rock, and the high God their redeemer.
Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers.
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.
For who shall have pity upon thee, O Jerusalem? or who shall bemoan thee? or who shall go aside to ask how thou doest?
And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,
The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
And when the man rose up to depart, his father in law urged him: therefore he lodged there again.
And David's two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
And they made the plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing, like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
On the tenth day Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, prince of the children of Dan, offered:
Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
And thou shalt receive them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour before the LORD: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.
Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war, by casting up mounts, and building forts, to cut off many persons:
For all the riches which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our children's: now then, whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.
And it shall be no more the confidence of the house of Israel, which bringeth their iniquity to remembrance, when they shall look after them: but they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord GOD, be it known unto you: be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel.
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
Yet they went in unto her, as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot: so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah, the lewd women.
For through the anger of the LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD.
Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.